Women's Equality Day

Take Note:
Women are NOT equal in law or civil discourse. Women are barely-released indentured servants, slaves, war-brides, underpaid and disrespected teacher/nurse/mothers. Women are elder-care givers, perpetual clerks, mourners of the dead and givers of Life. Women are cultural memory. Women are NOT EQUAL. 
 

FROM: Teresa Younger
Executive Director, Permanent Commission on the Status of Women

DATE: Monday, Aug. 26, 2013 

RE: Women’s Equality Day

“Women’s Equality Day raises so many issues beyond the 19^th Amendment – beginning with pay inequity, which hurts women’s long-term economic security, retirement assets, and quality of life. We must also ask the critical question: If women are still battling for their full rights every day – even after 93 years of voting rights – how many more generations of capable women will be routinely eliminated from positions of power, elected office, and the “tables” at which real decisions are made? Why does 51 percent of the population hold just 18 percent of Congress and 4 percent of Fortune 500 CEO positions? And why is women’s healthcare – most noticeably reproductive rights – continually under assault, after a century of earning – not “being given” as is often said – working for and earning the right to vote?”

Elephant at Worlds End

If this makes you feel anxious and insecure...It Should.

Boy- & Girl-cott Amazon

When you shop on the internet, make sure they collect taxes.
It's the law.

When you shop: Buy Local.
Big Box is for Big Boulevards, Downtown is for Single Proprietor Stores.
Keep it in the Community as much as possible. Encourage entrepreneurship.

Support to your local Farmers Market. Go your local Independent bookstore.
Screw Amazon.

People vs Politics - Budgets

The Milford City Budget will be voted on in the next two weeks. Having followed aspects of the Budget discussion for several years now, you would think I have lost the ability to be shocked. But no.

Head Honchos from two major Departments have informed me that the guidelines of their Budgets were predetermined by the soon-to-be-former-Mayor. Cut Positions.

At your job, if you still have one, or at your company, if you have one, a Budget is constructed with a combination of known needs and possible future purchases or increases in costs. When you are told to economize and cut your Budget, you slice away the least needed line items: break room supplies, fancy brochures, non-essential travel, tutus for the guys on the loading dock, new furnishings for the lobby.  But the very last thing you want to cut is staff.


These Head Honchos were not given an opportunity to make the cuts they would determine harm their departments the least. They were instructed by the Mayor to cut positions. Of people.

Begging for a chance to economize on office supplies and gas consumption, they were told "Cut Positions Only".

Both of the Head Honchos who spoke to me about this matter said they would have made personnel the last cut.

And they say it is purely Politics.

And they are angry and disgusted.

It is a good thing this Mayor is not running for re-election. When the Department Heads have had it you are losing all credibility in the city. It is one thing to close schools and lay off teachers (after all, kids get older and their parents may forget what happened),or cut Library hours (after all, only people who read will use the library and maybe they will all change over to Kindles) but it is quite another matter to have city employees turn against their bosses.