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Never thought I'd own one of those...Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2008, at 11:49 PM
I recall the younger days when I'd see the "elders," (kind of makes me sound like a Mennonite)…using items that I deemed fit only for the truly aged; those who were (I thought) near calling the cemetery 'home.'
Those "oldsters" were probably all of 55'ish at the time. And, I swore that never, no NEVER, would I succumb to the likes of things like bifocals and ankle socks.
Then I blinked and I was one of them. And as a result, I find myself purchasing those very items with which I identified only the aged. I'm not doing it just for fun, mind you, since the purchase or use of such things goes against everything I believe in. I do it out of absolute necessity and desperation, and for a sole reason. I am OLD. I look in my closet and I find shoes that I have purchased not for style, but for comfort, and I am reminded that yes, I am old.
I wear bifocals…now, that's OLD.
I listen to what some kindly call, "soft" music. It's just OLD music and I like it. Sometimes it's old singers re-singing the OLD songs, and that often makes it even better, but not always. Some of those old singers need to realize that they no longer cut the mustard…like Tony Orlando…you can only tie that yellow ribbon so many times and it becomes an old yellowed knot.
I take naps…sometimes not intentionally, but then those are the best ones and that's OLD.
I take vitamins…always counted on the sunshine and enough OJ to grant me my needed supply, but I'm told I now need Flax Seed and Fish Oil, and try as I might, I don't think rubbing that big crappie that almost got away all over my body is going to do the trick. And so, very much like OLD folks do, I take vitamins.
I don't like to drive at night…people just don't see me coming as well as they used to, it seems. The drivers of those approaching cars must be OLD.
I don't like loud music or loud cars. Definitely OLD.
I DO like loud speakers…they don't seem to be as loud as they used to be. Someone must have turned the volume down.
I am in need of one of those chains to wear around my neck to hold onto my glasses…OLDER!
I wear a visor to mow the yard…OLD.
I forget my age…often….but I know I'm OLD.
I also forget where my keys, my vehicle and my grandchildren are, but that's another story. I DO remember the important stuff. My debit card is in my wallet, the box of wine is in the fridge and the Skinny Cows are in the freezer, which reminds me, the supply is getting low…gotta run to that God-forsaken place where the blue gooey mouthed children abound…might get lucky and find a parking spot in the front row!
Anything make you feel OLD?
Minnie o'
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Don't write checks. My darling daughter says that checks are OLD. Use your debit card. (Gets you through the check out line faster, too.)
Do NOT wear tight clothes. Nobody'll think you're pregnant in loose clothes if you're OLD.
Why throw away perfectly good clothes, just because they're 20 years out of style? Don't buy the fads; they'll be out in a year. Do NOT wear low rise!
Comfort is the key.
Wear gaudy jewelry. It takes attention away from your wrinkles (AND your fat!). Anything that glitters is gold. The more outlandish, the better. Summertime is best for this. Also helps if the jewelry makes a noise. Good distraction. Bangles and baubles also provide an irresistable lure for babies, so you'll get the added benefit of having adorable children reach for you. (Avoid the ones with sticky blue mouths!)
Carry a big purse on a long strap. You can use it to throttle attackers and people who unwisely get in the check out line in front of you.
Remember the key: Grandmothers can do no wrong! If it was good enough for Estelle Getty, it's good for all of us!
Thanks for this blog, Minnie; it was greatly needed!!!
-- Posted by goat lady on Wed, Jul 23, 2008, at 6:34 AM
Another wonderful blog Miss Minnie.
The 2 things that make me feel old are...
#1. I've thrown my back out 4 times since I was 22 (and I'm only 27).
#2. I can't remember much of anything. If I don't write it down, chances are, I'll forget it. That is, if I don't forget to write it down!
I'm sure there will be more to add to that list in the coming years...I just haven't decided whether I should embrace it, or fight it!
-- Posted by mrsdolphin on Wed, Jul 23, 2008, at 9:40 AM
Why does hair like to grow out of my ears now? I've never rubbed Rogaine in them! I can't stand it! Pass me the tweezers!
-- Posted by greer958 on Wed, Jul 23, 2008, at 9:41 AM
When my vehicle used to break down, all I had to do was stand outside it and a guy in a pick up truck would stop to help (and flirt a little bit.) Now they stop to help and call me ma'am cause I remind them of their mom's (or grandmoms) But thank gosh for guys in pick up trucks, either way! Oh, and before I'd stoop down to pick up things, but now the knees aren't what they used to be, so bending over is much easier! I still think that age is a relative thing so even when the body gives out, the spirit lives on!! Good column!
-- Posted by ct on Wed, Jul 23, 2008, at 9:54 AM
Bobby, dear - maybe you have werewolf genes!!! Hahaha! If so, it looks good on you!
-- Posted by goat lady on Wed, Jul 23, 2008, at 11:40 AM
Dolphin, lists don't work! I have them all over the house and the office and in every pocket. I can never find the right list at the right time! I try to keep little notebooks, so the lists are all together in one spot, but I lose the notebooks, too!
Ah, ct, those were the days! Even if the guys had ulterior motives, they still stopped to help! I guess it's better (and safer) to look like their mothers, though!
(A knight in a pick up truck...Now, there's a thought...)
-- Posted by goat lady on Wed, Jul 23, 2008, at 11:48 AM
Old? Never! Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional. I resolve to never grow up.
Reality check. When I wake up in the morning and have to roll to get up the momentum to get out of bed - that's old.
When I go to family funerals and recognize fewer and fewer of the mourners (and the ones I do look older than dirt) - that's old.
When I hear "Stairway to Heaven" on the Easy Listening station - that's old.
Peter Pan had the right idea. Second star on the right and straight on 'til morning.
-- Posted by Ducky on Wed, Jul 23, 2008, at 12:58 PM
Minnie O'Pausal's response:Minnie, this is Madeline. I just have to tell you what happened to me today: I lost my notes from a 1 1/2 hour Progress interview I did yesterday morning! I felt sure that I had brought them home to work on them last night, but I couldn't find them anywhere. "Well, must be at work. Guess I didn't bring them home." Back at work this morning. No notes. Back home (14 miles) at lunch to look AGAIN. No notes. Back to work after lunch. Search the car again. Search the office again. No notes! ACK! Progress Deadline B is TOMORROW!!! Gotta have 3 stories in, or the boss'll have my head on a pole!!
I call my buddy Teresa, who had set the interview up with a lovely elderly couple out in the country. She had taken some notes, but not much. She said she would pray to St. Anthony for me. Don't need to explain to you that he's the saint of lost objects. I've had experience with him before, having taught in a Catholic community.
I just came home and FOUND my notes -- in the kitchen, on the butcher block table....(are you ready for this?) IN A BAG OF ONIONS that I bought for the Senior Center yesterday!!!
Top that, blogger buddies!!! That's OLD!! Even my grandma wouldn't have done THAT!
