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POPSIf you aren't sick now, you soon will be Unreal. But wait, Obama PROMISED his taxes would not effect anyone making under $250k a year. You mean he lied? No way. So, once GWB's tax cuts for the rich expire, the average family making $40,000 a year see an increase of over $1000 in federal taxes. Then, Cap & Trade will cost us around $4000 a year in higher utilities and costs (and I think that is way underestimated) Then, forced health care will run another $12k for a family. Then what? Wonder how we will pay to feed our kids? Oh, that's right, tax the "rich" and give the rest of us food stamps. Great plan. Really doubt it will workout for most of us.
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POPSWhy no one listens To bad news. This article contains an interesting chart showing how the "experts" were 90% bullish on the economy in November 2007, a mere 90 days before the bottom started falling out. And we continue to listen to those people. Makes me feel we deserve the world of hurt that is going to rain down on us. I just don't want to live through it, but I am preparing-as best I can.
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POPSChildren deficient in sunshine vitamin And they are fat too. Could their be any correlation with the fact kids no longer play outside? Even in smalltown USA? Crazy. Do your kids bodies and minds a favor, kick their a*ses outside everyday. It was good enough for my parents, and it's good enough for my kids too. There is also strong evidence that cancer patients are more likely, than not, grossly deficient in Vit D. Maybe instead of spending thousands on health care and gym memberships, we should just go outside in the sunshine, sans sunscreen and take a walk.
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POPSWhy is the "cure" nearly always worse than the cause? I become more concerned with modern medicine in the form of pharmaceuticals daily. They are making rash, profit motivated, decisions and the government falls in line as the tax revenue and lobby gifts/graft is running free. Get healthy, get some sun, eat fresh, local produce and quit feeding the mega-national beasts.
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POPSEwwwww, sorry, but I'll pass... I haven't had a full blown cold in 4 years, ever since I swore off the flu shots and religiously started using Zicam and vitamin D. As long as I start with the zinc therapy & mega-dose D within the first day or two of symptoms. But, if I DO get a cold, sorry, I'm going to blow my nose versus letting it flow down my face.
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POPSCleanliness is next to dry, flaky scalp. I know this is true. I quit washing my hair every day when I had my daughter (don't ask, she was not an easy newborn, or one year old). Anyway, I noticed a wonderful side effect, no more dandruff which had plagued me since childhood. Now, I only use shampoo a couple times a week and will rinse it and then condition it only. Glad to see I am not alone in the world.
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POPSYet another excuse to take our property While on the surface this looks great, it is yet one more law that is setting up innocent Americans, or for those that disagree, to take our property. First it was for drugs, (now even users), then for prostitution, then mafia, now "gang" and organizations like the KKK. Tomorrow it will be for anyone that "speaks out" against the government. I know, I know. If you are breaking any law, then you have nothing to worry about. I don't buy it. If the government has direct evidence that the money & property was purchased with criminal money, I would feel better. This law would let them take your mother's house. Our constitutional rights are gone. Long gone. Coming soon to a city near you, gulags and internment camps, along with government "retraining" centers to convince us that the government ALWAYS knows best. Yet, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the criminals will still be criminals.
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POPSTell me again how the Stimulus is going to work? And please, tell me again how sending more of our debt fueled "spending" to Chinese electronic manufacturers is going to save us? Can ANYONE see reality anymore? Or are we just going to keep playing out the tired old party lines as our once great nation falls? GLOBALIZATION did this to us. NOT subprime mortgages.
