Those were stock picks for neophyte investors to become ersatz capitalists. RBCN too risky for neophyte investors. We haven’t sold and we’ll add when it looks like the selling has subsided.
Thanks, Dave, for the stock tips. Since I have been barely surviving on freelance work, since I can’t get a full time job in this economy, and I am not eligible even for unemployment, I won’t be able to participate in the stock market. Neither will millions of my fellow people in the same boat.
DCB, I have some great ideas for a couple of viable businesses, they are even in different industries and catagories. I’ve got the beginnings of business plans on paper. I bet Gem does too. It would be great to be eligible for loans for startup, or have people invest. But no one wants to give a freelancer a loan, and investors are holding on to their money like misers. Banks won’t give you money unless you don’t need it, and since my economic woes, which have been going on for almost two years, my credit rating is in the toilet, and I probably couldn’t get a loan of a life jacket if I was drowning.
I’m not whining, but just saying that starting your own business is a great idea, and I’ve started more than one in my day, but it sure helps to have a nest egg, and right now, surviving is taking all of the energy I have, and the nest is empty.(And I do work while posting occasionally on the OT.)
The government is not the solution,
too much of it is in fact, the problem.
You need only look at the failed experiments
in big government such as the USSR and communist China
and Cuba to see that it simply does not work.
I’ll even give you the reason:
disconnecting humans from their natural drive
is like putting a cheetah in a cage.
the big government ideology which you speak of,
has, at its core, an idea that you can somehow
control and manage human drive and even harness it
to the “greater good”.
won’t work.
would if we were more colony like in nature
like bees or ants.
but we’re not. that’s how it is.
What denton said. There is far too much religion that has crept into politics, far too much. Many churches need their tax exempt status threatened to shut them up. I see this as a great way to raise taxes.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest (2007) report on public school finances, New York tops the list with an average of $15,981 spent on each student. New York is followed by New Jersey ($15,691) and the District of Columbia ($14,324). States spending the least were Utah ($5,683), Idaho ($6,625) and Tennessee ($7,113). The national average is $9,666. Where does California rank among the states? It was 24th with $9,152.
Of the 16K, 11K went to teachers and rest went to support staff.
*rob*
I always mix up Pazuzu
with Beelzebub.
did you ever dress up like
pazuzu for Halloween?
Those were stock picks for neophyte investors to become ersatz capitalists. RBCN too risky for neophyte investors. We haven’t sold and we’ll add when it looks like the selling has subsided.
Thanks, Dave, for the stock tips. Since I have been barely surviving on freelance work, since I can’t get a full time job in this economy, and I am not eligible even for unemployment, I won’t be able to participate in the stock market. Neither will millions of my fellow people in the same boat.
DCB, I have some great ideas for a couple of viable businesses, they are even in different industries and catagories. I’ve got the beginnings of business plans on paper. I bet Gem does too. It would be great to be eligible for loans for startup, or have people invest. But no one wants to give a freelancer a loan, and investors are holding on to their money like misers. Banks won’t give you money unless you don’t need it, and since my economic woes, which have been going on for almost two years, my credit rating is in the toilet, and I probably couldn’t get a loan of a life jacket if I was drowning.
I’m not whining, but just saying that starting your own business is a great idea, and I’ve started more than one in my day, but it sure helps to have a nest egg, and right now, surviving is taking all of the energy I have, and the nest is empty.(And I do work while posting occasionally on the OT.)
“Many churches need their tax exempt status threatened to shut them up. I see this as a great way to raise taxes.” –
******DIBS for PRESIDENT******
Montrose Morris
FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The government is not the solution,
too much of it is in fact, the problem.
You need only look at the failed experiments
in big government such as the USSR and communist China
and Cuba to see that it simply does not work.
I’ll even give you the reason:
disconnecting humans from their natural drive
is like putting a cheetah in a cage.
the big government ideology which you speak of,
has, at its core, an idea that you can somehow
control and manage human drive and even harness it
to the “greater good”.
won’t work.
would if we were more colony like in nature
like bees or ants.
but we’re not. that’s how it is.
sounds like a bargain compared to private school.
What denton said. There is far too much religion that has crept into politics, far too much. Many churches need their tax exempt status threatened to shut them up. I see this as a great way to raise taxes.
By Park Sloper on September 22, 2010 2:37 PM
“librarian party”! That’s a good one! 🙂
HAHAHAHAHA……..
By daveinbedstuy on September 22, 2010 2:38 PM
Discussion over.
PROMISE??????????
According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest (2007) report on public school finances, New York tops the list with an average of $15,981 spent on each student. New York is followed by New Jersey ($15,691) and the District of Columbia ($14,324). States spending the least were Utah ($5,683), Idaho ($6,625) and Tennessee ($7,113). The national average is $9,666. Where does California rank among the states? It was 24th with $9,152.
Of the 16K, 11K went to teachers and rest went to support staff.