Some thoughts from Dish readers. One writes:
I knew Prop 19 was going down weeks ago when a friend of mine and his wife voted against. They are parents of two small kids, and did so with the reasoning ''I don't care if other people do it but I don't want it to be illegal.” Another father, whose 21-year-old son has had a drug problem, grew emotionally angry when we discussed it. “At least you can tell your kids it's illegal.” I didn't want to engage him by pointing out his son had the problem when drugs were ILLEGAL.
Parents voted their fears.
Another writes:
I think proponents made the same mistake as that made a few years ago with Prop 8, i.e. not actually making the clear case and hammering away at it.
The correct vote on these props seemed self-evident to some of us, but apparently not to the majority. A lot of people in my generation (60s) who should have voted yes on 19 were swayed by the "gateway drug" rhetoric. We've all lived long enough to know people whose kids have lost their way on the drug road, that argument needed a clear response. The Mexico cartel connection had great potential but then the Rand study sort of put it away, without a cogent, repeated counter from proponents.
Another:
Last night I asked my girlfriend's 18 year-old son if he was going to vote for Prop 19, in what is his first opprtunity to vote. He surprised me with a no. His reasoning? It's more exciting if it's illegal.
Another:
I am a long-time San Francisco resident. I just saw that Proposition 19 lost - big time. Then I checked some of the county results. The measure was approved by about 65% of San Francisco voters. In Humboldt County, on the other hand - one of the points on the Emerald Triangle - only about 47% of voters approved the measure.
I know some growers up north, and there is no doubt in my mind that this measure lost (or at least lost by as much as it did) because of greedy growers in northern California who are making bags of money selling cannabis to medical dispensaries, and who know that their bottom line would suffer were cannabis legalized across the board. That puts those growers in league with big alcohol, tobacco, and other unsavories for whom personal monetary gain is worth a few young kids getting thrown in some hell-hole prison for the rest of their lives as the result of a pot bust. I really should cease to be amazed by the power of money to corrupt people.
Thanks growers. And screw you.
(Photo: Mark Ralston/Getty.)
Too funny:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is maneuvering behind the scenes to defeat a conservative plan aimed at restricting earmarks, setting up a high-stakes showdown that pits the GOP leader and his “Old Bull” allies against Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and a new breed of conservative senators.
In a series of one-on-one conversations with incoming and sitting senators, McConnell is encouraging his colleagues to keep an open mind and not to automatically side with DeMint, whose plan calls on Senate Republicans to unilaterally give up earmarks in the 112th Congress, according to several people familiar with the talks.
Have no fear, Mitch- Rand Paul is certainly keeping an open mind:
One Tea Party hero, Senator-elect Rand Paul (R-KY), jumped on the anti-earmark bandwagon early, making “a ban on wasteful earmark spending in Washington D.C. one of the key points of his campaign” in March. Lambasting lawmakers who opt for “photo-ops with oversized fake cardboard checks,” Paul vowed to “dismantle the culture of professional politicians” even if he “ruffled a lot of establishment feathers” while doing it.
But after joining the GOP flock on Election Day, Paul is singing a different tune. In a Wall Street Journal profile this weekend, Paul signaled an about-face on his earmark position, committing to “fight for Kentucky’s share of earmarks and federal pork.” After all, he’s “not that crazy” of a libertarian:
Father and son, age 47, have different styles. Asked what he wanted to do in Washington in a Wednesday morning television interview, the senator-elect said that his kids were hoping to meet the Obama girls. He has made other concessions to the mainstream. He now avoids his dad’s talk of shuttering the Federal Reserve and abolishing the income tax. In a bigger shift from his campaign pledge to end earmarks, he tells me that they are a bad “symbol” of easy spending but that he will fight for Kentucky’s share of earmarks and federal pork, as long as it’s doled out transparently at the committee level and not parachuted in in the dead of night. “I will advocate for Kentucky’s interests,” he says.
So you’re not a crazy libertarian? “Not that crazy,” he cracks.
