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	<description>Life in Fort Langley, BC, Canada (near Vancouver)</description>
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		<title>Now I Can Say, “I Told You So, So Take Your Credit and&#8230;”</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2010/07/17/now-i-can-say-%e2%80%9ci-told-you-so-so-take-your-credit-and-%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you have read if you are frequent visitor to my blog, then you know my stance on the Banking industry, and how much I think they are bunch of parasites, and that they have lost their one primary function which is help you store your money – and even that is something to question. Well, from an unlikely source, I was given an email last night that came from my University. What was interesting was the direct comment they used on spelling out the high cost of a service called a merchant's account. The email said that after August of 2010 they will no longer take payments for tuition by domestic credit cards, and that you now must pay in other ways. I personally like cash, but that is me.]]></description>
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		<title>The Black Mark of a Credit Stain of a Corporate Shame</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, as I was driving into work, I heard on the radio, CBC, that a couple had their credit history ruined by a black mark from the TELUS corporation from a bill that was never paid. This story intrigued me because I went through this exact same situation over fifteenth years ago from a couple called City Tell, from up in Prince Rupert. ]]></description>
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		<title>Tom&#8217;s Big Fat Diatribe – What Canada Should Do Instead.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 04:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I took a side, a stand, if you will, about the proposed Bank Tax that Europe and the U.S. wish to impose on Banks so that bailouts like what happened in 2007, and 2008, do not happen again. I sided with the idea that Banks should have a tax imposed on them. My reasoning is simple, in that the public should not be the one on the hook for giving out corporate welfare to them, like we did. Sure. Banks supposedly paid us back in Bonds and other assortments of money, but the burden was placed squarely on the tax payer, and the public purse to bail them out. That should have never happened.]]></description>
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		<title>Inflation and the Kick in the Butt it Gives</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2010/05/21/inflation-and-the-kick-in-the-butt-it-gives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 14:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday a friend of mind was challenging me on the merits of why the HST (Harmonized Sales Tax) will be a great thing. I went to the library where on my course web site, there is a budget calculator, and on that calculator you can factor in how much more you will pay for good with the HST implemented. You can choose your daily needs and services that you use into this, and then change the items and services you would normally use to try and fit the new tax into your budget. Regrettably I cannot link the calculator here because my course outline is password protected and the link comes up with a 404 error.]]></description>
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		<title>Time Travel through Old Catalogues &#8211; The 60s and 70s weren&#8217;t that Bad were They?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was searching the web for some information on a old prehistoric computer, one called the Commodore 64, and its predecessor, the VIC-20. Many many years a go I had both of these bad boys, and I used them a lot. Anyway, while searching for pdf manuals, I hit upon this little website that threw me back even further into nostalgic mood of my humble past. Yes, somebody took the time to scan and copy as many of the old Sears catalogues as they could find and post them so that everyone could look back into this archive of an era gone by.]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Few Seconds of March</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2010/03/31/the-last-few-seconds-of-march/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just thought I would throw up a quick post tonight and try and get some content up for March, being that this month was so dismal from me not having much time to post and care for my web site. I thought I would talk about some things I have noticed about the world around me in terms of the economy for spring of 2010. To sum up in a nutshell, stuff is getting more expensive and access to money is getting harder, and having more strings attached becuase it does not grow on trees any more.]]></description>
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		<title>Post New Years Disorder</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2010/01/04/post-new-years-disorder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that everyone is nicely in debt, suffering from the flu, and ready to get back to work, I now must take a step back and see the world that I am part of and ask myself why people do what they do, especially pondering the question of why is everyone so pissed off this time of year? Since the new year has started I have noticed a shift in the people around me, and more so from those who I work with, but this also applies to some of my friends too. However, I think there is more to it than meats the eye?]]></description>
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		<title>Am-Canada We Stand On Guard for Thee</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2009/12/27/am-canada-we-stand-on-guard-for-thee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a warning for Canadian retailers and the Canadian government at all levels. Watch out if you are planning on inflating prices and taxes. Shopping like this from the US is way too easy. Canada will have to make shopping in the US illegal, or put severe controls on cross-boarder shopping, if Canada wants to continue cranking up the cost of living. Consumers are going to find the best bang for their buck anyway they can, and from what I saw down in the USA, they want our money and they are making it very easy for us Canadians to go there and shop. With our dollar just around $0.05 below parity, the consumer's power to spend outside of Canada is strong.]]></description>
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		<title>Counting Madness – Self-Righteous Resistors</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2009/11/21/counting-madness-%e2%80%93-self-righteous-resistors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inventory was completed, and done on time, but I ended up spending an eleven hour day trying to keep everything together, but still, I had to do some of it from home due to some stragglers begin so late, and one not submitting until midnight. The last four hour stretch of Friday was spent talking on the phone, endlessly going over the inventory procedure until I notice that I was loosing my voice.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the Gammers: Don&#8217;t Over Spend Our Money!</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2009/11/07/2347/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like I'm a writer now. I mean, I'm writing for the general public on what I think are important issues, doing this for the sake of telling the world my thoughts. And yes, I'm doing it as a volunteer, and for some possible bonus marks for one of my classes. I thought that with all the hype going on with Vancouver this coming winter, a more sober look is needed with the Games. I think I lay out my concerns quite nicely here.]]></description>
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