dire predictions -- what do you think?

Posted by johnpe1 10 years ago to News
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many attempt to gain economic benefit from
exaggerating the negatives, IMHO. . how do you
estimate reality in this environment??? -- j
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  • Posted by 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    by the way things have been going lately, I hope
    that you aren't on a list, needing help. -- j
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  • Posted by $ blarman 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Again, I don't believe they were totally ignorant. They chose not to take the time to read and debate the bill (and it wasn't all 535, but I get what you are saying). That to me is a willfully evil act on the part of those who participated. It is shirking responsibility. There is no way I'm giving Ms. Pelosi - or the Republicans like Boehner which went along with her - a pass due to ignorance, however.

    Molon Labe. And plant a garden.
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    About a week ago I saw your post and downloaded the book to my Kindle. When I went back to find the post in my email I had deleted it. It was an excellent read. Thank you for recommending it. The writer worked out every idea into to an action packed novel.
    If you edit any more novels along those lines please post them.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I would point at the huge budget busting pork bill passed recently where Comrade Pelosillyni said you have to pass it before you can read it.

    To my mind that was 535 plus one national level public office holders making an ignorant decision - it dumbfounded me. Stupid? As it turns out no. They got away with it. Biggest heist in history. Which agrees with the level of ignorance of the general population. I used that term on purpose they made their own prison so stupid and ignorant fools fit quite perfectly.

    A soldier would look at them and say...are they really worth fighting for? No. But the Constitution is. Remember your oath of office - and keep your powder dry.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't believe anyone in public office makes ignorant decisions - especially not those at a national level. They didn't get to that level by being dumb. Ideological? Absolutely. Willfully stupid? Yup. But ignorant? No.

    What astounds me is the level of ignorance in the general populace. And there I do believe it is mostly just general ignorance. Culturally ingrained ignorance and foolishness.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Naturlik. But when it's done every four years in the face of historical fact one has to wonder at the level of ignorance. When it's done as a life time career one has to wonder about the level of ignorance of those who provide support. Or just chalk it up to making fools of most of the people most of the time. Or were they born fools?

    I would suggest most use lesser of as an excuse knowing they are doing evil and thinking the word lesser will serve as an advance variation of the Nuremberg Defense - and make things all right. When societies level of expectation is self esteem with out self respect it''s still possible to look in mirrors and be satisfied - as long as they never admit to themselves they are nothing more nor less than supporters of evil - be it lesser or greater.

    Low expectations bring low results
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  • Posted by $ blarman 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    One can do evil out of ignorance as well. Intent matters in determining whether or not the person will change and how easily and the same for forgiveness.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    They most certainly are individual choice. Evil is the choice of those who know they are doing wrong. Good is the choice of those who know they are doing right. By their own choice. Any support of evil is an admission of guilty the rest is just a plea for clemency, leniency and forgiveness from those wronged. Unfortunately it is rarely and admission of one's own nature to one's self. i was only following orders. If you say the right and moral choice is to do wrong you got some serious ethical difficulties.. The rest is self serving excuses.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Both good and evil are choices. And mostly, they are choices to invest in a particular outlook based on either a short-term or a long-term expectation of a return on those choices. Examine any choice and you will see that when people focus on the long-term, they generally make better choices. The only way to get people en mass to start making better choices is to present a long-term view of things. You can't just simply show them how disastrous certain repeated bad choices are, because many people want to believe that they are exempt or that the rules don't apply to them. That is the great deception being advanced, but it is neither passive nor impotent nor harmless.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago
    Here's a positive thought. Using the right descriptive phrases cause understanding. Next year I'm using Turbo Tax. Why go to all the bother when the explanatory rules are not written in legible North American English?

    Second it's not tip, propina, baksheesh, dash, bribe nor blackmail. Income tax in it's present form or any form is a government run protection racket with the government exempt from racketeering charges and no discernible requirement to give return value. Let's all vote for continued corruption! It's the new American way! Only the Government Party gives four names and no choices.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    And if there is none? The neighbors? No immediate family and no inheritors. I don't intend to leave enough to pay for the funeral. Only thing to fear is if some asshole keeps me alive for the monthly retirement income. You know the all to cruel and usual end of life punishment. By then I'll the government pay the bill, room, board, medicine over at the VA. By then it will be about time they made good on something.
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  • Posted by 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    foreclose on a grave;; the new address heaven?
    going after the family or inheritors is what I fear. -- j
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  • Posted by 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    if you go by the head man's and slow Lerner's
    appearances on tv, it's a crowd of leeches. -- j
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    My Uncles mother in law died. He and his wife settled the estate. A credit card company ignored the cancellation and charged another annual fee. then started dunning for non payment with fines and interest. The Uncle finally sent them the address so they could go after the mother in lawl They turned it over to credit collection. It was the Graveyard and Plot Number. they will also try to get relatives to pay. Best thing is ignore them most states have a deal so that a certain period of time with no account activity cancels the account. But no one in government is trying to stop them from stealing the last pennies from the eyes of the corpse. more than likely they would ask for a few more years income tax. ask? Demand is more like it. I told them he should send an anonymous letter suggesting foreclosure and ask a judge for the title to the new address
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Exactly. Thought it might be useful to get some last minute before Social Security Shekels in the system and max out the eventual draw. That's the big advantage. I went over everything and max's the amounts where possible. If everyone put their skills to work all the producers would move to the head of the line and Robin hood their money back from the Moochers.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    i think the deal is if you use the approved software and there is an error the software company is supposed to be on the hook. The IRS doesn't care about such rules. I've done the social security four five years now. The first three they refunded money when I asked for as check over because the social security was not done correctly. Didn't explain why? had I not asked zippo. This current year it worked out following directions to agree with the amounts refunded for paying over which I didn't change. Instead of a small refund I received no notification at all. There is an IRS site where you can check on whereabouts or status of your tax payment. It said no refund pay x amount more. We sent a letter on June 3rd. The distance is Atlanta to my USA address in Northern Florida. No letter as of June 21. As my sister put it they might not send the letter until months down the road and then fine you for not paying. they don't really care. So...July 1st the new payment goes out. Still don't know how to do the social security portion. They aren't telling etiher. I was able to see my 1040 and the referenced parts were blanked out. The references on how to do it led to two different answers both much different than what i had done and what they had stated.

    So I go to Turbo Tax which means the sister unit buys two in florida I send her my information and she runs it through TT.

    No signature required anymore. Who knows? I think they just get a quota of money to raise each day and divide it up on the returns passing over their desk. No other explanation.
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  • Posted by 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    well thought-out, sir;;; I applaud you! . may the last
    IRS check I write bounce sky high! -- j
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  • Posted by 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    AE = aerospace engineering? . for telescope sites,
    azimuth electrician? . I wonder....... -- j
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  • Posted by 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I use turbotax and the SS stuff, though immoral,
    is easy. . I wonder sometimes if they would put me
    in jail for errors. -- j
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I worked on Mount Baker and Shasta both AE's. then went back to the union on USNS Bob Hope class amongst others and tankers.
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