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 Owlsrayne 10 years ago
    Reading the comments below I'm beginning to believe that the gov't must be reading this forum. Why continue spouting palatives from Ayn Rands philosophy. I believe in many of her principles but no one is answering the lead in question.
    I have been writing comments of what I see ahead and I know it's not a pretty picture. Secession is going to happen and it can't be stopped. The crushing debt that has been rung up by the gov't will be the main factor in the dissolution. There are some states on the verge of bankrupcy and I'm sure the American Citizens will not pickup the tab via the the Govt wanting to bail out those states. So, in reality China will by defacto. That would be a bad day!
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    1988 to 1998 to 2008 to 2012 twenty two years for my military retirement to double. Check out the cost of living for that length of time. When you get to Social Security age it will roughly double the total assuming it still exists and you wait until one year prior or full amount. I did one year prior. So far the government has reneged on every retirement benefit. bar none including keeping pace with COL Increases. To pump it up I went to sea which doubled my social security. You might think about Mexico. or other places or even bite the bullet and go join the navy wannabe's in MSC. Takes six months to get in and training the vacation time is crap and they spend most of their time making up fibs but if yiou have a skill such as comms, interior electrician, engine room etc.things get better. jGalley belongs to the PI's or the PR's. Union is slow since their is no war but with iyour background MSC might work. If you have a Z card already that helps. Supply class ships went to MSC and some sub tenders and others also tugs and tankers but Supply class unless they upgraded wee paying about $900 a month extra for substandard quarters - no rooms just bays but a lot less people. In the brochure you see a nice stateroom but that's for ships officers. They will say four on two off but it's more like six to eight on and one off if you answer the phone. the pools are in Norfolk and San Diego. The HQ is Norfolk over by the airfield training is in North Jersey just south of Sandy hook pier
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Michael, I get Navy retirement (a whole 17K/yr) and have to live off my full time job, to support my wifes horse addiction. That will have to end soon.. but may never own property as we cannot sell what we have. I plan on working until I fall over, as my employer will not force you to retire (which I am eligible of now). You make choice and live with the results, unless you are in that huge majority that now exists in wonderland...
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  • Posted by sfdi1947 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Yea, get yourself lots of lead foil or dig a deep hole and pull the dirt in after you're stuff.
    Seriously, if it gets down to that, bend way over and kiss your A goodbye!
    Meanwhile, catch Chicken Little and kill him!
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Return to the two or more party system of government on that sheet of music. Bring in a really good photo of a trophy fish and one for the pan finish this book which should take me about that long 20 or so years and have a Viking Funeral. Addendum. Die with a fistful of newly maxed out credit cards and send the bill to the White House under wealth redistribution.
    When all is said and done it's an Alfred E. Neumann kind of life.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Red Skelton, Toast Of The Town, Comedy that was funny, June Taylor Dancers - Journalists who spoke English instead of propagandists called reporters.I really feel for this generation. But not that much.
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  • Posted by 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    your ultimate goal? . freedom for yourself and
    those whom you hold dear? . permanently? -- j
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    If he hadn't and notice I said after WWII the ratio would be a lot bigger than 18 to 1. I think we lost 250,000 dead in that one. It has to do with no idea what they are doing combined with micro-management and a fear of doing something offensive.
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  • Posted by 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    that link just gave me the following:::
    "Buy this domain / The domain sonrisa.net may be for sale by its owner!"
    I just get such a kick from listening to the nets on
    14.3 == imagining being out there!!! -- j
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I went to sea as a deck hand on a freighter after I turned 62. Made enough to up the social security stuff and wee tiny little union check. Added to the military retirement it covers things nicely if I can ever figure out how to do the social security portion of the 1040.
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  • Posted by 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    for me, sir, it was the other way around ... I had to
    learn to suspend rationality in order to believe, if I
    wanted to please my parents. . suspension of fear,
    though, has been tough. . I'm the flashlight king
    because, as a kid, I was afraid of the dark. . I have
    radios everywhere because I wanted to hear
    that the world was still out there. . I had stage
    fright until age 37. . keep pushing that one back,
    and it stays. . discipline is tough. -- j
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  • Posted by 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    yes, the old test pattern. . used to have an Indian ...
    Native American ... head in the center, didn't it?
    back when Amos and Andy was legal. . and Lucy
    was funny!!! -- j
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  • Posted by 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    and isn't it interesting that Truman came along
    just in time to say "Go" to the atomic bomb?
    saved hundreds of thousands with that. -- j
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  • Posted by 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I retired at 59 and have made it 6 years, so far;;;
    wife and I still own land which we haven't "had to
    sell" ... the remaining dollars in the IRAs and
    savings are dwindling with the nation, though. -- j
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  • Posted by 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    well, I'm retired, and I keep on voting ... for the lesser
    of evils. . pisses me off, but I keep going back.
    must be because my vaseline still has no sand. -- j
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  • Posted by 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    she could rave about success and a great future,
    using the fertilizer of the others' negativity!!! -- j
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Which is a good reason for Moms and Dad to not vote for the Democrats if they have offspring in the military. 18 to 1 death ratio of US Service Personnel with a Demo versus a Dumbo in the White House since WWII. One reason US military runs 70% plus anti Democrat. It's not racial or sexist - it's survival.
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  • Posted by 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    new thread idea! . but there are few to none. . Fox
    is on around here more than anything else, yet they
    disappoint frequently. == j
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  • Posted by 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    how about our inventing gov-aid, a salve which
    gets rid of wounds inflicted by government, applied
    to the back of the body where the pain is greatest? -- j
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  • Posted by 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    so, should we invent a personal EMP shield which
    will "shadow you and your devices" and allow you
    to survive intact? . just a space blanket with a cute
    logo attached? . I bet that it's already taken. == j
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Southern Oregon 1954. One black and white channel KBESTV for six or eight hours a day. The edges of the TV were rounded. When they couldn't fill a time slot Some dude would play Song of India on an Organ. Exactly at midnight the wake you soumd meant you had missed the national anthem. Same one used at the drive in and indoor theatre. You could watch Roy Rogers chase bad guys around the same five trees and two big rocks then Gene Autrey and Hopalong Cassidy going the other way. No one asked why the Lone Ranger called his sidekick Fool! Green Lantern meant everything as did TV versions of various radio shows. Some years later a second channel was offered. From there it got worse. Jump ahead to 1994. Sold the TV haven't watched one since. If it's good I get the DVD. If not I watch a good classic movie on DVD and now all on an external hard drive. It's 2015 for weather I look out the window and drive a bicycle or a kayak or just...walk.
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  • Posted by 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    p.s. ....... Rand's premises are based on reality,
    as are Aristotle's . . . . . . have to be careful saying
    that around here, though. == j
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