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orion
08-20-2010, 04:57 PM
then reasons why the times we in are far worse then the great depression.

before i begin like to comment that we have protections in place we did not then such as unemployment,welfare,tax rebates.
however we also have many more dues and debts today that would wash any form of these things away.

1. TAX. before ww2 there was not many taxes in the usa and fed tax for very light.
5% for fed income tax and during ww1 taxes were even less.
today burdens run as high as 40% for income tax alone for state and fed income tax.
there also town tax that runs around 10% up or down if you own a home.
most americans did not before ww2.
factor in all the taxes such as fed,state ,county and local and you can hit 50% very easy.
for one many of the taxes are not like the taxes before ww2 as they were many import taxes or taxes based on luxgury items.
today everything has a tax even sevices.
tax on cable tv there like 3,tv on cell,tax on water,sewer,certin items but that varry state to state on clothes and food.

we have taxes people never had or in other words big burdens.

2. SOCIAL DEBT. social debt is what i call programs such as unemployment tax,social security,medicare,medicad,worker comp,disablity.
small buisness have to pay DOUBLE the normal amount due for a worker and the self employed.
most people that work for a compay do not know that your employer pays part of what you also pay.
the worst off is the self employed as they have to pay both front and back of this.
this is why corp america is moving to make everyone privite contractors.
they releave not only libailty but also the burden of social tax or debt.

3. INSURANCE. this is a huge whammy as it can be allmost as bad as taxes or socail debt.
in some ways it like social debt but not really.
libility insurance is a mandate in most towns,states,etc for small buisness.
some years back the insurance companys sold policys for buisnesses to homeover or non buisnesses.
the claims from these non buisness people drove up the costs to buinesses all over.
they wanted to make money so the sold policys to homeowers who became there own contractors who made false claims or just made mistakes on projects and had to file a claim.
home boom allowed the flipers to run projects they had no right to do and would been illigal for a buisness to do but homeowners get a free pass on the laws buisness dont get.

medical insurance.
this is a huge whammy as the costs skyrocket.
when i left high school in the mid 80's i got FREE medical and dental was a co pay.
every job offer this just about.
today policys run $700-$2000 a month.
companys now include this as pay so if you make $80k a year it really only 60.
the other 20 you never see it paid in the form of benifits and i not taking 401k either.
insurance burdens on homeowners is massive.
there home insurace.
car insurace.
libial insurance....not many have this but it to prevent lawsuits outside your home.
flood insurance and storm.........yea that seprate but some policys will add them into your home policy but there seprate.
and if you own a buisness well you have that too.

4. PERSONAL DEBT. this is something new before ww2 there was very little credit,befre ww1 there allmost none.
after ww1 credit boomed and so did the stock market as well.

today we have home lowns and all that comes with that as well.
small buiness debt for those who own one are far greather then before ww2 as many had few burdens so they start up far more easy so the need to go into debt was more rare.
a simple lown often was the only thing needed and the was easy to cut costs in hard times.

credit cards.
oh this is a huge burden on most people and the intreast charged on it and the hidden fee and scams and tatics ccc use is just out of control.

by the way if you own a small buisness it just about impossible to get credit as most lenders like anyone but a small buisness owner.

as anyone who owns a company how hard it was to get a home lown.
dont matter what you make one bit.
a guy working in wallmart would get a lown no problem yet lenders wont lend to small buiness ownsers or self employed.

so if you wondering who made all the debt well really it was the normal working class people.
because small buisness and self employed have a really hard time geting credit so we find other ways.
thats why there no small buisness in america.
taxes,credit,laws.

