VABills

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Just like Mccain is tied to lobbyists. Same thing. Obama is just as closely tied to the passport breach. He is two people removed. Mccain is two people removed from the telecom companies.

And Obama own foreign advisor was the one who was looking at passports (his company was anyhow). So we need a headline:

Way to jinx them Pooj. Go watch Peter Pan guy for that.

No not really, takes less than an hour. But why would you want to. kind of blows the concept, huh?

Very bad assumption. Your logic is flawed.

I don't know, I have met some of the folks from there, who post on this board. many are friendly but not all. World class cit here is 10 miles away. My commute is 4 miles. Plenty and in fact most jobs in the DC area are outside the beltway anymore or at the beltway. But I did mention traffic. I also mentioned better weather, access to skiing 1 hour away, I have friendly neighbors, of course a lot are military folks and for the most part very personable to their brother in arms less so to the northern snooty liberals.

You missed this line: Also, you're missing the salaries difference in your equation. There is a huge disparity, outside teachers it seems, between the two. Senior techincal people at a preivate company in this area easily have 6 figure incomes even non-managers. In Buffalo I would venture to believe any non-management senior staff has salaries on average over 60k.

Of course couldn't the city be sued fordestroying the banks properties, especially if the y bank was still paying the taxes on the property?

I don't care. I don't like any of the three candidates left. Whatever swiftboating any of them gets, they deserve, IMHO.

Wegmans down here, have them sometimes. I don't care for them, but my little one does.

Only today? I'm losing my touch.

Actually I would think Obama Hussein is. Didn't he willingly live in a Muslim country for a fair portion of his life. I suspect he is really the brainwashed candidate.

To a point. But if you plan on moving ever you won't see the steady increase either, so you lose there. And that profit could be used to buy a house elsewhere. But think about it an I'll keep the math simple. If you get a 30 year interest only first 10 (like I said keep it simple). Similar houses in Buffalo area vs. Nothern VA, outside beltway. 2500 sqft home with basement. Buffalo - 250K DC (right now) - 600K monthly mortgage Buff 250K * .05 = 1250 DC 600K *.05 = 3000 Now add taxes based on assessed value Buff taxes = 500/month DC taxes = 200/month So the house in Buffalo cost 1750/month DC cost 3200/month Now 10 years from now you sell. the house in Buffalo may get a 1%/yr value increase so maybe 265K in DC, you'll get 7-10% average - so that same house in dc goes for 1.2 million in 10 years. Real cost Buffalo (1750*12months*10years)-15K profit = 195000 out of pocket DC (3200*12months*10years)-600K profit = 216000 profit into your pocket All while having better paying jobs, better opportunity for growth, better weather, and a football/basketball/baseball/hockey team to watch in 10 years. Granted much worse traffic, and not as good of food. In Buffalo you get better food, slightly better schools (maybe as Fairfax and Mont County are consider to be 2 of the top 10 counties in the country), and less traffic. But in 10 years the Bills will be in Toronto, the Sabres in hamilton, no nba, no baseball.

What rubs them wrong, is the government time and again shows they cannot properly sepnd the money. The group in WNY has a bad habit of hiring more and more government worker, never any cutback, yet the city has shrunk to 1/3 of it's size from the 60's. They keep people on the government dole by raising taxes, and you have salaries of underworked teacher at over 100k. That is complete and total garbage and is a reason why folks hate to see the whole tax and spend. I have no problem spending money on taxes as long as there is real benefit. But just to not have layoffs and guarantee government jobs for life is not of any benefit to anyone except those who are lucky to be in those jobs.

We ned to trade up and get 2 first rounder and then draft a FS and a CB. Preferably out of Ohio State, then all will be right at OBD.

as*hole

I didnt know it got hit by a bus.

Yes. I knew. I didn't know the type of plane, but I knew it was.

Shoppers Food. That's my point. It was just a standard grocery store.

What local companies are leaving and going overseas? They don't leave here, because taxes are lower, highly educated and highly motivated folks (lots of military) are around. We have military and government jobs a plenty and I don't see the US government going overseas. We constantly are upgrading our infrastructure (roads, fire, police, etc...) and do so on not nearly as much in taxes. If you haven't been in DC area, there is constantly expansion or replacement of roads going on. We have more bypasses, and interstates, all with very few except the "private roads" (e.g., Dulles Toll, Greenway) that charge tolls.

Exactly. Good point. I went grocery shopping two weeks ago, and was shocked when I went to pick up a new jar of mayo. The damn thing for a medium sized jar was 6 bucks. 6 bucks for !@#$ing a couple eggs and some veggie oil mixed together.

What are the facts? What was prices before hand? What has inflation been? How much of the cost of your gas is due to increased taxes, transportation addon fees that your local and state government have added? What is the "real" increase equal?

What was oil prices before hand? What has been inflation? How's about comparing apples to apples? Do you know what would have happened, or how much more stable or unstable the area would be if we didn't go? No you don't and neither do I.

Cable, telephone, elec can't go overseas. And yeah they bury at least 3 feet deep here as well. In fact our development put a requirement that the public lines are 6 feet deep with the feeds to the home at 3 feet. It's a pain when they had to replace a power line for my neighbor, because they can't use the standand line burying machine. They had to backhoe the line, ripped up my front yard.