Comments on: Keeping up with the Bidens http://www.one.org/blog/2008/09/19/keeping-up-with-the-bidens/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:41:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Mike Hakes http://www.one.org/blog/2008/09/19/keeping-up-with-the-bidens/#comment-550084 Mike Hakes Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:37:10 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/2008/09/19/keeping-up-with-the-bidens/#comment-550084 This last August, I drove from Alberta to New York and back again. In all of my 53 years of living I've never driven across the United States to gain as many memories as I've had of the homeless (mostly young or 30-something (wo)men) that I saw during this trip. It was very odd in that in the United States of America that there would be so much poverty that people could not even afford to have 'cardboard box' homes. My questions relates to 'what' any ONE of the candidates is going to do to reduce the punishment exacted on an average American citizen by: 1) Taxes, 2) excessive lawsuit & lawyering awards, 3) medical costs that can wipe out an entire family's saving in one episode This last August, I drove from Alberta to New York and back again. In all of my 53 years of
living I’ve never driven across the United States to gain as many memories as I’ve had of the
homeless (mostly young or 30-something (wo)men) that I saw during this trip.

It was very odd in that in the United States of America that there would be so much poverty
that people could not even afford to have ‘cardboard box’ homes.

My questions relates to ‘what’ any ONE of the candidates is going to do to reduce the punishment
exacted on an average American citizen by:
1) Taxes, 2) excessive lawsuit & lawyering awards, 3) medical costs that can wipe out an entire family’s saving in one episode

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