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So, getting stood up by your kids for dinner is all it takes to go “viral”?
I guess I should have done a selfie last Thanksgiving.
Or Christmas, for that matter. It’s a lot easier to stiff Dad than it is listening to mom (or the MIL) whine about not spending all day “with the family”, I guess.
They make up for it by coming over when they need money, or their cars need fixed, or to borrow my truck, or…..
(Dear God,…….I try not to be pizzed off and bitter……..)
Children the same all round the world, don’t you just hate them
P.S I was never like that, well not often, well not all the time.
It could be worse fxr. You could be trapped there too!
You need to check your “male privilege”, fixr.
Kids only visiting when they need something? That’s a tale as old as time.
But it could be worse.You could have a “blended family”.
Makes me glad to never have spawned any crumbsnatchers.
I love my crumbsnatchers dearly.
Plus I have cause for optimism that they will all eventually be financially independent…
As mine are in their 30s, I share your optimism!
Face. It, when you are older than fifty, a 20-something regards you as older than dirt and not worthy of being a pal. Offspring or not. I reached my “senior citizen” (though not being white haired or frail) status around age 51.
Even doctors are pay less attention to us and if we do get something major, they are like “well you are closer to death anyway by virtue of age, so why bother.” I ou ld kind of see that in how doctors regarded my parents. I suspect they knew of their bad health and did not tell them.
The best revenge is refuse to act your age. Jack LaLanne certainly refused so well.
I take care of my 84yo mother full time, so I deal with this constantly. She’s not ready to check out, so I always warn her - if you want them to care, straighten up and engage with them, don’t leave it to me or they’ll wave you to the left.
My dad was very energetic advocating for himself in his 80s. He was raising hell until the week he died. My mom just kind of took what came. That didn’t work out so well.
He was raising hell until the week he died.
Good for him; that’s exactly what you need to do, give ‘em hell. Don’t put up with the doctors’ condescension and dismissal of your concerns. Gomer, my a$$.
My mother’s health is a roller coaster, which leaves me constantly on edge. Her life hasn’t been great. She has taken care of almost everyone in the family who has become ill, starting with my father who died of cancer at 32 (she was 26.) When I became a teenager, I tried to help as much as I could.
She started to go downhill six years ago. At the moment, I’m pretty worn out - it’s a testament to her strength in what she did over a far longer period.
Medical acronyms
Having just spent delightful five hours working with a colleague less than half my age, I have to disagree…it really depends on the twenty-something in question.
Turkish tourism officials hit by plummeting Russian bookings and grim urban bombings are hoping that Madonna, Justin Bieber or Jennifer Lopez can help revive business along their sunny Mediterranean coast.
Tourism revenue in Turkey fell 14.3 percent in the final quarter of last year and 2016 bookings point to an even more challenging year for the country’s tourism industry, which accounts for about 4.5 percent of the $800 billion economy.
The “Turkish Riviera” around Antalya, the main vacation hub, is one of the worst hit areas. The local Chamber of Commerce (ATSO) appealed to Ankara’s tourism ministry this month after the number of Russian visitors in January tumbled by 81 percent.
Following the downing of a Russian warplane on Nov. 24, Moscow approved sanctions against Turkey and ATSO calculated the crisis would cost Turkey up to $11 billion.
Antalya, the main city on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, will host the EXPO 2016 world horticultural fair in April. ATSO thinks some star-studded musical support could help attract visitors worried by the headlines from the volatile region.
“EXPO 2016 should be turned into a big tourism push, for instance by organising big concerts by international celebrities such as Madonna, Jennifer Lopez or Justin Bieber, to attract the interest of target markets,” a tourism ministry report said.
It remains to be seen whether “Bieber fever” or “Madonna madness” can calm security fears that saw booking numbers dive after a suicide bomber killed 10 German tourists in Istanbul in January, the first of several bombings in Turkey this year.
Turkish tourism officials hit by plummeting Russian bookings and grim urban bombings are hoping that Madonna, Justin Bieber or Jennifer Lopez can help revive business along their sunny Mediterranean coast.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-turkey-tourism-idUKKCN0WI2PM
An explosion at a major tourist shopping area in the Turkish city of Istanbul has injured a number of people, Turkish media say.
Pictures showed people running away in panic. Some reports say it was a suicide bomb attack that killed at least another person.
The area - Istiklal Street - is reportedly crowded at weekends.
Last Sunday, an attack in the capital, Ankara, claimed by Kurdish militant group TAK, killed 37 people.
The TAK, an offshoot of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), said that was in revenge for Turkish military operations in the mainly Kurdish south-east.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35850625
Somehow I can see Biebier giving Turkey a miss.
Biebier in a Turkish prison - please, Lord, make it so.
You like gladiator movies?
Not particularly. They remind me a bit too much of our present-day bread and circuses.
Bad news for Turkey: Europeans are broke.
Holidays are cheap in Turkey and Greece price has increased in Spain; I really can’t think why.
Source local travel agent.
Do you suppose that it may have something to do with the path that Syrian refugees take when going from Syria to Northern Europe?
Yes Ol’Bubba, scares the wife she doesn’t want to share the beech with refugees and she is far from alone.
The ruins in Turkey are amazing. I recommend it. Have no fear.
Is it up, is it down or is someone just fecking around
After last week’s wild action that saw the price jump nearly 20% in a day only to give it all back over the next six trading sessions, there’s renewed signs of life in the iron ore rally.
According to Metal Bulletin, the spot price for 62% fines leapt by 4.7%, or, $2.52, to $56.09 a tonne on Thursday, extending the gains for 2016 to 28.7%.
The one-year chart below reveals the recent lift in volatility, even by usual standards.
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/theres-been-an-huge-jump-in-the-iron-ore-price-and-futures-are-pointing-to-another-enormous-gain-today-2016-3
After all the pomp and ceremony of its record 19 per cent surge earlier this month, iron ore has slid for the sixth consecutive day, erasing its surprise gains and bringing back to the forefront the concerns surrounding oversupply and weak demand.
The key ingredient in steel and Australia’s biggest export plunged nearly 5 per cent overnight to $US52.88 a tonne on Wednesday, a 17 per cent decline since its March 7 high of $US63.74.