Two things about this are awesome. The first is that these guys have so little respect for the tea party that they can’t even wait a week to rub the rube’s noses in it. I mean, it is just great. Every idiot who spent the last year pretending the tea party and the lunatics they had nominated were anything other than the lunatic fringe of the GOP should just be summarily ignored. It’s really one of the greatest cons/re-branding efforts of all times.
Second, I love that the GOP is still so un-serious that earmarks are the hill to die on when it comes to fiscal responsibility. Earmarks are a nothing-burger when it comes to the budget- less than 1% of the federal budget. That’s still big money, but it is nothing when your party ran on a platform of cutting taxes for the rich and re-instating Medicare Advantage and fainting at the notion of defense cuts. Making a big stink about earmarks while supporting all the other irresponsible things the GOP wants to do is akin to ordering four double whoppers for lunch, and then removing the pickles on each, “cuz you’re on a diet!” Even sillier, earmarks sometimes do some really good things- here is a partial list of earmarks from Patty Murray:
• $2 million for the Vancouver waterfront redevelopment project. The money will be used to help extend Grant and Esther streets under the BNSF Railway berm, connecting downtown to the former Boise Cascade site along the waterfront. Construction of the $40 million road project has been delayed by an impasse between the city and The Columbian over land acquisition.
• $1.5 million for C-Tran to continue an analysis of its proposal to build a bus rapid transit line carrying riders along dedicated lanes along Fourth Plain Boulevard between the Vancouver mall area and downtown Vancouver. The money comes on top of $2 million in federal funding previously received by C-Tran, said spokesman Scott Patterson. “This money will allow us to finish out the alternatives analysis,” he said. C-Tran estimates total construction cost of the line at $72 million. Although Patterson said planners anticipate the Federal Transit Administration will pick up 80 percent of the cost, the local share will require voters to approve a sales tax increase.
• $1 million to complete funding for the $6 million second phase of a reconstructed interchange between Ridgefield and Interstate 5. Ridgefield City Manager Justin Clary said the project will realign 65th Avenue and add roundabout intersections on Pioneer Street east and west of the freeway. “This should fully fund the project,” Clary said.
• $1 million for the city of Battle Ground to support the first phase of the reconstruction of Southeast Grace Avenue.
• $900,000 to support renovation of the Share Community Service Center in Vancouver. The renovation is intended to enable the nonprofit organization to increase service to the homeless, hungry and low-income populations.
Those are good things!
eric seiger
Forget AOL-Yahoo...It's <b>News</b> Corp-Yahoo That The Insiders Are <b>...</b>
One source close to News Corp says the company is monitoring the situation, and notes that Jon Miller and "Chief Yahoo" Jerry Yang have a good working relationship. Merger talk, says this source, is pre-mature. ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Keys To Business Success
It's no accident that we used the plural to describe the tools that make a business a success in the title for this end-of-the-week roundup. There may not be.
The Tools of Ignorance: Saturday <b>News</b> - Pinstripe Alley
Andy Pettitte considers retirement, the Yankees consider Jorge De La Rosa, an anonymous source says Cliff Lee's not crazy about Texas, and the Hot Stove heats up.
eric seiger
Some thoughts from Dish readers. One writes:
I knew Prop 19 was going down weeks ago when a friend of mine and his wife voted against. They are parents of two small kids, and did so with the reasoning ''I don't care if other people do it but I don't want it to be illegal.” Another father, whose 21-year-old son has had a drug problem, grew emotionally angry when we discussed it. “At least you can tell your kids it's illegal.” I didn't want to engage him by pointing out his son had the problem when drugs were ILLEGAL.
Parents voted their fears.
Another writes:
I think proponents made the same mistake as that made a few years ago with Prop 8, i.e. not actually making the clear case and hammering away at it.
The correct vote on these props seemed self-evident to some of us, but apparently not to the majority. A lot of people in my generation (60s) who should have voted yes on 19 were swayed by the "gateway drug" rhetoric. We've all lived long enough to know people whose kids have lost their way on the drug road, that argument needed a clear response. The Mexico cartel connection had great potential but then the Rand study sort of put it away, without a cogent, repeated counter from proponents.
