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Home Schooling Mothers, Outlawing Supply and Demand, and Here’s The Beef

By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

Home Schooling Mothers – This Mother’s Day, I spent some time thinking about how much I appreciate my mother.  All the nights she spent taking care of me when I was sick, all the diapers she changed, the thousands of miles she drove me to swimming practice, girl scouts, and guitar lessons – wow!  My mother gave me endless support.  When things went right, and when they went wrong, she was always there believing in me and urging me forward.  She taught me important values, shared her religious faith, and taught me to treat all people with respect.  She taught me lots of old Italian sayings she learned from her mother – gems of wisdom.  She spent countless hours reading me stories.  She read some old favorites so many times that I memorized them and “read” them back to her!  When you think about it, all mothers are home school teachers, and the lessons they teach are the most valuable and important lessons we will ever learn.  If we want to improve the educational opportunities for children, maybe we should show our appreciation for the most important and most valuable teachers we have – mothers!  I definitely got lucky – mine is the best!

Outlawing Supply and Demand?  The Kentucky legislature has tried to outlaw the law of supply and demand.  A new law makes it illegal to jack up the price of products during an emergency.  Say, for example, there is a flood, which washes away many homes and contaminates the water supply, causing an emergency situation.  In that case, clean water would suddenly become scarce and valuable, and those who had it might be expected to charge high prices for it, which would encourage conservation.  However, under the new law, the price could not be raised substantially, so the price would stay low, and people would not be encouraged to conserve.  Thus, many people might continue to buy the water at the usual cheap price for use in wasteful ways, while others would be thirsty and would have to risk their health drinking contaminated water.  Does this make sense?  Apparently, from the point of view of the all-knowing legislators, it’s not important whether people are dying from lack of clean water (or other emergency supplies) as long as nobody makes a hefty windfall profit.

Here’s the beef!  Is it really possible in a “free” country that a person who raises cattle and sells beef has to ask the government’s permission to test the beef in order to make sure it is safe for human consumption?  And is it really possible in a “free” country that the government would forbid a person from doing such testing at his own expense?   http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news2004/05/07/F1-beef07-9527.html  

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