Recent data showed Chinese steel production softened further, a worrying signal as the world’s biggest miners prepare to increase supply.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/iron-ore-slumps-for-sixth-straight-day-on-china-steel-production-concerns-20160316-gnk69i.html#ixzz43LAj6ls4
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Central banks can collude to weaken the dollar, but they can’t stimulate demand when the fundamentals are still deteriorating.
Plenty of money for everything. We are a country where any fool can afford $500 hover boards for their kids and $300 beats by Dre headphones.
I don’t know anyone who has either of those “products”. Then again, I don’t live in “the hood”.
No, but you subsidize those who do.
Technology is going to bring about self-Governence.
https://news.bitcoin.com/digital-revolution-increases-sovereignty/
“As time progresses, the respect and attitude towards government declines rapidly. Throughout the centuries of corruption, it’s been very hard to figure out how to overcome the problem of governance until now. The Information Age has brought upon us a new way of thinking to where autonomy and true sovereignty is coming into play. A digital revolution is being created that doesn’t rely on fallible humans to represent and rule us.”
Say hi to Utopia for me when you get there.
Technology will enable would-be totalitarians’ to turn their Orwellian proclivities into grim reality. A cashless society coupled with a neocon National Security State means total information awareness on all subjects (citizens they are not). That is the polar opposite of the technology-enabled Emerald City that Libertarian fantasists maintain lies at the end of the Yellow Brick Road.
All you have to do is note the vindictive totalitarian personalities of our American Nomenklatura, would-be wicked witches like Hillary Clinton or Debbie Wasserman Schultz and their legions of flying monkeys, to picture what Orwellian surveillance and control measures will be brought to bear against the non-compliant once the collectivist comrades of the DNC and their oligarch controllers have established their permanent Democrat supermajority.
Hardly. Crypto currency and blockchain are decentralized and not fiat controlled. Your gloom and doom works as far as your own small amount of knowledge of the cryptography and it is fun for you to imagine the impossible based on your own false premises. It is fun to make extrapolations based on what is not true. But those extrapolations are not worth anything.
The tyrants’ days are numbered. And the same for rulers. The ones who hallucinate them to power are not going to have the means todo so anymore, because there won’t be enough power in your noncryptographic world to attract sociopaths to power. The cryptographic world is completely decentralized. You already do cryptographic transactions and you don’t even know it. You will be fully aware at some point though.
The tyrants’ days are numbered. And the same for rulers.
Oh, Bill. Your innocense is touching in our jaded, cynical world.
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Actually, your own thinking is based on old ways and that is what causes your blindness to the decentralization that is happening before our very eyes.
As for Orwell, his way of thinking was based on the extrapolation of centralized systems that reached a pinnacle in the 20th century.
My thinking is based on my understanding of human nature, which hasn’t changed one iota since ancient times. You will always have sociopaths and pyschopaths who want ultimate power and dominance over others. Then, increasingly, you have a great mass of stupid people who can readily be herded or conned onto the incorporated neoliberal plantation, which is one step removed from the kind of Big Brother Orwellian society Orwell forewarned us about. When we have our own Big Brother, it will be because the sheeple were manipulated into demanding such a leader. With the intelligent, thinking portion of the population down to no more than 5% of the total, a totalitarian police state is pretty much baked in the cake.
Well, we now have flat-screen TV monitors on the walls of our house that have a microphone and camera in them, just like in 1984.
Hmmm . . .
Are they watching and listening?
Technology can be a Siren luring the unwary onto the shoals of dependency.
I am sorry but my career since 2000 and my personal finance since November and my ideology since 1980 have all been about working on massive decentralization. If you make your living outside of cryptography or you are a D or R or you trust Fiat then you are missing out on a rapidly growing decentralized culture. It is happening now and Some people are 100% in that world. I figure I am 70% involved.
“If you make your living outside of cryptography…you are missing out”
I’ll just continue to miss out on things I don’t need and enjoy my freedom.
And that is not as much freedom as we are going to get. Within two generations he world will be massively decentralized and there will not be any nation-states.
We don’t know what the situation will be in two generations. People do tend to organize things because it makes them safer. Today however, I am free to roam the lakes, rivers and canals as I wish, provisioned as I wish and in the company of those I choose, needing very little in accommodation and with only an occasional tip of the hat to any “central authorities”. No payments to keep up with and no need to keep a nervous eye on markets, only the weather and the shallows to mind. This is because I have no debt and am not on a treadmill, not because there is no government.
It is easier to do this without pirates.
Virtual porn, the crack to end all crack, is right around the corner. Freedom will be irrelevant.
The people who cheer on bitcoin are the people that have a bunch and want the value to increase.
“there will not be any nation-states”
This is dawning of the age of Aquarius, age of Aquarius…Aquarius, Aquarius!!!!
or
Imagine there’s no countries…blah blah blah
That’s rich.
The early Communist ideologues assured the gullible masses that there would be a “dictatorship of the proletariate for a time” to build a New Communist Man, who would be so altruist toward his fellows that over time the state would “wither away.”
Yeah. And 100 million dead “enemies” later, with millions more blighted lives due to torture sessions and gulag sentences, we saw how that worked out. Well-connected oligarchs snapped up Russia’s resources and state enterprizes for a song, while the grandchildren of the Chinese revolutionaries became rich beyond their wildest imagination as they sold off expropriated property and used crony capitalism to amass staggering fortunes and move trillions out of the country to pad their nests abroad.
But sure, Bill, human nature has changed for the better since the 20th Century, so I’m sure you and your Libertarian True Believers will be left alone to build your decentralized ideal society.
I did not even mention Bitcoin. If you think this cryptography is only about Bitcoin or only about crypto currency you are still confined to your lack of knowledge and to your false premises.
Brother Bill, I have found your official anthem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRhq-yO1KN8
Today however, I am free to roam the lakes, rivers and canals as I wish, provisioned as I wish and in the company of those I choose, needing very little in accommodation and with only an occasional tip of the hat to any “central authorities”
People mention Obummer, you claim he’s a dictatorial tyrant. People mention actual nonpolitical methods of gaining freedom and lessening centralized power (such as cryptography and bitcoins), and suddenly you don’t understand what all the fuss is about.
Seems rather contradictory.
you claim…
I claim you are an anklebiter. My point to Bill is that I am not living in fear or hiding in a crypt.
Of course, Obama could blowup my wedding.
