Became a Dynasty Defender: Dec 24, 2008 12:00:13 GMT -5
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Post by Streeter on Aug 19, 2019 10:15:49 GMT -5
Balance the portfolio Streeter, of course your not near retirement like I am but my plans ease investments into less volatile stocks, bonds, funds, etc. I'm probably more worried about SS and Medicare then I am about retirement funds I've a bit of control over. Medicare and the way its run is frikkin' insane, give you an example: Humira a great biologic used for and very effective for immune deficiency treatment is a Tier 5 medicine. Now under my very excellent work insurance, I can get the medicine for 75-200 dollars which while high is manageable and with a humira card it drops to 5 dollars a month. Even that crap doesn't make sense to me, however when you go on medicare you can't use that card anymore and the deductible is 30% or about 1200 a month for that medicine. That aint affordable even with a good retirement. further they won't send you the damn pens to give yourself the medicine...now come to find out from one of the 12,000,000 or so supplemental plans out there that if you have to take that medicine, you go to your doc once a month he gives you the shot, they bill medicare, and it costs you nothing. Again that's insane. Hell you have to go to the Doc to get a shot he scripts to you when you can get it via mail from the specialty pharmacy. Bear this in mind, you probably have the same insurance, you probably would get the medicine from the same provider, only difference is your retired so they do funky things with the payment, deductible etc. This is just one example. Now let me be clear, the developers of these medicines spend big buck on research and in theory at least have 10 or so years before patents run out..they tweak the medicines to extend that some. Biologics are a different animal because they are costly to produce correctly, I'm not sure we need to be trying to match the European model cost wise, folks we have the best med system in the world period, everyone goes on medicare and watch the health of this country decline quickly, folks that can be help won't be because medicare will say its not necessary or give you stop gap poor symptom treatment without access to potential cures. Use of opioids will increase IMO as people will be denied surgery or treatment because of age, that ain't progress that's thinning the population close to Fabian Socialism where you have to prove your worth to society or be rejected from the system and cast aside. Off subject I know, but the more research I do in this the more I see how ineffectual our government really is and the constant stupid decisions they let incompetent government lackey's make, we do not live in a elitist society, sure there are many very rich people but there is opportunity for all and freedom to express views. What the idiots want to do is make it a royal/suf society a true ruling class that pits the surfs against one another. I really don't see how so many folks can be swayed. Hell these folks are praying for a recession, as I said some of the loss last week is a result of computer sell offs at an arbitrary point that is you got it interest rates controlled by the FED. What happened last week is peeps sold off, then bought back in when rates dropped, one reason why we saw some relatively quick rebound. Sorry just a seasoned cynic gripping. Get a good advisor, balance your 401K funds and other retirements, make sure that the various funds are too top loaded with the same investments (that's a big mistake)put some cash back, maybe buy a bit of gold and silver, pay attention to your portfolio ask questions of your advisor if you have one, try to be prudent in your spending and I know that's difficult for some of our young and middle age folks who are trying to get kids through school and pay off homes etc. Most of all, see if we can vote in some people who actually want to do some good, by definition with politicians that's a stretch but there are good folk out there. Oh and before I quit this rant, be directly involved in your children's and grandchildren's school, demand results of the boards and teachers, demand they quit indoctrinating and simply teach our prospects might look a bit better if 90% of the population could actually think critically, read and interpret on their own, and add 2+2 w/0 a frikkin' HP calculator. cliff notes?
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Became a Dynasty Defender: Jan 9, 2006 11:37:14 GMT -5
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Post by houstoncat on Aug 19, 2019 11:08:23 GMT -5
Streeter, if you had an attention span of more then 30 seconds you wouldn't need the "Notes for Dummies". Naw nothing real important just an off the cuff rant brought on more or less about the useless market panic, Just diversify and jam as much as you can into your retirement savings. There is so much manipulation of the market by so many groups its hard to say what is really going on. One of my favorite examples is an analyst says boon doggle inc. is supposed to show x amount of profit or growth and that's the measure that must be made, the earnings report comes out and boon doggle makes a percent or two less then expected but their performance is good, all of the parameters indicate a healthy company but they just didn't make dipshit analyst company happy and its stock drops 8 or 10% folks in the know buy it low and by magic the stock is driven back up. Those folks in here that are in the financial industry see it often I think, I'd actually like to hear some of their thoughts on this up and down. Anyone ever hear of hyper deflation? say you go to a gold standard but instead of gold going up, stocks etc drop to reflect the available gold. Market instead of going being at 25K would be at 8 or 10K with the result being 401K's etc dropping out of site. Just what would that do, would people start to get salary's from the late 60's, would banks have to adjust mortgages Interesting concept isn't it?
