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["Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>]

----- Original Message ----- From: Marie 
McHarry<mailto:mmcharry AT dtnspeed.net> 
> wondering how long before she's a toothless crone

Hang onto even the 'framework' because
Social Security/Medicare has tons of money
and programs for drugs, but *nothing* for
dentures or spectacles - and what do even
healthy seniors eventually need ?

Dentures and spectacles ....
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From: "Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>
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Subject: Re: [Homestead] Falling dollar
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----- Original Message ----- From: Marie 
McHarry<mailto:mmcharry AT dtnspeed.net> This was published today on the 
American Prospect Web site. I think it's available only to subscribers, so I 
post the whole thing for your reading enjoyment (?). 

Thank you ! (Toni)

> The Amazing Shrinking Dollar
A serious recession may lurk just beyond the collapse of the dollar. 
By Robert Kuttner
Web Exclusive: 12.02.04 
>
(snip) The euro has emerged as a worldwide rival to the greenback. It makes 
the United States a bargain basement for visiting Europeans, while Europe is 
staggeringly expensive for Americans. 


Anybody read any American History lately ?

Does the above sound familiar ? 

Although we now drink less tea, Boston 
Harbor is still there - let's dump the 
Wh___ House, its inhabitants and its
supporters into Boston Harbor, retain the
Constitution, and begin this country all 
over again....
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Subject: RE: [Homestead] Lynda
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<<My reluctant and highly begrudged conclusion is that Lynda was not
the problem.>>

Omigod, it's the lion-and-lamb scenario -- though I'm not sure we have a
lamb here. Well, it's a minor miracle, at any rate.

Marie, the sedate and wishy-washy