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12-31-2010, 07:02 PM
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Jesus' Name Pentecostal
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Location: near Cincinnati, Ohio
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Re: $5.00 a gallon gas
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Originally Posted by Margies3
Really? Seriously? wow, my water bill was $120+ last month. That's not quite "almost nothing" in my eyes!
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We receive a bill from the Greater Cincinnati Water Works every three months, in March, June, September, and December. Our garbage pickup bill is included. On December 10, I paid $306.83 for three months worth of water service and for trash pickup. The fee for garbage pickup was $51 or $17 per month and the fee for water was $255.83 or about $85 per month (about $3 per day).
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12-31-2010, 09:27 PM
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Location: Wisconsin
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Re: $5.00 a gallon gas
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Originally Posted by Sam
The cost of living increase (COLA) for Social Security checks is based on some figure that some government agency dreams up. Since, according to that agency, the cost of living did not go up in 2009, Social Security recipients did not get a raise in 2010 and since the cost of living did not go up in 2010, Social Security recipients will not be getting a raise in 2011.
I wonder if Senators, Congress Persons and other Government drones and paper shufflers got a raise in 2010 and will get one in 2011.
It's rough on us old folks who live on the Government Dole/Welfare/ Social Security.
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Yeah, my Dad has griped about that. They will have to adjust at some point, but you can be sure you'll get the short end of the stick!
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12-31-2010, 09:28 PM
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Re: $5.00 a gallon gas
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Originally Posted by Apprehended
I'm on a fixed income for life also. In addition to what else I get, SS is a major part.
Yesterday, I talked with SS on the phone about an issue. In the conversation, I asked about COLA. She laughed and said, "You've not been watching the news have you?" I said no but I've listened to it some but I don't recall anything being said about it. She said that there would be no COLA for the next TWO YEARS.
My glass eye fell out, my arthritis went crazy, I lost my Geritol, and my tongue started rattling with my false teeth. I was not speaking in tongues. My face turned red as the sun and just as hot. I asked, "Ma'am, have you been to the grocery store or had to buy gas in the last few months? Besides all of that, I could not find my Viagra. Quite disturbing news, indeed.
Just kidding in the last paragraph but, I was disturbed. Without saying too much more, I politely hung up.
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Yeah, that's what my Dad said. "No inflation??? Ha!!!"
You sir, are hilarious!! 
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12-31-2010, 09:29 PM
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mary
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Re: $5.00 a gallon gas
My water/trash/sewer is combined on one bill. About $75/mo. It just went up from about $55. My dad's upset about the COLA too.
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Last edited by missourimary; 12-31-2010 at 09:33 PM.
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01-01-2011, 03:48 PM
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Re: $5.00 a gallon gas
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Originally Posted by missourimary
My water/trash/sewer is combined on one bill. About $75/mo. It just went up from about $55. My dad's upset about the COLA too.
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Don't move to sunny ca. Your bill is almost the same as my sewer bill which some how is higher than my water bill.I gauge inflation by the cost of a small can of tomato sauce.I could get 4 cans for a dollar.Now I get 2 cans for a dollar and when theres a sale I get 3.
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01-01-2011, 04:25 PM
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mary
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Re: $5.00 a gallon gas
I noticed something odd on my water bill today... I was charged a storm water fee last month. In a state so dry creek beds caught fire. *sigh* well, maybe they're hunting for storm water and charging us a hunting fee. 
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01-01-2011, 04:27 PM
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Re: $5.00 a gallon gas
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Originally Posted by missourimary
I noticed something odd on my water bill today... I was charged a storm water fee last month. In a state so dry creek beds caught fire. *sigh* well, maybe they're hunting for storm water and charging us a hunting fee. |
Hmm...was that a new charge?
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When I was young and clever, I wanted to change the world. Now that I am older and wiser, I strive to change myself. ~
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01-01-2011, 04:35 PM
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mary
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Re: $5.00 a gallon gas
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Originally Posted by ILG
Hmm...was that a new charge?
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Yep, as far as I know. We haven't had any "storm water" so I'm not sure what the charge was for. It was weird.
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What we make of the Bible will never be as great a thing as what the Bible will - if we let it - make of us.~Rich Mullins
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.~Galileo Galilei
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01-01-2011, 04:39 PM
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Re: $5.00 a gallon gas
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Originally Posted by missourimary
Yep, as far as I know. We haven't had any "storm water" so I'm not sure what the charge was for. It was weird.
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Maybe you should call and ask them what it was for. I'm curious!
On a side note, I noticed that for a while the FDIC was giving "unlimited coverage" for your money in the bank, then it went back to normal. I asked the teller about it and they had to bump the question of "Is it back to normal now?" between 4 people before they could answer the question!
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