Another:
Last night I asked my girlfriend's 18 year-old son if he was going to vote for Prop 19, in what is his first opprtunity to vote. He surprised me with a no. His reasoning? It's more exciting if it's illegal.
Another:
I am a long-time San Francisco resident. I just saw that Proposition 19 lost - big time. Then I checked some of the county results. The measure was approved by about 65% of San Francisco voters. In Humboldt County, on the other hand - one of the points on the Emerald Triangle - only about 47% of voters approved the measure.
I know some growers up north, and there is no doubt in my mind that this measure lost (or at least lost by as much as it did) because of greedy growers in northern California who are making bags of money selling cannabis to medical dispensaries, and who know that their bottom line would suffer were cannabis legalized across the board. That puts those growers in league with big alcohol, tobacco, and other unsavories for whom personal monetary gain is worth a few young kids getting thrown in some hell-hole prison for the rest of their lives as the result of a pot bust. I really should cease to be amazed by the power of money to corrupt people.
Thanks growers. And screw you.
(Photo: Mark Ralston/Getty.)
Too funny:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is maneuvering behind the scenes to defeat a conservative plan aimed at restricting earmarks, setting up a high-stakes showdown that pits the GOP leader and his “Old Bull” allies against Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and a new breed of conservative senators.
In a series of one-on-one conversations with incoming and sitting senators, McConnell is encouraging his colleagues to keep an open mind and not to automatically side with DeMint, whose plan calls on Senate Republicans to unilaterally give up earmarks in the 112th Congress, according to several people familiar with the talks.
Have no fear, Mitch- Rand Paul is certainly keeping an open mind:
One Tea Party hero, Senator-elect Rand Paul (R-KY), jumped on the anti-earmark bandwagon early, making “a ban on wasteful earmark spending in Washington D.C. one of the key points of his campaign” in March. Lambasting lawmakers who opt for “photo-ops with oversized fake cardboard checks,” Paul vowed to “dismantle the culture of professional politicians” even if he “ruffled a lot of establishment feathers” while doing it.
But after joining the GOP flock on Election Day, Paul is singing a different tune. In a Wall Street Journal profile this weekend, Paul signaled an about-face on his earmark position, committing to “fight for Kentucky’s share of earmarks and federal pork.” After all, he’s “not that crazy” of a libertarian:
Father and son, age 47, have different styles. Asked what he wanted to do in Washington in a Wednesday morning television interview, the senator-elect said that his kids were hoping to meet the Obama girls. He has made other concessions to the mainstream. He now avoids his dad’s talk of shuttering the Federal Reserve and abolishing the income tax. In a bigger shift from his campaign pledge to end earmarks, he tells me that they are a bad “symbol” of easy spending but that he will fight for Kentucky’s share of earmarks and federal pork, as long as it’s doled out transparently at the committee level and not parachuted in in the dead of night. “I will advocate for Kentucky’s interests,” he says.
So you’re not a crazy libertarian? “Not that crazy,” he cracks.
Two things about this are awesome. The first is that these guys have so little respect for the tea party that they can’t even wait a week to rub the rube’s noses in it. I mean, it is just great. Every idiot who spent the last year pretending the tea party and the lunatics they had nominated were anything other than the lunatic fringe of the GOP should just be summarily ignored. It’s really one of the greatest cons/re-branding efforts of all times.
Second, I love that the GOP is still so un-serious that earmarks are the hill to die on when it comes to fiscal responsibility. Earmarks are a nothing-burger when it comes to the budget- less than 1% of the federal budget. That’s still big money, but it is nothing when your party ran on a platform of cutting taxes for the rich and re-instating Medicare Advantage and fainting at the notion of defense cuts. Making a big stink about earmarks while supporting all the other irresponsible things the GOP wants to do is akin to ordering four double whoppers for lunch, and then removing the pickles on each, “cuz you’re on a diet!” Even sillier, earmarks sometimes do some really good things- here is a partial list of earmarks from Patty Murray:
• $2 million for the Vancouver waterfront redevelopment project. The money will be used to help extend Grant and Esther streets under the BNSF Railway berm, connecting downtown to the former Boise Cascade site along the waterfront. Construction of the $40 million road project has been delayed by an impasse between the city and The Columbian over land acquisition.