5. DEFERED DEBT.
i call this that because some people have this and some not but pretty much it expensive related debt.
this is what most salesmen have.
a AMAX CARD.
if your in sales or such you have to have a amax card.
the company you work for wont give you upfront related expensives so they have you pay for things on YOUR card and you get it back when you submit your expensives.
problem here is this form of credit debt has a he said she said no regalation about it.
make a claim on your homeowners or or fight witha credit card company and loose this and you loose your job.
most people dont know that.
if you have no line of credit in a sales job your pretty much unemployable.
it happens by the way to people who have something spill over from persoal life and there no legal sepration at all so in some ways your a small buisness or self employed but not with no legal protection.

other people such as food servers get taxed blank fixed rate no matter what they earn.
so if you gip the tip they not only did not earn a paycheck they got taxed as if they did.
so in other word they got screwed twice by you.

this form of debt comes in many forms most people dont thing about.
tools and item you need to work.
a car for a sales man or special training needed.
anything that adds debt to your work life.
today this is huge.
in the old days a guy working at a garage or repair shop had a lunch box of tools.
today a auto tech will have $40,000 in hand tools plus 1000-2000 in training a year becides his tech school or collage.

6. STUDENT LOWNS.
this is a huge burden on many as collages cost 30,000 dolers a year.
the cheapest will run 15,000 a year and well 60,000 if you want high end.
no wonder why no one want to be a dr today.
250,000 dollers in debt to earn what less then some kid in a stock market firm.
no brainer really.
you cant earn till your 30 and then your insurace and debt will be massive.
by the way it not legal to work anywhere in america over 80 hrs a week EXCEPT drs.
yea they do work over that too.
you wanna know why the intern/resident screwd up well maby he got 4 hrs sleep last night.
you cant drive a truck on the road for more then 10 hrs but you can sure perform medicine that way.

schools today are huge money and many jobs requrie some form of them so there a huge monkey on many peoples back that was not there before ww2.
schools were all a expensive yes and the well to do took adavantage of that but today you can get a lown and be in debt for life and never work in the feild you took.
so it a huge burden on so many people now as there behind the 8 ball with low paying jobs.
they cannot offord a low paying job as they wont meet there lowns so they better off on welfare.
thats our system now.

7. LIVING DEBT.
ok strange word you say.
what the hell is this.
well it the things you need to be mobile and part of today.
cars were around in the 20's sure.
they also did not cost what they do today.
15,000 thosands dollers to 25,000.
plus insurance,road tax,plates,licence,inspection and good old gmac lown.
yea lowns claim low intreats but few people can get one that is that low unless there cedit score is high and they not have much debt and there income meet standards in a certin type of job.

a moblie phone.
we all need this and it a sorta big expensive really.
50 dollers a month for a plan to 70.
that what most people pay.
some 100 too.
text has gone up 4x plus inet and mms.
there a heep of taxes on it and even cedit to boot for a new phone.
yea think of it really it kinda high.

the repubicans would have you belive you dont need this.
where do you see a payphone anymore.
a asian guy in texas got shot THREW a door as he knocked on a door of a home after a car accident.
the law claimed the old lady was within her right as she did not know he was just looking to make a phone call.
the fed govt last i heard was sopose to try this casei heard nothing on it and yes i do belive there should be reasonable acts but shooting threw a door is not one of them.
in my state your only choice is if there no window or door and the person about to shoot.
i dont think that right either but thats asocail issue.

my point here is a cell phone is very important just as a car is.
if your a asian guy in texas and have neither well i guess your shit out of luck.

cable tv.
75-150 a month.
if your group inet,phone,cable it 150 for min cable a month.
thats no hbo or showtime and 1 cable box.
tv used to free in america or cheap.
not any more.
in 1933 there was radio and that was free and that amd the movie house were your two main forms of entertainment.

we have many new expensives that add up to form this sort of debt.
i call it debt because many toss this to cedit cards and there it adds up to intreast.
now some of you will claim oh that fuckin stupid.
but lets face facts here.
this is america.
who pays cash anymore.

gasoline.
thats a whammy,it what 2x more then in the 80's
10 x what it was in 60's
home heating oil and gas.
3x min.
elec is well kinda allways been expensive but its now double if not triple depends where you live.
thems rates remeber we have how much electic vampires today.

