Tag: money
member name: Tim Nelson
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October 31, 2009 11:18 AM EDT --
I watched Mr. James Galbraith (the younger) on Bill Moyers' Journal, on PBS last night. He said that we should offer early retirement to guys like me.
The youth of today, he says, need to be employed. . . .
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September 09, 2009 10:16 AM EDT --
Yesterday I learned that Congress wants to fine an individual $750 for not having health insurance. I was thinking that the fine would be indexed by income, basically from zero. In that scenario, I expected . . .
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December 02, 2007 10:24 AM EST --
The Taxpayers League in Minnesota wants to bring capitalism to the public sector, another unnamed group wants to bring socialism (government regulation) to the private sector. The problem is not that either . . .
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November 17, 2008 08:25 PM EST --
Most of the economy was farm related at one time in our past. Today, the farm bill that passed last year to bolster the income of corporate farms owned by millionaires, puts farming squarely into the category . . .
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February 16, 2009 04:34 PM EST --
There are cycles to the economy, and a world-wide depression seems to be one of them, but a large middle class is a doubtful part of the cycle.
The end of WWII, women in the workforce, the baby boom, . . .
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November 21, 2009 11:22 AM EST --
The large middle class lasted 50 years, so lets just get over ourselves for once. Sure, the large middle class HAD a solid foundation, but now it doesn't.
The transfer of economic power is happening . . .
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April 16, 2008 08:32 PM EDT --
(Caution, one word near the end could be considered naughty)
Many people can relate to too much overtime at work. The hours and days go by and there is no time to get anything else done. It was at . . .
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February 07, 2009 12:20 PM EST --
Once again, centrists rule. The shopping list for the stimulus bill had enough junk food to send the average (partisan) child straight into a coma, but little Republicans, and little Democrats didn't . . .
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March 20, 2009 05:44 PM EDT --
Pension plans. A search for "pension bailouts" gets 1,910,000 hits. Now normally, the dollar ammounts involved here would get most peoples attention, and any retirement plan that has this much . . .
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September 22, 2008 09:02 PM EDT --
"I am not a Democrat who believes that we can or should defend every government program just because it's there," Obama said at a rally in Green Bay. "We will fire government managers . . .
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July 27, 2009 01:33 PM EDT --
Never in the bill.
1) Eliminate insurance deductions 2) Single payer
Leaving the bill.
1) Parallel public plan 2) Raise taxes on high earners 3) Current, fee for service structure, for Medicare . . .
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September 07, 2009 08:01 PM EDT --
Next generation technology is my obsession.
Please read.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/feature/college_for_99_a_month.php?page=all
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September 17, 2009 01:22 PM EDT --
Here I am, minding my own business, listening to MPR, and on comes an "expert" on getting a job. A caller had been out since November, just like me, so my ears perked up a bit.
This expert started out . . .
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December 15, 2007 10:04 AM EST --
They say that most of the population spends about 15% of their income on medical costs.
How about a 5% cap on employee medical costs. This would include premiums + copays + deductibles + prescriptions. . . .
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March 26, 2009 12:13 PM EDT --
Since the 80's, all the productivity gains have been by new technology. Worker overtime has actually been a negative balance to the total. At some point, people will realize that a smaller portion . . .
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July 15, 2009 10:27 AM EDT --
Not that long ago, I mentioned that the company downsizing I (almost) survived, had the specialists at the company dropping like flies. Now it seems, I can't go on any forum without getting further examples . . .
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September 28, 2008 11:49 AM EDT --
The strange bedfellows of far left activists, and House Republicans took on bailouts this weekend, with all the expected results. After doubling the size and complexity of the bill every couple of hours, . . .
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February 08, 2009 01:05 PM EST --
As I posted before, people need 3 to 6 months of wages saved in case of a
layoff, the average person has $5,000 in credit card debt, and fewer workers
are actually necessary to conduct business in . . .
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July 13, 2009 02:27 PM EDT --
I'm sure some people remember a study done several years ago. It seems that conservatives are happy optimists, while liberals are sad pessimists.
Conservatives, as a generalization, tend to be pessimistic . . .
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September 11, 2009 09:57 AM EDT --
Welfare flourishes in bad economic times, and capitalism flourishes in good economic times. I seriously think some here on Gather are trying to fight high tide.
The far left will have to stop complaining . . .
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