Cincinnatus BLOG *** Political Commentary - Social Commentary

  The first lesson every President learns is that in trying to please all his constituents he pleases no one, including himself. President Obama sold the $800 billion Stimulus Plan to the American people as a strategy to create untold infrastructure jobs. If fact, President Obama said the stimulus plan would save or create 3.5 million jobs in the next two years and that he hoped to limit the unemployment rate to a peak of 8% this summer. In typical political bait and switch fashion his democratic Congress allocated 8% of the stimulus money to infrastructure projects. Instead of infrasturture jobs Congress gave us cornucopia of social programs that have been on their wish list for decades, leaving the President with egg on his face. The unemployment rate has already reached… Continue reading | 30 Comments

  "Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty" - Albert Einstein. I grew up in the Bronx where the public school system, with a few exceptions, was at best second-class. We who were fortunate enough to be born Irish, Italian, German, Polish and Hispanic Catholics were sent by our parents to "parochial school." The nickels, dimes and quarters thrown into the Sunday collection were used to build a parish school next to virtually every church -- just as the Emperor Charlemagne, the putative founder of public education, had once commanded. As a group, we eschewed public funding in order to ensure the proper education of our children. The Irish priests and nuns of my youth dedicated themselves to ensuring that… Continue reading | 5 Comments