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To: tejek who wrote (536071)	12/12/2009 3:33:07 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1575556

Life under ObamaNation and his Kommissars is worse...

To: tejek who wrote (536071)	12/22/2009 3:07:41 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575556

People sometimes have problems paying for things. That's not a surprise. It always has been that way (once our culture and economy had developed to the point where the concept of paying has a solid meaning, and was something that was done frequently), and will be that way for the foreseeable future. While 99 percent of the nation's 113 million households reported having a refrigerator and a stove, that means that more than a million households lacked those appliances. Ninety-nine percent also said they owned a television. The survey found that more American households had air conditioners and microwave ovens than computers. Since 1998, the share of households with a personal computer increased to 67 percent, from 42 percent. The poor, the elderly and people without a high-school diploma were least likely to own one. Ninety percent had landline telephones (down from 96 percent in 1998), and 71 percent had cellphones (up from 36 percent). Among households headed by people under age 30, more had cellphones (81 percent) than landlines (71 percent). The percentage of people having those items and many others had been increasing essentially since they where invented, and continued to increase in recent years. And people have to spend less (in terms of hours worked at mean or median income) to buy these things. That's a sign of progress not some imagined horrors of capitalism, "under Bush" or at any other time.