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POPSUnder Bush, or Obama, the results will be the same 1. If you are unemployed, or lost a substantial part of your income, or being screwed on credit cards, you won't get a modification. 2. If your home has lost too much in value as compared to debt, you won't get a modification. 3. Even if you get it, your odds of defaulting are still better than 50% in most cases. 4. Calling it something else, while doing the exact same thing that has failed twice already, would only work in fairyland. Apparently, we are in fairy land
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POPSEconomy: How much proof do we need... Iconic glass/china maker Wedgwood is basically bankrupt. Note the number of employees that make living wages (those IN England/Ireland) and those that make pennies an hour/day. Our economy is crashing because over the past couple decades the world's best CUSTOMERS have lost living-wage paying jobs. Our middle class existence has been offshored. Our rich have gotten richer, we have given our futures to third world countries. Jokes on the experts. The world's best customers are unemployed, credit denied and becoming homeless. Buy local, the job you save may be your own
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POPSDon't fall for the recovery hype And this is more proof. More jobs moved away to never return. Direct result of demanding our government punish the rich and regulate businesses. They leave. Wake up, or enjoy systematic poverty throughout our society. Without jobs for the masses, the "luckY" or "smart" or "educated" will have to work twice as hard to pay for the millions that will never be able to support their families again. Plus additional government interference that is going to make everything too expensive for the majority. No magic money tree, small business can't take any more expenses and everything coming from Washington is going to make this worse, not better. China is very happy with our current government plans. Recovery my arse
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POPSGood Intentions or Campaign contributions? One of the lead researchers into making the HPV vaccine, doesn't think we should be mandating this for children. Which legislator who is forcing these vaccines on our children will be willing to comfort the parents of the dead ones? (already 30 and counting). I've read a lot about this vaccine, and the death toll and other horrible disease count is climbing. Yet, more and more states just keep adding more and more unproven vaccines as mandatory. Makes you wonder if public health or campaign contributions are the leading reason. Two of the states were the vaccine is mandatory for 11 year old girls had governors who received MILLIONS from Merck in their campaigns. I'm sick of my child being a guinea pig for the government and a vehicle for record profits (and taxes of course).
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POPSSold out for the cheapest dollar by our own government. This is the underlying reason recovery will be weak and short lived. We can't compete with China and all the new laws, regulations and taxes won't make your boss's any more competitive on price.
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POPSPelosi votes for change that benefits no one Unbelievable. The article goes on to state that these reforms also effectively send the new, young, Democrats to the back of the bus too. The old party needed the young blound to rock the vote, but don't seem to need them now. Come to Detroit, run by Democrats for over 40 years and see what happens when you continue re-elect crooks that lie in your face. Then steal every dime they can. Michigan, has now followed down the same path of Democrat run, high taxes, high ideals; low revenues and no results. Michigan welcomes the rest of America to our government created recession. Sorry we can't stick around and help the rest of you out of your mess, but we are packing up and moving head first into a depression. Scared yet?
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POPSBeware, paying taxes will never get better The estate tax is probably the single most vile tax in America. All estates were taxed as they were created. First, you pay income tax, then you pay property taxes, over and over again. Then you pay tax when you buy your property, again when you sell it. By the time you die, your estate has been taxed, upon tax, upon tax. How is it fair to take it again? Most people do not realize that a middle class, not rich, couple who is smart and saves can see the surviving spouse bankrupted with estate taxes (because the tax is assessed on perceived "value" not actual worth). Many thousands of Americans have lost jobs when the small business is closed because Uncle Sam demands their cut AGAIN. Taxes should not be used as punishment for success and saving. Taxes should NEVER be levied on already paid taxed property. And to think we committed treason against England for a THREE PERCENT tax. We are fools and taxes will kill us all.
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POPSBand together now, or be herded together later. Basically, this family started a co-op, which is a private membership organization where families band together and buy food in bulk and many times locally. The power in this country (unions, retail, FDA, USDA and mega-farmers as well as Dow & Monsanto) are pulling out no stops to shut down small farms and anything not chemically created. We should have the right to eat food grown on a farm without a mega-corporation making money. We should have the right to band together to cut costs without the mega-grocery stores & WalMart taking their cuts. We used to have these rights and while we are busy blogging, twittering & texting-they are being yanked away by coercion and force.
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POPSWhy you should care about government debt... so it starts. Congress has spent more money in the past 12 months then EVER has been spent by any Congress. And Pelosi was in charge the entire time. The House, Madam Speakers domain, has produced the largest budgets we have ever seen. And then spent more.
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POPSAnd the news gets worse for workers The article continues, "And Rhode Island, not generally known as a manufacturing hub, has suffered. The industrial conglomerate Textron Inc., which is based in Providence and makes Cessna jets and Bell helicopters, laid off 2,200 of its 43,000 workers last year." Even this article, arguably the closest thing I have seen to the truth in a long time, is totally missing it. Michigan is not dead because of the "faltering" auto industry. Michigan is dead because the NOW faltering auto makers sent the supplier jobs overseas. To companies where the workers would NEVER be able to buy their products. And now, neither can we. As the mass execution of the middle class rages on, it is apparent that reality is not going to pay the experts a visit soon. We, America, will cease to exist because we traded our jobs, futures and wealth, for cheap socks and bigger government. We could stop it IF we wake up and band together. But we won't.
