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Insurance premiums will continue to skyrocket unless the republicans win all 3 branches in '16...which will not happen.
Goodbye Starbucks...we are all fucked.

The mandatory sign up process felt like a digital cavity search in front of CGI, UnitedHealth Group, NSA, Booz Allen, Romanian identity thieves, and countless other strangers. And on suspicion of what crime? Breathing, apparently. Corporations are people, but they don't breathe. Humans breathe, which is now the basis for a government penalty, unless we submit ourselves to corporations and policies that they don't even show us - we have to buy to find out what's in them, if we can even see then. Democrats enacted it, but if we must trust the Republicans to protect our data, the fox has been put in charge of the hen house.

Straw Man says

Quigley says

On an aside, anyone who wears their pants higher than their navel shouldn't be on a poster anywhere.

No exceptions?

She shouldn't be on a poster; she should be on my face.

SoftShell says

Insurance premiums will continue to skyrocket unless the republicans win all 3 branches in '16...which will not happen.
Goodbye Starbucks...we are all fucked.

I think they were scyrocketing non stop under repub watch for years!

donjumpsuit says

Who needs jobs?

Can't you just make money by sitting in your piece of Real Estate have have it appreciate 30% a year?

Some on this board seem to think this is true. If we can just get everyone remaining to leave the workforce the unemployment number will look great and we can bring QE to a screeching halt.

Call it Crazy says

For Every One Job Added, Nearly 5 People Left the Workforce

But the Stock and Housing Markets are just fabulous dahling!

The 16-19 demographic drop is particularly troubling - it's confirming what I suspected all along - that these young millenial bums want to sit on their ass all day long on "social media" and play video games. Their parents need to provide them a swift kick in the ass which should not be too hard to find considering their obesity.

The labor participation rate has been dropping since 2000 when Bush became President.
What did he do to screw up so bad?

SiO2 says

thomaswong.1986 says

Bellingham Bill says

just for the record, my retired Apple millionaire friend was priced out of Los Altos, and that was 2-3 years ago.

real millionaires live in SilverCreek... even back in the day, why buy a chicken shack in LA when you can buy a modern home in SC.... whats the point, are you looking to bank roll the retailers on University Ave so they can charge you $5 cup of coffee ?

It's true that for the same $, you can get a nicer place in SC than in PA/LA/Cupt/Sara/LG. But;
- schools are not as good in SC. Some prefer a less stressful school, so in that case SC is better. But many people buying $1m+ houses look for high academic achievement schools. Private school is an option, but...

- traffic is worse in SC. Commute to North SJ, or Cupt, or PA; it's much better in the Fortress area than from SC. And there's more routes; in the last two days there's been a fire and series of crashes on 101N. Not a lot of other good options. But if going from LG to North SJ (for example), you can take San Tomas if 17/880 is bad.

- Not only that, but traffic is generally worse around evergreen and sc. just going to the store or shopping is more troublesome than in other areas.

After all, Thomas, you live in LG; obviously you see some benefit there compared to SC.

Amazing timing! I JUST came back from looking at a house in the Silver Creek/Evergreen area. I totally agree with the traffic issue. 101 in the morning is terrible but of course so is pretty much anywhere in the Bay Area. The main problems I saw were isolation, its just a bunch of residential housing with no interspersed commercial. Shopping will take a car. The house were also mostly original late '60s to early '70s and not kept up well. The yards were dead, cracked concrete etc. Not a slum but not sparkling.

Of course one man's dump is another mans fixer upper.

Bush and Clinton pushed through NAFTA and foreign visas along with doing away with Glass Steagall which destroyed the American middle class.

WOW! The UNtrustworthy are certainly in control of what information is apparent to the people!

Say hey! This was in the Wall Street Journal on March 30, 1999. Note "... how much it will buy."

Holy cow/interesting/compelling ...!

And where is it up to date??? Right here ... see the first chart shown in this thread.
Recent Dow day is Friday, January 10, 2014 __ Level is 105.3

WOW! It is hideous that this is hidden! Is there any such "Homes, Inflation Adjusted"? Yes! This was in the New York Times on August 27, 2006:

And up to date (by me) is here:
http://patrick.net/?p=1219038&c=999083#comment-999083

WOW! The UNtrustworthy are certainly in control of what information is apparent to the people!

And http://patrick.net/?p=1230886

Tru dat...but the pace has quickened under oc...
dublin hillz says

SoftShell says

Insurance premiums will continue to skyrocket unless the republicans win all 3 branches in '16...which will not happen.

Goodbye Starbucks...we are all fucked.

I think they were scyrocketing non stop under repub watch for years!

Nice. :-)

Call it Crazy says

Yep, Very Sad....

Yes very sad:

1. That you can't discuss Christie without bringing up Obama or Hillary. They have nothing to do with this, yet that's all you can talk about.

