that insures the teachers in Wisconsin? Now that makes this situation much more understandable. The union does not want to lose the right to bargain over benefits because they will lose the right to continue to soak the Wisconsin public schools with an expensive health insurance plan. I guess the adage is true - follow the money!
---Katie
Quote from the article:
WEA Trust, a union-affiliated insurance company, has an unfair advantage in Wisconsin’s public school insurance market, and uses that advantage to soak every penny possible from local school coffers.
Click on the title!
Monday, February 21, 2011
I'll Pray for You
Have you heard this song?
I pray your brakes go out running down a hill
I pray a flowerpot falls from a window sill and knocks you in the
head like I'd like to
I pray your birthday comes and nobody calls
I pray you're flying high when your engine stalls
I pray all your dreams never come true
Just know wherever you are honey, I pray for you.
Our pastor used that as the springboard for a sermon about how we are supposed to pray for one another and how we are supposed to see one another, really. The congregation got a kick out of the song - we can all identify with those feelings toward people who have hurt us or whom we find difficult. But the point of our pastor's sermon was not just that we are to pray for all those difficult people in our lives. We are also to pray for ourselves - that we will come to see these difficult people as He does, as his precious children that he died for.
Peace!
Katie
I pray your brakes go out running down a hill
I pray a flowerpot falls from a window sill and knocks you in the
head like I'd like to
I pray your birthday comes and nobody calls
I pray you're flying high when your engine stalls
I pray all your dreams never come true
Just know wherever you are honey, I pray for you.
Our pastor used that as the springboard for a sermon about how we are supposed to pray for one another and how we are supposed to see one another, really. The congregation got a kick out of the song - we can all identify with those feelings toward people who have hurt us or whom we find difficult. But the point of our pastor's sermon was not just that we are to pray for all those difficult people in our lives. We are also to pray for ourselves - that we will come to see these difficult people as He does, as his precious children that he died for.
Peace!
Katie
Why I Changed My Mind about Unions
I found this article by Michael Filozof from The American Thinker interesting because I entered adult life believing the mantra "Unions Good, Management Bad!" I can remember Andy looking at me like I was crazy when I made some positive comment about unionization. Ah, the wonders of government school indoctrination! (Parents, if your kids are in government schools, please take the time to teach them the truth about our constitution and economics!) The problem with unions today rests with the public sector unions - the government really is not likely to go bankrupt; it will keep borrowing and sticking it to the taxpayers to pay for the ever increasing costs of benefits for unionized government workers. And if we dare to try to stop the ever-accelerating spiral of spending and debt, they will engage in protests with the threat of violence to maintain that which they believe we owe them. Just look at what is happening in Wisconsin.
Here is the conclusion of the article:
As Sen. Barry Goldwater observed in Conscience of a Conservative, the First Amendment guarantees freedom of association for union members. But "[e]mployers are forbidden to act collusively for sound reasons. The same reasons [should] apply to unions...Let us henceforth make war on all monopolies -- whether corporate or union. The enemy of freedom is unrestrained power" -- whether it be unrestrained management power or unrestrained union power.
If the fiscal conservatives fail in Wisconsin, we all may be doomed to slavery to the public sector unions. We in the private sector will be on the hook for government employee six-figure pensions that they did not have to pay into like we did. We all have had to make cuts and lifestyle changes because of the economic crisis we have been facing for the last several years. Government must cut too, and that means breaking the power of the public sector unions. Watch Wisconsin...your state may be next.
Click on the title to read the entire article.
Here is the conclusion of the article:
As Sen. Barry Goldwater observed in Conscience of a Conservative, the First Amendment guarantees freedom of association for union members. But "[e]mployers are forbidden to act collusively for sound reasons. The same reasons [should] apply to unions...Let us henceforth make war on all monopolies -- whether corporate or union. The enemy of freedom is unrestrained power" -- whether it be unrestrained management power or unrestrained union power.
If the fiscal conservatives fail in Wisconsin, we all may be doomed to slavery to the public sector unions. We in the private sector will be on the hook for government employee six-figure pensions that they did not have to pay into like we did. We all have had to make cuts and lifestyle changes because of the economic crisis we have been facing for the last several years. Government must cut too, and that means breaking the power of the public sector unions. Watch Wisconsin...your state may be next.
Click on the title to read the entire article.
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
The Needless Lack of Self-Confidence of Most Home-Schooling Mothers
Hi everyone!
Sorry it has been so long, but I have an interesting article to share with you! Here is an excerpt:
Today, there is a generation of home-school mothers who began three decades ago, and whose grandchildren are now being home schooled by their daughters. With the new digital media, you might think that there would be dozens of detailed, step-by-step curriculum programs for sale or for free. Yet Dr. Arthur Robinson's was the first purely digital curriculum. It is delivered on CD-ROMs. He created it because his wife died unexpectedly, and he had to develop a self-taught curriculum. He was running a sheep ranch, a biological research organization, and was the publisher of the newsletter, Access to Energy. He had no time to teach his six children using the labor-intensive, mother-run programs.
So, two men without experience have developed comprehensive programs. Why men? The barrier to entry is not money. The monetary cost of creating and delivering a digits-based program is basically free.
My conclusion: home school mothers lack self-confidence.
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Needless to say, I disagree with Dr. North's assertions and e-mailed him to let him know what I thought of his article. He doesn't particularly like e-mails that disagree with him and suggested that I blog about it. So, here is his article. You know the drill, click on the title to read the entire article! And if you want to engage Dr. North in discussion, well, he doesn't like angry e-mails and he doesn't let the public comment on his website without being a paid member....
I guess we could discuss it here....
Peace,
Katie
Sorry it has been so long, but I have an interesting article to share with you! Here is an excerpt:
Today, there is a generation of home-school mothers who began three decades ago, and whose grandchildren are now being home schooled by their daughters. With the new digital media, you might think that there would be dozens of detailed, step-by-step curriculum programs for sale or for free. Yet Dr. Arthur Robinson's was the first purely digital curriculum. It is delivered on CD-ROMs. He created it because his wife died unexpectedly, and he had to develop a self-taught curriculum. He was running a sheep ranch, a biological research organization, and was the publisher of the newsletter, Access to Energy. He had no time to teach his six children using the labor-intensive, mother-run programs.
So, two men without experience have developed comprehensive programs. Why men? The barrier to entry is not money. The monetary cost of creating and delivering a digits-based program is basically free.
My conclusion: home school mothers lack self-confidence.
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Needless to say, I disagree with Dr. North's assertions and e-mailed him to let him know what I thought of his article. He doesn't particularly like e-mails that disagree with him and suggested that I blog about it. So, here is his article. You know the drill, click on the title to read the entire article! And if you want to engage Dr. North in discussion, well, he doesn't like angry e-mails and he doesn't let the public comment on his website without being a paid member....
I guess we could discuss it here....
Peace,
Katie
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