JoeWeber
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Turtle, you nailed it again. I am so f'n tired of those ridiculous Bangladeshi's and Somalians who are just too cheap to pull out their Chase Sapphire Cards and sky off on the next Emirates A380 to someplace pleasant while the earth heals.
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You are being foolish. The ACA was a clusterfuck owing to republican opposition to anything Obama. After it was passed they did everything possible to make it a failure.
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We see "Sometimes a Great Notion", they see "Never Give an Inch."
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Now that I'm on Medicare with supplements I pay a quarter of what I paid before and have fantastic access to any doctor or specialist. By the last year of private insurance I was over $1000 per month for the best plan. I couldn't even see a specialist who had already done 5 surgeries on me without a referral from another Doctor I'd never before seen and then was told I needed to wait one month for an appointment with him. It was just ridiculous. The first day of the month of my birthday came before that and I got right in with Medicare. The fix was to be a series of knee injections which he would need to get approved. Then he asked if I had Medicare yet and bingo he was back with the cart in 5 minutes and the rest were all scheduled. A quick check found that all of the doc's I'd seen for years all accepted medicare with the single exception being the 3T Tesla MRI Facility that I already had a 50% co-pay to visit. I'm very much liking this public health care.
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By God you're right. Never occurred to me.
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There aren't any Caribbean Islands. I just made that up because Bill is so gullible.
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Turtle, thanks for pointing out the errors.
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Now that would be a good use of, what's your guess, $400 million?
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I believe if he get's the nomination he'll cause exactly as much damage as Trump.
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No kidding. Day one it was 8 complete noobs on stools in the same room and I can't say it ever improved. Surely it explains much about me.
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I wanted to play the trumpet and my old man bought me 3 years of accordion lessons and an accordion. I made damn sure the suffering was fairly divided.
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And the rest of the family......?
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It's your loot but at that level I'd leave her the whole pile. Or maybe split it 50/50 so she'll remember you. Half in cash and half in Tuba lessons.
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I don't take it as an argument, you're right. I totally missed that. I'll redo it when I get some time.
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O.K., to me that is the base minimum to protect one family member from a health catastrophe if the member has health insurance. That money would never be touched. So a couple would need $500K stashed, minimum. To that start adding a certain number of years living expenses. To that add whatever amount of money you'd need for those life's pleasures that are important to you. I wouldn't add any expected income from the money. That should get you to your number, mine might be different.
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I'm beginning to understand Brents frustration with you. I assume you can read a graph, yes?
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Let's start with you. How much are 5 years of your daughters current wages?
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Bill, I didn't want to announce this until I had sufficient data but I've been measuring the distance between these Caribbean Islands for several years and I have to tell you there has been no change. Nada. The whole continental drift thing is proven hocus pocus. So maybe, just maybe, Brent is right about climate change. Afterall, the tides come in and the tides go out; they're just sloshing around like water in the tub, situation normal. Unless you're willing to believe our tiny little moon with a smirking face is pulling us around like a little red wagon, that is.
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Are you seriously asking or simply seriously wanting?
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Poverty is a condition, not a virtue. When you have little money it means food and shelter. When you have wealth that can withstand a periodic disruption of your income stream or the lessening in real value of your holdings it becomes less like a thing and more like a battery that stores opportunity. For me that means experiences, travel and learning new things, for others it means rocket ships. It's good for all of us that our system makes both possible. I never aspired to amass generational wealth but I have always had a laser like focus on not being old and poor no matter what happens and with no reliance on a government program. To me that's enough.
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That's good. As long as they're helping both sides it all cancels out.
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There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
JoeWeber replied to rushmc's topic in Speakers Corner
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Mad Mike Hughes found a way out, after a fashion.
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Hi Brent, We're fucked, but then the meek were never going to inherit the earth anyway. Joe
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Our Poli-Amourous Turtle loves everyone when he's in the mood. That's assuming he's a him, now that I think about it.