Yikes! Looks like we've got a Sybil thing goin on -- either Madeline thinks she is Minnie, or Minnie thinks she is Madeline. Who would have ever thunk that?
-- Posted by FJGuy on Wed, Jul 23, 2008, at 9:05 PM
On second thought, if this is Sybilian, she would have to end up with about 16 personalities, wouldn't she?
-- Posted by goat lady on Wed, Jul 23, 2008, at 10:05 PM
I can't believe some people still write checks in the checkout line! I hate being behind a check writer. What's worse is that most places now have a little printer that'll write your check for you and all you do is review and sign... but I guess when you're OLD you don't trust them fancy machines. Save a tree, use your debit card!
-- Posted by Youngest Child on Thu, Jul 24, 2008, at 10:02 AM
Right, use a debit card. Then, being old, forget to write it in your checkbook and start bouncing checks all over town. Not a happy ending.
Actually, I do use my debit card -- but much more carefully now. It can be a tricky little rascal. To be on the safe side, sometimes I just use my credit card and pay the bill when it comes in. Yes, yes, I'm not saying that tactic isn't tricky too.
-- Posted by Ducky on Thu, Jul 24, 2008, at 12:46 PM
Youngest, it sounds like you work for one of those newfangled financial services companies that makes its profits from slapping a fee or charge on everything from looking at a pretty teller for more than three seconds to a 1 cent overdraft. Writing checks you knew exactly how much you have available at all times of the day or night, while with one of those fee sucking plastic debit cards you are flying by the seat of your pants. Plus many places charge a secret surcharge for using a debit card, while you pay the posted price for King Cash or a check. It would be an advance for American civilization to get rid of debit cards and go back to the future of using checks. It ain't OLD, its right.
-- Posted by FJGuy on Thu, Jul 24, 2008, at 6:23 PM
FJGuy, I am appalled! I thought you were a smart guy!! Here you are, behaving like an OLD MAN!!
I, too, was reluctant to do the debit card thingy, and my first attempts were disasterous, as Ducky points out - I would forget to write them down.
However, I now have two checking accounts and two debit cards, and I LOVE them! I can get online and see EVERYTHING more clearly than ever before - and I've never been charged a DIME for using the cards! Of course, I never use them in a FOREIGN ATM machine, either. (advantage of living in a small town).
I know, I know....as surely as I brag about this, some disaster will happen and my house of debit cards will come crashing down around my head!
-- Posted by goat lady on Thu, Jul 24, 2008, at 7:21 PM
Good to see you on the blogs again, youngest child!
-- Posted by goat lady on Thu, Jul 24, 2008, at 7:23 PM
FJGuy, the way I do it is this: I buy everything on my credit card. When I get home, I write my expenditures on a categorized dry-erase board that's posted on the fridge. That way I keep track of my spending throughout the month, making sure to stick to my budget, and at each payday I pay off the cards completely. I know exactly how much money I have in my account at all times, and I can monitor both my credit and bank accounts online daily to make sure there are no unapproved expenditures (theft).
You must be the OLD guy in line ahead of me all the time, using a quill and ink to painstakingly write out your check in a script that looks like calligraphy written during an earthquake (this handwriting also id's you as an OLD person), holding up the line, and shrieking at the bag boy not to smash the bread! We young whippersnappers have places to be and your check-writing ways are cramping our style!!
-- Posted by Youngest Child on Fri, Jul 25, 2008, at 1:53 PM
I am really an unperson......a censored unperson. What the heck did I say to deserve that? HOON speaks the truth.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Fri, Jul 25, 2008, at 3:19 PM
Did I read it right Youngest that you use a "board"? Now that's OLD. That would be like 19th century OLD except you do use "dry-erase" instead of charcoal from a cook fire. FYI checkbooks are compact low-tech devices that don't require batteries or recharging, and your bank will likely be happy as peaches to give you one. You could use your NEW handy-dandy checkbook to write your expenditures in as you make them, just in case you take an overnight trip and can't keep all your expenditures straight in your head until the next time you can get at your "board" to write them down.
You might also keep in mind Youngest, that check writers might be more likely to give your car a jump start when your battery needs resuscitation, help you change a tire, or even give you a ride to get gas when you run out on the highway.
-- Posted by FJGuy on Fri, Jul 25, 2008, at 6:35 PM
Take a ride from a stranger?!!! That's the OLDEST no-no in the book and even I follow that one!
-- Posted by Youngest Child on Fri, Jul 25, 2008, at 8:21 PM
You darned well better NOT be riding in a car with strangers, Youngest!
I think you sound remarkably well-organized and efficient, despite FJ's OLD advice about checkbooks and jump starts.
-- Posted by goat lady on Sat, Jul 26, 2008, at 6:39 AM
Minnie, I'm so happy to see your new blog! I thought we would be lost forever in the maze of new blogger rants and rages. I think perhaps we should all count our blessings in the age department - and you sound quite normal to me. I figure if we weren't supposed to nap God wouldn't have invented couches.
-- Posted by letseatcake633 on Sat, Jul 26, 2008, at 2:23 PM
Well Youngest it is good to see that you understand the value in OLD technologies like "boards" to keep track of your expenditures. If you had said you use an electronic organizer I would have went screaming from the room and ran the risk of ending up like McMurphy! Since you have one leg in the OLD world that means there is hope that someday you will go all the way and comprehend the value of checks.
-- Posted by FJGuy on Sat, Jul 26, 2008, at 3:05 PM
McMurphy had a lobotomy. That'll never happen to Youngest Child!
Letseatcake, the terrain becomes increasingly unfamiliar, doesn't it?
-- Posted by goat lady on Sat, Jul 26, 2008, at 8:28 PM
-- Posted by goat lady on Tue, Aug 5, 2008, at 3:42 PM
Haven't any of you ever hitchhiked? I'd kind of like to know if anybody's stuck their thumb out to get a ride.
-- Posted by ct on Thu, Aug 14, 2008, at 2:18 PM
FJGuy...the problem I see with ONLY using checks is travel. Sure, you can buy replacable-if-lost travelers checks...but have you seen the fees on them bad boys? I'll stick with my debit card. I've never incrued an unwanted fee, and if I use it as a credit card, I get bonuses...works for me!
-- Posted by mrsdolphin on Sat, Aug 16, 2008, at 2:19 PM
I love debit cards! Especially the one I now have with a new bank in that Big City by the Big River! It is SO FAST! (the debit card - not the river...) I can use the debit at 4 p.m. and it's already on my online account by the time I get home!
Oh, no, ct! I would NEVER hitch-hike!! And I haven't often been tempted to pick one up - even though I still hear those stories about how a hitch-hiker mysteriously disappears from the back seat (meaning he was an angel!). Too many bad, bad people out there!
-- Posted by goat lady on Sat, Aug 16, 2008, at 9:23 PM
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Special Envoy to Sudan Princeton Lyman, Ambassador Princeton Lyman, and the USAID Administrator Raj Shah discussed their respective recent trips to Sudan and U.S. engagement in the region, at the Department of State on May 18, 2011.
