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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Grants for tuition have the same effect as government (you and me)-paid healthcare and the STAR program, for starters. When the government pays part of any service or fee, it gives the fee-setter license to raise the fees. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Think about this. If your school tax bill was $1500 before the STAR exemption, (and you were struggling to pay that), then New York State stepped in to pay a portion to relieve your burden -- do you think school boards would then be able to raise taxes further, since now you can pay (and not complain as much) your portion, and the rest of NYS can pay the rest of your portion? Yes, it does sound like welfare in a prettier package.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">If your tuition bill is $20,000 per year, and you received tax credits or grants from the government (you, me plus your friends and neighbors), tuition will continue to rise. You can now afford the lower tuition because I'm helping you pay for it. Which means the school can more easily RAISE tuition... and keep their students/consumers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Supply and demand. If we could no longer afford tuition, we would go to a cheaper school, or not go to school. Schools would have to lower tuition or go out of business.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Health care - if we can no longer afford a doctor visit on our own and the government pays the difference - the fees for doctor visits go up quicker. After all *we're* not paying for it - the insurance company or the government is. Who's the government? If the health care community understands we can only pay what we can pay, the laws of economics demand they charge what we can pay or go out of business. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">And health care is a business - it's not a right. Higher education is a business - not a right. I don't have a right to demand you pay for my degree. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I'm all for charity, and I give a lot of time and goods away. As a private citizen - not because the government makes me. In fact, I'm just stubborn enough to "forget" how to help others - if forced to do so. Corporate United Way, anyone?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Technically, I guess he's Blake's chuck... as it seems he's vacationing under <em>his</em> shed. With the Chipmunk and Rabbit Families already living there, the shed must have gone condo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The hail flew all the way to the back of the garage. Hope this video is sufficient evidence for my insurance company. All in all, a great afternoon!</span>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456462768699151427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4767309308369031629.post-44224834187915095642010-05-14T12:29:00.003-04:002010-05-14T12:34:10.322-04:00Erie Canal Eagle<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Six Two-year House terms</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms</span></li>
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<div></font><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">7. Congress must equally abide in all laws they impose on the American people.</span><br />
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</div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456462768699151427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4767309308369031629.post-47461567064459586322009-10-14T18:07:00.000-04:002009-10-14T18:07:35.218-04:00What Is Dewey Doing?<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Today Dewey visited the groomer for the first time. He's had several baths, all of them easy, none of them did the job I was hoping. We couldn't see his eyes, so he couldn't have seen out very well, possibly proved by his regular smackups with walls, cabinets and cats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My hopes were to see some snow geese and maybe an eagle. While I enjoyed seeing my first eagle and osprey at <a href="http://www.fws.gov/northeast/bombayhook/">Bombay Hook</a> in Delaware last May, I kept hearing there were such things closer to home. Like, <a href="http://www.waynecountylife.com/2009/09/eagle-island-on-sodus-bay.html">Eagle Island</a> in Sodus Bay. Since the canoe still resides upstairs in the barn, and Eagle really is an island, Montezuma seemed the next best bet.</span><br />
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<div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">The big deal of the day was the sighting of a bar-head goose. A couple guys who were also gawking at the birds pointed out this really rare (in these parts) bird, and speculated that it may have escaped from a private owner or zoo. They are native to Southeast Asia, and migrate over the Himalayas. First, my attempt at capturing it - it's the big white one in the middle:<br />
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<div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Here's a picture and info from Audubon: <a href="http://audubonmagazine.org/birds/birds0011.html">http://audubonmagazine.org/birds/birds0011.html</a> Through the scope at the Visitors Center I could clearly see the bars on its head - awesome!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The only possible eagles we saw were flying pretty far away. Here's what I saw, and maybe someone can tell me for sure if they are eagles. </span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; text-align: left;">And, the coolest thing we saw on the way home was this osprey, sharing a dead tree with a crow. From Route 31 in Savannah:<br />
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