[ckphilli]

Originally Posted by jonasdatum

LOL I have a cell phone !

Happens to the best of us. You know...I don't even have a land line at the house anymore...wife and I just have cell phones. It's cheaper and more practical, IMO of course.

[jonasdatum]

Originally Posted by ckphilli

Happens to the best of us. You know...I don't even have a land line at the house anymore...wife and I just have cell phones. It's cheaper and more practical, IMO of course.

In time I might get a pay-as-you-go phone. I don't receive many phone calls. Don't get me wrong although I have reluctantly switched to a contract and providers which equals cheaper bill; the aforementioned could save me even more in the long run.

You can get land lines cheap, you just have to know where to look. Many I know have toll plans for land lines just in case. Makes sense to me, but frankly I don't want to spend that little money. If I need a new phone I can wait until the next day. Failing that I can buy some cheap prepaid cell to use in the short-term. You'd have to destroy the entire cell network to make it useless. Many phone lines are in the ground so you could salvage most of that network I suppose? Even in poor countries more people have cell phones than landlines. It is cheaper and easier to access.

[jonasdatum]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...ackmoney/view/

Power Rocks, lack of power weakens your position. Money talks most if not all of the time. I plan to be a very good talker!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...aroundamerica/

Might want to consider a government job or something like that. Hence why you need multiple skills and considerable income. Healthy living is worthwhile and it looks like a solid investment - glad history was right about that.

I make much more money than when I first started working, but money is not everything. Benefits are worth their expense 5x in gold and silver. 2x in heavy water. And at least 1x in coal.

Being in debt as the later half of this video discloses equals endured servitude. Medical debt costs you because it appears you may be denied treatment.

So being poor sucks, being sick sucks, being in bad shape sucks, ...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...edwaters/view/

Monsanto Indian Farmer Suicide

[jonasdatum]

Dining out on New York's rubbish - 26-Dec-07


If you can eat that well out of garbage then that says a lot about how much we Americans waste!

Homeless families in New York - 24 Dec 07


We the People - Poverty: No way out - 20 Oct 08 - Part 1


The woman here even mentions a "PAY DAY" loan. You know how I feel about those. If they verified the that she was unemployed her family would be out of luck.

[jonasdatum]

Nigeria: KBR's Bribery, Who Pays the Price
How large-scale bribery by multinationals undermines the developing world
April 29, 2009

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/st...al-damage.html



10 Promising Jobs for the Class of 2009
By Anthony Balderrama, CareerBuilder.com writer

http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Article...294568130-JJ-5

Many of these degrees are related to jobs for the company I work for. Hint, hint!

[jonasdatum]

- I am not greedy and I am not hungry, but cash is a resource. A powerful needed resource. Yes one day like everybody else I am going to die and I know I can't take it with me. However living out my elderly years in poverty and hunger is not how I want to go out. Nor do I want to be middle age with a 9to5 job and be struggling. Fortunately over recent years my income has increased significantly. Soon I'll apply for a job that in relatively short time, if I succeed will increase my income two way more. However I am still dedicated to education and everything else I mentioned to increase my income and social-economic standing.

So how are the rest of you faring today?

[jonasdatum]

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...22C059C8A230D0

Week of 6.19.09
Student Loan Sinkhole?
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/525/index.html

Week of 2.27.09
Retirement at Risk
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/509/index.html

[jonasdatum]

Originally Posted by jonasdatum

- I am not greedy and I am not hungry, but cash is a resource. A powerful needed resource. Yes one day like everybody else I am going to die and I know I can't take it with me. However living out my elderly years in poverty and hunger is not how I want to go out. Nor do I want to be middle age with a 9to5 job and be struggling. Fortunately over recent years my income has increased significantly. Soon I'll apply for a job that in relatively short time, if I succeed will increase my income two way more. However I am still dedicated to education and everything else I mentioned to increase my income and social-economic standing.

So how are the rest of you faring today?

- I am not greedy and I am not hungry, but cash is a resource. A powerful needed resource. Yes one day like everybody else I am going to die and I know I can't take it with me. However living out my elderly years in poverty and hunger is not how I want to go out. Nor do I want to be middle age with a 9to5 job and be struggling. Fortunately over recent years my income has increased significantly. However I am still dedicated to education and everything else I mentioned to increase my income and social-economic standing. Soon I'll apply for a job that in relatively short time, if I succeed will increase my income another 15% - 25%.

