why not worry about the mercury filled vaccines and bulbs exposed to the little children rather than the bigger things.

I do not line dry much anymore. I did in AZ because the clothes would dry almost as fast as I put them up. I also used cloth diapers and hung them up. I read that the sun sanitizes the clothes naturally. I preferred not to use a lot of detergents and chemicals on the little ones, too.

Out here in NH there are not as many sunny days. In FL, where we vacationed, I found that when you hang clothes out to dry, they seem to get wetter.

Air conditioning in AZ was a must. I am not sure why people bother with one in NH. We use a window fan on those 3 extremely hot days of summer.

I am not impressed with those new bulbs either. I would not want to use them around small children....seems really unsafe for them.

The smaller the company, the hight the premiums. We cannot afford insurance through my husbands work so we go through my work which has many, many employees. We are lucky, because not too many have the option to choose. Before, when I did not work, we paid an unreasonable amount for insurance that we did not use.

In AZ we chose to go to an independent, like you would do for car insurance, but I am told that this cannot be done in NH.

give away my hard earned money for free? Why am I forced to support people, gov't agencies and other stuff that I don't want to support?

BTW many have us have written letters to the editor and have not asked for money from the CM. Does this not help their paper in any way?

another BTW.....since when does the CM ever really give us the news, anyway, most of it is just many different opinions. It is more like a gossip magazine.

The advertisers pay for the paper so that we will buy their product. If we all stop reading this paper, on-line or other, then they will stop advertising in the paper.....or on my scene.

and I love the quote from the song. and yes, no matter how hard we have it sometime, we do still have it better than other countries.
I do think that struggling between hard times builds character and promotes hard work. A generation ago families had to do this, but now they just wait for the gov't check. My brother and I are hard working folks because we know what it was like to go without and no one was around to "give" us everything. I personally think we are better people for knowing that if you want something you don't beg, borrow or steal....you work hard for it.