Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

And you certainly known what they say about “opinions”?

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

???
Just asked a question, never stated an opinion.

Check your grammar, some of your posts are not easy to understand.

RJ

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Wow. Wow. Not a typo. I will say this much. You must have failed economics.

Greed? Yeah, like insider trading or the findings from a certain laptop that the lemmings were told never existed?

Price gouging? There's no way you could be that.... Oh never mind.

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

I think it goes "they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"

Just think how many are roaming around every blue state in the country. On the other hand, it's better not to think about it.

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

So what are you telling Mr. Jones…he can’t handle a little back and forth. Sad you think that low of him.

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

I blame myself...
MJ

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Thank you for the civil discussion. I totally respect your thoughts and opinions. Who is Clark? And what airframes do you inspect?

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Thank you and you are welcome.
Clark Griswald was Chevy Chase` character in " European Vacation"
I mentioned the 48,000... they should be held to the same standard as the rest of us.
I referenced "The Art of The Deal", because it sounded like you sold some Real Estate. It`s what Trump does in New York City.
It was my attempt at sarcasm and irony (the 48K)
(I did think it was pretty funny)
I don`t inspect airframes. I work at Sikorsky Aircraft but prefer to leave it at that.
Unfortunately, these discussions have no real benefit.
MJ

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Mike, I can relate more to “Cousin Eddie”.

I know you mentioned the 48K that should be held to the same standards as the rest of society, the rest of society hasn’t seen their buddies killed in combat, or returned to the combat zones 3 and 4 times over the last 20 years. Then come home to a system that can not or won’t help because of the lack of specialized doctors or facilities. PTSD is not like a cold you just don’t get over it. These young men and women come home and find the VA facilities are too far away or too crowded to provide assistance, so they self-medicate to keep the demons at bay. The families and spouses aren’t equipped to deal with these broken souls. Service members turn to the streets and seek out fellow service members that can relate and they feel safe or the turn to the last thing that can do to stop the demons in their heads….they take their lives. Every 20 minutes a Vet takes his life in this country. My 24 years in the Marine Corps doesn’t need a hollow “thank you for your service”, a statement that has become so generic to this society. You want to thank me for my service, contact your Congressman or get involved with your local Veteran services. This rant is not pointed at you but at all Americans.

Buying and selling real estate is all about timing, doing your homework on the “comps” in your neighborhood. Giving your home curb appeal. In the 5 homes that I have bought and sold over the years, I have never lost money. It helped that I took a real estate class years ago, didn’t get/want a license because that was not in my scope but knowledge was.

I have uber’d on a number of 53D and 53E with no bad experience. Only one incident was in a CH46, we crashed in the middle of Death Valley with a special weapon coming back from the National Test Site in Nevada. My son in law is a Flight Engineer on Chinooks.

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

My Dad would always say "Never argue with an idiot, because it won't be long before you can't tell which is which". He was right, Come to think of it, he was almost always right! Bill Taylor B/S 1005.

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Double standard.
I'm sure someone here will defend this blatant racism :-(


https://newsglobal.com/biden-begins-...public-speech/

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

OMG ...Pitiful comedy of errors


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtZgV-K_gho

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Lets see covfefe, never better.

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

yeah u h h u h, one typo from 3 years ago. Pretty desperate. If Trump stumbled and bumbled around like that you and the media would be having an orgasm. Meanwhile who's doing the polling the same people who told us that bite me got 80 million votes?. Liberalism is a mental disorder here's your proof right here folks

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

butter huuurrrrrt, thsat coment was a joke, so friggin angey, let it go. this is a safe place for you. post more videos, but make them funny.

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Lest we forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp775-4XSSU

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Stable genius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhxFAicEinU

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Oranges!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUPsNgmXR7M

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Republicans are fine, Democrats are fine. I just think you need Presidential primaries on both sides. Ageism is a bad thing but you have too much on the line as the most powerful country in the world!

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

So far, they've raised the interest rate 1.5% with absolutely ZERO effect on inflation. They're going to hit it again at least once before the year is over. They're shooting for raising it between 2.25% and 3.5%.


