Low pay gives you nothing and as it is!

No matter who you are you have to accept it for the better of the good!
The way of life is a naturistic policy and if you just stand there you get ran over.

I talk about this a lot. If the wages goes up everything else will follow.
And the need for the pay to go up, mostly noted the fact that small towns
have nothing vs a bigger city. Basically noticed in the growth of Tulsa Oklahoma.
A place that has bumped up the pay vs a small town that keeps the
pay at their lowest. Small towns are in their way trying to grow to get around
not matching inflation as small towns wages are stagnant and so is the growth.
You can make it but can people afford it? Low wages keeps small towns down!

There is a such a divide rich and poor retail stores have to cater to both parties.
And that is depressing when you go into a store that does that being
it shows the divide in a bad light. My town is making a ALDI store for the rich
in town that don't want to go to Walmart to mingle with all the poor people!
There is too much hoopla to shop there and it's a way to screen out the poor
being they are too lazy to do it. In fact I say to the poor get in there and shop,
flood the place!

Also bad in a sociological view as the wages are low and life is low from that so
comes in the bottom of barrel workers. It's a fact of life you get what you pay for.
And where there is such a divide rich towns vs poor towns you get this more, it's
a fact of life and really should not be ignored! It shows the need to raise the pay to
keep it's ugly head from popping up. Such a divide causes the action of people
that want better pay being they like to buy food and pay their bills to work
at the better paying jobs. And will work at those places leaving the bad workers,
pushing the bad workers to lower income towns.

If you took a sociology class you might of learned
"There is a reason people work for the low pay, because they
can't make anywhere else." That normally a small issue but in a divide of richer
vs poorer things get massively worse! There is nothing bad with being a
bottom of the barrel, only that there would be so many in one spot
and if they expect you to live in the bottom of it also!



Pushing productivity (Productivity harassment!) is just harassing the workers being
the sales they want is just dust in the wind to the broke people that buys less.
And is like the do more with less of making your workers panic.
It's just shows a bad manager that failed and has to harass the workers to
get more done from the fail! Give the fail is also from the towns people being broke.

All of that points the wages do need to go up if you want anything in your town.
And... The fact many want nothing in town. Being they are sadomasochist voters.
Like it's noted in Oklahoma why people vote against their best interest.
Because they like it! And it does make others a victim from that practice,
like a nice car in the Walmart parking lot with a note stuck on it
"Sorry my bad!" Or like being in the quick sand with people that want to go down
in it with a few that want to do better. They can't they are in quick sand!
Well small towns are hell. Live in a small town welcome to hell!
It helps to understand this so you kind of know whats going on!

The point is all of this hell would be covered up with better pay.
It's just the wages are not matching inflation and the bottom of the iceberg
is exposed more than it should be! Better pay makes better people.
Progress runs over the sadomasochist voters that like it bad.
America can't live like they do. I mean if they did all we would have
in America would be a corn field. How bright would that light be?
Like in history we would be invaded easy. By Canada I hope!

Or noted as it's sad to be a victim of natural selection to roll with
the slow progress of it. As I see in my town people letting their homes rot.
In the end the house will fall over or they have to get out of the black mold trap.
There are more homes falling apart than they are tearing down in my town,
I noticed it lately. Nature is taking back it's land with no effort to stop it.
If they had better pay they could afford to fix their homes!

Anyway you see it the pay does need to go up in small towns.
All you really have to look at the growth in Tulsa from the better pay
to see the difference. If you are a sadomasochist and like it bad
then you make it bad for everyone else. Also it gives the town the bottom
of the barrel more than it should! With no change it's going to get worse in
small towns.

Many of the poor are "heavily in debt." in their car payment they had the last
10 years from refinancing the loan skipping payments.
Many just voluntary repossess the car to get rid of it not caring about
their credit history as it takes money to have credit, you have to buy stuff!
And many have their paycheck garnished, pay alimony leaving them to live
on half their paycheck. In that makes work places not willing to hire them
being they might steal at the work place because they would be hungry
and living on $4.50 after taxes etc. Garnishment & Alimony is a called a debt.
That is what workplaces look at to not hire people. What risk are they to the store.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/01/news/economy/america-poor-in-debt/index.html

