The family lived in a high crime neighborhood and earned $50,000 per year from sales at a local family store. To live it cost them;
Mortgage: $12,000 Food: $13,000/yr Security: $5,000 Transportation: $11,000 Taxes: $8,000
This left them with $1,000/yr for discretionary spending. Also they had some savings. Education savings: $10,000 nest egg Retirement . . . → Read More: What’s Wrong With Our Government?

Is The “Racial Thing” Going Too Far?
USDA Employee Shirley Sherrod
Shirley Sherrod, A black USDA employee, was video taped speaking at a NAACP function saying that she withheld help to a white farmer who came to her for help. She said she withheld her full help and gave him sub-par treatment because she felt he was trying to show . . . → Read More: Is The “Racial Thing” Going Too Far?