Reinke Faces Life

Operators of Legacy dot com claim “what problem”. You have to love the ability of support people to deny a problem in the face of an email thread which includes email from their own people saying we see a problem and are fixing it. Great Brother Jasper’s Ghost!!! That is aggravating. Argh!

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The South Brunswick Police have a motor cycle … … and are using it for “fund raising” activities on Sand Hill Road near Emerald Road. The fellow sits in the shade of the big bushes and pounces on the dastardly law breakers who violate the 25 speed limit.

I view this as glorified toll taking. A highway robbery. Naked gooferment force.

If we really were serious about 25, then we’d have speed bumps. And, 25? On a major connector between Somerset and Route 1. Our socialist big gooferment statist planners, following in the great traditions of the Communist famines, have road planned us into a complete disaster.

Look at the various State, County, and Township roads! What a planning disaster! You’re luck if you can get from there to here, in a reasonable amount of time, safely, or without being tagged for violating any of the gooferment’s many diktats.

Just look at new 522 from Route One to Route One Thirty. Would it have been too much trouble to line it up with the entrance to the Turnpike at 8A? (What did that route not go through some brother-in-laws valueless land or missed going by the campaign contributor’s business.?)

And, look at 287 to Route 1. Too much trouble to plan that.

Route 27 with the 2 lane 1 lane 2 lane shuffle. An accident waiting to happen.

And, my personal piece de resistance, South Middlebush / Sand Hill. Good planning guys. Trucks still use it.

No, it’s about the stupidity of gooferment “planning” for us. And, then “punishing” the bad serf who have the temerity to try and use the “stuff”.

And, have you seen the financial impact of one of these mickey mouse tickets? Points, fines, insurance. It’s no laughing matter.

No if he was sitting on Tyne Court and trapping on Emerald, where there are a ton of kids, being kids, on any given afternoon. And, warning drivers, not ticketing first timers. Then, I wouldn’t kvetch. But you won’t see him there because the motivation is “fund raising” and scaring people into compliance with an absurd traffic law.

As you might guess, I think this is just wrong.

Walgreens has a neat idea, that we didn’t have at our last gooferment approved drug pusher (what do you call a drug store?), called “auto mated refills”.

(The only car involved is when one of us drives to get them. And, since they are for my mate Frau Reinke I guess they are sort of aptly named.)

So Walgreens automated refills identifies the RXes (The gooferment permitted forms with the approvals of the gooferment agent called doctor Argh!) that she uses regularly. And each month, refills it.

Great.

BUT!

Since we didn’t give them the RXes on the same day, they (all 13) renew on different days. Further, over time, new medicines were added, dosages changed, and some medicines stopped. It’s messy. But I have captured all that info for her in a one page document with all the current RXes, dosages, and who/when changed it. (For our own sanity.)

There is NO way to align Walgreens with reality and NO way to have them all renew on the same day.

Argh!

It’s annoying enough to have gooferment rules about paperwork and approvals. Add in the annoyance of the gooferment’s financing agents (What do you call medical insurance companies?). Add in the annoyance of complying with the gooferment’s tax diktats about FSAs.

But the crowning annoyance is that Walgreens has no feedback loop. No way for the patient to put information and suggestions back into them to get them to improve their service.

So a good idea (i.e., automated refills) has some stupidity built in (i.e., different renewal dates) (i.e., no way to correct the data they have on file) but the ranting comes in when there is no feedback loop.

Argh! Argh!

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>I think the only reason we have not had a successful
>attack on us after 9-11 is
>because we are keeping them too busy over there.

That could be one possibility.

Would you consider another?

How about in the murky world of terrorism, they are getting exactly what they want. War and unrest. If you wanted to tumble the ruling elite say in Saudi Arabia, what better way then to get the Great Satan tromping around in a Fourth Generation Land War that it can’t “win”.

And, why would you stir up the American people any more. They might form a national resolve and really kick ass! Think Pearl Harbor. You don’t want to awaking the sleeping giant. As Japanese admiral Yammamoto advised. They could turn your “sacred land” into glass if you piss ’em off enough. Note, how carefully they tiptoe around Israel.