And I hope it shows the need to raise the pay for the better of the good!

 ~~~~~Minimum Wage Mythbusters  Dol.gov
Myth: Raising the minimum wage will only benefit teens.
Not true: The typical minimum wage worker is not a high school student earning weekend pocket money. In fact, 89 percent of those who would benefit from a federal minimum wage increase to $12 per hour are age 20 or older, and 56 percent are women.

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Myth: Increasing the minimum wage will cause people to lose their jobs.
Not true: In a letter to President Obama and congressional leaders urging a minimum wage increase, more than 600 economists, including 7 Nobel Prize winners wrote, "In recent years there have been important developments in the academic literature on the effect of increases in the minimum wage on employment, with the weight of evidence now showing that increases in the minimum wage have had little or no negative effect on the employment of minimum-wage workers, even during times of weakness in the labor market. Research suggests that a minimum-wage increase could have a small stimulative effect on the economy as low-wage workers spend their additional earnings, raising demand and job growth, and providing some help on the jobs front."

---

Myth: Small business owners can't afford to pay their workers more, and therefore don't support an increase in the minimum wage.
Not true: A July 2015 survey found that 3 out of 5 small business owners with employees support a gradual increase in the minimum wage to $12. The survey reports that small business owners say an increase "would immediately put more money in the pocket of low-wage workers who will then spend the money on things like housing, food, and gas. This boost in demand for goods and services will help stimulate the economy and help create opportunities."

---

Myth: Raising the federal tipped minimum wage ($2.13 per hour since 1991) would hurt restaurants.
Not true: In California, employers are required to pay servers the full minimum wage of $9 per hour — before tips. Even with a 2014 increase in the minimum wage, the National Restaurant Association projects California restaurant sales will outpace all but only a handful of states in 2015.

---

Myth: Raising the federal tipped minimum wage ($2.13 per hour since 1991) would lead to restaurant job losses.
Not true: As of May 2015, employers in San Francisco must pay tipped workers the full minimum wage of $12.25 per hour — before tips. Yet, the San Francisco leisure and hospitality industry, which includes full-service restaurants, has experienced positive job growth this year, including following the most recent minimum wage increase.

---

Myth: Raising the federal minimum wage won't benefit workers in states where the hourly minimum rate is already higher than the federal minimum.
Not true: While 29 states and the District of Columbia currently have a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum, increasing the federal minimum wage will boost the earnings for nearly 38 million low-wage workers nationwide. That includes workers in those states already earning above the current federal minimum. Raising the federal minimum wage is an important part of strengthening the economy. A raise for minimum wage earners will put more money in more families' pockets, which will be spent on goods and services, stimulating economic growth locally and nationally.

---

Myth: Younger workers don't have to be paid the minimum wage.
Not true: While there are some exceptions, employers are generally required to pay at least the federal minimum wage. Exceptions allowed include a minimum wage of $4.25 per hour for young workers under the age of 20, but only during their first 90 consecutive calendar days of employment with an employer, and as long as their work does not displace other workers. After 90 consecutive days of employment or the employee reaches 20 years of age, whichever comes first, the employee must receive the current federal minimum wage or the state minimum wage, whichever is higher. There are programs requiring federal certification that allow for payment of less than the full federal minimum wage, but those programs are not limited to the employment of young workers.

---

Myth: Restaurant servers don't need to be paid the minimum wage since they receive tips.
Not true: An employer can pay a tipped employee as little as $2.13 per hour in direct wages, but only if that amount plus tips equal at least the federal minimum wage and the worker retains all tips and customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a month in tips. Often, an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct wages of at least $2.13 an hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage. When that occurs, the employer must make up the difference. Some states have minimum wage laws specific to tipped employees. When an employee is subject to both the federal and state wage laws, he or she is entitled to the provisions of each law which provides the greater benefits.

---

Myth: Increasing the minimum wage is bad for businesses.
Not true: Academic research has shown that higher wages sharply reduce employee turnover which can reduce employment and training costs.

---

Myth: Increasing the minimum wage is bad for the economy.
Not true: Since 1938, the federal minimum wage has been increased 22 times. For more than 75 years, real GDP per capita has steadily increased, even when the minimum wage has been raised.

---

Myth: The federal minimum wage goes up automatically as prices increase.
Not true: While some states have enacted rules in recent years triggering automatic increases in their minimum wages to help them keep up with inflation, the federal minimum wage does not operate in the same manner. An increase in the federal minimum wage requires approval by Congress and the president. However, in his call to gradually increase the current federal minimum, President Obama has also called for it to adjust automatically with inflation. Eliminating the requirement of formal congressional action would likely reduce the amount of time between increases, and better help low-income families keep up with rising prices.

---

Myth: The federal minimum wage is higher today than it was when President Reagan took office.
Not true: While the federal minimum wage was only $3.35 per hour in 1981 and is currently $7.25 per hour in real dollars, when adjusted for inflation, the current federal minimum wage would need to be more than $8 per hour to equal its buying power of the early 1980s and more nearly $11 per hour to equal its buying power of the late 1960s. That's why President Obama is urging Congress to increase the federal minimum wage and give low-wage workers a much-needed boost.

---

Myth: Increasing the minimum wage lacks public support.
Not true: Raising the federal minimum wage is an issue with broad popular support. Polls conducted since February 2013 when President Obama first called on Congress to increase the minimum wage have consistently shown that an overwhelming majority of Americans support an increase.

---

Myth: Increasing the minimum wage will result in job losses for newly hired and unskilled workers in what some call a “last-one-hired-equals-first-one-fired” scenario.
Not true: Minimum wage increases have little to no negative effect on employment as shown in independent studies from economists across the country. Academic research also has shown that higher wages sharply reduce employee turnover which can reduce employment and training costs.

---

Myth: The minimum wage stays the same if Congress doesn't change it.
Not true: Congress sets the minimum wage, but it doesn't keep pace with inflation. Because the cost of living is always rising, the value of a new minimum wage begins to fall from the moment it is set.

http://www.dol.gov/minwage/mythbuster.htm

Warm Kitten

In life it's best to be just who you are.
And know what actions you do effects others.
This is something that is not in the mind set today.
People don't have a clue the should have a clue.
To a Tea Party type conservative a liberal is the
devil I think because Tea Party type conservatives expect
you to live the life of a catfish swimming in the bottom of
the water where all the shit drops down at!
You don't see Liberals do that stuff! I'm not going to swim in shit!

And the point is... They are the evil ones being they expect
you to live in the lake of fire or shit just like they do.
And they call you the devil because your not in shit also!
If you want the better for the good you can't be in shit!

Anyway in life you don't need to make a deal with the spirit of Jazz!
In the end it's not worth a warm kitten going up your A$$!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNuUNHlsPgI

***That episode of the Mighty Boosh is taken out of the story
of Robert Johnson king of the Delta Blues!
http://www.vagablogging.net/robert-johnson-sold-his-soul-to-the-devil-in-rosedale-mississippi.html

Schools going to a four day week

There are many schools thinking about going to a four day week.

Yes it would be bad for kids but more it would drop the support staff.

Being they would lose days at work, 32 hours a week.

That is $235 out of your $7+ wage after taxes.

Or going from 160 hours a month to 128 hours a month.

99% of the support staff would have to quit to get a better paying job to pay 
the rent. Or work two jobs, killing job responsibility and ending functionality 
of the worker in the work place making zombie workers!

This also is the view of fail "Do more with less" which is I have failed and have

to get the workers to run around in a panic and that is not a good thing to do

for Teachers. It's bad managing it says you have failed and are in a panic!
You don't want to take days away from Teachers!

There are only so many custodians around to give them hugs!

But really, it's a bad thing for schools to do that you will loose most of your

support staff and what Teacher will clean the bathroom today?

Something will have to be done life changes. If you pay taxes and get payed
like you are from the 1950's then all you will have is the 1950's!
Something will go up to get more funding!

~~~~~Four-day school weeks: Districts weighing benefits, but Hofmeister 

says it's bad for kids

A sudden surge in public schools looking to entice teachers and squeeze more
out of limited budgets by moving to a four-day week could change the way
thousands of Oklahoma students learn.