Make up your mind, do we live in a repressive tyranny that is worthy of violent revolt, or is freedom like yours readily available if we make the right life choices?
Are you used to people dancing when you tell them to?
Not when I point out a major contradiction in their philosophy, no. The usually just make an ad hominem attack or try to change the subject.
Very well, you didn’t want anything explained. My philosophy is sufficiently harmonious. Yours could become more so if you first stick with the truth.
Yeah, there’s the ad hominem thing, and the avoidance of giving an actual answer. Same old, same old.
Every day is groundhog day for you. I stopped answering your questions long ago. Can you remember why?
I stopped answering your questions long ago. Can you remember why?
I kept finding internal contradictions and inconsistencies that you found unanswerable?
Cell phones have really freed us all — to work 24/7.
Living as a human being is about brain activity 24/7. If you are not working you are dead.
I can’t wait for that deathbed moment when I say to myself: “I wish I would have worked more.”
I work to live, not live to work. I don’t regard being able to shut off my brain from endless thinking as I’m out enjoying a hike in nature as dead.
You guys did not even understand the concept. Your brain is always creating. That is what working is about. It is not just about doing a boring task for sustenance. Creating is a very selfish act. You add “you-ness” to that which you create. You are celebrating, in essence, being alive.
Cubicle is life.
Bill, you really need to get laid.
I guess to some people, life is all about getting laid. Forget about making this a better world. We would still be monkeys in Savvanahs if life was just about getting laid.
Don’t listen to the nay-sayers, Bill. You’re the future, the neanderthals calling for a strongman to right everything are trapped in archaic ways of thinking.
Actually all technological advance HAS been about getting laid.
I did not have sex with that woman.
My comment had less to do than telling you to get some carnal pleasure, and was more like a gentle reminder that an always-on brain can be exhausting - sometimes you need to just be present in the here and now and enjoy it for what it is.
I salute you for your sincere and principled efforts to bring about a better world through technology. I try to bring about a better world in my own way by living a virtuous life and helping people ease their burdens and breath a little easier. The big-picture stuff, I can’t do much about.
A balance is healthy.
Is China finally out of the woods after last year’s scary stock market plunge?
FORTUNE
Leadership China
China Should Brace Itself for a Rude Economic Awakening
COMMENTARY by Minxin Pei
March 17, 2016, 9:58 AM EDT
Li Keqiang, China’s premier, speaks during a news conference at the 12th National People’s Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Bloomberg via Getty Images
If China manages to hit its economic growth targets this year, it will do so at a huge cost.
The annual plenary session of the Chinese National People’s Congress (NPC) is always a puzzle for China watchers. The 12-day meeting of China’s rubber-stamp parliament does not do much legislative business and rarely produces surprises.
Yet China’s rulers spare no efforts trying to turn this yearly ritual into a propagandist triumph. Indeed, the NPC provides the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) a rare opportunity to showcase its achievements and signal its economic priorities.
Pessimism over the Chinese economy and a spate of bad news, including the collapse of China’s stock market bubble and the weakening of the renminbi, made projecting confidence even more important this year. But as the top leaders of the CCP wrapped up this year’s session on Wednesday, they had some good news to celebrate.
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The New Yorker
Daily Comment
March 17, 2016
China’s New Age of Economic Anxiety
By Jiayang Fan
Over the years, state control of China’s economy has alternately fuelled both a stock-market bubble and a real-estate one; there are signs that the latter is bloating once again.
Credit Photograph by Liu jiang / Imaginechina via AP
At China’s most important political forum of the year—a joint session of the National People’s Congress and the People’s Political Consultative Conference, which concluded yesterday—the talk has been heavy on economics. And for good reason. Since a spectacular plunge in the Shanghai Stock Exchange last June, China’s economy, the world’s second largest after that of the United States, has sunk into its steepest slowdown in a quarter century. “Domestically, problems and risks that have been building up over the years are becoming more evident,” Premier Li Keqiang, the nation’s top economic official, told the three thousand delegates sombrely gathered at the People’s Great Hall last Saturday. This was a departure from the regime’s usual rote assurances that the economy will continue to grow at a strong pace. Acknowledging an economic downturn may be uncomfortable for an authoritarian regime that has long prided itself on its stewardship of the socialist economic engine. But, for a generation of Chinese reared on the rhetoric of a relentless and freewheeling economic ascent, it is terrifying.
One expression of Beijing’s obsessive attempts to control the economy is the way it has alternately fuelled both a stock-market bubble and a real-estate one. Over the years, the government has actively steered investors between those markets. In the early nineties, many Chinese, habituated to saving due to the lack of a state social-security system, chose property as their preferred investment vehicle. Deng Xiaoping’s famous Southern Tour, in 1992, in which he publicly touted “aggressive economic development,” inspired a nationwide “development-zone fever”—that is, until the market became saturated, construction halted, and the return on investment dried up. By 2015, the stock market seemed the safer bet. It enjoyed the endorsement of government officials, who, among other things, saw a convenient opportunity to sell off the equity of debt-burdened state-owned enterprises.
But the unnerving burst of the stock-market bubble that year reminded Chinese leaders that their powers had limits. At first, as the market roiled, the government intervened, banning state-owned enterprises from selling off their shares, and buying up hundreds of billions of dollars worth of stocks in an effort to prop up the market. Their reactive measures were meant to stave off short-term pain and chaos, but were hardly an enduring solution. Even as the N.P.C. contemplates fixes for China’s afflicted economy, there are signs that a real-estate bubble is bloating once again, fuelled by monetary stimulus and a loosening of property requirements stipulated by the government.
When I was in Shanghai earlier this month, prospective buyers were lined up for blocks outside property agents’ offices, the lines so long that they blocked traffic. The Party’s official mouthpiece, the Xinhua News Agency, began to warn against “panic” buying, and Shanghai’s municipal government issued a call for cool-headedness on its Weibo microblog account.
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Is oil finally on a stable footing?
The oil rally won’t last, and we could see panic selling to $32/barrel: Strategist
Yahoo Finance
By Lawrence Lewitinn 19 hours ago
Crude (CLK16.NYM) prices are back above $40 per barrel to their highest level this year. But one strategist warns that oil is topping out.
The falling U.S. dollar has given a boost to crude, as have hopes that major producers will be able to come to a production agreement when they meet next month.
