Mr. Lieto, the New York businessman, discovered the frustrations an innocent party can face as he worked for months to keep open his check-cashing business after federal agents seized his firm's working capital.

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And the obvious question to ask after that is whether the capital and people working in the future will produce enough goods and services to provide those who have retired with the standard of living that they expect or at least hope to have, based on the dollar value of their retirement savings and entitlement benefits.

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However, after the 1996 capital gains tax cut got our economic pipe fitters working overtime, the Fed stood idly by while the our monetary water pressure fell.

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By early Monday, with more than 9 inches of snow reported in some areas of Denver, airline operations in the Colorado capital were working to return to normal a day after more than 200 of 1, 500 flights had been canceled and hundreds more flights were delayed because of the weather, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

CNN: February 25, 2013 -- Updated 1018 GMT (1818 HKT)

Airlines in the Colorado capital were working to return to normal operations a day after more than 200 of 1, 500 flights had been canceled and hundreds more flights were delayed because of the weather, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

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