in the 50's-60's you had 1 tv fridge and a shortwave radio and maybt a cabinet hifi that was what 20-40 watts max.
a few had a aircon but lights were the real expensive that and elec dryer.
we had 5-6 items then.

today we had 300 watt tv proble 2-3 of then well mayby the others 200 watt.
a pc now is 300-500 watts about 2x-4x what it was before.
a home theather that can suck down 500 watts easy to 1000.
infact the average home enterainment can be as much as 2000 watts easy with tv,disc,reciver running.
thats not high end firgure 10,000 if it sunfire.

again we have burdens we never did each month due.

elec bill.
water.
heat,hot water.
cable.
phone.
inet.
etc.

i not going to get into netflick or things you get like itunes or that jazz.
there not basics and they can be droped and not all of us play for hula plus or silly things.

i love to pay for flicker and all them silly nonsence things but i choice to not do any of that and i have made pledge to sponsor a child.
yea some of us do that still.
you dont need to be gates and give 50% of your wealth to feel good and think you rid the world of proverty.
when you got 2 billions dollers what dose 1 less matter.right.
how humble he must feel.

but this is not socical agenda time like naga would say i such a bleeding heart liberal.
by the way if you only gave up one silly thing like flicker plus or hulu plus or xbox live a child would not go hungury or barefoot somewhere.
think about that next time you wanna PLUS something.

8. FEE NATION.
everywhere you go there a fee ,everything you do is a fee.
fee for this or that.fee on phone from FCC like 3 of them.
just about anything they dont dare call a tax is a fee.
we used not do this.
fee to get on the plane early.
fee for bag.
soon a fee to chew gum.

we we become wall street vision of a world where they can put a toll gate anywhere and make a profit.
there a fee even on the fee.
we have becoem overwhemed with debts partly because we look the oher way.
we kick up a stink at the countrer everywhere and think it ok to act up and companys put up with your nonsence because they know you pay the fee.

by the way that person your demanding or acting up in front of is just a normal joe like you and you not hurting any corperation one bit.
that person only gose home thinking how much they hate there job and life.
you walk in a place and start yelling like your the queen the england only that poor person is the same as you and you not like it if someone did that to you.

no one ever thinks of anyone anymore.
not once.
or the fee.

9. FOOD<CLOTHES<SURVIVAL.
food is cheap really when you think of it over the last 3000 years.
in all our histroy we never experenced such mass production of cheap food ever.
clothing as well but i am talking basic.
now food is going up.
infact it did herd when oil did 4 years ago.
the price of food might seemed a lil high here.
in asia is was a nitemare.
vietnam used to offer school luch as way for everyone to go to school.
that way no kids on the streets doing crime.
at least they learn how to read.
everyone talked how the sauds made a killing on oil.
trust me they got the short end of the stick.
high oil ment high inflation in the mid east and very high food prices for all.
there not one bit happy most of all sence we the food sheks.

today we feed 30% of the world.
we the food barons if you will.
you talk of oil sheks yet few know corp farms run a better racket then oil.
most people never read a newpaper let alone a book and just watch fox so how the hell would they know.
i seen the strikes in asia i know i seen the discontent after 9/11 from what we done and our choices and how it lead to hunger all over.
dont worry it soon be here.
what gose around comes around.
i know you think in usa never.

in the 1960's we knew for a fact we not be able to feed the people of the world at some point around the time of 2000.
we knew this as soon as 1950's and were fully aware of it.
china however did slow down it people and factor in better food production from a few places such as brazil and such and the the numbers changed.
however the date only moved not the problem.

judgement day can not be stoped.
only postponed.
the line from T2 or was it T3

we as humans have no grasp of this and no idea what or how globel warming will factor into food production.
there alot of far away isues and proff in our human record what happens.

however we have issues closer at hand.
lost wages more debt higher food costs and energy = hunger.