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Became a Dynasty Defender: Dec 24, 2008 12:00:13 GMT -5
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Post by Streeter on Aug 19, 2019 13:09:44 GMT -5
Streeter, if you had an attention span of more then 30 seconds you wouldn't need the "Notes for Dummies". Naw nothing real important just an off the cuff rant brought on more or less about the useless market panic, Just diversify and jam as much as you can into your retirement savings. There is so much manipulation of the market by so many groups its hard to say what is really going on. One of my favorite examples is an analyst says boon doggle inc. is supposed to show x amount of profit or growth and that's the measure that must be made, the earnings report comes out and boon doggle makes a percent or two less then expected but their performance is good, all of the parameters indicate a healthy company but they just didn't make dipshit analyst company happy and its stock drops 8 or 10% folks in the know buy it low and by magic the stock is driven back up. Those folks in here that are in the financial industry see it often I think, I'd actually like to hear some of their thoughts on this up and down. Anyone ever hear of hyper deflation? say you go to a gold standard but instead of gold going up, stocks etc drop to reflect the available gold. Market instead of going being at 25K would be at 8 or 10K with the result being 401K's etc dropping out of site. Just what would that do, would people start to get salary's from the late 60's, would banks have to adjust mortgages Interesting concept isn't it? cliff notes? I made killing after 08 crash. Right now I am debating whether or not to pull money out and put in savings or low risk n re invest after another bubble. As for gold ots way way to late to go back. Like I said were married to the fiat system better or worse now.
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Became a Dynasty Defender: Sept 8, 2001 20:59:02 GMT -5
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Post by Katman on Aug 19, 2019 20:54:47 GMT -5
Time to go back ended in the 70's? It actually STARTED in 1971. Gold is extremely undervalued in relation to the dollar. Its actual value may be over 10K it began under FDR in the 30s and made official/final under Nixon in 71. GS has pluses n minuses. Regardless of what ever Q site u n your cult project saying how its easy...... is happening behind scenes or whatever non sense . It virtually impossible unless we reduce are economy to ashes a start over. We are married to the fiat system an no going back. Wrong.. TRUMP WILL WIN in 2020. The F.R. will be restructured. Q site taken down by the deep state. Listen to the President. Same message. Q+
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Became a Dynasty Defender: Dec 24, 2008 12:00:13 GMT -5
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Post by Streeter on Aug 20, 2019 7:07:18 GMT -5
it began under FDR in the 30s and made official/final under Nixon in 71. GS has pluses n minuses. Regardless of what ever Q site u n your cult project saying how its easy...... is happening behind scenes or whatever non sense . It virtually impossible unless we reduce are economy to ashes a start over. We are married to the fiat system an no going back. Wrong.. TRUMP WILL WIN in 2020. The F.R. will be restructured. Q site taken down by the deep state. Listen to the President. Same message. Q+ well I would hope Trump aims a little higher than Q n his 1 to 3 % accuracy.
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Became a Dynasty Defender: Sept 8, 2001 20:59:02 GMT -5
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Post by Katman on Aug 20, 2019 7:27:34 GMT -5
Wrong.. TRUMP WILL WIN in 2020. The F.R. will be restructured. Q site taken down by the deep state. Listen to the President. Same message. Q+ well I would hope Trump aims a little higher than Q n his 1 to 3 % accuracy. Q asks questions. Explain how asking questions is wrong please.
