Stuart Berry

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/02/zuck-letter/

There are many lessons here – what talks to you?

http://educatingthedragon.blogspot.com/2011/06/alphabet-taught-to-kids-nowadays.html

Different names but the story never really changes – I grew up with Tang and Underworld Deviled Ham

Learning comes in many flavours and reflections

http://stuberry.edublogs.org/

I was not really paying attention to the multiple standards that we Canadians are forced to live with every day. Try this one on for size…

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/01/20/lorne-gunter-stop-paying-mps-twice/

I was just think about the relativity of things.

How would you react if someone said they paid $187,500 in income tax last year. Wowee you might say – you must make a lot of money.

What if you knew someone who earned approximately $1,250,000 annually – wouldn’t that also cause you to go Wowee?

What if you knew that the person who made $1.25 million was the same person who paid $187,000 in taxes? What would you say then? This is a 15% tax rate.

All of this assumes that this person’s wealth of $250 million is invested at a nominal rate of say 5% and I would think that if this person had $250 million to invest then I am sure they could obtain a rate of greater than 5% but I was being conservative.

OK the above is a scenario based upon a currently US political candidate. In Canada (BC actually) this same person might pay $530,000 in taxes. Now you can say Wowee!

I know I have not calculated deductions and tax shelters and a variety of other things but I just wanted to acknowledge something that seems so glaring different between our country and others.

Although this was spoken in 1968 and it was broadcast to an American audience I think that if you allow yourself to hear it from our current world perspective today and hear it speaking to you as a Canadian or even a global citizen I hope you hear meaning and value.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77IdKFqXbUY&feature=youtu.be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M&feature=share

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ0mdGh54XY&feature=youtu.be

or another version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0xa98cy-Rw&feature=related