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Couple incorporates cutting-edge water-savers in their home

Looking for a new home and a new challenge, the couple decided to
distill everything they had learned into a house they could call their
own. They bought a hillside lot in Mount Washington in early 2008, broke
ground on the project in 2009 and moved into the new house this April.
The 2,400-square-foot house cost them about $250 per square foot to
build, a relatively modest amount given the features that have been
incorporated into the design.

The couple let California's scarcity of two resources ‹ power and water
‹ shape the design philosophy for a home that already was steeped in a
minimalist, Bauhaus aesthetic. In Germany, electricity costs more than
double what it costs in L.A. and water prices are 13 times higher, so it
made sense for the couple to start there.
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Both the House and Senate budget plan would cut Social Security and Medicare, while cutting taxes on the wealthy.

Kucinich noted that none of the government programs targeted for
elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans
"appeared on the GAO's list of government programs at high risk of
waste, fraud and abuse."
http://www.politifact.com/ohio/state...is-kucinich/re
p-dennis-kucinich-says-gop-budget-cuts-dont-targ/


[W]e have the situation with the deficit and the debt and spending and jobs. And itıs not that difficult to get out of it. The first thing you do is you get rid of corporate welfare. Thatıs hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The second is you tax corporations so that they donıt get away with no taxation.
- Ralph Nader
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/19/ralph_naders_solution_to_debt_crisis
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