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Red Leg said:
To be honest it smells of the same sort of fabrications he offered in a careless moment about his left wing shooting clubs and friends. The interesting thing, to someone like me, one is about as bad as the other. In the one case he is a liar. If the other, he is a thief stealing time from the people and organization that hired him.
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General, it’s both a liar and a thief.

It’s a Marxist.
 
skydiver386 said:
Trump views China as the greater danger in any future conflict.

He wants Russia as a possible ally or at least to remain neutral in a war between China and the U.S.

I'm not saying he's right, but by what he says and does it's the only thing that makes logical sense.
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I dont see a communist allie as being worth a you know what,maybe we could look to Norway, Denmark, Poland, Sweden, AND YES EVEN UKRAINE since they have kicked russia in the balls pretty good. we allied up with russia in WW11 and ole Stalin pulled a good one on us, If we'd listen to Patton we'd be in way better shape now, but he mysteriously died from a car wreck injuries in Germany
 
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Red Leg said:
I think you may have nailed it.
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No he did not.
Red Leg said:
I am still not totally convinced this isn't a twenty something getting what passes for his jollies while adjusting his catch me fu@k me glasses and waiting for mommy to fix him supper.
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I think that you're just butthurt that nobody calls you sir anymore. And you miss lording over the people beneath you. Forcing your minions to do your bidding. It's clear that you're not used to people telling you that you're wrong.
Red Leg said:
he is a thief stealing time from the people and organization that hired him.
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Slave master's rarely believe in lunch breaks.

...Now is the complaining over with? Have you two gotten it out of your systems? Are we going to get back to the debate about taxation policy, before the two of you detoured us into this?
 
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The the republican party loses another seat in the senate. 54 to 44 with Alaska still counting. Also as of this evening the democrat party holds 252 seats in the House to the republican 161 with 22 races remaining uncalled. Of those, 17 are currently held by republicans with several likely to flip. 218 represents a majority.

Anyone trying to rationalize this needs to look at the numbers.

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Remember how you had to hunker down and just somehow get through the Obama years?....Yeah, may have to endure that kind of misery again. Resignated apathy might result in the Humor threads getting bigger than Politics again.
 
PARA45 said:
I was not going to answer, because you do not deserve an answer. @Red Leg, and some others here earned and paid dearly to be on what you called “(government teet”. Some on here were in some sh*tty places while you were playing video games and eating Bon Bons. They fought and bled so you can have the freedom you have today and take for granted. You should at least be respectful and say thank you for their service to this great nation.
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Hogpatrol said:
The so called tariffs are nothing more than a negotiating tool for a realistic NAFTA. The U.S. has been taking it up the rear-end trade wise since Nixon. Long passed time to fight back.
The irony of it is, the purchase of foreign goods just subsidizes socialist, welfare laden systems.
Buy a Mercedes? You're paying for a 37 hour work week for the highest paid industrial workers in the WORLD, health care, the defense of Germany and the rest of their socialist policies.
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You don’t screw your allies to better your situation you negotiate. Haven't been to US since 2024 and wont be back till after the Orange Clown leaves.
 
Jeez you have fkd up big time over there... :X3:

 
Scott CWO said:
So you are saying all people working 9-5 cannot get promoted up the line and make a good living? I know several but I agree that owning your own business is usually a better way to gain wealth if a person can handle the long hours to be successful.
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Most not all. Most people working 9-5 are just there counting down the time clock and collecting a paycheck. Most have no desire, drive, hunger, respect or responsibility to the job, the company or their employer. Most do not care or give a shit about getting promoted, climbing the ladder or making more money. They are only doing the bare minimum to get by at best. They are in a self loathing mindset that everything and everyone is against them and no matter how hard they work they will never get ahead because the cards are stacked against them. It takes three employees to do one man’s job now, all just because they jack around. The reality is they are their own worst enemy.

On the other hand, there is a small number of workers that work their asses off, get promoted and better the company, their selves and their families.

Unfortunately I have and have had both types of employees.

Owning your own business or a big company is not for everyone. Most people are not disciplined enough to work for themselves and are followers rather than leaders. There definitely is a place and price point that working for someone else makes sense. You have less headaches and responsibilities and at the end of the day you can walk away from it all.
 
Jeez you have fkd up big time over there... :X3:
spike.t said:
Jeez you have fkd up big time over there... :X3:

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Bit more detail in what is in the legislation....not good at all....

 
Scott CWO said:
So you are saying all people working 9-5 cannot get promoted up the line and make a good living? I know several but I agree that owning your own business is usually a better way to gain wealth if a person can handle the long hours to be successful.
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Applied to overhere its about the same. Put in the hours and one will make good money particular in as a bricklayer, plummer or carpenter. I know from bricklaying going into your own business making $15Ks a month isn`t unusual. To make the same money from a deskjob one must be in the top manegment in a bigger corporation.
 
