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  • Posted By: Micky Marsh @ 06/18/2008 11:43:38 AM

    NINE WAYS TO BEAT INFLATION.


    I............INVEST
    N..........NOW
    F..........FOR
    L..........LATER
    A.........AND
    T.........TURN
    I..........IT
    O........OFF
    N.......NOW

  • Posted By: underdog @ 06/16/2008 8:40:31 PM

    Anyone who didn't see the price incease for gas coming is a fool. I have been amazed at all the people who bought big SUV's which are now crying about the price of fuel. Did they really think the price was going to go down or stay the same? Unless we slip into a major recession or a depression, the price is only going to go up. I really enjoy the fact that a bill to allow drilling in certain areas currently restricted was killed in subcommitee . I guess when your in politics you really do forget about the people struggling to make ends meet.

  • Posted By: book134 @ 06/16/2008 6:34:00 AM

    The economic squeeze began in earnest on America's middle class & the poor with the advent of the Reagan Administration. After Reagan gave huge tax cuts to the rich, & the deficit sored, Reagan faced a dilemma. In order to bring the nation's budget more in line, Reagan decided to double the Social Security tax (only on the working class) & to double the gasoline tax, knowing full well that such measures would hit the middle class & the working poor by far, the most. Dubya has simply expanded the government's war on the middle class & the poor.

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