Recent content by DaveRich1

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    More JFK Files coming out

    This has always been the obstacle to believing there was no conspiracy at all. Its been 60 years and they still have not released all the documents. Powerful people dont want the public to know something about the CIA, or Russia/Cuba, or are protecting personal legacies. Just no other explanation.
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    Fun hypothetical - how much to retire today?

    66; $3M +SS gets us $220k/yr for 20yrs;
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    What is the FED doing?

    There is another part of the story tho ... My first mortgage in 1981 was 13.38, but my annual raises at work for 81 and 82 were 20+ percent. It was like being in a race and you just wanted to stay a little bit ahead. I can remember being so excited about refinancing to 8.5% a few years later.
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    OT GAGGING at the big cities and the filth

    In Greenville, you might get confronted with homelessness on a weekly basis, and even that is usually passive. On a recent trip from Sacremento to Santa Clara, I was confronted with it all times of the day and every meal, a couple aggressive in nature. There is a big difference between the 2...
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    Tariff's kick in tomorrow

    Facts, huh. You mean slanted articles written by free-traders. Tell displaced workers about those facts.
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    Tariff's kick in tomorrow

    Are you of Chinese descent or something ?
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    Tariff's kick in tomorrow

    As a young Republican in 1980 when Reagan won, I bought into the "free trade" philosophy. Then Ross Perot warned us of the "great sucking sound" of jobs leaving the country that NAFTA and similar free trade agreements would lead to. And now 40 years later, the American worker has paid the...