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• Good Graph Friday: That child care bill

  Fri Dec 16, 2011
  • For only after-school care for two 8 yr olds-$820 per month. Plus $110 per day for non-holidays when school is closed. Ugh.

• Silver lining in deficit panel's failure?

  Tue Nov 22, 2011
  • The first thing that should be cut from spending are the salaries and benefit packages of the incompetent and uncompromising congress that we (unfortunately) elected. No more salary, no more perks, no more obscene government retirement plan.

• Maybe we should be working longer

  Thu Sep 15, 2011
  • We're living longer & SS wasn't intended to cover long retirement. I plan to work til I drop even if I have $$ to retire to keep active.

• Do you think Sheen should have been fired?

  Mon Mar 7, 2011
  • He's a huge liability. And who would ever want to work with such a messed up, self-centered, narcissitic, doped up, a**hole megalomaniac?

• If you won the lottery, would you quit your job?

  Wed Jan 5, 2011
  • Can't imagine doing nothing... would be so bored! I would go part-time though so I could travel and do other things.

• First Thoughts: McConnell doubles down

  Thu Nov 4, 2010
  • Politics over the good of the American people. Great. Good to know that it is business as usual in Washington. Primary goal of the Republicans is to make Obama a one-term president. Hmmm...

• What should be the economic priority for the new Congress?

  Tue Nov 2, 2010
  • Boo hiss - back to political gridlock.. great. When will this country learn some patience - political and economic change takes TIME - the

• Year-round school gains ground around U.S.

  Wed Oct 27, 2010
  • I don't know how it is in Texas but our teachers here are paid a full salary (avg about $60,000) year round - and they get three full months of vacation + per year.

• Year-round school gains ground around U.S.

  Wed Oct 27, 2010
  • The true cost of the current system is to our children and our nation's future. Yes, it may cost a bit more to keep the kids in school an extra 20 days a year but let's look at the long-term effects.