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My dad is retired UAW (they never say GM). I am not going to staunchly defend GM as a business entity, and in fact GM/UAW was one of the early catalysts that caused me to become more conservative. Quick aside, I was an enlisted electronics/avionics guy and felt well-qualified to enter the skilled trades when a big opening occurred in our hometown plant in the 90s. As it turns out, there were quotas so it didn’t work out and all I’ve ever really wanted to do was live around that area (youngstown) but it’s such a depressed economy I’ve not been able to pull it off. Not with niche tech skills and an advanced degree. I managed to live there from 2000-2005 as a consultant, but had to give up traveling.

Now back to my dad’s retirement. As near as I can tell for his 29 or so years he collects about $2300 per month. I am not sure what healthcare premiums are, but they are not free. When he hits SS age, his pension will be reduced by the amount of money he gets from SS. I am not even sure if he’s set this up well so that my mom gets roughly the same amount if he should pass.

When I was a little toddler he was probably making $4-5 per hour, and by the time he retired, I’d guess he was up around $25/hour. I don’t think these people are living high on the hog at all. I cannot fathom how it’s said that these folks are making what’s routinely reported. My neighbor where I lived before coming here told me once his salary was about 33. I took that as a per year, but let’s say it was monthly. At the time I was making 89K and thinking shit how does this guy do it.

Certain positions pay well, the trades for instance. Many guys make good money by working as many Saturday’s (time X 1.5) or Sunday’s (double time). Of course they had no life, just work.

In any event my parents didn’t have college money for me, lived in a tiny little house in need of much repair, and did for us what they could. Neither were educated and they had me at such a young age, that priorities of parenting were more important than getting back to school. My feeling is that we were not poor, and didn’t need welfare, but outside of that we weren’t living it up, taking fancy vacations, etc.

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[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
What are your favorite Rush songs? Mine are “Tom Sawyer”, “The Big Money” and “Manhattan Project”. That lyric from the last one about the pilot of the Enola Gay flying out of the shockwave on that August day is incredible.

Personal favorite among rock bands is Blue Oyster Cult. Thinking man’s heavy metal.

Top five would be: Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Rush and Prince.[/quote]

Damn Allan we have a lot in common. Though my dislike of communinism is less personal as my military days were spent fixing Avionics on B-1B Bombers, not out in the mess.

Now as to music, I always have Led Zep and Pink Floyd in my top. However Rush is usually right in there around 3rd (numbers aren’t important), and yet I am a big fan of Prince and he doesn’t fit neatly into my typical taste. Actually the 80’s-90s prince I have not checked anything out recently. I just turned 40 so this was big in my era and I recall feeling like Prince was sort of the anti-Michael. Outwardly dirty, playing his lead guitar, spawning many acts around him. Great mind. I don’t know BOC very well outside of the typical mainstays. The lyric that sits in my head though is “Time to play B-sides”. You have to be a certain age to appreciate that.

I have to say though sometime in May my 11 year old wanted to go to his first concert and our choice was Def Leppard/Styx/Reo (I think) at Coors to go to Irvine to see Rush. We picked Rush and man that was the best concert I’ve been to. Wow do those guys rock. The thing is I’ve not been listening to Rush’s music that much lately and one of my favorite songs from the concert was one I was vaguely familiar with Dreamline. Great song, in fact I’ll hit youtube and find a good live version as I am typing, it Rocks a lot more live than you might think if you’ve heard the studio version. Couldn’t get the concert version out of my head for weeks. We are young….

My 11 year old now has Rush as his favorite band, and you hear him in the garage banging away on the guitar trying to play several of their songs. He even recorded Rush in Rio onto the DVR and won’t let my other son delete it.

My favorite song is Red Barchetta. Subdivisions, Time Stand Still, is another one of those that reminds me of the BOC- B-sides reference. Spirit of Radio.

As far as newer stuff some of the System of a Down/Serj Tankian stuff sounds cool. I really like this “Inside the Fire” by Disturbed.

[CardiffBaseball]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
What are your favorite Rush songs? Mine are “Tom Sawyer”, “The Big Money” and “Manhattan Project”. That lyric from the last one about the pilot of the Enola Gay flying out of the shockwave on that August day is incredible.

Personal favorite among rock bands is Blue Oyster Cult. Thinking man’s heavy metal.

Top five would be: Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Rush and Prince.[/quote]

Damn Allan we have a lot in common. Though my dislike of communinism is less personal as my military days were spent fixing Avionics on B-1B Bombers, not out in the mess.

Now as to music, I always have Led Zep and Pink Floyd in my top. However Rush is usually right in there around 3rd (numbers aren’t important), and yet I am a big fan of Prince and he doesn’t fit neatly into my typical taste. Actually the 80’s-90s prince I have not checked anything out recently. I just turned 40 so this was big in my era and I recall feeling like Prince was sort of the anti-Michael. Outwardly dirty, playing his lead guitar, spawning many acts around him. Great mind. I don’t know BOC very well outside of the typical mainstays. The lyric that sits in my head though is “Time to play B-sides”. You have to be a certain age to appreciate that.

