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Food costs hit home: Utahns are struggling to cope with skyrocketing prices
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Same for gas
Cops working the streets and the courts are stealing your money
While I am all for clean energy, developing all the energy we need will not be accomplished through wind, solar, or grain based ethanol.
We have to get started now on nuclear energy and developing our natural resources, read oil. As always, the only people who really get hurt during these times are the poor, middle class, and elderly.
When the environmentalists stop driving, flying, heating and cooling their homes, and stop the ruse of carbon offsets, then I will consider their argument. Until then, we need to get people into office that will stand up for the United States to make us strong instead of selling us out to foreign interests.
I does not matter if one votes democrat or republican. Congressional members of both parties are corrupt. I am a member of the LDS Church and I personally would not vote for even one of the existing members of the LDS Church in Congress now.
Modern Americans are still asleep at the switch. They go for the easy route. It will not get any better. Even those who think that they are immune are not immune. There are a number of members of the Church in the stake that I am part of who's incomes are well into the six figures plus, and they think that they will come through the coming events with hardly a scratch. That their money will protect them because they will be able to continue buying the food and other things that one needs to exist. They will still be able to go to some store someplace and buy what they need. They definitely have some extremely strong rose colored glasses that they are wearing. A couple of former lawyers who used to live here made their living by going to American companies and buying(?) or// continued next post
Some months ago I read an article in a local paper (in Michigan) about a General Motors plant that had undergone a plant revision. The plant Managers had somehow managed over a few months managed to lay off about 1500-2000 workers. A few months after laying off these workers the plant managers(accountants) could not figure out why the demand for their product had started to drop off. White shirt and a tie along with a college degree does not guarantee that a person has a lick of common sense as to how things work.
Many problems we've created are all going to come back and bite us all at once, and our sense of entitlement to cheap energy and food, among other commodities, is going to have to undergo a painful reevaluation. In spite of all the grousing, hardly anyone mentions conservation. If we haven't suffered enough, it's our right to suffer some more.
I cannot change the government, the farmers, or the oil producers, but I can change what I purchase to feed my own family.
A little over one year ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!
Remember, it's Congress that makes law not the President.
He has to work with what's handed to him.
I really don't think there are going to be people starving to death in Utah anytime soon. Still, hunger is a terribly motivating thing. It will be interesting to see what changes come if hunger does become a part of our everyday lives.
Finally, the bill is coming due. It sounds horrible to say this, but it actually makes me happy. I'd rather confront these bad policies now than put it off even one more day.
It is not the Republicans' fault. It is not the Democrats' fault. It is both their faults, and, more importantly, ours, too. Let's stop believing in the naive , silly, stupid nonsense we're taught by Oprah and the media and the churches and the NEA and start listening to common sense.
Taxes under Clinton
Single making 30K tax $8,400
Single making 50K tax $14,000
Single making 75K tax $23,250
Married making 60K tax $16,800
Married making 75K tax $21,000
Married making 125K tax $38,750
Taxes under Bush 2008
Single making 30K tax $4,500
Single making 50K tax $12,500
Single making 75K tax $18,750
Married making 60K tax $9,000
Married making 75K tax $18,750
Married making 125K tax $31,250
It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above
think Bush is Getting to them and Bill Clinton was the greatest
President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they
will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that
fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is
like the movie, The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of
some money and they don't even know what happened.
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