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Old 07-11-2008   #1 (permalink)
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By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Fri Jul 11, 2:14 AM ET

WASHINGTON - It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.

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The "value of a statistical life" is $6.9 million in today's dollars, the Environmental Protection Agency reckoned in May — a drop of nearly $1 million from just five years ago.
What of anything of value has "W" not degraded ?? Our homes are worth less, our dollar is worth less, our jobs worth more only if you have one but to those looking he has all but depressed the wages as it is now an employers market (and by the way thank you "W" for the recession).. This guy has a turds touch everything he has touched has turned to sh*t.......
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I cannot improve on that last post, SN. You have nailed it.
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It costs more money for everything.
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