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Became a Dynasty Defender: Dec 24, 2008 12:00:13 GMT -5
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Post by Streeter on Aug 20, 2019 8:11:20 GMT -5
well I would hope Trump aims a little higher than Q n his 1 to 3 % accuracy. Q asks questions. Explain how asking questions is wrong please. wrong q makes wild ass predictions out of thin air that are are proven to be made up routinely..... There u go again ...... ignore deflect ...... showing it self no different than the Trump collusion crew .
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Became a Dynasty Defender: Sept 8, 2001 20:59:02 GMT -5
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Post by Katman on Aug 20, 2019 8:21:02 GMT -5
Q asks questions. Explain how asking questions is wrong please. wrong q makes wild ass predictions out of thin air that are are proven to be made up routinely..... There u go again ...... ignore deflect ...... showing it self no different than the Trump collusion crew . Q+ is our president. Reading his effin tweets
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Became a Dynasty Defender: Dec 24, 2008 12:00:13 GMT -5
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Post by Streeter on Aug 20, 2019 10:06:54 GMT -5
wrong q makes wild ass predictions out of thin air that are are proven to be made up routinely..... There u go again ...... ignore deflect ...... showing it self no different than the Trump collusion crew . Q+ is our president. Reading his effin tweets and Bigfoot rides the lochness monster daily
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Became a Dynasty Defender: Sept 8, 2001 20:59:02 GMT -5
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Post by Katman on Aug 20, 2019 14:40:21 GMT -5
Q+ is our president. Reading his effin tweets and Bigfoot rides the lochness monster daily And paper is not money.
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Became a Dynasty Defender: Dec 24, 2008 12:00:13 GMT -5
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Post by Streeter on Aug 20, 2019 14:47:36 GMT -5
and Bigfoot rides the lochness monster daily And paper is not money. u dodge n deflect more than the fools still crying collusion. But such is life when u live on the lunatic fringe.
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Became a Dynasty Defender: Sept 8, 2001 20:59:02 GMT -5
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Post by Katman on Aug 20, 2019 19:25:49 GMT -5
u dodge n deflect more than the fools still crying collusion. But such is life when u live on the lunatic fringe. Really? You said this: and Bigfoot rides the lochness monster dailySo I say: And paper is not moneyYou bring up intentional nonsense and then try and use a tactic to draw away from the fact your political ideology is Liberal Whacko. I suppose you are right with JD on the Bell Lifes awesome video. They were talking about YOU guys!
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Became a Dynasty Defender: Apr 16, 2003 15:11:35 GMT -5
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Post by JD on Aug 20, 2019 19:48:50 GMT -5
u dodge n deflect more than the fools still crying collusion. But such is life when u live on the lunatic fringe. Really? You said this: and Bigfoot rides the lochness monster dailySo I say: And paper is not moneyYou bring up intentional nonsense and then try and use a tactic to draw away from the fact your political ideology is Liberal Whacko. I suppose you are right with JD on the Bell Lifes awesome video. They were talking about YOU guys! They weren't talking to me. I'm a gun owner. I have a CC permit. I don't believe taking guns away. I don't believe guns kill people. I believe idiots with guns kill people. I do know that you have absolutely no reading comprehension skills. I'm saying the messenger in that video was an idiot just like you. An idiot with a good message is still an idiot. But Riley says it was all an act. You claim it wasn't. You can't even decide what your opinion is. You have to fed your own opinion by the likes of that idiot in that video and the whackos at 4 chan, 8 chan and the Q cult. You are the dumbest POS I've ever run across on the net or in real life. If I were describe you to someone they would think I'm making it up. Like a cartoon character except it's not funny. Light to dark my ass! Frickin imbecile!!
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Became a Dynasty Defender: Sept 8, 2001 20:59:02 GMT -5
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Post by Katman on Aug 20, 2019 20:43:08 GMT -5
The old "Divide And Conquer" tactic, spotted and documented.
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Became a Dynasty Defender: Dec 24, 2008 12:00:13 GMT -5
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Post by Streeter on Aug 21, 2019 6:48:51 GMT -5
The old "Divide And Conquer" tactic, spotted and documented. U literally are the dumbest person on the internet.
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