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THE TRUTH ABOUT TAXES: LYING ABOUT THE RICH No I am not among the "rich" although I will volunteer for the role if someone wants to send in a big check. I am among those however that are simply tired of the lies about taxes and the "rich". The facts and the numbers do not support the lies and the...
From the New York Times, an article detailing how the economy is hitting women as well as men, reversing labor trends of rising employment that had held steady since the 1960s. At first, the falling numbers were attributed to motherhood or women selectively choosing to drop out of the economy, but...
Check out this NY Times article Pfffttt! There Goes the Vacation, which chronicles the squeeze many Americans are feeling when it comes to taking their vacation this year. With gas prices rising and the cost of living impacting so many, reporter Alex Willams explores the compromises and sacrifices...
Cross Posted at Daily Kos. Fired up and ready to go? The typical American consumer is tired and fed up, and some of those lifestyle changes we are seeing in the face of high gas prices, growing inflation and the rising cost of living are quickly becoming habits that may have long-term staying power....
Gas prices are up, higher than they've ever been in my lifetime. When I first bought my car in 2003, it took five dollars to to go from three quarters of a tank to full. Now, it takes fifteen dollars. Food prices are likewise up. A couple of months ago, baking potatoes were 88 cents a pound. When I...
So yet another section of the economic pyramid has crumbled. IndyMac went bust. One of my mother's girlfriends had her life savings in there. She's Japanese, and she used to be married to an American man. They bought a condo in LA, and sold it and split the profit when they divorced. She got half a...
Could someone please tell me why something so big and beautiful has the power to make people so absolutely crazy! (Rhetorical question) How can this full moon thing manage to fuck up my entire day, once I left the house that is. Had I not had to have gone to work there would be no problem... Tell me...
Like most people, recent economic events have me concerned and recent three-year-olds refusing to go to bed have me cranky. I found myself looking for some solutions and found a pamphlet at my local bank that helped me sleep slightly better at night. It was called "Sleep Slightly Better At Night:...
God, the news is so depressing lately. I am tempted to just tune out and cocoon myself in books and DVDs, banish news sites from my "Favorites" menu:...rising gas prices, falling home prices, vanishing sea turtles, banks doing belly flops, terrorism, disease, war...where does it all end? And it's...
All over the country, but especially in Los Angeles Jobs have been slipping away. Linen N' Things just announced it intends on shutting down hundreds of stores, many of which will be in the Los Angeles area. Add that to the list of companys like the airline industry, downsizing, and you have a...
The Good: The town of Rock Port, Missouri is now the first US town/city to be powered entirely by wind. It only takes four turbines to power the entire township. The turbines will also bring income to the landowners for leases, as well as an estimated $1.1 million per year to the town in real estate...
Reports are starting to surface stating that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is in a big rush to get information about credit card defaults. Why is our government in such a rush to get information about credit card defaults? Lets think for a second. The economy is bad, gas is slowly...
Is it just me, or has America gone baby-bonkers? I can't read celebrity gossip anymore without knowing who might be knocked up, who is knocked up, when they're due, if they may or may not be in the hospital, if it's twins, if it's a boy or a girl, what they're buying for their new addition, details...
Which small businesses are hurt most by rising gas prices? What can they do to save money? Sponsored by HP. Speaking just for myself, I know that my co-workers and I have slowed way way down on going out to lunch. While we'd sometimes go to chain/franchise places, there are also a few mom-and-pop...
Which small businesses are hurt most by rising gas prices? What can they do to save money? Sponsored by HP. Taxi Drivers. Drive hybrid vehicles.
Today we're rife with moronics. Here is just a small sample that made it into print: "The city of Savannah has become impoverished.” The City of Savannah has always been impoverished. 30% live in poverty as of the last census and the one before that and the one before that. “You will discover...
Who do we blame for the high price of oil? Today, it costs $120 more for a barrel of oil than it did in 1991. It is very simple: the Republicans. (in other words, greedy ponces) In 1971, Richard Nixon detached the US dollar from gold. Before that, currency in the USA represented gold that was stored...
I don't know how to bargain. By that, I don't mean it in a "I'm too rich thus naive to bother myself with cutting ends" way, but I just don't know how. The economy is bad now. You know how I know this? When I start having to split the bill for lunch or dinner. Sure, I can get away with the big...
