Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain pulled off an upset victory in the Florida straw poll over the weekend, campaigning on his 9-9-9 plan to cut taxes.

The former Godfather’s Pizza CEO won the poll by 22 points over Texas Governor Rick Perry, with 37 percent for Cain versus 15 percent for Perry and 14 percent for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. C

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One of the most critically important things to do when you are speaking with a debt collector is to take detailed notes. The more detail that you can provide about the conversations, the more credibility and believability that you will have if you are involved in a lawsuit against the collector.

And before you even get to a lawsuit, the more knowledge you have of your conversations, the more intelligently and persuasively you can speak with the debt collectors. Debt collectors are notorious for putting false information in their notes in order to try to gain some type of moral advantage over you by convincing you that you broke your promise.

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When it comes to accruing debt, it is really and truly tough for people to face the cold hard fact that they are in way over their head. It’s much easier for you to turn things around when you are aware of what the signs are for too much debt, and if you act quickly and promptly as soon as these signs do begin to appear. Do not allow yourself to be lulled into any kind of a false sense of security just because you are paying the tiny minimum balance amounts of your credit cards every month.

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Sometimes no matter what you do, you end up taking a big financial hit. My wife and I are (still) in the middle of moving. We ended up putting a bunch of our things in storage, traveling for a few weeks, and then headed to the city we knew we would end up in. We didn’t know where we were going to end up living, but we had a place to stay for a week, so we figured we would sort out those little details when we got there. Luckily, it only took a few hours after we arrived to find a place we liked and could afford, so we took it!

Unfortunately, we weren’t allowed to move in right away, as the place had been vacant for quite some time and needed a bit of cleaning up and fixing before we could move in. Als

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