Fire the bastard!
That is the oppositions’ screams today about Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s miscalculations on the budget deficit for this year.
I think this is a little extreme, given how screwed up the economy currently is, and how many interesting things are happening in the economy (can we say Perfect Storm?), but it does make for good political fodder, that is for sure. As I stated yesterday, I believe this is a sandbagging technique and in October they will state how they have saved the day and the budget is in fact only $45B instead, we shall see (either that or it will balloon over $60B and hyper-inflation will be the next major topic of conversation).
Stewardship or Charity with Kids
My wife is doing a talk to a group of adults on how to get kids to actually give to charity (by choice). Surprisingly if you simply tell your kids, “You must give $10 to the Church”, they might cough up the money once, but will resent it and more likely never give much again (even as Adults).
Explaining to kids that they don’t just have to donate money, they can donate their time and talents, instead, is a first step. Getting kids to understand the importance of charity (and how they have so darn much anyhow) and helping those who need help is not easy and if anyone has any good stories about when they tweeked into the importance of Charity (and what age they were at the time), please feel free to include them in the comments section.
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