2. That you can't grasp the difference between something bad happening and being the DELIBERATE CAUSE of something bad happening. If you want to play the "how many people died on your watch" game, then George W. Bush wins by a landslide, but what's the point? As much of a moron as he is, he didn't deliberately cause 9/11 to happen as political payback for some imagined slight. Why can't you understand that it's the MOTIVE that is the problem? Christie DELIBERATELY endangered the public for no good reason. His intent was to CAUSE traffic jams. Nobody was criticizing him until we learned that he did it ON PURPOSE, as an act of political retribution. If you accidentally run over a squirrel with your car, you are perhaps careless and maybe a bad driver. If you DELIBERATELY swerve to run over a squirrel, you are a sadistic bastard. Are you starting to get the difference yet?

3. You can't form a coherent argument; all you can do is post stupid pictures with pithy slogans on them.

Manslaughter? Or Murder?
And the thread turned into a script for stand-up comedy show.

Homeboy says

If you want to play the "how many people died on your watch" game, then George W. Bush wins by a landslide, but what's the point?

Bush got thousands of Iraqi, Afghan, and other Arab terrorists and murders killed ...

These thugs wont be killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people in

the future...And how is this bad again ?

Call it Crazy says

My big concern is that in some ways, but not all, the Fed has returned us to 2007 – assets of all kinds including home prices are rising rapidly –

When people talk of Housing Bubble... some simple attribute all to the

"Mortgage Crisis" and missing out on the over the top price appreciation.

This becomes dangerous when key people are in govt policy positions.

thomaswong.1986 says

Homeboy says

If you want to play the "how many people died on your watch" game, then George W. Bush wins by a landslide, but what's the point?

Bush got thousands of Iraqi, Afghan, and other Arab terrorists and murders killed ...

These thugs wont be killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people in

the future...And how is this bad again ?

The terrorists came from Saudi Arabia, and bush put all the Saudis on a plane and shipped them back to their country safe and sound, then attacked the wrong country. You don't get how that's bad? You must be a goddam genius.

Homeboy says

he terrorists came from Saudi Arabia, and bush put all the Saudis on a plane and shipped them back to their country safe and sound, then attacked the wrong country.

PLO terrorist came from Germany, Ireland and Italy...

You seemed to forgotten how long Syrian, Libyan, and Iraq have been pro-state

sponsored terrorist. You equally forgotten how long they were seeking

Nukes.

Homeboy says

then attacked the wrong country. You don't get how that's bad? You must be a goddam genius.

homeboy = short on memory !

http://www.youtube.com/embed/S0f5u_0ytUs

http://www.youtube.com/embed/6mpWa7wNr5M

Homeboy says

1. That you can't discuss Christie without bringing up Obama or Hillary. They have nothing to do with this, yet that's all you can talk about.

Leadership.... deal with it today to understand who is the better one for tomorrow.

Not again. Imbeciles. Why can't have we have a real opposition???It is like voting between Attila the Hun and Vlad the Impaler.

Why are we even arguing about this?

Bush took out Sodom, freed Iraq, and got rid of all the terrorists!

(Or, in the language of WTF1986, "all the terrorist.")

The Jews really learned a lot from the Nazis.
Where they improved on the Third Reich was in the field of propaganda. It's really not easy to conduct an unprovoked war of extermination against a population and then successfully bill the survivors as terrorists. That takes a special sort of spin!

thomaswong.1986 says

PLO terrorist came from Germany, Ireland and Italy...

Non sequitur.

thomaswong.1986 says

homeboy = short on memory !

Also non sequitur. Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attack. If you believe otherwise, you are an IDIOT.

HydroCabron is Kochel 271 says

Why are we even arguing about this?

Bush took out Sodom, freed Iraq, and got rid of all the terrorists!

(Or, in the language of WTF1986, "all the terrorist.")

Call it Crazy says

Instead of pulling shit out of your ass that you normally do, show us the PROOF that he did it on purpose...

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/christie-emails-bridge-closing/2014/01/08/id/545930

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/nyregion/hundreds-of-pages-on-bridge-scandal-released.html?_r=0

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/10/22257330-christie-appointee-watched-bridge-closure-in-person-documents-show?lite

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/01/emails-port-authority-bridge-closure-violate-law-christie

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/new-chris-christie-bridge-scandal-documents-emails

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/01/chris-christie-fort-lee-charlie-mckenna-text-message

Is that enough proof? If you don't believe it was on purpose, you are in denial.

Call it Crazy says

There isn't a SINGLE evidence of proof that it was Christie himself that ordered the lane closures...

There isn't a "single evidence of proof"? LOL. Dude, put two and two together.

Your hero is a lying gansta-ass, fat fuck thug, and you are in denial.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/bridge-scandal-christie-aide-email

The scandal over lane closures at the George Washington Bridge is spreading within New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s inner circle.