However, Bill Baruch, chief market strategist at iiTrader, is skeptical that the rally will persist. He expects U.S. shale oil producers to continue output even though $40 per barrel crude was thought to still be unprofitable for them.
“Forty dollars is the new $60,” said Baruch. “You’re going to see more supply, and the glut will get worse here in the United States as well as worldwide.”
Baruch cautions longs that U.S. storage is reaching full capacity in some important locations. “You’ve got Cushing more than 90% full and Gulf Coast storage just under 90% full,” he said. “That’s why I do not see prices maintaining $40 for an extended period of time.“
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Collapsing demand globally and production costs in the $7/barrel is the reality.
The globe is awash in crude.
The wild card is that Yellen the Felon is ratcheting up the hot-money flows again. A debased dollar and hot money chasing tangible goods is likely to drive up commodity prices.
….. further driving demand to record low levels.
I guess I better sell my oil stocks while they are up 20%! My dad always said it’s hard to go broke making a profit!
Degenerate gambler.
He wins every hand, amazing. Never hear about a loss.
Hold on to those oil stocks, we’ve been told oil will be $80 by November!
Maybe that was last year though.
That could also be in debased dollars. Yellen the Felon is itching to institute NIRP and moar QE to force retail investors back into Wall Street’s rigged casino.
I wonder.
QE didn’t cause inflation. It was a transfusion for the banks, not you and me.
ZIRP has been slow poison and it is snapping back on them as deflation.
NIRP would be a torpedo of quick poison. The dash to cash and ensuing deflation would be monumental. No wonder they are talking about taking away cash.
More government deficit spending is the only thing I can imagine would put $$ in people’s empty pockets.
MarketWatch dot com
European stocks end higher after ECB economist’s ‘helicopter money’ remark
By Carla Mozee and Victor Reklaitis
Published: Mar 18, 2016 1:22 p.m. ET
Stoxx 600 still down for the week
European stocks closed higher Friday, with an assist from further European Central Bank dovish signals.
The Stoxx Europe 600 rose 0.3% to end at 341.71. For the week, the index suffered a loss of 0.2%. That was the benchmark’s first decline after four straight weeks of advances.
The ECB’s chief economist, Peter Praet, suggested Friday that interest rates could be cut further. He also expressed openness to “helicopter money,” the idea of the central bank effectively delivering money directly to the people, rather than via loans to banks or purchases of assets.
European shares rose after Praet “hinted at another cut in eurozone interest rates and said ‘helicopter money’ was part of the bank’s policy toolbox,” said Jasper Lawler, an analyst at CMC Markets, in a note.
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Socialist Sanders has spent more money than Billionaire Trump.
Amerikka what a Venezuela!
Barney and Hillary have both promised on Spanish language TV not to deport anyone, but yeah, building a wall is crazy.
“Barney and Hillary have both promised on Spanish language TV not to deport anyone,”
I moved down to Region IV Palm Beach County in 1983. The first job I had was working on a six story building in downtown West Palm Beach. The foreman of the company I was working for was born in West Palm Beach to the parents of legal immigrants from Mexico, he also had two brothers that worked on that crew.
One day after work the three brothers, myself and a couple of other dudes got some beer and I believe we passed around a couple of those medical cigarettes. Two of the brothers were laughing at the one who was the foreman about what had happened to him the previous weekend. We asked, well what happened?
He was embarrassed about it when he said he had been pulled over and detained by Border Patrol agents and questioned for quite a while. He said I’m telling them I was born at Good Samaritan Hospital (which was right down the road) and I graduated from John I Leonard High School (Palm Beach County) but they still held him for over an hour.
Fast forward to 8 months ago. I’m sitting in traffic on Palm Beach Lakes Blvd not 3 miles from where this story was told to me in 1983 and there is a dude from somewhere south of Brownsville Texas in a (I won’t describe the car) with music blasting and a bumper sticker that read… I’m illegal So What
This didn’t happen over night but watching what has happened to the population where I live it seems like a policy change was made by TPTB sometime in the mid to late 80s which steadily opened the gates from the point where Border Patrol was questioning American citizens of citizens of Mexican descent to putting them on Greyhound buses at the border and shipping them around the country.
American citizens of Mexican descent should be left the hell alone by law enforcement if they haven’t committed any crimes.
Agreed. Why was he pulled over?
“Agreed. Why was he pulled over?”
It was 1983 and we passed around a couple of those medical cigarettes, I can’t remember.
What I do remember was his point that they profiled and questioned people who looked like they were from Mexico or Hispanic.
In 1983 there just were not many around. If they tried that today down here they would need thousands of Border Patrol agents working around the clock.
Gotta call BS on this comment:
Comment by Raymond K Hessel
2016-03-18 06:45:27
The sad truth is, I don’t think there’s a single registered Democrat or dependency voter who is the least bit bothered by Hillary’s decades-long trail of scandals and corruption. They don’t even bother trying to rationalize it away. The sense of morality just doesn’t exist in their empty souls.
As a liberal unaffiliated voter, I can say that I don’t want another Land War in Asia, the EPA to be dismantled, or abortion criminalized.
I’ll pinch my nose with a C-clamp to keep Cruz, Trump or any of the other so-called “Republicans” as far away from the levers of power as possible.
All this, understanding Hillary’s many shortcomings. I want the Republican party to reconstitute itself as a more centrist force in US politics.
The center is corrupted. What we need is reform.
The electorate is dumbed-down and amoral. What we need is a better class of voter.
Pulled, you never voted republican a day in your life.
Hillaryous is unelectable.
Wandering, you and yours tolerate and enable corruption, then rationalize away your vote for evil by claiming you support a lesser evil.
Look at the Republican base, rising up in a political insurrection against the corrupt, crony capitalist establishment GOP. That would never happen in the Democrat Party, where the rank and file are more than okay with corruption at all levels of governance.
I repeat, there are few if any honest, moral people casting votes for Democrats. They are the most amoral, feckless, and compromised portion of the population.
No one gives a shot about abortion.
Also no work ethic, another form of morality
Actually, the dems are voting for their anti-establishment candidate at a slightly higher rate than the GOPsters are voting for their anti-establishment candidate.
WTF are you talking about?
Between Trump and Cruz, they are getting 65 to 70%.
Oh, Cruz the neocon is anti-establishment?
