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Anna
That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
In a basically macho country, it's the words strong and weak that drive the support for one over the other. If high and low were used, people might see some merit in both high and low arguments about the dollar. Meanwhile strong is healthy and weak …
Children please, most of us are of an age that we lived through this stuff and know the truth even if our memories aren't quite exactly right. In other words - we all are who we are. The Exxon guy is what it is.
Lewis, I agree with you ideologically. But I look at the world full of poor. I look at what few instances of revolution I learned in school. Can you deny that it is usually the elite that lead peasant revolts? The 4th commandment and 2nd amendment o…
When I read discussions of inequality it is usually at websites like this - places where the upper middle class/professional working class/etc. are found. Since most of these groups are stock and fund holders I wonder why CEO and executive rewards a…
i too loved Cohen for years, but is this the most appropriate discussion board for music criticism?
Can't we stick to mutual funds?
If it bothers you, you can put this link in your favorites (or hit the topic "Mutual funds" on the left menu):
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The best answer any can give me is: "Hillary's a crook."
Disclaimer: Most of the above is sarcasism.
The people I grew up with also site the 4th commandment and 2nd amendment (yes, in the same sentence).
It seemed as though some of the people voted for Trump because they thought they should be get more, not less, subsidy. Why do reporters skip the question of who will pay if they don't? Since they don't like government programs, do they want their o…
I actually laughed out loud, as the abbreviation goes, at this:
My favorite line: "Second, Congress should ensure people who act responsibly are protected from developing an expensive medical condition."
@Anna: cider donuts in New Hampshire. They will make you want to live a long time so you can come back, year after year, for 2.
Were the childhood ones home-made?
No, they were Greenville MS's idea of a donut. You could even watch them fry in a tub …
Haven't had a good donut since I was a kid. I just realized I don't eat them anymore and haven't had one in years. If I had one of the good ones from my childhood, it would probably kill me. That's what made them so good.
We should all have the same level of health care as the members of Congress. That is one of the best plans available and they enjoy the benefits of it paid for with our tax money. If its good enough for them, its good enough for me. These are the s…
"God" is evidently even more cynical than I had previously imagined.
OJ, It must be. My husband asked why I was laughing and when I told him about the CEO of the year, he responded - Oh my God.
If people reinvest, it's a wash except for taxes. If they and the tax collector spends, it beefs up the economy, increasing the prices while creating jobs. (Optimism is just as cheap as pessimism.)
chip, Thank you. Something for everyone. I, personally, prefer the new format. I'm a skip around sort of person. I taste the top, middle, and bottom and, then, go back and take my long drinks where I liked the taste best. Later, perhaps a week or so…
A personal note - My doctor wanted me to take a particular one time medication instead of the insurance preferred one. I live about 30mi south of Canada. The doctor told me that, for just my own information, the same drug was $20 over-the-counter in…
I just went over to the government's TSP site and used their calculator to see what the "worth" in SS income of an equivalent annuity would be. Since I wanted a value for the bottom tier who may have almost no real savings or home ownership, I chose…
Thanks all. Can't wait to see the result. By the by, I use accessibility font overrides in IE11 and my green ribbon actually wraps around in order to fit the page.
Edit to add that I went back and looked at the blue vs. the green ribbon with my se…
Personally owned and, if an 8-bit was considered a PC, I guess the Commodore PET with that awful keyboard. I got it between '78 and '80. Dumped it later for a 286 that I kept for years (40mb drive). Prior other people's computers that I used extensi…
The solutions are evident, but will not be politically tenable until robo-advisers replace every financial planner and index funds cause every Wall Street trader and analyst to lose their jobs. Only when the uber-capitalists are themselves Ubered ou…
The word welfare is used to insult the pride of the retired working person such that they would support any retirement program over Social Security. It isn't used for intellectual accuracy. Whose best interest is served is in the eye of the individu…
Bonds aren't debt to him because you have bankruptcy, I suppose. Who's going to reclaim a bridge? At least he didn't say he'd sell the infrastructure to Russia with repairs to be paid for with tolls every 3 miles.
For years my husband had a Fidelity 457 plan. It was cheap if we wanted it to be. It allowed a large array of choices of Fidelity funds and had a brokerage window. We did fine with it. Now the plan is being moved to Voya with no information forthcom…
As a kid I could do all the knee to wrist stuff and the 2 hoop stuff but there were only 2 kids In the family so I never tried more than two (or drinking wine). After I was getting old I bought one and still could do the waist thing (kind of) but th…
You can get a sense of how big a hit you may undergo (including state info; just sub in your own in the url) at
https://smartasset.com/retirement/massachusetts-retirement-taxes
Smartasset indeed. That calculator wouldn't let me put in pension amoun…