anyone that cant work will mean those who do have to surport them.

the repubicans would have you belive there should be no welfare.

lets me tell you this and why i for welfare.
desperate people do desprate things.
i seen it.
i never forget it in south america.
i stay the hell out of africa.
i know people hungry and upset watch there kids go hungry wont care to much of robing you one bit.
or killing you either.
make people desprate and they do desprate things.

last thing you want is soem desprate guys with 4 years of combat zone under there belt watching desprate people do bad things.
they become desprate you not last long one bit.
while you were getting fat from the credit boom they were going to sleep scared with visions of what the seen that day.
they were not pretty.
they were like chained dogs who left in a junk yard and had stones pegs at them by kids.
you really wanna take the no welfare repubican road with 2 million well trained men walking around with nothing to do.

i dont think it be wise one bit.
after ww1 we had issues with the dogs of war.
no one wanted to pay the bonus.
no jobs for those who had served.
the nation allmost experenced civil war.
allmost.

we know what happen with guys that cam back from korea and vietnam with no jobs.
they went into crime.
desprate times would be most unthinkable.

me if i was running things i be watching this and making sure we dont have a problem there.
cause once it starts it be mighty hard to stop.

10. DEATH TAX.

the tax of death nice huh.
i call this the iraq war and afganstan.

when the great drepression happended ww1 had been over 10 years.
it was not a huge war mind you but big enough.
after ww1 we took a break from war after all it was war to end all wars.
spending droped.

today we have the longest war ever.
even vietnam was not as long as it draw up and draw down really 66-70 was bad.
we have iraqonly ending now.
now we have to pay for it.
not just the war or men but in all the hardware we lost or burned out.
then there afganastan.
and our other off the books wars or acions.

yea we in africa,russia,asia all over doing covert training and ops.
there a price to the gray war.


so in the end we have all this personal debt plus the wars plus everything else and you think were not in worse shape.

dabai about to fail.
china is cooking the books.
this are a disaster in asia.
and we counting on china to lead us out.

now there oct.
when the books get opened.
your starting to see talk of double dip.
your hearing confindece drops.
the stock maket is a see saw.
unemployment is 10 really 20-30%
and we fighting potical tug of wars.

when the books get opened it wont be pretty.
it show small buisness went under.
the middle class is gone.
wiped out in 3 years.
unless we do what they did in rome and do debt wipe.
we will then have china freak out when they see there consumers are gone.

we did they go?
the middle class cant work at wall mart and buy a 40 inch plasma.
commen sence here.
when wall street see that.
BLOOD.
the dow will go down quicker then suzzie on a fri night.
i can see it so clear.

why wall street bet on china is beyound me.
we buy the goods.
they make them.
europe buys the goods.
they make em.

who will buy china new plasmas.
who.
them?
you have to be fucking joking.
they can afford to buy a knock off mp3 player without a days wages.
you think they lead the way.
1 billion chinese making 1 doller a day.
is only 365 billion a year.
we spent that on iraq.
hell we spend that of fighter jets or other weapons.
you really think a few million chinese making 10 k a year can offset europe let alone the usa.

when wall street see that.
the numbers showing there no way the usa can surport china and no way europe can and they no way the chinese can hold out 3 more years.
IT WILL TANK!

they held out 3 years becuase they been book cooking.
the investors went out the door last year.
not in.
out!
it all govt chinese money in the real eastate there now.
and it be worse then here.
here they govt never got involved in gray market specaliton.
the law there say they can do that.
so it all illigal.
but i promise you this.

wall street see the chinese banks have a run.
it be nasty.
we be back were we was 3 years ago.
only this time it be worse cause it be all poticals footballs as rome burns.
and we wont have rabit to jerk from the hat.

NagaSama
08-20-2010, 05:33 PM
Wow

"if your a asian guy in texas and have neither well i guess your shit out of luck."