Cruz is a Goldman Sachs Trojan Horse masquerading as a conservative, just like Obama, another Goldman Sachs/George Soros project, masqueraded as a progressive back in 2008 to win the nomination. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Cruz is a Goldman Sachs Trojan Horse
Exactly. So if we accept that Bernie and Drumpf are the anti-establishment choices, the dems are voting anti-establishment at a higher rate than the repubs.
Dems are voting overwhelmingly for the most venal and corrupt candidate in the race, Hillary Clinton. The prosecution rests….
The prosecution rests….
Drumpf has received 39.5% of the popular vote in the GOP primaries, Bernie has received 41.4% in the Dem’s.
So don’t rest too easy, unless you’re comfortable with being wrong.
I’m very comfortable with being proved wrong, especially when it comes as a pleasant surprise.
I’m not so sure Bernie is an “anti-establishment candidate”.
Irrelevant though, last time I checked he was pretty well crushed.
And you’re voting for trump. Pot, meet kettle.
Bernie Sanders Walks Off Interview
BY: Jack Heretik
March 18, 2016 4:29 pm
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) walked away during an interview with a local NBC channel in Phoenix, Arizona.
The footage was released by KPNX, NBC 12 ahead of Arizona’s primaries on Tuesday, March 22 and widely reported by The Hill.
Sanders appeared irked at first by a question from Brahm Resnik about Sanders’ stance on the Minuteman, a group who would voluntarily patrol the Southern border. After Sanders commented on it, Resnik asked Sanders about his wife, Jane Sanders’ recent trip to ‘Tent City,’ an outdoor prison in Maricopa County, Arizona. The prison is run by the famous Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who endorsed Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump for Trump’s strong stance on illegal immigration.
Jane Sanders went on a tour around the perimeter of the prison with Carlos Garcia, an immigrant rights activist. Arpaio approached her and invited her inside the prison for an up-close tour, which she accepted.
Sanders appears to be unhappy however with Arpaio’s invite. As Resnik attempted to ask Sanders about the visit, Sanders interrupted and gave his take.
“You know, let me just tell you something, you know, what Joe Arpaio is doing is an outrage. My wife went to look at the so-called ‘Tent City,’ which is something that should not exist. The fact that he crashed her meeting is to me, very, very wrong. Not something that he should have done.”
After Sanders was done, he got up, took off his microphone and walked off the set.
“Would you accept the spot as vice president?” Resnik asked.
“Thank you very much. Thank you very much,” Sanders said as he got up.
As Sanders walked away, Resnik summed it up.
“First candidate who’s ever walked away,” Resnik said.
I guess they’ve pressed the button on poor Barney.
Sheriff Joe will be doing security at Trump’s rally today. Trump is way ahead in Az, wonder why?
I think it’s hilarious that the LIEberals all get behind a dude named Barney.
You prefer a Drumpf?
Donald Trump is your next US President. Get over it and get on with your life.
Bernie’s Wife Attempts to Expose Sheriff Joe’s “Tent City”… Guess Who Then Walks Up!
18 Mar, 2016 by Cassy Fiano
Liberals like Bernie Sanders and his wife, Jane, like to live in some kind of alternate reality where criminals being punished for their crimes is inhumane. And when Jane Sanders decided to pay a visit to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “Tent City”, she ended up getting a pretty big surprise.
Jane Sanders, wife of Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, stopped by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Tent City Monday afternoon, probably to attempt to stir up trouble for one of our favorite conservative sheriffs. But things didn’t go as she planned after someone else decided to meet her there.
Sanders said she wanted to get a “firsthand” look at how things operated in the controversial compound.
While walking along the edge of the fence she ran into none other than Sheriff Arpaio, who was ready and willing to give her a tour of how things worked in the area, according to KTVK.
“My main mission here is to let you get a taste of Tent City,” Arpaio said.
Arpaio and Sanders walked inside Tent City and discussed how the facility operates. Sanders expressed concern that many of the inmates had not yet been convicted of any crime, but Arpaio was quick to set her straight.
“They’re all convicted, so no pre-conviction,” the sheriff said. “Nope, that’s why I like talk to you to get my side out.”
Sanders was also concerned that inmates were in the compound for being undocumented, to which Arpaio set her straight again.
“Undocumented inmates are not here for that reason,” he told her. “They’re here for other crimes.”
Sanders, a critic of Tent City and the conditions in which inmates live there, spoke with several inmates to get more of a “firsthand” account of things. One inmate told her the facility allowed him to cut the amount of his sentence in half because he is a member of a work detail.
Luis Delatore, a Tent City inmate, said he considered being there a plus.
“That’s a benefit so I mean instead of the nine months that I am doing, I am going to do four months,” he said.
You would think she’d do a little bit of research before waltzing up to Tent City and running her mouth. Instead, she just proved that she’s an uninformed idiot who had no clue what she was talking about. Way to go, Jane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k80nW6AOhTs - 294k -
Sheriff Joe became infamous for political stunts like forcing male inmates to wear pink boxers. How does that kind of petty humiliation build any respect for authority? The Sheriff’s job is to uphold the law, not pander to populist notions of how the incarcerated should be treated (or abused). There is not even any pretense at rehabilitation or looking out for the basic welfare of the prisoners.
“That’s a benefit so I mean instead of the nine months that I am doing, I am going to do four months,”
I have never been sentenced to do any time, but if I was I would gladly wear pink boxers and live in a tent to cut my time from nine months to four.
Trump shouldn’t have anything to do with film-flam cons like Sheriff Joe. The man is a disgrace to his uniform, his badge, and the Constitution and laws he is sworn to uphold.
Birds of a feather…
Maybe so. For lack of better alternatives, I’m giving Trump the benefit of the doubt.
It’s your coin flip.
“Sheriff Joe” is a buffoon and petty tyrant, more focused on grandstanding on issues outside his jurisdiction and humiliating county inmates than upholding the law as a sworn peace officer. That said, these various liberal slugs who ooze on down to whatever Dogpatch county he’s in to scold him on camera are just giving him the publicity he so desperately craves. What a circus.
a buffoon and petty tyrant,
There will be a “dictatorship of the strongman for a time” to build a New Constitutional Man.
God forbid.
I guess I have reached yet another “ceiling” - 49.7%, with four people. My highest Reuters poll yet! Thank you!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cd32xivW0AA5VQY.jpg
What sort of riots are you expecting when the GOP picks someone else as their nominee?
