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ParticipantI shop costco weekly, I pick and choose each week.
I look for the coupon deals, but I try to compare prices to wal mart in my head as I shop.
Where can I get a better deal is a question I ask myself for most items.
Participant15 hrs/month PTO
0 hrs sick time
Personal Days? What’s that??
401k match 3% up to 50%
Bonus = 0
Work from home = 0
Medical benefits = SUCK!!!!That’s my experience…
ParticipantParticipantIf you look at the pie chart for projected spending, which of that is Constitutional?
Participant[quote=citydweller][quote=paramount]
Show me where in the Constitution does it state that the federal gov’t can legally confiscate my property and give it to someone else?Please excuse my “hippie granolaness” but I am not speaking from a legalistic, material, “rational” point of view. I am just trying to make the point from an appreciative, grateful, life is awesome point of view that if I ever reach a point in my life where I am paying tens of thousands of dollars in taxes each year, I will be counting my blessings and joyfully skipping through life, not being bitter and hiring lawyers and debating the legality of it all.[/quote]
Do you get that there is a connection between being able to achieve those blessings and gov’t confiscation of your property.
If our Founding Fathers had your attitude we’d still be British subjects. I enjoy life, but that doesn’t mean I go through life with my head in the sand.
For me personally, Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness means being able to keep what I’ve worked for and not giving inordinate amounts of tax money to gov’t workers or supporting others parasitic lifestyle.
Participant[quote=citydweller]Imagine an ambitious person coming to the US from a foreign country. This person understands that in this country he is offered an incredible opportunity and infrastructure in which he can use his ambition to become very wealthy. He also understands and accepts the fact that once he becomes very successful in this country he will be required to pay large amounts of his wealth back into this system that allowed him to become so successful in the first place. I believe that most ambitious foreigners would jump at this chance. However, those of us born here take for granted the incredible opportunities that are available to us because of this “system”.
I am a gleeful taxpayer. I fantasize about the day when I am so financially successful that I have to pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes. I feel sorry for the people who have reached that point and are still dissatisfied. They should just pause for a moment, take a deep breath and relax, and allow themselves a moment to appreciate how incredibly fortunate they are to have been born into this incredible country of opportunity.[/quote]
Citydweller, I don’t mean to be harsh and I get that these are your beliefs, but beyond that I don’t think you know what you speak of.
Show me where in the Constitution does it state that the federal gov’t can legally confiscate my property and give it to someone else?
The only exception wold be property tax, which is provided for in the Constitution.
ParticipantCalifornia has reached a point where the takers easily outnumber the makers. Any proposition that takes from the makers and transfers that wealth (in whatever form) to the takers will easily pass.
If you are a producer/maker in California (ie. private sector for the most part), and remain in California you may soon find yourself on the taker side of the equation.
In fact, I might suggest that producers have an obligation to leave California for the betterment of the country.
ParticipantCreate demand where there is no Need.
Black Friday Madness
ParticipantYet another perfect example of gov’t worker abuses in California and another good reason to leave the state.
When I saw the title of the story, I just knew it had to be about a city in California.
And CAR, no I’m not on auto-record, it’s just a reflection of the magnitude of the injustice.
Well, see for yourself:
ParticipantIn California the only people who matter are gov’t workers and their subjects.
A policy of confiscation applies to everyone else.
Participant[quote=barnaby33]Seems to me everyone argues the taxes they pay are regressive. CARenter, we seem to have entered a phase of civil discourse where everyone is a victim. Somehow it strikes me as a symptom of something deeper.
As to moving to Texas for fucks sake stop talking about it and do it. Obviously not enough of ya’all are actually doing it, because housing here is still ridiculous.
Josh[/quote]If you’re not a local or state govt worker and lucky enough to work, you probably are their victim.
Participant[quote=Rich Toscano][quote=paramount] This is not the talk of a “doomsday” prophet — it is the talk of a realist.
[/quote]I don’t know whether he is a realist or not, but he is confused about monetary aggregates… bank reserves are not part of M2, which renders much of that article invalid.[/quote]
The author states that money shouldn’t be counted in M2 until in a depositors account.
ParticipantDon’t worry, the recession is on the way:
The inconvenient truth is that absent massive public spending, we would have completed the deleveraging process that was started in 2008 and interrupted with monetary and fiscal stimulus. It can be argued that this borrow and spend policy has done nothing to affect a legitimate economic recovery and in fact, at this point, it is simply adding to the problem.
(3) metrics:
1. Labor participation is at a 30-year low, and in spite of that lack of participation, we remain — four years after the recession ended — at 14.6% unemployment using the U6 figure.
$7 trillion in borrowed money and almost $3 trillion in monetary stimulus has accomplished nothing to date to improve the unemployment situation. At what point do we accept reality? Government stimulus is not helping to resolve the problem and is, in fact, going to make it that much worse when natural market forces outweigh all other forces and we enter into a protracted recession.
2. Excess reserves in the nations banking systems remain at historic high’s stuck in a liquidity trap. This money never makes it to the economy.
3. Money velocity is at a 50-year low at 1.56. Money velocity is the ratio of M2 to GDP. The reason money velocity is so low is that a significant portion of M2 is locked up in excess reserves, and is doing nothing to drive GDP growth.
Why do so many cling to the belief that the Fed is simply a “money printing” machine and will eventually print enough money to get us moving in the right direction? It hasn’t happened despite unprecedented levels of liquidity infusion into the banking system, and there is simply no reason to think that when we wake up tomorrow morning, that will change.
These are different times than any of us have ever encountered. We can bury our heads in the sand and deny the truth or we can, once and for all, accept reality and deal with the consequence of the government excess that has brought us to this point. Simply solving the “fiscal cliff” issue will do nothing to solve the real problem. It is time to accept that truth.
The severity of our economic dilemma is unprecedented, and there is no viable solution other than a completion of the deleveraging process that began with the credit bubble crisis and interrupted — by a government in denial — with massive stimulus. This is not the talk of a “doomsday” prophet — it is the talk of a realist.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1025971-3-key-metrics-that-show-why-we-can-t-avoid-recession
Participant[quote=5yes]I feel that people are more segregated than I am used to at my local grocery store and on my street, [/quote]
The method/tool of segregation in California is called gentrification.
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