We’re an easily distracted people. The radicals have exactly what they want.

In exactly the degree that they want it.

Easy to kill Americans that get the locals riled up. We’re blundering around blowing up a local wedding for example. They’ve split our country down the middle with the stupid war. No, I’d say that they have Uncle Sam by the beard, are kicking our butt, and accomplishing their short and long term objectives.

Once the entire Muslim world is under one caliphate, then they will turn their attention to finishing the Crusades with Europe, and eventually the Great Satan.

We make the same mistakes when dealing with China and Korea. We don’t have a long-term perspective.

We need to MYOB. That, my friend, is not being a dove. We have our own set of problems to deal with. You deal with this disaster by “leaving the party”. We need foreign policy that follows President Washington’s directive. (He also decreed no torturing POWs!)

Did you ever consider why the old USSR had so little “foreign policy” problems, except for where they blundered in Afghanistan? They had a policy that if you crossed them, the KGB killed you, your family, and anyone who helped you. Government, non-government, guerilla. It didn’t matter. I think in my recollection one USSR ambassador was killed for political reasons and the KGB took out about 8o people they believed had a hand in it. Needless to say, no one messed with them. That’s not being a dove.

It’s called Letters of Marque and Reprisal.

If we thought that Osama was the problem, then we should have offered say 50B$ taxfree payable at your favorite Swiss bank for proof that he was dead. How long do you think he would have survived? Add a billion a week, until you get what you want. It’d still be cheaper that the 30T$, 600k+ Iraqui dead, and ~6k Americans.

American foreign policy is too blunt, too war-oriented, too inefficient and too ineffective.

That’s what Ron Paul was saying.

http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_5937218

State senator rear-ends Vallejo woman while talking on cell phone
Medianews Group report
Article Launched: 05/19/2007 08:46:15 AM PDT

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A Vallejo woman reportedly suffered minor injuries Friday when her car was rear-ended by an SUV driven by a state senator talking on a cell phone while driving through Solano County.

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Why the audacity of that serf not getting out of the heroic senator’s way? The impudent woman driving the car that was hit should be stoned, lashed, or … … giving an award for demonstrating the hypocrisy of the ruling elite.

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http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/05/21/wic-killing-children-with-kindness/

http://tinyurl.com/2zwqmu

WIC: Killing children with kindness
By Michael Hampton
Posted: May 21, 2007 3:20 am

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The United States Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, commonly known as WIC, distributes vouchers for food for low-income families. Among the food distributed is about half the infant formula in the entire U.S. According to a study from the University of Hawai’i, WIC’s distribution of infant formula not only distorts the market for infant formula, it puts these infants at risk of illness and death.

***and***

Unfortunately, like many federal aid programs administered by the states, WIC has a vigorous lobby group — National WIC — made up of the thousands of state and local government officials that run the program.

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Isn’t that the usual standard for a gooferment program?

It doesn’t work. It actually harms those it seeks supposedly to help. Turns out to be a welfare program to some business or another, maybe even a industry. And, is protected by a huge lobby of gooferment bureaucrats that it supports.

And, you — the reader; yes, you, on the otherside of the glass! — defend this gang of thugs that is killing poor children in your name. with your money?

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Clarifying update at 2007.05.22 0730 edst

The original wording made it seem that the author Michael Hampton was the “you” in the phrase “you defend”. That’s one way for reading it; certianly not how I meant it. Considering he wrote the expose, it doesn’t make sense to take it that way. But once again, I have demonstrated the principle that two people can read the same text and often come away with many different meanings.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?
UrlTitle=presumptions_of_the_left&ns=ThomasSowell&
dt=05/16/2007

http://tinyurl.com/yqgakj

Presumptions Of The Left
By Thomas Sowell
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

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If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.

If no one has even one percent of the knowledge currently available, not counting the vast amounts of knowledge yet to be discovered, the imposition from the top of the notions favored by elites convinced of their own superior knowledge and virtue is a formula for disaster.

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Yet what the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.

***AND***

The ignorance of people with Ph.D.s is still ignorance, the prejudices of educated elites are still prejudices, and for those with one percent of a society’s knowledge to be dictating to those with the other 99 percent is still an absurdity.

