Another side of the coin. Be it charity or retirement funds the best do not work for peanuts. But the best forsee episodes like the Government bankruptcy crash of 2008 and the resulting loss of thirty percent or more buying power to name one example or getting out of real estate before the government mandated housing program did that in or the government causing the small banks forced into their housing program to fail and go under. Some of us saw it in 2006 and skipped with whatever we had while the skipping was good. Some did not. The people who run union and public employees retirement funds for example routinely make one million plus and are worth every penny. The funds that get second or third tier fund managers get in trouble. Not to say that applies to WWP but it something to consider when looking at a whole picture. Given inflation, devaluation and debt repudiation followed by the inevitable raise in taxes in the next two years...or look at this way. Whatever your program. If you didn't fail to plan you certainly didn't plan to fail. Take your worst case situation and multiply by four if you are middle age and more if your are in your twenties.If your in a union plan of any kind you might want to increase that if their fund managers are working for cheap charley salaries - or worse are union officials. Private or Public Employees..

If you remember Hazlitt's Broken Window analogy apply that to ethanol. Sure the new engines are supposedly built to handle it but the old ones can't and are being destroyed before their time. Which means a new car or a new engine. When you could have spent the money on something else or kept it in your retirement fund. Doesn't matter who throws the brick the window is broken and you have to spend after tax dollars to replace it.

Well like I said given the level of law enforcement the new Attorney General has evidenced I feel confident this one will be right up the limits of her alley. Anyway it beats gun running.

Thanks for the effort. I learned to do a lot of fact checking and the absence of information is always a red flag. Or the refusal to deal with facts instead wishful thinking based on falsehoods. The recent thread on Supreme Court Orders States to Allow Gay Marriage was a good example as was the Haller vs. DC Court decision on second amendment. So asking for that sort of thing is getting to be a habit AS WAS getting caught myself on the six month and one day to make common law legal. I'm working on the last part of the Two Party System's journey from 1776 to 2015 and that was a shocker in many instances. I reckon 50% of what I learned in high school no matter how superior it was to todays schools was suspect if not down right BS. (In the History Section for those interested. That and a few others didn't make the cut for here on the front page but it's good references. though I'm hoping the tax per mile post will see the light of day. Thanks again

So why stop there? It's a piker operation compared just one of the protection rackets run by the will not lie, cheat, steal nor tolerate those who do in the military. Voluntary Mandatory payroll deduction buying four US Savings Bonds a year or. no promotions, no schools, no good assignments and all manner of extra time on duty rosters quietly meted out to every one in the military under the rule...stuff rolls down hill and you are at the bottom of the hill. Other than the first word that was the explanation given by aa Sergeant "Major for the military's support of that program and others including United Way or Fund with it's fair share coerced donations.

right out in the open with 100% signs on the company and battalion lawns.

Add to that Army Emergency Relief and the umit's pet civic action projects it took a chunk of change out of our income. It's got to be a billion dollar a year racket with current pay scales.

Does anyone give a stuff?

No evidence of that.

What's one got to do with the other? Just cause I have real purple heart and did my entire tour of duty regardless of how many and have a V Device or Two doesn't take away my right to think independently and draw my own conclusions. None of that collectivist speaking for others thank you not very much. I don't go to Red Lobster or the Italian place they also own for the same reason. It's also one of the main reasons why I don't support Democrats or Republicans.

Sources please.....Sources for the last report?

Now that's what I'm talking about. Not this somewhere stuff. That makes it $300,000 after taxes. Was there compensation for expenses, travel and such? That would make another differnce. Also since I never heard of the Beast Blog what are their bona fides? Like I said expec tthe Attorney General to jump right on this.