• $1.5 million for C-Tran to continue an analysis of its proposal to build a bus rapid transit line carrying riders along dedicated lanes along Fourth Plain Boulevard between the Vancouver mall area and downtown Vancouver. The money comes on top of $2 million in federal funding previously received by C-Tran, said spokesman Scott Patterson. “This money will allow us to finish out the alternatives analysis,” he said. C-Tran estimates total construction cost of the line at $72 million. Although Patterson said planners anticipate the Federal Transit Administration will pick up 80 percent of the cost, the local share will require voters to approve a sales tax increase.
• $1 million to complete funding for the $6 million second phase of a reconstructed interchange between Ridgefield and Interstate 5. Ridgefield City Manager Justin Clary said the project will realign 65th Avenue and add roundabout intersections on Pioneer Street east and west of the freeway. “This should fully fund the project,” Clary said.
• $1 million for the city of Battle Ground to support the first phase of the reconstruction of Southeast Grace Avenue.
• $900,000 to support renovation of the Share Community Service Center in Vancouver. The renovation is intended to enable the nonprofit organization to increase service to the homeless, hungry and low-income populations.
Those are good things!
eric seiger
Forget AOL-Yahoo...It's <b>News</b> Corp-Yahoo That The Insiders Are <b>...</b>
One source close to News Corp says the company is monitoring the situation, and notes that Jon Miller and "Chief Yahoo" Jerry Yang have a good working relationship. Merger talk, says this source, is pre-mature. ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Keys To Business Success
It's no accident that we used the plural to describe the tools that make a business a success in the title for this end-of-the-week roundup. There may not be.
The Tools of Ignorance: Saturday <b>News</b> - Pinstripe Alley
Andy Pettitte considers retirement, the Yankees consider Jorge De La Rosa, an anonymous source says Cliff Lee's not crazy about Texas, and the Hot Stove heats up.
eric seiger
eric seiger
eric seiger
Forget AOL-Yahoo...It's <b>News</b> Corp-Yahoo That The Insiders Are <b>...</b>
One source close to News Corp says the company is monitoring the situation, and notes that Jon Miller and "Chief Yahoo" Jerry Yang have a good working relationship. Merger talk, says this source, is pre-mature. ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Keys To Business Success
It's no accident that we used the plural to describe the tools that make a business a success in the title for this end-of-the-week roundup. There may not be.
The Tools of Ignorance: Saturday <b>News</b> - Pinstripe Alley
Andy Pettitte considers retirement, the Yankees consider Jorge De La Rosa, an anonymous source says Cliff Lee's not crazy about Texas, and the Hot Stove heats up.
eric seiger
Some thoughts from Dish readers. One writes:
I knew Prop 19 was going down weeks ago when a friend of mine and his wife voted against. They are parents of two small kids, and did so with the reasoning ''I don't care if other people do it but I don't want it to be illegal.” Another father, whose 21-year-old son has had a drug problem, grew emotionally angry when we discussed it. “At least you can tell your kids it's illegal.” I didn't want to engage him by pointing out his son had the problem when drugs were ILLEGAL.
Parents voted their fears.
Another writes:
I think proponents made the same mistake as that made a few years ago with Prop 8, i.e. not actually making the clear case and hammering away at it.
The correct vote on these props seemed self-evident to some of us, but apparently not to the majority. A lot of people in my generation (60s) who should have voted yes on 19 were swayed by the "gateway drug" rhetoric. We've all lived long enough to know people whose kids have lost their way on the drug road, that argument needed a clear response. The Mexico cartel connection had great potential but then the Rand study sort of put it away, without a cogent, repeated counter from proponents.
Another:
Last night I asked my girlfriend's 18 year-old son if he was going to vote for Prop 19, in what is his first opprtunity to vote. He surprised me with a no. His reasoning? It's more exciting if it's illegal.
Another:
I am a long-time San Francisco resident. I just saw that Proposition 19 lost - big time. Then I checked some of the county results. The measure was approved by about 65% of San Francisco voters. In Humboldt County, on the other hand - one of the points on the Emerald Triangle - only about 47% of voters approved the measure.
