Yeah retirement

In 2021 I had a meeting with the financial advisor. at that time, it was projected that by age 65 I would have 2.97M to retire on. Today's projection, a WHOLE lot less--it's over a million less. That's a $1,000,000 loss in value, thanks to you know who and his failed policy. That hurts. one of my older coworkers has to take RMD and his is so far down the had had to go back to work to pay the bills-at age 74. At age 74 he should NOT have to go back to work, he should be RETIRED. My dad is in the same situation but he's 82 fixing to be 83. Him and mom are having a tough time of it and my brother and I help however we can but we also have to keep ourselves alive. Remember when some folks said "buckle up because the next few years is fixing to be tough"? Now you're seeing what they were talking about.

M,
Yes, this is only the beginning.
Wait until we start having to pay for HIS new deals (TRILLIONS of our tax dollars going right out the window), because we haven't started paying for any of that yet.
Not to mention the FREE BILLIONS to Ukraine, but hey, at least we left the terrorists in Afghanistan BILLIONS of dollars of our hardware.

The voters knew what he was going to do, he bragged about it. Now it's time to PAY UP FOLKS.

The voters got what they wanted, HIGHER TAXES, 401K's in the toilet, Stocks in the toilet, record high inflation, etc, etc.
We just need to wait a few more months until the unemployment rate starts to sky rocket then we will be ALL SET.

You need to remember ANYONE that voted for BIDEN are all system suckers living off of the working peoples taxes. Unfortunately there are more of them than us.
This is the NEW USA that people want, have everyone dependent on the government.

And yes, this includes MILLIONAIRES that are on the system collecting, Social Security, Food Stamps, Free Heat, Free Transportation, etc, etc.

All i have to say, we had a business man running this Country like a Swiss watch and a politician destroyed it within a year. Prove me wrong.

Only one thing left for Dems to do and then we have no chance. That is for them to get rid of the Electoral College.

Curtis,
The DEMS already addressed that.
Here in CT (and in other DEM states) they have modified their election laws so that who ever is the majority winner in the state, that person receives ALL the electoral votes.

Example, CT has 7 electoral votes, in 2016 it was split, 3 for Trump, 4 for Hillary. In 2020 after they changed the law, Biden received ALL 7 votes even though the state was split again 3 to 4.
The FACT is the DEM states have A LOT more electoral votes than ANY of the Repub states, hence NO REPUBLICAN will ever win President again.

The PROOF was this past election in November with everything being up side down, inflation, crime, 401K's in the toilet, Mortgage rates thru the roof, etc, etc, and the Repubs could only gain 4 seats in Congress, and lost 1 in the Senate, REALLY.

If they couldn't win in 2022 there is NO WAY they are going to gain ANY control again.

2024 will be a land slide victory for the DEMS (unfortunately) due to the DEMS owning the electoral college.
With them doing this they only need to win a few states in the country (DEMS own Washington, Oregon, California, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey), the rest of the states are just also rans.

P.S. I can't wait until all the housing foreclosures really start to take off for the the people that had to go and buy the mansions. Foreclosures are already starting.

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Originally posted by 434 olds:
All i have to say, we had a business man running this Country like a Swiss watch and a politician destroyed it within a year. Prove me wrong.

^This

We are doomed unless LOCAL PEOPLE take back their local control, working their way to having a nation led by STRONG Governors, Mayors, and County Sheriffs to push back against the out of control Federal government and their illegal alphabet agencies they have utilized to destroy everything the Constitution stands for.

The Patriot Act broke the back of the Constitution, because it has allow an ARMED FEDERAL ARMY (DHS, notice the theme) to operate and control ALL "Law Enforcement" in the United States.

Until their power is stripped, nothing will change.

Replacing the 12 year old gas water heater with a electric unit. Don't care how much SDG&E charges per therm, no longer a concern.

Bob

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Prove me wrong.

OK, I'll take a shot. Trump did a lot of good to be sure but it wasn't all good. The national debt grew between $7 & $8 trillion dollars during his 4 years. QE ran wild. He also kept the interest rate unrealistically low to keep the economy booming during his tenure. While these 3 things made for better short term times it contributed to the inflation we're seeing now and the pending foreclosures coming. What he did do was make it easier on the little guy while the nation continued on it's downward spiral.

I agree that Trump had some good moments. To us in a certain age group, we were able to put our shovels away, since we no longer had to bury our retirement savings in the backyard. My disappointment was with the "savings" our Nation never attempted to pay off our debt. With the current administration, like him or not, our Congress is still on a spending spree. Look around at all those "help wanted signs", our Nation has the best view of peoples palms out than ever in our history. Until we change, if we do, then it's only going to get worse for our heirs. Example of the future, look at the recent Bank debacle. CTA (cover "their" a--es) by our government. No one is responsible anymore. Everyone gets a trophy.