Don416 said:
You don’t screw your allies to better your situation you negotiate. Haven't been to US since 2024 and wont be back till after the Orange Clown leaves.
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The Trump worldview does not seem to have a concept of allies. He seems to think of other nations as either rivals, suppliers, customers or vassal states. I don't see him treating any country as a traditional ally per se.
 
275r7x57 said:
Housing taking a beating.

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This is not going to end well without government incentives, or rather government changes to suspend punitive capital gains on property.

The vise is squeezing:

Jaw 1 is that mortgage rates are high against modern norms and it is creating an affordability crisis along with many people holding their properties because they don't want to give away their 3% 30 year mortgages.

Jaw 2 is that the Baby Boomers own a LOT of homes and they won't let loose of them because of the capital gains implications and the paltry $500k lifetime primary-residence gains exemption for married filing jointly.

Why should left and right political stripes want to give the Baby Boomers and everyone else a "free pass" allowing them to sell their homes now without paying capital gains to the IRS? Boomers are presently holding their properties until their deaths, which is creating a housing shortage and in turn higher prices. When the Boomers die owning real property, the heirs pay no tax because they get a free "step-up" in basis. So it is tax advantageous to hold real estate until death, rather than sell it now and stimulate the economy with all that captive wealth that could be spent or invested in the market that creates jobs and wealth for all.

Stupid government disincentives are making the cost and supply of housing worse while suppressing the flow of capital. Giving everyone a hall-pass on real estate capital gains doesn't cheat the government of any taxes because the current strategy of real estate owners results in no taxes due anyway...in 20 years.
 
275r7x57 said:
Most not all. Most people working 9-5 are just there counting down the time clock and collecting a paycheck. Most have no desire, drive, hunger, respect or responsibility to the job, the company or their employer. Most do not care or give a shit about getting promoted, climbing the ladder or making more money. They are only doing the bare minimum to get by at best. They are in a self loathing mindset that everything and everyone is against them and no matter how hard they work they will never get ahead because the cards are stacked against them. It takes three employees to do one man’s job now, all just because they jack around. The reality is they are their own worst enemy.

On the other hand, there is a small number of workers that work their asses off, get promoted and better the company, their selves and their families.

Unfortunately I have and have had both types of employees.

Owning your own business or a big company is not for everyone. Most people are not disciplined enough to work for themselves and are followers rather than leaders. There definitely is a place and price point that working for someone else makes sense. You have less headaches and responsibilities and at the end of the day you can walk away from it all.
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I guess it would depend on the type of work one does. I am ab IBM AIX systems admin. To buy a couple of small servers were over 460k$. RAm has gone up over 98k$ on these two servers since July and is expected to continue to climb due to availability. I would have to have some pretty deep pockets to start my own business in my line of work. I am available even when I am on vacation. I make a good living and eat well. I am less than three years from retirement so go ahead and tell me about owning your own company. I was once told there is a difference between a job and a carreer in my case I have had several carreers working for corporations and I feel successful and prod of what I have accomplished.
 
rookhawk said:
This is not going to end well without government incentives, or rather government changes to suspend punitive capital gains on property.

The vise is squeezing:

Jaw 1 is that mortgage rates are high against modern norms and it is creating an affordability crisis along with many people holding their properties because they don't want to give away their 3% 30 year mortgages.

Jaw 2 is that the Baby Boomers own a LOT of homes and they won't let loose of them because of the capital gains implications and the paltry $500k lifetime primary-residence gains exemption for married filing jointly.

Why should left and right political stripes want to give the Baby Boomers and everyone else a "free pass" allowing them to sell their homes now without paying capital gains to the IRS? Boomers are presently holding their properties until their deaths, which is creating a housing shortage and in turn higher prices. When the Boomers die owning real property, the heirs pay no tax because they get a free "step-up" in basis. So it is tax advantageous to hold real estate until death, rather than sell it now and stimulate the economy with all that captive wealth that could be spent or invested in the market that creates jobs and wealth for all.

Stupid government disincentives are making the cost and supply of housing worse while suppressing the flow of capital. Giving everyone a hall-pass on real estate capital gains doesn't cheat the government of any taxes because the current strategy of real estate owners results in no taxes due anyway...in 20 years.
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I agree with you. But you can also argue that the step up basis creates the incentive. If it was eliminated the tax impact would be the same selling now or later. There is a policy argument to both reduce the CG rate and eliminate the step up basis.
 
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