THE HAUNT OF FIAT!
If you think what has happened to your 401K has been bad, how would you feel if the dollars contained within would only buy 1/4th or 1/10th of what they did prior to the collapse! What if the loss of value was even worse by the time you decided that all the financial flim-flam men and women have been selling you a bag full of hooey!!
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Pennsylvania’s Long Hot Summer
Safari, an affair, or even running away to join the circus, we don’t care. It is about time that Pennsylvania had a budget in place by the beginning of the fiscal year.
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Tarnished Shields:
The hypocrisy and moral turpitude of the leaders is just one reason why only 21 percent of Americans identify themselves as Republicans.
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PAST HISTORY
We will never change until the pain is beyond unbearable. We never seem to learn from history. Instead, history is a ball and chain. We have become unmovable, even with our children’s future on the line, and we continue playing the games that we have always played.
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You Get What You Show
Call me crazy, but with the exception of Barack Obama, the election here in Berks County, PA was a disaster. When you consider that the national Republican Party dowsed itself in gasoline and then lit a match, our results were appalling.
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SECOND THOUGHTS FROM AN UNQUIET MIND
Sometimes I suspect that writing in this notebook is nothing more than a compromise. Yet theoretically at least I would like to think of it as a kind of bridge which enables me to pass from the prosaic to the sublime, from the dutifully mundane to the poetic.
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Twelve Angry White People
In the Pennsylvania anthracite coal region, the bigotry of the descendants of immigrants who themselves fought discrimination may have fueled the violence that led to the death of a Mexican immigrant.
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Independence Day
The 4th of July marks the 233rd anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, a call for an end of corporate colonial rule and for a more representative government of the people.
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