Gas Prices Around The World

Here are examples of gas prices around the world:
United Kingdom  – $8.40
Netherlands – $8.39
France – $8.05
Italy – $7.74
USA – $3.95
Egypt – $0.90
Qatar – $0.74
Kuwait – $0.90
Bahrain – $0.81
Iran – $0.40
Venezuela – $0.13

DO I NEED THAT?

Gas is higher, interest rates are higher, food is higher, entertainment is higher and so on & on & on!
What can we do to become more financially stable? Financial freedom begins at home. We give you a few tips below.

Limit your everyday spending. We all buy things that we do not need every day. If [...]

Are You Seeing $4 A Gallon?

Okay, how did this happen? Supply and demand has catapulted us into using more and finding less. According to CNN Money, this is how we got from there to here!
2004 – Low gas prices in the 90’s helped to send the supply and demand upward by 2004 because of rapid consumption domestically (larger vehicles) [...]

Up, Up & Away!

Will taxes go higher in the near future? Let’s look at the statistics. In 1980 the top federal income tax bracket was 70%. Yes, for those of you who were still in the cradle, the rate was double of what it is today. If you were the middle class making $100,000 in today’s dollars, you [...]

Waste Not Want Not ?

More money wasted or not? You be the judge.

Government auditors spent the past five years examining federal programs and found 22% with a total budget of $123 billion failed to show any positive impact.
Wasteful duplication: 342 economic development programs, 130 programs for disabled, 130 programs serving at-risk youth, 90 early childhood development programs, 75 programs [...]

CUT IT OUT!

Can any of these items be cut? You be the judge. There is always more to the story than what you see here.

The Conservation Reserve program pays farmers $2 billion annually not to farm their land.
The Army Corps of Engineers has been accused of illegally manipulating data to justify expensive public works projects.
Congress recently [...]

HOLY COW!! Is This For Real?

Expenditures:

The federal government made at least $55 billion in overpayments in 2007.
The Pentagon recently spent $998,798 shipping two 19-cent washers to Texas.
Corporate welfare cost $60 billion annually versus $50 billion for homeland security.
Over half of all farm subsidies go to corporate farms with average incomes of $200,000.
Congress appropriated $20 million for “commemoration of success” celebrations [...]