[pjwal]

Krugman, Obama and other Keynesians suffer from a misguided principal toward dividing the existing economic pie rather than growing the pie for everyone.

Too many people equate tax cuts with loss of federal revenue when history has always shown the opposite to be true. The current administration could provide an immediate boost to the economy simply by saying they would support another year of the tax cuts that are set to expire, but instead they are focusing on some Utopian fallacy of ending homelessness, paying people not to work and taxing financial institutions. Dividend taxes are set to quadruple, the death tax is going to go up to 53% and include assets that it has never before (homes and life insurance benefits), and income taxes on those that can afford to invest. Corporations are in a stand still with the looming tax increases and a fear of the not knowing what industry this current administration is going to target next.

The Fed never “prints” money, the US government sells bonds and that is only cheap in the context of the present. It is borrowing against our future and if it is always an economically beneficial policy, than why shouldn’t we do it all the time? We have never spent our way out of a recession.

We don’t need a collapse to bring back us back to prosperity, but we don’t need a quadrupling of our deficit as a percentage of GDP (the measurement that counts) to avoid a collapse. Both can be true as the historical data show Keynesian spending policies delay recovery, not initiate it. We have a 13 trillion dollar GDP and, while our federal spending has increased to a staggering 13% of it, what have we shown for it? The latest estimation of the upcoming bailout cost for Fannie and Freddie? 1 Trillion! It’s not enough for you to save 20% for your house, make your payments…now you have to produce enough goods and services and wealth to effectively subsidize the cost of a house for someone else and as far as anyone can tell, this is the “new reality” that this administration wants.

Federal spending (with borrowed money or not) can only serve to divert resources and capital in an economy, it does not add to them. Europe and the other economies of this world have begun to learn this and I’d never thought I’d actually be wanting our country to follow their lead.

[pjwal]

Krugman, Obama and other Keynesians suffer from a misguided principal toward dividing the existing economic pie rather than growing the pie for everyone.

Too many people equate tax cuts with loss of federal revenue when history has always shown the opposite to be true. The current administration could provide an immediate boost to the economy simply by saying they would support another year of the tax cuts that are set to expire, but instead they are focusing on some Utopian fallacy of ending homelessness, paying people not to work and taxing financial institutions. Dividend taxes are set to quadruple, the death tax is going to go up to 53% and include assets that it has never before (homes and life insurance benefits), and income taxes on those that can afford to invest. Corporations are in a stand still with the looming tax increases and a fear of the not knowing what industry this current administration is going to target next.

The Fed never “prints” money, the US government sells bonds and that is only cheap in the context of the present. It is borrowing against our future and if it is always an economically beneficial policy, than why shouldn’t we do it all the time? We have never spent our way out of a recession.

We don’t need a collapse to bring back us back to prosperity, but we don’t need a quadrupling of our deficit as a percentage of GDP (the measurement that counts) to avoid a collapse. Both can be true as the historical data show Keynesian spending policies delay recovery, not initiate it. We have a 13 trillion dollar GDP and, while our federal spending has increased to a staggering 13% of it, what have we shown for it? The latest estimation of the upcoming bailout cost for Fannie and Freddie? 1 Trillion! It’s not enough for you to save 20% for your house, make your payments…now you have to produce enough goods and services and wealth to effectively subsidize the cost of a house for someone else and as far as anyone can tell, this is the “new reality” that this administration wants.

Federal spending (with borrowed money or not) can only serve to divert resources and capital in an economy, it does not add to them. Europe and the other economies of this world have begun to learn this and I’d never thought I’d actually be wanting our country to follow their lead.

[pjwal]

Krugman, Obama and other Keynesians suffer from a misguided principal toward dividing the existing economic pie rather than growing the pie for everyone.

Too many people equate tax cuts with loss of federal revenue when history has always shown the opposite to be true. The current administration could provide an immediate boost to the economy simply by saying they would support another year of the tax cuts that are set to expire, but instead they are focusing on some Utopian fallacy of ending homelessness, paying people not to work and taxing financial institutions. Dividend taxes are set to quadruple, the death tax is going to go up to 53% and include assets that it has never before (homes and life insurance benefits), and income taxes on those that can afford to invest. Corporations are in a stand still with the looming tax increases and a fear of the not knowing what industry this current administration is going to target next.

The Fed never “prints” money, the US government sells bonds and that is only cheap in the context of the present. It is borrowing against our future and if it is always an economically beneficial policy, than why shouldn’t we do it all the time? We have never spent our way out of a recession.