That interest rate has NEVER had any appreciable effect on the inflation rate. It is usually very deleterious to wage growth. So raising that rate creates stagflation, which we had during the Carter era.


All that raising the rate has done is killed the housing market, new home construction has declined 7 months in a row. And that just kills jobs. Well, it also is especially hard on the working middle class, and worse still on first time home buyers.


So, pretty much what this idiot administration and congress has done is created 44+year record inflation, while killing wage growth. The average middle class working family is down nearly $8000 in actual income yearly. So far. And that does NOT include the already rising utility costs.


I've studied economics for a while, I read Sowell and Friedman, as well as Laffer. I've studied history, and seen what the government does to the economy. At no time in the history of this nation have government spending increases resulted in improvements in the economy.


Government action has caused every single recession and depression in U.S. history, and every single government intervention in the market has deepened and extended the recession or depression that the government caused to begin with.


Government spending, especially entitlements and give-aways, are what drives inflation. The government artificially injects cash into the economy, and sets inflation on fire. Inflation is a de-facto tax and wealth transfer that always takes from the working middle class and poor, and gives to the government and the wealthy. During times of inflation, wage increases don't keep up. Every single time we go through these periods of 5%-9%+ inflation, the wages fall further and further behind. Inflation is EXACTLY why the number/percentage of two income families ALWAYS grows. You have periods of inflation like the current period, and the Carter malaise period, where the nation endures 3-6 years of 6%+ inflation, and stagnant wages. Then you have periods of harsh recovery, that is always painful, where the inflation SLOWLY falls, but wages increase even slower. Then you eventually have prosperity, where wage growth equals, and even slightly outpaces inflation. The thing is, wages NEVER catch up, they NEVER make up for the years of 6%+ plus inflation and <1% wage growth. NEVER. The middle class always falls further behind, and the poor suffer even more.


The only time in the last seventy years when wage growth exceeded inflation enough to gain any lost ground, where wealth transfer was actually TOWARDS the middle class, and middle class wealth growth equaled or exceeded upper class wealth growth, was during the Trump administration, before the fabricated pandemic. When we also saw the lowest unemployment in total, for women, and for minorities, in modern recorded history.


Inflation will not subside until common sense and logic takes control of the government, and spending is cut substantially. Until then, the most vulnerable, those who can afford it least, will suffer the most, and the most wealthy, will become much more wealthy. The rate of wealth transfer to the wealthy and to the government will increase.


Us? We'll be fine. We're financially stable. We're fortunate. I saw this coming. Despite some short term health problems, we won't even really be hurting. The pantry, fridges, and freezers are stocked. I even have maintenance stuff on the shelf in the garage to last a while. The planned and hoped for return to racing will go on hold, and we're not adding cool stuff to my two bikes. Thanks to the stupidity hurting my 401K etc, it may delay my retirement. And we'll be slower to remodel the house. Honestly, it's the health stuff that put the projects on hold, I am careful with reserves, and the toys get idled first.



But there are people that I know, and that I work with, that will hurt. They will hurt badly, and for a long time. They will hurt even through the painful recovery, and they will fall even further behind. Good, loyal, reliable, hard working people. They simply don't have the security that we do. There's a widower, and a widow, both with young children, who are feeling the crunch, and it will get worse. We'll do what we need to in order to see them through.


But it angers me to no end to see what the government is intentionally doing to the economy, that causes extreme harm, especially to those people who they claim to do the most for.

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

It's a world wide problem right now. Canada's monetary policy has had to tighten for the same reasons.

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

While I sympathize with the world, the problem is the stupidity and arrogance of the current U.S. government, and the incredible harm that they continue to cause. The fact that Trudeau and his clowns are doing the same thing, while sad, is a problem for Canadians to discuss and resolve. And I wish them luck.

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Unfortunately the issues are global. Not looking beyond your own back yard is the beginning of the problem. Doubtful that any government in power, in no matter which country could do better. At the end of the day, they're all clowns. That's why we call them political "parties". You can't have a party without clowns!

