Hey, it'll create 850 permanent jobs! Since when did Democrats start building nuclear power plants? I thought "no nukes" was part of their hallowed platform? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100213/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_nuclear_plant More platform erosion. Now Obama wanting warrant less searches of your cellphone. The best part of this story is that our government used cell tower triangulation to catch some Texas bank robbers. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10451518-38.html Listen bank robbers. You don't have to run around like Somali pirates in Texas just to get some chump change anymore. All you have to do is make a lot of hideous loans and claim that your failure is cataclysmic, convince your buds in government to bail you out, and then steal 1.5 trillion right out of the treasury. In full view-without firing a shot.

Well, it's finally over. A lost rebate check, three months of missed payments, one FCC complaint...and today my private battle ended. It's not about winning or losing. It's about paying a fair price for cellphone service. AT&T gave me back my 4200 rollover minutes. I have all you can eat texting. I don't have data nor do I want it. The cellphone bill stayed around 65 bucks. Tolerable for 7 hours worth of prime time talk each month. They couldn't find my phone rebate check so they applied that missing 100 bucks to my bill. I was happy with the outcome today and I paid the remaining 108 bucks on my bill. The standoff is over. I will retain my good deal for about 10 months and then the contract will be over. Data is where the dough is. The talk and text only cellphone market has been penetrated and saturated. I expect data plans to get very expensive. That's the next growth market. I am not under any illusion that any of the big carriers are really that much be...

So ya' think we don't have class warfare? Ok working stiffs- take a gander at this. This is how the elite use government to enrich themselves at your expense. If your blood doesn't boil, well then perhaps that Prozac you are taking is doing it's job. http://www.thinkbigworksmall.com/mypage/player/tbws/23088/1287086 Please make sure your tax checks arrive early.

A couple of years ago when I "retired"... I was forced to buy Cobra health insurance. At 400 bucks a mo. and my health relatively good, that was an outrageous amount to pay. I take one prescription which I get at WalMart. It costs me 4 bucks a month. Four blood tests a year cost me 100 bucks. Total health costs per year, 148.00. Total cost of insurance per year, 4800.00. Gee, which would you choose? Now it dawned on me that with 25% of the working stiffs in this country unemployed and exiting employer health plans, that the healthy people would do exactly what I did. Four hundred bucks a month is insane. Healthy people simply can't afford to pay the McDonalds and Marlboro premiums. Only the unhealthy would stay insured. Costs would rise dramatically. This is happening. Wellpoint Systems announced a 39% increase in premium costs. THIRTY NINE PERCENT!!! Here's a piece I clipped from the article: Brian Sassi, the head of WellPoint's consumer business unit, said in hi...

Today, I got a call from Tiffany who stated she was attached to the office of the President of AT&T. They wanted to discuss my FCC complaint. Where is the FCC? Aren't they supposed to sit in on my behalf? Maybe that 14 grand I sent in last year wasn't enough to merit a phone call. Maybe Frankenstein used my dough for food stamps, bond interest, student loans, or any number of other programs that government has no business meddling in. Anyway Tiffany said the call would be recorded. I said great. Let's talk. They could not find my year and four month lost in space 100 dollar rebate. My bill has escalated from Nov.- 63 bucks to Dec.- 83 bucks, Jan- 109 bucks, then 114 bucks for Feb. Tiffany said I owe them 306 bucks. I say 63 x 3 =189.00. Minus 100 bucks for the missing rebate. Let's see, 89 bucks. She said, "that amount was in dispute." No shit. Thank gawd, I don't have data. I'd need a bank loan to pay the bill. AT &T would probably slide in s...