RANT: Social Security is bust

Friday, March 7, 2014

http://www.sherrodbrown.com/petition/w140120/?subsource=CK-SB-ESS-A02-FB-FBLP.D-FKW-NA-MS256-BO-40p-T6.P1.C03

Members of Congress:

When I hear politicians in Washington talking about “reforming Social Security,” I know that what you really mean is “cutting benefits” or “privatizing retirement accounts.”

What you should be talking about is expanding Social Security — extending solvency and ensuring the economic security of our seniors.

Senator Sherrod Brown, along with some of his colleagues, is working to expand the life of Social Security for this and future generations of seniors in America — and I am calling on you to do the same.

Signed,

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Sorry, but Social Security was FDR’s Socialist destruction of America.

It enabled Grandparents to abandon their families and move to warmer climates. And, make people dependent upon the Gooferment.

Economically, it’s a Ponzi scheme. Based on unrealistic assumptions and an ignorance of human aging.

Also, by the wide-spread introduction of abortion, we have put humanity into a death spiral.

(Akin to the Chinese One Child policy or India sex-selection policies that have put them on the Road to Perdition.)

Social Security is bust. Best thing is to emulate Chile in the 1970’s. Privative for the youngsters, reassure the old folks, and screw the folks with assets.

Fact of life.

The last investor in Ponzi gets <synonym for the past tense of the procreation act.>

At least, Ponzi had the decency not to point a gun to his victims’ heads. He just appealed to their greed.

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INSPIRATIONAL: Kurt Vonnegut’s advice

Thursday, March 6, 2014

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2014/02/ladies-gentlemen-of-ad-2088.html

Friday, 21 February 2014
Ladies & Gentlemen of A.D. 2088

Kurt Vonnegut

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Reduce and stabilize your population.
Stop poisoning the air, the water, and the topsoil.
Stop preparing for war and start dealing with your real problems.
Teach your kids, and yourselves, too, while you’re at it, how to inhabit a small planet without helping to kill it.
Stop thinking science can fix anything if you give it a trillion dollars.
Stop thinking your grandchildren will be OK no matter how wasteful or destructive you may be, since they can go to a nice new planet on a spaceship. That is really mean, and stupid.
And so on. Or else.

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Maybe we can start a KICKSTARTER project to get off this rock?

(My belief is that Gooferment keeps us on this plantation!)

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FUN: Things I worry about?

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

http://blog.biographyonline.net/2010/09/random-interesting-facts.html?m=1

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It is unknown if odd perfect numbers exist
A perfect number is a number whose divisors add up to itself such as 28: 1+2+4+7+14=28

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Laff!

A project for when I’m in the nursing home.

Wait where am I?

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RANT: Another reason to separate the Gooferment from the roads

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

http://users.ipfw.edu/diclemej/Learnsomethingneweveryday.htm

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If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

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Argh!

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RANT: Michael Bolton, health issues

Monday, March 3, 2014

Argh!

A cancellation AFTER we had departed to the venue.

Seriously.

The day before I received an email about the event. They advertised the valet parking and their restaurant. So we were going to do it.

We arrived at the venue and the only sign was a 8½ by 11 “cancelled”.

Argh!

Seriously? 

Did the “star” get sick 3 hours before performance?

Argh!

Oh, well, it makes for good blog post!

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We are writing to inform you that a performance you hold tickets to, Michael Bolton, originally scheduled for March 2, 2014, has been cancelled due to the artist’s health issues. We apologize for both the short notice and any inconvenience this may cause.

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MONEY: WalMart as the “bank” for the poor

Monday, March 3, 2014

http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb14/banks-obsolete2-14.html

Banks Are Obsolete: The Entire Parasitic Sector Can Be Eliminated (February 20, 2014)
What else can we do with the $1.25 trillion we’ll save by eliminating these obsolete financial middleman parasites? A lot.

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The entire notion that 100 savers put their money in a bank which then buys a mortgage with their savings and sells it as a security that supports a pyramid of derivatives is obsolete. Each saver can directly own (and sell on a transparent market) a piece of a mortgage, auto loan, business loan, etc. There is no need for a middleman banking sector at all–no skim, no concentration of risk, no opportunities for selling derivatives to unwary investors. All that goes away with the banking sector.

But what about holding deposits? We already have two institutions that could serve this role: credit unions and the post office. If those holding depositors’ cash do not issue loans, they have no source of income to defray operating expenses. The solution is obvious: charge fees for holding deposits and payor-payee transactions.

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And what about WalMart as the “bank” for the poor and middle class?

I see the politicians and bureaucrats whine about Payday Loans and Title Loans.

WalMart could be a great “bank” for the little guy!

Argh!

The Sheeple are so dumb and the Gooferment enables them!

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RANT: Gooferment “standards’ or Gooferment coverup?

Sunday, March 2, 2014

2014-Mar-02

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1089832_very-small-cars-fail-new-iihs-small-overlap-frontal-crash-test

Very Small Cars Fail New IIHS Small-Overlap Frontal Crash Test

BY Stephen Edelstein STEPHEN EDELSTEIN
6,717 views Jan 22, 2014 54 Comments

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Why haven’t we heard more about this?

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RANT: Fonda lived longer and better than the POWs she betrayed

Saturday, March 1, 2014

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2566899/Jane-Fonda-76-reveals-stop-crying-comes-terms-mortality.html

‘I have so little time left!’ Jane Fonda, 76, reveals she can’t stop crying as she comes to terms with her own mortality
By COLETTE FAHY
PUBLISHED: 14:35 EST, 24 February 2014 | UPDATED: 17:47 EST, 24 February 2014

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Wonder if she think about what she did to the Viet Nam POWs?

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RANT: Inflated page views

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Isn’t it interesting that the stats of internet clicks are inflated.

How many folk realize that Drudge’s reload inflate their stats.

At does it CRACKED that splits every page.

Argh!

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MONEY: The FED is clueless when it counts

Friday, February 28, 2014

Fed’s 2008 Transcripts Show Struggle to Grasp Magnitude of Crisis
Two days after U.S. officials decided to let Lehman Brothers collapse in September 2008, and just before the Federal Reserve was about to unleash a torrent of new support programs to bolster a crumbling financial system, central-bank officials were still struggling to grasp the magnitude of the calamity that had hit the U.S. economy.

“I think that our policy is looking actually pretty good,” Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said of the level of interest rates at a closed-door Fed policy meeting on Sept. 16, 2008, according to transcripts of its policy meetings that were released Friday with the traditional five-year lag.

By year-end the Fed had cut interest rates to zero, announced plans to start buying private mortgage-backed securities, and set up programs to prop up money-market funds and the commercial-paper market and individual banks such as Citigroup.

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So why do we allow the banking cartel to run the nation’s money?

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