Posted on 08/20/2014 7:09:30 AM PDT by xzins
“By the way once again, miss Romney yet. That was the biggest mistake millions of ignorant Americans will regret. You have taken the biggest part in America’s destruction.”
No I don’t miss Romney. He was a gutless buffoon. I voted for him BTW.
His biggest mistake, IMO, was not capitalizing on the 47% remark. He was right. But gutless politician that he is he backtracked and looked weak. Missed a great opportunity to educate the low information voters. On whose backs the Presidency depends. Unfortunately.
I guess Romney should have realized Obama was bad and actually run a campaign against him. His believing Obama was a good man just in a little over his head led him to stay home and not campaign.
Non campaigning, low information candidate, Romney is an idiot foisted on the electorate by RINOs. The RINO elite will ultimately end up paying for their perfidy.
Yup good point. Married filing jointly and income over 44,000combined means 85% of her SS is taxed at our nominal rate. In addition the state of Ct takes a bit and she pays FICA and medicare on what she earns. The taxman is always there.
>I am open to anyone that has a brighter future scenario to share.
Tens of millions of rioters and looters get mowed down in the streets and leave just the “willing to work” to clean up the mess. Welfare is reserved for those who really need it.
How can there be any justification for amnesty and increased (or even sustained) immigration when these issues exist?
We also need to face the fact that there are plenty of corporations that are strong supporters of amnesty and increased immigration, in order to have access to cheaper labor. They don't care about Americans, and are multi-national and somewhat impervious to what happens here.
We could actually cut the welfare budget in half without touching their benefits, not that this would be enough though. Most of the cost of welfare goes into the bureaucracy, the article doesn’t mention how many work in the welfare bureaucracy does it?
Nominating the wrong candidate did cause a lot of problems
Don’t blame me for my country’s destruction because I didn’t vote for Romney...Blame the GOP for shoving a big government, draft dodging, baby-killing, father of homo “marriage”, lib down our throats.
People died for my right to vote so my vote is sacred to me and I won’t waste it on the likes of Romney.
I’m a Conservative...I vote for Conservatives.
And what is the GOP-E “leadership” doing to stop Obama? NOTHING. They are just as bad.
Not to mention the liberal progressive information propaganda outlets or LSM that helped cause this all.
CGato
The parasite class? Well, they see us all as parasites. (ironically, THEY are parasites as much as the welfare class) That's the question--as soon as their usefulness is no longer, they will rid themselves of them. First, unfortunately, I believe they set them loose on us.
PING
I don’t think so - the problem will continue to grow. What do people with nothing to do, with their lifestyle and their kids subsidized by someone else, do? Well - one thing is that they procreate, and usually at a higher than normal rate. And the chances are pretty high that all of those children will grow up on welfare as well.
This is what is frustrating - those striving to be “compassionate” are just making the problem worse and more untenable. I’m guessing on purpose - they will be there to pick up the pieces when it collapses
That tipping point was mentioned above. Interest rates, particularly on the federal debt, can’t stay down much longer. Eventually the Fed runs out of room to rathole the bonds and they have to go on the market. NO ONE is going to buy them at 2% or whatever stupid low rate they are now. When the interest rates start climbing the unicorns will start dying. And remember this: If what the Fed is doing now to keep rates down is such a heckuva good idea then why didn’t they do it in the Carter years when we had to live with a decade and a half of stoopid high rates? And Nobody could afford a house?
Screw the French and their revolution. Our own leaders simply need to look around and count American gun owners. 80 million of my closest friends and I are not going to take their krap or even look to them for help if stuff gets tense. If they look like part of the problem instead of the solution they will be history. It amazes me that the regular folks in Ferguson have already not gone Postal on both the cops and the looters. But the good news is that some of the folks have indeed broken out the firepower and are protecting their own places. Gave me a warm fuzzy feeling a couple days ago reading about four gals who armed-up to protect their car wash business-—quite successfully.
It’s a real sucker’s bet to take your social sec. benefits at 62 unless you really, REALLY need the bucks, or are in bad health and might not make 70. But the Work Credit benefit that runs to 70 will nearly double the benefit that you would have gotten at 62. Even if you are a lifetime payer who would be a max recipient at 65 makes the discount you have to take at 62 a bad deal. Make sure you know how much you will be losing by taking early before you make the move because there’s no going back. I promise you will bitch the rest of your life if you take the early discount and then need more income later-—it won’t be there.
Sadly the USA has had a string of Presidents and Congresspeople that have worked hard since 1965 to turn the USA into 3rd world country....
1- by sending our economy and good manufacturing jobs and security to China etc;
2- by frittering away trillions by waging wars that had nothing to do with defending the USA borders;
3- by writing 1965 immigration law that opened the gates to every country in the world thus purposely changing our makeup and culture;
4- and with even that immigration leniency they failed to enforce the borders and illegal immigration.
5- We bailed out Wall Street bankers and lost public assets instead of sending them all to a cell block.
While we sheep argue about the left and right, many that we elect are corrupt hacks selling out the USA for profit and for their cronies.
CHINA APPEARS READY TO DUMP ITS U.S. TREASURY BONDS
Although investors hang on every comment by Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen to get insight on the direction of interest rates and what it means for the economy and asset prices, the real power to determine U.S. interest rates may be in the hands of China, according to Lombard Street Research. Facing an overvalued currency that is hurting corporate profits and slowing growth, China appears ready to dump its $1.3 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds to drive U.S. interest rates up and strengthen the dollar.
In my situation, you take the money now and travel with it, or whatever. We don't know what our future holds.
And when I say it takes 8.5 years for the 65 value to catch up with the 62 value... that’s assuming you don’t reinvest the 62 value. A person could take the 62 value and invest it in a real investment earning a much better rate of return than the SS investment percent. I didn’t even factor that because its not my strategy.... But it could be for some.
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