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Monday, March 07, 2005
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1. Arizona; Carrying your loaded gun into a bar or restaurant that serves alcohol would be legal - as long as you don't drink - under a bill that passed Thursday in the Senate."There are already guns in bars and restaurants now, but they are brought in by the criminals," said Sen. Ron Gould, R-Lake Havasu, who supported Senate Bill 1363. "If we don't allow law-abiding citizens to protect themselves, we're doing a great disservice to the public."
The National Rifle Association is pushing for the bill.
patches friend Rob says this is going to cost Arizona tax payers a ton of money, every city and town in the state will have to build an O K Corral. Are Americans crazy or what, we must protect our selfs? What happened to law enforcement?
2. Bush tax cuts at work; By studying the spending caps Bush proposed
The results are startling. Elementary and secondary education programs, including the president's No Child Left Behind initiative, would be cut by $11.5 billion over the next five years
The WIC program, which subsidizes the diets of low-income pregnant women and nursing mothers -- a major preventative against low-weight babies -- would be cut by $658 million
Clean water and clean air funding would decline by $6.4 billion over five years, a 20 percent cut in 2010
Most of these cuts would come out of state and local budgets
3. Gas Prices; In Memphis, an independent tinkerer named John M. Hewitt is using a hydraulic system on what used to be a Chevy S-10 pickup. The truck, which he says accelerates adequately with an engine of less than 100 horsepower, achieves more than 100 miles per gallon. He uses a diesel engine designed for marine use, because it is meant to run long hours at constant speed. uses a hydraulic transmission one that stores and transmits energy using a pressurized fluid. When are we going to give up on our high horsepower cars and trucks? Why is something like this at the top of our ( US ) agenda? The US Environmental Protection agency is also working on this type transmission.
4. Social Security; stocks have averaged an annual return of 6 percent above bond yields since the 1920s. No wonder roughly half the households in the United States have invested money in stocks, either directly or through a retirement account.There's a catch, though. Stock markets don't hit the average each year. Performance runs in streaks: Many strong years can be followed by many lean ones. This repetitive pattern has mystified many market analysts. So young Americans, contemplating Mr. Bush's proposal to replace a portion of Social Security with an investment component, may have to factor in this market cycle, not just their age, when planning a retirement date This is the kind of stuff that makes the Patch doubt the privatization of Social Security .
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1. Arizona; Carrying your loaded gun into a bar or restaurant that serves alcohol would be legal - as long as you don't drink - under a bill that passed Thursday in the Senate."There are already guns in bars and restaurants now, but they are brought in by the criminals," said Sen. Ron Gould, R-Lake Havasu, who supported Senate Bill 1363. "If we don't allow law-abiding citizens to protect themselves, we're doing a great disservice to the public."
The National Rifle Association is pushing for the bill.
patches friend Rob says this is going to cost Arizona tax payers a ton of money, every city and town in the state will have to build an O K Corral. Are Americans crazy or what, we must protect our selfs? What happened to law enforcement?
2. Bush tax cuts at work; By studying the spending caps Bush proposed
The results are startling. Elementary and secondary education programs, including the president's No Child Left Behind initiative, would be cut by $11.5 billion over the next five years
The WIC program, which subsidizes the diets of low-income pregnant women and nursing mothers -- a major preventative against low-weight babies -- would be cut by $658 million
Clean water and clean air funding would decline by $6.4 billion over five years, a 20 percent cut in 2010
Most of these cuts would come out of state and local budgets
3. Gas Prices; In Memphis, an independent tinkerer named John M. Hewitt is using a hydraulic system on what used to be a Chevy S-10 pickup. The truck, which he says accelerates adequately with an engine of less than 100 horsepower, achieves more than 100 miles per gallon. He uses a diesel engine designed for marine use, because it is meant to run long hours at constant speed. uses a hydraulic transmission one that stores and transmits energy using a pressurized fluid. When are we going to give up on our high horsepower cars and trucks? Why is something like this at the top of our ( US ) agenda? The US Environmental Protection agency is also working on this type transmission.
4. Social Security; stocks have averaged an annual return of 6 percent above bond yields since the 1920s. No wonder roughly half the households in the United States have invested money in stocks, either directly or through a retirement account.There's a catch, though. Stock markets don't hit the average each year. Performance runs in streaks: Many strong years can be followed by many lean ones. This repetitive pattern has mystified many market analysts. So young Americans, contemplating Mr. Bush's proposal to replace a portion of Social Security with an investment component, may have to factor in this market cycle, not just their age, when planning a retirement date This is the kind of stuff that makes the Patch doubt the privatization of Social Security .
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