But State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister isn’t pulling punches on the subject
she says any benefits are questionable at best and believes the scheme is
detrimental to academic instruction.

“I think this is certainly being amplified in local school districts
because of the teacher shortage. Frankly, I think it’s a short-term, promotional
tactic to attract teachers at the expense of kids,” she said.

http://newsok.com/four-day-school-weeks-districts-weighing-benefits-but-hofmeister-says-its-bad-for-kids/article/5462362

~~~~~More than half of teachers consider quitting in the next TWO years 
as staff struggle with heavy workload and want better work-life balance

More than half of teachers are considering quitting in the next two years, their 

union revealed. Staff are struggling with the heavy workload and want a better 

work-life balance, a survey by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) found. 

Nearly 40 per cent said they suffered low morale while 47 per cent said they 

believed the school curriculum and pupil assessment methods were 'narrow 

and uncreative'.

The union urged the Government to take urgent action, as some teachers claimed 

they worked 60-hour weeks.    

The YouGov survey of around 1,000 teachers also found them reporting reductions

in the number of support staff and teachers in schools across the country. 

Meanwhile, Michael Gove's introduction of performance related pay was labelled 

'not practicable'. Two thirds of those questioned said they were against it. 

A further 62 per cent thought plans for 500 new free schools will have a negative effect.

Christine Blower, NUT general secretary, said: 'The Government's current priorities are 

both wrong and profoundly out of step with the views of teachers. 

'They are the essential cause of the growing problems with teacher supply.

'This survey demonstrates the combined, negative impact of the accountability 

agenda on teacher workload and morale. 

'Teachers feel that the Department for Education's work thus far to tackle workload 

has been totally inadequate.' She added that nearly one million pupils were expected 

to join schools across the country over the next decade.  

She said: 'The Government's solution so far has been to build free schools, 

often where there are surplus places, and to allow class sizes to grow.

'Add to this a situation where teachers are leaving in droves and teacher recruitment 

remains low. We now have a perfect storm of crisis upon crisis in the schools system.

'The Department for Education remains wilfully and recklessly unable to see that they 

are the cause of teacher misery across England.'

Nick Gibb, schools minister, said teaching recruitment is at its highest level since 2008.
He said: 'We are working with the profession to understand and tackle the top issues
that teachers said caused the most bureaucracy, with leading education experts taking
action on key areas such as marking and lesson planning.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3259382/More-half-teachers-consider-quitting-TWO-years-staff-struggle-heavy-workload-want-better-work-life-balance.html

I'm a big fluffy cat take me home

If you love a married woman and she is worth it to jump into a fire,
then it's love. This is a story about love. I am a lover and in that noted is the
word love! It's about love! To be her lover. Otherwise it would be called sexer
and in that case that is not even a word as it's about love!
Things that have higher meanings!

The willingness to meet both to have a talk, wanting to date the wife,
being the willingness to jump should be noted for it's value!
The willingness to bend over backward for her, support, a smile.
To make it work, by such value there!
Willing for long term that will last! Lasting being she would be good for me!
She's gold!

She is the vortex, it's about her and what's wrong with that,
being her big fluffy cat! I'm ok with that if there is a smile then
it all has it's meaning! It's about things that have deeper value,
like to have other emotional support offered to her!
It's not sex, sex, sex it's support, support, support!
My needs are easy, it's about her needs that fills my needs!
To lift her up, she is the desired one regardless!
Have coffee and talk, I have a 10ft couch!

The main point is to talk about it give me a yes, no or something!
Something is needed, life is bad in the abyss! Please give me a something!
And that is the point the willingness to meet the wife and husband to
talk about it! I know I am willing. That is better than this abyss!

I'm a big fluffy cat, how about that! Please make that call and take me home!
It's up to you sweetheart! We would be a good pair, I would be good for you!
I am willing to make it work! You are a higher value!

~~~~~5 Myths About Polyamory

Myth #1: Poly people are unsatisfied
When someone goes outside a relationship looking for companionship or sex,
it's natural to assume there's something missing from their romance.
But that doesn't appear to be the case for polyamorous individuals.
Melissa Mitchell, a graduate student in psychology at the University of Georgia,
conducted research while at Simon Frasier University in Canada on 1,093 polyamorous
individuals. The participants were asked to list a primary partner and a secondary partner
(more on that later), and they averaged nine years together with their primary and
about two-and-a-half years with their secondary.

Mitchell and her colleagues surveyed their participants about how satisfied and
fulfilled they felt in their relationships. They found that people were more satisfied
with, felt more close to and more supported by their primary partner, suggesting
that their desire for a secondary partner had little to do with dissatisfaction in the
relationship. And satisfaction with an outside partner didn't hurt the primary relationship.

"Polyamorous relationships are relatively independent of one another,"
Mitchell said in January at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and
Social Psychology in New Orleans. "We tend to assume in our culture that if you have
your needs met outside your relationship, some kind of detrimental effect is going to result,
and that's not what we find here."

Myth #2: Polyamorous people are still paired up
Many polyamorous people do form relationships that orbit around a committed couple,
with each person having relationships on the side. But the primary partner/secondary
partner model is an oversimplification for many poly relationships, said Bjarne Holmes,
a psychologist at Champlain College in Vermont. "I'd say about 30 percent or so of the
polyamorous population would say they think of one partner as being primary,"
Holmes told LiveScience. "A large part of the population would say,
'No, I don't buy into that idea of primary or secondary.'"

Many polyamorous people resist that hierarchy and say they get different things
out of different relationships, Holmes said. There are also many people who live in triads
or quads, in which three or four people have relationships with each other or with just one
or a few members of the group. "What I've come across most is actually configurations of
two males and a female living together," Holmes said.

Myth #3: Polyamory is a way to avoid commitment
Research by Amy Moors, a graduate student at the University of Michigan, finds that
people whose relationship style involves little emotional entanglement often say they'd
love a polyamorous relationship, thinking that they could have the benefits of coupledom
without too much attachment. Wrong. Joining a polyamorous relationship and thinking it's
going to be a commitment-free breeze would likely be a huge mistake. For one thing,
of polyamorous relationships are very serious and stable Holmes says he's interviewed
people who've been legally married for 40 years and in a relationship with a second
partner for 20.

