Election 2010: Teabaggin' the Ds & Rs

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Why go to California (or Massachusetts for that matter) unless you need a highly educated, world class work force or proximity to a major market and significant capital?

You can't be everything to everyone. But I'd rather be California than Arizona or Kansas.

I recommend Minneapolis.

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

The single best thing about Massachusetts: the healthcare. Really. If people retired here instead of Florida, they'd live much, much longer.

Someone should figure out how to market that to old folks.

We'd all live longer, though, with a bit more Cos in our lives (something I haven't drunk for several months.

[confidential info] I have 3 properties in MA that I am currently looking at. [/confidential info] fwiw.

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by Adder

I recommend Minneapolis.

No. offence.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I would hope some of that money would come back. But I can't disagree with your projection. All I can say is it wasn't supposed to work that way in theory - that assumptions were made which didn't pan out. (Which kind of underlines my dislike of HCReform, but that's another discussion. And yes, I understand you probably disagree with the argument Reagan's people ever had any true belief the money would be paid back to SS.)

I don't know if I disagree or not. What assumptions didn't pan out? Do you think Reagan's people assumed we would grow our way out of deficits -- that somehow, people's desire to have the gov't do shit for them would lessen after a sustained economic boom? Or did he assume that someone else would fix his mess (e.g., Clinton)?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Adder

I recommend Minneapolis.

I'm sure its very nice. I understand the Lutefisk is the best anywhere.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by sgtclub

This is silly. Money is fungible. Essentially, borrowing from the SS trust fund then is essentially borrowing from the public now, because we will sell bonds now to pay the SS obligations.

Or we change the rules in order to get rid of the obligations.

You know this is coming. You're not one of those deficit-cutters who says "everything is on the table except SS [and the military, and pork that I like and...]".

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Penske 2.0

[confidential info] I have 3 properties in MA that I am currently looking at. [/confidential info] fwiw.

Roadtrip!

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

It's completely subjective. Which is to say, that when you say we "can't" raise taxes, we obviously can, but rich people wouldn't like it. (Also, a recession is a terrible time to do it.)

This is no longer a recession. That has ended. We have settled on a baseline, post-deleveraging.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I'm sure its very nice.

It's cold and snowy. Get. me. out. of. here.

I understand the Lutefisk is the best anywhere.

One can buy prepared lutefisk at the local upscale groceries (at least you could before Christmas).

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Or we change the rules in order to get rid of the obligations.

You know this is coming. You're not one of those deficit-cutters who says "everything is on the table except SS [and the military, and pork that I like and...]".

OMG! You mean the kids might use their parents own money to pay back the loans their parents gave them? Ungrateful bastards.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

You should go to Somalia. I hear there's very little government -- it's a libertarian's dream.

Off my corner, ho. I've been using the "if you hate government so much, you should move to Somalia" line since before you were a dinosaur.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

The good thing about our pending economic conquest by India is the food. Someday, we'll purge our bloody English gastronomic inheritance.

Alternately, you could move out of MA and get the same benefit.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

This is no longer a recession. That has ended. We have settled on a baseline, post-deleveraging.

Or, we're just doing our hiring in India and China.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Alternately, you could move out of MA and get the same benefit.

Yes, you know what we replaced English boiled food with here? Irish food.

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Or we change the rules in order to get rid of the obligations.

You know this is coming. You're not one of those deficit-cutters who says "everything is on the table except SS [and the military, and pork that I like and...]".

I say raise the age of eligibility on SS to 85.5. Does anyone have a calculator to find the savings on that?