"Corrected Grammar And Spelling."

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/ghana804/

Electronic Trash Village - China


The poor, ignorant, weak, and otherwise less able are always exploited. Why so many wish to needlessly harm another. Well I guess because they can .

[jonasdatum]

Originally Posted by Farmgirl22

I wanted to make a comment on this point: I know in my personal experience that I haven't bought a book (new ones anyway) in several years because they simply weren't high on the budget...if the "middle class" is the majority of American population, and we're all struggling to make it like I have heard several times on the news and such; then it stands to reason that perhaps everyone else is in the same boat.

As far as reading goes--who has the time?? Between working all day, spending precious little time with family, sleeping, eating, and commuting--when is there time to read? Heck, I haven't had an opportunity to sit down and enjoy a book for like 3 years!! And I love to read!! I used to read all the time--my family always made fun of my for "having my nose stuck in a book." If they want us to read more, they should make workdays shorter so there is at least the OPPORTUNITY to read.

Seriously though, we ARE more ignorant than we should be--it seems to be worse in people who live in bigger cities...they can't seem to "see" outside their city limit, how are they supposed to "see" outside their state, let alone their nation??! It seems that the ignorance of those people has surpassed even the ignorance that previously only "rednecks" or "hicks" possessed. The reality is, too many people have that "what happens elsewhere doesn't affect me" mentality--sometimes I just want to shake the people that say that until I have rattled some sense into them.

Ever thought of buying a Kindle? I am seriously thinking about it. Frankly I still like having books on paper. However we are moving very quickly to that paperless society or electric paper [look it up]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle#Kindle_DX . I however don't like being "Nickled & Dimed" to death. Hence why buying the media is preferable. LOL it's like they combined the drug selling models of the 1980s plus the perminate rent model. At least with MP3 files you can download them and store them on multiple storage media. One of the reasons I don't use iTunes is because I keep having problems with copying and storing files. As with other music retailers I can backup the song in one single stroke.

The second reason I don't use itunes is because I have to download a bunch of their software to do it. Where is with others I only have to download a minimally intrusive application.

Now moving on directly to the thread topic. Watch "The Corporation." Get your kids in the room as well. Many life lessons here. Life is very difficult and yet so simple.

[jonasdatum]

Week of 6.5.09
Food, Inc.
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/523/index.html

July 10, 2009
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watch2.html

So why not let the people chose their poison? Answer, because the insurance companies would lose profit!

Week of 2.6.09
Help for the Homeowners?
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/506/

[jonasdatum]

Originally Posted by jonasdatum

Week of 6.5.09
Food, Inc.
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/523/index.html

July 10, 2009
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watch2.html

So why not let the people chose their poison? Answer, because the insurance companies would lose profit!

Week of 2.6.09
Help for the Homeowners?
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/506/

Food Inc.: If you are imposing ignorance by not telling people they can't take photos of the places where it is produced tells me a lot. It tells me that you don't want me to know 'something’.

[jonasdatum]

20/20 / 'New Normal': Goodbye to Credit Cards

[jonasdatum]

Bill Moyers Journal (PBS.org)

ARCHIVE ALL ARTICLES
July 10, 2009

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/archives/archives.php

Essay: Money and the News
July 10, 2009
A Bill Moyers Essay.
More on the influence of money on the health care debate.

I watch all the videos. It is unfortunate when big business scares you with heir on practices. Probably because it works.

[CADude12]

Profits are evil.

"The oil companies are not going to give up their profits easily." No one invests in "green technology" because it's a loser in the business sense. It's not profitable. So, to make it more attractive, you take the profits out of using coal, oil, etc.

Big business, big pharma. It's just greed, all greed.

The government sucks up the profits of business to be spent on activist schemes, bureaucracies, bridges to nowhere, ... now they want even more to "fix the system that's broken". Who are the greedy ones here? Those who keep something of what they earn by providing a product or service, or those who take what others have earned, and waste it shamlessly? Justice? Fairness?

[jonasdatum]

Produce the Note - Fighting Foreclosure - CNN


Can this video save you?