We don’t need a collapse to bring back us back to prosperity, but we don’t need a quadrupling of our deficit as a percentage of GDP (the measurement that counts) to avoid a collapse. Both can be true as the historical data show Keynesian spending policies delay recovery, not initiate it. We have a 13 trillion dollar GDP and, while our federal spending has increased to a staggering 13% of it, what have we shown for it? The latest estimation of the upcoming bailout cost for Fannie and Freddie? 1 Trillion! It’s not enough for you to save 20% for your house, make your payments…now you have to produce enough goods and services and wealth to effectively subsidize the cost of a house for someone else and as far as anyone can tell, this is the “new reality” that this administration wants.

Federal spending (with borrowed money or not) can only serve to divert resources and capital in an economy, it does not add to them. Europe and the other economies of this world have begun to learn this and I’d never thought I’d actually be wanting our country to follow their lead.

[pjwal]

There are 11 homes that will be built on the park. I’m assuming there will be a walkway of some sort, so outside of that the only pavement running beside the homes will be the back alley where the garage is (sans the two end “corner” lots that have a street rather than a home on one side). So, yeah…very unique not to have a named street running along any side of your home. We’re totally sold on the garage in back layout in general and I’ve begun to take a negative note of the large amount of cement sitting in front of the typical home.

Yeah, the “friends and family” clause sticks out like a sore thumb. My wife’s family is usually pretty good at taking advantage of that sort of thing, “making friends,” as business owners in the community…but in this case they’re not quite on board with us yet and, either way, I think we’re going to have to get lucky along with everyone else :-/. What we want is a few phases away, so we can gauge phase by phase.

Good thing we’re already situated in good place :-).

[pjwal]

There are 11 homes that will be built on the park. I’m assuming there will be a walkway of some sort, so outside of that the only pavement running beside the homes will be the back alley where the garage is (sans the two end “corner” lots that have a street rather than a home on one side). So, yeah…very unique not to have a named street running along any side of your home. We’re totally sold on the garage in back layout in general and I’ve begun to take a negative note of the large amount of cement sitting in front of the typical home.

Yeah, the “friends and family” clause sticks out like a sore thumb. My wife’s family is usually pretty good at taking advantage of that sort of thing, “making friends,” as business owners in the community…but in this case they’re not quite on board with us yet and, either way, I think we’re going to have to get lucky along with everyone else :-/. What we want is a few phases away, so we can gauge phase by phase.

Good thing we’re already situated in good place :-).

[pjwal]

There are 11 homes that will be built on the park. I’m assuming there will be a walkway of some sort, so outside of that the only pavement running beside the homes will be the back alley where the garage is (sans the two end “corner” lots that have a street rather than a home on one side). So, yeah…very unique not to have a named street running along any side of your home. We’re totally sold on the garage in back layout in general and I’ve begun to take a negative note of the large amount of cement sitting in front of the typical home.

Yeah, the “friends and family” clause sticks out like a sore thumb. My wife’s family is usually pretty good at taking advantage of that sort of thing, “making friends,” as business owners in the community…but in this case they’re not quite on board with us yet and, either way, I think we’re going to have to get lucky along with everyone else :-/. What we want is a few phases away, so we can gauge phase by phase.

Good thing we’re already situated in good place :-).

[pjwal]

There are 11 homes that will be built on the park. I’m assuming there will be a walkway of some sort, so outside of that the only pavement running beside the homes will be the back alley where the garage is (sans the two end “corner” lots that have a street rather than a home on one side). So, yeah…very unique not to have a named street running along any side of your home. We’re totally sold on the garage in back layout in general and I’ve begun to take a negative note of the large amount of cement sitting in front of the typical home.

Yeah, the “friends and family” clause sticks out like a sore thumb. My wife’s family is usually pretty good at taking advantage of that sort of thing, “making friends,” as business owners in the community…but in this case they’re not quite on board with us yet and, either way, I think we’re going to have to get lucky along with everyone else :-/. What we want is a few phases away, so we can gauge phase by phase.

Good thing we’re already situated in good place :-).

[pjwal]

There are 11 homes that will be built on the park. I’m assuming there will be a walkway of some sort, so outside of that the only pavement running beside the homes will be the back alley where the garage is (sans the two end “corner” lots that have a street rather than a home on one side). So, yeah…very unique not to have a named street running along any side of your home. We’re totally sold on the garage in back layout in general and I’ve begun to take a negative note of the large amount of cement sitting in front of the typical home.

Yeah, the “friends and family” clause sticks out like a sore thumb. My wife’s family is usually pretty good at taking advantage of that sort of thing, “making friends,” as business owners in the community…but in this case they’re not quite on board with us yet and, either way, I think we’re going to have to get lucky along with everyone else :-/. What we want is a few phases away, so we can gauge phase by phase.

Good thing we’re already situated in good place :-).

