Good question.............What is poor?
You 1st. No baiting here. State your position please.....
Lets hear your opinion.
Good question.............What is poor?
I don't know.Good question.............
You 1st. No baiting here. State your position please.....
Lets hear your opinion.
Its not a question of opinion, its a question of what threshold did the Brookings Institution use in their study to create their 3 rules to escape poverty.Good question.............
You 1st. No baiting here. State your position please.....
Lets hear your opinion.
That's the answer was looking for, thanksIts not a question of opinion, its a question of what threshold did the Brookings Institution use in their study to create their 3 rules to escape poverty.
In that case it appears they used the Federal poverty line as their threshold, which makes sense
However it appears that these may not be "rules to escape poverty" but rather effects of not being in poverty to begin with, since it looks like they just looked at people of all income levels and extracted their 3 rules from that (rather than following people in poverty who followed the rules to see if they rose out of poverty, and middle class people who didn't follow the rules to see if they fell into poverty)
No. Why would they? But it doesn't matter anyway, because all of this "dOLLaR's gOnNa cOLLaPsE" is a pile of horse ****. That world only exists in the minds of internet doomsturbators.So they also wouldn't care about the price of stocks and bonds, right?
We shall see I reckon. I hope you're right.No. Why would they? But it doesn't matter anyway, because all of this "dOLLaR's gOnNa cOLLaPsE" is a pile of horse ****. That world only exists in the minds of internet doomsturbators.
I have a wife and family to try to take care of when I'm gone.I have a feeling that attempting to put your mind at ease would be a futile task. Haven't you stated that you won't live through the next 4 years anyway? Why would you care about your financial future? You've only got a few months left, at best.
Worry is payments made on a debt that you don't owe yet. But you are free to continue to wallow in misery fretting over things that you have absolutely no control over.
No. Why would they? But it doesn't matter anyway, because all of this "dOLLaR's gOnNa cOLLaPsE" is a pile of horse ****. That world only exists in the minds of internet doomsturbators.
Do you plan to provide your opposing perspective and reasons behind it or are you just in here to sling ****?No. Why would they? But it doesn't matter anyway, because all of this "dOLLaR's gOnNa cOLLaPsE" is a pile of horse ****. That world only exists in the minds of internet doomsturbators.
That's a good attitude to have.I have a wife and family to try to take care of when I'm gone.
You are obviously free to project whatever emotions you think I'm feeling upon me all you'd like. I'm far from miserable. I gave up worrying about **** I can't control a long time ago, I haven't given up paing attention just yet.
Ever since we went off the metal standards that fear has been living out there.We shall see I reckon. I hope you're right.
Anything that has value only has value because two people agree it does.
I have a friend that had several investment properties in Florida back in 2006. When I saw him later I asked how he came out after the real estate market crash, he sold before the crash. I asked why he sold, he went to dinner with a couple in Florida and they were bragging about buying property, mainly new condos from the builder and selling them after they were built, making $30-$50K per. They said the phrase "couldn't lose" many times that evening. He went home and told his wife that if these idiots "couldn't lose" he was selling out immediately....well you know what they say about that deadly combination of stupidity and arrogance. foolishness is on full display in this thread.
And there you have my attitude to those that say stupid stuff like we often hear about being cautious, prepared, and conservative...
BehindBlueIs doesn't post much, anymore. You might have a long waitNo. No.
I come here to read political, science, sociologists, and economist expert perspectives. Only here can they all be the same person.
My favorite 'stupid stuff' is "This time is different"I have a friend that had several investment properties in Florida back in 2006. When I saw him later I asked how he came out after the real estate market crash, he sold before the crash. I asked why he sold, he went to dinner with a couple in Florida and they were bragging about buying property, mainly new condos from the builder and selling them after they were built, making $30-$50K per. They said the phrase "couldn't lose" many times that evening. He went home and told his wife that if these idiots "couldn't lose" he was selling out immediately.
He sold at a great profit, while the "couldn't lose" folks we're foreclosed on including their home they were leveraging in the "couldn't lose" scheme.
And there you have my attitude to those that say stupid stuff like we often hear about being cautious, prepared, and conservative...