Ambassador Lyman said, "I was in the region just a couple weeks ago, stopping in Doha for the Darfur peace talks, a day in Khartoum, then down to South Cordovan where there was -- that was on the first day of the election there, and I'll come back to that -- and then to Darfur and then to Juba.
"The issues that are very much on our mind are the following: the Darfur situation, where we are hoping that at Doha, where negotiations have gone on for some time, that there can be an agreement between the government and at least two of the rebel groups. Others have also been invited to Doha. My colleague Dane Smith, who works full-time on Darfur, has been spending a great deal of time in Doha with one of his staff to bolster that negotiating process. It's a hard process, but at least the parties are talking.
"I spent some time in Khartoum talking with people there about the progress under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, and then went to South Cordovan because they've just had in that time -- it was the first day of elections -- an election for governor and state legislature. It's a very critical state because it borders on Abyei, it borders on Darfur, it is also supposed to be where one of the processes of popular consultations are to take place. It's a state where a lot of the civil war was fought, but it's in the North.
"Since then, the election has come off, but there is now a dispute over the results. The National Electoral Commission has declared the NCP candidate, the governor, to have been reelected, and the SPLM candidate has raised a number of what they feel are irregularities. We have encouraged them to follow the process established, which is to go to the courts with these complaints, and we've urged all parties to stay calm, and so far everybody has stayed calm. But this has continued to be a very tense situation.
"In Darfur, I was looking at recent displacements in the Zam Zam camp, talking to UNAMID about questions of access, talking to internally displaced people, getting a sense of the security situation and the possibilities for better access and better programs there, and then went to Juba, where there was, at that point, and still is to some extent, a crisis in Abyei. Abyei is a region that is in dispute between the North and the South. It's now in the North. Part of the CPA, there was to be a referendum or other way to resolve the issue of whether Abyei should be in the North or the South. That has not been resolved.
"There was a clash on May 1st in which 11 members of the Joint Integrated Unit -- that's a military unit -- were killed, and it looked like the two sides were almost ready to go to war. Together with the UN and the AU, we worked very hard to get the parties to go back to an agreement they had signed but not implemented called the Kadugli agreement, whereby both sides withdraw the extra forces that they've brought into Abyei. Meetings are going on to establish a clear timeline for that withdrawal, it unfortunately hasn't started yet. But we hope that agreement will be implemented and reduce the tension in the state while we continue to work on a overall solution for Abyei.
"Final thing I would mention is that the parties, after something of a hiatus, are back negotiating issues under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. They start tomorrow, in Ethiopia, to look at the most difficult and important economic issues, and that will be followed by political talks to take on the other issues. So that process is now resumed and underway, and we'll be following it very, very closely."
Administrator Shah followed Ambassador Lyman's remarks. He said, "I want to start just by thanking Ambassador Lyman for his strong leadership on all of these complex and important Sudan issues, and recognizing that the United States has played such a critical role in implementing the CPA and pursuing effective implantation of that.
"I had the opportunity to travel to Sudan, both to Juba and to Khartoum, with my counterpart development ministers from the United Kingdom, Andrew Mitchell, and from Norway, Erik Solheim. And the purpose of our trip and the decision to go together was to send, really, a united and coordinated message and to have a development dialogue in both the North and the South that was well organized and consistent across some of the major development partners for South Sudan and for Sudan.
"In Juba, we had the chance to visit with President Kiir, the cabinet, various members of civil society, and the private sector. And our messages were pretty consistent across those groups. We, first and foremost, reaffirmed the importance of the CPA in continuing to make progress on a range of issues that Ambassador Lyman just described. But we spent most of our time talking about the development strategy for the South, and what it would take to help Southern Sudan become a successful and viable economy with real private investment and transparent and effective governance. We underscored that private sector growth and transparent, credible governance that allowed for businesses to work in Southern Sudan would be critical to the efforts to diversify the economy and meet population needs.
"We noted that USAID, partnering with others like the World Bank, have helped Southern Sudan improve its performance on the Doing Business Report significantly. And we heard from a range of private sector partners about how conditions had improved so that now they were seriously investing in various sectors in Juba and in Southern Sudan.
"We focused on agriculture and we had the chance to announce a major new partnership with the Government of Southern Sudan and with a range of important partners, such as the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, the International Fertilizer Development Corporation, Equity Bank, and others to make sure that a focus on smallholder farming and smallholder agriculture would, in fact, allow for a more diversified and productive Southern Sudanese economy and begin the process of creating real food security in the South. And we've worked with the World Food Program to also design programs and projects that would help towards that end. That project was jointly launched with Minister Anne Ito from the Ministry of Agriculture in Southern Sudan, and we're very optimistic about what that will result in, in the near future.
"Our conversations with the government there also highlighted the need to fight corruption and to put in place transparency initiatives with respect to how oil revenues are spent. Our Norwegian counterparts, having had unique experience with that issue, have offered to take the lead in partnering with the government in pursuing that objective.
"We also wanted to send a strong, coordinated message that too often development assistance is not well coordinated and well organized, and everybody tries to do everything. In the South, we suggested that the United States will take the lead in donor coordination, especially across the UK, Norway, and U.S. programs. That doesn't mean the U.S. will lead in every sector and every area of work. It simply means that we will work in a more coordinated way with our counterparts from the UK and Norway to make sure there's a real division of labor and a consistent way of working with the Government of Southern Sudan and against the government's own plans and strategies going forward.
"And finally, we offered to host in September -- and President Kiir accepted this offer -- a major development and private investors conference here in Washington, where we would offer our Southern Sudanese counterparts the opportunity to come and present their own plan and their own vision for a diversified economy, a well-governed Southern Sudan, and the ability to attract real private investment. And we expect that a broad range of donor partners, the world multilateral institutions, and private partners and private companies will participate in that important meeting.
"In the north, we had a continued dialogue on development issues, and we continue to work with the UK and Norway on issues like debt relief and exploring what that might look like in the future. The Norwegians have offered to host an investor conference for the north, and we certainly support that effort. Most of our conversations in Khartoum from a USAID perspective focused on Darfur, and as Ambassador Lyman mentioned, we highlighted some of the critical challenges for access and safety for humanitarian workers right now, and asked for real progress in that area of work.
"We also asked for a real partnership to accelerate recovery efforts where safety and security is strong enough to allow for more diversified programming, and to allow for people to move out of camps and into local communities in a way that is safe and productive. And we worked with our range of implementing partners and NGOs to learn about some of the issues they're having, and also some of their, really, enterprising efforts to try to diversify their programming to allow for voluntary resettlement where that's possible.
"Overall, for me this was my second trip following a trip that I made perhaps 10 months ago or so, and I came away very optimistic, especially with commitments that the southern Sudanese have made to transparent governance, to having an integrated development strategy, to working with donor partners and development partners in a coordinated way, and with a real desire to attract private investment as the core driver of wealth and wealth creation and employment in their economy. So, we'll look forward to working with Ambassador Lyman, with the Department of State, and with our partners in Sudan to achieve those outcomes."