Stereotyping much

there ya go again, take one isolated incident and claim it to be the norm

Also, all your other examples are alarmist

ask ANY credible economist to review your views, even Ben Stein who is a Democrat, and he will laugh in your face and throw you out the door.

Cant earn till you are 30.....

As for a cell phone.

Im using one that does nothing but make calls, all i need. Costs me $20 a month

Sure, if i wanna be a douche and get a mega expensive smart phone thats expensive

Home Heating Oil? answer, convert to electricity, insulate the home properly, check for air gaps,

Learning a how to maintain and repair a home yourself can save you, and EARN you a lot of money

Masonry, Woodworking, Metalworking, all loves of mine, and beginning to be lost arts here in the USA.

Or, you could move to a climate where you do not need heating oil at all.

In the winter here, I do not use a heater at all, I use the waste heat from my PC and lighting, and just toss on an extra blanket or two.

my god man, you bitch more than my neighbors cats in heat

orion
08-20-2010, 09:19 PM
the whole point of this was to show a difference between now and then.

bieng in buisness i understand costs wells.
if your costs are higher well there a corcern for lean times.

the point here in 1930's people had few expensices.
they did not have much in there home.
they had a home it was probley paid for.
they lost there saving in the banks and stock market disaster and could not find work but most people were not in the shape they are today.

today people are burden with high costs so if they loose there job and there savings then they probley loose there house as well.
they wont be about to store the things they own and wont get much for them either.

as for bein stein he a idiot.
one game show dose not a fortune teller make.

some say we have socail programs we did not have then.
some other might say we have much higher costs then then.
the farmer are long gone.

there no small farmer anymore.
it all corprate farms.
co ops.
most of the smaller farmers were wiped out in the 80's durning regan.

the price to convert to elec in a trailer in texas might be a few hundread dollers.
in the north it be serveral thousand of dollers.

not worth it at all.
a few did this well oil hit aboive 125 and look to go to 300.
elec rates varry state to state.
there also the fact every single power plant in the usa will have to be replaced by 2030.
that means elec rates will be far worse then cali.
and we not done a thing about that.
not to metion the grid upgrade but i asume that be done at same time.

living in texas is nothing like living in montanna or new york state.
as for extra insultaion it a waste.
complete waste of money.
it like redoing your windows.
another scam.

if you live in south the tempature drops are not enough to by pass walls.
you be far better off fliping oil the oil burner to a higher rating.
the saving pay for themself way sooner.

insurlation only works in a dead air space.
that means old homes will benfit little from it.
obama was misinformed about weather striping.

on a new home insurlation works only if it done right.
most people ask about 2x6 walls.
i say complete waste of money.
it dose nothing.

arnolds idea is a nice one but it wont work.
we just cant fix up old homes.
it wont work.
you have to start new and build it right.
most homes are not today.

before you comment i am a builder and i have 5 years of framing under my belt and 50 homes so i know what i am talking about.

as for your buddies that know it all.
where were they 4 years ago.

i saw this comming years ago.
what most people fail to see is there info there not getting on CNN.
certin things are not reported because there not on reg channels.
you look at subprimes.
i look at swiss banks.
you look at us banks.
i look at dubai credit report.
you look at cable news.
i watch markets in china.

if china doing so well why the hell is the shanghai market showing pressure.
and why is hk,sing,and the nikki not showing the same.
i tell you why.
china cooking the books and only shanghai they scared.
thats where china own investment money is.
the incomming investers go to shanghai to bet.
hk is outside market.

do you have any clue what would happen if hsbc fails.
thats the bank od shanghai hong kong.
it world wide.
it in everything.

every one of ur buddys said japan was gonna rule the world.
they follow trends.

i get on a airplane and go look for myself.
go to china and go see the malls there.
no one in the new malls.
the chinese dont have that kinda money.

when we dont buy.
then dont work.
it will do a circle.

you and your buddies forget what happen on wall street hit ireland a year latter.
everyone there laugh to it hiot there door.

