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dh, time to get some marbles or start playing jacks again.
Thanks for trying – Snappy found the thing she was looking for – in Wmsbg of all places.
Yes, I got it to a surplus for both 2015 and 2030 (were those the options?).
Can’t remember exactly what I did but it was 95% cuts and 5% taxes. I also did the Medicare and SS changes you mentioned.
I was very surprised how big the Medicare issue was, especially relative to SS. I don’t think it’s possible, at least on that calculator, to balance the budget without making that the Medicare change.
WOW, Denton. You READ that???!!! Cool.
In the sugar market, that guy was a legend. My first boss was a Cuban emigre who was part of that whole world. Upper class emigre whose family lost thier sugar plantations and all their money; their family got split up, they lived in a rat hole in the Bronx. I never met a fiercer guy in my life – I don’t know if he ever could make all the money back, but he made a fortune in sugar futures here. The guy used to tell me about Lobo.
But the cool thing is that the writer of that book found a fabulous way to tell the story of pre-Castro Cuba.
What other books have you read on Cuba that you liked?
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drinking four loko, smoking weed, making guacamole and listening to electronic music.
way to fight the stereotype! hahahah.
*rob*
“How difficult can it be to get a RE license?????”
Dibs – not hard at all – you have to take a 75 hour course for $400 -p.s. – am thinking about doing it
Etson, I reduced a lot of the military spending and raising the medicare age to 68 and SS age to 68 and added back the Clinton Taxes etc. However I never made it to a surplus -did you?
oh guess what i did this weekend btw. i carried a woman’s stroller up a flight of stairs for her lol.
and jessi:
Sorry, Rob. That wasn’t nice. I thought you had said before that your mom long pretended to be your sister
i was under the assumption she was my looney older sister until i was like 9 or so. since my grandparents adopted me they wanted to keep it that she was just my sister for as long as they can. when i started snooping, and when she started whispering crazy shit in my ear, they threw her out.
*rob*
m4l,
check out the other thread on renting in brownstones. doesn’t sound like DH would be could match for living in same house as landlord in adult neighborhood.
‘DH, angling to complain enough to break lease early and move to an ADULT hood like BK Heights or BoCoCa?”
yeah right – my building just got rent stabilized – i’m gonna stay there forever!