I have to say though sometime in May my 11 year old wanted to go to his first concert and our choice was Def Leppard/Styx/Reo (I think) at Coors to go to Irvine to see Rush. We picked Rush and man that was the best concert I’ve been to. Wow do those guys rock. The thing is I’ve not been listening to Rush’s music that much lately and one of my favorite songs from the concert was one I was vaguely familiar with Dreamline. Great song, in fact I’ll hit youtube and find a good live version as I am typing, it Rocks a lot more live than you might think if you’ve heard the studio version. Couldn’t get the concert version out of my head for weeks. We are young….

My 11 year old now has Rush as his favorite band, and you hear him in the garage banging away on the guitar trying to play several of their songs. He even recorded Rush in Rio onto the DVR and won’t let my other son delete it.

My favorite song is Red Barchetta. Subdivisions, Time Stand Still, is another one of those that reminds me of the BOC- B-sides reference. Spirit of Radio.

As far as newer stuff some of the System of a Down/Serj Tankian stuff sounds cool. I really like this “Inside the Fire” by Disturbed.

[CardiffBaseball]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
What are your favorite Rush songs? Mine are “Tom Sawyer”, “The Big Money” and “Manhattan Project”. That lyric from the last one about the pilot of the Enola Gay flying out of the shockwave on that August day is incredible.

Personal favorite among rock bands is Blue Oyster Cult. Thinking man’s heavy metal.

Top five would be: Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Rush and Prince.[/quote]

Damn Allan we have a lot in common. Though my dislike of communinism is less personal as my military days were spent fixing Avionics on B-1B Bombers, not out in the mess.

Now as to music, I always have Led Zep and Pink Floyd in my top. However Rush is usually right in there around 3rd (numbers aren’t important), and yet I am a big fan of Prince and he doesn’t fit neatly into my typical taste. Actually the 80’s-90s prince I have not checked anything out recently. I just turned 40 so this was big in my era and I recall feeling like Prince was sort of the anti-Michael. Outwardly dirty, playing his lead guitar, spawning many acts around him. Great mind. I don’t know BOC very well outside of the typical mainstays. The lyric that sits in my head though is “Time to play B-sides”. You have to be a certain age to appreciate that.

I have to say though sometime in May my 11 year old wanted to go to his first concert and our choice was Def Leppard/Styx/Reo (I think) at Coors to go to Irvine to see Rush. We picked Rush and man that was the best concert I’ve been to. Wow do those guys rock. The thing is I’ve not been listening to Rush’s music that much lately and one of my favorite songs from the concert was one I was vaguely familiar with Dreamline. Great song, in fact I’ll hit youtube and find a good live version as I am typing, it Rocks a lot more live than you might think if you’ve heard the studio version. Couldn’t get the concert version out of my head for weeks. We are young….

My 11 year old now has Rush as his favorite band, and you hear him in the garage banging away on the guitar trying to play several of their songs. He even recorded Rush in Rio onto the DVR and won’t let my other son delete it.

My favorite song is Red Barchetta. Subdivisions, Time Stand Still, is another one of those that reminds me of the BOC- B-sides reference. Spirit of Radio.

As far as newer stuff some of the System of a Down/Serj Tankian stuff sounds cool. I really like this “Inside the Fire” by Disturbed.

[CardiffBaseball]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
What are your favorite Rush songs? Mine are “Tom Sawyer”, “The Big Money” and “Manhattan Project”. That lyric from the last one about the pilot of the Enola Gay flying out of the shockwave on that August day is incredible.

Personal favorite among rock bands is Blue Oyster Cult. Thinking man’s heavy metal.

Top five would be: Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Rush and Prince.[/quote]

Damn Allan we have a lot in common. Though my dislike of communinism is less personal as my military days were spent fixing Avionics on B-1B Bombers, not out in the mess.

Now as to music, I always have Led Zep and Pink Floyd in my top. However Rush is usually right in there around 3rd (numbers aren’t important), and yet I am a big fan of Prince and he doesn’t fit neatly into my typical taste. Actually the 80’s-90s prince I have not checked anything out recently. I just turned 40 so this was big in my era and I recall feeling like Prince was sort of the anti-Michael. Outwardly dirty, playing his lead guitar, spawning many acts around him. Great mind. I don’t know BOC very well outside of the typical mainstays. The lyric that sits in my head though is “Time to play B-sides”. You have to be a certain age to appreciate that.

I have to say though sometime in May my 11 year old wanted to go to his first concert and our choice was Def Leppard/Styx/Reo (I think) at Coors to go to Irvine to see Rush. We picked Rush and man that was the best concert I’ve been to. Wow do those guys rock. The thing is I’ve not been listening to Rush’s music that much lately and one of my favorite songs from the concert was one I was vaguely familiar with Dreamline. Great song, in fact I’ll hit youtube and find a good live version as I am typing, it Rocks a lot more live than you might think if you’ve heard the studio version. Couldn’t get the concert version out of my head for weeks. We are young….

