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[quote=Nor-LA-SD-guy]

It’s good to work for the government, No social security tax’s (why pay SS when you are working so hard to steal all the SS money for your pension due’s !!!).

Yes life is good for government workers…

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There are essentially two federal retirement systems,CSRS and FERS. CSRS is the old retirement system (pre-1984, I think). People under this system had the option of paying into SS or not. If they didn’t pay into the system they can’t collect at retirement age. There are still a fair amount of people under this sytem that are still working today.

FERS is what any new hires would be getting into today. There’s no option to forego SS, so I’m paying the supplemental retirement income of many but, I’ll probably never see a dime myself. There is a Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) much like a 401K and a pension.

I don’t know where the 6% increases are. I haven’t seen one.

Federal employment has its good and bad much like any large organization. Some of the stereotypes are of Federal employees aren’t too far off but, there are far more that are hard working and dilegent. (Atleast, until they get beaten down by the system and give up….lol) But, that’s not much different than any other place that I have been employed.

Any other Federal employees here?

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[quote=Nor-LA-SD-guy]

It’s good to work for the government, No social security tax’s (why pay SS when you are working so hard to steal all the SS money for your pension due’s !!!).

Yes life is good for government workers…

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There are essentially two federal retirement systems,CSRS and FERS. CSRS is the old retirement system (pre-1984, I think). People under this system had the option of paying into SS or not. If they didn’t pay into the system they can’t collect at retirement age. There are still a fair amount of people under this sytem that are still working today.

FERS is what any new hires would be getting into today. There’s no option to forego SS, so I’m paying the supplemental retirement income of many but, I’ll probably never see a dime myself. There is a Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) much like a 401K and a pension.

I don’t know where the 6% increases are. I haven’t seen one.

Federal employment has its good and bad much like any large organization. Some of the stereotypes are of Federal employees aren’t too far off but, there are far more that are hard working and dilegent. (Atleast, until they get beaten down by the system and give up….lol) But, that’s not much different than any other place that I have been employed.

Any other Federal employees here?

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[quote=jetonejet]Sounds like your friends failure to be able to add at a elementry school level on several occasions has costed her $700.

theres an old saying, ” LIFE IS HARD. LIFE IS EVEN HARDER IF YOUR STUPID ” clint eastwood[/quote]

This story seems a little fishy to me:
1. The teller had the opportunity to take $900 but, only took $700.

2. The teller was able to hide a stack of $20 bills ?

Either way this is a live and learn situation. We all make mistakes and she should this mistake as an opportunity to learn.

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[quote=jetonejet]Sounds like your friends failure to be able to add at a elementry school level on several occasions has costed her $700.

theres an old saying, ” LIFE IS HARD. LIFE IS EVEN HARDER IF YOUR STUPID ” clint eastwood[/quote]

This story seems a little fishy to me:
1. The teller had the opportunity to take $900 but, only took $700.

2. The teller was able to hide a stack of $20 bills ?

Either way this is a live and learn situation. We all make mistakes and she should this mistake as an opportunity to learn.

[creechrr]

[quote=jetonejet]Sounds like your friends failure to be able to add at a elementry school level on several occasions has costed her $700.

theres an old saying, ” LIFE IS HARD. LIFE IS EVEN HARDER IF YOUR STUPID ” clint eastwood[/quote]

This story seems a little fishy to me:
1. The teller had the opportunity to take $900 but, only took $700.

2. The teller was able to hide a stack of $20 bills ?

Either way this is a live and learn situation. We all make mistakes and she should this mistake as an opportunity to learn.

[creechrr]

[quote=jetonejet]Sounds like your friends failure to be able to add at a elementry school level on several occasions has costed her $700.

theres an old saying, ” LIFE IS HARD. LIFE IS EVEN HARDER IF YOUR STUPID ” clint eastwood[/quote]

This story seems a little fishy to me:
1. The teller had the opportunity to take $900 but, only took $700.

2. The teller was able to hide a stack of $20 bills ?

Either way this is a live and learn situation. We all make mistakes and she should this mistake as an opportunity to learn.

[creechrr]

[quote=jetonejet]Sounds like your friends failure to be able to add at a elementry school level on several occasions has costed her $700.

theres an old saying, ” LIFE IS HARD. LIFE IS EVEN HARDER IF YOUR STUPID ” clint eastwood[/quote]

This story seems a little fishy to me:
1. The teller had the opportunity to take $900 but, only took $700.

2. The teller was able to hide a stack of $20 bills ?

Either way this is a live and learn situation. We all make mistakes and she should this mistake as an opportunity to learn.

[creechrr]

I have the Asus EEE PC 1000H. If you have large hands the extra width of the 10″ netbooks is nice. The resolution is the same between the 9″ and 10″ displays.

