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Parents Fail, Long Live the Teachers

Shadow Observer — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:38:06 +0000

Mom and Dad, Mother and Father, you have failed your children and where there should be shame there is inflated egos, food stamps, and the free medical card that you euphemistically call insurance.

For some reason, you felt since you could procreate, you would, and hence the problem. As parents you bought your kids (yes I know a kid is a goat) phones, tv’s, computers, phones, internet access and you thought that you did well providing for them and in that moment you sealed your destiny as a lousy parent and theirs as a failure for at least 20 years. But hey what else are you going to do with the big April 15 check you get because of the Earned Income Tax Credit that wasn’t earned by any stretch of the imagination.

Parents are supposed to raise children to think, process, respect, persevere, engage and frankly you never even tried as parents and it shows but you are not even ashamed. You felt that you were mature and can have a kid if you want. Well as the representative of the 10% of society that is paying for you and junior I do not appreciate it.

Thank the government because they made you send them to school where someone actually cares about their future. Was that not a great day when the kid went off to school and you could blame someone else for your incompetence, your poor choice of a breeding partner and your ignorant offspring. Finally you understood what the public schools were for; they are there to clean up your messed up family.

Praise GOD and Hallelujah.

35.5% Of Us Are Family

rocklanders — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:44:26 +0000

So just who is really suporting the economy? The answer is, shockingly, not many of us.

145.8 million Americans work out of total population of 307 million and 20% of the workers earn below the poverty level. Now hold on, 2.15 million are actually on the federal government payroll so the employed drops to 143.65 million. But wait! There are over 5.3 million State and local employees so we are down to 138.3 million workers. Now hold on again, remember 20% of the workers are below poverty level and do not contribute taxes even though they reduce our tax burden we still pay them more in assistance than they contibute so we are down to 109.1 million workers.

Are you getting kind of lonely now? You should be lonely because only 35.5% of us are now working and contributing.

So isn’t the actual unemployment 64.5%?

The government says unemployment is at 9% but really it’s 64.5% plus a little

The Time is Nigh

rocklanders — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:09:01 +0000

Late 2009 and all 2010 were spent with hope that a miracle would turn around the American economy and the unpaid debts would disappear. For those of you who have not figured it out the bailout of the economy failed as all logical thinkers knew it would. The bailouts the feds used only delayed the inevitable bankruptcy of the nation. 50 years of expanding and perverting the welfare program and subsidizing the fools finally caught up with the politicians and now you and I the workers and the rich will bail out America.
The greatest generation saddled America with plans and programs that can never be sustained and in reality never could, it was just a pipe dream for big egoed fools who felt good about giving away other peoples money and sweat to those whom were lazy and would become lazier with each passing day and food stamp purchase.
The poor and ignorant have always been amongst us there is no denying that but we must for our own survival realize we can not help them. If we help them, give them a handout we make them slaves to us and their appetites for more never subside. Yet for all time we continue to believe they deserve our pity and we have a obligation to them, which we do not. Oh I know many of you are getting angry now because your whole belief system says you must pity the poor to get you in good with GOD, but really, give it a rest. You are not helping them you are crippling them for life.
I know, I know, some will die sooner than you prefer and there will be tragedy, yet that is the human condition, we die, they die, some survive a little longer in nicer surroundings but the end is all the same.

Hospitals Crumble Under Poor Management

Shadow Observer — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:15:55 +0000

Zanesville, Cambridge and Coshocton hospitals continue to contract and falter under poor management actions and reactions to economic conditions. Ealier this year Genesis jettisoned it extended care facilities as they gasped and struggle to stay alive, now Coshocton is reeling from it's extended care debacle and selling it to Autum Healthcare which is able to make it in that tough business. Southeastern Med is now lamenting they don't get a bailout from the taxpayers to pay for upgrades to their hardware and software issues.

The tri-county consortium of hospitals got together to save money last year and that may have worked some but all three were more focused on what to gleen from the relationship in the form of selling services than they were on solving problems. Classic poor management not getting the big picture. What is the big picture you wonder? Simple, trim costs across the board until the company makes enough money to keep the business of caring for people profitable. Stop giving doctors and nurses raises when they are the reason all the big healthcare needs go elsewhere.

The locals are fed up with medical staff that do not want to work. How do patients know medical staff do not want to work? Answer: They do not want to see the patients when they are sick. Patients do not want to give their big healthcare lifesaving dollars to a local system that won't care for them on a daily basis.

But wait, the title say's poor management! Your right it does, poor managers won't stand up to the lousy medical staff, so your local healthcare suffers because of poor or no management.

Brace for City School War

Shadow Observer — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:36:58 +0000

The Cambridge City School Superintendent seems to be on a collision course with the district teachers and he begins spoutin about budget cuts. The General (superintendent) of the district will not even consider cutting busing and food service at the high school or the athletic department, but has set his sights on the actual educators in the battle torn district.

The first shot over the bow of the teacher ship came with the slam by the General that the teachers dumped Race To The Top funding. The Joint Chiefs (school board) and the General spun it to mean the teachers did not want to improve student outcomes.

Streets Deteriorating! What happened?

Shadow Observer — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:52:41 +0000

City of Cambridge residents passed a levy some 8 years ago that would provide funding to re-pave every street and alley every 10 years. Flash forward to 2010 and the Mayor (Tom Orr) has redirected those funds to the revitalization of the decaying downtown. The redirecting of funds has done two things:

1. Made the downtown merchants nothing more than corporate welfare leaches sucking on the public funds.

2. Led to the inevitable, the streets are falling apart again.