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The vision for a Trails Center carried forth into the community, and in 1994, Casper voters passed the Optional One Cent Tax for funds to construct exhibits in the Center. Also that year, the Wyoming State Legislature passed a bill to help fund exhibits in the NHTIC. BLM began the architecture and engineering design process, and plans were completed by 1997.
That same year, Wyoming's Congressional Representative Barbara Cubin and Representative James Hansen of Utah co-sponsored a bill to fund the construction and operation of the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center through the Bureau of Land Management. The bill passed both houses of Congress and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
A Cooperative Agreement between the BLM, the Trails Center Foundation, and the City of Casper was signed, detailing operation and maintenance costs of the facility as well as clarifying responsibilities of each of the three cooperating parties. That cooperative agreement remains in place.
Official groundbreaking for the NHTIC occurred on June 21, 1999, coinciding with the arrival of wagon trains celebrating the sesquicentennial of the California National Historic Trail, one of six historic trails highlighted at the NHTIC.
The NHTIC is a positive example of public-private partnership. This cooperative endeavor began as a dream and became a reality when the facility opened August 9, 2002.
The National Historic Trails Interpretive Center (NHTIC) developed under the cooperative eye of three primary partners - the Bureau of Land Management, the National Historic Trails Center Foundation, and the City of Casper. Many other individuals, organizations and businesses contributed to making the dream of a Trails Center in Casper a reality through donation of time, talent, vision, funds and materials.


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We are likely to see the sort of pressure-cooker legislation on energy that everyone later looks back on with embarrassment."In the House of Representatives, 11 Republicans and 11 Democrats (joined now by 97 additional representatives) have introduced the "National Conservation, Environment and Energy Independence Act." This little gem removes many of the most crucial federal restrictions on oil drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf. It taps the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (in the apparent belief that gasoline prices that discourage SUVs constitute a state of emergency). It ends the moratorium on oil-shale leasing, rekindling wars with ranchers and water users in the West. Almost as an afterthought, it extends the renewable energy tax credits for six years.
The failure to extend the tax credits is causing significant disruptions as companies revise their plans and explore options elsewhere."The proper response is to drop the "Christmas tree" legislation. There is no urgent reason to fast track a proposal for liquids from coal and subsidies for nuclear power, oil shale, tar sands, and Detroit. None of those industries will sunset on Dec. 31 without an extension of their existing tax treatment.


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Debates of June 19th, 2006
House of Commons Hansard #43 of the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was water.
- Question Period
- Canadian Wheat Board Act
- Business of Supply
- Millennium Excellence Award
- John Horman
- Inter Tribal Health Authority
- Taxation
- Liberal Party of Canada
- Child Care
- Human Trafficking
- Lebanese Festival
- Tibet
- Employment Insurance
- Liberal Party of Canada
- Community Events
- Veterans
- Tashi Wangdi
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Member for Kings—Hants
- Aboriginal Affairs
- The Environment
- EnerGuide Program
- Securities
- Taxation
- Natural Resources
- The Environment
- Justice
- Mining Industry
- The Environment
- Health
- International Aid
- Small Arms
- Health
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Income Trusts
- Foreign Affairs
- Finance
- Criminal Code
- Committees of the House
- Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act
- Canadian Human Rights Act
- Broadcasting Act
- Food and Drugs Act
- Referendum Act
- Business Development Act
- Criminal Code
- Canada Business Corporations Act
- Criminal Code
- First Nations Veterans Compensation Act
- Bank Act
- Business of the House
- Committees of the House
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order paper
- Business of Supply
- International Bridges and Tunnels Act
- Public Health Agency of Canada Act
Opposition Motion—Aboriginal Affairs
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:45 p.m.
Jean Crowder Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the parliamentary secretary's question and the work he has done on committee as well.
I would agree that there are some fundamental problems with the existing system. We have had 12 reports from the Auditor General over the last number of years that have quoted chapter and verse all the problems with the system.
I would argue, though, that if we are going to look at taking apart the system what we in effect need to do is the consultation that I talked about earlier. We need to include first nations, Métis and Inuit peoples in looking at what changes need to be made in the system, setting out some concrete timelines and a concrete action plan with no more missed deadlines. We currently have an education plan being developed with the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. Already it has missed its first deadline of June 2006. That is not acceptable. We have critical issues facing first nations, Métis and Inuit communities. We cannot wait to fix a system that may not be working. We must move forward.
I would argue that we need to do some investment, short term and immediate, and then we need to do the medium and long term planning to make sure things are fixed, but it must be done in consultation with first nations, Métis and Inuit peoples.
Opposition Motion—Aboriginal Affairs
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:45 p.m.
Jean Crowder Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC
Mr. Speaker, the member raises a very good issue. I do not want to get into a dispute about the numbers. We had this conversation at the aboriginal affairs committee that sometimes we are talking about aboriginal people and sometimes we are talking about first nations, Métis and Inuit. One of the things we have asked for is better information around who lives on reserve and who lives off reserve.
It is a very valid point that we cannot just look at funding and closing the poverty gap on reserve. We must also look at off reserve. That is where we enter that very thorny ground of provincial jurisdiction. We need to bring together, as happened with the Kelowna accord, the federal government, the provincial governments and the first nations, Métis and Inuit leadership across the country to ensure that we are looking at closing that poverty gap on reserve and off reserve.
Opposition Motion—Aboriginal Affairs
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:50 p.m.
Gary Merasty Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River, SK
Mr. Speaker, with respect to the previous question regarding on reserve and off reserve spending, is it not a bigger question to ask about the jurisdiction and the actual mechanism to fairly provide services on reserve and off reserve as opposed to the actual dollar value itself?
Opposition Motion—Aboriginal Affairs
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:50 p.m.
Jean Crowder Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC
Mr. Speaker, jurisdiction is a very important issue to tackle. Recently we heard that $300 million was going to the north for housing, and we discovered that it is being funnelled through the territory. Much of this money is going to be funnelled through territorial and provincial governments and may not actually result in building houses for first nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.
When we talk about jurisdiction over people who live off reserve, it is something in which we need to include first nations, Métis and Inuit peoples in terms of discussing what the solutions may be. Currently the federal government says that off reserve is not its problem, that the provinces need to deal with it. We have seen an increased widening of that poverty gap for first nations, Métis and Inuit peoples who do not live on reserve.
The jurisdictional issue is a tough one, but we must come together with first nations, Métis and Inuit leadership, the provinces and the federal government to tackle this issue. Otherwise we will be having this conversation again in 10 years' time.
Opposition Motion—Aboriginal Affairs
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:50 p.m.
Robert Thibault West Nova, NS
Mr. Speaker, I will share my time with the member for Toronto Centre.
The motion states:
That the House recognize the urgent need to improve the quality of life of Canada's Aboriginals, First Nations, Inuit and Métis, living both on and off reserve, which requires focused and immediate initiatives by the government in areas such as health, water, housing, education, and economic opportunities and, especially, immediately moving forward with the implementation of the Kelowna Accord with its full funding commitments.