Secondly, successful polyamorous partners communicate relentlessly, Holmes said:
"They communicate to death." It's the only way to ensure that everyone's needs are
met and no one is feeling jealous or left out in a relationship that involves many people.

Myth #4: Polyamory is exhausting
The monogamists in the crowd may be shaking their heads. Isn't all that communication
and negotiation exhausting? It's true that polyamorous relationships take lots of time,
said Elizabeth Sheff, a legal consultant and former Georgia State University professor
who is writing a book on polyamorous families. "Even if you're able to hang out together,
giving four relationships the amount of care and feeding and maintenance they need can be
a full-time job," Sheff told LiveScience.

But people who thrive in polyamory seem to love that job, Holmes said.
Polyamorous people report feeling energized by their multiple relationships and say that
good feelings in one translate to good feelings in others. "I had someone describe to me
that love breeds more feelings of love," Holmes said.

Myth #5: Polyamory is bad for the kids
One big question about polyamory is how it affects families with children.
The answer to that is not entirely clear — there have been no large-scale, long-term
studies on the outcomes of kids growing up with polyamorous parents.

But some early research is suggesting that polyamory doesn't have to have a bad impact
on the kids. Sheff has interviewed more than 100 members of polyamorous families,
including about two dozen children of polyamorous parents ranging in age from
5 to 17 years old.

Parents list some disadvantages of the polyamorous lifestyle for their kids, namely stigma
from the outside world and the danger of a child becoming attached to a partner who might
later leave the arrangement, a risk most tried to ameliorate by being extremely cautious
about introducing partners to their children. For their part, kids in the 5- to 8-year-old range
were rarely aware that their families were different from the norm, Sheff found.
They thought about their parents' boyfriends and girlfriends as they related to themselves,
not as they related to mom or dad.

"A 6-year-old may not think of someone as mommy's girlfriend, but think of that person
as 'the one who brings Legos' or 'the one who takes me out to ice cream,'" Sheff said.

From ages 9 to 12, kids became more aware of their families as different, but mostly
said it was easy to stay "closeted," because people tend to mistake polyamorous
arrangements as blended families or other relics of modern relationship complexity.
The teens in the 13- to 17-year-old crowd tended to take a more in-your-face approach,
Sheff said, "an approach of, 'If you think this is wrong you're going to have to prove it to
me. My family is fine.'"

Some teens indicated that they'd consider polyamory for themselves; others weren't
interested at all. Both parents and kids saw advantages to the polyamorous lifestyle
as well. For parents, having more than two adults on hand to help with child-rearing
could be a lifesaver. Kids also reported liking having multiple adults whom they trusted
though they complained that with so much supervision, they couldn't get away with anything.
Children also spoke of the advantages of growing up knowing they could make their own
decisions about how to build their families.

The results are likely somewhat optimistic, Sheff said, as dysfunctional families are
usually less likely to volunteer for studies. But the lack of widespread trauma among
the children of polyamorous families suggests that polyamory is not, by definition,
terrible for kids.

"One of the main things this does indicate to me is that these families can be really good
places to raise children," Sheff said. "Not necessarily that all of them, definitionally, are,
but that they may be, depending on how families work it out."
http://www.livescience.com/27125-5-myths-about-polyamory.html

The good catches up.

I have been in many strange relationships. I always seem to be the healer,
I always seem to end up with strange ones and there is nothing wrong with
that they where good for me also. Love is not a one way road! 
It's good to see or know there is growth down the road from me that I give.
I guess like after they think about it or something like it.
Love is not finite!

I have red string of fate type relationships to far out to be explained.
Met them before I met them and more.

I have a now gay soul mate. It started with me dating her older sister in college and 
she took me home to meet the family I saw her younger sister we both knew it was 
meant to be, but I was too stupid to know it at the times in 89, 98!  

I had a cool barfing hair dresser that took me to a gay bar being that was
her security because the was abused my a biker gang. 
I'm not gay I was supporting her. Nothing like......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCuUnTJgD9M

My high school girlfriend was a ex teen prostitute, someone pimped her at 13
I think. They took her to Vegas then a long time later they took her home broke 
her jaw dropped her off rung the door bell at her parents house, and she was my 
girlfriend after that when she was 15. In the 90's I remember someone calling me 
at 6AM about being tested for AIDS one of the guys had AIDS that got her. 
I tested good and she is still here also so it was ok. 
Still kind of freaks you out about it even though we didn't really have sex.

My old lady her mom tried to kill her when she was a kid and bad and bad 
happened to her. And added after my divorce being un happy for it's own reasons.
I had a bouncy time between a girlfriend I loved. It was on again off again.
I lived in three places at the time because I didn't know where I would end up! 

And from that bouncy, bouncy times and all my other loves comes on a light
for Polyamory. Love both but not all in the same house!
My old lady is a old lady and change is not wanted there in something like that.
She's ok with me finding someone new but keep her out of it, but support her.
She knows I won't leave her I need her also. Polyamory!

I fell for a Married "Gypsy lady!" I should of been on my knees sooner!
She has boom, boom, but........ Maybe next year? I do love her!
Damn we need to talk! At least she would be entertained by me!
I'm ok with that! Oh please!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWOTdt9Bovk

Other than my loves is about my dad dieing, me being hit by a car on a moped,
I had a cursed car that tried to kill me four times. I had to jump on my roller skates 
in to a creek next to a road or get hit by car once.  
Worked in a hotel with two of the 911 guys was in a elevator
alone with both of them once. Protected destiny? I think so I have a strange life!
A college friend had a lady that gave him DMT giving him a psychosis for a few days 
he was seeing green lizards etc.
It's in my writings here, about all that stuff but the point is to point
for those that have bad in their life, the good catches up!

For me it's good to be poly, why put up walls? 
I love everyone anyway! And the road I came from I understand
life is not to an end! It's a beginning of a road and worth the ride!

