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To: energyplay who wrote (20931)	8/8/2007 7:58:09 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217984

I do like CSI when I bump into it occasionally while riding on airplanes. I think I probably watch 10-15 min of TV per week, mostly while waiting for bath water to fill ;0)

To: energyplay who wrote (20931)	8/8/2007 8:38:21 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217984

do not forget private health care insurance at 700 per month for family of three, say, and heading higher

To: energyplay who wrote (20931)	8/8/2007 1:04:26 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217984

I was with little money after buying flat 1979. Entertainment was puzzle with my first wife, drinking coffee and listening to FM music. It was not bad. A few after -inflation ate on my debt- when we ate out and recall doing gigantic puzzle for entertainment and we thought it was a good time. We bought wine and cheese and did one for the old time's sake. Explanation: Elmat seeing inflation -in 1978/1979- coming, sold Chevrolet station wagon. Bought tiny Fiat and acquired debt. Later inflation ate my debt.

To: energyplay who wrote (20931)	8/8/2007 4:12:40 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 217984

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To: energyplay who wrote (20931)	8/9/2007 11:55:26 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217984

Mexicans stop sending money from US. reduction was deepest in 40 U.S. states where Latin American immigration is a more recent trend, such as Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, where it plunged to 56 percent this year from the average 80 percent in 2006. one in three of the Mexicans living in the "new states" thinks they will go back to Mexico in the next five years, against one in four in more traditional states, according to the survey. reuters.com Fewer Mexicans seen sending money home from U.S. Wed Aug 8, 2007 6:52PM EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A lower percentage of Latin American workers living in the United States is sending money to family members back home, a report showed on Wednesday. The percentage of Mexicans living in the United States who regularly sent remittances home fell to 64 percent in the first half of 2007, from 71 percent in the same period last year, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) said in a study of remittance patterns. The reduction was deepest in 40 U.S. states where Latin American immigration is a more recent trend, such as Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, where it plunged to 56 percent this year from the average 80 percent in 2006. "In the new destination states, around half a million migrants have stopped sending money home," said Donald F. Terry, the IADB's Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) official who commissioned the survey. "This means that over the past years two million people in Mexico have lost a vital lifeline," he added. Mexico is the primary destination for U.S. immigrant remittances. Remittances to Mexico grew 23 percent from January to June of last year, but grew by only 0.6 per cent on the same period of 2007, according to the Central Bank of Mexico. Remittances sent by Central American immigrants, meanwhile, grew at 11 percent in the same period. A major difference between them is that almost all Central American immigrants live in traditional destination states, like California or Texas, while about 18 percent of Mexicans have spread to the "new destination" states. "They have been more adventurous and more aggressive in the search for new jobs," said pollster Sergio Bendixen of Bendixen Associates, a Miami-based firm that conducted the survey.