Open Thread
Need a Hand?
Your Next Project Starts with BrownstonerMost Recent Articles
Need a Hand?
Your Next Project Starts with Brownstoner
By lechacal on November 18, 2010 12:04 PM
“I didn’t marry rich, but I did marry someone who is a lot classier…”
Lech, how is that possible?????
*sarcasm alert*
Just kidding 🙂
I could say the exact same thing about me wrt to Mrs. C
Etson, every can find it easy but getting most people to agree with your easy or my easy is the hard part.
etson – I thought that was fun. they ran a few interesting responses yesterday & there are more on their site.
Bloomberg’s Deputy of Operations is speaking later today to outline the fact that they will fire “thousands of workers” to balance the budget.
This of course would be totally unnecessary if the unions would agree to across-the-board pay cuts but that would be too logical.
ishtar, as Paul Samuelson once said, “I don’t like the Democratic party because I don’t know what they stand for and I don’t like the republican Party because I know what they stand for.”
Anyone try the NYT ‘balance the budget’ calculator yet?
Most people (incl me) who have tried seem to find it suprisingly easy.
Hint: it’s extremely difficult if you don’t cut Medicare somehow. Raising eligibility age makes a massive difference.
rf,
thanks but probably wouldn’t work for her. She has apt. share with friend and a full-time job now (albeit a tenuous and low-paying one).
Right, donatella. Everything you typed is why I really don’t get why seemingly intelligent people work from the assumption that political parties matter.
I see where m4l is coming from, although I think I would likely have a different definition of a ‘fluff’ major.
Know a couple of people in my industry who are still the main source of support for their late 20’s / early 30’s offspring.
(not that relevant to me as I’d likely be pushing 70 at least before I could possibly have any 30 year old offspring).