RANT:The “auto” tax

Monday, October 22, 2007

http://burnedbygovt.com.nyud.net:8080/blog/2007/oct/have_you_ever_noticed…%3F

Burned By Government
Have you ever noticed…?
Wed, 10/17/2007 – 20:42

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So, after spending all this money, so that you can go to work to make the money to buy and maintain the vehicle (and pay those other incidentals like rent and food), what do you have to do? Why,you’ve got to PAY THE GOVERNMENT! You’ve got to get all your “papers in order”just like all the good little citizens in all the movies about Nazi Germany, and the old Soviet Union, and Orwell’s 1984.

And this costs money, and more than that, it costs TIME. And, damned inconveniently, that’s not just time, but due to the scheduling of all the various government offices you have to go to to get these papers in order, they are usually only open during the time you are scheduled to be at work–so you’ve got to take off from work, which costs you more money. Add to this that the various offices usually give you the run-around, making you “hurry up and wait” and then sending you to a different office to get some other paper that you must have FIRST, but which, upon arriving, you find you cannot get without first completing a different form at yet another government office…and so on. It cost you even more time and money.

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It’s the tax that keeps on taking — time, money, and attention.

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JOBSEARCH: University of Hard Knocks Alumni Membership Drive is Underway!!!!

Monday, October 22, 2007

http://glcavalier.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/university-of-hard-knocks-alumni-membership-drive-is-underway

University of Hard Knocks Alumni Membership Drive is Underway!!!!
by G. Lane Cavalier

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When I was out of work several years ago, I received a good piece of advice from a fellow networker that I have never followed up on. That advice was to start an “Alumni Group” for those professionals that never finished their degree.

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The group is going to be based around 3 core issues that impact professionals without degrees:

1) Continuing Education/Non Traditional Education
2) Job Searching and Interviewing (overcoming the lack of the degree)
3) Networking

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Of course, I indicated I would be happy to participate.

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LIBERTY: separate the gooferment from education

Monday, October 22, 2007

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/10/17/big_brother_at_school/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+Jeff+Jacoby+columns

Big Brother at school
By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | October 17, 2007

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Thus in a little over 100 years, the Democratic Party – and much of the Republican Party – has been transformed from a champion of “parental rights and rights of conscience in the education of children” to a party whose leaders believe that parents “don’t get to impose” their views and values on what their kids are taught in school. Do American parents see anything wrong with that? Apparently not: The majority of them dutifully enroll their children in government-operated schools, where the only views and values permitted are the ones prescribed by the state.

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Have to separate the gooferment from education. It’s a freedom of religion issue.

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MONEY: More people go on welfare!

Monday, October 22, 2007

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Bloomberg: First baby boomer asks for Social Security benefits

“The first Baby Boomer applied today for Social Security benefits, a milestone marking the approaching retirement of a generation of Americans whose eligibility for government payouts threatens to overwhelm the federal budget. ‘This is the first drop of rain in the flood,’ said Bob Bixby, head of the Concord Coalition, a Washington-based advocacy group that promotes balanced federal budgets. ‘It’s the beginning of an era. It’s symbolic but it reminds us that we’re not doing anything to prepare for this.’

“The demands on retirement programs by the estimated 80 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 combined with spiraling health-care costs will eventually overwhelm the federal budget unless lawmakers change government policies, Bixby said.’

Source: Brian Faler, Bloomberg.com, October 15, 2007.

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Here comes the tidal wave of more people on the dole!

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