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NBA versus NFL or what? U gotta love this…..

GUESS WHICH ONE…….

Even if you aren’t a sports fan this is very interesting!

36 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges

8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 currently are defendants in lawsuits,
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Can you guess which organization this is?
NBA Or NFL?

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Neither, it’s the 535 members of the United States Congress. The same group of Idiots that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.

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One of the biggest arguments in the Healthcare Reform is that Healthcare is a right. The right to healthcare is one I am in full agreement with. What I am not in agreement with is government run healthcare. One of the biggest industries in America is Healthcare. It is also one of the fastest growing. For all those with out jobs at this time, there is a great need to people in the nursing profession. If the government goes through with this Healthcare reform it will impose regulations one the healthcare industry that will make these jobs harder to get and possibly downsize.

One of my personal issues with the Healthcare Reform is Insurance issues. First of which is the government run Insurance. Insurance is a privilege, not a right. The health insurance industry started during the American Civil War. This insurance was closer to the concepts used for Auto Insurance today, it covered only emergencies. This insurance, as with auto insurance, did not cover basic care. Insurance was made to handle unexpected emergencies that could cost large amounts of money at one time. Just as you do not expect your auto insurance to cover an oil change, this health insurance did not cover basic routine care.

What the common Health insurance is to day is medical expense insurance. This model started in the 1920 with the concept of pre-paid health care. This later turned into the comprehensive health Insurance we have to day, which covers routine care and preventive care. This system evolved from a per-paid system (which I can understand using) It would have been like a savings account that could only be drawn from for medical. Health Insurance today is a contract between the company and consumer. These contacts include thing to help the consumer and protect the company. One of the items used to protect the company from going out of business, and keep them running for all their customers is the Coverage limit. The coverage limit is similar to a fair usage policy for the internet service providers. The company only has a certain amount of income to provide cost coverage. If you are costing the company more they the can afford, you coverage would be dropped, but this coverage limit is know when you first take out the insurance. The Healthcare Reform wants to do away with the Coverage Limit, this will cause some insurance companies to lose money and go out of business.

Because Insurance is a gamble, no one can be certain of your future health, companies may deny coverage to people that have conditions that they know will continue to cost more over time than they can charge for coverage. These pre-existing conditions are like your driving record, since everyone want to compare Health Insurance to Auto Insurance, If you have a history of accidents you may be denied auto insurance, because you may cost more than they can charge you for coverage. This is common sense when looking at it from the business end of things. If providing your service to an individual will cost you more than you can make from them, you should not provide that person with the service. This is another thing the government Healthcare Reform wants to take away from the Insurance industry.

Another Issue I have with the proposed healthcare reform it the mandate that everyone must have health Insurance. Once again people, including our president, are comparing this to Auto Insurance mandates. If I drive and own a car I must have auto insurance. These mandates vary from state to state, but they all include one thing, liability coverage. This coverage is to protect the interest of others. Liability coverage does not cover you or you property, it covers others for damage caused at your fault. There is nothing like that in health insurance, my health insurance covers me and my family, not you and yours. My liability auto coverage covers you and your car, not me and mine. They are two different things.

Also, I have an option to avoid auto insurance if I am not willing to pay for it, or just can’t afford it; I can choose not to drive. There is not option like that for health coverage. This mandate states that you must buy insurance coverage from either a private provider or the government option. If I can not, or do not wan to, pay for health insurance what are my options, chose not to live? I guess I could always choose to go to jail where the government will pay for my health coverage anyway. This mandate would be the first where the federal government has told the American people “You must buy this product.” If that is not a step in the direction of socialism, what is?

I am in agreement that Healthcare Industry needs reform, I have said that many times. I do not feel that the federal Government should force a “One Size Fists All” approach to the reform, It should be handled by local and state governments if is to be a governing issue. I also do not want the Federal Government me what to buy. That is not their place.

Healthcare is a right, no one should be turned away if their live is in emanating danger, and laws do protect this. Health Insurance is a product created by private industry. You have the right to buy that product, but you do not have the right to make me pay for it for you.

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/06/pay-czar-targets-salary-cuts/

When you ask the government to help, you give them the right to control what you do financially with in your company or your home. The current administration wants to “Spread the Wealth” moving the cash compensation from the high earners to the lower income, moving this country to a classless society.

Obama’s Pay Czar is planning on changing how top earners at companies that received federal aid are compensated for their work in the company. The plan entails moving some compensation from cash to stoke options that can not be touched for years. For executives that stay with the company this might be a much better option than cash now, but the American society is currently an “I want it now” culture.

I personally would look at a position that included stoke options, as long as the company is successful, I would make out better over time. This is what this plan is supposed to foster, a mentality of “If I make the company successful, I will be successful.” This is also supposed to eliminate the risk taking that has made short term success, but hurt the companies in the long run.

The biggest problem I see it that this will make a generation of timid executives that will not take the risked needed to further the company, in favor of the low risk road that will lead to a stable company. Low risk is not what has made this nation and its economy great. It was the risk takers that were willing to try and fail. If we never try, yes we will never fail, but we will also never know if we could succeed.

If the executive of these companies has never taken the risks they had in the past, they would never have become “Too big to fail.” My thought is, take your risks, and get paid for the success you make. If the success lasts all the better, if not learn form the last risk and take another. If you don’t take risks, you will never surpass the average man.