My 11 year old now has Rush as his favorite band, and you hear him in the garage banging away on the guitar trying to play several of their songs. He even recorded Rush in Rio onto the DVR and won’t let my other son delete it.

My favorite song is Red Barchetta. Subdivisions, Time Stand Still, is another one of those that reminds me of the BOC- B-sides reference. Spirit of Radio.

As far as newer stuff some of the System of a Down/Serj Tankian stuff sounds cool. I really like this “Inside the Fire” by Disturbed.

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[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
What are your favorite Rush songs? Mine are “Tom Sawyer”, “The Big Money” and “Manhattan Project”. That lyric from the last one about the pilot of the Enola Gay flying out of the shockwave on that August day is incredible.

Personal favorite among rock bands is Blue Oyster Cult. Thinking man’s heavy metal.

Top five would be: Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Rush and Prince.[/quote]

Damn Allan we have a lot in common. Though my dislike of communinism is less personal as my military days were spent fixing Avionics on B-1B Bombers, not out in the mess.

Now as to music, I always have Led Zep and Pink Floyd in my top. However Rush is usually right in there around 3rd (numbers aren’t important), and yet I am a big fan of Prince and he doesn’t fit neatly into my typical taste. Actually the 80’s-90s prince I have not checked anything out recently. I just turned 40 so this was big in my era and I recall feeling like Prince was sort of the anti-Michael. Outwardly dirty, playing his lead guitar, spawning many acts around him. Great mind. I don’t know BOC very well outside of the typical mainstays. The lyric that sits in my head though is “Time to play B-sides”. You have to be a certain age to appreciate that.

I have to say though sometime in May my 11 year old wanted to go to his first concert and our choice was Def Leppard/Styx/Reo (I think) at Coors to go to Irvine to see Rush. We picked Rush and man that was the best concert I’ve been to. Wow do those guys rock. The thing is I’ve not been listening to Rush’s music that much lately and one of my favorite songs from the concert was one I was vaguely familiar with Dreamline. Great song, in fact I’ll hit youtube and find a good live version as I am typing, it Rocks a lot more live than you might think if you’ve heard the studio version. Couldn’t get the concert version out of my head for weeks. We are young….

My 11 year old now has Rush as his favorite band, and you hear him in the garage banging away on the guitar trying to play several of their songs. He even recorded Rush in Rio onto the DVR and won’t let my other son delete it.

My favorite song is Red Barchetta. Subdivisions, Time Stand Still, is another one of those that reminds me of the BOC- B-sides reference. Spirit of Radio.

As far as newer stuff some of the System of a Down/Serj Tankian stuff sounds cool. I really like this “Inside the Fire” by Disturbed.

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Thanks all for the great ideas including the DIY stuff, because we don’t want to spend too much of that disposable income. (wouldn’t be good piggs).

sdrealtor you are absolutely correct it was Ringside I’d gone too in Portland, thanks for the reminder. I suppose the only time in my 40 years, I’ve truly had USDA Prime. I’ve seen that place in Carlsbad many times but haven’t checked it out.

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Thanks all for the great ideas including the DIY stuff, because we don’t want to spend too much of that disposable income. (wouldn’t be good piggs).

sdrealtor you are absolutely correct it was Ringside I’d gone too in Portland, thanks for the reminder. I suppose the only time in my 40 years, I’ve truly had USDA Prime. I’ve seen that place in Carlsbad many times but haven’t checked it out.

[CardiffBaseball]

Thanks all for the great ideas including the DIY stuff, because we don’t want to spend too much of that disposable income. (wouldn’t be good piggs).

sdrealtor you are absolutely correct it was Ringside I’d gone too in Portland, thanks for the reminder. I suppose the only time in my 40 years, I’ve truly had USDA Prime. I’ve seen that place in Carlsbad many times but haven’t checked it out.

[CardiffBaseball]

Thanks all for the great ideas including the DIY stuff, because we don’t want to spend too much of that disposable income. (wouldn’t be good piggs).

sdrealtor you are absolutely correct it was Ringside I’d gone too in Portland, thanks for the reminder. I suppose the only time in my 40 years, I’ve truly had USDA Prime. I’ve seen that place in Carlsbad many times but haven’t checked it out.

[CardiffBaseball]

Thanks all for the great ideas including the DIY stuff, because we don’t want to spend too much of that disposable income. (wouldn’t be good piggs).

sdrealtor you are absolutely correct it was Ringside I’d gone too in Portland, thanks for the reminder. I suppose the only time in my 40 years, I’ve truly had USDA Prime. I’ve seen that place in Carlsbad many times but haven’t checked it out.

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We need a great communicator to emerge once again…

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/a-time-for-choosing-ronald-reagan-speech-1964/1578281272

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We need a great communicator to emerge once again…

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/a-time-for-choosing-ronald-reagan-speech-1964/1578281272

[CardiffBaseball]

We need a great communicator to emerge once again…

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/a-time-for-choosing-ronald-reagan-speech-1964/1578281272

[CardiffBaseball]

We need a great communicator to emerge once again…

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/a-time-for-choosing-ronald-reagan-speech-1964/1578281272

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