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08/10/2010 Nativegrl77

How to Tame College Costs
Social Security in the Red
Dealing With Deflation
7 Great Coupon Resources

It was just a matter of time. Social Security

will pay out more this year than it takes in. As we mentioned before, the consequence of this, is that Social Security, the #1 investor in U.S. treasuries is now a net seller.

How to Tame College Costs

While tuition is getting out of hand at many colleges, the non-tuition costs can pile up too. This article looks at 5 non-tuition expenses and how to reduce them. Let us shortcut this one for you, get a lot of roomates in a 4 bedroom place that won’t impress the parents and make sure one of them knows how to cook. It has worked for decades.

Dealing with Deflation

What to do with your money in a deflationary environment> The dreaded “D” word is making its rounds and here are what investors are doing.

7 Great Coupon Resources

A good list from GenXFinance. There are many other sources, but a some new good ones on this list.

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Sunrise on the Gulf …

08/10/2010 Nativegrl77

Help us kick-off the Arctic Sunrise’s expedition of the Gulf by telling Congress “No New Drilling!”

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White House energy adviser Carol Browner has recently been making the talk show rounds and telling the public about a new government assessment that shows that 75% of the oil from BP’s drilling disaster has either been captured, burned off, evaporated or broken down in the Gulf. As she puts it, “Mother Nature did her part….”

You’re not alone if you think that sounds too good to be true.

That’s why we’ve sailed the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise to the Gulf and are embarking tomorrow on a three-month expedition to provide independent scientific analysis of the impacts of both the oil and chemical dispersants on the Gulf ecosystem. We have to know the truth about the damage that was done.

Relying on BP and federal officials to do that job for us would be foolish at this point. From day one, BP was doing everything in its power to hide the true extent of the disaster and they often had the help of a federal government who seemed more concerned with maintaining its public image than addressing the problem. The Gulf deserves better. We deserve better.

But we don’t have to run a single test to prove that oil drilling is dangerous and deadly. BP has done that work for us. And we don’t need any elaborate solutions to solve the problem either. What we need is to put an end to all new drilling and to transition to clean, renewable sources of energy.

Help us kick-off our tour of the Gulf by taking action and telling Congress “No New Drilling!” today.

Over the course of the next three months we’ll be telling you all about what we find in the Gulf on our website, in our blogs, through videos and photos and more. We’ll also be giving you opportunities to help make the clean energy future we all know is possible a reality by stopping upcoming drilling projects, confronting the fossil fuel industry in your community and joining with people globally for a day of action. You can start right now by telling Congress “No New Drilling!”

Sincerely,

Dan Howells
Greenpeace Deputy Campaign Director

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From Gallup.Com: Americans’ Confidence in the Medical System on the Rebound …

08/10/2010 Nativegrl77

Forty percent of Americans now express “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the U.S. medical system, the third consecutive year confidence has increased since the all-time low of 31% in 2007. Americans’ confidence in HMOs is higher than in recent years but still low, at 19%. Read more at GALLUP.com.

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Breaking: Google and Verizon …

08/09/2010 Nativegrl77

Keep up the pressure on Google – sign the letter telling them to stop being evil and protect the free and open Internet.

Google: Don’t be evil!

Huffington Post headline:

BREAKING NEWS:

Google and Verizon just announced that they will use their massive lobbying budgets to pressure the FCC to kill Net Neutrality. Their proposal? To allow giant corporations to have a bigger voice than the rest of us by building a new, corporate-controlled fast lane online and leaving the rest of us behind.

Since this afternoon’s announcement, thousands of new people have gone to our website and signed our open letter telling Google: Don’t be evil.

Can you join 300,000 others in signing our open letter to Google? Click here.

This deal is the definition of evil.

It would open the door to outright blocking of political content big corporations don’t like, just as Verizon did recently with text messages from NARAL Pro-choice America. And it would make it much harder for new innovations like the next YouTube to get off the ground.

The Internet would no longer be a level playing field. Instead, Google would create a corporate-controlled Internet for the big guys and crumbs for us.

Can you stand with us for a free and open Internet? Click here to join over 300,000 and sign the letter to Google.

Today, the PCCC joined Free Press, MoveOn, Credo Action, and ColorOfChange to deliver a first batch of signatures to Google’s DC headquarters — we delivered 300,000 strong.

We’ll make sure Google continues to hear about the increasing number of Internet users who refuse to let big corporations end the Internet as we know it.

Now’s the time for good people to stand up and be counted. Please join our movement to protect the free and open Internet.

Thanks for being a bold progressive,

Jason, Julia, Stephanie, Adam and the rest of the PCCC team

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I am not a “special interest”

08/09/2010 Nativegrl77

Organizing for America

Right now, my job — along with those of my colleagues — could be in jeopardy.

I’m a public school teacher in Philadelphia. And, like most states across the country, Pennsylvania is facing some bad budget shortfalls.

Without federal help, a lot of teachers like me — as well as other public servants like police officers and firefighters — will lose their jobs. Maybe you know some of these people. Maybe it’s you.

Democrats in Congress are trying to do the right thing, proposing emergency assistance for states to preserve more than 100,000 jobs like mine. They’re racing back to the Capitol for an emergency session this week to pass this bill and save these jobs.

But Republicans are standing in the way. Minority Leader John Boehner is calling the bill a “payoff” to “special interests” and attacking every Democrat who is fighting for us.

But I’m not a special interest. I’m a teacher.

Can you join me in telling House Democrats that they have our support as they fight for our jobs?

Speaker Nancy Pelosi — and the entire Democratic Caucus — have decided to rush back to Washington to make sure that hundreds of thousands of workers like me will get to keep our jobs. In addition, the bill will actually create even more job growth by closing tax loopholes for companies that ship American jobs overseas.

But the Republicans are going to do everything they can to prevent this aid.

Please stand with me, in support of Democratic leaders who are standing up for folks like me:

http://my.barackobama.com/MyJob

Thank you,

Wendy C.
Teacher
Ambler, Pennsylvania