If we talked to Canadians from coast to coast to coast, we would find that they support this motion. If Canadians went to Métis communities, Inuit communities, and first nations communities throughout this land and saw the shortcomings in those communities they would ask why governments are not getting together and working with these people to address their concerns. They would ask why we do not see the shortcomings in these communities, why we do not see the potential in these communities. Canadians would ask why we are not addressing these problems together rather than all levels of government taking individual initiatives. When each level of government has its own initiative, they are often disjointed and seldom reach what we would like to achieve.
What was the Kelowna accord? It was not a deal done on a napkin prior to a press release. The Kelowna accord was the result of a lot of lobbying done by people in those communities talking to the federal government, the provincial government and local municipalities. Negotiations were held among federal and provincial officials and first nations. An agreement was reached.
To cancel the accord sends the wrong message. It does not recognize our responsibilities as Canadians. It does not look at the errors we have made in the past and provide solutions for the future. The Kelowna accord was a very good initiative. It was very well supported. To be able to get the provinces, the territories and communities together to come to an understanding took a lot of work, a good plan and a lot of compromise. Now it has been cancelled.
What are we telling those communities? What are we telling the young people who have dreams and aspirations? We are telling them that they cannot look to governments for help. We are telling them that they cannot trust the Government of Canada to enter into an agreement with them because a minority government on a whim might renege on it and remove federal participation.
The situation in which these communities find themselves is unfortunate and regrettable.
People are losing their faith and see no future in using the institutions available to them. They use means that I completely disapprove of.
Nevertheless, they see no other solutions. The burgeoning difficulties and the lack of partnership make them feel that they have to barricade roads, hunt and fish illegally—hence poach—and use illegal means to boost the economy of their community.
Canadians and the federal government should recognize that they have an obligation to guarantee to them that when a document is signed or a verbal agreement is made, the agreement is honourable and will be honoured.
We hear often from members on the opposite side who tend to be very, very right wing that if we do a special agreement, it is race based. We have to recognize the specific needs of these communities. We have to work together.
Sometimes I hear it said that the court is ruling Canada. Sometimes it is because sometimes these decisions are forced by the court. Sometimes the court forces us into action only when we do not recognize our responsibilities. Generation after generation do not see what the treaties really mean and do not recognize that perhaps we have some liabilities and some responsibilities as Canadians toward those treaties. I remember a member of another opposition party saying that when we buy the dog, we get the fleas. With those treaties came some responsibilities and we have not always met them. For the first nations in most cases, it all has not worked to their advantage.
We should go to the communities and see the lands that they have lost. They were forced to live on reserves, their resources stripped from them, their potential stripped from them and they were reduced to a mere existence. That is not acceptable. We cross oceans so that does not apply to other nations, to other countries, to other peoples. We send our military. We send our aid. This is what we have to do in Canada, but not in the same way. We have to recognize the majority.
I had the opportunity to work with Bob Nault, as well as the member for Fredericton, when each was the Minister of Indian Affairs. We would want to work with the communities, to look at the fundamental problems in the governance and the administration, to look at the role of women, to look at the possibilities, to look at the shortcomings and how we can address them.
When we look at an agreement like Kelowna that gave such a sense of hope, that looked at those elements, at health care, at education, at infrastructure, at water and sewers, how can we back out of that? How can we go home and tell our people that our government has led us down this path?
Opposition Motion—Aboriginal Affairs
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
The Deputy Speaker Bill Blaikie
I regret to interrupt the hon. member, but we have reached an order of the day. The hon. member has approximately three minutes left in his 10 minutes. We will proceed now to statements by members.
Millennium Excellence Award
Statements By Members
1:55 p.m.
Robert Thibault West Nova, NS
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and congratulate two accomplished young people in my riding: Amy Florian and Jillian Kaulbach.
Amy and Jillian are recipients of the prestigious Millennium Excellence Award. This honour recognizes their academic achievement, community involvement, and their demonstrated leadership abilities.
As they begin their post-secondary studies this fall, they should be proud of their accomplishments and know that we stand beside them to offer our support as they dream big and realize their potential.
I would ask my hon. colleagues to join me in congratulating Amy and Jillian, as well as all the recipients of the Millennium Excellence Award for this important honour.
John Horman
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Jean-Yves Roy Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, QC
Mr. Speaker, I was saddened to hear of the passing of Mr. John Horman, who was born in Matane and helped found the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.He was also the league manager and statistician from 1969 to 1975.
Mr. Horman was the discipline prefect, vice-president and even interim president in 1983. He also helped found the Canadian Hockey League, which heads up the three major junior leagues. John Horman was inducted into the Quebec Amateur Hockey Hall of Fame and the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Hall of Fame, which honours him by naming its executive of the year trophy after him.
I offer my sincerest condolences to Mr. Horman's family and the fans of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, who are mourning his loss. A great hockey man has passed away, but his fame and teachings will live on.
Inter Tribal Health Authority
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Jean Crowder Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC
Mr. Speaker, the Inter Tribal Health Authority serves 28 first nations communities on Vancouver Island and the surrounding areas.
First nations are challenged by health issues, such as the legacy of residential schools and the epidemic of diabetes and heart disease.
The ITHA works with first nations leaders and community health staff to ensure culturally appropriate services are available even in the smallest communities. This includes state-of-the-art health information technology that will ensure modern services and programs are available that are second to none.
The ITHA is among the first in the country to work closely with first nations and Health Canada to develop comprehensive community-based pandemic plans.
ITHA is on the leading edge of health care in Canada, based on first nations initiatives and leadership through self-determination and proactive programming.
I salute its hard work and look forward to seeing even more innovation in its health care services.
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Luc Harvey Louis-Hébert, QC
Mr. Speaker, I would like to take advantage of the opportunity this afternoon to thank the Minister of Finance who, in his budget of May 2, 2006, changed the excise tax on beer produced by microbreweries.
This tax adjustment had been requested for more than five years and will help these brewers take their rightful place on the highly competitive beer market.
Among other things, this tax holiday will enable them to create more than 2,500 jobs all across Canada. The microbrewery proprietors in my region, who helped me become very familiar with this issue, asked me to insist on its inclusion in our budget and have shown their appreciation and asked me to thank the House for resolving this.
These sentiments have been echoed all across Canada through their association. I therefore thank the Minister of Finance.
Liberal Party of Canada
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Fabian Manning Avalon, NL
Mr. Speaker, recently I have heard several members of the Liberal Party try to position themselves as defenders of Atlantic Canada. We are not holding our breath waiting for that to happen because the Liberal record speaks for itself.
