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Post by Freeborn on Feb 10, 2018 11:35:22 GMT -6
If I remember correctly, the age of 60+ credit card debt has increased dramatically. Could be needed money to survive!!! Do you have a link? I have not heard that.
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Post by Freeborn on Feb 10, 2018 11:39:13 GMT -6
We don't need zero debt, but we cant keep on raising it forever..if we do Then it is just a matter of time before the country fails. The liberal agenda to force kids to college have those kids holding 1.5 trillion worth of student loan debt at almost credit card rates right now. It’s what the dems want, and the right can’t fix! Yep, college is not a miracle solution. They need more people in vo-tech and better alignment with industry. Dems hyperventilate but never provide real solutions. Dems want dependent voters not free thinking people who sustain themselves.
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Post by Foggy on Feb 10, 2018 11:58:43 GMT -6
This country has never had an income problem......however we have had huge spending problems.......which provided us with a debt problem. If you cant quit spending....put away the credit cards and check book.
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Post by sd51555 on Feb 10, 2018 12:22:15 GMT -6
This country has never had an income problem......however we have had huge spending problems.......which provided us with a debt problem. If you cant quit spending....put away the credit cards and check book. Most plight can be traced back to decisions made.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Feb 10, 2018 16:35:53 GMT -6
The liberal agenda to force kids to college have those kids holding 1.5 trillion worth of student loan debt at almost credit card rates right now. It’s what the dems want, and the right can’t fix! Yep, college is not a miracle solution. They need more people in vo-tech and better alignment with industry. Dems hyperventilate but never provide real solutions. Dems want dependent voters not free thinking people who sustain themselves. So how does we get that changed?
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Post by Freeborn on Feb 10, 2018 18:30:22 GMT -6
Yep, college is not a miracle solution. They need more people in vo-tech and better alignment with industry. Dems hyperventilate but never provide real solutions. Dems want dependent voters not free thinking people who sustain themselves. So how does we get that changed? College is another failed liberal bastion. Business has for awhile now been saying both high school and college is not providing the skills they need. What we need is honest communication on all levels of society. Doubtful this will happen quickly as Dems need victims and ard not interested in real convetsation. Working with business and aligning future job demand with skills would help. We don't need anymore liberal arts degrees.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Feb 10, 2018 18:53:22 GMT -6
So how does we get that changed? College is another failed liberal bastion. Business has for awhile now been saying both high school and college is not providing the skills they need. What we need is honest communication on all levels of society. Doubtful this will happen quickly as Dems need victims and ard not interested in real convetsation. Working with business and aligning future job demand with skills would help. We don't need anymore liberal arts degrees. You said it all right there man!
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Post by Coda1 on Feb 24, 2018 17:36:54 GMT -6
Maybe they think they will get around to balancing the budget during the next recession. I have lost all hope. I have always lived well within my means and been debt free but the government sure can't seem to figure it out.
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Post by Freeborn on Feb 24, 2018 18:22:16 GMT -6
Maybe they think they will get around to balancing the budget during the next recession. I have lost all hope. I have always lived well within my means and been debt free but the government sure can't seem to figure it out. It's pretty simple, how can a politician look like their helping their constituents without giving them something? They can't, that's why politicians give away the farm. Politicians make up situations so they can come to some targeted demographics rescue and deliver a made up solution. What a waste.
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Post by sd51555 on Feb 25, 2018 10:10:01 GMT -6
Maybe they think they will get around to balancing the budget during the next recession. I have lost all hope. I have always lived well within my means and been debt free but the government sure can't seem to figure it out. It's pretty simple, how can a politician look like their helping their constituents without giving them something? They can't, that's why politicians give away the farm. Politicians make up situations so they can come to some targeted demographics rescue and deliver a made up solution. What a waste. The problem was long ago too big to fix. There isn't a person in this country that isn't on the take, or one or two steps removed, but to some degree dependent on it. It's all intertwined now, and undoing it would cause some rippling pain. Take casinos for example. Zero government funding, often viewed as recession proof. But what would happen to casinos if social security checks and other payouts to their customers dried up? Road construction companies get no handouts from the government, but if the government isn't building and fixing roads, they will hurt. I'd challenge anyone to find me an industry or occupation where they think reduced government spending won't have an impact.
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Post by sd51555 on Feb 25, 2018 10:11:17 GMT -6
Walmart has had to make earnings adjustments in their quarterly numbers a few years back when tax refund checks began taking longer and longer to get sent out.
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Post by westbranch on Feb 25, 2018 10:24:08 GMT -6
It's pretty simple, how can a politician look like their helping their constituents without giving them something? They can't, that's why politicians give away the farm. Politicians make up situations so they can come to some targeted demographics rescue and deliver a made up solution. What a waste. The problem was long ago too big to fix. There isn't a person in this country that isn't on the take, or one or two steps removed, but to some degree dependent on it. It's all intertwined now, and undoing it would cause some rippling pain. Take casinos for example. Zero government funding, often viewed as recession proof. But what would happen to casinos if social security checks and other payouts to their customers dried up? Road construction companies get no handouts from the government, but if the government isn't building and fixing roads, they will hurt. I'd challenge anyone to find me an industry or occupation where they think reduced government spending won't have an impact. The new job I started last year is with one of the largest asphalt paving and concrete companies in the country. With bonus notifications this month they included a letter asking employees to contribute to the company's PAC since we rely on infrastructure spending. A multi-billion $ international company asking employees to contribute funds for lobbying seems absurd to me.
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Post by sd51555 on Feb 25, 2018 10:51:27 GMT -6
My big earnings years were with the largest consumer tax prep company in the US. We lived and died on tax complexity and would at times even admit as much. Lots of nice bonuses during stimulus and tax cut years simply because of the ever moving cheese Washington was sending out. People who normally wouldn't see a professional did, and it bumped our customer counts as little as 2%, but that translated to huge earnings beats.
Silly shit like the homebuyer tax credit, stimulus checks, home improvement credits, etc. Your average turbo tax guy had no chance to keep up with it.
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Post by Reagan on Feb 25, 2018 10:59:25 GMT -6
Too intertwined. Too much pain. To hard to get passed. The public won’t stand for it. The government can’t fix itself.
The day will come when it all comes crashing down. There will be a depression. We had it before and we will have it again.
Don’t think government monetary policy will keep it from happening. This is the same government that can’t fix itself now. They can’t stop the inevitable.
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Post by Coda1 on Feb 25, 2018 11:47:03 GMT -6
Too intertwined. Too much pain. To hard to get passed. The public won’t stand for it. The government can’t fix itself. The day will come when it all comes crashing down. There will be a depression. We had it before and we will have it again. Don’t think government monetary policy will keep it from happening. This is the same government that can’t fix itself now. They can’t stop the inevitable. Unfortunately not too many understand that. Many now believe we can't have a depression because the government can prevent one. All I can hope for now is it doesn't happen in my lifetime. Hopefully if it happens I will see it coming in time to move any cash savings I have to gold or something else. At least I've been making a lot of parts for the space program the last couple of years so I'm getting my share of the government money.
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