Trump said when we get our Economy in good shape and more people working instead of drawing from the Government the debt would start going down. That is true.

Thing is nobody except Dr Fauchi and Bill Gates could have predicted the Covid that cost our Country Trillions of dollars and more than a million lives.

Now when Trump was still in office we got a DAILY body count they even included motorcycle crashes and gun shots in the death count.

Now that we have Biden you would think nobody is dying from it. The same Media does not want to mention it.

The state of colorado was sued over reporting a motorcycle death as a covid death. Motorcyclist was riding without a helmet, hit a car head on, and died.........not because of the crash, but because of Covid.

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Originally posted by Canted Valve:

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Prove me wrong.

OK, I'll take a shot. Trump did a lot of good to be sure but it wasn't all good. The national debt grew between $7 & $8 trillion dollars during his 4 years. QE ran wild. He also kept the interest rate unrealistically low to keep the economy booming during his tenure. While these 3 things made for better short term times it contributed to the inflation we're seeing now and the pending foreclosures coming. What he did do was make it easier on the little guy while the nation continued on it's downward spiral.

x2. Lots of good done, but a lot of opportunities squandered. Even before the insane "covid relief" free money tree, spending increases were skyrocketing compared to revenue increases. Lots of blame to go around. "Just because there are two sides doesn't mean one of them's the good guys."

In FY2022, they spent $6.272 TRILLION... $1.9 Trillion MORE than pre-pandemic levels. They only "cut" $500 Billion in spending, most of which was covid relief, unemployment benefits, and PPP. The only saving grace at all is the Trump tax cuts, which generated a record revenue (again) of $4.896 Trillion, up $850 Billion from last year (+21%), the largest year-over-year revenue increase in history. We demonstrably have a SPENDING problem.

If they just would've copied the 2019 budget, we would've had a $449 Billion SURPLUS, and we could have LOWERED the national debt for the first time since 1957. (something which did not even happen despite the popular myth of "The Clinton Surplus").

https://www.cbo.gov/system/fil...022-11/58592-MBR.pdf

Bush overspending: BAD
Obama overspending: BAD
Trump overspending: BAD
Biden overspending: BAD

The general population will not vote for a responsible adult who has the fortitude to say "NO."

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Originally posted by adv ET 266:
All the oil companies had record profits last year. Guess that little detail is not significant lmfao

That's right, more demand, more profit.

You're such a liberal shill

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Originally posted by adv ET 266:
All the oil companies had record profits last year. Guess that little detail is not significant lmfao

Cool! Now do 2020.

Details...

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Originally posted by 434 olds:
All i have to say, we had a business man running this Country like a Swiss watch and a politician destroyed it within a year. Prove me wrong.

Also, the revolving door...

“Former Rep. Barney Frank co-sponsored the law that tightened banking regulations after the financial crisis, but since leaving office he has been working the other side of the street—as a board member of Signature Bank, which regulators shut down Sunday,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

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Originally posted by adv ET 266:
All the oil companies had record profits last year. Guess that little detail is not significant lmfao

Let's see.....why would that be?

Oh right. Biden on day one started choking out domestic production, which also choked out some of the little guys drilling in the USA, since they have no international footprint. So only the big guys remain. And with low supply, they can, and do charge higher prices. Not to mention that the big guys are doing virtually no exploration and development of wells right now. So their overhead is quite low. So of course their profits are high under Biden. I thought Biden was here for the working man? LOL.

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Originally posted by Bucky:

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Originally posted by adv ET 266:
All the oil companies had record profits last year. Guess that little detail is not significant lmfao

Let's see.....why would that be?

Oh right. Biden on day one started choking out domestic production, which also choked out some of the little guys drilling in the USA, since they have no international footprint. So only the big guys remain. And with low supply, they can, and do charge higher prices. Not to mention that the big guys are doing virtually no exploration and development of wells right now. So their overhead is quite low. So of course their profits are high under Biden. I thought Biden was here for the working man? LOL.

Record profits? The stock holders get say 3% or what ever it is. That percentage is a whole lot more in their pocket when gas prices are $6.99 a gallon over $1.99 a gallon. Let's Go Brandon!

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Originally posted by RPROGAS:
Every day New Bern, North Carolina is looking more and more like the place I would be moving to, this place is becoming insane at a record rate.

Bob

Come on! I live 20min from NewBern and there are plenty of houses for sale.

If you dont want to be on the water you can buy larger tracts of land closer to me and build

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Originally posted by 434 olds:
All i have to say, we had a business man running this Country like a Swiss watch and a politician destroyed it within a year. Prove me wrong.

TRUTH!