Will your Deity be honest in saying the U.S. government is an imperialist government and our government must continue to pursue more war and more death to people who are not U.S. citizens? He already did say that he will order the military to kill family members of purported terrorists.
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/03/someone-started-a-petition-to-change-the-us-national-anthem-to-war-pigs-by-black-sabbath.html
Oh lord yea!
Bill recommends letting the terrorist Salah captured in Holland go free. Maybe with an apology and reparations.
Responding to your own posts with different names again, I see…
Now I’m Bill? Zoloft immediately.
“Donald Trump” =
anklepants =
canklepants =
Yuuuge in Burma =
Dumidol Fanger =
Meltdown =
10FeetTall = ??????
The pattern is pretty obvious, as the days when one of these supposed individuals fails to post, none of the others post, either!
“War Pigs” by Black Sabbath, should be our national anthem. Petition is circulating.
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/03/someone-started-a-petition-to-change-the-us-national-anthem-to-war-pigs-by-black-sabbath.html
Yellen the Felon is getting ready to take the Fed’s debasement of the dollar to the next level. Must.levitate.Ponzi.
http://www.businessinsider.com/federal-reserve-economy-run-hot-2016-3
The head of Bernie Sanders Super PAC was just arrested for fraud. But Bernie said he has no Super PAC….
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231252
Evictions soaring in our Obama-Fed-Goldman Sachs “recovery.” How’s that hope ‘n change working out for ya, ‘Murica?
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-more-americans-are-getting-evicted-2016-3
Germany’s Frau Merkel has been a stalwart accomplice of the globalists and banksters, with no bailout of the PIIGS too large or expensive for her to put German taxpayers on the hook for the banksters’ uncollectable debts. However, with the rise of nationalist/right-wing parties as the German sheeple have been jolted from their coma by Fundamental Transformation, the ECB’s days of can-kicking and transfering bankster losses to the public ledgers may be coming to a halt. The Germans remember better than most what happens when central banks try to inflate away government debts and obligations with runaway money printing. With Yellen and her fellow Keynesians hellbent on hurtling us down the road to Weimar 2.0, will responsible financiers and politicians finally step in to protect the soverign interests of their people and nations from the rapacious demands of the .1%”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-19/bundesbank-president-helicopter-money-isn’t-manna-falling-heaven
Marc Faber: I will vote for Trump, because [neocon warmonger] Hillary Clinton will destroy the world.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-18/marc-faber-i-would-vote-trump-because-hillary-clinton-will-destroy-whole-world
Yet Trump indicates he will increase the tempo of the U.S. Government’s murders of non-U.S. citizens. Faber suffers from the common ailment among Trump worshippers, which is basically not listening to what Trump is saying but instead thinking that he is not Hillary and not Jen so anything he is in favor of is rainbows and unicorns.
‘basically not listening to what Trump is saying’
‘Look at her nation building in the Middle East, how successful that has been.’
How many people died in Libya, and for what? There are now over 300,000 dead people in Syria. 11 million abandoned their homes and are wandering the globe. For what? Because the neocons and “interventionists” said Assad must go? Not the Syrian people, these people in power in the US. 300,000 dead people. And Clinton pushed the whole thing. Trump said it was a bad idea. Libya, Iraq too. Now who isn’t listening?
“Now who isn’t listening?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFLPn30dvQ - 316k -
But Drumpf says he’ll bomb the sh!t out of ISIS and send Exxon in to rebuild the oilfields and take the oil. He also says he’ll muzzle the press.
Are some not ignoring that because he’s “not Hillary”?
’says he’ll bomb the sh!t out of ISIS’
That was an answer to a hypothetical question. He has said all along let Russia do it, which infuriated the warmongers. Heck, Russia has almost finished the job and facilitated a cease fire in the process.
a hypothetical question.
He was asked about his plan for ISIS, and that was his response. And what about muzzling the press?
And isn’t all this Bill’s point? Ignoring or explaining away explicit statements by Drumpf about how he’ll wage wars,reign in the press, increase the surveillance state, and kick torture up a notch, just because he’s “not Hellary”?
‘just because he’s “not Hellary”
She’s responsible for hundreds of thousands of needless deaths.
I am only one person. What I think doesn’t matter. That millions of people have taken a second look at regime change, policing the world (empire) and globalism does matter. What’s going on isn’t about Trump. It gives me a bit of hope for our future. If we will support positions like these, even if we don’t vote for anyone in particular, maybe other candidates will see they can defy the globalists and the war party and win public support.
Besides, some very interesting things have developed. One, there are some powerful people saying our votes don’t matter. They’ll pick the nominees. And they also said if Trump does get in, they’ll try and throw the election to Clinton. Isn’t that a fine how-do-you-do? It kinda help us all see things in a different light. That Showtime documentary was really something. All rich, old, white dudes laughing about how they wish they were dictators.
I don’t like the two party system. But it’s all we have at this time. If either party is being manipulated it hurts us all. We need checks and balances. Without them our system doesn’t work. It would seem our system isn’t ours at all. That’s a bigger problem than who is elected in November.
Muzzling the press?
Do you even know how muzzled the press is under Obama?
I understand it’s mostly voluntary because most of the press is obama sycophants. You have no reason to gripe about Trumps’ treatment of the press. I think he is still being too kind to these idiots. If the press were a medical profession, they would have been sued for malpractice long ago.
I think he is still being too kind to these idiots.
Well, he hasn’t really had a chance to go after them yet, has he? Not from a position of power, at least. But he openly states he has plans to muzzle the press if he gains power. I don’t see how that’s a good or even Constitutional thing, but apparently you do. Would you care to explain why?
I don’t like the two party system. But it’s all we have at this time. If either party is being manipulated it hurts us all. We need checks and balances. Without them our system doesn’t work. It would seem our system isn’t ours at all. That’s a bigger problem than who is elected in November.
Testify, Brother Ben. My thoughts exactly. Sometimes perfect is the enemy of good enough.
Would you care to explain why?
Butters is apparently not able to. It must be one of those gut feelings that can’t be verbalized or explained coherently.
Trump says a lot of things. He means few of them, and understands even fewer.
People need to lay off the hopium.
Let Salah the terrorist in Holland go, right? All those conspirators that were hiding him too, huh?