And a top New Jersey lawmaker issued a warning to the embattled governor on Saturday. New Jersey Assemblyman John Wisniewski, the Democrat who chairs the legislative panel that is investigating the lane closures, told NBC News that Christie could face impeachment if it is revealed the governor had knowledge of the alleged plot to get political revenge against the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee.

“Having people use their official position to have a political game is a crime. So if those tie back to the governor in any way, it clearly becomes an impeachable offense,” Wisniewski said in an interview. He also said he finds it “implausible” that Christie really didn’t know what his close aides were up to.

Newly released documents show that a top Christie aide received an angry warning about the closures, which started on Sept. 9 and caused massive gridlock for four days.

The complaint came from Patrick Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority, who sent a scathing email to Bill Baroni, the Port Authority’s deputy executive director, on Sept. 13. Foye called the lane closures a “hasty and ill-advised decision” that was likely illegal. A trove of documents released Friday by the New Jersey Legislature showed that Baroni forwarded Foye’s complaint to Regina Egea, a senior Christie aide and the governor’s pick to be his new chief of staff, just three hours after it was originally sent.

“This puts Foye’s complaint right into the governor’s office,” Tom Hester, spokesman for New Jersey Assembly Democrats, told NBC News’ Michael Isikoff Saturday. Hester said the revelation makes Egea a likely candidate for subpoena by the legislative committee investigating the plot.

As Isikoff reported, the email raises questions about what Egea told Christie when the governor assembled his top aides to ask what they knew about the bridge plot.

Fat fuck is going DOWN.

SiO2 says

It's true that for the same $, you can get a nicer place in SC than in PA/LA/Cupt/Sara/LG. But;

- schools are not as good in SC. Some prefer a less stressful school, so in that case SC is better. But many people buying $1m+ houses look for high academic achievement schools. Private school is an option, but...

I spent my early life in the so called better schools ... Fremont High grad...
Yet do you see any of the past grads becoming some genius with a PHD
and several Degrees to boot... Really now... its all a myth..

where do you get this so called better schools anyway... past grads just
laugh at all this...if you want a good education as was the case for decades past.. go for private... Bellarimine, Presentation and others.

SiO2 says

traffic is worse in SC. Commute to North SJ, or Cupt, or PA; it's much better in the Fortress area than from SC. And there's more routes; in the last two days there's been a fire and series of crashes on 101N. Not a lot of other good options. But if going from LG to North SJ (for example), you can take San Tomas if 17/880 is bad.

no one know where your next job will be or if your employer will move to the other side of the county... I worked all over so no point picking and chosing...

When you take away from rich and handover to poor, you make both of them poor because the poor will not increase their handout but will squander it ! Real economic equality is COMMUNISM ! The rich not only produce jobs and wealth for themselves but also for others too by expanding their businesses and investing. There are plenty of poor who through hard and smart work came out of poverty into middle class and then became rich. NOT EVERYONE CAN BE RICH OR POOR !
Most rich live within their means and work to increase their wealth.

SiO2 says

Not a lot of other good options. But if going from LG to North SJ (for example), you can take San Tomas if 17/880 is bad.

my daily cruze ... time goes fast...

thomaswong.1986 says

where do you get this so called better schools anyway... past grads just laugh at all this...if you want a good education as was the case for decades past.. go for private... Bellarimine, Presentation and others.

My turn to laugh.

HA!

Friend of mine from JH went to Bellarmine as did my neighbor. My friend went on to graduate from Berkley as an accountant. Could never find a good steady job,. My neighbor? Ended up as a part time bouncer, part time jailbird in Fresno.

bgamall4 says

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax A wealth tax is not a tax on the flow of assets as you have given us, but rather a tax on that which has been accumulated, ie land, houses, etc.

Property Tax.. which already exists... and is taxable every year for companies, partnerships and other small business assets.

https://www.sccassessor.org/index.php/property-information/business-owner/e-filing

bgamall4 says

Here is the problem, income can be hidden and taken out of the country, but wealth here at home must be taxed once in awhile.

And as far as France, this country still has a wealth tax and you are wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_tax_on_wealth

No its difficult to hide income, since the person paying your income reports it to the IRS via W-2 and 1099. So how are you going to prevent that ?

New Renter says

Berkley as an accountant

should have gone to Santa Clara university or San Jose State.. they are the only ones that have a Accounting and Finance undergrad program.. UCB does not.

jazz music says

thomas, puh-LEEZE you embarrass yourself!

well I was born here.. a lot of natives laugh at this myth of better schools..

if true, where are to so called genius of decades past... reality doesnt support

this notion...

New Renter says

Could never find a good steady job,. My neighbor? Ended up as a part time bouncer, part time jailbird in Fresno.

welcome to post 2000 job market... where jobs are scarce... we are sinking
not expanding like we did back in the 1970s to 1990s.