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Yup, dumb is dumb.

NO matter how many degrees or years that person has. The central command can’t possibly be as in control as the person on the front line.

That’s why the free market does so well. Many distributed agents all evaluating options and making choices. Important decisions with skin in the game. The consumer has all the information, the scarce resource allocation unit aka money, and the needs to be satisfied. What better person to be in charge of making decisions.

The free marketplace is at the same time the arbiter of all these conflicting demands for scarce resources and the judge that makes sure everyone’s needs are satisfied to the extent. Think of it as a giant calculating agent that totals up the score.

That’s why the socialist, fascist, and statist will always fail. There is no way for them to make that instantaneous calculation.

I learned that in injineering skool. Using a slide rule, you could very quickly get answers to a few significant digits. Or, you could use the computers to get a very “precise” answer with lots of meaningless digits that you’d throw away anyway because of “insignificance”. More meaningless digits didn’t make the answer better than the fast one from the analog slide rule. Most injineers in my day preferred the slide rule because it was fast and it made you think about significant digits. I saw the change as computer became more available and those injineers would write down long strings of meaningless digits as the answer. In civil engineering we learned to compute the answer and multiply be ten or a hundred as a safety factor. (That’s why buildings don’t fall down.)

So how does a leader avoid his ignorance?

He puts systems in place that put the decisions as close to the action as possible. Think Nordstroms. Think IBM sales person. Think the small individual business owner.

Fast decisions, close to the action, with complete accountability.

You won’t see that in stogy big companies or the gooferment.

http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/
base/news-44/117935695635230.xml&storylist=newsmichigan

http://tinyurl.com/2fou7e

Michigan GOP leader wants Paul barred from future debates
5/16/2007, 7:07 p.m. EDT
By JIM DAVENPORT The Associated Press

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The chairman of the Michigan Republican Party said Wednesday that he will try to bar Ron Paul from future GOP presidential debates because of remarks the Texas congressman made that suggested the Sept. 11 attacks were the fault of U.S. foreign policy.

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Sure, because he differentiated himself from the other 9 clowns.

Does the chairman think that by bombing Iraq we have won friends over there?

Every killing, casualty, or “collateral damage” drafts more people into the “hate america” movement.

The dead old white guys didn’t want an aggressive foreign policy. That’s why the Constitution only permits an army for TWO YEARS. Drag out you Constitution if you have one and take a gander at it.

We should be like Switzerland. A porcupine; not an ass. MYOB. Respect the rights of others.

Heck, we don’t even respect the rights of our fellow americans!

AS EXPECTED

I’m going to have a lot to say about Jury Duty, but a quick note. Zenger! They keep repeating that the jury members have to apply the law as the judges give it to you. But, the Fully Informed Jury Association says differently. Jurys judge the law as well. Freedom of the press was established by the Zenger trial. Prohibition was effectively ended years before the Repeal by jurys refusing to convict violators. No mention of that. And, those who attend the gooferment skoolz probably never heard of it.

The gooferment has enslaved me. I am commanded by force to serve it. It’s not enough that it makes me a partial slave by stealing my money via inflation, taxes, fees, and economic friction. It steals the most precious think I have … my time and attention. Argh!

Lost me as a customer. I don’t do IE.

Just got a new phone. LGENVY. Found my first flaw. (That’s me flaw finder par excellence!)

I have my morning, lunch, and quitting time alarms set on it. This morning while recharging it, the morning alarm goes off. No big deal. I go to “dismiss” it and I can’t unlock the keyboard while it is charging. Disconnect the charger, and you can unlock and dismiss.

Does any one test this stuff? Or, is it just me that tries to use it.

http://pe.usps.com/RateCase2007/DMM300_HTML/pub268.htm

Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service
Domestic Mail Manual Introduction
January 8, 2006

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Rates and Fees

Effective
May 14, 2007

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Can you figure how many penny stamps I have to add to my old stamps?

Argh! I don’t want a manual. Show me pictures. I’m an injineer.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/top25-meltdowns.htm

They did what, said what?

