Aggravation
Understand that I have taught at the college level, and for Elderhostel. I have also been a trainer for in-service programs in the military and law enforcement. I have absolutely no problem with people who don’t know what I know, but have no interest in dealing with people who refuse to learn.
A member of my family is a special education educator, and I used ARC workers in California, as well as volunteering for a group that assisted people with brain injuries, so I’m well aware of the difference between being unable to learn, or learning at a very slow pace, and those who refuse to learn.
I have always stressed that the only stupid question is the one that doesn’t get asked. If you don’t understand something, let someone know. People learn in different ways and a good teacher will be able to figure out how to explain it to you.
With that background I just get angry over the way the economy is being dealt with, primarily with Republicans, but the Democrats haven’t been star students either.
I know that the Republicans don’t want to understand what’s happening, because they are primarily responsible for it. Their policies have never worked, and will never work, because they don’t understand the basics of capitalism. Taxes are like any other price for goods or services. If the price is too low, i.e. below cost, you are going to lose your shirt. It’s that simple. The idea that low “prices” will generate “new sales” only works until the market is saturated, then demand levels out. If you aren’t covering your costs, you go bankrupt. This is what happened under Reagan and the Bushes – the costs increased but the “price” was reduced. It won’t work.
The Democrats have gone along with this apparently because they are afraid to be called “tax and spend liberals”. That is a lot better than being judged “borrow and spend idiots”.
[I will continue this after my current case of “keyboard felisitis” brought on by colder weather is resolved.]
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…while I found it profoundly ironic that my own currenty Congressman, Greg Walden, and my most favorite former Congressman, Peter Defazio, voted No on the stimulus package for exactly and entirely different reasons, my biggest concern is that you be able to find a good solid ceramic space heater that might help with your keyboard problem..
Up here on the eastern slope of the Orygun Cascades, I have a high-powered state-of-the-art wood stove to address the felisitis problem (they and the dogs are currently draped out like drying salmon fillets in front of it), but I imagine that such a solution isn’t so readily available along the Florida panhandle…
Seems to be a common keyboard problem this time of year :-). My guys are taking turns on my lap at the moment…
The temperature has dropped enough that they have decided to clump in front of my electric radiator. I turned down the heater in here to discourage them.
The stores are currently stocking air conditioners because the “Winter season” ends in January. If it weren’t for mail order you couldn’t get a winter coat down here.
I would love to have my Franklin stove from New York. The live oaks supply decent wood, and all I would need are the limbs that break off or are pruned, not the split wood, although that is plentiful as well.
You have some weather coming your way if the reports from California are accurate.
Ah, Badtux, you have returned and TMF can return from being a guardian of the ‘Tubes to catly business, i.e. napping and nibbling. I wondered if you were going to have to weather the storm in a tent.
Yes, I beat the storm by a few hours getting back over the Sierras. I’d still be stuck on the wrong side of the Sierras today if I hadn’t….
Badtux´s last blog post..Well, at least it wasn’t a barbecue
At least the snow pack is building for the watershed, but even with the gear I wasn’t thrilled by camping in the snow.
It’s a bitch being 1) a teacher and 2) smarter than a toad…. One thing, though. The Republicans damn well Do know what’s happening. They are just in abject denial, and think that ignoring it or complaining will make it go away. They don’t wanna give up their goodies. Sux to be them.
I have poochitis of the lap. Must….stretch….to….reach….keys….
Moi´s last blog post..Need a Job? Part Deux…
Of course they know, Moi, they have portfolios that are in the toilet like everyone else who bought into the scheme, i,e, go as far into debt as you can to buy more promises in the stock market.
Have had cats tag-teaming the keyboard shelf for three hours.
When clever wife and I moved into the house, being smart people, we chose the room with the best light as that office. That room has lots of south facing windows and is almost as far from the furnace as is possible in this house. That makes it the hottest room in the house during the summer and the second coldest in the winter (naturally, the bathroom is the coldest). Sometimes, smart is its own punishment.
I work in the Southeast corner of the house, which guarantees a cat on the printer in the morning. The heat from the computer attracts them at night.
I have the same bathroom problem, as you. Winter showers are a real thrill. It’s like one of those real saunas where you come out of the steam and run through the snow.