With you captainc!!!! I don't think bely65 would know reality if it flew over and $@!& on his head. Our health Ins. went up another $100 per month ( 9600,00 per year) and were told if there was not a reprieve ( bama signed waiver) from the regulations that were supposed to start it would have been much more then that. What about next year though? Almost $300. a month of my mortgage goes to property taxes, I live in a Row Home thats just under 2000 sq. ft. and neighborhood values have dropped from $300,000, down to $250,000,

Maryland is planing on raising Gas taxes now by as much as .15 per gal. because they over spent and the bama state hand outs last year carried them for the election year so they did nothing. Re-elected our liberal fruit governor who said he was not going to raise taxes but now things are worst then he thought RIGHT!!! The buffalo already voted they'll stand there and be oblivious while be taken.
The county is talking about having to raise its piggyback Income tax to cover the pensions of teachers that the state says they can no longer afford so they want to pass the cost to the counties. Where do they think the counties are going to get the money for there bad pension deals made with the unions back in the 70's We already give an amount equal to %55 of what tax we give the state and they want more.
Unemployment is 9.8 and belly's stupid statement that only %5 college grads are unemployed don't tell you where they are employed at. McDonald's I am sure has plenty of them along with Walmart and Target and the local Grocery store, I even know three that work at the local Kohl's store.

Manufacturing has gone over seas and now tech jobs are going, we can't survive as just a service oriented economy. Who is going to be able to afford the services? What happens to those who can't afford any, who pays and how.