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MyRA? Oops! CEO: Name of Obama’s New IRA Program Already Taken
CNSNews ^ | 1/30/2014 | Barbara Hollingsworth

Posted on 02/01/2014 9:07:55 AM PST by rktman

The president of a South Dakota-based financial services company says he was startled to hear President Obama call his new government-sponsored retirement program "MyRA" in Tuesday’s State of the Union address because that’s the same name as his firm’s four-year-old “keynote” investment product.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: doh; government; myra; obama; savings
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To: rktman

Sheesh. Doesn’t anyone in Obumbles’ coven know how to use Google or Bing?


21 posted on 02/01/2014 9:50:03 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Doogle

You know, one would THINK that he would have ONE SINGLE COMPETENT PERSON on his staff that would research this at the USPTO, or even FREAKING GOOGLE IT.

It looks to me that maybe they didn’t trademark it, myra.com apparently belongs to someone else. Whether or not MyRA is trademarked by them, I don’t know.

Worthy of note, in the USSR, the concept of a “patent” made no sense, and is still hard to explain to people in Russia; if you invented something, you might get an award or some recognition. If you invented something BIG, you might even get a nice apartment or raise in rank. But what you invented belonged to the people.


22 posted on 02/01/2014 9:53:46 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: txrefugee

They don’t care. They just toss stuff out there and if someone objects, uh, they get a “talking” to by one of the alphabet contingency ops groups.


23 posted on 02/01/2014 9:56:19 AM PST by rktman (Under my plan(scheme), the price of EVERYTHING will necessarily skyrocket! Period.)
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To: The Antiyuppie

> myra.com apparently belongs to someone else

Probably someone named Myra.


24 posted on 02/01/2014 10:02:37 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: rktman

USSR-A

“Because The Beard & Mr. Bottom say so...comrade.”


25 posted on 02/01/2014 10:09:12 AM PST by twister881
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To: Slings and Arrows

Wasn’t Myra the name of the vehicle in a SciFi series?


26 posted on 02/01/2014 10:28:51 AM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Nachum

Ping.


27 posted on 02/01/2014 10:30:25 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: MHGinTN

Doesn’t ring any bells, but I’m not up on contemporary SF TV.


28 posted on 02/01/2014 10:51:49 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Doogle

ObamaCoins ?


29 posted on 02/01/2014 10:52:54 AM PST by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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To: rktman

Eminent Domain.


30 posted on 02/01/2014 11:12:19 AM PST by Washi (Stop Obama's War On Jobs)
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To: ClearCase_guy
President of a South Dakota-based financial services company has been fed to 120 ravenous dogs.

Yep, he's going to get "Janged".

31 posted on 02/01/2014 11:16:12 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: rktman
MyRa already taken?

Well yeah.

based on the book by the degenerate Gore Vidal. Guess some bright spark in the speech department sub-conciously made the association.

32 posted on 02/01/2014 11:36:52 AM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Fred Hayek
"10-289?"

Indeed; Obama has already laid the prelude to that with his looting of GM by disenfranchising senior debt holders and funneling money to the unions.

33 posted on 02/01/2014 11:47:01 AM PST by Truth29
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To: rktman; Argus; Innovative
Remember this?-
34 posted on 02/01/2014 12:34:33 PM PST by 4Liberty (Optimal institutions - optimal economy.)
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35 posted on 02/01/2014 12:36:09 PM PST by 4Liberty (Optimal institutions - optimal economy.)
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To: 4Liberty

;>} Really got a severe case of WTF now don’t we? LOL!


36 posted on 02/01/2014 12:38:55 PM PST by rktman (Under my plan(scheme), the price of EVERYTHING will necessarily skyrocket! Period.)
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To: Truth29; grania

37 posted on 02/01/2014 12:39:17 PM PST by 4Liberty (Optimal institutions - optimal economy.)
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To: 4Liberty
At my age I can recount a whole lot of money that was forcibly removed from my pay as ‘social security taxes. The government passed a law and that's all she wrote, you pay or you get prison. I seem to recall fedzilla passing a law which forced any holders of Gold backed currency or physical gold to turn it in for ‘federal reserve’ related sham wow money. Fedzilla will not be denied don’tchaknow.
38 posted on 02/01/2014 3:10:16 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: grania

You are right on the money. Putting up another gov’t. savings program isn’t going to help if there’s nothing to put into it. By the time everything was deducted from my check & bills were paid(pre retirement) I had nothing to save. By working 10 yrs. past full retirement age,I was able to put a little in savings from the Soc.Sec.,but now it pays little to no interest. Saving it through a gov’t. program now would be really risky.


39 posted on 02/01/2014 3:38:52 PM PST by oldtech
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