[fabsroman]

Tater,

The solution for the schools and the police force would involve raising taxes, and I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be too happy about that. Times are changing. Honestly, we cannot say that we couldn't see this coming. I saw the real estate bust coming when my wife, a pharmacist, and I, an attorney/CPA, would be struggling to own a house and I figured that gas prices would eventually go up too since it was $5.00 a gallon in Italy when I went over there in 2001. I just didn't see everything hitting at once, with an increase in the cost of food on top of it all, partially due to crops being used for alternative fuel.

It just might come down to a lot of us riding bicycles. Luckily, that is my thing. Just put in a 40 mile ride today and I already have a trailer for the bicycle just in case we need to start using it for grocery shopping and small errands. Luckily, we live across the street from almost everything, so it isn't too bad for us, but my wife is a ways from her work and we are 30 miles from my parents.