what happen here make effect other places.

the bottom line is this.

us unemployment is going up fast and it gonna scare buisness bad into doing the worst thing.
laying off workers and slashing costs.
cause that what i do.
the effects will start a run on wall street again.
china wont hold.

at some point china gonna break and when it dose it take all of asia down with it.
the effects will reverb back here.
investors will get fleeced.
like a spring sheep.

i know when china starts to rumble it a very bad sign.
they dont allow that sort of thing there.
now singapore might beable to control there own market like dictator but there no way they can controll outside markets.

that what 1997 did.
the thai bacht failed.

i think china has really bad investments made just like the japanese in 1987.
i think china pulled a daubai and now they between a rock and hard place.

they have to buy usa t bonds or else bonds will nose dive.
then if the us doller falls the trade get slam fucked.
remember a low doller screws them if it too low.
there a balance there.

many of you say what the hell dose asia have to do with me.

same for europe.

we make goods,patents,trade.
we sell those things to other nations.
we might not build a tv but we such as hell control the patents on the chips that allow it to run.

no tv made no patents money.
we now not as service based economy.
we a nothing economy.

diude i know it hard for you to grasp world trade.
after all most people dont.

even if it simple market.
we buy grapes.
the farmer sows the grapes.
another guy makes wine.
if one has a bad year well the other cant aford the wine.
it not all at same time as the wine has to age and grapes sour after time and take time to grow.

but there all related.

all them tea baggers wanna skip the guy in the market and go straight to the wine.
makes no sence one bit.

i also know the burden most buisness face.

small buisness acounts for 60&#37; of employment in the usa.
if they go under 60% of america will be out of work.
if that happens who buy big corp products.
huh.

it conected.

you all wanna break the conection.
lets all go back to working the land ideals.

well we can and neither can 100 million chinese.
there no land anymore.

the problem is all this world is contected.
this is a pandemic.

it just like the hoong kong flu but why call it wall street flu.
it started here and moved to iceland.
then ireland uk and greece.

now remember the spanish flu was bad frst year.
but killed more on the 2-3 years.
the rebound were worse.

well we not seen the rebound yet till now.
the market is showing the rebound now.

naga go watch the credit swaps.
watch them close.
that be when.

the swiss are secertive bastards and i know there hiding all the insurace losses.
that yet to be seen.
then com real eastate.
yea we not seen those yet.
and it wont be pretty.

daubai we know.
the aussies no one care about.
they should but they dont.

they only thing anyone care is china numbers.
what if china decied to say they sold more then they did.
keep the investors happy.
then wall street never seen how bad things are here and europe.

who the hell is buying all this china goods if it not the usa and europe.

cooking the goose.

wow i thought they only like duck.

i can say this.
come oct naga wall street wont look so happy with 500 pts drops.
the dow is really not good because companys cut costs so they making money if u compare last 3.

hell i did.
when i slashed cost it was happy hr.
however that did not mean things were good either.
it just ,means compantys run lean and were really poorly run before.
there only so much cutting.
the pie only so big.
tiny slices no matter how you care it can only feed so many.

as for your 3 arts no one needs them now.
i know all 3 like the back of my hand and it means nothing.

if the middle class is wiped out in the usa then upper class be next i promise you that what made them rich was wall street and investing.

the wrinting on the wall.

NagaSama
08-21-2010, 12:46 AM
Heres a novel idea

Remember back in post WW2, those nice small single family homes, quality construction?

Lets go back to those for new families, heck, for anyone

just not use asbestos lol

Lesson that needs to be learned, across this country, is to LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS

Too often, people start the whole get a credit card, max it, get another card to pay for that one, max it, get a third, so on and so on

or they choose a house they can clearly not afford, but they want it cos its their dream home, and get suckered in by a mortgage officer who is operating unethically in order to line his pockets due to wall street getting so freaking cozy with that 1&#37; interest rate they have with the gov't atm

Which is one major thing that needs to change, the banks pay back the gov't at 1%, yet we the public, get ripped out the ass by the banks on interest.

