All I ask is that I have enough money for gas to get to school and food, right now that is apparently too much to ask. I have made $150 so far for next month, that might get me to school for 2 weeks including food while I’m getting there. Pretty much as of right now I get to starve at home. I may get lucky and make more, but at this point I’m not counting on it. Pretty much what I’m going to end up doing is buying really cheap junk food and hoping I don’t gain weight. We are talking chocolate bars and mac and cheese. Things that are high in carbs, but bad on calories. It sucks having to have a set number of carbs, I don’t have a choice to just eat less.

The bad part is we just had a new store open in our area, a clothing store that we really did not need. What I hate is that now instead of maybe getting a job I cant because they just brought people from other stores to this one and because they opened the other stores are not hiring. We already were bad here, Michigan’s unemployment rate is 8.9% Now keep in mind that people like me who are not collecting unemployment because we were not full time, were students or they have not worked at all because of the lack of jobs. It’s horrible and really I don’t think there is an end to this if we continue on this track where we worry more about other countries and not our own. I also think that this bailout needs to have something to do with the little people and I don’t think that these CEO’s of these companies should see any money this year, personally they drove their companies into the ground they need to know what it’s like to have no cash, cut their pay completely and then help them, I don’t think as a tax payer that I should pay for their 5 homes and 3 wife’s and 5 mistresses and 10 kids, their cars, their jets and their country club memberships. You know that is what will happen.

At this point I’m starting to think a depression may just be the thing we need to get rid of these idiots who have made the rest of us have to live beyond our means and now we are the once suffering. Maybe they need to be reminded or learn what it’s like to worry about having food for the next week or what it’s like to not have food for the next week.

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Last night in my presentation speaking class one student talked about the fair tax. He pointed out that some people who have a lot of money don’t pay any taxes because they have put it all in stocks. He also stated that having a fair tax would take care of this issue. I found this interesting and looked into it a little more at fairtax.org.

I found that having a fair tax set at 23% would actually provide more income for the government then the current tax system does. Now this tax would apply to retail items and the income tax would disappear. That means you would get more money in your pay check to offset the retail tax.

I like this because I then control how much I pay based on my input into the economy. This would also help with people who are paid cash for work as they too will have to pay this tax. I’m sure there is much more to it then what I have stated here, and I plan on doing more research, but I am wondering what you think of having a fair tax?

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I was reading on yahoo today about a proposal by McCain that congress needs to get rid of the gas tax for summer and make sure that students can get loans next year. This effects me a lot as I’m a student who has to drive 2 hours to school when I have class. The worst part is most of my classes are at night and on different days. I also take online classes to keep from having to drive.

I think this would be a great idea even if they were to cut the taxes in half it would help many people who have to drive a long distance. I also think making sure that student can get loans is a big deal as many who have them need them to continue in school. I am one of those, if I can’t get a loan I don’t go and then I have to start paying back the loans I have, with no job because I haven’t finished my degree. I know many students are in the same place I am, hopefully something will be done to help us all.

This is one reason I’m an independent voter, sometime candidates come up with some great ideas, but they are from a party you don’t normally vote for, being an independent I don’t’ feel ties with any one party. It’s nice, but I’m still not changing over just yet. I still disagree with the war, but I have gone from liking Hillary more, to liking Obama a lot more. I think he could be a president that can fix the image of the US and bring the country back together. I also like how he speaks, he does it well. Hillary does too, but I noticed the other day I had to turn off the TV when they interviewed Bush because I can’t stand to listen to him. He does not sound like he knows what he’s talking about, even if he does. I have the same problem with teachers sometimes. If they don’t sound right I don’t want to listen.

Anyway back to gas prices. What do you think about getting rid of the gas tax from memorial day to labor day?

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