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fine I am not fighting just giving my opinion. Glad your doing good!!! I want people to do good, I dont care if its under Oprah!! We need people to do good financially. This way I wont have to pay for their retirement!! One less I got to support!! If the dems can get everyone a great retirement Im allfor them!
Steve--I am glad that you are more open-minded than some of the other folks who have logged onto this thread recently.
On the topic of "doing well financially", here are some very interesting statistics supplied recently by money manager/financial analyst John Dorfman, regarding the returns of the stock market during the past 60+ years:
• Barack Obama, 15.50 percent (annualized through Oct. 19, 2012)
• Bill Clinton, 15.18 percent
• Dwight D. Eisenhower, 10.92 percent
• Gerald Ford, 10.36 percent
• Ronald Reagan, 10.22 percent
• George H.W. Bush, 9.94 percent
• Harry Truman, 8.31 percent
• Lyndon Johnson, 7.61 percent
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, 7.54 percent
• Jimmy Carter, 6.33 percent
• John F. Kennedy, 5.40 percent
• Richard Nixon, -4.04 percent
• George W. Bush,-6.19 percent
So, apparently, the policies of that "Socialist" Barack Obama, have helped many folks who invested wisely to make even more money.
I can report that, according to my Quicken software, my total return over the past 12 months has been 12.12%, and for the preceding 3 years, I averaged 9.62% annually.
Steve--I am glad that you are more open-minded than some of the other folks who have logged onto this thread recently.
On the topic of "doing well financially", here are some very interesting statistics supplied recently by money manager/financial analyst John Dorfman, regarding the returns of the stock market during the past 60+ years:
• Barack Obama, 15.50 percent (annualized through Oct. 19, 2012)
• Bill Clinton, 15.18 percent
• Dwight D. Eisenhower, 10.92 percent
• Gerald Ford, 10.36 percent
• Ronald Reagan, 10.22 percent
• George H.W. Bush, 9.94 percent
• Harry Truman, 8.31 percent
• Lyndon Johnson, 7.61 percent
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, 7.54 percent
• Jimmy Carter, 6.33 percent
• John F. Kennedy, 5.40 percent
• Richard Nixon, -4.04 percent
• George W. Bush,-6.19 percent
So, apparently, the policies of that "Socialist" Barack Obama, have helped many folks who invested wisely to make even more money.
I can report that, according to my Quicken software, my total return over the past 12 months has been 12.12%, and for the preceding 3 years, I averaged 9.62% annually.
OK - i have to point out 1 main problem with the numbers attributed to Obama though. Be cautious about overstating his impact on the market (or, any President's, for that matter). Obama had the advantage of starting off with the market deeply depressed.
Don't get me wrong, I give him, and other members of congress, much credit for stopping the decline and starting growth back up again. But, i'm not going to over-credit him for the returns during his Presidency.
It's like all my friends who bragged about their stock accounts during the early 2000s when you could pretty much buy any stock and it would go up. Good job folks!
Steve--I am glad that you are more open-minded than some of the other folks who have logged onto this thread recently.
On the topic of "doing well financially", here are some very interesting statistics supplied recently by money manager/financial analyst John Dorfman, regarding the returns of the stock market during the past 60+ years:
• Barack Obama, 15.50 percent (annualized through Oct. 19, 2012)
• Bill Clinton, 15.18 percent
• Dwight D. Eisenhower, 10.92 percent
• Gerald Ford, 10.36 percent
• Ronald Reagan, 10.22 percent
• George H.W. Bush, 9.94 percent
• Harry Truman, 8.31 percent
• Lyndon Johnson, 7.61 percent
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, 7.54 percent
• Jimmy Carter, 6.33 percent
• John F. Kennedy, 5.40 percent
• Richard Nixon, -4.04 percent
• George W. Bush,-6.19 percent
So, apparently, the policies of that "Socialist" Barack Obama, have helped many folks who invested wisely to make even more money.
I can report that, according to my Quicken software, my total return over the past 12 months has been 12.12%, and for the preceding 3 years, I averaged 9.62% annually.
Good for you.
You don't want to invest in anything that isn't going to give you at least a 10% ROR.
I pulled everything out, under Obama and his BS, including the 529's I had set up for my kids, and am making over a 30% return NOW as opposed to seeing my investments go below what I initially invested - and trying to catch up. And my funds were all over the place when it came to risk. Kinda hard to see your hard earned money lost b/c Obama, the fool he is, bowed to some Muslim guy. Or Obama opens his mouth on any given day of the week.
But you have to actually work for what I invested my monies in: real estate rental properties. It's a full time job and too many folks want their 9-5 plus commute, couple of weeks of paid vacations, and their weekends off....and the market to win them a landfall and someone to blame when they get wiped out.
Doesn't work that way when you rely on yourself as opposed to someone else or some other "entity" to make money for you.
Just like spending more and increasing taxes won't make us wake up with new job offers tomorrow.
nope - it won't. but stimulus is meant to save jobs - if that's what you're referring to. increasing taxes is meant to have us actually pay for the services our government renders. whether you agree with those services or not.
and actually - if NJ announced it was building the tunnel this evening - planning could very possibly begin tomorrow.
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