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ALABAMA —Scenes in the 2(X)6 movie Failure
to Launch, starring Matthew McConaughey and Sarah
Jessica Parker, were filmed at Cherokee Rock Village, a
200-acre park with giant sandstone boulders near Lees
burg (pop. 799).
ARKA NS AS —Between 2,500 and 3,(XX) steaks
sizzle on the square in Magnolia (pop. 10,858) during the
annual World Championship Steak Cook Off, where
secret marinades, specially designed grills and succulent
steaks produce a $2,5(X) first-place winner.
FLORIDA —Ground was broken in February
for die states newest town, Ave Maria, and Ave Maria
University, the first major Catholic university to be estab
lished in the United States in 40 years. The 5,000-acre site
is located between Naples (pop. 20,976) and Immokaiee
(pop. 19,763). The town and university are scheduled to
open in 2(X)7.
GEORGlA —Colquitt (pop. 1,939) is known
as the “Mayhaw Capital of the World." Mayhaw fruit
trees grow wild in the regions swamps where the tart
red fruit is harvested by hand or net and savored in
jellies and jams.
Senior Citizens with Money in the Bonk
Should Read This Before lt # s Too Late
If you have worked hard all your life and managed to
put away a nest egg, you might end up losing most of
your life savings because of a defect in Medicare.
If you or your spouse suddenly become ill and require
extended nursing home care...NO ONE will help you
with the nursing home bills. Medicare won’t and neither
will your health insurance. By law you are responsible for
the nursing home bills yourself. Only after you have used
up virtually all of your money, will Medicaid step in.
That’s because Medicaid, like Welfare, only aids the poor.
By some estimates, the average couple’s life savings can
be wiped out after only 13 weeks of nursing home care.
Rich people don't have to worry because they can
afford super-expensive special nursing home insurance,
while the poor are taken care of by Medicaid.
Now that just doesn’t seem fair to working people with
a lifetime of hard-earned savings. The system they have
supported with tax dollars, seems to have forgotten them.
Savings intended to provide security in retirement, or help
for children, can quickly go up in smoke.
The fact is, if you don’t know how to protect your
assets, here’s what can happen to you. By law, before
Medicaid will pay nursing home bills, you may have to
spend all your countable assets except S2OOO (or as low as
SISOO in some states). Countable assets mean not only
money in checking and savings accounts...but also any
funds in CD’s, IRA’s, Savings Bonds, Mutual Funds,
stocks, whole life insurance, annuities and other types of
investments, as well as most trust assets.
They can also take a vacation home or a second car. In
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KENTUCKY —-The Red Mile in Lexington
is one of the nation’s oldest harness-racing tracks.
Named for its red clay track, the venue has hosted
harness races, in which horses pull drivers in two
wheeled carts, since 1875.
LOUISIANA —Americas only floating hotel
barge, River Explorer, is based in New Orleans. The barge
accommodates 198 guests on rolling excursions down in
land waterways, including the Mississippi, Cumberland
•and Ohio rivers, with shore stops at river towns.
MISSISSIPPI —-The late Pulitzer Prize-win
ning author Eudora Welty s home in Jackson opened
in the spring as a literary house museum with details
intact: books and art in abundance and her electric
typewriter on the writing desk beneath a bedroom
window.
NORTH CAROLINA —FIiers can chill
out in rocking chairs at the Charlotte-Douglas Interna
tional Airport. An airport art exhibit, Porchsitting, in
cluded tlx- chairs and, when it came time to dismantle
the exhibit, passengers petitioned the airport to keep the
first-class seating.
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addition, (except for a small personal spending allowance
and a health insurance payment allowance) your entire
Social Security or pension check can be taken to cover
nursing home expenses. What’s more, if you are single or
widowed, you can even lose your house.
According to the federal law called the Spousal
Impoverishment Act, if one spouse requires extended
nursing home care, the healthy spouse can be forced to
surrender HALF of their combined countable assets. And
if you have a sizeable estate, they can legally take MORE
THAN HALF.
Is there anything you can do to stop this nightmare
from happening to you? Yes. You are protected by law and
can use several legal techniques to place your countable
(or vulnerable) assets into the uncountable (or protected)
category. The problem is, most people are not aware of
their legal rights. Unfortunately, most people think
Medicare will take care of them, so they unknowingly
leave their assets vulnerable and in jeopardy.
Your legal rights and the many methods of protecting
your money are now revealed in “How to Protect Your
Financial Security.” This financial self-defense manual
tells you simple legal procedures for preserving your
money and warns of pitfalls to avoid. Here is some of the
valuable material you learn:
• Legal ways to turn countable (or vulnerable) assets
into uncountable (or protected) assets
• How to protect your house from being sold to pay
your nursing home bills
• How to protect a second car or vacation home
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SOUTH CAROLINA —The nation's first
green, or natural, cemetery is Ramsey Creek Preserve in
Westminster (pop. 2,743), where embalming fluids and
vaults are forbidden. Burials are in biodegradable caskets
and graves are marked in natural ways with a tree, shrub
or stone.
TENNESSEE-a larger-than-life statue of the
Rev. Billy Graham with outstretched arms and a Bible,
sculpted by Terrell O’Brien, was unveiled in June at the
Southern Baptist Convention in North Carolina and will
be permanently displayed at the religious organizations
headquarters in Nashville.
VlßGlNlA —Aviation pioneer Scott Crossfield
was the first man to fly at twice the speed of sound,
reaching speeds of 1,300 mph in November 1953. The
84-year-old Herndon (pop. 21,655) pilot died in a plane
crash in April.
WEST VlßGlNlA —Thousandsofpeopleget
a bang out of the old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration
hosted by the volunteer firemen in Ripley (pop. 3,263).
The patriotic celebration attracted President George W.
Bushin 2002.^
• If yuu give your money to your children without
following these precise guidelines, a nursing home
could get your money anyhow
• What you need to know about Living Trusts
•What lawyers never tell you about protecting
your will
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