I need to note human is human with rights. Gay rights are fixed and coming next 

is Polyamory! Don't discriminate my Polyamory thank you!

http://walmartramen.blogspot.com/2015/03/going-triad-into-21st-century.html

****There is a lot I won't say here about my life or others lives,
even if it seems like a lot there is a lot not said!
It is covered like the "What happens in the hotel stays in the hotel!"
But still to protect the guilty (Normal human behavior) all of the stuff
names etc is withheld.
It really does not matter these days anyway, it only makes them more adorable!
But what matters is a trust! Now that's love!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sales Tax Plan For Schools Reflects a Shift

Being Oklahoma reflecting on what I say about reductionist thinking.
Low taxes, low taxes... Well government has to run on something!
If Oklahoma is not going to raise taxes, then there should be a shift to
the sales tax going higher. Matthew 22:21 A good point noted!

That would be a fair thing to do being the failure and the need for surivial
from the taxes being lowered. It's about time they pay their fair share.

Noted the poor buys less than the rich guys. Food stamps have no sales tax!
Federal law prohibits sales tax from being charged on food stamp purchases.
http://dor.wa.gov/docs/reports/2000/tax_exemptions_2000/salesoth.htm


So the rich guy buying the Starbucks everyday vs 
the poor like me that would make something like
it but in a jar to save money would pay less 
sales tax as I buy less costly stuff! 
Fancy Starbucks!
http://fun2bfrugal.com/10-homemade-starbucks-drinks  

It's ok to raise the sales tax being the rich can 
afford it, and ends up in a naturalistic policy of 
low pay vs sales. 



