Nix DHS changes
Thank you to the 46 people that attended the community informational meeting regarding the Infant Mortality Report and recommendations. Also thank you to John Ward for his attendance and legislative insight.
If the recommendations pass as written, there will be devastating results. Providers will not be able to provide care for infants and toddlers as we currently do. The scenario I gave Minnesota Department Human Services (DHS) was one infant, one toddler and four preschoolers. The answer was, under the proposed recommendations, I would need another adult caregiver when the infants and toddlers are present and the total children in care could only be six.
That is not an affordable option. When I began child care 18 years ago, Crow Wing County had 213 licensed family child care providers, we now have about 146.
If these recommendations pass, there will be fewer providers and child care for infants and toddlers will be very difficult for parents to access.
Commissioner Jesson of DHS and legislators need to hear from the public that these recommendations are not acceptable.
Kathy Stevens
Brainerd
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Demo(c)rats Plan more Reg. More laws. raise the cost so we need more government asst. or it does not pay to work..
What side are "YOU" on?
Which side of the fence?
If you ever wondered which side of the fence you sit on, this is a great
test!
If a Republican doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a Democrat doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed
If a Republican is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.
If a Democrat is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for
everyone.
If a Republican is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a Democrat is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.
If a Republican is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his
situation.
A Democrat wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a Republican doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels..
Democrats demand that those they don't like be shut down.
If a Republican is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A Democrat non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.
If a Republican decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping
for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A Democrat demands that the rest of us pay for his.
If a Republican reads this, he'll copy and forward it so his friends can have a
good laugh.
A Democrat will scoff at it and be "offended".
And another simpleton
expresses himself.
Just for you chey
Memories. The polls had given LBJ a long cold winter & a dampening spring but with summer his popularty burgeoned & his sudden rise in the polls induced such a state of ebullience & playfullness in the President that he took up bicycle-riding at his ranch. Life-July 21 1967
In a book I read last night. Black Jack 34
Thanks for the poem, J.Pete!
It almost describes a more moderate, live-and-let-live type Republican that existed in a day gone by (pre-Tea Party tail wagging the Repub. dog days). It's a fun piece, half-true (from my experience) if you're comparing rabid Dem's with that dying-breed, moderate Republican.
#3 and 6 (re: "Repub's and homosexuals", church, above) -- if that attitude prevailed, would we be voting on the marriage amendment this Tuesday?
Having fun with a combination of #5 and 6 above,:
If a Democrat believes in God, she practices Matthew 25, and follows the admonition to look out for "the least of these".
If a Republican believes in God, he attends a mega-church that strokes his materialistic ego, hoping the "prosperity gospel" is true, and that God takes care of "'them' that help themselves".
Thanks for sharing. I forwarded this to the only moderate Republican I know, who will "chuckle".
Bubba
Sorry for the late response but I was out slaughtering the fauna that our Mother Earth so bountifully provides. (Actually I was skunked.)
Unfortunately your stereotype, on the surface, seems pretty accurate but, of course, the devil is in the details. (Wait, can I say that? After all, the Devil is only a personal perception.)
On the other hand, if a Liberal believes in God, it attends a mainline liberal church that has effectively made Jesus out to be a reflection of themselves. All possibility of miracle has been removed, preferring to contend that the early church made those later additions to the biblical materials in order to give their cause a little more punch.
Jesus is now simply a really nice guy who's example we should probably try to follow, but certainly no more pertinent to our time than, say, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela or Fidel Castro. And, as one liberal speaker contended, "a damn fine speaker." (I would have included Mother Theresa but since the little impudent had the audacity to lecture Congress on our hypocrisy on a "do nothing" approach to abortion, she has effectively disqualified herself.)