Mattress Answer Man Speaks

A large part of America’s future depends on education. Both political parties agree on this subject. As usual they can’t agree on how to provide this.  I think this is a great example of the mess our government is in. The democrats are backed by the teachers union and therefor keep throwing dollars their way. The republicans do everything they can to put them out of business. Neither group has really sat down and tackled the problem. The republicans passed no child left behind which had a lot of tests to see that the teachers did their jobs. This was a good idea but they should have taken a lesson from the tests given to stock brokers, hairdressers, real estate sales persons, insurance sales and many more. If they would have peeked at these... 

I worked for a company once that told me no one could sell with my style. I wanted to tell this person, who was a trainer, that the reason they were a salaried trainer instead of a better paid commission salesperson was because they wouldn’t. This same company had another trainer who used to brag about the million dollars a year he made and we should all copy his ways. The first time he came around he quoted Aristotle,Lombardi, and a whole host of other great men. Unfortunately he was exactly the opposite of what I believe in. The second go round he came with a canned selling experience that everyone had to learn and were written up if you didn’t use it. In this sales experience you not only had a canned speech but actually had a path to walk... 

Image by Getty Images via Daylife The story line read Arlen Specter switches parties. The Republican brass assailed him for doing this to get reelected. They accused him of not really being a Republican. The Wall Street Journal says it is not an indication that this is trouble for the republican party, they are wrong!  Arlen Specter is not a one gun politician. He understands politics so well that he is the longest standing Senator in Pennsylvania history. No other has held the post for five terms, now running for six. He first wielded his weapons for the Democrats but seeing that they were set on using inferior ammunition he tried the colt republican firearm to defeat them for District Attorney of Philadelphia in 1965. He held on to his original weapon... 

Oh Holy Knight your Star is Brightly Shining   Today was another day of important business for the republicans in the House of Representatives. A statue of President Reagan will replace one of the two allowed from each state in the capital. While giving their psalms  er speeches  the fine representatives did what all good republicans do, they knelt at the alter of the man that saved their party AN(After Nixon). Of course they all gave the same speech which I guess means they are as broke as they left the rest of the country and can only afford one script writer. They must have felt the effects earlier because they have been doing this for two and a quarter years. Instead of describing the statue they proceeded to exalt the accomplishments of Ronald...