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	"Your Liberty is Our Interest"	February 25, 2002
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Proposed Fast Food Container Tax is Not A User Fee; Campaign Finance Reform and the Goal Group by Theresa Fritz Camoriano 1. Fast Food Container Tax is Not A User Fee: This past week, we have been treated to a full court press in the media promoting a tax on fast food containers. The money collected by that tax is to be used to pick up litter along the roadsides and to clean up legal and illegal dumps in Kentucky. Promoters are calling this a "user fee" in order to try to make it more palatable. But it is not a user fee. It is simply a new tax.

Anti-VET Update By John Riley I am happy to report that Senate Bill 102, which will put an end to VET testing in Jefferson County, passed on the Senate floor today! (Thursday Feb. 21st) I am sorry about the confusion today about the timing of this Bill and I wish more people could have been in Frankfort to share in the success of this.

Kentucky Legislative Update By Norm Davis Thursday was a pretty good day for the people of Kentucky. The following took place that benefits the people:

Lenten Suggestions For Truly Sorry People by Randy Barker Lent is upon us. And, in case you don't exactly know what that is, it's the 40 weekdays and six Sundays from Ash Wednesday through the Saturday before Easter. But more significantly, it's a time for fasting and being sorry for your wrongdoings, a time for giving up something as an act of penance.

Buster's Tale By Tom Preble Something is wrong. Returning home up our long country driveway the overview of our ranch house and yard disturbs me. Something's amiss that I can't quite finger. Out of the car and looking around, I spot it. Two bowls are beside the garage apron that none of us had put there. On our door I find a note left by some friends from Ft. Collins:

The NBA (Sung to the tune of The MTA) by the Camorianos

Smart Greed vs. Dumb Greed By Theresa Fritz Camoriano Like it or not, we are all greedy. Every person has an agenda to promote. Your agenda may be your family’s security and health. It may be your favorite form of entertainment, a snazzy new car, or your favorite charitable cause. But, in any case, each of us is selfish and greedy. So, when you hear people being condemned for being greedy, don’t be too smug about it. Chances are about 100% that you are greedy too!

There Is Only One Reality! by Gordon Francis Corbett An oft-repeated saying is, "There are no absolutes." Another runs, "There are two truths: yours and mine."

Education Alert In 1990, after Kentucky’s system of education had been declared unconstitutional, the General Assembly passed the Kentucky Education Reform Act, or KERA. This is outcome based education, and it goes under many other names as well, including Goals 2000 and School to Work. If you want to understand what this is about and who has promoted it, you need to turn to Charlotte Iserbyt, a foremost authority on the subject. Iserbyt was a high level senior policy analyst in the Reagan administration in the Dept. of Education.

Hamilton / Jefferson Debate

"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused."

The poverty rate among blacks fell by half between 1940 and 1960, before any of the major federal civil rights legislation or the vast expansion of the welfare state under President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs...In short, most blacks raised themselves out of poverty, but their leaders robbed them of this achievement and the respect it deserved ...by making it seem like a concession from the government and a product of agitation.

Thomas Sowell

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