Posted on 12/10/2004 9:05:07 PM PST by nanak
Fannie Mae is a socialist crap.
It is nothing but a GSE(Government Sponsored Enterprise)
Facism = Socialism = Merger of Government and Corporations---Mussolini
Check my post # 61
Is this where I get to make a joke about coming into money?
(rim shot, please)
FACT...gold and salt,YES,SALT,have been used as currency/pay for far longer than people realize.Gold and silver coinage has ALWAYS been a serious problem,because of how easy it is to debase them;shaving off the metal from the rims,until the coin is worth far less than its original value.And then there was the breaking a coin into pieces (the Spanish Doubloon was used for this for quite a long time,into even our early foundation!),which is why our quarter is called " 2 bits",in slang.
My son is actively planning for some alternative source of income as the home sale market cools off.
...the shaving was an ancient thing dating back to the early Italian bankers, who would keep a file mounted on the cash drawer and pass the edge of each coin they took in along it. That's why our coins have the serrated edge.
That's icky.
;O)
This is just my opinion, but guys are probably less likely to come rolling home drunk at 2 a.m. with lipstick on their box shorts if mom or the mother-in-law is living there.
Hey, I'll be here all week, be sure to tip the waitress. And remember, there's a two drink minimum...
And "Try the veal!"
I guess what I was trying to point out is that multi-generational families tend to have tighter moral controls. There is less opportunity for dysfunction.
Climbed up to the Hohensalzburg. A trek never forgotten.
It's late and I'm having fun being sober, and monogamous. Thankfully, my house is safe. My pants are fine. No lipstick on the boxers. And no extended family to shoot me the stink eye.
"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones . . . " --Keynes
Jefferson, I'd point out, was horrible with money. He lost nearly everything and had to depend on loans later in life.
Talk to me about socialist government intervention into Fannie Mae in this century. I need a learning experience.
For DURASELL-out, Keynes was more intelligent than JEFFERSON.
Enough hasn't been written about extended families, nor do we think of them much. But when you do think about them, they make perfect sense from an economic and division of labor standpoint.
There was an IT BUBBLE and it burst! Kids,fresh out of school,who used to make very large large salaries for little skill sets and less knowledge got the boot.Now,they whinge and whine about not being able to find a job. That's utter and complete BARBRA STEISAND! I happen to know for a fact,a certitude,that there are IT jobs going begging right now.As a matter of fact,November and December are notoriously slow months for IT headhunters,but this year,there are SO many good jobs,that they are frazzled and can NOT find enough qualified people to fill them! It's been this way this whole year!
Any IT guy,who can't find/get a job right now,won't move,imagines that he/she deserves more money than the job and he/she is worth,has a lousy attitude,and/or thinks he/she's better than he/she is.And yes,Headhunters have lists of people NOT to call/use,because quite frankly,they're stinkers;for one reason or many.
Many schools push majors,where there are more graduates than jobs.That's happened in many fields...colleges/universities spin tales of promised jobs,when they know full well that they have more students enrolled than that field can handle.Also,many kids thought that CS was the fast track to make the big bucks,just as they thought that an MBA would guarantee them entire into the top positions on Wall Street and banking.Well,guess what? MBAs are a dime-a-dozen now.That degree doesn't help all that much at all,anymore.
Badum dum.....:-)
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