I can’t complain much about the performance. It handles the usual surfing, word processing, and mulitmedia apps just fine. In fact, my Dell desktop took a dump a couple of days ago. I used the EEE PC as a replacement just fine. I connected the VGA port to my 20″ LCD. All I had to do was select the correct resolution. Even dual display using the netbooks LCD works. I even had OS X running on it for awhile.

The 9″ will be lighter and easier to carry on your travels. The Aspire One is feather light but, felt “cheap” to the touch. If you’re into modding at all, the Apsire is less mod friendly.

The MSI Wind seems to be the mod leader.

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I have the Asus EEE PC 1000H. If you have large hands the extra width of the 10″ netbooks is nice. The resolution is the same between the 9″ and 10″ displays.

I can’t complain much about the performance. It handles the usual surfing, word processing, and mulitmedia apps just fine. In fact, my Dell desktop took a dump a couple of days ago. I used the EEE PC as a replacement just fine. I connected the VGA port to my 20″ LCD. All I had to do was select the correct resolution. Even dual display using the netbooks LCD works. I even had OS X running on it for awhile.

The 9″ will be lighter and easier to carry on your travels. The Aspire One is feather light but, felt “cheap” to the touch. If you’re into modding at all, the Apsire is less mod friendly.

The MSI Wind seems to be the mod leader.

[creechrr]

I have the Asus EEE PC 1000H. If you have large hands the extra width of the 10″ netbooks is nice. The resolution is the same between the 9″ and 10″ displays.

I can’t complain much about the performance. It handles the usual surfing, word processing, and mulitmedia apps just fine. In fact, my Dell desktop took a dump a couple of days ago. I used the EEE PC as a replacement just fine. I connected the VGA port to my 20″ LCD. All I had to do was select the correct resolution. Even dual display using the netbooks LCD works. I even had OS X running on it for awhile.

The 9″ will be lighter and easier to carry on your travels. The Aspire One is feather light but, felt “cheap” to the touch. If you’re into modding at all, the Apsire is less mod friendly.

The MSI Wind seems to be the mod leader.

[creechrr]

I have the Asus EEE PC 1000H. If you have large hands the extra width of the 10″ netbooks is nice. The resolution is the same between the 9″ and 10″ displays.

I can’t complain much about the performance. It handles the usual surfing, word processing, and mulitmedia apps just fine. In fact, my Dell desktop took a dump a couple of days ago. I used the EEE PC as a replacement just fine. I connected the VGA port to my 20″ LCD. All I had to do was select the correct resolution. Even dual display using the netbooks LCD works. I even had OS X running on it for awhile.

The 9″ will be lighter and easier to carry on your travels. The Aspire One is feather light but, felt “cheap” to the touch. If you’re into modding at all, the Apsire is less mod friendly.

The MSI Wind seems to be the mod leader.

[creechrr]

I have the Asus EEE PC 1000H. If you have large hands the extra width of the 10″ netbooks is nice. The resolution is the same between the 9″ and 10″ displays.

I can’t complain much about the performance. It handles the usual surfing, word processing, and mulitmedia apps just fine. In fact, my Dell desktop took a dump a couple of days ago. I used the EEE PC as a replacement just fine. I connected the VGA port to my 20″ LCD. All I had to do was select the correct resolution. Even dual display using the netbooks LCD works. I even had OS X running on it for awhile.

The 9″ will be lighter and easier to carry on your travels. The Aspire One is feather light but, felt “cheap” to the touch. If you’re into modding at all, the Apsire is less mod friendly.

The MSI Wind seems to be the mod leader.

[creechrr]

[quote=SD Realtor]Recessions and depressions are really not that much fun no matter how much we all want housing to go down. [/quote]

For some time now, I have been concerned that economics of the country were far graver than what I had imagined. That is definitely now the case. There is the usual anecdotal evidence that can be tainted by ones desires but, there is also an ever increasing pool of evidence that points in that direction as well. The number of layoffs announced on a daily basis continues to rise, and it seems as corporate bankruptcy/restructuring seems to be making its way to MSM more regularly.

There are small group of people that I know that regularly question when I’ll get serious about purchasing a house. My reply has been for quite some time has been that I would not as long as such a purchase would mean neglecting other aspects of my life; saving, funding retirement, recreational activities, you know participating in life without living in debt. That response was always met with a look of perplexicity, disgust, or that “man this kid is an idiot” look. It’s all pretty much the same look so it can be very hard to tell which is being displayed.

