Just was sent a copy of this and have spent the last two hours reading your articles. I heard Mollie Ivan's voice on the radio yesterday. She was the doctor in charge of the neonatal unit at Galveston's hospital. I almost cried, remembering how much I missed Mollie and how much we need people like her. I'm so excited to find you and somehow maybe we'll not be defeated this election.

Hyundai does not pay those wages. look into their wage scale for a good cry. I spoke to a fulltime, with overtime worker at the Montgomery Hyundai plant who made less than $25,000 in a year and had his children on state health insurance. No health insurance at all for his wife. I could not believe these southern Senators: I'm for workers, against Unions!! Bailout are against conservative values!! Every one of them supported huge payments to get those foreign commpanies into their states. I also understand that the foreign countries are bailing out their own car companies.

Twenty five years ago, Ft Lauderdale voters became Democratic, not Republican as New York Jews retired to the area. I remember the shock when voters approved libraries, parks and schools. Even though the retirees were older, they believed in community and they voted for services for children. I cannot believe the number of people I hear on television ranting about high union salaries, but not a word about the high salaries of their buddies at the top. Meanwhile, the Southern states pay fortunes for forign companies, Hyundai for an example in Alabama, to come here and pay nothing with few benefits, leaving the employees' children dependent on the state for health care. I even heard one of those Alabama Senators braying that the automobile employees were unskilled labor and so should get only low pay. These people must not really beliee in the Jesus and Rapture they keep pushing on the rest of us. If I believed as they say they do, I would be very afraid of my God's wrath for how they treat other people. Meanwhile, I can only pray they see their sins and save the jobs they are threatening.

I was caring for my mother in Little Rock when Mr. Duggar, who was in the state legislature, ran for Congress. Mrs. Duggar was pregnant, of course, and homeschooling their children, but he wanted to run over to Washington and tell the rest of us how to live: many, many more babies. Of course, this would leave his wife to care for the children virtually alone. I also find this family's ability to get other people to support their family disgusting. The trip to Disneyland with donated vans, tickets, etc. was my favorite, but deliberately raising your family on donated clothing etc. is also way beyond the pale. I also hope the children rebel: to start with, the girls should cut their hair and wear pants instead of those awful long skirts.

A few years ago there was a man like this in Arkansas and Florida has a woman who finished off not only husbands but sons. There always seems to be another victim ready to marry these people. Human nature is a strange thing.

parade Magazine just had a financial article that stated many people were not effected financially by the downturn in house prices because their mortgages were paid off. The article said this was a bad financial decision because they were missing the tax breaks on mortgage interest (or some other dumb reason).

Experts(??) still advise that we don't pay off our mortgages

but get the mortgage interest tax break and put that money into the stock market. I recently read in Parade Magazine

an article saying that a large minority of Americans were not at risk of foreclosure because their mortgages were paid off. The article went on to say what poor financial decisions these people had made, missing the mortgage interest tax breaks! I just heard on PBS a financial advisor saying he was an expert and would see bad times coming and be able to protect himself. Needless to say, he was still in his twenties. The State of Florida for the past few years (Gov. Bush!) has encouraged retirees to take lump sums rather than their pensions. The pension funds have lost a lot, but I'll bet the retirees with their lump sums lost a lot more. I know several people who lost their savings in the 2000 stock market. Many more will join them now. We should have listened to our depression raised parents.

Please stop all infomercials! Susie knows no more about finances than I do, except how to rip off lots of people. And for health, use people like David Lipschek (sp) in Arkansas. There are many wonderful PBS shows all over the country. Use them.

Coulters books are only best selling, as far as I can see, because they are giving them away. I have received many offers of her books FREE, including the current one. I thought best selling meant that people were buying the books.

Am I the only one who notices the gun nuts are going crazy. It is impossible to buy bullets because they are all sold out. Meanwhile, no one wants to agree with Mexico that our guns are arming their drug cartels. The police chief of Miami has been screaming for years about the assault rifles. Meanwhile, all the massacres around our country are being blamed on the economy. And talk radio blames the whole thing on Obama.