Front Door Showdown!

[Zoe]

That is so wonderful. I'd be hugging dcm too. What a wonderful woman!!!

[Ariana]

I love stories like that!!

Honestly, I'm really tired of the "Humanity owes me money because I exsist, and I don't want to earn any money" attitude.

The "Occupy Wallstreet" protesters have run that concept into the ground lately.

Keep us updated on anything that might come up with this story. It makes us all feel good to see the provider come out ahead.

Don't mean to hijack but the "occupy Wallstreet" people are upset about working sooo hard for little money while big wigs at the top make all the money. 1% of the population makes 90% of the money. People in the highest tax brackets saw their incomes rise by 200% in the past 5 year while the the "middle class" wages shrunk by 40%.

[youretooloud]

Don't mean to hijack but the "occupy Wallstreet" people are upset about working sooo hard for little money while big wigs at the top make all the money. 1% of the population makes 90% of the money. People in the highest tax brackets saw their incomes rise by 200% in the past 5 year while the the "middle class" wages shrunk by 40%.

That, I agree with. BUT, how many of those people still "occupying" wallstreet still have a job that they go to every day?

Why must the state spend so much money to control them? Why does the city have to spend so much money to clean up after them? If the state and the city have to spend money to clean up, and refill trash bags, and sweep the street, and pay for police, then where does the money come from? In my state, it comes from the public schools.

You know what would make an impression on them? Taking your money out of the big banks and put it in a Credit union. Buying a three year old car for cash instead of taking out a loan. Making sure you can actually afford a loan even if the interest rate goes up. (barring job loss or illness) *and by "you" I mean the general public...not you, you.

[laundrymom]

Give supermoma high five for me!!!!!

[Ariana]

That, I agree with. BUT, how many of those people still "occupying" wallstreet still have a job that they go to every day?

Why must the state spend so much money to control them? Why does the city have to spend so much money to clean up after them? If the state and the city have to spend money to clean up, and refill trash bags, and sweep the street, and pay for police, then where does the money come from? In my state, it comes from the public schools.

You know what would make an impression on them? Taking your money out of the big banks and put it in a Credit union. Buying a three year old car for cash instead of taking out a loan. Making sure you can actually afford a loan even if the interest rate goes up. (barring job loss or illness) *and by "you" I mean the general public...not you, you.

Yep I agree with this! It was a good protest with good intentions and then it just went bad. Having said that, sometimes media portrays any sort of gov't dissent in a bad light. I noticed up here they'd only interview the punk with the green hair and multiple piercings eventhough there were also lawyers protesting kwim?

Anyway I'm still hijacking ::

[PitterPatter]

Wow what a Christmas gift that was!! I would pick out an extra special Christmas card for that client!!

Kudos to u both! happyface

[countrymom]

what an awesome story, and yay to the super hero mom.

[Country Kids]

Don't mean to hijack but the "occupy Wallstreet" people are upset about working sooo hard for little money while big wigs at the top make all the money. 1% of the population makes 90% of the money. People in the highest tax brackets saw their incomes rise by 200% in the past 5 year while the the "middle class" wages shrunk by 40%.

Thank you for explaining what this was all about. I haven't really been following it so wasn't sure what it was about. Makes sense now!

[Country Kids]

That, I agree with. BUT, how many of those people still "occupying" wallstreet still have a job that they go to every day?

Why must the state spend so much money to control them? Why does the city have to spend so much money to clean up after them? If the state and the city have to spend money to clean up, and refill trash bags, and sweep the street, and pay for police, then where does the money come from? In my state, it comes from the public schools.

You know what would make an impression on them? Taking your money out of the big banks and put it in a Credit union. Buying a three year old car for cash instead of taking out a loan. Making sure you can actually afford a loan even if the interest rate goes up. (barring job loss or illness) *and by "you" I mean the general public...not you, you.

Great post! From what I've seen of these people it makes me wonder. In our area we had one die of a meth overdose in the camp they made!!!

[daycare]

Great post! From what I've seen of these people it makes me wonder. In our area we had one die of a meth overdose in the camp they made!!!

someone in cali was killed...they were shacking up with homeless people and all sorts of walks of life.... I think this whole thing has gone way too far.

BUT as a child I would see much worse demonstrations like this go on. NOt saying that its ok, I think that those people are nuts too..

[Kaddidle Care]

Ariana, please start a new thread in the off topic section if you don't mind. I'd like to chime in but not on this thread.

Meek - love your name - "and the meek shall inherit the earth".

Please give that special Mom a hug from me too! That was wonderful! So many people wait until the knuckleheads are gone to make a comment but she took them full on!

I think a free date night is in order for her! I hope her child is a good one - I'm betting he/she is!

[MarinaVanessa]

In Ca. we can get the 2 weeks notice pay from the agency regardless of how it ended. Just submit it in writing and you should get that 2 weeks.

You're lucky, we don't get ours paid anymore. I'm in southern CA and we just got notice a few months back about this. They will no longer pay us for unexcused absences (they used to pay for 3) and after the 3rd unexcused absence the famly gets kicked off. Our final 2 weeks of childcare no longer gets paid if the child doesn't attend. They even get a limit of 10 days now for excused absences and I think another 10 days where the child is absent and it's "in the best nterest of the child" like a holiday, family comes to town or Dr's visits.

It depends on what program they are on and how much funding they have. This year's budget cuts forced the program that my state paid family gets funding from to cut back.