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February 10, 2012 at 9:52 PM in reply to: OT – Who will run for President on the Republican side? #737723
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Participant[quote=SK in CV]
It’s all relative. Key words in the assertion is “than the Republicans”. Pretty low bar. Repeal of DADT is a good example of one.[/quote]
One. List some more.
Actual things he has done.
Not philosophical, he’s for or against.
Actually done.
And as a side note, regarding contraception, his flip flop is actually a greater social liberty than his original position. Unless you consider forcing people to do things against their beliefs social liberty.
And as a second note, I consider organizations refusal of BC equally dumb, along the lines of two wrongs not making a right dumb.
February 10, 2012 at 2:58 PM in reply to: OT – Who will run for President on the Republican side? #737706Participant“Obama by far a bigger supporter of social liberty and social freedom than the Republicans.”
Oh, please list what social liberties and freedoms he has advanced?
Guantonimo, still there.
Patriot act, still there, or was it expanded? Definitely renewed.
TSA more intrusive than ever.
Where does Holder’s fast and curious fall?ParticipantLOL gradstudent, apparently you’ve been under rock.
The NYC police chief was bragging to the media about having helicopters armed with 50 cal machine guns.
University police departments are posing for the cameras before pepper spraying the Occupy protest sit in.
New Mexico mowed down a young war vet after busting down his door, six officers put 80 bullets in him in under a minute.
Fullerton police officers allegedly (pay no attention to the video) beat a homeless schizophrentic to death while he cried out please stop I’m not resisting and bus riders watched in horror. They then allegedly tried to confiscate the phones with cameras.
Yep, just a minor expansion of their efforts, nothing to worry about.
February 8, 2012 at 6:41 PM in reply to: OT – Who will run for President on the Republican side? #737592Participant[quote=poorgradstudent]
So far, Republican voters aren’t looking that inclined to just settle for Romney. But none of the other candidates have been able to consolidate support.[/quote]Because the republicans are stupid. Too stupid to figure out that they need to be a moderate like Reagan was.
Instead, they keep backing extreme candidates that lose all swing voters and can’t even carry the base.
ParticipantNo they won’t.
Minnesota has no helmet law. Wait until summer and you see the motorcycles flying down the 94, 35 and 10 with nothing but a grin, sunglasses and pair of cut-off shorts.
What’s the question? The houses are assessed ‘tax’ to pay for the construction work on the sewer and road immediately fronting their property? You’ll get bills for sidewalk repair too. It’s the way they do it.
Every city, township is different. Property taxes are kept local.
Other things that are different than California, if you rent, theyll probably have a refrigerator in the place.
Oh, summer, wait until summer. Sundown is 9:30 PM. Twilight til 10PM.
Now, three more critical dates to remember.
1. Opening of fishing. It’s in May 14th this year. You’ll forget, don’t worry, half your coworkers will have Friday off.
2. Deer hunt seasons, Nov 3 to Nov 11 for Season 1A. There are multiple, but the main group is the early november. Again, don’t worry, half your coworkers will take the week off.
3. Duck hunt opener. September 22, subject to change. You’ll forgot, go for a drive,the weather will be nice, the loud booming will remind you.
The State Bird is the Loon. They’re not loonie, but they have a strange call.
Oh, in case you’re the party type. Lake Minnetonka. Think wannabe Lake Havasu.
If you decide to buy, verify the house has city water, sewer. They may be on a well or have a septic system even in the main cities.
Finally, Tornados. Yes, they’re real. No they don’t just hit trailer parks. Know where to go in your house and at work.
BTW, MN has had an unusually mild winter this year…
ParticipantCAR. I get that the money is precious to the struggling families.
Everbody needs skin in the game.
The solution isn’t figuring out how to get $7,315,000 from the romneys. It isn’t screaming tax the rich and then raising taxes on any family making $250,000
The solution isn’t making prison guards multimillionaires in their pensions. Yes that’s the equivalent capital to provide their pension $2.5 -$3.5 million for the up coming retirees. That’s what it’ll take for private individual to match their pension.
No amount of taxes will solve our current problems.
We need serious reforms to government and everybody is going to need to pay more taxes.
Participant“Work out the numbers on a spreadsheet… If family earns $30k per year, owns a very modest house, how much in total taxes do they pay (I mean taxes of all kinds, including payroll, sales, property, DMV fees, etc..) as a proportion of their income.
”does family mean one, two or no kids?
Let’s say two
Fed income tax $0
StAte income tax $0
FICA tax $1695
DMV taxes $200????
Property tax $1500. (assuming tax basis of $150k home)
Sales tax figure half of the remaining is bought on taxables that’s $1030That’s $4425 or 14.75%
Mitt paid 13.9%. Just for fed income
$3,000,000 and another $3,000,000 to charity.
What was his property tax on the $12,000,000 home in la Jolla?
Really $3,000,000 versus $4475 and you want to moan about their tax rate?
