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Perhaps John should study up and try again for one of those TSA "government" security jobs that pay 150k just to run your stuff through the x-ray machines. They can't be all that hard to qualify for.
@hank- your answer to John is a complete giveaway on your social leanings... if you were on the "right" you'd start by taking away your opponent's right to vote.
I've been hearing this "we won't solve (insert problem here) by throwing money at it" forever, and always from those "conservatives" who freely acknowledge a given problem but don't want to pay a nickel towards ameliorating it. Please note the use o…
After Ted provided that info I took a closer look at the Schwab site- there is in fact a "YTM" column which gives the Yield To Maturity. Thanks to all for the help!
BTW, doing Munis now doesn't seem to be advantageous, even compared to CD yield. As…
Some wonderful quotes from that article-
• The ideologically-driven narratives of the ever-wrongs make for bad policy, poor economic analysis, and terrible investment strategies.
• They continue to say things will happen that keep on not happening…
FWIW, I've had the impression for the last couple of years that the Fed has been increasingly more open with respect to what they may be considering, starting with Bernanke. I have no real idea whether this is good or bad, but I'm leaning towards th…
Once in a while at a restaurant I'll order a Scotch Old-Fashioned. Last time the waitress asked if I wanted a "premium" Scotch. I advised her that if one ruins Scotch by adding all that other crap you might as well use the cheapest that you've got. …
@johnN: You know John, since you profess to believe that the "average" government worker makes 120 - 150k a year why don't you get a job at your local airport screening luggage? Not much intelligence required, not too hard. Sounds like you'd be happ…
"Chris Edwards is the director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute and he is the editor of Downsizingovernment.org. His latest analysis of total federal employee compensation has just been published."
@johnN: Really impressive source, John.…
"Studies find"
Care to provide specifics and references for these "studies" John? Or is this just more of your usual line of unsupported and unsupportable crap?
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"@Old_Joe, "9dupp" is a well known internet term that means "to heck with you Ted, I can post whatever I want". I'm surprised you didn't know that :)"
@MikeM: Of course I knew that! Must have been a momentary "senior moment", I guess. :)
I think it's incredibly unfair of you folks to expect Jo-Jo to present an accurate, well-reasoned and fairly balanced presentation. If Individual #1 isn't required to do that, why pick on one of his acolytes?
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As an ex-Coastie, I really appreciate the effort of Susan Collins. That said, it's totally irrational and just plain cruel to wantonly punish innocent government workers who have absolutely no connection to this issue. Trump is a total ASSHOLE.
From the article:
"Lawyers for President Donald Trump are invoking the government shutdown to seek a delay in a court case over claims that Trump is illegally profiting from business his Washington hotel does with foreign countries."
Let's see no…
