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Repeal? Nope. I don't think this is reversible. Once the have-nothings realized they can vote themselves money taken from the have-somethings our Democracy essentially stopped serving all of its citizens. Some of you are counting on the November elections to make some difference. I...

Won't this income bracket simply demand more wages --> wage inflation? Or do wages depend more upon general economic conditions?

Yeah, they would have to because of all the millions of us that are determined to abuse, avoid, obfuscate, distort, dilute, deceive etc to escape the system. 1099s do not write themselves. 1099s do not mail themselves to the IRS. There are about 1 million ways to hide capital gains on...

Joe you forgot one. 6. Sit back and let all the young people who would not normally carry health insurance subsidize all of us old farts who actually utilize healthcare. I'm going to the emergency room if I get a hangnail or have gas so it could get expensive. You never can tell if its...

True enough. But there is a distinction in that conflict. The U.S. military had the will and the ability, the U.S. civilian leadership did not. Some would also suggest that Vietnam was in fact a proxy war between the US and China. Would our current leadership possess the stones to see...

As was pointed out, the U.S. has over 10,000 acknowledged nuclear devices. Occasionally in the past the U.S. has employed equally large unacknowledged systems. What you see is the tip of the iceberg. I think the Chinese nuclear weapons could destroy millions in the USA, no doubt about...

I'm sorry, I've tried to shop at the Walmart but there is just something seriously wrong with the place. For one thing, any Walmart I have visited from Chicago to LA has been a freak show. You know what I mean. There isn't a pair of pants in any store in the entire Walmart chain with an...

Clearly the entire system will become stratified. An upper-tier of care will emerge (it already exists on a smallish scale) that does not accept any insurance, only cash (or check/money order lol). This upper tier of medical care will have the best doctors, nurses, equipment and hospitals...

Do you really want all your business information data mined? There is a reason that all those services are free.

No. I'll stay and help buy control back. For years now when its time to get a physical I get on a plane and fly 5 hours to Reagan-National, drive up Wisconsin Ave. and visit my doctor across the street from NIH and caddy-corner from Bethesda Naval Medical Center. He accepts no insurance of...

That is interesting. If I could institute 3 reforms they would be: 1) 4-year term limits in Congress 2) 8-year term limits for Supreme Court Justices 3) Property ownership a prerequisite for voting priviledges Personally I think that only landowners should be allowed to vote. That...

What is broken is the intellect of all the people like you that voted this lout into office. When the intelligence of the general US population has degraded to the point where they would elect a narcissist first term senator with a dubious chicago community organizer background to the office of...

Oh, Nick, I don't know, I guess most of us perceive that outside of a few large cities most chinese are living in hovels, drinking polluted water, wiping their asses with their hands and scratching out an existance in a hellish semi-agrarian 18th century industrial revolution nightmare. Ever...

Seems like you are asking a serious question. What are you a junior in, engineering? If so, skip ROTC and finish school with good grades. Contact the USAF and take the AFOQT. Then negotiate for the aircraft type you want to try for (if you wash out of fighter school you can still fly...

Actually you have to go more than 30 minutes inland anywhere in the US before you encounter culture. Fortunately that includes more than 99% of the country. You need to get out of the castro district, at least once in awhile.

Hmm cool. I would love to have a small rain catchment system but its actually illegal here, something about "you don't own the water that falls on your property in the form of rain", a california thing. Arizona seems much more sensible about such things. I've decided to try a couple of...

Oh, "they say" that there is an opportunity cost to paying off the mortgage. They say that since the mortgage money is relatively cheap that it is better to invest your discretionary funds rather than paying off the mortgage. I usually work to pay off early.

Nice work! Congratulations! I know, I know, they say it isn't advantageous to pay off your mortgage. I say bullshit. Nothing is sweeter than paid-for real estate. I usually try to get a 15-year note for just that purpose. Now, if you are in california (at 438k that is a fair bet) you...

I have one of those stainless storage racks in my shop area with a bunch of bottled water and 5 or 6 of those #10 cans of Mountain House backpacking food, the freezedried stuff. Its got a long shelf life. Also toilet paper, paper towels and a couple of 40-lb bags of dogfood. Lots of coffee and...

I don't think in terms of some long-term collapse lasting years. I think in terms of some catastrophe, maybe financial, maybe tectonic or maybe terrorism that disrupts the "just in time" production/delivery cycle of groceries and fuel. I think in terms of the grocery stores being empty for...