Which makes the lavish style of the White House insulting. Ordinary people are picking up a lot of the tab through increased taxes, higher premiums and rising prices of goods. Plus my city has the homeowner assessed for road and sidewalk repair. Charitable programs are hidden within- such as school and weekend meals.
Craig's list is a haunt of criminals. It's safer to donate directly- the Red Cross and Salvation Army are reliable. On Sep 10, 4:16 pm, Ash <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/10/2010 8:14 AM, rigsy03 wrote: > > > The subject of spending/indebting ourselves back to prosperity has had > > a lot of press to the point that it seems an act of patriotism. > > Baloney! > > > What do you think? > > Well I consider myself in the position of most, where outside of the > usual consumptions and after bills there isn't much left over. A lot of > people are out of a job, broke, moving to greener pastures. To me that > means I can buy a lot more used stuff I couldn't afford before, and > perhaps that person will invest it into the economy, hopefully as > carefully as I did. So the driving force of ebay and Craig's List isn't > going away anytime soon, least during a recession. It's called > frugality, and a lot of people are looking into subsistence farming, > younger generations even, and thinking the more people you can help > before your hard earned money gets to the fat cats the better starting > with numero uno. Just my take.