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POPSTrends of a Bad Economy Regretfully the article didn't give us current year stats for many of their points. That would have allowed us to decide how many "green shoots" there truly are. Other than that, the article is really a great read
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POPSAmericans are being sacrificed on the altar of big business First manufacturing, then IT. And, even in midst of the worst "recession" since the Depression, it continues on. Yet we, the still employed, don't care. We stock our homes with foreign made goods and spend our money with companies that are slaughtering our middle class. The irony is starting to show itself. Good luck to our children with the future. They are going to need it.
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POPSFreedom missing in government health laws I can see vaccinating foreigners against some diseases, but shoving a brand new vaccine, that doesn't even give real protection, is unreal. What the heck has happened to us America? Since when do people that are paid by pharmaceutical companies have enough power to force us to be their guinea pigs? Why don't we care about the girls murdered by this vaccine? Insanity at its finest
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POPSSo off shoring creates jobs? The article goes on to state that the powers that be are ignoring this, even as our countries crumble under unemployment and increased government spending.
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POPSReduced pollution leads to Global Warming??? Ok, let me get this straight. We need to enact job killing-and utility raising-legislation to combat GW. Yet, when pollution is reduced the byproduct is? Global Warming. (we'll just pretend that the temp hasn't dramatically dropped this century-that is irrelevant) So, pollution causes GW AND removal of pollution causes GW. Why can't people see the stupidity of the whole argument for bankrupting us? Bet China will be clean and sunny soon. bwaaahaaaaaahaaaa.
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POPSThose that helped cause this mess. Once again, UK media looks further than their advertisers to explain the truth. Interesting read. But, just like our "experts", totally ignoring the millions of good paying jobs off shored for higher tax revenues from mega-corporations and cheaper socks for sheeple.
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POPSNow THIS is a solid reason to buy an American car Not one American brand car is in the top ten most ticketed cars in the US. I can attest that some cars just repel cops. I owned a refrigerator white Olds 88 for a decade. I loved that car. Once passed a cop doing 20 over the speed limit and all he did is turn his head, smile and wave. I still think he was just shocked to see the cute, little blonde instead of his grandma!
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POPSMichigan-8 year "recession" This is what happens when your reward non-production, ignore your current workers & taxpayers and favor unions, bigger government and liberal feel good legislation. And it is coming soon to the rest of the country, the national plan seems to be at least partially based on Michigan's failed course. As the confiscation of the wealthy's assets and businesses continue, those that have anything left, will LEAVE. Many other countries would be HAPPY to take a much smaller share of the pie. Which is what is happening in Michigan. 100% of nothing is nothing, and that is what we get when we tax jobs out of existence.
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POPSPlease quit listening to "expert"! Wow, wish I lived in these people's world. Unemployment is skyrocketing every day, people are being moved from full time to part time (could you pay your mortgage on 50% of your pay?), and this guys thinks that a "moratorium" on foreclosures will help? Banks are barely issuing mortgages NOW, you allow this to happen and they will stop altogether. And finally, the reason December sales "grew" was because of nationwide AUCTIONS. This is not a positive. We are not 3/4s of the way through, we aren't even 1/2 way there. Hope you all are stashing cash (at home, not banks) and stocking up on food, when all these foolhardy plans are finally stopped-as they will have to be-we will see the real trouble.
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POPSChina grows while the West continues it's descent Over the past ten years, under the radar and the "global economy" BS, they sent their suppliers jobs to China. Now, there customers are there. Which will work fine until the day the Chinese slam shut their borders-keeping our technology, investments and products. Wake up people. This mess is not "subprime mortgages". It is lack of family supporting JOBS. And I'm not talking about the whineass UAW workers jobs. Continue allowing the government to shove high tech and globalization down your throats. Harsh poverty is coming. This is going to make the "Great Depression" seem like a walk in the park.
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POPSBusted! Or, things not to do when Christmas Shopping So, do you think his wife is upset that there - big as life - sits her grandkids Christmas present in the local paper? I bet good old Randy will be getting a good ole' butt chewing! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Bah Humbug - whichever doesn't offend you.
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POPSKeep telling yourself that offshoring was good for us US Tool, machine builder and other industrial companies on the brink. We have been lied to about globalization and the realization that we offshored our prosperity for temporary profits will eventually become undeniable to all. Sadly, it will come too late. This mess is a government greed vs. America's backbone and the backbone lost. Wake up people before YOUR industry is destroyed like American manufacturing was.
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