[pjwal]

I’d say around 20, about six names were read of people that weren’t there. Only a couple of people below us on the list. I’m kicking myself for not counting exactly. There were three others that vocally expressed their desire for the particular plan three that was made available…the first choosing it of course. Someone offered them $4k cash to change their mind.

The thing is, we don’t know the minds of those that just silently deferred other than that they did not want to commit to any of the available lots. I have a feeling many are waiting for the homes that will border the park and aren’t necessarily picky about which model. The front of these homes will face the park with no street in-between, kind of like a beach house on the grass, which is pretty dang cool in my mind.

So, we’re potentially competing against the union of two desires.

[pjwal]

I’d say around 20, about six names were read of people that weren’t there. Only a couple of people below us on the list. I’m kicking myself for not counting exactly. There were three others that vocally expressed their desire for the particular plan three that was made available…the first choosing it of course. Someone offered them $4k cash to change their mind.

The thing is, we don’t know the minds of those that just silently deferred other than that they did not want to commit to any of the available lots. I have a feeling many are waiting for the homes that will border the park and aren’t necessarily picky about which model. The front of these homes will face the park with no street in-between, kind of like a beach house on the grass, which is pretty dang cool in my mind.

So, we’re potentially competing against the union of two desires.

[pjwal]

I’d say around 20, about six names were read of people that weren’t there. Only a couple of people below us on the list. I’m kicking myself for not counting exactly. There were three others that vocally expressed their desire for the particular plan three that was made available…the first choosing it of course. Someone offered them $4k cash to change their mind.

The thing is, we don’t know the minds of those that just silently deferred other than that they did not want to commit to any of the available lots. I have a feeling many are waiting for the homes that will border the park and aren’t necessarily picky about which model. The front of these homes will face the park with no street in-between, kind of like a beach house on the grass, which is pretty dang cool in my mind.

So, we’re potentially competing against the union of two desires.

[pjwal]

I’d say around 20, about six names were read of people that weren’t there. Only a couple of people below us on the list. I’m kicking myself for not counting exactly. There were three others that vocally expressed their desire for the particular plan three that was made available…the first choosing it of course. Someone offered them $4k cash to change their mind.

The thing is, we don’t know the minds of those that just silently deferred other than that they did not want to commit to any of the available lots. I have a feeling many are waiting for the homes that will border the park and aren’t necessarily picky about which model. The front of these homes will face the park with no street in-between, kind of like a beach house on the grass, which is pretty dang cool in my mind.

So, we’re potentially competing against the union of two desires.

[pjwal]

I’d say around 20, about six names were read of people that weren’t there. Only a couple of people below us on the list. I’m kicking myself for not counting exactly. There were three others that vocally expressed their desire for the particular plan three that was made available…the first choosing it of course. Someone offered them $4k cash to change their mind.

The thing is, we don’t know the minds of those that just silently deferred other than that they did not want to commit to any of the available lots. I have a feeling many are waiting for the homes that will border the park and aren’t necessarily picky about which model. The front of these homes will face the park with no street in-between, kind of like a beach house on the grass, which is pretty dang cool in my mind.

So, we’re potentially competing against the union of two desires.

[pjwal]

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4S Ranch has really nice models and we like the landscape of the surrounding hills, but the distance and the feeling of being so tucked away coupled with the higher price make us feel, again that selling what we have would not be the right move.
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Funny, that’s how I felt about SEH. I live in 4S and one thing that I like that does not get mentioned is the proximity to Carmel Mountain/Rancho Bernardo. Scrips clinic, Costco, Target, never-busy movie theater, RB High tennis courts, etc are less than 10 minutes away and still not in your backyard.[/quote]

Yeah, it may be just a perception thing as we’re 10 minutes from SEH now. Also, the view of the ocean rather than being located between surrounding hillsides helps. And some people prefer that “tucked away” feeling. I guess my “center” in North County is Del Mar to Encinitas.

[pjwal]

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4S Ranch has really nice models and we like the landscape of the surrounding hills, but the distance and the feeling of being so tucked away coupled with the higher price make us feel, again that selling what we have would not be the right move.
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Funny, that’s how I felt about SEH. I live in 4S and one thing that I like that does not get mentioned is the proximity to Carmel Mountain/Rancho Bernardo. Scrips clinic, Costco, Target, never-busy movie theater, RB High tennis courts, etc are less than 10 minutes away and still not in your backyard.[/quote]

Yeah, it may be just a perception thing as we’re 10 minutes from SEH now. Also, the view of the ocean rather than being located between surrounding hillsides helps. And some people prefer that “tucked away” feeling. I guess my “center” in North County is Del Mar to Encinitas.

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