I love this and want everyone to read it.

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little..
The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. It could not be any simpler than that.
Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections.

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

By: Ed Will

From a friend: I was eating breakfast with my 13-year-old granddaughter and I asked her, "What day is the 20th of February?"

She said "It's President's Day!" She is a smart kid.

I asked "What does President's Day mean?"
I was waiting for something about Washington or Lincoln ... etc.

She replied, "President's Day is when President Obama steps out of the White House, and if he sees his shadow we have one more year of unemployment."

You know, it hurts when hot coffee spurts out your nose...

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I have been watching C-span again

This budget debate gets me so worked up. But, do you know what bugs me the most? The speaker has to call the house to order about 20 times before anyone listens! It feels like teaching a kindergarten class! I can't believe we elected these rude people.

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Welcome Christmas!!

The fun part is that this year we have little kids to buy for again. Although, I shouldn't say "buy for" because this year I am making many of my gifts. It has been a long time since I have done that, but for some reason this year I came up with a bunch of new ideas and had to do them. Making things really makes me feel the holiday spirit to a greater degree. Of course, I am not making everything, but I am being much simpler this year, and I hope it will help me to really focus on what is important about this Christmas Season. I hope that I can impart of that feeling to my new grandchildren and to all of my own children and family as well. I am not sure how we are going to do the decorations this year since Kyle and Shyanne are pretty much into everything and don't like to take no for an answer, but hopefully they will learn and we can all enjoy the fun and traditions and time together. I am so looking forward to having all of my children at home along with my new daughters-in-law and of course Kyle and Shyanne. Sounds like family picture time to me!!

I Can Blog on Here Without Giving Offense Because this is My Blog!

Okay, I haven't blogged for a long time, but I have so many things to say about things I have been reading on facebook and things I have been seeing at work that I need to get it all out.

It is killing me to see how socialism is no longer just creeping into our society, but it is blatantly being forced into it like it is the thing to do. Not only do people feel it is fine to shirk personal responsibility, we are encouraged to do so. People take pride in being on the government dole system. The government runs ads explaining how easy it is to get on it and telling people that they may qualify even if they think they make enough money and don't need it.

The government thinks it is okay to make rules about every aspect of our lives, such as being able to grow our own vegetables and share them with our friends. Remember during WWII when home gardens were encouraged? Remember during the Great Depression when people raised chickens and sold eggs to make money to pay their rent? Remember when independence and self-reliance was celebrated and encouraged?

Did you know that now in schools, teachers have to be teaching the same subject from the same book at the same time of day for the same amount of time? It doesn't matter that one particular class is having trouble understanding a certain subject, they all need to stay on schedule. But wait, we need to have highly qualified teachers who differentiate for their students who may have different needs, but there will be no differentiation between different classrooms. And hold on, the teacher needs to administer assessments constantly to see how the students are doing, this is time consuming, but the aide can run the class. Then what is the need of having the highly qualified teacher if she never gets to teach? Hmmm, quite the contradiction. And be careful because if the students don't get high enough scores with this method, the teacher will lose her job. It must be her fault, right?

Did you hear our dear President, Mr. Obama, complaining that the "other side" (that is his way of reaching across the aisle) is using special interest money to pay for their campaigns. I guess the money from the unions and community organizer groups don't count as special interests. He is such a hypocrite and self absorbed jerk. He and his cohorts talk about spreading the wealth. What he means is "give me your money and I will be in charge of it because I know better than you what to do with it." He reminds me of Ana-kin Skywalker and also, Satan who was going to force us all to be happy, give us no freedom and make us worship him.

I know that our country isn't perfect, but it is not because we don't have a righteous system in place, it is because those in charge right now are unrighteous for the most part. Many of those guys in Washington are just plain stupid. Have you ever listened to them on Cspan? It is eye opening. We live in a country where we should be and have been in the past the most free people on earth with endless opportunities to work and grow through our own ingenuity. One by one and three by three, those freedoms are being striped away from us under this regime. The other day I was reading in Alma in the Book of Mormon about the stupid Kingmen who thought that somehow they were better than everyone else and that the Nephites should have a king. I wondered, why, when they were living prosperously in a free society would they want to subject themselves to a king? The answer is simple, they thought that THEY would be in charge and have all of the advantages over everyone else. As I read I realized the correlation between these men and what is going on in America today. I wish we had a Captain Moroni to ride out waving the Title of Liberty so that I could run out and rally to his call and help to save our country and our freedom for our families, and our religion.

What a summer!

2010, the summer of two weddings! First, on June 12th, the wonderful wedding of Tyler to Jessica. Then, on August 7th, the marvelous marriage of Aaron to Korina. I just want to say that I am so happy with the choices that my sons made because they both have wonderful women as wives who are perfect for them. It goes to show that if you go to the right places, (church activities and classes), you will find the right people. The bonus is that I am now an instant grandmother, so Glen and I have sort of made up for lost time.

The pictures posted out of order. Aaron and Korina are at the top, followed by the grand children, and then Tyler and Jessica.