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Friday Sep 04 2009

By Jim Selman | Bio

Yesterday I received yet another of those ‘big lettered’ alarms about how appalled someone or another is about some left-wing motivated travesty against America, our troops and/or God. This one was about how the words “So Help Me God” were intentionally deleted from Roosevelt’s ‘Day of Infamy’ inscription on his Memorial in Washington D.C. About 30 seconds on Google and the facts are that this “eRumor” is just plain wrong. I sent the facts upstream to the long mailing list shown in the email forwarded to me. Somehow I doubt it will be passed on as eagerly as the original message was passed on to me. This type of activity has

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Where are the Boomers in a Bust

Monday Oct 20 2008

By Jim Selman | Bio

It’s getting hard to stay ‘upbeat’ in the face of all the economic news. The line between a recession and depression is blurring more and more each day. It seems pretty obvious that we’re entering what will be a long road to some sort of prosperity. The old joke about a recession is when your neighbor loses his or her job and a depression is when you lose your job isn’t so funny anymore. I learned today that China is embarking on an official policy of selling directly to U.S. consumers bypassing the middlemen—and that means even more pressure on the economy if they pull it off. The bottom line is that the American Dream will evade more and more of us and, in particular, the dream of living a life of leisure after retirement will evade most Baby Boomers.
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Written by eldering at The Great Turning

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