bills_fan

Hey Tim Why all the RBs coming into OBD? Could a Marshawn trade be in the works...Boldin perhaps? Thanks.

Sign Jones and Jackson; deal Lynch for Boldin? I like it.

Waters would be an upgrade over anyone we currently have on our roster.

Well thats foolhardy. I rarely agree with the NYT on political commentary, but there are some very well-researched, non-slanted educational articles. For example, the article on VAR linked by GG a few weeks ago. To dismiss an entire newspaper "no matter what" is ignorant. Disagree if you want, ignore certain sections/articles, but to not even consider an article due to the newspaper (not blog, newpaper, different standards there) in which it was printed is extremely closed-minded.

Not even close to my point

Because Japan and Germany were hollow shells, the rest of Europe was rebuilding, China was still very rural, India was closed and USSR was communist. The only place to get anything was the USA.

Be careful using glittering generalities...I'll show you several examples, in law and finance, of 24 year olds making enough to be taxed more under Obama's new plan. I'm sure there are more examples in other industries of which I am not familiar.

God bless you for that. Personally, I just don't have the time to deal with that back and forth on multiple days and at multiple times.

I guess you don't really care if part of that paycheck that you EARNED is taken away. I do. I'm happy to donate time and money to worthy causes. I don't deem ACORN a worthy cause and get resentful if they get some of my money via a stimulus bill that is followed by a massive, ill-conceived tax hike. I mean, dropped the deduction for chairties by $.07 on the dollar....WTF? Chairities will be hurting enough due to corporate cutbacks/bankruptcies, no need to futher encumber them.

Gotta be a better way though. When I bought mine, I called a bunch of Jeep dealers in the tri-state area and asked for a fax with the MSRP and their opening price, with every option and MOPAR accessory I wanted listed, including their prices. Anyone who would not do that, did not get my business. I had 5 dealerships send me faxes, I dealt with the one that gave me the best price (knowing full well my Wrangler would be a factory-order, and that they were a bit limited). When I walked in to place the order, it was akin to walking into a pizzera and ordering cheese-pepperoni-half sausage, everything had already been worked out over the phone. I understand my experience was not typical.

And, unfortunately, it has to be with Jeep (full disclosure, I own a Jeep Wrangler, 2005 that I love). What a friggin disaster story... http://consumerist.com/5162727/jeep-incapa...h-24000-in-cash

"should they ever be fortunate enough to get together in the first place."

I've seen those charts, if that happens, we're looking at 50% of the S&P 500 bankrupt. The pension liabilities alone will break them.

Just match it Buffalo, please!

No, but lets elevate our discussion a bit. Gramm-Leach Bliley Act, which repealed Glass Stegal, basically codified existing court decisions relating to the breaking down of barriers between commercial and investment banks. Essentially, since Glass Stegal was passed, the commercial banks had been chipping away at it to try and get access to the more profitable investment banking activities (which they assumed they could do better, due to their larger balance sheets). So, at the time the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act was passed there was precious little new activities that banks (commercial or investment) could do. The biggest changes in that law related to merchant banking, not separation of commercial and investment banking (which had largely been done away with via 70 years of court decisions). Now, one could argue (rightly, IMHO) that the codification cemented the need for investment banks to go public and consolidate, to create larger balance sheets to compete with commercial banks. This shifting of risk, from the partners of the bank to the shareholding public, it could be argued, contributed to excessive leverage.

Fair point, at least with respect to the 4 money centers, certain regionals and three former Wall Street investment banks.

Why would you "love it" if the banks failed?

Even Milton Friedman (one of the foudners of the Reagan revolution) has come out in support of legalization. http://www.forbes.com/2005/06/02/cz_qh_0602pot.html This would be the true depression indicator...FDR ended prohibition so folks could blow off some stress in the 30s; same thing withg the current Depression? You'd have to throw NY in there. I plan to spend some of my Obama-tax-policy-reduced discretionary income on a little weekend vacation to whichever state legalizes first.

There is a bill pending in your state to legalize outright. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineus...ion-legislation It will raise revenue, shift costs to where they are better needed and help stem the Mexican drug problem. If the Federal gov't is willing to cede authority to the states, we may be setting up a states rights case on this. If the states win, its legalized (in any state that wants it).

Kelly Noone is arguing about this point. I would venture to say that most folks on this board give to charity, both their time and money. I know I certainly do. The point is that it was your choice to give to your friend. The objection is where it is no longer your choice, but forced upon you by the government. And you have no choice but to give and they spend your money how they see fit.

Greatest 21 days of my life.

Except for that little problem that only 2% of Americans make over $250k. And this 2% already pays 66%+ of the taxes in this country. You're not taking the 7500k and dividing it 4 ways, you are dividing it 98 ways. Doesn't go so far and the economy doesn't get nearly as stimulated.

Again, going back to LA's point...how is it better to take capital from productive, intelligent people and give it to the mathmatically challenged? Lets take an example...that $7500 will allow me to take my family to Disney for a few days. I was intelligent enough to figure out how to make money, prudent enough not to spend what I didn't have and have to buck up a portion of discretionary income that would have been spent in the US economy. Lets not get into how stimulative a trip to Disney actually is for the economy, spending cash on flights, hotels, park tickets, meals etc. All those people need jobs too. See the point?

Because I'd rather not stare at a computer screen on the train? I tend to buy two papers a day, NY Post for fun and WSJ for information. Buying a paper with a bunch of syndicate coverage would be a waste, IMHO. You can get that online. The real value is the local writers and their various slants. The WSJ seems to have a great online model, much of the stuff is for paid subscribers, but some of it is free. The free stuff helps drive traffic to the site, the paid stuff is the real good stuff. Of course, flybys will not pay, but you still charge for the ads. Those that pay (and register) presumably permit you to charge higher advertising rates because you have demographical information.

If you take the increased Federal marginal rate of 39.6%, add the CA state rate 9.3% (I think) you are now almost at 50% without paying any local taxes, school taxes, property taxes etc. Thats a tough nut.