Take for instance the member for Kings—Hants, a candidate for the Liberal leadership, who on May 17, 2003 told the Ottawa Citizen:
I believe we need to replace failed regional economic development programs and corporate welfare with dramatic corporate-tax reductions--
Or another leadership hopeful, the member for Etobicoke—Lakeshore, who in Maclean's magazine, on December 8, 2005 implied that Maritimers were dependent on employment insurance by saying:
In the Martimes recently, I was struck by the number of people who find the rhetoric of equalization condescending, as if the only way to keep the Maritimes in Confederation is to maintain EI--
Or how about the Liberal finance critic from Markham—Unionville who suggested in Hansard, on February 9 that Atlantic Canada and equalization-receiving provinces are "mired in the world of have not clamouring for subventions".
No, we do not need Liberals pontificating about what they would do. In Atlantic Canada we know all too well what they have done. The track record of nothing speaks for itself.
Child Care
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Judy Sgro York West, ON
Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government successfully negotiated early learning and child care agreements with all of the 10 provinces last year.
Early childhood education is critical for the development of social and intellectual skills.
Canada's children need quality early childhood education to prepare them for the future, as in this global economy, Canadians must compete with the rest of the world for the best jobs and the best opportunities.
Giving parents a tiny taxable allowance will not contribute to a child's healthy development and future education through early learning.
The Conservative government is failing Canadians by denying our children the opportunity for early childhood education. This is just another example of the difference between the Liberals and the Conservatives.
The Liberals invest in opportunities for our children while the Conservatives are busy building jails.
I am proud to be a Liberal. I am proud of the plan that the Liberal government put forward and I look forward to us having the opportunity, when Liberals form the next government, to produce a national child care program.
Human Trafficking
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Joy Smith Kildonan—St. Paul, MB
Mr. Speaker, on June 10 of this year I hosted a forum in Winnipeg entitled "Stop the Slavery", a forum on the growing crime of human trafficking.
Her Excellency Abina Dann, the Canadian ambassador to Ukraine, Victor Malarek, the author of the book The Natashas, Laura Lederer from the U.S. State Department, Irena Soltys from Help Us Help the Children organization, Sonja Bejzyk of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress and myself made up the list of presenters.
Over 2,000 women and children were trafficked through Canada last year alone. This is a growing crime that trafficks nearly a million women and children across the globe into the sex trade every year. Human rights groups, women and children's advocates, and police are applauding our government for announcing measures that will protect these vulnerable victims.
This is a crime our government is addressing. This is a crime we will not tolerate on Canadian soil.
Lebanese Festival
Statements By Members
June 19th, 2006 / 2:05 p.m.
Maria Mourani Ahuntsic, QC
Mr. Speaker, last weekend the Lebanese community of greater Montreal held their annual festival in the riding of Ahuntsic, which I have the honour of representing.
All of Montreal was invited for three days of discovery. Tens of thousands of people had an opportunity to experience and appreciate Lebanese culture, through music and song. This year, the theme was the family.
Since I am of Lebanese origin, I can tell you that this festival gave Quebeckers an opportunity to get to know the beauty of the fundamental values that unite the Lebanese people, with their extraordinary diversity of ideas, traditions and religions.
The festival was a chance to get together and to renew acquaintances, and it was a great success. I offer my warm congratulations to all of the organizers from the Saint-Maron and Saint-Antoine churches and their 300 volunteers.
Bravo. I am looking forward to next year.


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In short: must remember suncream next time!!!In full: I have to say that in the end I LOVED this race. It was only my second ever Marathon and being someone who doesn't usually run on my own I did find it a struggle and was ready to pull out before half way even arrived. However I met a lovely man called Peter who assured me I could do it and carry on - and so I took the left turn for the second loop instead of the right turn to go home and carry on I did. The cenery was incredible, the marashals were wonderful - every single one of them stood up as soon as they saw us to point us in the right direction even on the second loop and they were all full of words of encouragement. The sponges at the water stations were an excellent idea as were the own bottle stations i wish every race did that. I was one of the last runners to come in at 5:51 but still had everyone to cheer me in and the commentator loved my sprint finish - I have decided that if I had that left in me at the end I didn't work hard enough so am going to go back next year to do this one again and beat my time - I know it isn't fast for most people but I will work my way down the times eventually and would like to thank everyone I spoke to along the way for their support and encouragement. Date of review: May 14, 2012
In short: I hate the chaser carIn full: I ran this race last year and enjoyed it much more then. I ran 3 minutes slower this year but was right at the back of the field (just coming back from an Injury) I wasn't ridiculously slow coming in at 2:30 but the chaser car followed me the whole way. I understand entirely that that Is its job but at times it was so close and when all you can hear is the drone of the engine following you it really is very demoralizing. It stopped every now and then to collect the mile markers and I felt so Much better about myself when it was gone but it was soon back. It Is a flat course so the car could have hung back a bit without any problems with being able to see me. I would also say that the Marshall's must have been bored when I got there as several of them didn't even acknowledge me which when you have been putting your all in to it is really quite upsetting. Date of review: April 15, 2012
In short: Not sure what the money is spent on but it is pretty...In full: Arrived early which was good as it meant I got a parking space but was disappointed to learn there was only 3 toilets for everyone (one of which had no toilet paper) until the cafe area opened closer to 09:20 (even though there was workers in there) all races started together which wasn't a problem but no one seemed to know what they were doing as the megaphone wasn't working so we couldn't hear the man at the start over the barking of all of the dogs (there were people with dogs running as well which was nice) Once we got going the route was lovely however could have done with a few more marshals in places and perhaps friendlier ones as most I saw didn't even acknowledge you - I had to pull out at 7.5 miles as I was not well and they didn't even ask if I was ok) however there was a lovely lad at the long straight and the lad at the road crossing section were both lovely and full of encouragement so they should be thanked. Race was expensive for what it was I think as there was only a medal at the finish and cups of water rather than bottles. Also the winners only got a pumpkin so not sure where the money all went? Saying this however I have entered for the Santa run (exactly the same route) as I like the location and want to finish it this time. Still smarted a little at the cost though. Date of review: October 31, 2011
In short: Really enjoyed but good bag lacked this yearIn full: This is the 2nd time I have done this race. I really enjoyed it the hill and incline after that is a killer but great support through the town and well manned water stations and cheerful marshalls. Only things I would say is that the info we were sent out didn't have the start time or postcode for the race on which would have been useful ;) also at the end although there was a lovely t shirt and a bottle of water there was no banana or chocolate like last year. I wouldn't expect anything massive but a small mars or bit of chocolate is well needed after a run for me ( luckily I had my own) other than that a really really enjoyable run and I will be back next year. Special thanks to the marshalls at the top of the hill telling me I had a nice long downhill stretch and cheering really loudly and to the Marshall who was stood on the corner before the left turn towards the start who was full of beans and excellent commentary as we were running :) thanks Date of review: September 4, 2011
In short: Brilliant i loved it In full: I would firstly like to say my thoughts are with the families of the two runners who sadly passed away - on a lighter note the race was very well organised the marshals were great goody bag was a bit disappointing and i was told my running friends who finished earlier there was chocolate at the end? i didnt get any so it must have all been taken which is a shame will be back next year and am going to run quicker so i get my chocolate :) Date of review: October 15, 2010
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Born August 19th, 1946 in Arkansas, Bill Clinton excelled as a student early on. An encounter with President John F. Kennedy early in his life convinced him he was destined for a life in politics. After finishing a Rhodes scholarship in England and law school at Yale, his political life began when he was elected the Attorney General of Arkansas. Next he went on to that state's governor's mansion, and he followed that trail right to the White House when he took over as President in 1993. Though his presidency was fraught with controversy, he remained popular with the American public. In this video, WatchMojo.com learns more about the life and accomplishments of Bill Clinton.


