Tag Archive ‘inflation’

 

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 [...]