Colorado teachers union passes resolution declaring capitalism 'inherently exploits children, public

So on top of pushing crt on our kids and trying get them to switch genders when their not going to bars to watch drag queens, the teachers union in Colorado is now against capitalism and you know it will pushed down to the students.

Has anyone here been harmed by capitalism? I know of a few democrats on this board who had capitalism work out quite well for them.

For those who refuse to believe a Fox story I provided a second link.

 

Seeing that red states are moving to allow children the ability to work younger with longer hours and in more dangerous situations I will have to agree with the teachers union on this one.

 

Well if they want to do that then they should start distributing THEIR OWN wealth amongst the needy if they are so anti-capitalist. When you find examples, please share.

 

You’re one of the democrats I thought capitalism worked well for.

 

Paying teachers to push this does mean that capitalism is being used to exploit children. We need to stop paying these teachers immediately!

 

I worked when I was a kid. I learned to weld/braze, repair bikes, and deal with the public. This doesn't happen anymore.

 

Teachers are the first thing your kids have to deal with when they go out into the world. Please don't assume school teachers act in the best interest of society.

 

During junior year in high school I worked in the print shop making stuff for the school. Sometimes we would make stuff for city hall, at that point it’s literally a job and I never got paid.

 

Regulations establish the rules of the game and assure important protections for working people. Corporations and wealthy special interests have demonstrated that—if there’s nothing stopping them—they will do what they can to squeeze out more profits for themselves, even if it means jeopardizing workers’ health and safety and retirement funds. The Great Recession is proof that it is dangerous to assume that corporations and Wall Street will police themselves. American workers deserve a fair system—with rules that serve their interests as opposed to deregulating to rig the system so that corporate interests can rake in ever-larger profits at the expense of workers. Republicans have spent an enormous amount of time and political capital doing exactly that—by painting regulations as the “problem.” It is time to end this deception and return to defending the rules that protect workers, consumers, and public

 

I do well for myself and my family, so does my spouse — I can still look around and see we need major structural changes in our society that capitalism will never address.

 

I started at 15 as an electrical apprentice in my father’s construction company. It doesn’t happen anymore because it shouldn’t happen.

The only way I would agree with it is if anyone that cannot vote didn’t pay income taxes and I also don’t think children should be placed in high risk positions.

 

First of all, I believe a Fox news link long before a town hall one. But that's not the issue.

Second, it's actually not clear what the language of the resolution says. Just like you have no proof to back up your claims in your statement about drag queens and all the other right wing boogie men/women that are so vogue today.

Thirdly, teacher's unions don't determine what gets taught in classrooms. So it's really a non-issue as to curriculum.

And lastly, I live in Colorado and my child just completed a whole unit on supply, demand, and capitalism. So it's a live and well in Colorado, so you don't have to worry so much for us. We've got this. It's actually a great and easy to grasp refresher course, maybe some prominent GOP presidential candidates could benefit from joining my daughter's third grade class.

 

I bet you set type the old fashioned way and used an offset press, right?

 

That would have sucked. What we did was take prepared stuff, photograph it, develop the film, add chemicals and ink to it, and then put it on a machine that printed out the page on regular paper. At least that’s how I think we did it, it was a long time ago.

 

Oh this is going to lead to a great outcome...more dipshit progressive ideology. Move to China.

 

It would appear that you believe kids finding other ways to get money lowers their risk. Did you ever ride a bicycle, play sports, ride in an car, have shop class?

I don't buy the "risk" argument.

 

Ah! We used machinery that could squish your hand or kill you.

 

We didn’t have anything like that. We would take the film I mentioned above and put it on a big roller. Do you know the kind I’m talking about?

 

Whats stopping Colorado from being a socialist utopia?

 

I don’t understand your comment. How did you arrive at I believe “kids finding other ways to get money lowers their risk”. Risk is based on the activity itself not necessarily income.

You don’t have to. Americans already work more than most of their peers in other nations. Americans also retire with marginal savings and quality of life is very low with many of them.

I don’t think we need to be looking for ways to add even more years to this. Let kids be kids

 

Learning skills in a business environment is less of a risk than the other ways kids in the neighborhood learn to make a buck.

Are you saying kids should not have shop class?

 

Hey. It worked well for me too and I still won’t spin and dance and lie for it. I know a failing system when I see one even if it has been good for me. But don’t take my word for it. Listen to a wealthy capitalist….

 

I never had shop class. I took history, math, chemistry, physics, and stuff like that. Sadly, I was never able to make my own furniture. Luckily, however, I earned more than enough to BUY furniture... and a nice house to put it in... and paid up cars in the driveway.

 

My, Oh, My! Is there any limit to this mass insanity and pervasive stupidity???

 

And what is that? Are all outcomes supposed to be equal? Are “excess assets” to be taken from those who earn them? Perhaps you are true believer who would have the state own the means of production. Are you going to keep your economic advantage, like Bill Gates, John Kerry and Al Gore, while all others live under socialism?

The far left seldom lays out their vision because they know it would unpopular. Instead, they constantly nibble at the edges. With all the welfare programs that capitalism has funded, it takes a lot of crust, or perhaps blindness, to force socialism upon all, especially since it has failed frequently.