ParticipantYes, Uncle Sugar put up the initial money that created much of Silicon Valley. They also funded numerous other lines of business.
That is what makes our current government spending so onerous. Not that they’re spending it but that it is getting sucked away in cronyism and corruption.
It is so onerous because it’s $1,000,000,000,000.00 more than we’re taking in. It is onerous because it is that same $1 Trillion dollar more than President Bill Clintons budget increased for inflation and population growth. If Bill’s last budget was scaled by inflation and population, it would be $2.7 Trillion today. We’re spending $3.7 this year. $3.8 last year. $3.6 the year before.
But it’s only a trillion. Well, the entire decade long moon program tallied in 1973 was $24.5 Billion. Scaled for inflation, about $120 Billion today. All ten years. All rocket purchases. All Nasa people. All facilities. All Landers. and all the technology.
In 2005, they re-examined and include all research and development costs and came up with $170 Billion, roughly $190 Billion today.
So that Trillion we’re blithely pissing away every year. That’s five decade long apollo moon programs from inception, through R&D to putting the people on the moon.
Five.
That’s one year of deficit spending. We’ve done three plus. And no it’s not the war, the war is only $100 Billion a year, the other $900 Billion is graft.
Imagine, 15 decade long Apollo Programs to research and improve whatever societal needs we have, like energy, global warming, the war on cancer. Not funding one year, all ten years. 15 full paid for programs.
Just flushed down the cronyism drain.
Participant“Allan mentions quattrone, do you understand what he got away with. And it wasn’t just him”
The same thing Pelosi and half congress gets away with? Okay kidding aside, both are equally dispicable.
Participant[quote=pri_dk]If anyone’s Constitutionally guaranteed civil rights have been violated, then they can take it up with the Supreme Court. They are the ones that limit presidential “mandates” and get to declare “overreach.” (They did just that recently, big time.)[/quote]
Would that be wire taps or GPS? At least SOPA seems to be dying.
As for Gitmo, the patriot act, what a sell out. Honestly the one respectable and easy thing I would expect from a Democratic president and it sold it out for political points.
As for the Wars, well, three years in and on Bush’s orignal timeline, it’s over… I sure hope there are eye opening disclosures in 40 years in the memoirs.
Oh wait, let’s do Amnesty, that worked in the 1980s right, we have almost not illegal immigration problem now after doing an amnesty plan back then right?
Obamacare? The republicans are stupid. The electorate is stupid. If they’re too stupid figure out that if a job can’t provide health care, then it can’t fulfill a basic need of civilized society and frankly, we’re better off with less crap that is cheap because everyone envolve is doing without basic necessities. Frankly, we didn’t need Obamacare and 1400 pages. We needed a one sentence law, if you wish to sell insurance in American, their is one risk group, an american, no pre-existing conditions, no risks groups. One group nation wide. Insurance is about spreading risk, the cost of people not having insurance costs you more than the cost of having them in your insurance plan. Then expand medicare to be open to all and move the medicare tax from a payroll tax to an income tax on all income.
too much of our society is idled because of the insurance boondoggle. People are in corporate and government jobs because they are afraid to leave due to not getting insurance or insane rates.
ParticipantI love my Kindle.
I have discovered more good free reading since having it than I had a clue.
Many new authors put books out for free for extended periods to get buzz going, then they sell them for 99 cents.
No more reading the same fiction writers and waiting for the next big writer novel. No name author after no name author.
Load the sample for free, don’t like the opening, it’s done.
ParticipantThe function is CUMPRINC, stands for cumlative principal. You put in the rate per period, original loan value, number of period, starting period and ending period you want the total.
For you it would be equity = Cumprinc(0.375/12,360,352000,1,60) + 98000 for the equity after 5 years.
CUMPRINC might be a financial analysis add-in but it’s part ofthe basic package.
If you don’t see it in your formulas look at your add-ins.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/cumprinc-HP005209039.aspxParticipant[quote=markmax33]It’s really a two man race right now anyway. Romney and Paul are the only 2 with that are on all of the ballots, only two with organization in every state, only two with money. Gingrich and Santorum won’t be around much longer.[/quote]
Good, emptying the clown car is long over due.
I find it ironic that in SC, the GOP is having a problem, they have to address financial concerns of their supporters more than they do social conservative issues.
ParticipantI’m guessing a 7KW system will do it. There are a lot of variables to the system cost.
Panel type. Conerter type. Install. For us, the differnce between a small system and the big system was literally, just the cost of the panels. Up to our 7.5, its the same converter components. Adding panels is a couple hours install above the smaller count panels. Labor, electrician basically will charge you the cost of the day the work is all sub day. It’s still a multiday job, but each step takes a day.
Overall, don’t know where the rebates are at now. Don’t know the tax story now.
Gross cost of the system will be akin to buying an SUV before tax/rebates.
Financially in the near term, not cost efficient for us, I’m looking long term and expect electric rates in California to get ugly.
However, from first hand experience. Watching the meter spin backward, puts a smile on your face.
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