TBH Salah is most likely a patsy.
With Drumpf we get the advantage of not knowing what the f he’ll do. Nor how he’ll do it.
Hopefully we’re gonna find out. And if so, it’ll be yuuuge.
We must elect him to find out what’s inside.
Trump would likely inspire more caution in adversaries than Hillary and her schoolmarmish finger-wagging.
likely inspire more caution in adversaries
Why? The who-knows-what-he’ll-do factor?
Donald Trump! Donald Trump! What’s he doing? What’s he saying? What will happen next?
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Cute!
Is that by one of Jerry’s relatives who has way too much time on his hands?
Is that by one of Jerry’s relatives
If so, it’s by one with a great sense of irony, or very little knowledge of the actual bible. I’m betting on the latter, though it would be extremely amusing if it were the former.
though it would be extremely amusing if it were the former
Leviticus being the old testament rundown of absurd kosher law (no cheeseburgers, stone your sassy kids to death), Falwell being a new testament personification of everything that must be forgiven but shouldn’t be.
She finger-wagged the sh*t out of Syria.
Must be the don behind all the syrian/libyan refugees.
Follow the money….
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/watch-hillary-clinton-admit-on-live-tv-she-voted-to-invade-iraq-for-the-money_032016
I remember that, Bush said the oil would pay for the war. $6 trillion later–nada.
Its like all these president people are lying to us…
5
4
3
Is it 2?
no - 4 is tomorrow
Bernie only knows thuggery.
Pro-Bernie Sanders super-PAC creator charged with fraud
Barney Sanders is pro-debt slavery.
The Chinese owners of one of Britain’s most prestigious golf clubs have shelved plans to reduce the number of members by hugely increasing fees.
The Beijing-based Reignwood group wanted to cut membership at Wentworth in Surrey from 4,000 to 900 to make it the most exclusive club in the world.
It was to charge existing members a £100,000 debenture and increase annual subscriptions from £8,000 to £16,000.
Now the club has said existing members will not have to pay the new debenture.
Residents of the neighbouring Wentworth Estate, where houses can cost many millions, will also get reduced rates.
The club announced in October it would be charging existing members £100,000 and new joiners £125,000.
The planned charges led to a bitter dispute between golfers and Reignwood, who bought the club for £135m in 2014.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-35851504
Mao and his fellow Long Marchers in hell would not approve.
THANK YOU ARIZONA! 20,000 amazing supporters! Get out and Vote Trump on Tuesday. I love you!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cd71XpUUkAAaZR8.jpg
“I love you!”
Trump and Jesus love everybody!
I received a reply from Curly Haugland. Can’t post whole thing because it’s too long, don’t know if anyone’s interested (a lot of ranting) - it also shows the recipient list and people’s personal info. If I edited all that out, I don’t know of an anonymous, immediate view site like picpaste, only for pdfs.
The pdf of the email is 44 pages long (type is big.) I was surprised, only 118 people. I haven’t read the whole thing. If anyone is interested in seeing it, mkswift @ cox.net.
That’s funny. I suggested the other day we tar and feather Curly and ride him around town on a rail. BTW, I put up a short video on Las Vegas the other day.
Re Curly: I’d like that.
Re Vegas: Imagine how many there are if you found those so quickly.
Something is spooking the neighbors because quite a few houses have been listed/sold lately, $300K and up, this in an area that people tend to stay put. Email from crimemapping.com this morning about a murder in a house not that far away. We (the neighbors) are trying to catch whoever is stealing deliveries from our doorsteps. Got two packages of mine the other day.
Our lease is up in June of 2017, so we’ll be here until then (I hope.) I don’t read much Vegas RE news anymore or listen to the radio shows. It’s a waste of time.
The Minimum-Wage Cure for Illegal Immigration
Last week, Ron Unz, a California businessman, submitted a ballot initiative to the California secretary of state that would raise the state minimum wage to $12 an hour in 2016 from the current $8. The federal minimum wage is $7.25.
Many states have minimum wages above the federal rate. Democrats and progressives have been pushing for higher minimum wages at the state and local level, encountering opposition much less intense than in Congress, where Republicans are adamantly opposed to any increase, saying it would lead to a loss of jobs. Polls show strong public support for a higher minimum wage.
What is curious about the Unz initiative is that he is a conservative who defends a higher minimum wage on conservative grounds. In an interview with The New York Times, he said it would reduce government spending on welfare. A recent study from the University of California, Berkeley, estimated that welfare benefits for low-wage workers amount to $7 billion a year.
More controversially, Mr. Unz also contends that a higher minimum wage would curb illegal immigration. He has made this argument for some years in a variety of liberal and conservative publications.
Cleverly, Mr. Unz has turned the principal conservative argument against a higher minimum wage – that it would reduce jobs by making employment more expensive – into a virtue. As he wrote in a 2011 article in The American Conservative magazine, of which he was then the publisher:
The automatic rejoinder to proposals for hiking the minimum wage is that “jobs will be lost.” But in today’s America a huge fraction of jobs at or near the minimum wage are held by immigrants, often illegal ones. Eliminating those jobs is a central goal of the plan, a feature not a bug.
He asserted that those affected would primarily be newly arrived immigrants, those with the weakest ties to American society. Those who have been in the United States for a while, who have mastered English and put down roots, would likely be “grandfathered in” and not lose their jobs.
“In effect, a much higher minimum wage serves to remove the lowest rungs in the employment ladder, thus preventing newly arrived immigrants from gaining their initial foothold in the economy,” Mr. Unz wrote. Once this fact became known, it would discourage low-skilled immigrants from coming in the first place.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/the-minimum-wage-cure-for-illegal-immigration/?_r=1
Another black swan takes flight.
http://wolfstreet.com/2016/03/19/catalonia-flirts-with-default-threatens-spains-debt/
Is this the death of our so-called democracy? If TPTB don’t like upstart challengers who speak truth to power and give a voice to the voiceless, they deploy their thugs and rent-a-mobs to shut you up and shut you down. Your only “choice,” it seems, are the Republicrat empty suits annointed by the Oligopoly.
http://www.azfamily.com/story/31516829/trump-protesters-block-streets-in-fountain-hills
Ever seen this math engine?
https://www.wolframalpha.com/
very cool
input:
pi
Decimal approximation:
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974…
How will our candidates-for-hire reward their corporate donors when they become “public servants”? And how long will the sheeple put up with politicians who sell them out to the highest bidder?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-ghost-corporations-are-funding-the-2016-election/2016/03/18/2446e526-ed14-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html
Did your hedges get whacked?
