spying on your kids is sometimes necessary but most of the times not..expeually if you know them well. the "RIGHT" to spy on your kids is necessary to keep them safe and let them explore and learn on their own. but it also makes them feel usurped from their own choices. like my parents don't trust me so they watch everything i do they say what to do and when to do it and how to do the thing the parents said the kid to do the thing the parents chose to have the kid do. My parents trust me but they still keep an eye on me.(sometimes two eyes.) but they also realize that I'm becoming an adult and need to be set free...though they will always keep an eye on me, because they love me and don't want me to mess up my life by doing something stupid.

spying on your kids

spying on your kids is sometimes necessary but most of the times not..expeually if you know them well. the "RIGHT" to spy on your kids is necessary to keep them safe and let them explore and learn on their own. but it also makes them feel usurped from their own choices. like my parents don't trust me so they watch everything i do they say what to do and when to do it and how to do the thing the parents said the kid to do the thing the parents chose to have the kid do. My parents trust me but they still keep an eye on me.(sometimes two eyes.) but they also realize that I'm becoming an adult and need to be set free...though they will always keep an eye on me, because they love me and don't want me to mess up my life by doing something stupid.

WILL OUR THRIFTINESS LAST??

Ellen Goodman asks will our thriftiness last as long as the recession lasts or will we continue spending more than we have been in the past when the recession ends? Some of the people, such as Black stones group Chairman Steve Schwarzman publicly regrets a three million dollar birthday bash, a perfume mogul cancels a party at the Four Seasons in favor of a White Castle hamburgers at home, on fox "Secret Millionaire" fox's latest, worst reality show repents a private plane joy ride that cost $12,000 in jet fuel. we can tell the recession is bad when the rich start saving money. Now competitive consumption is being replaced by anxiety...buying hit bottom with the housing collapse, the stock market plunge, and the credit card crunch and the unemployment figures.

The fact is that when a rational response to the worst economic crises since the Great Depression, but when it starts affecting people whose mortgages and jobs are secure something else is going on behind the background.

We as a family are spending less and less...because we have less and less. when you start regretting that you have to spend money to go to the grocery store something is wrong. i used to go to dinner with a friend of mine like once a week, her and i haven't done that in like 6 months. i miss doing that dinner "date" but after you figured in the gas and the food i didn't have enough to get home.

But a part of my family is spending more and more, they live on credit cards and have the debit piling up on there kitchen counter so to speak. They live daily from credit card to credit card....just now they are starting to straiting up and fly right. With both of them working two jobs they are starting to get it under control.

Fatherly advice

The advice in the story Hamlet is very valuable and used often. The give every man your ear but tongue few, is used by me....thought i do love telling stories so it kind of contradicts it. The last situation I was in that I need to use some advice that was given to me was when I was at my aunts house for thanksgiving a few years back. I had met someone new and we got talking and they started saying there opinion on a politician and I just kept my opinion to myself(I didn't feel qualified to talk about politics) which kind of confused the guy because he likes picking at peoples brains and finding how the person thinks in a twisted way. So he didn't find out how i worked. He is an alright guy but hes twisted..and not in a good way. When he meets someone new he will talk about politics and about religion...both of which he has a distaste for, just to pick at the persons mind. So in the end I kept my opinion to myself and we had an alright fun time. Another situation where the advice had come in handy was when I met a new friend of mine. (so the fledgling quote will work.) I trusted him but he shouldn't have been trusted, so I learned that advice somewhat on my own. Ever sense then I've grown slightly paranoid about trusting new friends and losing my trusted ones. When I can give advice of my own to people I will, but I also tell them to use it sparingly........like when you use hot sauce, though strangely i use allot of hot sauce....

Revenge

I think people still use revenge to get what they want. i personally haven't....least that i can remember. some people see it as the only way to get what they want or to hurt someone like they have been hurt. Like the "Punisher" movies, the main characters family was killed so the main character chooses to exact revenge on the men who took his family and tried to kill him by taking the same things they took from him. When the Justice system fails people tend to want revenge expesually in a murder or rape case. some people want revenge when something special has been taken from them, such as a girlfriend or wife by a "bad" man. but in the end you usually get hurt worse/remains unchanged or get more taken from you.

"And Then There Was One" Distilling the Big Three into a single player could save Detroit.

