How can they do this???????

Aunt Bob was driving along yesterday listening to talk radio.  As he often does.  I get the way conservative from the local station and they way liberal from NPR.  I figure the right answer might come to me if I combine the two.  So far. Not!

Any way, Greg Garrison (local) was talking about the new tax code for 2013 I think and stated that the IRS will now have the power to decide if you can use legal deduction.  If it looks to them like you are just out there grabbing (legal) deductions in excess (what is excess) they can take away all your deductions.  I have been trying to confirm this fact but as of yet haven't seen it.  If anyone knows more let me know by e mailing me at bobhunt43@gmail.com.

Obama what????

Ok, Aunt Bob watched the "Job's speech" last night.  More aptly titled "lets do more of what hasn't work yet"

For 10 minutes I listened to Obama go on and on about all the construction jobs that can be created.  As an unemployed non construction type person I don't see how this will help.  Back in the day when FDR tried this the country thrived on manual labor, today that is not the case.  Locally a road construction company owner was interviewed and he said if more work comes his way he will have work for his existing workers, but still no room for hiring new people.  Also said that all the people applying for work with him were not qualified for road work.  It does him no good to hire people with no experience.

I just don't see how his spending more money on the same kind of plan will help.  He's just jacking up the already high national debt and risking further national credit downgrading.

I am by no means a Conservative and dont' know that they have the answers either.  I don't see how this can ever get fixed if the 2 parties don't get together and find a common ground.  The sad part of that is that they have already proven they can't do that.

Our leaders have gotten to full of themselves and their personal agendas that compromise doesn't seem possible.

Maybe its time to vote them all out and start over.

What are we going to do?

Well as many of you know I am running for President in 2012.  I am the candidate for the Homocrat party.  We need a new party that is not ultra Conservative and not ultra liberal.  One that is for smaller government, lower taxes, and putting more on the States and less on the federal. 

I have been listening to some of the Democrats in congress and they should just be quiet ( hold on Republicans your next).  Andre Carson from Indiana (sad day for us) opened his big mouth and said that Conservatives would rather see black people swinging from trees.  Did he miss the part of history class that taught him that the Lynch mobs from years past were Democrats?  Obama opens his mouth the other day and says he wants to visit all 57 states.  Martin Luther Kings daughter thanked Abraham Lincoln for signing the Declaration of Independence.  And don't even get me started on Nancy Pelosi and Harry Ried.

Ok GOP your turn.  Michele Bachmann running around getting her facts wrong all over the place (happy birthday Elvis)  Rick Perry and Bachmann support a movement to make it illegal to be gay and think that gay people can be re programed.  And if they had their way women would no longer have control over their own bodies. Oh and I forgot Sara Palin running all over the country not really telling anyone why.

Its scary.  We need a good independent to step up and wow the country with a plan that can fix the economy, create more jobs, put people back in their homes, and not make us give away all we earn to the government. 

It really looks like we are going into the 2012 election with no good choice.

Are you serious Lindsey?

Ok we put up with the party party party lifestyle of Lindsey Lohan because she was young.  We turned our heads at the drunk driving because she was young.  We shook our heads at the repeated court ordered rehab because she was young.  We said what a shame at the shop lifting because she was young.  But now it seems she is just so damned full of herself that there is no reality for this girl.

First she sues e-trade for using the name "Lindsey" in their commercial now she is suing rapper "Pittbull" for saying her name in a song.  I would think after all the negative publicity she would be glad anyone even cares to remember her name. 

We can no longer blame it on the fact that she is young,  I think she is just a "Bitch"

Now you have to pay to let your kids ride the bus to school

I am miffed and discusted.  I don't have kids and that is not a bad thing.  I don't really know why the state of our education systems even registers as an issue with me, other than I am a tax payer and these kids are our future.  But the priorities in our system are just down right pissing me off.

We have a township in central Indiana that is now charging parents $450 per year per child to ride the bus to school.  Last year they asked for a tax increase to cover the cost of bussing and it was voted down.  Now parents have to pay for it directly.  As a tax payer without children you would think I would be thrilled but I am not.  Over spending and over paying administrators and over building these monster schools has put them in this situation.  Now to save cost they charge the families.  A family with 3 children would have to fork out an extra $1200 per year just to get their kids to school. 

Last year in this township 7000 kids rode the bus, now only 2000 are riding.  That means 5000 are now being driven to school by the parents/tax payers/victims of this system. 

In the past driving by schools at pick up and drop off time was bad enough with all the traffic, but now it is so much worse.  One parent interviewed said she sat in line for over and hour and a half just to drop off her child.  Some kids are walking to school now and the area has poor or no sidewalks.  This is a tragedy waiting to happen.

Parents are now talking about moving out of this school district.  So because of mismanaged funds the township will have a decrease of students in brand new over built schools and huge expenses.

What is this world coming to?

School seperated by sexes

Well the Carmel Indiana school district is trying something new this year.  In one of their schools they are separating boys and girls.  Girls start at 7 a.m and Boys start at 8 a.m.  Their classes are on different floors.  Teachers have already said that the concentration level is higher, but too soon to tell if it is working or not.

I don't know how I feel about this.  On one hand if it improves test scores and they actually get educated instead of dropping out when they turn 16 then good.  But I remember school as being a place where you learn to socialize and build friendships.  Boarding schools are segregated and they seem to work.  As I hear more on how this is working I will post it.

What happened to school

It's August and the little kiddies are going back to school.  When I was in school I used to dred the ads for back to school supplies because that ment that summer was over.  Some of the townships here in Indy have arlready started and are now going to year round school.  9 weeks on 2 weeks off all year. But that is not the point of today's post.

When I was in school back in the olden days school supplies were:
Notebooks
Pencils
Pens
Ruler
Crayons
Glue

Now:

Cell phone
I pad
Lap top

I know we are in an age of technology but come on!!!!!
Here they are no longer requiring writing.  The kids learn to print then "Key Board"  Cursive is gone.  These kids will not know how to read or write their own signature.  All there work  is done on computers so they don't have to learn how to add and subtract, spell (no comment on my spelling. haha).  They don't even know what an encyclopedia or dictionary is.  We weren't even allowed a calculator until high school and they are using computers in grade school. 

I know technology is an important part of our lives now, but at least teach them the basics before they move on to the keyboard.