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Vicki McClure Davidson | April 6, 2009

By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone This information is straight out of an Orwell sci-fi novel. Not only would government waste billions of dollars to monitor us over the Internet, but WE would be paying for our monitoring. Did the temperature in the room just drop 15 degrees? From WorldNetDaily, April 4, [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | December 30, 2008

By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone George Orwell’s chilling futuristic novel 1984, where oppressive government oversight is in all facets of citizens’ lives, seems to be becoming a reality. In Oregon, cars equipped with GPS devices will be able to document amount of miles driven, and from that data, new taxes levied [...]

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