Loopholes
SSI, Medicare and unemployment are not entitlement programs, they are insurance. Check the names. They have forced premium payments and are insurance. Food stamps, Medicare, etc., are entitlements! Fair share and loopholes? Child credits, school credits, child care credits are loopholes. Expand the tax base and charge some of those people that pay no net taxes and the problem would self correct.
Off-brand ketchup not the way to go
Hats off to the Elks food booth at this year’s Crow Wing County Fair. The food was great! However, whoever bought the off-brand ketchup should be whipped with a soggy French fry. Why top off a fabulous hamburger with an ill-tasting brand ketchup?
Smoking on East River Road
Shame on the Brainerd HRA! Once again they are treating their disabled residents like second-class citizens. I encourage residents of Brainerd to take a drive down East River Road and see the disgusting way disabled residents of the high rise have been sent to the curb because they smoke. They walking trail is now littered with smokers and cigarette butts. Couldn’t you have found a better place to allow these folks to smoke and still retain their dignity?
Teaching the younger generation
I was reading about Randy Moss and Korey Stringer and the big difference between them. Randy was praised for all his great achievements — no matter that he was the biggest spoiled brat we’ve seen for a long time. It doesn’t seem to matter what a person does or how he acts these days — just so the team can win some games. It shows what taking away the rod does. He had absolutely no discipline growing up and yet gets praised and even allowed to play on a team. What does this teach the younger generation?
Who’s cut, who’s not?
Why is it the school in Brainerd say they are cutting positions but we don’t see who they cut in the paper? Are they really cutting? A few years ago, they listed even those they didn’t cut. Be responsible. All you have to do is look on their website and you can see a lot of administrative positions created the last five years. Cut some of those.
Too much time
I can’t believe that people in Baxter would call and complain about a neighbor teaching crows to fly over their house. They must not know anything about crows because you can’t teach a crow nothing. And if they’ve got that much time on their hands they should go do some volunteer work.
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Add commentI would really like if
I would really like if whoever took the DSi from the garage sale on 12th and Rosewood St. to please return it you have made a young boy very sad. All we want is it back no question asked. Please be a good person! Thank you
Loopholes
"SSI, Medicare and unemployment are not entitlement programs..."
"Food stamps, Medicare, etc., are entitlements!"
So, Loopy, you lost me. Is Medicare an entitlement or not?
Good idea--start with the corporations!
"Expand the tax base and charge those that pay no net taxes and the problem would self-correct"
I would agree that's the first step. I'd start with General Electric. Boeing Corp. Dupont. Exxon Mobil. FedEx. Verizon. Wells Fargo. Yahoo. Even MN's own Honeywell Corporation.
You know, those who PAID ZERO TAXES last year.
They were actually subsidized with your tax dollars!
Over the last three years, Honewell earned nearly 5 billion in profit, yet their tax bill was a negative $34 million dollars!
Mortgage fiasco giant and general corporate bad citizen Wells Fargo earned 49 billion, for which the government said earned a TAX BREAK of 681 million dollars.
G.E. earned 7.7 billion dollars yet had a negative tax of 4 billion!
The amount of spelling and
The amount of spelling and grammatical errors littered throughout all of these entries makes me sad to be from Brainerd. How can we take your opinion seriously if you can't even express the correct way?
mndad1
Did you mean "can't even express IT the correct way?"
Spelling and grammar
Some spelling mistakes can be typing errors, but grammer
is different. If you are going to be picky, I suppose you should
use perfect grammer yourself. I think the sad Brainerd dad
didn't know what he wrote.
Of all the things to be sad about that is not one for me.
I will admit that hearing people speak around here, I do
wonder what English classes they had. I wonder if teachers
correct the errors when students are speaking. I think most
don't as that would hurt feelings etc.
Disabled
You know you should not make judgments about people like that. Just because they are disabled does not mean they should be treated that way. Who are you to say the should or shouldn't smoke or anything else for that matter. Your response is very one sided and I am very disappointed in the fact that you would even make such a statement. You do not live there (assuming) thus you do not know what these people have gone through. First a 10 pm curfew and now this. Systematically they are taking away any of the privileges of these people. Soon they will be telling people they can't have pets. I think they have gone to far this time. Oh and yes I do believe that arrangements should have been made before hand to accommodate the smokers. People in the building have been smoking fr many many years and they gave them 6 months to quit. Expect miracles much?
Turning
My former English teacher is turning over in her grave. She corrected us when we spoke incorrectly. We need more teachers like her!
"Its about nuance and shades
"Its about nuance and shades of meaning"
Sort of like pontificating, and not even realizing your doing it.
Spelling Errors
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who cares? Spelling errors suck but you don't have to complain about them. You don't know who is typing or if they have an issue like Dyslexia don't be quick to judge :/
Funny stuff
This makes me laugh every time I read replies to vox pop. I can't help it but I have to comment on the quote about "idiots". If you are going to use the pronouns their and they you need to make idiot plural. Sorry, but with all the other replies on spelling and grammar I felt obliged to point this out.
Social Security is NOT
Social Security is NOT insurance. Insurance takes money from a large pool of people (most of whom will not take out more than they put in) and invests that money over the long term. Social Security from the very beginning took your money, told you it was an "insurance program", spent the money (did not invest it), fraudulently told you the spent money was in a trust fund, told you had an "earned benefit" (which was not funded), and basically passed the bill for your car on to your children and grandchildren while merrily pocketing the excess since 1936. Wake up people, you've been had!
Crows
Our neighbor was into "raising" crows. Got them out of the nest when they were young and just clipped the wings so they could not fly very far. As far as "teaching" them anything, I'm not sure about that, but there was one that was over here all of the time. We had some religious group here once, the ones that ask for money (can't remember the name). They saw the neighbor's crow on the peak of our garage and could not get out of here fast enough!
Weird, but true.