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VOTE FOR YOUR TOP CHOICE

Moments of unscripted behavior — good and bad, but mostly bad — capture our attention and become bookmarks of our times. Here are 25 memorable public meltdowns that had us talking and laughing or cringing over the past quarter-century. If you have different nominees, let us know at usatoday.com. We’ll post your picks.

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#10 Defining moment

President Clinton parsed a single word in an Aug. 17, 1998, grand jury testimony. Asked whether he was having sexual relations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, Clinton said, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” The videotaped testimony was made public, and in December the House of Representatives approved four articles of impeachment; the Senate acquitted him.

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This is my personal top. But you can only pick among the top 5. Argh!

I have never heard a cogent explanation of what “is” means. I don’t understand his adamant refusal to repudiate a lie. If it wasn’t for the inept Republican … …

(If it was inept?For a smart guy, he certainly seemed dumb. With all the obvious flaws and scandals around Clinton — not that the Republicans are much better, he pick on the trivial nonsense. You have to wonder if it was all kabuki.)

… … the country might have been better off with a good enema.

Now, it’s no secret that I don’t care for politicians of either ilk. It’s like dumb and dumber. I’m not sure that they all are lying when their lips move. Or if they really believe the “barbara streisand” that they are saying. Either way we are the worse for wear and tear on it.

I just know that, in the Oval Office of Thomas Jefferson, we have allow some pretty sorry people to sit down and “lead” us.

Maybe we’d be better off with no gooferment. Anarchy couldn’t be worse. Could it?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,131603-c,privacy/article.html

TSA Hard Drive Missing
PC World – 21 hours ago

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The airport security agency acknowledges it can’t find an external drive storing personnel records. The US agency responsible for securing the nation’s airports says it can’t find an external hard drive packed with the personal records of about 100000 …

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Ahh, yes, your gooferment at work. And, you want to give these bozos your “real id”?

HEADLINE ON DRUDGE

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Laurie David on Kerry’s 2004 loss: I ‘cried for three straight days. I couldn’t stop’…

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Oh come one. Give me a break. Get a life.

Does ANYONE really believe “three days straight”?

I question why success in Hollywood or marrying right give ANYONE the right to LECTURE us on anything! Certain making over-the-top statements doesn’t incline me to listen to them seriously.

The death of a child, a loved one, a natural disaster … things to be sad about. A politician … please.

I don’t think it is possible to “cry for three days straight”. Humans aren’t build that way. We eat, we drink, we poop, we laff, we cry. Three days? Come on.

For Drudge to highlight it, is to showcase the fool.

http://darianworden.tripod.com/prop/posters.html

http://tewmonds57219.blogspot.com/2007/05/
for-new-widow-ten-tips-to-help-her.html

Dear fellow blogger,

Re: I think your excellent content was plagiarized for a splog.

Just thought you might want to know. These dirt bags steal your content, put lots of extraneous keywords in, to sell advertising. Just thought you should know.Maybe a cease and desist to their isp might be a nice response.

fjohn

FROM MY EMAIL TO 101.5 Radio Station

http://www.nj1015.com/station-info.shtm

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Eric Johnson
Program Director
New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio
PO Box 5698
Trenton, NJ 08638

Dear Mr. Johnson,

No I’m not going to nag about putting Free Talk Live on the station this time. (Although I think it would be great idea).

This email is about the recent dust up over ticket blitz, breaking news, and the reaction to it. I don’t care for the afternoon’s entertainment. I think it crass and crude, but that’s why they have a tuning dial and an off switch. However, unpopular speech was exactly what the dead old white guys had in mind when they formulated the First Amendment. The recent disclosure of information and the threat of disclosure was criminal and inexcusable! It’s a direct threat to the station’s people and their families. The gooferment, by way of its union, is way over the line. (The gooferment by “negotiating” with a union of its employees is the height of absurdity. And, by that fact, the union is its creation and its agent!) SO, in a sense, the gooferment is attacking the press. So count me in for the fight. Me, my pitchfork, my blog, and my vote are at your disposal.

I’m reminded of First they came… is a poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984).

Then they came for the Jersey Guys,
and I didn’t speak up because I didn’t like them.

Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Let’s put the pig pen in Trenton back in order and in balance. They need to be afraid of the people.

Ferdinand J. Reinke
Kendall Park, NJ 08824

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http://www.nj1015.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=6558&z=3

State Trooper Agrees to Not Release Any More Personal Information
Saturday, May 05, 2007 – Associated Press

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After meeting with New Jersey’s State Police superintendent, the head of the troopers union has agreed to hold off on plans to reveal personal information about New Jersey One-Oh-One-Point Five radio personalities.

The union president, David Jones, denies any wrongdoing in his war of words with the station.

But he agreed to comply with a request state Police Colonel Rick Fuentes made during a meeting yesterday to discuss the matter.

Meanwhile, officials are probing whether Jones broke any rules in the squabble.

On Thursday, Jones displayed for T-V cameras the home address and license plate number of the station’s afternoon co-host Craig Carton.

Carton and his partner on Wednesday had discussed anonymous postings on the union’s password-protected Web site threatening a ticket blitz. The posters were upset about the treatment of the trooper who drove Governor Corzine’s S-U-V when it crashed.

The union leader denies there was a ticket-writing campaign.

The radio hosts have demanded an apology from Jones and want him punished. But Jones says he abused no police authority in getting Carton’s information.

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I think that this needs to be examined in great detail. It’s an abuse of power AND it’ll have a chilling effect on freedom of the press!

http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates/2007/05/
mcgreevey_mulling_episcopal_pr.html

http://tinyurl.com/2jd4pt

McGreevey mulling Episcopal priesthood
Posted by The Star-Ledger May 02, 2007 12:08PM

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Former Gov. James E. McGreevey has started the process to become a priest in his newly adopted Episcopal faith and hopes to begin a three-year seminary program in the fall.

McGreevey, who often described himself as a devout Catholic while in public office, was officially received into the Episcopal religion on Sunday, at St. Bartholomew’s Church in Manhattan, and is now part of the church’s “discernment” phase that usually precedes any seminary work, said the Rev. Kevin Bean, vicar at St. Bartholomew.

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Sorry, maybe I am cynical. This story breaks the day after the Oprah show. I sure hope he drops out, shuts up, and does his 3 years in the seminary in quiet seclusion. Then he moves on toe obscurity. I feel empathy for the wife and child. He has a lot of “discerning” to do. I think the taxpayers of NJ should be outraged at the fraud that was pulled on them. Where is my pitchfork?!

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3116831

N.J. Governor Pays Seat Belt Ticket
AP NewsBreak: N.J. Gov. Corzine, Injured in Crash, Pays Fine for Not Wearing Seat Belt
The Associated Press
By TOM HESTER Jr. Associated Press Writer
TRENTON, N.J. May 1, 2007 (AP)

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Gov. Jon S. Corzine has voluntarily paid a $46 fine for violating state law by not wearing a seat belt during the trip in which a car crash left him critically injured, his spokesman said Tuesday.

Corzine met with State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes, Attorney General Stuart Rabner and two state police investigators Tuesday at the governor’s mansion in Princeton to discuss the accident, spokesman Anthony Coley said.

As the meeting ended, Corzine asked Fuentes for a ticket, Coley said. Fuentes wrote one, and Corzine wrote a check for $46, Coley said.

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I am still steamed about the radio reporting that he supposedly was demanding, getting, and paying his 46 $ tix. And the media says it’s over.

:-(

The political komisars think they are better then us schmoes. And this is over when the schmoes say it is! Not when the fawning media that lets the politicians get away with this “barbara streisand” says so!

I also blogged about his caravan left the hospital with 6 escort cars and the reporters clocked going 70 in a 55 zone. Where’s the demand for ticket for that?

It’s about the assumption that they can use force on other people, but don’t dare hold them accountable to the SAME rules.

Argh!

Politicians. If they just be content to run out in traffic as quick as they are to run out in front of a parade, then we’d all be better off.

I hope that everyone who gets a speeding ticket or a seat belt ticket demands a trial and raises the 14th Amendment issue of equal protection. If the Guv can do it, then we all can do it. If I’m on the jury, you’re out of there.