Smashing as it is the sales tax going up would be needed with such a downfall of 
funding going on in Oklahoma! The whole school system would really go to hell
without doing something! That might not be so bad but really!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbKY-2MtFtk

~~~~~Boren Sales Tax Plan Reflects Shift in Oklahoma Tax Base

University of Oklahoma President David Boren’s proposed penny sales tax for
education reflects a fundamental shift in the way the state is paying for public schools,
higher education and other services. Economists interviewed by Oklahoma Watch
expressed concern about reducing the state’s reliance on income taxes and increasing
its dependence on sales taxes to finance essential state functions.

Boren said in an interview that he shared those concerns, but was convinced
Oklahoma’s public education system faces such big funding cuts that
“the education crisis trumps the tax policy question.”
“Our choice is to either do this or do nothing,” he said.

An Oklahoma Watch data analysis shows that income tax cuts approved by the
Legislature over the last 10 years have reduced state revenues by nearly
$1 billion a year, roughly the same amount as next year’s predicted budget shortfall.

Boren is leading a ballot initiative campaign to persuade Oklahomans to approve a
one-cent sales tax increase that would restore about $600 million a year in funding for
public schools and higher education. His group plans to file its petition language and
is expected announce its backers this week. If the group is able to gather enough
petition signatures, the penny sales tax would appear on the general election
ballot in November 2016.

If voters approved the measure, it would restore the education funds that have
been lost over the last decade. Analysts acknowledged that might be the only
practical way to address Oklahoma’s educational woes, but was not necessarily
good tax policy.

“Oklahoma has a regressive tax system, and the sales tax is a big part of that,”
said Carl Davis, research director for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
in Washington, a nongovernment research group. ITEP did an analysis of Oklahoma’s
tax system showing that an average low-income family spends about 10 percent of its
budget on state and local taxes, compared with about 4 percent for high-income
families. Davis said Oklahoma is one of several conservative states, including
neighboring Kansas, which have been shifting from income taxes toward sales taxes
to finance core state services such as education, transportation, health and
public safety.

“It’s a trend that’s been going on for a number of years, mainly on the theory that
relying more on consumption taxes is better for state economies.
Whether that’s actually true or not is highly doubtful,” Davis said.

“What we do know [is that] when you move more toward consumption taxes…
it does increase the unfairness of state tax codes.”

Oklahoma’s top personal income tax rate has been raised and lowered many times
since the Legislature created the tax 100 years ago. The highest it ever got was
17 percent for some taxpayers from 1979 through 1988, according to
Oklahoma Tax Commission records.

Over the past decade, the Legislature has voted four times to reduce the top rate,
from 6.65 percent in 2005 to 5.0 percent today. Some of the reductions were
phased in over several years and subject to revenue growth triggers.

Tax Commission data shows that income tax reductions approved over the last
decade have reduced annual state revenue collections by more than $900 million
a year. If the state had enough revenue growth to trigger a final approved cut in
2018, it would cause an additional loss of $100 million or so.

At this point, with state revenues plunging because of lower oil prices, that scenario
appears doubtful. The Oklahoma Equalization Board won’t estimate next year’s
budget shortfall until mid-December, but preliminary speculation suggests it could
be as much as $1 billion.

The Boren plan would add another penny to the state sales tax, currently 4.5 cents.
(Cities and counties impose additional sales taxes.) The 1-cent increase would raise
about $600 million a year for public schools and higher education.

“We are facing, I think, really the dismantlement of public education in Oklahoma.
I don’t think that’s an alarmist statement,” Boren said.

“We could put to productive use a billion new dollars. Instead, we face a $1 billion
shortfall in the legislature. It’s very likely that there will be even more significant cuts
in education this year. If we’re 49^th now, it’s very likely we’ll go to 51^st after this year,
trying to close the budget gap. We’ll be at the bottom of the elevator shaft.”

Boren, a Democrat, said his group chose the sales tax because initial polling showed
that trying to raise education funds by increasing the income tax would be difficult and
divisive. But when pollsters queried voters about a sales tax for education, initial
support was nearly 70 percent among Republicans and Democrats.

“This is not where we started out,” Boren said, referring to the sales tax.
“It was the last option standing. It was the lesser of evils.
The biggest evil, I think, was to do nothing.”

Boren said it would be pointless to choose a different funding vehicle if it appeared
certain it would be rejected. “There’s no use even trying to do something unless it’s
bipartisan and has a chance of passage,” he said.

Boren said the petition would contain language designed to set a baseline level of
legislative appropriations. That would prevent lawmakers from simply reducing their
future education outlays to offset the sales tax revenue coming in, he said.

Mickey Hepner, an economist and dean of the University of Central Oklahoma
College of Business in Edmond, said he probably would sign Boren’s petition,
but wished Oklahoma had chosen a different path.

“We’re already a high-sales-tax state. Our sales taxes are already above the
national average. Our income taxes are below the national average, particularly after
we’ve cut them over the last decade,” Hepner said. Hepner said the Oklahoma Legislature
seemed to be following a trend of reducing income taxes in hopes that doing so would
stimulate economic growth. He said there was “negligible” evidence that such growth
actually had occurred, because the stimulative effect of reductions in income taxes was
offset by the contractionary effect of fewer expenditures by schoolteachers and other
recipients of state revenue in a balanced-budget environment.

“We should have known that cutting income taxes over the last decade would make it
much more difficult to fund core government services like education,” Hepner said.
“So the teacher shortage crisis that we’re in now was avoidable, had we not been
focused so much on tax cuts.”

It’s unclear how the sales tax plan will be received by various interest groups,
including cities and counties, social-service advocates and policy organizations.

In a written statement, Jonathan Small, executive vice president for the 
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, a conservative think tank, said Oklahoma
could increase teacher pay without imposing tax increases.
The state could cut non-core government spending and use the savings to pay for
the salary hikes, he said. "Also, given our state’s direct competition with Texas, 
we must eliminate the personal income tax for teachers just like we do for aerospace 
engineers in Oklahoma," Small said. (The state allows aerospace engineers to 
claim an annual personal income-tax credit of up to $5,000 for five years.)

Larkin Warner, a retired Oklahoma State University economist who has
advised the state on tax policy, said all states tend to rely on three major
sources of income to support essential services such as education: income taxes,
property taxes and sales taxes.

Because Oklahoma is an agricultural state, it has had a historical aversion to
property taxes, Warner said. Consequently, the state has one of the lowest
average property tax rates in the nation.

Now, Warner said, the state seemed to have decided that it doesn’t like income taxes
either, placing most of the burden of financing government on the sales tax.

“We just merrily go along cutting the income tax,” Warner said.
“We hate the property tax worse than poison. We’ve already ridden the sales tax to
where it’s way too high… We’re kind of in a pickle, and there’s no solution if we’re
committed to getting rid of the income tax, which appears to be the case.”
http://oklahomawatch.org/2015/10/19/boren-sales-tax-plan-reflects-shift-in-oklahoma-tax-base

***I also have to ask why haven't Oklahoma used it's "Rainy Day Fund"
to help pull the schools out. In education you get what you pay for and
the funding is low! So expect low until funding goes up!
https://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/tag/rainy-day-fund

I also need to emphasize a personal opinion I have that schools need
to benchmark the kids parents before the kids takes the test!
There are too many confederate flags and Tea Party stickers on the
back of trucks in my town!
 

Inflammatory

Conservatism is evil! Why?

It is a good point in life to know if you are a "Sadomasochist voter."

Because it's best for you to not be one, also there are people that

don't like to suffer like you do and don't like you making them suffer.

And that is why I say "Everyone is a victim of stupid people!"

You need to change, really, you do!

Many think they are living the life but it's in the dark. Much like the dark ages!

Isn't it best to get out of the dark and into the light?

Why call it "sadomasochist voter?" Well that voting against yourself is also

against everyone else and that is why I say "Everyone is a victim of stupid people!"

Because they are!

http://walmartramen.blogspot.com/2013/11/why-do-conservatives-vote-against-their.html

Why vote for people that want to take things away from you, like low taxes?

Why save $0.20 on a case of beer, being that is about all I can afford vs

a rich guy saving $1000 on a new Dodge truck that cost more than my house.

I was needing that $1000! I make $7 after taxes and would rely on food stamps.

Looking around and thinking about it's clear the "Sadomasochist voter" 
is because they like it that way and expect everyone

to live bad like they do. They like their misery, they like it

wanting to decide for you even when it withholds your and others rights.

People don't want to be a victim of stupid people so they know

and will take action or let natural section do it's thing.

Like won't raise the wages, then let them buy less stuff.

Better pay = better sales but no lets stay home and buy nothing!
They will have to raise the pay sometime. No pay going up makes
the town look bad as more and more homes fall over with people that 
can't afford wood to fix their homes. The pay is low the town is low also!

Also on the other hand why did Democrats just sit there and do nothing letting

George W. Bush the guy with the DUI from Texas and known to be drunk,

get in and let us all go to hell.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/george-w-bush-dui-arrest-record

Let us all go and like a house with termites it cost a lot to repair being you can't fix

it with duct tape! The wood etc cost money! But noted why do noting and let 

Bush do that? Like a conservatard running the country like he runs his own house
falling over and ready to be bulldozed because he was too poor to fix it!

America is not run like a small town. If it was, we would have nothing 
like they do in small towns!

I was pointing at the National debt back then. 

It was a clear crash coming. The National debt is a issue now also and is why I 

say we need a Socialist in office. Action is needed for down the road!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States

Or be the "Sadomasochist voter" and put a shit hole in office

that wants to reduce everything. Taking you down, taking you down!

It's like say being chased by Republican grannies that don't like Polyamory

because they want you to live in their hell because they like it

other wise they would not be that way. 

They expect you to never grow like they can't grow! 

Their traditional values keep them in a life of fear and control and 

no growth everything grows around them while they think they are all high 

and mighty, not understanding life! Because they don't ask why. 

What it is, is what it is because they can't think for themselves.

People that think for themselves tend to see they don't like being

stuck in with something that does not work!

Please don't listen to those harvesting the turd farm, with a
TeaBagger sticker on their truck! No one likes their shit! 

http://www.slightlysubversive.com/products/dont-poop-on-me

Keep your hands off my Obamacare!
http://progressivebumperstickers.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=201

 

 
Please let them know those days are over! 

The pursuit of happiness is far more valued 
than the pursuit of un-happiness, even if they like it bad!

Or being a realist with no fingers in my ears pretending I didn't hear.
This Sadomasochist conservatism ends in natural selection.
Low pay, you can't fix your home, it falls over.
No food starve and die, die, just like the dinosaurs did!
Why live a life of nothing making others have nothing.

That is the point! Don't be that way!

It makes Hillary slap her chest at you! 

I said earlier that she should of slapped her chest at those Republicans 

at the 11 hour Benghazi grilling. And I guess she did. Close enough! 

Putting water under the bridge about the time she was working at 

Walmart corp being silent during Walmarts union busting activitys 

"Wal-Mart’s vehement anti-unionism, for example,

she was largely silent, they said."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/politics/20walmart.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

It's a matter of what is best for the country. And that would be like socialist because of 

action not being taken. The ladder is not being kicked hard enough!

I stand by Bernie Sanders. I respect Hillary for how she is doing with all the crap

of the Republitards. I understand! Keep slapping your chest at them!

But America is in the unknown right now. No one knows! 

We need a harder Socialist! Really, it's time!

Einstein and the Polyamory

Smart people get it. The value of Polyamory!

"He was open about his love affairs to his wife, lost much
of his prize money in bad investments and was a much more 
devoted father than previously thought."

And as it is like me "But he was aware of his weaknesses. 'He was not capable 
of long and stable relations with a woman and he actually expressed that in a 
letter to the son of a friend who died,' said Prof Gutfreund. Einstein wrote:
"What I admire in your father is that, for his whole life, he stayed with only
one woman. This is a project in which I grossly failed, twice."

But also I can say I had a lady that barfed then took me to a gay bar on
the first date! It's just a matter of value, I tend to be the healer in the relationships! 
Poly looks good in that light. For me it fits, love is not finite!

Really I am not surprised Einstein and Bertrand Russell worked together

and where friends.
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/02/scientists-have-special-responsibility.html

http://www.umich.edu/~pugwash/Manifesto.html

Bertrand Russell also was involved with some "Open Marriages."

"During this period, Russell had passionate (and often simultaneous)

affairs with a number of women, including Lady Ottoline Morrell and

the actress Lady Constance."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell#University_and_first_marriage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Ottoline_Morrell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Constance_Malleson

I cleanly see it. It's about love and support. Would Einstein been able to push out

the theory of relativity and other works without them?

A good lover makes a great person in all! So really it was Einstein's loves 
that are the cause of the theory of relativity. Well in my view! I understand it!

