Thrifty is nifty

I was surprised earlier today when my mother pulled out three “empty” bottles of Gold Bond hand lotion (the pump style) and cut them open with a knife.  I asked “what in the world are you doing?”  She replied “salvaging hand lotion.  There’s a lot of lotion left in these bottles!  She ended up getting [...]

Health insurance is a huge issue

One of my biggest concerns for our American Society is how so many of the citizens cannot afford decent medical care.  I know so many people who have no coverage at all, and don’t qualify for Medicare or Medicaid so they go without any kind of medical care at all - they simply can’t afford [...]

Abandoned ships

I was reading an article on the Time.com website about how abandoned ships are damaging the environment.  That article talked about how a lot of fishing vessels that were sunk (either on purpose or accident) still having fishing gear on board and the fishing gear (nets and traps) continue to “fish” forever.  The article also [...]

Health insurance

One of the largest problems we face as Americans today is the lack of medical care for the needy.  Too many people lack health insurance, and too many people go without the medical care that they need because of that!  Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (the country’s premier health insurance provider for decades) has [...]

The big bailout

Monday, 29 September 2008, 4:46 | Category : Community and/or Society, Finances and/or Money, General living, News, Politics
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I have been hearing about how no one really is happy about the terms of the big bailout plan that is going to save the big financial companies of the United States.  I’m not happy that it is going to cost the taxpayers so much money, but I am happy that they have come up [...]