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It is very disconcerting to have a relationship with folks who are literally under constant financial stress because they never have enough money supply to meet the money demand! It is the kind of pressure that kills initiative, creativity, the immune system, and families! In fact, the list of negatives connected with financial problems is…
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Just the other day, I was thinking (yes, once in a while I think I think!) and it crossed my mind to make a list of things I can do without a license provided by some level of government. I came up with a very short list, if a list it can be called. Meanwhile,…
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The “regular” American family lives from paycheck to paycheck … or so they say. I believe we need to add a caveat: they live from behind paycheck to behind the next paycheck. You may be saying, “Paul, explain!” Okay, here’s the explanation in a nutshell: “Most Americans are “playing catch up.” They are always behind.…
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Hello, This is Dr. Paul Collins and I own this site. I hope to be able to welcome you as a guest writer. Whether or not I can, will depend on you. What you write has to be legal, moral, and ethical. It has to use language that is suitable for this site (no questionable…
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Electric switches not connected have no power. Animals without connection perish and become extinct. People cannot exist alone. Even a hermit has to have a sense of connection to something. With the advent of the telegraph, radio, the telephone, television, cell phones, and the Internet, human connection is now possible to a degree unknown in…
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Twice in the last week, I have heard the statement ‘It’s what we think we know that keeps us from learning.” Now, that is a truth! Also, do you remember the comedy show on television that had a segment with a grown woman (Lily Tomlin) dressed as a little girl seated in an over-sized rocking…
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Whoa! Wait a minute! Surely, they don’t mean it! Mean what? Life will never be the same? I don’t know about that! I have seen life repeat itself. I have seen history repeat itself. I don’t want to ever say never. Life is always a forward motion. Let it run its course and it begins…
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by Mr. I’van Idea I Can Spell Veracity, But Can’t Be Certain I’ve Found It. The news on television is very confusing. From channel to channel, it’s becoming more and more difficult to determine who is liberal, progressive, moderate, or conservative. Could it be that they all share the same script but choose the parts…
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Here we go! It’s time for a second installment about money … the love of which is the root of all evil! This statement begs the question, “When is enough (money) enough (money)?” There are probably as many answers to the question as there are investors, people with a shortage of money, and the “filthy…
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Mills, pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half dollars, and dollars … these coins are rapidly becoming extinct. Mills_are_ extinct. A mill was one tenth of one cent and used as a sales tax to fund the “Old Age Pension” and that, too, is extinct. A few years ago, pennies were considered useless and of no real…
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