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* Where the cyclists in America belong: back alleys, gutters and sidewalks - 1
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* What's Happening To Your Money - 1 messages, 1 author
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TOPIC: Where the cyclists in America belong: back alleys, gutters and
sidewalks
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/8ec3161db9d48413?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 14 2008 10:38 pm
From: "PeteSig"
"Gunner Asch" <gunner@NOSPAMlightspeed.net> wrote in message
news:p6f804hplgbt1ncfps5r9t691q7256j01c@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:40:23 GMT, "PeteSig" <petesig@bigpond.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Gunner Asch" <gunner@NOSPAMlightspeed.net> wrote in message :
>>
>>> That way I dont have to worry
>>> about some spandexed shitfor brains on a $5000 hitech geewhiz bicycle
>>> running a red light and me adding him to the collection of dead birds,
>>> road kill, bugs and so forth already stuck in the grill of my truck.
>>>
>>> Btw...because yall ride a bike, makes you no more and no less special
>>> than any other form of transporation and hardly makes you immune to
>>> the laws of physics. Not to mention the Vehicle Code.....
>>
>>Yes, the vehicle code.....
>>
>>Maybe the code is different in the USA, but we have that bit about
>>"overtaking vehicles to keep clear"
>
> Can bicyclists run red lights as well in your neck of the woods, and
> are immune to all rights of way and so forth?
Not at all. However I was referring to the problems drivers seemed to have
with the OP in overtaking him on a bridge with 2 lanes to choose from. Over
here, overtaking vehicles are required to keep clear.
Are they not in the USA?
--
Cheers
Peter
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TOPIC: What's Happening To Your Money
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/5136f2abb864e070?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 14 2008 10:58 pm
From: Ablang
What's Happening To Your Money
Published: April 13, 2008
People Are Saving Less
* The Commerce Department reports that Americans are saving at the
lowest rate since the Great Depression.
* Personal savings stood at a national level of negative $6.2 million
in January.
* About 40% of Americans say they are saving nothing for retirement.
One reason: Over the past year, inflation rose 4.3% while salaries
rose only 3.4%.
* One in four Americans told the Employee Benefit Research Institute
that they have no savings at all.
Retirement Is Coming Later and Later
* The percentage of Americans 55 or older working full-time increased
from 54.2% in 1993 to 64.4% in 2005.
* Nearly one in four people between 65 and 74 was still in the labor
force in 2006, compared with just one in five in 2000.
* A recent study indicates that 17% of workers have suffered a
reduction of retirement benefits offered by their employers in the
last two years. Of these, only one-third say they are saving more for
their retirement as a result.
Student Debt Is Piling Up
* Tuition costs have climbed 60% since 2000, and the average
graduating senior now owes more than $20,000, according to the
National Center for Education Statistics--twice as much as graduates
owed a decade ago.
* Nearly a quarter of recent grads owe in excess of $25,000.
* While student debt rose 8% from 2005 to 2006, starting salaries rose
only 4%.
http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2008/edition_04-13-2008/4Whats_Happening_To_Your_Money
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