Patriotic Millionaires Support Ending Tax Breaks

U.S. millionaires are asking President Obama to end the BushBush-era tax cuts for wealthy Americans. 45 millionaires have joined the group Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength to ask Obama to discontinue the tax breaks established for them during the Bush administration.  This article also contains little known facts about millionaires.

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More Private Sector Jobs Created in 2010 than ENTIRE Bush Presidency

When I first read this I thought it was a typo. Then I read the entire article and realized that it was indeed true. This story is an encouraging indicator that the economy is slowly improving, and  an indictment on the lack of jobs created during President Bush's 8 years in the White House.

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Builders of Hope - rebuilding homes, neighborhoods and lives

This story has it all, saving older houses from demolition, reducing waste at landfills, creating "green" homes, providing affordable housing and giving  homeless and the recently incarcerated a job.

Builders of Hope  is a remarkable North Carolina-based charity that saves older houses from demolition (frequently moving them to a new site), remodels them to green standards, and then sells them at below-market rates to qualifying buyers.Watch the video, read the article and be inspired.

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