The companies that once ruled the road are husks of the mighty institutions that they once were. Now they have less than half the U.S. auto market and will lose a combined $30 billion this year. Together the companies are burning through nearly $6 billion a month, and General Motors and Chrysler say that by the end of the year they will be bankrupt. They plan to head back to Washington this week to beg for a bailout.

There will be hurtles like a powerful union, strongly independent dealers and a complex network of suppliers. Simply if the enterprises continue to squabble it is likely to make matters worse. But there is a way to fix the prioblem. Chrysler, the weakest player, could fall, leaving the two other companies. GM and Ford could eventually end up together by choice or force of being broke.

The Past has shown companies grouping together. Like Boeing grabbed up all U.S. civil-aircraft business, acquiring its chief domestic rival McDonnell Douglas in 1997. That allowed Boeing to take on the true competition: Europe's Airbus. Beginning in 1986, more than 35 American steel makers went bankrupt. In 2002, billionaire investor Wilbur Ross agreed to buy up bankrupt LTV Steel, setting off a merger frenzy that saw 17 companies shrink down to three, while financial results reversed from a $1.1 billion loss in 2003 to a $6.6 billion profit in 2004. So if the companies choose to join together they chances for economic rise is great, as it has shown in the past.

I agree with Keith Naughton, if the companies join they can group their resources together and pull themselves out of there hole. sure the companies don't want to but if they don't get the bailout or the bail out fails they will surly have to collaborate. We need to start playing to win instead of trying to be the "top dog" of the auto sales in the U.S.

"Japan has 4 major automakers on the global stage: Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and Mazda. Germany has 3 major auto companies: Daimler, BMW, and Volkswagon-Porsche (I put them together since Porsche is buying a controlling stake in VW). China has a multitude of automakers, but really a couple of powerhouses in Chery and SAIC. What do all of these companies have in common? They are protected and supported by their nation's governments. all of these automakers receive a great deal of support from their respective governments. Americans are foolish and naive if they truly believe that other countries approach their domestic industries on a "stand-alone, fail-alone" basis as the US seems to do. Other countries recognize that manufacturing is a vital component economically, psychologically, and from a national defense perspective. The United States must stop acting as if every other country is honorable and fair, and start playing to win. Only then can our automakers hope to compete on a playing field that is skewed at a global level, and not just on the dealer's lot."(From the comment section on the newsweek page.)

Programs honored for getting kids interested in college.

When a program gets honored for doing something such as getting students interested in doing to college it creates a "buzz" about going to college. The whole 'everyone is doing it so ill do it to' bit. I think that the statewide average for having a bachelor degree from college is 29.5% while Shasta county has 18.8%. The cost of living in California is much higher than in most other states, for example the minimum wage. so the students that want to go on to college lack the funds necessary to do so.

College OPTIONS was formed in 2003 and since then, college application submissions from the surrounding area has increased 33 percent. While the same time FAFSA submissions, which are mandatory for students seeking admission to University of California and the California State University systems, have gone up 27 percent. Currently, College OPTIONS has partnerships with and is supported by the McConnell Foundation, the University of California and the California State University systems, Simpson University, National University, Shasta College, College of the Siskiyous, the Shasta Union High School District and others. While the number for the actual students going to college is really unknown for it is hard to count. The Postsecondary Education Commission said 11.6 percent of the area's high school seniors continued on to college last year. But nearly every education official in the north state has called that number incorrect.

Over the years from when the pursuit for a higher education first started the ways of college have changed so much, the way we are weeded out to see if we are able to make it and how we are going to make it in to the college of out choice. If someone builds a UC in Redding the higher paying jobs will grow in numbers as the number of higher educated people increase. So the economy that is troubling us will subside some what. "Few college access programs served students in the north state region before College OPTIONS opened its doors," said Blake Ulveling, a spokesman for Campaign for College Opportunities. "The result (is) more students enrolling in college, more students becoming eligible to attend a CSU or UC and more students filling out the FAFSA."

The People that have the money to go out and get a college degree should, so that getting their degree helps the rest of the community so that the rest of us that are having a difficult time getting in to college are more apt to do so. College OPTIONS (and other programs such as gear up) have been honored by recognition by the community for there work in getting students going to college, or at least looking at college.