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Home City and Country: Istanbul, Turkey
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Best things about Butte College: I appreciate the amount of diversity on campus that is around me. Coming from a very large and metropolitan city, it's important to me to be surrounded by people from other cultures and backgrounds.
Best things about Chico: The city is so friendly.
Best things about professors: They are very professional and willing to help students with anything.
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Advice to students thinking of studying abroad: Just do it! You will see the difference that only studying abroad can make in you.
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Best things about Butte College: Tutoring is very helpful on campus; labs and library services are accessible. The natural surroundings of the campus are quiet and beautiful and make it easy to concentrate on studying. The LRC is a great place to study and has beautiful views of the valley. The College bus system is dependable and easy to get to.
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Advice: If you want to improve your English skills, Northern California is a great place to learn, there are many nice people here to speak with and its easy to concentrate and learn here.
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Best things about Chico: The people here are so friendly. I had heard that before I came from others in Sri Lanka that studied here, and its true, it is the biggest reason I chose to stay here. I like to hang out with my friends at night or the weekends and go to the movies or go bowling.
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Favorite things about Butte College: The staff and faculty here seem very informal in their approachability. Although there is definitely respect for their positions, they make me feel like a friend and always help me out as best they can. I also like that it is a small college; this directly results in more attention from the faculty and staff as well. At Butte, the staff and faculty know your name; they know you as a person instead of just a number in the crowd. It's also very easy to make friends here in Chico; many people are young here and are willing to help you.
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Skip to comments.(Northwestern) NLRB decision very well-reasoned
Posted on 03/27/2014 6:54:21 AM PDT by T-Bird45
The regional director of the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago, Peter Sung Ohr, ruled Wednesday that Northwestern University football players are university employees and entitled to an election that will determine whether they can form a union. The blockbuster ruling and Ohr's reasoning raise significant legal questions:
Q: What is the basis that college athletes are employees and entitled to form a union?
A: Ohr based his conclusion primarily on the enormous revenue and benefit that result from the efforts of the Northwestern football players and on the rigorous control that Wildcats coaches have over the lives of the scholarship athletes. The first thing that Ohr mentioned as he began to explain his decision was that Northwestern enjoyed football revenue of $235 million over the nine years between 2003 and 2012. Clearly impressed with that enormous income, Ohr explained somewhat unnecessarily that the university could use this "economic benefit" in "any manner it chose." It wasn't just the money, though, Ohr added. There is also the "great benefit" of the "immeasurable positive impact to Northwestern's reputation a winning football team may have." (Ohr did not mention NU's seven-game losing streak at the end of the past season.)
Ohr also was impressed with the hour-by-hour, day-by-day control that the coaching staff has over players' lives. He devoted more than 10 pages of his 24-page opinion to a detailed description of practice schedules, workout requirements and coaches' supervision, including approval of living arrangements, registration of automobiles, control of the use of social media (a player must be connected to a coach), dress codes, restrictions on off-campus travel and demanding study schedules. It was the kind of control, Ohr concluded, that an employer has over an employee, not the kind of control a school has over a student.
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If Northwestern never wins another game, I would be a happy person. This is a joke.
Title 9 non revenue women sports are going to be funded by who? Lester
What next Olympics to be Unionize.
A Football player doesn't have to play College Sports.
Mixed feelings here... some college athletes are just that; others are clearly there for professional apprentice-ship.
I can see some funny things happening as the union gears up. Who is the rep? Is he a player or a labor pro? What happens to on-the-job seniority? Grievances with the coach (and team discipline)?
Actually, I think it is a failure of logic. The entire program is run by employees who find the appropriate talent, recruit them, train them, etc. The football players themselves are consumers of the program, not employees of the program. The program would continue whether those football players were there or not.
It was almost entirely a ruling based upon the 'intern/employee' test; another dip into the world of irrational thinking. But you could use the exact same rationality to unionize all college students.
All private schools that pay their players will be in violation of NCAA rules. This means YOU Notre Dame.
FR readers should be unionized.
Just like college football players pay room, board, tuition... Likewise FReepers pay monthlies, fundraisers, electricity, PC maintenance, occasional new keyboards...
While I do agree that universities make money off of what these players do for the program, many of them are getting paid by having their room and board covered by the way of scholarship.
No one is making these guys play football. You know what you are getting into when you play football. It's a lot of work, but you know that going in. If the university is going to pay these guys to play, then they should NOT be paying for their education.
The ex-QB mouthpiece for this 'movement' is an Obama wannabe; a community organizer type who sees political office and/or the juicy salary of a newly-minted (pun intentional) union kingpin much preferable to actual work.
He's already got the methodology down - forget actual community sentiment and instead use the terminally biased courts as a battering ram.
Sorry, Lester Munson is a lightweight moron. Over the years, he has continually commented on stuff he hasn't even read. Such a bad habit for a "legal expert".
1. Each student athlete knows what they're getting into and do so voluntarily.
2. It's a small price to pay for the privilege of playing college sports and getting a college education.
3. The best college sports programs are more than just playing sports - they're about building character into men and women - thus the necessity of the control.
4. Even though football (and college sports in general) bring in a lot of money, very few college sports programs are self-sufficient. This ruling will mean that none will be, so game tickets and tuition will have to increase.
5. I don't see any way this can be good for college sports.
Well then, the scholarships are salaries which are subject to state, fed and local taxes.
It's an excellent analysis, in the sense of "since the sky is orange with green stripes..." style.
If they want a union then effective immediately these whiners will start paying for room, board, books, tuition, basically everything they are getting for free because they are "playing" football.
Or, effective immediately Football becomes a "Club Sport." All volunteer walk on's only will play.
Or, new starting college football salary a year is now say $60,000 - Tuition is $50,000, room, board, books $12,000 - Pay up chump, you now owe the university money.
Oh and by the way, we will reinstate the 3.0 GPA to play rule, so by God don't dare let your GPA dip below a 3.0 or we will now cut your dumb arse and turn you over to the bill collection agencies. You wanna play hard ball, lets really play hard ball boys.
Otherwise I would suggest you all STFU and enjoy your free ride, free education, and the opportunity to get it all free for "playing" a game with no debt at the end of your four years. If you don't like them apples how about $22,000 a year to be an enlisted man in Afghanistan "for real," not playing a game. Still think you got it bad?
This is really a first world problem isn't it?
