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Be a hell of a buying opportunity. Then we’ll have a year till mid-term elections and a possible way out of some of the cuts. Win for “us”, eventual win for this country if people get fed up with the current band of clowns in Congress.

Yeah, I’m cold and cynical that way.

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“Most Americans” would be painlessly euthanized in a just world.(*) (Yeah, I live in this country, but the only reason NYC is tolerable is that about half of its residents weren’t born in the good ‘ol US of A.)

Basically, inflation helps the stupid at the expense of the thrifty.

(*)- gullible fucktards who got exactly what they voted for in year 2000. 10 years of war, billions spent, debt run up, tax cuts for the rich with no one having the b@lls to say “no”, cuts to transportation and education, and now a closet tax on middle class savers via inflation. WAY TO FUCKING GO!

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And that’s the problem. Our economy is based on indebtedness to consume mostly unnecessary stuff (made by people yellower than us these days) and working 50 hour weeks with 2 weeks of vacation per year. Our goal should be stability and savings, not constant production and purchase of unneeded goods for the sake of “growth” numbers — the environmental effects of this are deleterious.

Inflation just keeps the masses on the treadmill like good little fucking hamsters. Why not let housing prices drop to levels where a family can afford to live on a single average income in a decent area, for example? Employment should be a means of people supporting themselves, not an end in and of itself.

I’m typing this on a 6 year old computer that still works fine, BTW. My car is closer to 30 years old…

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Why should we support parasites instead of giving them a kick out the door? Too many cops already. Same goes for the prison industry. Legalize drugs, let the druggies kill themselves, and save 50% on police, court, and incarceration costs.

We pay for teachers who are accused of misconduct to sit at desk jobs twiddling their thumbs, since it’s too hard to fire them. That needs to change as well. The solution is bitter medicine for the overpaid workers, not dicking everyone over via inflation.

Remenber: public SERVANT. Not public PARASITE.

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Local governments both in CA, NY, and NJ are over-bloated. How about firing half their employees without pension?

Basically, that’s what Chris Christie is doing in NJ in a figurative sense — reigning in the local governments while NOT allowing them to increase taxes much. Harsh medicine but 100% needed.

Lastly, local governments have gone bankrupt even during inflationary times. Remember the 70s? “FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD – President vows he’ll veto any bailout.” (For NYC.)

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You’re assuming that we’re not in a high period during a depression right now. Look at what’s going on in Europe (not just Cyprus, but unemployment and GDP contraction).

Between sequestration and Europe, I suspect we’ll feel the pinch too in the next 2-3 months, even if it’s just a 5-10% pullback. Not sure if a $10 minimum wage will do a lot other than making employers more reluctant to hire — it’s cheaper to have one employee working longer hours (even at double time) than having two.

If the minimum wage goes to $10, it should be combined with mandatory 4 weeks of vacation plus higher overtime rates. 2x time for 40+ hr per week. 4x time for 55+. 8x time for 70+. 16x time for 85+.

Both encourage efficiency and spread the wealth around.

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What makes you think that the powers that be don’t want a temporary (say) 5-15% correction? This looks to all eyes like an engineered situation.

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The story posted is a reason to:
(a) use a certified check, direct bank transfer, or credit card billing at least for initial funds. Or impose a 5-day waiting period for personal checks
(b) screen tenants better. At the very least — 2-3 references including employment and Google their name to see if things smell right.

None of those things require a property managing goniff as a middleman.

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^^^

So why not just restrict the tax to non-citizen (or non-EU citizen) deposits?

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Just another manufactured crisis, one that we actually need badly to at least temporarily undo the worst work that Counterfeiter Bennie has done.

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The exceptions shouldn’t include “anything that some drone who some idiot saw fit to give a badge and gun to happens to think shouldn’t be photographed,” though. Photography should be allowed by default in the absence of any (subject to Constitutional approval by courts) law prohibiting such. Trouble is that a lot of cops and bureaucrats with an inflated idea of their own importance are making up rules as they go.

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. . I think this picture is gorgeous! Can you take another one of the same place when those trees start budding and blooming and post it on this thread?

Thanks!

Assuming I’m not curled up in a foetal position next month due to pretty bad pollen allergies (or bugging out of the area for a week due to same), I’ll make sure to post some pictures.

The masses have a love/hate relationship with my city — love to visit, but think it’s much more crowded, dirtier, and more expensive than it actually is. I’ve seen countless posts online claiming that you can’t make it in NY unless you make $500k/yr or more, yadda, yadda.

I guess that if you confine yourself to sleeping and eating within 3 blocks of Times Square, Radio City, Rockefeller, or one of the main train stations, you could end up getting a warped impression.

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Legally, generally yes. But some cops have issues with people taking photos even if there are no signs prohibiting it. Fortunately, most cameras use a filesystem that allows for undeletion. Delete the pics/video, then undelete and post on YouTube to shame the pig or sow.

As far as signs prohibiting photos in some places, nothing new. We used to have a beach house near Belmar, NJ, near an (at the time) Army communications engineering research facility called ECOM/EVANS. I remember taking a bike trip with my father sometime in the 80s, biking past the place and seeing signs that said “No photography except by permission of the installation commander, national security act of 1950(?).”

Though I have to say that prohibiting photography in places accessible to the general public (bridges, train stations, etc) is fuckin’ idiotic since plenty of photos already exist online and otherwise.

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Then again:
Europe is playing up again and is in recession.
Consumer confidence is down.
Labor participation is still at a 10-year (or more) low.
Sequester cuts are starting to pinch. Quite a few people I know are being furloughed and are cutting back on spending.
Markets have gone up too far too fast. A 5-10% correction is probable given an appropriate trigger (or manipulation). Happened basically every year since 2009.

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D/k how true this is, but rents are in a bubble as well there — interestingly, I heard that average rents dropped in SF this winter, concurrently with the pricking of the Apple stock bubble:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2012/09/05/blame-apple-for-3000-a-month-studio-apartments-in-san-francisco/

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