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Vicki McClure Davidson | March 7, 2011

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. — Sir Winston Churchill All is not going well at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Per recent Rasmussen polls, 71% of Americans polled believe government workers get better pensions than those in the private [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | July 7, 2009

So, UC Merced, was it worth it having Michelle Obama as a commencement speaker? Even if it cost ten times the available budget? What’s a little debt during a recession if you can have what you really, really, really want? I’m becoming increasingly frustrated with adults who don’t understand the reality of the math that, [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | May 15, 2009

By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone As I noted in a previous Frugal Café post, Pres. Obama delivered the commencement speech to Arizona State University’s graduating students this week. We have here a pretty funny spoof of Obama’s speech, produced by those crazy rascals at Arizona’s NewsTalk 550 KFYI radio station. The [...]

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