Actually, a lot of scholarships are considered income, and the schools send out 1099s. Most of that income is not considered taxable, but I believe some kinds of scholarships are.
Who would want to be a coach in this setting?
The reason there is so much oversight by coaches is that the NCAA rules demand compliance and oversight is the only mechanism. I am certain the "car registration" thing came-up because a player broke a rule and the program was punished. "Hey... New rule, guys!"
The other controls are to meet academic compliance (with NCAA rules), and, of course, if you want ot WIN this is the workout/practice schedule.
I can hear it now, "Jones, take the field!" Jones, "Can't coach. I've played in the last series. Shop Rules say you need to put in Smith."
You watch...
Eh....it's Northwestern. You could get credits there for watching people use sex toys.
Right now, under IRS guidelines, the value of their tuition is NOT taxable...they must report the value of their room and board, and small stipend, but they end up paying no taxes on the amount.
HOWEVER...if they are employees, then they will have to report, and pay taxes, on the value of their tuition.
OK...let's say it's $40,000..that's gonna give them phantom income, and a REAL tax bill, say of about $10k. OUCH!!! Who's got that scratch? Can't have it both ways..
The schools have whored themselves out to TV money and fame. Now they're getting called on it. Note that this would only involve Division I schools. Division II and III schools, who really do put the "scholar" in "scholar-athlete" first are unaffected. Dump athletic tuition waivers (I refuse to call them "scholarships" since there is no actual scholarship involved) and this problem goes away. So do coaches making $1,000,000 a year, of course, and the NFL and NBA have to create their own minor leagues (like baseball and hockey), but too bad for them.
I wonder if this will cause any schools to drop from Division I to Division II or III?
This wasn't Northwestern's idea; they're fighting it. Why don't you blame the former player(s) who came up with it.
The "employees" might be shocked when they get their W2s.
For many, a scholarship means the difference of the college experience or not.
Many will have a hard time paying the taxes and would have to forgo college to pay off their debt to IRS.
You actually just explained why people would want to coach MORE in this setting. NCAA rules are idiotic and force coaches to do a lot of extra work that results in nothing on the field. When this results in the death of the NCAA coaches will no longer be forced to waste time making sure their players didn't trade autographs for haircuts.
The NCAA is on its death bed, and their rules demanding players get no compensation, and the way they enforce it frequently vacating wins and punishing players and coaches that weren't even involved with bowl bans, will kill it. That's why the super conferences are forming, and players getting a footing to demand some level of compensation puts another nail in the NCAA's coffin.
If this applied to football players, wouldn't it also apply to all other sports at a college? If it did, pretty much every college would drop all sports. The cost would be prohibitive.
Not every player on a D1 Footbal1/Basketball team is there on scholarship. Some are true walk-ons happy to participate. If they are subject to all the same rules as every scholarship athlete AND are part of revenue generation will they now have to be compensated some way equal to a scholarship?
In addition, for many this would translate into 'family income' and daddy dear might just be popped into a very high tax bracket or lose his Obamacare subsidy or his food stamps or , you name it.!
Walk ons would be scabs.
I am not versed in that aspect but I would think that if they are considered employees and their scholarships are considered payment for employment then it should be subject to income taxes.
Scholarships are "grants-in-aid" and specifically addressed as non-taxable by the IRS already. This changes nothing in that respect.
The leader of the effort, the former NW QB, specifically denies that it was about "pay for play" and was about working conditions.
When a 'student scholarship' requires more time and success on football than in the classroom, then he is an employee. I'll go with that.
"If Northwestern never wins another game, I would be a happy person. This is a joke."
I don't think its a joke. I do think this will wind up at the Supreme Court. But, however this plays out, college football , along with the concussion issue, will be going through some challenges over the next decade or so.
It's my guess that should the Northwestern lawsuit prevail I think it spells the demise of college football as we know it. This current lawsuit would only apply to private schools but should it win at the Supremes I'm guessing there will be a lawsuit in behalf of player eat public schools. I see in my crystal ball that college sports will evolve into club teams much the same as in Europe. And, the NFL will form minor league divisions similar to MLB. But, who knows, one thing for sure this will get real messy if it's not slapped down - soon....
Too b ad pro teams don't oversee their players better and cut out the hoodrat behavior and such. If they did I might still watch them.
I am saying that if they want to be considered employees then their scholarships should be considered income from employment and taxed accordingly.
Coal miners strike for "working conditions"....
You are correct. The scholarship is income if the athlete is an employee, and not just a paying customer, a student. A scholarship is like a sale price on an item if a student. Now if the athlete never sets foot in a classroom, ever, then the athlete will be taxed only on wages. But if he attends classes, the value of the education should be taxable. But we all know is that federal and local politicians, also known as hacks, will make sure everyone is taking care of. Because the universities is where many hacks go to feed at the trough upon retirement from politics. Thus they will make sure everybody is happy.
As for this dispute, my view as a former college athlete is that there are college athletes and then there are those who are not really collegians, they are just there to play a sport. Many are exploited, and get a raw deal. A starter at Alabama who doesn't go to class much and is not quite good enough for the NFL doesn't get the education end of the bargain and doesn't get the shot at the pros either. He may have back and knee problems that will start haunting him in his 40s and cause an early retirement and early death. That kind of player, which is a substantial part of the division 1 football and basketball players, should be able to get more of the huge revenues that are generated by his school's program. In my, free-market oriented, opinion.
Of course, the current system of big-time college sports is a sham anyway. It is not Syracuse or USC or Purdue playing another team, it is just a group of non-students brought to that school to compete against another team's non-students. They bring in someone who could not get into the school in normal circumstances, and the athletes often attend special classes set up for athletes, with professors who pass them if they show up, and they get a degree that is worthless at the end.
If it were up to me, college sports would be played by people already in the school for academic reasons. Dumb schools would generally be better than smart schools. Fine. Ivys can play each other; big state schools can play each other if they want. No one gets anything for playing a sport; they do it if they want to as recreation once they get to college. Meanwhile, the people who are not that interested in school can play in minor leagues and not have to pretend to go to school. They can make money and support themselves and work on their game for 2,3 or 6 years while they try to make the pros. The NFL would hate this (they would have to fund a minor league system), and the sports networks would hate this, so it will never happen. But I still don't understand why people care about a school team when what they are really rooting for is the ability of a school to convince 17 year old disadvantaged youngsters to go to their school and play for them for free, even though they are not going to get an education.
Rant over.
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These stories have so many "unintended consequences" it's mindboggling. It will be interesting to see how this pans out across the private/public college spectrum.
Lester Munson is a POS Union shill. The Right to Work States will tell them to go to hell.
Im assuming this means the NCAA will now have to give up their non-profit status, right?
How many union non profits are there?
You agree with the administrative law judge then since that was his basic conclusion?
I don't disagree.
This means that the players will be taxed on the value of their scholarships and the room and board and other perks.
If the players are employees, then everything they "earn" is subject to income taxes.
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