Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Tough news days

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Happy December everyone; I hope yours is peaceful, fulfilling, joyous and fun filled. Just 24 shopping days left before Christmas, unless you shop on the internet, then it is still only 24 days but it is 24/7.

I read where the Federal government has spent $1.17 for every $1.00 it has generated in revenue since the end of World War II. Since 2007 the Federal Government has hired 350,000 employees. This includes employees hired to replace retiring or dismissed employees. The average salary for civilian, nonmilitary Federal employees is $67,691.00 for jobs that exist in both the public and the private sectors in 2008. The average salary for employees in the same position working in the private sector earned $60,046.00 in 2008. This does not include benefits.

Since I wrote about the High School hostage situation in Wisconsin, new facts have come out. A gun was fired three times, by the hostage-taker. The 15 year old shot himself as police entered the classroom around 8:00 p.m. Monday. This troubled youth couldn’t even correctly commit suicide. He did not die for over twelve hours. I have compassion for his parents and family but not for the shooter. I wonder if a parent had to make the call to ‘pull the plug’?

Hold the presses. The Republican leadership and President Obama agreed to negotiate on the tax cuts set to expire Jan. 1, 2011. That is a code for, ‘they will not expire now, we will wait a while” for them to take effect. Like everything the Federal government does, they will worry about the cost and paying for it later. It is like the proposed freeze in Federal pay, except for the military and members of Congress. If the freeze does become law, what will happen when it expires in two years? The employees and Union leaders will argue they haven’t had a raise in two years so they are entitled to a bigger than normal raise. That will happen and in the end we have not saved any money just put off paying it for two years.

The news story in Ohio where a father tried to kill himself and has hidden his three children is not going to have a good ending. The woman the man said he left his children with does not exist, according to police. The police are searching wooded areas for the boys. Not a place you expect to find three boys, the oldest of which is 9, to be found alive. This is another sick story that is being repeated far too often.

The children were last seen Thanksgiving Day. The 39 year old father and the mother are going through a divorce. Child custody is a contentious issue being dealt with in the divorce proceeding.

McLean, Virginia police have accused a grandmother of throwing a 2 ½ year-old over a railing and to her death several stories below. Up to the moment the grandmother, 50 year-old Carmela Dela Rosa picked he child up and threw her over the railing, the family outing had gone without incident, which was normally the case when the grandmother was around. She often cared for her granddaughter in a babysitting capacity at her home where she lived with her husband and a son. Police have said the grandmother has offered no explanation for her actions other than to indicate it was not an accident.

Today is;

December 1 is … National Pie Day and Eat A Red Apple Day

A thought for the day; " Minds are like parachutes, they only work when open. "


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