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TheDancinMonarch got it exactly right. Here are the real numbers to show how bad it is. The difference is huge. When I started work in 1971 there was a 5-year window at the Lab where I worked allowing you to opt out of Social Security. I did some calculations and decided against SS. I wanted to see ...

Stockton, San Francisco, and other cities/counties in CA were offering lifetime 100% employer (taxpayer) paid healthcare to employees, and employee's family for life before the meltdown. All you had to do is not get fired within first 5 years. San Francisco was on the nightly news a couple of weeks...

SuperHornet wrote:What do you mean by "IS declaring" bankruptcy?

This is old news. It happened at least a year or two ago, and isn't the whole story.

Quit passing around years-old bogus stories....

Oh Oh, sorry, didn't mean to thrreaten your pension!

There has been much posted in this forum about the relative compensation of public and private employees in this forum. Well… The city of Stockton CA is declaring bankruptcy. There are several reasons, not the least of which, is that the city’s cost for retiree benefits. From the WSJ: “The average f...

In the late 90’s one party (I’ll call them the mystery party since many people become reflexively defensive if their party is indicted) took control of the governorship and both house of the state legislature. They quietly raised the defined benefit pension formula for public employees from (0.02) t...

The Mystery Party’s leader, I’ll call him Gov. Fudge Brownie, recently signed into law a bill (SB1234) by which the state of California intends to begin operating it’s own social security system for state residents. All residents not covered by a company pension plan will automatically be enrolled i...

I'm in a "management" role in my current job and I'm making less than $17 an hour right now... When that quote in the Hostess Twinke thread, I couldn’t help but think of the irony. I don’t know if the poster himself has a company retirement plan, that’s not the point, but it reminded me t...

A few posters on this forum, over time, have made posts about police throwing their weight around. I’ve taken them fairly lightly, giving allowance for a few bad apples, but maybe I need to do some rethinking about that. What is a powerful public union to do when it looks like a city's busted balanc...

All good responses, but I’m still left in a quandary regarding the original question.

The question is:

How can we spend 2.7 trillion dollars and have air traffic controllers in the tower, and now, we spend 3.7 trillion and have to shut down the air traffic control system?

Still wondering!
Where did the money go?
Is Mr. Obama just an incompetent administrator?
How can you just make a trillion dollars just disappear?
Certainly those on this board who support the guy and his party must have an answer!
Is it an unfair question?

The Goebbelses of the PBS and MSM have been prattling on about all of the disastrous cuts that will have to be made should the sequester take effect. You all know the lists, from defense to air traffic controllers to cleaning the bathrooms in the National Parks. In 2007 under Mr. Bush the Federal Go...

OWS started very small and was initially organized by a progressive canadian magazine called Ad Busters. I guarantee you that those folks are not Obushma supporters. As the movement gains momentum it certainly can be co-opted by establishment Dems, but it's origins and core members are much more gr...

".....have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops -- and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food." Ahhh. Like dude man, am I missing something here, like ahhh, aren’t we here to sort of like “spread the wealth”, man. Gotta su...

I don’t know why you seem to be having trouble with the concept on this, but the OWS crowd does indeed have a spokesperson, Barack Obama! It seems pretty clear to me that this is a Democratic Party operation to energize the base for the coming elections. The unions are leading the effort, setting up...

houndawg wrote:
What do you think you'd be paying for food if it were harvested by Americans?

So, how much do you think you would be paying for cotton if it were harvested by negro slaves? Well, maybe Americans wouldn't do that work either!

http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m567/oldsloguy/P7130039.jpg http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m567/oldsloguy/P7130034.jpg Dude, that sign above the door in the first pic would be an AWESOME thing to have over a bar in my house. :thumb: :thumb: You mean that you don't want the sign showing the...

Residents of Kemp, Texas are boiling, and it's not just because of the stifling heat. As temperatures soared to the triple digits for the 37th consecutive day Sunday, city officials made an emergency decision to shut off the town's water supply. "Right now our water towers have no water in the...

There is some talk about a market decline if the debt ceiling is not lifted. What will you do?

If the Sioux are not supportive and do not want to be honored, I would dump them and change the name. My preference would be "The Fighting 7th". You'll need a horse, a longknife, a bugler and a regiment flag. A lone bugler would be a great fan rouser. Hopefully, he would never have to play...

it'll never replace entirely the need for large generators...... Maybe HI54UNI can straighten me out on this, but I don’t think that wind will replace any appreciable generating capacity. HI54UNI’s plot shows monthly averages but on days when the wind doesn’t blow the load is still there and must b...

You guys must be slipping, In the old days you guys would have been all over this fasters than flies on a garbage can. -- OK, enough harassment. The Obama administration is planning to phase out Fannie and Freddie. Seems way overdue to me as I would have done it years ago. What blows my mind, is tha...

Average MPS Teacher Compensation Tops $100k/year [Milwaukee, Wisconsin] MacIver News Service – For the first time in history, the average annual compensation for a teacher in the Milwaukee Public School system will exceed $100,000. That staggering figure was revealed last night at a meeting of the ...

I'm glad Obama and his minions are clarifying this for me!! [quote=] Nor do we describe our enemy as 'jihadists' or 'Islamists' because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community, .........." Brennan said. [/quote] http://www.foxnews.com/...

My wife had a job way back when. She worked, they paid her. We pay our taxes & the government distributes our taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck, in her case, she was required to pass a random urine test (with which she had no problem). What fries her is the distribution of her ...

You guys are completely missing the point. Barney Frank isn't admitting that Fannie and Freddie are failures. He is simply STATING that that they are failures, and he is offering to set something better up in their places. To me, the real meaning of what he is saying is much more asinine and egregi...