Posts by Day: Thursday, October 30, 2008
Posted 10/30/2008 @ 5:23:47 pm by mywetplanet.com
The rodeo is an action event that originated in Spain and later migrated to The United States. The rodeo is but one of several activities that both cowboys and cowgirls could become involved in that brought together friends and family members. Action and skill are displayed at modern rodeos that are still a major event in the western areas of the country. The website http://www.igopioneering.com contains a wide variety of interesting articles for readers who are interested in an assortment of events such as rodeos around the country. Readers will enjoy becoming informed about events such as tracker pulling and the history behind these great American events.
Posted 10/30/2008 @ 5:20:55 pm by mywetplanet.com
In spite of numerous economic "bailout packages" that our federal government has initiated there have been very few accomplishments to change the lives of Americans living on fixed incomes. Millions of middle-class citizens have lost a tremendous amount of money in savings that were put into 401k and IRA accounts.
Older people on fixed incomes are unable to keep up with inflation so their real income has actually decreased over time. These people have planned heavily on retirement accounts to make up the difference, only to see those accounts drop in value recently. The result is that people are not able to fully retire as planned and, instead, try to find work in a market that is seeing hundreds of thousands of people loose their jobs.
Since we have entered into a deep and prolonged recession there appears to be little opportunity for older Americans to either keep or find jobs that are lucrative enough to make up for the loss of retirement savings. How are these people capable of contributing to the economic recovery when they cannot find enough money to pay their obligations?
This situation is yet another example of the slow, but sure, destruction of the middle-class in America. It hits home directly, since both my wife and I are included in this socio-economic group, so there is little wonder that retail businesses around the country face a very bleak future!
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