I am basically bored and ready to vote and get on with this, but a few things were worthy of comment today.
1st, unless I get a job I am officially in poverty as I will have no taxable income due to the combination of tax sheltered savings, high property taxes, paying for my medical insurance myself with deductibles and long term care contributions, low yields on fixed income investments, low tax rates on dividend income and boat loads of capital loss carry forwards. Please oh economy recovery so interest rates rise and I get some income and capital gains to offset those capital loss carry forwards and can pay some taxes.
2nd, the Greek Mayor of Thessaloniki is trying to do the right thing. Worth reading to see how far Greece at least has to go before it even remotely look like the U.S. The U.S. is not going to be Greece as no workers have protections like they do.
Thessaloniki Mayor
3rd, Gail Collins highlights the difference between hard core Democrats and hard core Tea Party Republicans and why we do not understand each other regardless of what ever similarities we might have economically. After reading this, it is easy to understand why compromise is so hard to find and why we will have grid lock until either one party dominates politically or we reach a precipice which must be turned back from or it run the economy into the ground and the moneyed side of the GOP will be scared to sh*t like they were in the fall of 2008 along with the Democrats.
Gail Collins
4th, it is amazing to see some of these young baseball players in the majors. They love to play the game and do it very well for a being barely out of high school. If you can catch any games with the Nationals or the Angels and watch Bryce Harper or Mike Trout, you will see what I mean. I only wish Pedro Alvarez of the Pirates, who my son regularly played against for 5 years, could figure out how to hit for a higher average than 200 after hitting over 300 in the minors and college. Although my son did strike Pedro out the one time he pitched to him and that is one of Pedro's big problems. He cannot hit slow pitches that move.
5th, does anybody over 40 care about the NBA playoffs?
6th, I am glad that no one invites me to play courses that the U.S. Open is competed on.
The single most important thing that you can do to avoid poverty and increase your chances of economic prosperity is to vote for Romney. After four years, any thinking person would conclude that the Great Obama Experiment has failed. It is time to move on and get the country back on track.
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