I know some growers up north, and there is no doubt in my mind that this measure lost (or at least lost by as much as it did) because of greedy growers in northern California who are making bags of money selling cannabis to medical dispensaries, and who know that their bottom line would suffer were cannabis legalized across the board. That puts those growers in league with big alcohol, tobacco, and other unsavories for whom personal monetary gain is worth a few young kids getting thrown in some hell-hole prison for the rest of their lives as the result of a pot bust. I really should cease to be amazed by the power of money to corrupt people.
Thanks growers. And screw you.
(Photo: Mark Ralston/Getty.)
Too funny:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is maneuvering behind the scenes to defeat a conservative plan aimed at restricting earmarks, setting up a high-stakes showdown that pits the GOP leader and his “Old Bull” allies against Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and a new breed of conservative senators.
In a series of one-on-one conversations with incoming and sitting senators, McConnell is encouraging his colleagues to keep an open mind and not to automatically side with DeMint, whose plan calls on Senate Republicans to unilaterally give up earmarks in the 112th Congress, according to several people familiar with the talks.
Have no fear, Mitch- Rand Paul is certainly keeping an open mind:
One Tea Party hero, Senator-elect Rand Paul (R-KY), jumped on the anti-earmark bandwagon early, making “a ban on wasteful earmark spending in Washington D.C. one of the key points of his campaign” in March. Lambasting lawmakers who opt for “photo-ops with oversized fake cardboard checks,” Paul vowed to “dismantle the culture of professional politicians” even if he “ruffled a lot of establishment feathers” while doing it.
But after joining the GOP flock on Election Day, Paul is singing a different tune. In a Wall Street Journal profile this weekend, Paul signaled an about-face on his earmark position, committing to “fight for Kentucky’s share of earmarks and federal pork.” After all, he’s “not that crazy” of a libertarian:
Father and son, age 47, have different styles. Asked what he wanted to do in Washington in a Wednesday morning television interview, the senator-elect said that his kids were hoping to meet the Obama girls. He has made other concessions to the mainstream. He now avoids his dad’s talk of shuttering the Federal Reserve and abolishing the income tax. In a bigger shift from his campaign pledge to end earmarks, he tells me that they are a bad “symbol” of easy spending but that he will fight for Kentucky’s share of earmarks and federal pork, as long as it’s doled out transparently at the committee level and not parachuted in in the dead of night. “I will advocate for Kentucky’s interests,” he says.
So you’re not a crazy libertarian? “Not that crazy,” he cracks.
Two things about this are awesome. The first is that these guys have so little respect for the tea party that they can’t even wait a week to rub the rube’s noses in it. I mean, it is just great. Every idiot who spent the last year pretending the tea party and the lunatics they had nominated were anything other than the lunatic fringe of the GOP should just be summarily ignored. It’s really one of the greatest cons/re-branding efforts of all times.
Second, I love that the GOP is still so un-serious that earmarks are the hill to die on when it comes to fiscal responsibility. Earmarks are a nothing-burger when it comes to the budget- less than 1% of the federal budget. That’s still big money, but it is nothing when your party ran on a platform of cutting taxes for the rich and re-instating Medicare Advantage and fainting at the notion of defense cuts. Making a big stink about earmarks while supporting all the other irresponsible things the GOP wants to do is akin to ordering four double whoppers for lunch, and then removing the pickles on each, “cuz you’re on a diet!” Even sillier, earmarks sometimes do some really good things- here is a partial list of earmarks from Patty Murray:
• $2 million for the Vancouver waterfront redevelopment project. The money will be used to help extend Grant and Esther streets under the BNSF Railway berm, connecting downtown to the former Boise Cascade site along the waterfront. Construction of the $40 million road project has been delayed by an impasse between the city and The Columbian over land acquisition.
