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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (42094)	11/1/2008 7:08:36 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 219673

The shoes and driver's license had animal bite marks on them. This reinforces our theory that animals dragged him away," Anderson said. Uhm, slowly case is being built that crashed, animals ate corpse... Fosset was a genius...

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (42094)	11/1/2008 11:18:27 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 219673

Top-10 holders of US securities as of April 2007. seekingalpha.com

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (42094)	11/1/2008 2:16:20 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219673

Getting a bit academic, if the consumer income levels are form BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics - they have som errors. The BLS personal income numbers do not include 401 (k) contibutions. Why ? 401 (k) comes off before gross pay, and BLS uses the gross pay from the IRS. Interest earned in IRA and 401(k) accounts is also not inlcuded. By the way, for the purposes of calculation the savings rate, the BLS does count withdrawls from 401 (k) and IRA accounts. So if people increase their savings by increasing 401 (k) contributions, their reported income will drop, and apparent savings will not increase. This partly explains why "consumers" could keep spending when the savings rate was around 1-2% for a number of years. Excessive credit being the main reason.