You Deserve The Best: Teachers And Police Need More Than Minimum Wage

I don't know about you, but I want the best of every good thing: the best job, the best health, the best kids, the best wife, the best friends, the best co-workers, the best, the best, the best of the best.

I don't always get the best, or have the best, but I want the best: the best doctors, the best lawyers, the best teachers and the best law enforcement officers protecting and serving me too.

Having said that, I believe you deserve the best too. Your community deserves the best, this nation deserves the best. Unfortunately, we don't always get the best. Why? Because we're always willing to settle for less.

I don't want a second-rate doctor or lawyer. I do not want second-rate police officers or teachers protecting or teaching me either. I want the best.

Hiring police officers and teachers at close to minimum wage salaries because they simply need a job is criminal and must be stopped. My life and the lives of my loved ones and community are in their hands, so I want the best protecting and serving them and educating me and my children.

The days of hiring a police officer or becoming a teacher just to have a job are over. Let's start hiring the best and paying them the best too, so we can all be the best.

The best people on the planet, helping the whole world be the best, because we all deserve the best of the best. God's best!

Kenneth Bryant, Jr. is an Emmy Award winning Producer/Director for CBS 62 and CW50. From Bill Kennedy At The Movies, Piston Yearbook "Badboys" and Lions Yearbook specials to directing Michigan Matters, he has produced many shows during his 39 year tenure at the company. Ken is also the pastor of Ford Memorial UMC in Detroit.