sacredhands on Nov 24th, 2007Elderly Maine Residents Chilled To The Bone On Fixed Income Heating Bills
The ability to live far longer than your parents or grandparents has a downside: living requires money. Retiring on a fixed income that fails to keep up with the exploding cost of oil driven by a*hole hedge funds screwing everyone does not make for a warm winter in the backwoods of Maine. When your choices [...]
sacredhands on Nov 6th, 2007Medical Costs Increase Slower For Seniors Than Those Younger
It sounds good, doesn’t: the medical costs for seniors is increasing at a slower rate than for those poor suckers who are under 65. Gee, why is that? Our guess: The Bush administration has allowed the health care and insurance industry to shift the cost burden onto working stiffs who have no clue of how [...]