Swine Flu – CDC and WHO
With everyone hyping up the swine flu on blogs and the news. I found two links that are down to earth and sane about whats going on. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and WHO (World Health Organization), are the two areas where you are going to be informed with knowledge and truth. [...]
Huckabay Previous Abductions and Arson
Melisa Huckaby already in jail awaiting charges of rape, abduction and murder of Sandra Cantu and 8 year old victim, now is being link to other crimes. In January Huckaby has been listed in a 4 hour missing 7 year old from the same trailer park. The 7 year old was found and appeared to [...]
Save Now Pay Later
Is that what is going to happen in these trying days ahead? Vermont courts were ordered to close their doors for five “furlough days” in order to achieve $245,000 in cost savings ordered by the state, which is in the throes of a fiscal crisis. Ok, that ‘sounds’ good on paper, but, (and there always [...]
Women Are Easy-Men Are Difficult
Valentines Day is right around the corner. Women are easy, we know all about flowers, candies, dinners, there are many gifts to choose from as women just love everything it seems! (hint-don’t get her a vacuum cleaner, bad choice.) But men, here is your chance to write what gift you would really love to receive. [...]
Republican Alternative Stimulus Package
You know this IS debatable, but it does seem like a nice thing to think of actually having more money on a daily/yearly basis instead of a fast boost. Top Republican lawmakers on Friday unveiled a plan for tax cuts and other steps meant to pull the battered US economy out of its slump after [...]
Vermont Governor Douglas Meets With Obama
Vermont is a small state, sometimes so small it gets lost in the shuffle. Monday morning Vermont Governor Jim Douglas will sit down with President Obama for a one-on-one meeting in the oval office. Douglas is scheduled to speak with the President about the Federal Economic Recovery Package at 11 o’clock. The Governor is expected [...]
The great depression
The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world. Though the U.S. economy had gone into depression six months earlier, the Great [...]
Jobless Rate Hits 7.2%, a 16-Year High
“The simplest way for a company to hoard cash is to drain their inventories and fire their workers,” said Robert J. Barbera, chief economist at the Investment Technology Group, a research and trading firm, “and everywhere you look, that is what is happening.” The total number of jobs lost in the recession now totals 2.59 [...]
Stimulus bill benefits
When one doesn’t do the daily house work – home becomes a disaster. It then takes a clean up crew of mass proportions to clean it up so its livable……. manfred WASHINGTON (UPI) — U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, building support for his economic stimulus plan, said Saturday it would save or create up to 4 [...]
