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Feb 15, 2009

They say that money doesn't make the world go around...but it sure doesn't hurt any....I am one of those people who fall distressingly below the poverty line.  While figuring out my taxes recently for the year I was shocked to find out how much I really live on.  I have an idea, it's been said before...but I would like to switch plces with my Senator for one month.  Let him stretch out my meager income to pay the bills, put gas in the car, buy toiletries, buy food, buy clothes needed...and anything else that comes up.  Perhaps then they would understand what it is really like to make less than $10,000.00 a year (WAY LES and survive...

People are talking about Stimulus Packages from the government...lets see, none of these packages will help me any...some Senator will appropriate the money for his or her own town to fix some budget flaw for money not wisely spent...not to create more jobs.  I do not really know how to fix the economy, except to say that perhaps if those incharge had to live for one or two months like the rest of us maybe they would make better choices in how to spend this money???

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Posted: Sunday February 15, 2009, 8:18 am
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