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Imagine if you bought a car and then a few months down the road the manufacturer announced that they could turn out new features in your car that would allow it to get better gas mileage.  Turns out they say, that the hardware to improve gas mileage has been in your car all along.  The catch, well you have to pay them to use the hardware you already paid them for.  In a nutshell this is what Apple is planning on doing to it’s iTouch 2G customers.  It turns out the customers who paid for their iTouches will be forced to cough up another $10 dollars if they want to use Bluetooth.  The Bluetooth chip is already built into the phone, Apple just didn’t tell anyone when they were buying it.  Now in order to turn that feature on you will need to pay $10 dollars for an “upgrade”.

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The system of values in the United States has fallen very far askew, particularly when it comes to the importance of Hollywood “stars” and sports figures in our lives.    Their compensation has grown at a pace completely out of line with their value to society.  Think about what a teacher makes who spends all day with your children, shaping them into who they will become someday, and now think about what they make in relation to say ‘Brad Pitt’.  That is not to say that Brad Pitt is a bad man.  He makes what he does because movie studios are willing to pay him that much but the only reason they can pay him that much is because the citizens of this country are willing to collectively fork over billions of dollars each year to support the movies studios.

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You have probably been hearing a lot lately about the Stimulus Package. The $825 Billion dollar plan is designed to kick start the economy and get it out of the current recession. The unfortunate news is, it will do little to nothing to help. This is nothing more than another rush to make it seem like Congress is doing something to help. In effect it is a very expensive public relationship campaign for Congress. They have no idea how to fix the problem, they demonstrated this by engineering the Bailout debacle. What has the Bailout done for the average US citizen? The banks have made out great but it did absolutely nothing other than to preserve the status quo for rich bankers.

The Stimulus Package, as it stands now, may even hurt the US economy. Consider the following examples…

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You may have noticed as of late that the price of gas has slowly started to sneak back up. It’s not making dramatic swings like it was last year but sure enough every week the price of gas goes up a few cents more. The gas craziness of last year helped cripple our economy by forcing hard working Americans to suddenly double what they were paying for fuel. That extra gas money had to come from somewhere and so people started spending less on other goods which helped push down the economy to where it is today.

You’re probably reading this because you are wondering why gas prices are on the rise, so let us cut right to the point. They are on the rise because we have been throwing bailout money at the Banks and Brokerages left and right. If you look back to last year when the price of gas plummeted you’ll notice that it happened at the same time that all of the banks started to get in trouble and go under. When that happened the banks were forced to curtail their spending on oil speculation and the price of oil went into a free fall.

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In case you don’t already know, the bailout is a joke… on you. Thus far none of the $350 million Congress has released has gone home owners. Although that shouldn’t be a surprise when you consider the man who is running the bailout program, Henry Paulson, worked on Wall Street before coming to Washington. He has made it a priority to make sure his cronies on Wall Street got their fill at the US tax payers expense.

Want some of that bailout money? Too bad you’re not a bank cause the form to request the money is ridiculously simple.  Just two pages that you need to fill out, see for yourself: Bailout Application

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