~~~~~Letters reveal relative truth of Einstein's family life.

He was the 20th century's greatest scientist, his name synonymous with genius.
But while Albert Einstein's theories are known and lauded the world over,
insights into his private life are patchy and largely negative.
He has been variously portrayed as a bad father, cruel to his wives and an adulterer.

But that view could now change. Spanning more than 3,500 pages, a newly released
set of Einstein's personal correspondence provides new clues into the character of the
Nobel Prize-winning scientist. He was open about his love affairs to his wife, lost much
of his prize money in bad investments and was a much more devoted father
than previously thought.

According to Hanoch Gutfreund of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, who is chairman
of the Albert Einstein Worldwide Exhibition, the new letters shatter myths that the great
scientist was always cold towards his family.

"Anybody who wants to write a new biography of Einstein will have an additional
resource to take into account. As a result of that, certain chapters in his life will now
emerge in a slightly different light than before," said Prof Gutfreund.

Einstein became known as one of the greatest physicists of all time after publishing
the theory of special relativity in 1905 and a theory of gravity known as general relativity
in 1916. He also made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and cosmology.
In 1921, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics and has since become most
famous for his equation showing the relationship between mass and energy: E=MC2

Einstein was married twice, to Mileva Maric from 1903 until 1919 and to his cousin Elsa
from 1919 until her death in 1936. Previously released letters suggested that his first
marriage was miserable, and that he cheated on Elsa with his secretary,
Betty Neumann. Prof Gutfreund said that though Einstein's marriage to Elsa
was best described as one of convenience, he wrote to her constantly, describing,
among other things, his experiences touring and lecturing.

"The general concept from everything we knew before was that he was a poor
father, that he did not meet his responsibility to his children and that he was quite
cruel to his wife," he said.

When he wanted a divorce from his first wife, Einstein gave her the ultimatum that,
if she wanted to remain with him and not grant him a divorce, then he expected her
to serve him three meals a day in his room but not expect any intimacy in return.
"From the documents we have now, a different picture emerges,"
said Prof Gutfreund. "He does show empathy and compassion."

There is evidence that he diverted part of his winnings from the 1921 Nobel Prize
into providing for Mileva and his children. He invested the rest in Europe and
America and lost much of it during the Great Depression.

Einstein was surprisingly candid to Elsa about his extramarital affairs.
Between the mid 1920s and his emigration to the US in 1933, there were
several women in his life: a Margarete, an Estella, two women called Toni and
an Ethel. He shared holidays with them, read books and attended concerts.

In a letter to Elsa, he said women were chasing him, showering him with unwanted
attention. But he was aware of his weaknesses. "He was not capable of long and
stable relations with a woman and he actually expressed that in a letter to the son
of a friend who died," said Prof Gutfreund. Einstein wrote:
"What I admire in your father is that, for his whole life, he stayed with only
one woman. This is a project in which I grossly failed, twice."

"If one talks about Einstein in love, his most consistent love from beginning
to end was science," said Prof Gutfreund.

Another apparent difficulty for Einstein was his relationship to his
schizophrenic son, Eduard. "He refers [in previously known letters]
to Eduard as maybe it would have been better if he would not have been born,"
said Prof Gutfreund. However, in the new letters Einstein writes of his pleasure in
receiving poems, pictures and notes from him. Einstein wrote to friends:
"The more refined of my sons, the one I considered really of my own nature,
was seized by an incurable mental illness."

Einstein was much closer to Elsa's daughter, Margot. He wrote: "I love her
[Margot] as much as if she were my own daughter, perhaps even more so,
since who knows what kind of brat she would have become [had I fathered her]."

The 1,300 letters, which span from 1912 to Einstein's death in 1955, have been in
storage at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, shielded from the public in
accordance with Margot's request that they be locked away for 20 years after
her death. Margot died in July 1986.

Though the letters do not concern Einstein's theories, he does mention his
weariness at being continually associated with his work.
"Soon I'll be fed up with the relativity," he wrote to Elsa.
"Even such a thing fades away when one is too involved with it."

