Death by taxes (foreclosure, crime, credit rating)

[.highnlite]

Orlando, Florida, a smooth dead flat run of over 400 hundred miles before you get to something resembling a mountain run.

[yeahthatguy]

Originally Posted by ralphkramden

Who is yeahtahtguy? Oldtrader's great grandson?

Your mum . You're quite the character I will admit. I suggest you stick to your day job and not concern yourself w/ the affairs and troubles of people trying to get by who make more than you. Your hatred of them is obvious. Mincing misinformed conjecture about macro economics w/ 3rd grade name calling is quite hilarious. As is your, "I am surrounded w/ common folk" therefore I know a thing or two about being in the thick of it. The OP much like me came from nothing into something and is trying to provide a better life for himself and family and all you can see is someone who is educated who makes more and you want to tear him down.

I'll tell you one thing having actually lived poor and having had to work for something in my life.. Not just overhearing conversations from the poor. Poverty is a great motivator to do something amazing and better w/ your life. You gain an appreciation for life. You learn that class and intelligence are not mutually exclusive from having money. You learn that some poor people will always be poor and there is nothing wrong w/ it. Some people actually like to throw their lives away and there is nothing social programs can do about it... That there is nothing to envy of people who have money. You can have intelligence, morals, dignity, class even when poor. When you obtain more money that everything is just relative .. Most people of wealth are actually humble as hell and it took multiple generations to accumulate the wealth they had.

That govt. does jack sh*t to truly change the course of people's lives in this country. It has to do w/ personal will and ambition... You learn there are people who exit poverty everyday and are tomorrow's middle/upper class .. There are many people who don't. You can take ivy level schooling from the comfort of a public library for free. There are little to no roadblocks in people's way in this country besides themselves. With all that being said, having come from poverty, you have nothing you can teach me or the OP. We lived it, made it out, and made something of our lives .. Having done so, we are most vocal about someone coming along and dipping their hands in our wallets.

Call it whatever name you want.. In your random encounters with the average joe on the bus, you get nowhere near living that life. You were in the army... congratulations.. the world still spun while you were off serving this country. There was a lot you missed about how people are just trying to get by and trying to provide for their family while you were gone. So give the tough guy NY thing a break... You're not impressing anyone. Especially those who are really about that life.

[ralphkramden]

Originally Posted by yeahthatguy

Your mum

Nope. Can't fool me with that one. I know where me mum is. And she's been real quiet for a very long time. And before that she never rambled on and on negatively and incomprehensibly. She was always a cheerful sort, enjoying life, taking it as it came to her and making the best of things.

[yeahthatguy]

Originally Posted by .highnlite

Orlando, Florida, a smooth dead flat run of over 400 hundred miles before you get to something resembling a mountain run.

True Riders will always ride. I just got my bike weeks ago and I already have 600 miles clocked. Not finding any shortage of enjoyment. The above are pictures from a local track. Met a rider tonight and will be hitting it soon.

Cheers .highnlite, I've been MIA for months and I see you're the same ol' you. No matter who the messenger, you'll still attacking the same message. Glad to see my assertions were correct.

[yeahthatguy]

Originally Posted by ralphkramden

Nope. Can't fool me with that one. I know where me mum is. And she's been real quiet for a very long time. And before that she never rambled on and on negatively and incomprehensibly. She was always a cheerful sort, enjoying life, taking it as it came to her and making the best of things.

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Try judging yourself w/ the same words. I just got back from rooftop wine drinking and a food truck meetup around the lake.



I'm loving life.... Even when I was in California I did. No clue about you. You mistake pointing out problems and issues with complaining. I guess that's your way of writing off realities that contradict your world view. O'well, we all have our ways of being happy.. Some people are able to embrace the realities of the world good&bad and still enjoy life. Others have to put their minds in la-la land. Such is life.

[yeahthatguy]

Originally Posted by ralphkramden

Funny. I see: North Dakota, Tennesse, Missouri, New Mexico, Arkansas, Oregon, Ohio, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, among other places repeatedly here. In fact, I even seen other New Yorkers.

Here's the thing, cousin: if I want to talk to other New Yorkers I got 8 million of them right outside my bus. I spent a number of terrific years in California when I was in the military. Pretty much the only other place in the world that interests me besides my home town.

You all are pretty funny. Specially on this forum. Why? Because you got yourselves a (terrific) blue state. But this forum is infested with chronically complainer, conservatives. I suspect that highnlite fella is right: most of California is out and about enjoying life in the state. Best I can do is visit vicariously. But this crap most of you post here is gonna get real boring in a real hurry.

I get my Calif. throwback memories liberated from watching :


If you're looking for escapism, I might suggest you try some other place.

[Swede in CA]

Zeitgast, please do not feel bad for doing right thing for your family. We are packing too. Let the Dem's absolute majority in Sacramento drive this state to death. I came here in 90s and put myself through 3 universities, paid my bills and student loans and did not ask a dime....I have a well paying job now, thanks to my sweat and long hours. I raised two normal fiscally responsible children. The older one began to work at 14 and by 20 knew that nothing is free. Please do not feel bad. This state became the state of takers a long time ago. Progressive taxation (I mean more than it is now) and political correctness will kill this culture. People stopped to give proper name to many things. Christmas became f... ing "Happy Holidays" and so on,,,I do not have to continue... Many takers do not get that top 2% of makers pay 40% of all collected taxes in this country. I believe it is more than enough....it is always easier to vote for someone else money. But in USSR we called it Socialism and the Robing Hood is not my hero. He is a simple thief.

[Dale Cooper]

Originally Posted by Mr5150

Like Medicare?

Oh, lookie! It's another fool who doesn't realize Medicare premiums cost actual money and Medicare ain't free!

[Fontucky]

Originally Posted by Swede in CA

Christmas became f... ing "Happy Holidays"

Yes, isn't it a shame how certain segments of American society have finally become inclusive of belief systems other than the same-old same-old?

[Swede in CA]

MY pledge this season is not to buy anything, not to spend a dime of my money in those businesses which call my beloved Christmas "Happy Holidays" -politically correct, blend, stripped of traditions some kind of holidays......I will not buy a "holiday tree" I only buy if I find they called it a Christmas one. And God forbid if someone in this liberal media crap will say Happy Kwanza, Hanukkah, Ramadan and so on. I will treat it as the war on Christians. Let us all be EQUAL in our slavery to political correctness...if all of you want to be equal , than NO OTHER HOLIDAYS PLEASE.

Christmas is, in fact, Christmas, and other HOLIDAYS have their own names. And if my Jewish or Muslim friends celebrate holidays, I will tell them the names of their holidays. I refuse to buy a "HOLIDAY TREE". Otherwise, let us call Santa an intruder of our privacy, and hide, and hide and hide behind stupid political correctness with hope to be understood, included and so on. I refuse to bunch up in a gray mass of people who afraid to save traditions, preserve holidays.
"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance" I feel I would rather be rejected than trash my values. Our differences make us great and interesting nation, and I refuse to become nobody with no holiday I can call the proper name.