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  1. They can oftentimes get them for free from the governement. I was primarily thinking of people in less developed countries. I don’t want to turn this into a political discussion.

  2. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/nyregion/27nassau.html

    Mr. Mangano inherited a growing deficit when he took over in January, but his first action worsened it: he eliminated a tax on home heating fuel that would have reaped $40 million in revenue. His 2011 budget also counted on $60 million in phantom concessions from labor unions, more than $20 million in state aid that has not materialized, and $100 million in new borrowing for operating expenses.

    In December, he also unsuccessfully lobbied the Legislature for approval of a quarter-percent increase in the sales tax, which would have raised $60 million.

    Nassau’s renewed fiscal problems have angered many residents, coming so soon after the county’s last fiscal meltdown, in 1999. Results of that crisis included a $100 million state bailout and the establishment of the oversight board.

  3. UGH poor Nassau County
    They pay outrageously high property taxes….
    the thing is though at least when I was growing up and when I visit my mom – their gov’t services aren’t suffering, their schools are very good(in most towns) and their roads are far better paved then ours are here – so I guess what’s scary is – imagine how much better Nassau could be if the taxes weren’t being misappropriated

  4. “No, m4l, I’m not interested in male strip clubs. What I was referring to was how guys phrase things to keep their women from knowing what is really going on. We women need to know some of these codes to tell when the guys are lying! :-)”

    There is absolutely no way I could hide going to a strip club. You reek of stripper when you go to one of those places. Nothing to do but be totally straight up. “Hey baby, I’m home, went to Scores with so and so. I reek of stripper so lemme take a shower before I come to bed.”

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