• $1.5 million for C-Tran to continue an analysis of its proposal to build a bus rapid transit line carrying riders along dedicated lanes along Fourth Plain Boulevard between the Vancouver mall area and downtown Vancouver. The money comes on top of $2 million in federal funding previously received by C-Tran, said spokesman Scott Patterson. “This money will allow us to finish out the alternatives analysis,” he said. C-Tran estimates total construction cost of the line at $72 million. Although Patterson said planners anticipate the Federal Transit Administration will pick up 80 percent of the cost, the local share will require voters to approve a sales tax increase.
• $1 million to complete funding for the $6 million second phase of a reconstructed interchange between Ridgefield and Interstate 5. Ridgefield City Manager Justin Clary said the project will realign 65th Avenue and add roundabout intersections on Pioneer Street east and west of the freeway. “This should fully fund the project,” Clary said.
• $1 million for the city of Battle Ground to support the first phase of the reconstruction of Southeast Grace Avenue.
• $900,000 to support renovation of the Share Community Service Center in Vancouver. The renovation is intended to enable the nonprofit organization to increase service to the homeless, hungry and low-income populations.
Those are good things!
eric seiger
eric seiger
Forget AOL-Yahoo...It's <b>News</b> Corp-Yahoo That The Insiders Are <b>...</b>
One source close to News Corp says the company is monitoring the situation, and notes that Jon Miller and "Chief Yahoo" Jerry Yang have a good working relationship. Merger talk, says this source, is pre-mature. ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Keys To Business Success
It's no accident that we used the plural to describe the tools that make a business a success in the title for this end-of-the-week roundup. There may not be.
The Tools of Ignorance: Saturday <b>News</b> - Pinstripe Alley
Andy Pettitte considers retirement, the Yankees consider Jorge De La Rosa, an anonymous source says Cliff Lee's not crazy about Texas, and the Hot Stove heats up.
eric seiger
eric seiger
Forget AOL-Yahoo...It's <b>News</b> Corp-Yahoo That The Insiders Are <b>...</b>
One source close to News Corp says the company is monitoring the situation, and notes that Jon Miller and "Chief Yahoo" Jerry Yang have a good working relationship. Merger talk, says this source, is pre-mature. ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Keys To Business Success
It's no accident that we used the plural to describe the tools that make a business a success in the title for this end-of-the-week roundup. There may not be.
The Tools of Ignorance: Saturday <b>News</b> - Pinstripe Alley
Andy Pettitte considers retirement, the Yankees consider Jorge De La Rosa, an anonymous source says Cliff Lee's not crazy about Texas, and the Hot Stove heats up.
eric seiger
Forget AOL-Yahoo...It's <b>News</b> Corp-Yahoo That The Insiders Are <b>...</b>
One source close to News Corp says the company is monitoring the situation, and notes that Jon Miller and "Chief Yahoo" Jerry Yang have a good working relationship. Merger talk, says this source, is pre-mature. ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Keys To Business Success
It's no accident that we used the plural to describe the tools that make a business a success in the title for this end-of-the-week roundup. There may not be.
The Tools of Ignorance: Saturday <b>News</b> - Pinstripe Alley
Andy Pettitte considers retirement, the Yankees consider Jorge De La Rosa, an anonymous source says Cliff Lee's not crazy about Texas, and the Hot Stove heats up.
eric seiger
Forget AOL-Yahoo...It's <b>News</b> Corp-Yahoo That The Insiders Are <b>...</b>
One source close to News Corp says the company is monitoring the situation, and notes that Jon Miller and "Chief Yahoo" Jerry Yang have a good working relationship. Merger talk, says this source, is pre-mature. ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Keys To Business Success
It's no accident that we used the plural to describe the tools that make a business a success in the title for this end-of-the-week roundup. There may not be.
The Tools of Ignorance: Saturday <b>News</b> - Pinstripe Alley
Andy Pettitte considers retirement, the Yankees consider Jorge De La Rosa, an anonymous source says Cliff Lee's not crazy about Texas, and the Hot Stove heats up.
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Forget AOL-Yahoo...It's <b>News</b> Corp-Yahoo That The Insiders Are <b>...</b>
One source close to News Corp says the company is monitoring the situation, and notes that Jon Miller and "Chief Yahoo" Jerry Yang have a good working relationship. Merger talk, says this source, is pre-mature. ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Keys To Business Success
It's no accident that we used the plural to describe the tools that make a business a success in the title for this end-of-the-week roundup. There may not be.
