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Here’s a thought for Karen Wright:

Put out Help Wanted ads for retired people who are suffering under The Messiah’s economy. Offer them jobs AS PRIVATE CONTRACTORS. They only need to work 4 hours per day but receive a generous hourly wage; they receive NO BENEFITS since they are private contractors. Give them classes to upgrade their skills; they will be quick learners, then turn them loose on the job with bonuses available if they exceed their quota.

You’ll be amazed at how much productivity results.

All the people who work with me are subcontractors, have their own LLC and carry their own insurance. They are free to work for other people, and get paid well because I don't have to cover unemployment insurance and do their taxes. As a plus, their business expenses become more fully deductible for them than they would be for an employee, they can deduct their own insurance (self-employed), etc.

There are advantages all around.

The Feds won’t let people work as independents if they are required to follow the employer’s schedule, at his workplace. They’re convinced that $40-50 billion per year in tax revenue is evaded by independent contractors improperly working.
They force the states to do their dirty work; I just had an unemployment insurance audit for this.

Alumna gives $1 million to Great Conversation program

Until recently, Karen Buchwald Wright '74 had never even heard of St. Olaf College's Great Conversation program.

But then she sat down for lunch with President David R. Anderson '74, who suggested that the program — a sequence of five rigorous courses that traces the development of literary and artistic expression, philosophic thought, religious belief, and historical reflections on Western culture into the modern world — might interest her.

It did. So much so that Wright provided the college with a $1 million gift to establish the Karen Buchwald Wright '74 Endowment for the Support of the Great Conversation. The spendable portion of the endowment's annual earnings will be doubled through the Strategic Initiative Match, a St. Olaf Board of Regents program that provides matching funds for certain gifts above $50,000 that support the college's strategic plan.

So, she can give a million dollars to a program that teaches nothing but can't create an apprenticeship program?