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Osprey
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What's a doughnut hole in health care/insurance?
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SFandH
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it has to do with prescription drug coverage, naturally.
http://www.medicareinteractive.org/page2.php?topic=counselor...
[Edited on 6-21-2015 by SFandH]
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woody with a view
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13 billion years for this universe/6million years of a humanoid walking upright. How long would it take if life were vaporized on earth until no trace
of us existed? I mean, the pyramids of Egypt are 5k years old....
Fun to think about over this beer.
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SFandH
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23 minutes, drink up!!
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pauldavidmena
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A munchkin? 
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woody with a view
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CHUG, CHUG....
i meant to add "until the skyscrapers ceased to exist, and everything man has created."
CHUG....
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AKgringo
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I am thinking of a 'Far Side' cartoon from quite a few years back. Two guys fishing from a small boat, viewing a mushroom cloud over a city in the
distance, the caption;
You know what this means, no size restrictions, and screw the limit!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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vgabndo
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Yeah, like they say in the emergency Room "No matter how severe, all bleeding stops eventually." Clearly, this will not end well. I recommend
Orlov's book "Reinventing Collapse" for some clues about how to survive the inevitable collapse of the USA. He makes some very cogent comparisons with
the collapse of the Soviet Union. It'll be worse here. In the USSR there were very few mortgages to be foreclosed by predatory bankers so people could
stay in their homes, and most Russian families knew how to grow a family garden, and had one. The suicide rate in the USSR went through the ceiling. A
preview of coming attractions! It was quite an eye-opener for me to realize that I was already too poor to legally immigrate to Mexico. Have a nice
day! :-)
[Edited on 6-21-2015 by vgabndo]
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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SFandH
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Quote: Originally posted by vgabndo  | | It was quite an eye-opener for me to realize that I was already too poor to legally immigrate to Mexico. |
Interesting remark!! Certainly true for many, many Americans.
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bajabuddha
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| Quote: Originally posted by vgabndo | Yeah, like they say in the emergency Room "No matter how severe, all bleeding stops eventually." Clearly, this will not end well. I recommend
Orlov's book "Reinventing Collapse" for some clues about how to survive the inevitable collapse of the USA. He makes some very cogent comparisons with
the collapse of the Soviet Union. It'll be worse here. In the USSR there were very few mortgages to be foreclosed by predatory bankers so people could
stay in their homes, and most Russian families knew how to grow a family garden, and had one. The suicide rate in the USSR went through the ceiling. A
preview of coming attractions! It was quite an eye-opener for me to realize that I was already too poor to legally immigrate to Mexico. Have a nice
day! :-)
[Edited on 6-21-2015 by vgabndo] |
Vags, I love you to tears, and your and my philosophies coincide more than just a little, except for one minor point;
Why T. F. should us, at our age, be reading such depressing, hypertension-inducing future-melt-down potential cataclysmic drivel when we can be
fishing, reading Hustler (or Reader's Digest) or ANYTHING ELSE rather than live the few moments we have in terror, annihilation, and general
''downer-ship" rather than something relaxing/stimulating/reminiscent of good memories? We've done what we could; now is the time to enjoy the
remainder of "The Good Life", que no, amigo?
To quote Hee Haw:
Gloom, despair, and agony on me...
Deep dark depression, excessive misory.
If it warn't fer bad luck I'd have no luck at awl.......
Gloom, despair, and agony on me !!
(Play "Bobby McFerrin" here)
   
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
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vandenberg
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If you are thinking of moving to Mexico for economic reasons, better think again. Living here is rapidly becoming more expensive than the States.
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vgabndo
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| Quote: Originally posted by vandenberg |
If you are thinking of moving to Mexico for economic reasons, better think again. Living here is rapidly becoming more expensive than the States.
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My experience was that over a 15 month period I consistently saved money on an allotment of $600. a month. (this does not include US registration and
insurance on my truck) The truck stayed parked most of the time and I could ride my quad for daily things when I didn't choose to walk. If I'd had the
minimum income required by the Mexican government, I'd have had $1,100.00 more than I needed every month.
However, my desire to immigrate wasn't all about economics. We can, obviously, never go backwards, but I am increasingly convinced that I'd have had a
happier life if I had been born Mexican. I am deeply disappointed in what the USA has become and there is about zero chance that that situation will
change appreciably in my life time. I love the Mexican people and their culture. As it is, with a little luck, my sand will run out before I have to
watch Civil War II consume my grand kids.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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Sweetwater
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| Quote: Originally posted by vandenberg |
If you are thinking of moving to Mexico for economic reasons, better think again. Living here is rapidly becoming more expensive than the States.
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Yup, the standards of living outside the US are rising and that means higher expenses. The solution to high living costs both in and out of the US is
to own your property outright and live in a sustainable location. My truck is on a battery tender and gets used only for truck chores (becoming fewer
and fewer). My car is used 1-2 days a week, bicycles and motos the remainder of the week. I can walk for groceries and have hard goods delivered to my
door. Keep the cash flow positive and it won't matter where you live, you'll thrive. I do agree that it's getting tougher on the young but they're
competing with that 7+ bazillion population pressure. Oh, did I mention getting an education? Those really pay off in the longer run.....
Everbody\'s preachin\' at me that we all wanna git to heaven, trouble is, nobody wants to die to git there.-BB King
Reality is what does not go away when you stop believing in it. -Philip K Dick
Nothing is worse than active ignorance. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(1749-1832, German writer, artist and politician)
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I\'ve never tried before. - Mae West
Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.
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Osprey
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Buddha boy, you think you can just drop that little piece of jolly jester crap and walk away without a comment?
Just how jolly and uncaring are you about everything? How useless can a man become? I'll remind you that we are all passengers on this dirty jet and
you're the one shouting that you don't care if we crash, when we crash, why we crash.
What do you care about? Are there people who care about you? Why shouldn't we hope you go first? Why aren't you sitting right in front of the pilot?
How jolly are you now podna?
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