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/27/obama-proposes-longer-school-day-shorter-summer-vacation/?test=latestnews

I once again feel that our president is over stepping is power with this proposal of changing the school year nationally. This is not a federal issue. The school year and scheduling has been placed at the state and local level for a reason. Mandating a national school calendar will not work in this country.

His first proposal is the shortening of summer vacation. I personally do not find fault with this thought. Much of the nation could easily move to a year-round school calendar. The current summer vacation was instated so that children could help on the farms during heavier work times. My brother and I spent many summers on our grand-parent’s farm over the summers. We know how much work there is to be done during this time of year. Many rural areas may still need this “Summer Vacation” so that children can help with the family farm.

As for most of the American families, parents work year round and there is no extra work that children may need to help with. Most Americans now live in Cities and suburbs. They work normal Nine-to-Five jobs, five days a week, every week. There is no predestined summer vacation for most Americans. This summer vacation is wasted, losing many things that may have been learned in the preceding school year.

The Year-round school that I am thinking of does not eliminate the vacation in its entirety, instead reallocated the time off in a more suitable way. Changing the school year to one more like a college quarter, with eight weeks on and three weeks off, rotating through the year. With this much of the learning and knowledge lost during the long summer would be eliminated. This would also aid in the task of finding things for the children to do, since it is not eight full weeks of summer vacation.

This concept I can live with more most, not all American children. Some regions and rural areas may still need the agricultural school calendar. Mandating one school calendar on a federal level is abuse of the governing power.

His second proposition is lengthening the school day and having the schools opened on weekends. I do not know how many of you remember how much of the school day was wasted as it is, adding time to wasted time is still wasted. Teachers and students have enough to deal with as things are. To add even 45 minuets to the school day is out of the question in my opinion. That time needs to be given to the parents of America. We need that time to teach our children our values as family. The school does not need this time do waist on father brainwashing our children into secular teaching.

Also adding the additional stress to our teachers by adding work days to their week is wrong. The people are under-appreciated as it is. They do not need to be forced to work longer hours, and give up time with their own families to raise our children for us.

Many States are dealing with finding ways to cut the cost of keeping schools open five days a week. How are they going to be able to afford longer work weeks, or even longer days? Is the federal Government going to pay to keep these schools open for these extra hours? The Government can hardly find a way to pay for the proposed Healthcare reform that they think this country so badly needs.

You can not expect the states to keep schools open longer hours without finding the funding from the tax-payer. You can also not expect ever region in this country to need the same changes to the school year that our president is proposing.

We were all once school children, can you imagine the school day being more like a work day? Long hours of work with no hope vacation to relive the stress. I know that many of you work long hours and might find it convenient for child care, but think of the children. Do they need more of their childhood taken from them?

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,550063,00.html

Once again the minority is being heard over the majority. The ACLU and other organizations have given students the right to opt out of saying the Pledge of Allegiance in school, even though most states have a law that it is to be recited daily in all public schools. These organizations now want to include a warning that students can opt out of the Pledge.

Most of the outcry is about the words “One Nation under God” in the pledge. I am to the point where it is getting on my nerves when people say this country is not one nation under God, and that it is not a Christian nation. This nation was founded my Christians that wanted the freedom of practicing Christianity with out the government intervention.

Some organizations are taking the “Separation of Church and State” too far. You have to right not to recite the Pledge, stop trying to change it. The pledge is not unconstitutional; in fact, it was made by the government of this nation. In God We Trust is on our money, Under God is in our Pledge. We are a Christian Nation. If you don’t like it you are free to leave.

I have pride in my country and its heritage. I, like many others in this nation, do not think the pledge needs to be changed. If you are not willing to Pledge Allegiance to our nation just because our nation wants to be united under God, you should leave and go to some other nation that is not united under God.

Once again, this is a free nation and you may believe what you want, but stop trying to change established National Standards to fit the minorities. This nation is 82% Christian, there for we are one nation Under God. If you don’t want to join us under our God, join us under your own. I don’t care what god you serve, but do not try to take my God out of my Nation.

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Labor day is a federal and State holiday that we all celebrate on the first Monday of September, and often coincides with the start of the school year. Many people look forward to this holiday each year, but how many know where this holiday originated?

Labor day started from labor disputes in Canada (yes it is originally a Canadian thing) in 1870 known as the “Nine-Hour Movement”. The labor unions  legalized The parades held in support of the Nine-Hour Movement and the printers’ strike led to an annual celebration in Canada, In 1882. The first U.S. Celebration was September 5 of the same year. It was organized by Labor Leader Peter J. McGuire after he observed on of the Canadian celebrations.

In  the aftermath of deaths civilian workers, when President Cleveland ordered Military and U.S. Marshals to end the Pullman Strike in Chicago in 1894, Legislation was unanimously passed by both the House and the Senate in a historic 6 days. This legislation made Labor Day a National holiday, which was adopted by all 50 States.

This became a National Holiday for one simple reason. The Federal Government wanted to show their support for the working American, which came only after that same government had Americans killed for striking after getting a pay reduction.  Needless to say, this did not fools the American People and Grover Cleveland was not redenominated for  President by the Democratic party.

This is the holiday we are Celebrating today, one founded in our nation to easy the distrust of the people for the Government. The premise for the holiday, a celebration for the working class of America, is a great one. The reason it was passed gives me pause in celebrations.

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