$32 Billion needed to bail out Christmas, survey reveals

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Kids, The Economy and Christmas

"This year," Fassino said, "the average retail price of the average 10 year olds' serious wish list is $794. With 39 million tweens and teens, we're looking at 31 billion dollars to bail out Christmas!"

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Wise Words For Foolish People...

When the born-loser type personality looks for a scapegoat for his own failure, he often blames someone or something else: the establishment, life, the breaks. He resents the success and happiness of others because his own life, by comparison, is unhappy. He has been somehow deprived. We are all tempted to make our own failures understandable by explaining them in terms of something other than our own inadequacies. Unfair treatment by others, injustice, the conspiracy of circumstances, etc. make our failures easier to face.

The resenter uses up all his energies resenting, and therefore usually accomplishes very little. Sometimes it seems that the most vicious of critics of anything are very often the ones who do nothing for the institutions which they criticize so vocally.

The resentful person is forever trying to bring his case before the court of life, hoping that the jury of others will acquit him of his failures.

Resentment comes from the latin resentire (to feel all over again). The resenter is always rehashing the past, reliving past battles he cannot win, and he often persists in his game for a lifetime. Resentment becomes an emotional habit. No one's feelings are caused by others. Our feelings are caused by our own choices and reactions. The resenter is a reactor, not an actor, and eventually, when he realizes this, he is left with no vestiges of self respect. He has spent his life employing a failure mechanism, and he somehow knows it.

NYS Cleaning up corruption???

It looks to me like a bill proposed in New York State to remove peace officer status from New York Societies For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Children will pass. NY-SPCC's are private non-profit organizations authorized to investigate cruelty to children complaints. Officers of NY-SPCC's are peace officers authorized to make arrests and carry firearms (with a permit).

The bill was the end result of a 2001 State Investigation into the activities of various NYS-SPCC organizations. According to the investigative report, several SPCC's were found to be acting outside the scope of their authority; set-up simply to circumvent NYS firearm licensing laws; Failed to provide any services at all; Abused the use of "Police" parking placards; Ignored Peace Officer hiring standards and NYS residency requirements...

Now if only the Great State of New York and the City of New York would turn their attention to the NYPD Traffic Agents and the City Finance agency....

The amount of corruption in these organizations is absolutely mind-blowing to say the least.

Until then I suppose people like Jimmy Justice (who himself has not tackled bigger problems with these agencies) will be the only voice for the people...

Report NYC Corruption at http://www.nyc.gov/html/doi/home.html