Planned @ MindSay

Spears says second pregnancy was not planned

Oh really? In the article (not to give anything away) she says she's going to wait a little longer between pregnancies next time. 

First of all.... Next time!?

Second of all... If she didn't plan the last pregnancy, how can she think she can plan the next one any better? 

After all it was her second pregnancy, so it wasn't like "Live and learn."  More like, dumbass ex-superstar  has a permanent blonde moment.

The next headline will read, Britney drops baby on its head before it's even born:

It is interesting to start to get a grasp on what a planned economy is.  Now China, you might say, is a market economy.  That’s only when it wants to be.  Effective today, new nationwide property laws have been put into effect.  The laws are meant to bring skyrocketing property prices back down to earth.  Prices for urban housing have already risen 10-35% in the first four months of this year. 

Here are some of the new rules: 70% of all new land allocated for housing must be “affordable housing,” a 5.5% tax on gross proceeds will be applied to houses sold less than 5 years after purchase (2 years was the previous holding period), and people purchasing houses over 90 square meters in size must put 30% of the price down (20% before).  These rules are meant to make cheaper housing more available, slightly discourage speculative property investment, and make it more difficult for people to buy larger houses.

Now, keeping housing from becoming too expensive for people because speculative investors and developers manipulate the prices is certainly a good thing.  But posting nationwide laws aren’t the only option.

Patrick Randolph wrote to the members of ChinaLaw suggesting that the better option for China would be subsidized housing.  This because it would be a direct, government controlled solution to the housing problem.  Providing plentiful cheap housing in major cities would probably lower demand for more expensive property.  Of course, I would worry that if the state directly hires developers to build the housing, they would be corrupt and lazy and build poor quality housing.  But subsidized housing is certainly a more direct solution.

Instead, the government is laying out blanket laws that don’t fit every situation.  For example, a rural family that often has three generations under the same roof, would need more than 90 square meters.  However, a possible positive is that the building of the affordable housing is still privatized and, hopefully, an open market will cause developers to compete in quality and pricing.

But there’s the difference between a more open economy and a planned economy.  The planned economy controls everyone and forcing everyone to the same mold, whereas the more open economy with a less intrusive government takes more indirect steps—like building cheaper housing and lowering general prices as a result.

Personally, I like the more indirect method because, first of all, it absolutely guarantees that there will be some cheap housing and, secondly, will most likely lower housing prices.  The current Chinese approach of implementing laws to control individuals, and through them the economy, will only be as effective as much as it is enforced and as much as developers do not find loopholes in it.  Besides, I feel that it is better to avoid a new law when direct action can solve the problem instead.  Of course, I don’t understand real estate, and it is likely much more complicated than I know, but this is how I see things.

Hey all. What is cracking? Not a lot here....just sitting w/ my dad watching the boob tube. Ha ha ha!!! Not a alot planned today!!

 

I leave for florida in 2 weeks. I'm so excited. I'm gonna miss Joel so bad though. He's thinking about what's gonna go wrong w/ the bus. I'm gonna miss talking to him every night. I'll cry when I leave!!!  Oh well it happens. I'll come back and it'll be like I never left.

 

Yesterday me and KC played vball. Well for the most part. We were being dumba nd started to sword fight w/ sticks. I started to flip out cause I was afraid that she was gonna hit me. Then we were doing 007 moves in her front lawn. It was so funy. We were throwing her newspaper around the yard.....and the bag broke and it almost hit her dad's car!! It was freaking hilarious.

 

Kayla and I are gonna go to the play tomorrow. It'll be a long 2 1/2 hours in that auditorium. But it'll be worth it. The play in Damn Yankees and it's supossed to be good!!

 

Ok well I'm postin lyrics if I can find them!!

 

TTFN

 

I Love You!!!!

 

 

It's gonna be a bumpy ride. S. Dakota is in the process of trying to ban all abortions except to save the life of the mother. Other states are plotting the same.

 

 

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/22/dakota.abortion.ap/index.html

Here we go again - We now have every weekend filled up to August.  We are now involved in so many things that all our free time seems to fill itself for us.  Of course the 4th of July is coming fast and that takes a lot of our time, but besides that the City has now contacted Joel wanting him to do a fireworks show for them now too  in  then end of November for a huge Holiday celebration they have each year.  He is having to work on that already now too.  As you all know our house is undergoing some major renovations.  Joel has contracted to have some major work done on the outside of the house now and we will have plenty to do in conjuction with that now as well as the ongoing work inside.  Besides all that we have already been invited to many birthday parties/cookouts/get-togethers, etc that have filled the calendar nicely.  Add to that trips to the beach and our "other" kind of socializing with our "special friends" that we have planned and a trip to Ohio next month and we seem to have all our hours between sleeping and working filled for the next 3 months!  We trudge through the long Winter each year waiting so anxiously for the Summer season, but then it gets here and before we know it, it's gone again before we can catch our breath.  Oh, well, at least we can never say we are bored!