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Megan DaGata — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:16:04 -0500

Not many people agree with this ideology, but it is something that I have preached since my first econ class in college. The pendulum was bound to swing the other direction, but it is hard to deal with the consequence of that action. The question was posed as to whether I could live on 5% less, and well, my answer is no. My husband has not been able to find a job since Hurricane Ike (in September) and we have eaten out TWICE in the last 6 months. If rent were less we could do more, but I am only paying my landlord $50 after she pays the mortgage on the home.

Comments on Making your Top Ten list of Non-Profits

Megan DaGata — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:24:39 -0500

What about a non-profit that has no board, no budget, benefits hundreds of thousands daily, and economic revenue for several dozen countries willing to work with a lone engineer and some very giving friends? I find it difficult to see the value in non-profits that take hundreds of thousands of dollars to benefit their communities but nothing ever seems to get done. I have a friend with a non-profit, you will not hear about it much in the US. It is a non-profit that benefits everyone in the community that allows them to work there.

Why this stimulus isn't going to help most of us...

Megan DaGata — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:38:26 -0500

Okay, I haven't posted in a long while, but what has their been to post about? The election? Sarah Palin? New tech gadgets that are old before they hit the market? I am interested in all those things, but we all have our opinions on them and I kept mine to myself.

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Megan DaGata — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:43:20 -0400

To be honest, I ahve been a member since last fall and I haven't seen any posts until yours. Should you find out something, please post it so we can all see. Thanks!

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Megan DaGata — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:03:32 -0400

I think we would all like to point fingers and place the blame on anything but the system. Truth is, the system is at fault and there is not a way to fix it with out allowing the pendulum to swing. There are good and bad economic points in the history of this planet, but they have never before been so intertwined. We push for globalism and then we don't realize how global our prinicpals really are until they break down. There is a lot of good because of the system as it has evolved, but the economy should have never been removed from a gold standard.

Fast Talk Response -

Megan DaGata — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:57:01 -0400

My reaction was the same as Travis'. Useful or not, they should sell it. eBay isn't eBay when they are acting as an online telephone company and chat service.

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Megan DaGata — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:15:53 -0400

I have witnessed a large corporation go nearly bankrupt by bending to Wal-Marts whims. When is the corporate evironment going to stop?! Isn't there a threshhold that you finally have to say enough is enough?! I wish my friends at the business I spoke of could just pull their merchandise from Wal-Mart and still make enough to stay afloat.

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Megan DaGata — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:51:21 -0400

Hollywood will do well. They have always done well. Even during the great depression of the thirties people turned out to watch as a method of escape. They may not have multimillion dollar blockbuster sales like they have the last 20 or so years, but the base of their demographic will not disappear.

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Megan DaGata — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:34:24 -0400

I don't like the idea of suspending a program until there is one to replace it to continue the goals of the space program. We have not had a big space achievement in over a decade and the ISS is not the first such product that is underwhelming. Orion is not really even a step forward in space flight, it is a step sideways. We are reverting to craft that are not reusable and will increase the amount of debris flying around. Is not the goals of our race to reduce pollutants, not create more in a new place?!

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Megan DaGata — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:19:29 -0400

Each of us is only able to do our part. If all of us try every day to do something to save the earth, the air and our fellow man, than the future is all the better for it. Eventually there will be no coal plants, but the will still determine if our efforts now are fruitful or if we are just spinning our wheels.