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Ginny Martin

St. Paul, MN
Commenter for
5 years 24 weeks

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Posted on 04/22/13 at 01:03 pm in response to Catholic Church ramps up opposition to Minnesota anti-bullying bill

I guess bullying is better than tainting the received wisdom. Is that the reasoning behind pedophilia in the Catholic church?

Posted on 04/02/13 at 01:03 pm in response to Dayton tax on rich would send Minnesota back near top of U.S. rankings

Minnesota does not have a progressive tax.
according to an earlier Minnpost article, the top earners have a lower income rate than low-income earners, with low-income earners paying 12.4 percentage compared to those making $447,889 . Top earners have a lower effective tax rate than households making less than $9,782 for the year.
The effective rate for the top 5 percent of households, those earning $175,704 and higher, was 9.7 percent — compared with 12.4 percent for a family...

Posted on 03/31/13 at 02:02 pm in response to Same-sex marriage and the Supremes: What will the court do now?

Thanks, I think I'll take a pass on your course.

Posted on 03/26/13 at 05:05 pm in response to David Lillehaug will be the next Minnesota Supreme Court justice

I'm thrilled with his appointment.

Posted on 03/25/13 at 03:47 pm in response to Minnesota’s legislators: Are they underpaid?

These representatives and senators NEED more pay. People cannot live on what they get unless they have a working spouse. Everyone should get a raise--the governor and other officials as well as our legislature. Who decides who is a slacker or a lemming? Who decides who has done a good job? I am sure this would end up being about parties.
I agree with Arvonne.
Why would anyone stay in a job like this? Long hours, especially at the end, pressures on you from all sides, esp on...

Posted on 03/25/13 at 04:59 pm in response to Minnesota’s legislators: Are they underpaid?

Nick: Who? The guy sweeping the street? The clerk at your local grocery who doesn't follow politics? Your interior decorator? (oh, wait, she probably has a good salary)?
What's to gain by raising the pay? These people are human beings just like us and need to be able to live on their salaries ($31,000). Could you raise a family on that?
We need to be fair and pay these people a decent salary or we get millionaires and/or corruption. Some people think only of numbers, not people....

Posted on 03/18/13 at 01:36 pm in response to Bachmann at CPAC: 'We do it because we love. We do it because we care.'

There is a distinct lack of specifics here. What does she propose? Oh, yeah, that's right--get government out of the way.
That should help the workers out.

Posted on 03/16/13 at 10:24 am in response to Q&A with Melvin Carter: Trying to break the poverty cycle in St. Paul

The Promise Neighborhood sounds to me like the only kind of program that will realistically address that education gap. We must bring in all aspects of a child's life before we can begin to get these kids reading and learning. As Carter says, if a child is failing, it goes back to the family. It isn't his fault.
I live in Carter's neighborhood and I'm so pleased he is taking on this essential and comprehensive job. I briefly tutored at the Obama Service Learning Elementary School. The...

Posted on 03/13/13 at 10:51 am in response to A thoroughly modern choice for pope: yours truly

Whenever I see a picture like this--and we are seeing a lot of them these days--of these cardinals in their exotic, fancy, and expensive dress and look at the beautiful surroundings, I always think--what a long way catholics and some other christians have come from the original message of Jesus the prophet. I can never reconcile these pictures with the pictures in my mind of Jesus in the temple berating the money changers, or Jesus on the beach with his disciples (including Mary Magdalene)...

Posted on 03/06/13 at 11:54 am in response to MPS critique offers an ideological spur to resentment

This is just another effort by corporations and big business to try to destroy our public education system. Companies are pouring tons of money into privatizing schools, probably so they can better control them and turn out robots -- graduates -- to their liking that fit into the business model better. Businesses don't especially want people who can think critically; in fact, a Texas proposal would outlaw exactly that -- critical thinking in the schools.
I am doubtful that we can stop...