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19 Aug 2011, 12:28 pm

I also wanted to say im not knocking voc rehab,there nice people and im working with them on my business plan.however i do think its in everyone best interest to scale back costly govmt programs.honestly im not impressed with the republicans fiscal management either.im disapointed that donald trump droped out of the race and im not real happy with that perry guy from texas.how can we reorganize goverment assistence programs to save money


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19 Aug 2011, 12:53 pm

Government programs I could not really determin which are good and which are bad. The ones I am around for employment could be a great more effective. Both in how they potentially place people in employment, behaviorally when needed in how they develop skills and as far as their own facilitated opportunity while some do great already I think there is a good potential of expanding upon the premise.


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19 Aug 2011, 12:54 pm

ci wrote:
Government programs I could not really determin which are good and which are bad. The ones I am around for employment could be a great more effective. Both in how they potentially place people in employment, behaviorally when needed in how they develop skills and as far as their own facilitated opportunity while some do great already I think there is a good potential of expanding upon the premise.
cant argue with that


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19 Aug 2011, 2:54 pm

Gedrene wrote:
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There is also the fact that some people actually enjoy the attention they receive - good or bad - whenever they get all emo about whatever is bothering them. I know that I used to do just that, and then I grew up and took charge of my life, for better or worse... 8)

I think it would be helpful to make taking charge of yourself as one of us a much more apparently pleasurable exercise.

Such a change is painful and frightening, but well worth the effort, if only for the fact that there is less in my life worth complaining about these days.


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19 Aug 2011, 3:24 pm

Fnord wrote:
Gedrene wrote:
Fnord wrote:
There is also the fact that some people actually enjoy the attention they receive - good or bad - whenever they get all emo about whatever is bothering them. I know that I used to do just that, and then I grew up and took charge of my life, for better or worse... 8)

I think it would be helpful to make taking charge of yourself as one of us a much more apparently pleasurable exercise.

Such a change is painful and frightening, but well worth the effort, if only for the fact that there is less in my life worth complaining about these days.


Now for a topic whiplash: Doesn't Invisible Gratitude sound like a psychedelic band name to you?



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19 Aug 2011, 7:01 pm

Gedrene wrote:
Fnord wrote:
Gedrene wrote:
Fnord wrote:
There is also the fact that some people actually enjoy the attention they receive - good or bad - whenever they get all emo about whatever is bothering them. I know that I used to do just that, and then I grew up and took charge of my life, for better or worse... 8)

I think it would be helpful to make taking charge of yourself as one of us a much more apparently pleasurable exercise.

Such a change is painful and frightening, but well worth the effort, if only for the fact that there is less in my life worth complaining about these days.

Now for a topic whiplash: Doesn't Invisible Gratitude sound like a psychedelic band name to you?

Sounds more like the sequel to "Invisible Touch"...

:lol:


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