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Utterly wrong. It is current government policy driving inflation, period. Without question. The best reason to study history is that you can find the the stupid ideas currently in vogue today have already been tried, and failed miserably. History teaches us that government spending drives inflation. Not interest rates. The government has literally poured a couple of trillion dollars on the inflation fire in the last two years, and inflation has gotten substantially worse, every time. In fact, until the government poured money into the economy, inflation was relatively low. But they decided to spend trillions, increase the debt, and wreck the fossil fuel production, increasing the cost of fuel and energy more than 75%, and driving the cost of transportation of goods to double. Further, EVERY tax increase in corporations immediately results in an increase in prices paid by the end consumer of the goods and services, as corporations view taxes as a cost of doing business, added to the product. The current congress and current administration have done nothing but drive inflation higher. They plan to continue to do so, there's even more spending being proposed right now, including billions of dollars in "loan forgiveness".


Oh, and I use my real name. If you wish to discuss this further, have the integrity and temerity to put your real full name on what you say, or don't waste the band width.

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

I'm sorry, I guess my background in accounting and economics was totally a waste. I'm not arguing with you, just giving my point of view. If I find it warranted to use my name I will, just like instances in the past. Right now I'm just discussing, not picking a fight but carry on should you feel it necessary. I apologize if I touched a nerve, not my intention. Better here in North America than Russia at the moment.

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

You didn't touch any nerve. Especially since you don't even bother to stand behind your opinions with your actual name. There's zero value to an anonymous opinion, the person offering it does not even bother to claim it.



Accounting doesn't matter. It has zero to do with economic policy as implemented by the government. Economics and accounting are two entirely different disciplines. And any background in economics should teach you better. The economic principles that I'm quoting, and putting my name behind, are those of two world renowned economic experts, Nobel prize laureates, from when the Nobel prize had value, Hoover Institute senior fellows, and economic advisers to administrations with clear success records in economic performance. They're also award winning historians. Sowell and Friedman themselves are legendary, and Laffer has a proven record, and is the creator of the proven "Laffer Curve".

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

The material is a bit different between Biden and Trump. My guess is that Trump would have these two " journalists" crying if he met with them face to face for 15 minutes. While I`m constantly being told we are on the right track, my buying power suggests big trouble ahead. I`m eligible to retire next year, but I`m going to take another look. It is remarkable what has happened to our Country.

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

I've been "schooled" thank you Alan!

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Canada`s financial health is certainly NOT being helped the having an idiot, trust fund, substitute drama teacher at the helm of our country. The only reason that POS ever got in was because there were so many potheads that voted for him, simply because he legalized marijuana, and so many people were too young or stupid, to realize how badly his daddy fragmented the country, and screwed things up. Little Justin is following in Pierres footsteps. And we Canadians are suffering for it.

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Have to wonder what your background in accounting and economics thinks about when our illustrious Prime Minister of Canada campaigned on how the budget "will balance itself"? How well do you think THAT has been working for him, and us?

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

I'm apolitical and accordingly don't care about the current party in power, so I am certainly not defending him. All I'm saying is the economy wouldn't be any better off with either the Turban guy NDP or Poilivevre (harry bunny) Conservative. All I'm trying to get across is that everybody is in the same boat. Your comments are political and you are very correct, have nothing to do with my background.

I don't understand why expressing one's opinion causes such distress and anger by people. I suggest you go and have some of that weed that True Dough so legally provided you. I'm sure Nova Scotia is progressive enough that they have a Cannabis store right around your corner. But before you do that, please maintain your BALANCE when you stand. Wonder no more!

P.S. Did you have children? If so, are they one of the "young or stupid" you refer to earlier? No matter, I'm sure you did a fine job because sometimes Old and Stupid begets Young or Stupid.

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

The economy is the same under liberals that it is under conservatives............


Wow.....:rolleyes:

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Alan, it just makes me wonder . Do any of the millions that voted for this IDIOT have a 401 k. ?????

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Short answer... NO

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

Interesting, what has he done to cause such suffering?

Re: FJB and Let's go Brandon
 

The smart ones locked it up when interest rates were raised, it's obvious now that free money created a Bubble!