Tony At 10: BLOG NUMBER 63; JAN 18, 2013; PERSPECTIVE

IT'S ALL A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE.

1. WOULD YOU INVITE ONE OF THESE HOME FOR A DINNER WITH FAMILY every sunday?

1. IT WOULD BE EASY TO DO SO IN THIS CASE.

STARVING CHILD IN KENYA

2. BUT HOW ABOUT THESE?

i) A cruel mother left her children to live in a squalid house filled with piles of rotting waste, dog mess, and even dead animals while she went out drinking She has been jailed for two years.

ii) An enabling or overly permissive parent who is afraid to step up and face reality.

What Is the Difference Between A Helping Parent and Enabling One? Helping is doing something for someone that he or she is not capable of doing by themselves. Enabling is doing for someone things that he or she could and should be doing by themselves.

3. ANY OF THESE?

4. WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

someone exactly like you
one who smells bad
one who speaks only some foreign language
a religious zealot
an environmental extremist
a scientist
a lawyer
Wayne Gretzky
a politician
an old school chum
Ann Hathaway
a former teacher or prof.
a gay person
a prostitute
a voracious reader
a billionaire
a garbage collector
etc, etc.

5. HOW ABOUT THERESA SPENCE?

Spence's Salary: $70,000 annually, tax free
Hunger strike? She consumes fish soup, medicinal tea and lemon water, several times a day
Her boyfriend is the Town Manager of Atawapiskat and gets paid $850 per day
Atawapiskat purchased a Zamboni for $96,000 during their 'housing crisis'
The planned new school began construction on a hazardous site and had to be abandoned. A huge waste of money!
They have 21 paid, full time politicians for a town of 300 homes
In 2007 the Native Band Manager made $173,000; the Technical Services Manager made %126,000
This reserve gets $450,000 per month in welfare payments
Attawapiskat First Nations holds stock in Apple, Disney and Chinese Cell Phone companies worth $9 million
They spent $200,000 on gifts and $36,000 on goose hunting in 2011.
The acting manager spent $68,000 in just 2 months of 2011
The profit of this band was $2.7 million in 2010 and $3.1 million in 2011

The explanation of the recent audit: "It's was just a diversive ploy by the Federal Government." bahaahaahaa!

Does "Idle No More" mean that these guys will finally get to work and free themselves of government handouts and assistance.

6. OR, EITHER OF THESE GUYS?

QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

“Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy.” -Jack Kemp

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