Extracts: 'Soon I'll be fed up with the relativity'
Albert Einstein wrote to his wife Elsa almost every day and often to his
stepdaughter Margot

To Elsa, from Prague, January 8 1921
My lectures here ... are already behind me. This morning quartet very beautiful,
like old times. The first violin is played by a youth of 80 years!
Soon I'll be fed up with the relativity. Even such a thing fades away when one
is too involved with it ...

To Margot, from Oxford. May 8 1931
(Members of Einstein's extended family were used to his involvement with two or
three women, but had complained about the new additions to his harem.)
This time I'm writing you because you are the most reasonable
[member of the family], and the poor mother [Elsa is] already completely
 meschugge. It is true that M. followed me and her chasing after me is
getting out of control. But firstly I could hardly avoid it, and secondly,
when I see her, I will tell her that she should vanish immediately ...
Out of all the dames I am in fact attached only to Mrs L who is
absolutely harmless.

To Elsa
Mrs M definitely acted according to the best Christian-Jewish ethics: 1)
one should do what one enjoys and what won't harm anyone else; and 2)
one should refrain from doing things one does not take delight in and which annoy
another person. Because of 1) she came with me, and because of 2)
she didn't tell you a word.

To Elsa from Kiel. June 11 1933
(Elsa managed the financial affairs. From the moment Einstein became famous,
she recognised his handwritten manuscripts would be a source of income.
This letter was written when Einstein was working on the improvement of the
gyroscope compass for the Anschuetz Company. Hermann Anschuetz had provided
him with an apartment where he was shielded from the public.)

I don't want to have the Warburgs bothered with my manuscript, and much less
Haldane. I don't mind having it sold, but without molesting any prominent people.
Thank goodness one cannot sell my skin during my lifetime ...
Here there is blessed calm. No one is allowed to ... claim any rights on me.
Anschuetz admires me for my abstaining from smoking, and I admire myself, too.
In front of my window [are] trees and water, chirping birds.
Nothing unexpected occurs, everything quiet and comfortable as if arranged for
contemplative musing.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/jul/11/internationalnews

~~~~~Einstein admitted he spent time with six other women while married.
Albert Einstein had half a dozen girlfriends and told his wife they showered him with
"unwanted" affection, according to letters released on Monday that shed light on
his extramarital affairs. The wild-haired Jewish-German scientist, renowned for his
theory of relativity, spent little time at home. He lectured in Europe and in the
United States, where he died in 1955 at age 76.
But Einstein wrote hundreds of letters to his family.

Previously released letters suggested his marriage in 1903 to his first wife
Mileva Maric, mother of his two sons, was miserable.
They divorced in 1919, and he soon married his cousin, Elsa.
He cheated on her with his secretary, Betty Neumann.

In the new volume of letters released on Monday by Hebrew University in Jerusalem,
Einstein described about six women with whom he spent time and from whom he
received gifts while being married to Elsa.
In the early 1980s, Elsa's daughter, Margot, gave almost 1,400 letters to
Hebrew University, which Einstein helped found. But Margot directed that the letters
not be released publicly until 20 years after her death. She died on July 8, 1986.

Some of the women identified by Einstein include Estella, Ethel, Toni and his
"Russian spy lover," Margarita. Others are referred to only by initials, like M. and L.
"It is true that M. followed me (to England) and her chasing after me is getting
out of control," he wrote in a letter to Margot in 1931.
"Out of all the dames, I am in fact attached only to Mrs. L.,
who is absolutely harmless and decent."

In another post to Margot, Einstein asked his stepdaughter to pass on "a little letter
for Margarita, to avoid providing curious eyes with tidbits."

Barbara Wolff of the Hebrew University’s Albert Einstein Archives said that the
persistent M. was Berlin socialite Ethel Michanowski, who was involved with
Einstein in the late 1920s and early ’30s. Wolff described their relationship as an affair,
but she disclosed little else about Michanowski, other than that she was about
15 years younger than Einstein and was friendly with his stepdaughters.

The new batch of letters for the first time included replies from Einstein's family,
said Hanoch Gutfreund, chairman of the Albert Einstein Worldwide Exhibition at
Hebrew University. This, he told reporters, helped shatter myths that the
Nobel Prize-winning scientist was always cold toward his family.

"In these letters he acts with much greater friendship and understanding to
Mileva and his sons," Gutfreund said. Gutfreund said that though Einstein's later
marriage to Elsa was best described as a "marriage of convenience," he wrote to her
almost every day, describing, among other things, his experiences touring and
lecturing in Europe. "Soon I'll be fed up with the (theory of) relativity,"
Einstein wrote in a postcard to Elsa in 1921. "Even such a thing fades away when
one is too involved with it."

Einstein lived and studied in the 1930s at Oxford, where he hid from the Nazis.
A German colleague, he said in a letter to Elsa, had told him "to not even come near
the German border because the rage against me is out of control."

In the same letter, which he wrote in 1933, less than a decade before the start of
World War II and the Nazi Holocaust, Einstein writes: "One fears everywhere the
competition of the expelled 'brainy' Jews. We are even more burdened by our strength
than by our weakness."

The main outlines of Einstein's professional and personal life have been long known
through biographies and previously released letters.
But by filling in some of the gaps in correspondence, the newly released documents have
“added colors to the image we had of Einstein before,” Wolff said.
“Now we have a high-resolution picture,” she said.

The letters also provide the full story of Einstein’s prize money for the 1921 Nobel Prize
in physics. Under the terms of his divorce from Mileva Maric, the entire sum was have
been deposited in a Swiss bank account, and Maric was to draw on the interest for
herself and the couple’s two sons, Hans Albert and Eduard.

It has been known for some time that there was a problem with Einstein’s discharge
of the agreement, but the details weren’t clear. The new correspondence shows he
invested most of it in the U.S., where he settled after being driven out of Germany,
and much of it was lost in the Great Depression.

This caused great friction with Maric, who felt betrayed because he didn’t deposit
the entire sum as agreed, and repeatedly had to ask him for money, Wolff said.
Ultimately, he paid her more money than he received with the prize, she added.
The prize was worth about $28,000 in 1921 dollars, a sum that would be worth
10 times that amount in today’s dollars.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13804030/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/new-letters-shed-light-einsteins-love-life

Info: http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/general_relativity_pathway