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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
"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…
The people who make money on money aren't likely to want anyone else to make money on money. After all, once the people who make money on money finish their transaction, their money from money is theirs. After that it is other entities making money …
I grew up in MS but the Q/A produces:
"Which American accent do you have?
Northern
You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news netwo…
Maybe it was a compromise. You know - the owls wanted 60 and 70 but the eagles wanted much older. They consulted the statisticians and actuaries who determined that the optimal time to claw back those taxes was in the half years of 59 and 70.
I do …
Well I'm going to get me a comfortable chair and move from rest room to rest room watching for trans people. I will write a book based on these observations, if any.
msf, I truly have lost the distinction between "luck" and "life". You know, a man starts on the way home with more than one path to choose and cannot know that if he choses the wrong one a hungry Spinosaurus lies in wait.
Isn't this the choice American's ultimately must make. Potentially, the price of more freedom in this area is an increase in risk. I have observed that many people are quick to say that someone is not doing their job if any of the risk shows it's he…
vkt, Nothing like that that either my husband or I can remember. We never bought anything for the car anywhere (except gas the Chevron station down the street). Not important anyway. Maybe it was insurance or DMV. And, maybe I did do something that …
OJ, My relationship might be tighter than yours. I have an Amazon card because it limits the purchase totals and I don't need to offer a credit card number to buy. I also have Prime so Amazon has checked my credit. Still, I can't figure out where my…
