Frugal Café Blog Zone

Vicki McClure Davidson | February 9, 2012

  Can’t afford something? Wait long enough and it may become a “right” that American taxpayers (or American phone users, in this case) will unwittingly or unwillingly fund. Free cell phones for low-income people — you can thank Congress and Team Clinton for this one. Especially since it may pan out that even millionaires are [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | February 1, 2012

  Think back to a year ago in Madison, Wisconsin. If you thought the pre-OWS liberal protests, vandalism, garbage, filth, and death threats in Madison against Gov. Scott Walker for his efforts to save the state from going belly up by pruning Wisconsin’s bleeding state budget, by dismantling the collective bargaining power of the state’s [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 27, 2012

  The antipiracy legislation of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) was the most closely followed news topic last week among Americans ages 18 to 29, per a newly released Pew Research Center poll. The controversial, vaguely written, power-grabbing congressional bills have been halted in their tracks, following a titanic outcry [...]

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