Another Most Harm - Michigan

Here's the opening from the news story (30 September 2009):

"IRVING TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood's children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school.

"Regulators who oversee child care, however, don't see it as charity. Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she'd be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers."

NOW! Here's what the law implies ... If you host regular play dates at your home, you are a criminal guilty of running an unlicensed day care center. No money exchanged -- still a crime. Now! Imagine the other parents provided snacks -- exchange of "compensation" ... serious crimes here ....

Want to be how the Michigan Senators voted on Health Care ... or where they stand on saving the life of a woman by aborting a tubal pregnancy?

THE MOST HARM TO THE MOST PEOPLE is hidden behind the misapplication of laws ... or their literal application in an otherwise irrelevant context.

FOOTNOTE:
TIME did a cover story this week (September 2009) about the destruction and ruin of Detroit Michigan -- In the 1960's it was the motor capital of the world, now it is a slum city whose population shrunk by fifty-percent during a period when the American population nearly doubled. All because Republican and big-business Americans argue for short term profits. They have no interest in the long term benefits to the nation -- or even in sustained benefits. The symbol of American intellect is Ronald Reagan removing the Carter solar collectors from the Whitehouse.

Saving energy saves money -- solar utilizes a free energy source ... the sun. Wind saves energy -- it utilizes a free energy source ... the wind. Tidal saves energy -- it utilizes a free energy source ... the daily ebb and flow of tides.

There was a time when saving money was VERY American. That was when this nation was formed and a clown named Ben Franklin was writing "Poor Richard's Almanac" ... think about the practical application of the phrase ... "A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned."

Republicans are anti-American ... but very pro "The most harm to the most people"