The Tools of Ignorance: Saturday <b>News</b> - Pinstripe Alley
Andy Pettitte considers retirement, the Yankees consider Jorge De La Rosa, an anonymous source says Cliff Lee's not crazy about Texas, and the Hot Stove heats up.
What do you consider most important: Making money OR Spending time with family? What is your answer? It's pretty obvious right? Most people would say that spending time with family is most important and you know what...they are exactly right! That is more important, but, if you have no money, are you going to enjoy that time you spend with your family? Or are you going to even have that time to spend? Money isn't everything right, but what is everything without it? What is your life like with money....and without it? Think about it a bit.
I will be straight up honest with all of you right now...I put money making above family time! Yes, you heard me right. I put making money above family time, but I have a good reason. Here it is...If I am not making money, I cannot fully enjoy my family time. If I can't provide a good living for my family, while I am with them, I will be thinking of what a failure I have been to them. While with them in physical form, my mind will be somewhere else! My mind will be thinking about the money I am short that month or the bills coming up. So in reality, I am not even truly spending that time with them.
Time spent half-heartedly is time wasted! If you aren't giving something all you've got, if you aren't completely present, it would have been better if you weren't there at all. If I am to truly enjoy my family, I must know that I have everything else in order. Given I don't have to have billions of dollars coming in before I am comfortable. I just have to know that my short term future is immediately taken care of. For example, if I know that my rent or mortgage is coming up next week and I don't have but fifty bucks in my bank account, my wheels are turning. Since I work from home, I have the freedom to choose my schedule right? So, if my kids get home from school and want to go catch bugs, it's 2:30 in the afternoon, should I pick up and go catch bugs right then? I wouldn't be able to truly enjoy that time with my kids because my mind is preoccupied with bills, so I would hold off until I feel I have accomplished all that I can with my work day. Then maybe when six o'clock rolls around, I can hang out with my kids. Now this is just an example but how true is it.
In order to be truly present in the lives of my family, I must make money. I must provide. That is my first and foremost responsibility to them. Once that is done, I can then devote all of my energy, authentically, to them. Family is always first in my mind, that's why I make the choices I do. It's to ensure that I will always be there. As a father who missed out on 8 month out of the first year of my oldest daughters life, I know what it's like to have your child look up at you and not recognize who you are. It's not something every father dreams about.
Money is a lifestyle tool. Make enough of it and you can live your life however you want to. That's the important principle here. Now let's make it happen!
eric seiger
Forget AOL-Yahoo...It's <b>News</b> Corp-Yahoo That The Insiders Are <b>...</b>
One source close to News Corp says the company is monitoring the situation, and notes that Jon Miller and "Chief Yahoo" Jerry Yang have a good working relationship. Merger talk, says this source, is pre-mature. ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Keys To Business Success
It's no accident that we used the plural to describe the tools that make a business a success in the title for this end-of-the-week roundup. There may not be.
The Tools of Ignorance: Saturday <b>News</b> - Pinstripe Alley
Andy Pettitte considers retirement, the Yankees consider Jorge De La Rosa, an anonymous source says Cliff Lee's not crazy about Texas, and the Hot Stove heats up.
eric seiger
Forget AOL-Yahoo...It's <b>News</b> Corp-Yahoo That The Insiders Are <b>...</b>
One source close to News Corp says the company is monitoring the situation, and notes that Jon Miller and "Chief Yahoo" Jerry Yang have a good working relationship. Merger talk, says this source, is pre-mature. ...
Small Business <b>News</b>: The Keys To Business Success
It's no accident that we used the plural to describe the tools that make a business a success in the title for this end-of-the-week roundup. There may not be.
The Tools of Ignorance: Saturday <b>News</b> - Pinstripe Alley
Andy Pettitte considers retirement, the Yankees consider Jorge De La Rosa, an anonymous source says Cliff Lee's not crazy about Texas, and the Hot Stove heats up.
eric seiger
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