We’d be better off picking governors and legislators by lottery. At least we’d get “real people” in power. I still think that we should not vote for anyone who campaigns.

DRUDGE: CORZINE MOTORCADE CAUGHT SPEEDING — ON ROAD TO RECOVERY!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/nyregion/30cnd-corzine.html?
ex=1178596800&en=823e9355881c338b&ei=5099&partner=TOPIXNEWS

http://tinyurl.com/2ofcmy

Corzine Leaves Hospital After Accident
The governor of New Jersey acknowledged today that he was negligent in not wearing a seatbelt.
By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI
Published: April 30, 2007

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No one in the motorcade used emergency lights, as his driver had been doing at the time of the accident. They kept to a pace of about 70 miles per hour, even though the posted limit is 55 on the stretch of Interstate 295 that leads to Drumthwacket, the governor’s official mansion in Princeton, where Mr. Corzine will spend the next stage of his recovery.

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What a joke! Hope everyone remembers this when they get their next fund-raising invitation labeled seatbelt or speeding (aka a ticket)!

http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_117163117.html

Apr 27, 2007 5:07 pm US/Eastern
Porn Star Jameson Shows Up On N.J. School TV
Parents Furious; Private Firm Hired To Find Culprit
Andrew Kirtzman
Reporting

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(CBS) UNION CITY, N.J. Some eyebrows were raised at the Union City Board of Education recently. Officials discovered one or more employees have been watching pornography on school televisions.

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Tax money being well-spent.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/arti
cles/2007/04/26/standing_up_for_fairness_on_business_tax_ref
orm/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+Op-ed+columns

http://tinyurl.com/2xswdy

Standing up for fairness on business tax reform
By Joan Vennochi, Globe Columnist | April 26, 2007

HOUSE SPEAKER Salvatore DiMasi is at his best when he stands up for fairness.
title

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When Beacon Hill took up healthcare reform, DiMasi insisted business must share the cost of expanding coverage to the uninsured. He did it, he said, because it wasn’t fair to force taxpayers to cover for employers who refused to cover medical costs for their employees.

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Argh!

Doesn’t the author realize who is using force here? It’s the gooferment. Maybe it’s the writer’s gooferment education kicking in, but first the gooferment causes a problem and then they rush in to “fix” it. And, in the process cause more problems.

:-)

“Benefits” came about as a result of the WW2 Wage and Price controls.

Business don’t “give” benefits, they pay for them. Pay dearly.

Business never “pay for” anything. They are really artificial constructs to pass stuff along. The business passes a cost along to a buyer, a supplier, or an employee. EITHER they earn a profit based on doing this or they go out of business.

So let’s examine “benefits”.

Having had my own business, and probably will again in the future, (after all no one hire OLD people anymore), what an employee earns is only a part of their total compensation. If a business “gives” the employee “benefits”, they could pay them less in salary. Don’t forget the “employer’s share of social security”! That comes out of the employees total comp too. If I’m an employer with something that needs doing, I include the cost of the labor. That cost is loaded with what it costs me; not what they employee’s check says.

Also, since the Taxachusetts mandatory health benefit will be a tax on business, who will pay it? Not who writes the check, but who going to get less? Think of it like a balloon. Hold it tight and push on one side. It expands on the other side. Like conservation of momentum! The business just passes stuff along. So, if the business has to pay more, who is going to pay more or get less? It’s truly a zero sum game.

When business have no way to pass along a cost (i.e., the market won’t pay more for their product, suppliers won’t charge less, or employees won’t work for less), they close up shop. No margin; no mission.

I wonder how the politicians will NEXT fix the “economy” or the “unemployment problem”?

Today I was listening to the radio and I heard a NYC radio station advertising OTB. It was touting its bet by phone service with “internet betting coming soon”!

Then I see this!

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Subject: A bill to repeal the online gambling ban

Pressure on Congress works. People all over the Internet, including DC Downsizers, have been pressuring Congress to repeal the ban on transferring money to online gambling sites.

We’re starting to see a response.

Representative Barney Frank, the new chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has pledged to introduce legislation in the next couple of weeks to repeal the ban.

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Argh!