Now that prices have fallen and the perceived affordability has increased, I still get the same question by a smaller group and I reply with the same answer. The looks now include what I described above with the addition of great concern, despair, and outright fear. I’ve had a few tell me that I’ve made a well thought out choice….A few! The remainder can be broken down into two groups, those with there heads buried in the sand and those that understand the problem but, don’t want to even mention it. As though speaking of the problem would make it worse.

I think the previous generation is starting to realize that they have squandered their futures along with our own. The talk of retirement seems to be increasingly the talk of delayed retirement.

The next decade is going to be a decade of tough choices. The pool of jobs is going to be far smaller than the bodies seeking them.

I do feel a sense of vindication. All that time questioning myself, “Am I doing something wrong”. Being the odd ball pointing out the flaws in the system and being ridiculed for it. Having to defend my right to live as debt free as possible.

I do believe that some of those caught up in the game are deserving of the results. I am unapologetic about that. However, there are a good many of us that are also caught in the trap that didn’t leverage themselves silly.

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[quote=SD Realtor]Recessions and depressions are really not that much fun no matter how much we all want housing to go down. [/quote]

For some time now, I have been concerned that economics of the country were far graver than what I had imagined. That is definitely now the case. There is the usual anecdotal evidence that can be tainted by ones desires but, there is also an ever increasing pool of evidence that points in that direction as well. The number of layoffs announced on a daily basis continues to rise, and it seems as corporate bankruptcy/restructuring seems to be making its way to MSM more regularly.

There are small group of people that I know that regularly question when I’ll get serious about purchasing a house. My reply has been for quite some time has been that I would not as long as such a purchase would mean neglecting other aspects of my life; saving, funding retirement, recreational activities, you know participating in life without living in debt. That response was always met with a look of perplexicity, disgust, or that “man this kid is an idiot” look. It’s all pretty much the same look so it can be very hard to tell which is being displayed.

Now that prices have fallen and the perceived affordability has increased, I still get the same question by a smaller group and I reply with the same answer. The looks now include what I described above with the addition of great concern, despair, and outright fear. I’ve had a few tell me that I’ve made a well thought out choice….A few! The remainder can be broken down into two groups, those with there heads buried in the sand and those that understand the problem but, don’t want to even mention it. As though speaking of the problem would make it worse.

I think the previous generation is starting to realize that they have squandered their futures along with our own. The talk of retirement seems to be increasingly the talk of delayed retirement.

The next decade is going to be a decade of tough choices. The pool of jobs is going to be far smaller than the bodies seeking them.

I do feel a sense of vindication. All that time questioning myself, “Am I doing something wrong”. Being the odd ball pointing out the flaws in the system and being ridiculed for it. Having to defend my right to live as debt free as possible.

I do believe that some of those caught up in the game are deserving of the results. I am unapologetic about that. However, there are a good many of us that are also caught in the trap that didn’t leverage themselves silly.

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[quote=SD Realtor]Recessions and depressions are really not that much fun no matter how much we all want housing to go down. [/quote]

For some time now, I have been concerned that economics of the country were far graver than what I had imagined. That is definitely now the case. There is the usual anecdotal evidence that can be tainted by ones desires but, there is also an ever increasing pool of evidence that points in that direction as well. The number of layoffs announced on a daily basis continues to rise, and it seems as corporate bankruptcy/restructuring seems to be making its way to MSM more regularly.

There are small group of people that I know that regularly question when I’ll get serious about purchasing a house. My reply has been for quite some time has been that I would not as long as such a purchase would mean neglecting other aspects of my life; saving, funding retirement, recreational activities, you know participating in life without living in debt. That response was always met with a look of perplexicity, disgust, or that “man this kid is an idiot” look. It’s all pretty much the same look so it can be very hard to tell which is being displayed.

Now that prices have fallen and the perceived affordability has increased, I still get the same question by a smaller group and I reply with the same answer. The looks now include what I described above with the addition of great concern, despair, and outright fear. I’ve had a few tell me that I’ve made a well thought out choice….A few! The remainder can be broken down into two groups, those with there heads buried in the sand and those that understand the problem but, don’t want to even mention it. As though speaking of the problem would make it worse.

I think the previous generation is starting to realize that they have squandered their futures along with our own. The talk of retirement seems to be increasingly the talk of delayed retirement.

The next decade is going to be a decade of tough choices. The pool of jobs is going to be far smaller than the bodies seeking them.

I do feel a sense of vindication. All that time questioning myself, “Am I doing something wrong”. Being the odd ball pointing out the flaws in the system and being ridiculed for it. Having to defend my right to live as debt free as possible.

I do believe that some of those caught up in the game are deserving of the results. I am unapologetic about that. However, there are a good many of us that are also caught in the trap that didn’t leverage themselves silly.

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