My philosophy for automobiles is simple. For every $100 paid for the car and major maintenance, the car has to last 1 month. I bought my son a car for $900 after graduation. The total maintenance bill was about $700 including tires over a 2 year period. You can get a fairly nice looking, fairly well maintained car in the 100k mile range for around $1,200, and insurance is cheap! For 20 years of married life, I carried from $500 to $800 per month in car payments, because my wife couldn't be seen in a beater. Now we are broke. You do the math.

One provision in the Fair Tax legislation mandates the repeal of the 16th amendment. No repeal, no national sales tax.

Dan - some original content please. You rip yourself off more than Led Zeppelin.

End ethanol.

You had me at Boortz.

You mean the fruits our our labor - yours and mine. He labors not. "In the first place, I don't sweat, I perspire. In the second place, I don't perspire." - Major Charles Emerson Winchester, MD

If King is elected, then the good citizens of Maine will get the royal screwing they bargained for. He is a carpet bagging, flat lander, and draft dodger. A coward who has raised yet another coward - the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I love Maine, but I fear for what it has become.

Praying for the end of time, that's all that I can do, do, do! Praying for the end of time so I can end my time with you! - Meatloaf

About 4 years ago I researched the cost of education in Atlanta public schools versus the president's private alma mater in Hawaii, Punahou. All the financial data is readily available. The current total of local, state, and federal funds spent per student in Atlanta was approximately the same as the tuition at Punahou. Care to guess which students fared better? The notion that education quality is in any way proportional to the cost per student is a myth that needs to be retired now.

Senator Obama also voted against suspending the Stafford Act after Katrina, then, contrary to his vote, asked the local ministers where the Stafford money was(that he had just opposed doling out).

Has there been a study since the decision that supports the rationale of the court? Are rape victims today less likely to be murdered afterwards? Do the convicted perpetrators admit that they did not commist murder because of the change in the law?