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Create Your Own Job, Part 2 (Issue 102)

By Freedom Lady | October 6, 2008

Ideas on creating a job
Yesterday I heard on the news that eight percent of jobs in this country were related to the housing industry. With the housing market in a dire financial situation, I know many are out of work. However, do not be despondent, put on your thinking cap and figure out a way [...]

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Will Rogers: Great Political Humorist Of The Great Depression (Issue 99)

By Freedom Lady | October 4, 2008

It would surely be interesting to have the great and popular political humorist, Will Rogers, around today to lighten things up a bit during these times of crisis that, “try men’s soul.” Unfortunately, he died in an airplane crash on August 15, 1935.
He and Wiley Post (the great flier who was the first to fly [...]

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Lived Through The Great Depression Of The 1930s, Part 2 (Issue 96)

By Freedom Lady | October 2, 2008

On the paternal side of my family, because they lived in the country, my aunts and uncles did not work in cotton mills. Several went to college to become teachers and one a doctor. In retrospect, I marvel at the way my grandfather managed his farm and took care of so many including all the [...]

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I Lived Through The Great Depression In The 1930s (Issue 95)

By Freedom Lady | October 1, 2008

The Great Depression is an era I have touched on briefly in other articles. Yet the unavailability of gas to operate vehicles brings back many memories of that period called The Great Depression when we traveled around by horse and buggy, wagons, and walking. My grandparents did have A-model fords.
 
Because my parents were very young [...]

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Out Of Gas, Out Of Money, Out Of Patience (Issue 87)

By Freedom Lady | September 27, 2008

The bailout package I’ve been saying was $800 billion is $700 billion. When the news first broke, there was some confusion about it. Now there’s a lot of confusion as we listen to the principals like the Secretary of Treasury and the other guy testifying before congress, as well as members of Congress. They are [...]

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