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A
very disturbing article on how insurance companies destroy people's
lives. Are you prepared to pay $40K a year for your parent's nursing
home? And those are the less expensive ones. When the choice is paying
for your parent's care or your retirement, what will your choice be?
Even when people plan properly, things could go wrong and you can't
rely on insurance companies. With more and more elderly out there,
insurance companies are doing everything they can to avoid having to
fulfill the promises they made. Aged, Frail and Denied Care by Their Insurers - New York Times
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Global
Warming is bad news for everyone, but of course the poor will be hit
the hardest just like with everything else. The wealthiest nations are
causing the most pollution, but they are also the ones who can afford
to protect themselves from the consequences. While poor countries who
only contribute minimally to global warming can't afford to protect
themselves from its affect. Do countries that make all the pollution
owe these countries the means by which to protect themselves? POOREST NATIONS WILL BEAR BRUNT AS WORLD WARMS - New York Times
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Cities
all over the country, Dallas - Las Vegas - Orlando - Chelsea, are
enacting legislation to limit what you can and can't give the homeless.
Cities set limits on serving food to homeless people - USATODAY.com.
When I was in college in Champaign-Urbana, there was a very big
homeless problem. The homeless like being near college campuses,
because the kids are more generous. We would always give the homeless
our leftovers from the restaurants. We would donate what was leftover
from the dorm meals as well.
The problem in
these cities is that the charities feeding the homeless are doing this
in high traffic areas and the presence of the homeless bothers the
tourists and the local merchants say its hurting their businesses. "Cities
are cracking down on charities that feed the homeless, adopting rules
that restrict food giveaways to certain locations, require charities to
get permits or limit the number of free meals they can provide."
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A
writer for the conservative website Townhall.com shares her opinion on
the reparations argument. She isn't impressed with the slavery
apologies that seem to be the trend of late. For all those demanding
apologies, she asks: One wonders, were it not for slavery, what would
these agitators do? She believes these blacks, along with elite white
liberals, are all profiting from this gambit. Townhall.com::How Black and White Elites Benefit from Slavery.
I'm not agreeing with her because her intentions are suspect and you
can read that between the lines. However, one would be a fool to
believe that the people involved are not in this to get some money.
They want the apologies and then they'll start asking for money because
once you apologized, you admitted blame and once you agree you're to
blame, you have to make up for it. The long term goal here is $$$, not
the healing of any wounds.
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More
men are saying their female or male bosses are sexually harassing them.
I'm sure this has probably increased with the advancement of women in
the workplace. Sexual harassment is about power and control and women
are just as subject to its vices as men. Breitbart.com: More men report sexual harassment in US workplace.
"Newly released data from the EEOC showed that 15.4 percent of the
12,025 charges of sexual harassment in fiscal year 2006 were filed by
men, as opposed to 11.6 percent a decade ago."
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More
signs of role reversal, but this one is a good thing. Can a stay at
home dad be a man? To many people who are very entrenched in social
roles, this is too hard to take. Men work, right? Women are the
nurturers. There is a reason God gave us the baby, because he made
within us a greater ability to take care. In my home, the message was
clear. Dad is the protector, provider and disciplinarian. Mom is the
nurturer and teacher. But things are different now. Men and women have
evolved to a point where we can choose to be whatever we want. Equality
has made better caregivers out of men and better providers out of
women. Each family has to decide for itself what works. Whoever makes
the most money and has the most future potential should be the
provider. Of course this doesn't work if the other parent is just not a
good nurturer. It has to work both ways, but if it allows one parent to
be at home during those very first year, its worth it. I don't think it
matters who. However, stay at home Dad means the same as stay at home
Mom, so laundry, dishes, cleaning up and all that are including. 