Economy
It’s a rough time to be a hedge fund
By Sabri Ben-Achour
March 18, 2016 | 4:42 PM
With volatile markets and lots of closures in 2015, it’s a hard time to be a hedge fund.
- Spencer Platt/Getty Images
More hedge funds closed their doors in 2015 than at any time since the financial crisis, according to new research from HFR.
Nine-hundred-and-seventy-nine funds closed up shop in 2015, up from 864 in 2014. Only 183 new hedge funds started up in the fourth quarter of 2015, the lowest number since 2009.
“It certainly is a desolate landscape,” said Steven Davidoff Solomon, professor at UC Berkeley. “What can only be described as a slaughter.”
Hedge funds have historically demanded high fees from institutional investors for high performance, hedging against downturns and profiting during upturns. But, said Davidoff Solomon, “it’s getting increasingly difficult to outperform the market.”
Assets are increasingly correlated, for example.
“One of the things you want to do,” explained Davidoff Solomon, “is try to invest in something that doesn’t mimic the stock market or a stock investment that doesn’t move as much when the stock market moves up, and that has gone away significantly so it’s harder to earn different returns than the stock market itself.”
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Twilight of the hedgies.
Central bankers to investors: All your returns are belong to us.
Are you suffering from economic anxiety?
B rn S nd rs s s c l st
I’d like to buy a vowel
In Bernie’s world, they all come free.
Well, free to you after it is taken from someone who actually has vowels.
I’ll give you an “e” I have plenty of them to share.
“I’ll give you an “e” I have plenty of them to share.”
Bern e S nders s s c l st
Could someone who paid for their college education or went to work right out of high school so they didn’t take on staggering amounts of student loan debt give me another vowel so I don’t have to pay for it?
OK, I am feeling generous.
I sawed/split/stacked/delivered firewood 40 hours a week while I was in college. It was a better job than what I got after school! What is “student loan debt”?
Here is an “o”.
“Here is an “o”.
Bern e S nders s so c l st
I’d like to solve the puzzle.
Bernie Sanders is a socialist
This is well worth watching the whole 50 seconds.
I’d like to solve the puzzle… - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igjDKB4WBSI - 165k -
Trust me.
Barney is f____d up like polio.
Free after you take a cut from the people who stole it.
Or is that immoral?
Economy
The Economic Anxiety Index: What’s Your Number?
By Marketplace staff
March 14, 2016 | 4:06 PM
The Marketplace Economic Anxiety Index is a tool to help describe how the economy feels on a personal level. It’s on a scale of zero to 100. The higher the number, the more stressed out someone is.
You can calculate your score, and compare it to Americans who took the latest Marketplace-Edison Research Poll.
TAKE THE QUIZ
I scored 0.
That’s beautiful…congratulations!
Here I was patting myself on the back for a score of 8. Maybe that reflects that we help a couple of adult children out with rent and food.
I’d love to see a breakout of those scores by homeowners / non-homeowners. I would bet ALOT of money that homeowners are significantly higher on the economic anxiety scale than non-homeowners are.
Unfortunately, the folks who designed the survey didn’t think to include that question.
I’ve still got one on the glide path. She is energetic though and the runway is in sight. May.
A couple of my daughters have faced ugly divorces. What the hell is wrong with young men these days I wonder. No compass.
If I had to do it over again, I would ask any hopeful young man to put up a $60K escrow for the divorce or hit the pike.
I’d love to see a breakout of those scores by homeowners / non-homeowners. I would bet ALOT of money that homeowners are significantly higher on the economic anxiety scale than non-homeowners are.
I agree. And also the level is higher as I suggested for California home owners compared to Arizona homeowners.
I’m over 500% wealthier than the people in my zip code in my age group and I’m a lowly renter paying 1/3 the housing costs of them. No wonder they hate renters.
I got a 12. Probably would have gotten a lower score if I could say I did not worry about finances - got to save money to pay concierge fees for a PCP, so I’m brown-bagging lunches and making my own coffee and avoiding the pub next door. My goal is to not have to sell off stock funds this year. Dumping the Arizona apartment and my frequent plane trips to Arizona saves a lot of money but not sure if it’s enough.
My fiduciary of one of my 401ks has an app for my iPad that compares your savings (in that one retirement plan) with the savings of people in your age group (or an age group you designate) and in a zip code you designate.
It’s interesting that in the $800k stucco boxes part of Irvine, the people in my age group have an average savings of one third of that one 401k (about one sixth of my combined tax deferred retirement plans). It’s part of being in California - post Prop 13. People here think RE is a savings account and a way to fight back against the high taxes of California. So they have little in their tax deferred accounts and a lot in housing. To the east across the border in my former zip code (part of Ahwatukee) the savings dollar amount is just about equal to Irvine. What gives? And the average house price on Zillow in that Arizona zip code is about $240k. Arizonans are more wild about saving than about real estate. Their property taxes are lower than Californians’ also, on a dollar basis.
I think the stress level is higher in my part of Orange County as a result compared to Arizona. They certainly are relatively wealthier than Californians. They could more likely use their annual investment gains from their savings to pay their property taxes and then some. Not Californians.
I don’t worry about job loss, paying for college (N/A), about health costs, or my housing costs. Could move to Tucson into a really nice two bedroom apartment in the Catalina foothills and easily cover it all with my investment gains. Social security is further down the road, about ten years.
“Tell us a little about yourself.”
I don’t need to be on another list.
+1
Might as well join Facebuck as take that quiz.
http://www.bramptonguardian.com/news-story/6391305-female-realtors-in-peel-on-high-alert-after-inappropriately-approached-by-male-buyer#.VuleArgbCtY.facebook
Sorros AstroTurf rent-a-mobs activate!
http://www.prisonplanet.com/emergency-alert-civil-war-in-america.html
Leviticus Falwell
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that is Bull crap
Whoever the next president will be, that one will be the least popular president after 20 months in U.S. history.
Wow, CNN ratings are up 75% because it’s “all Trump, all the time.” The networks are making a fortune off of me! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
The broken window theory at work.