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Joan Ganz Cooney | 04/19/2009 11:00 pm

Joan Ganz Cooney to Country: 'Sober Up'

By Joan Ganz Cooney

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In response to: As we fight through difficult times, what might be the blessings of adversity?

Joan Ganz Cooney

One can hope that the country sobers up and starts to understand that everyone will have to make sacrifices if we are ever going to get our fiscal house in order and our economy on the right track.

Read more about: Adversity, Economic Crisis, Lifestyle, Money

4 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

Joan you are right, I wish the government would realize that and cut back and not spend so much except on job creation.

By Frannie Em on 04/20/2009 1:14 am

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Cheryl Mitchell

Sometimes we have to spend money to make money. If everybody held on and kept their money under the mattress, what then?!

By Cheryl Mitchell on 04/20/2009 8:13 am

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O.K., now that we’re all ‘sober’ can we define sacrifice a bit? The comment is so nebulous.

By nan rae on 04/21/2009 1:59 pm

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How much money can the billionaires spend to improve the economy for everybody?

By albert miller on 04/22/2009 3:35 pm

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