Have you read Thomas Jefferson's letters on Banks?

The Framers had a pretty clear understanding how the Banking industry, once entangled with government would become dangerous.

What about "The Fed" as in The Reserve?

Not a government entity, yet has a government appointed leader.

There are a whole lotta things going on in the USA in terms of economy, that The Framers would be puking over

NagaSama
08-21-2010, 12:47 AM
And no one needs woodworking, masonry, or metalworking?


Ill ask you that again after the bombs fall.

orion
08-21-2010, 05:26 PM
first of all jefferson stood for nothing.
he was probley the inventor of the flip flop.
he also a huge debtor.
in a time when that was a huge no no.

the framers had zero idea about anything.
the usa was 13 colonys then.
we bought have this country on debt.

the anti fed talk is all nonsence.
glen beck and rush ideas whould have you living in FUCKING MEXICO.

dude you pick and choice your history like this is buger king.

if your ideas were fact i be the only one and mayby kalina in america.
the 13 colonys is not so big.
texas would be mexico.

where do you get these ideas.
oh wait rush's talk show.

the fed is a vital part of the usa.
freeing slaves was not in the bill of rights either my friend.
nor was alot of things.

this concept that if it not what the founding fathers agree to it not what we should have is complete nonsence.

do you think we should give alaska back to russia?

or how about purto rico to spain?

you know i dont see anything in there about a us army,navy or marines.

so mayby we just keep the state gaurd and get rid of everything else.

you know naga that kinda selective talk is not only stipid it is also counter productive.

we cant get anything done if someone keep standing up with silly notions.
thats not freedom that plain and simple anarky.

i might not know alot of things or be as wise as some people but i sure as hell know that at every meeting there allways some clown who bring up silly "lets think about this" crap.

when i hear that line, "lets think about this" i know the project going down.
i make sure i stomp that guy good and fast.
i know projects dont need to be put on hold.
time is money.
as that freach general one put it "land we can regain,time cannot"
this idea of lets think about this as glen beck dose will only hurt america.

it counter productive.
stalling palin and simple.
nothing get done.
people loose morale.
bugets get blown.

i am postive of that 100&#37;.

your info on post war homes is wrong.
post war homes sont have asbestos.
i never seen one test positive.
and i demo a shitload of them.

asbestos comes in many forms.
most are not dangerous.
1 is very dangerous and that the one that in ductworks and pipes.
cement has asbestos in it.
asbestos is in some plasters and paints that was used as a binder to the products.
that you see in apartment buildings and schools and offices.
some rich homes have ducts they were covered by it.
that must be removed.
the plaster form was used as a firebrake can stay.
as long as you dont disturb it the building is safe.

i know all about this because i work around projects that range from simple homes to multi high rises.
i done alot of remodels.
only twice have i seen asbestos in over 500 projects.
there some in siding yea same as would be in cement.
dont mess with it and it of no concern.
we also use toxic stuff in fireblocking.
very nasty stuff i might add that i belive should be banned.

fires are very rare today and when they happen we have very good codes on them.
infact sprinklers can be removed today from most building.

on the fire code i am 100% strict.
i belive the results of the building codes over the years have made fire deaths very rare.
some fight the code tooth and nail.
just like your kind they pick and choice what to belive.

as for metal working it a lost art.
i know well because from the time i was a child i was tought it.
the secets of steel come from my family.

i also know alot about metals and the wisdom of the sword.
must not bend nor break allways sharp.

i know how imposible a task this is.

i also know carpentors build most things when they could not read or write.
i have laid stone i know all about it being that it what every home in europe is made of.

and i dont think we have to worry about the bomb falling.

least of all you.
i am siting on a top ten target zone so i think i know and there a old missle base 5 mins walk from me.
i know all about ground zero having a dozen nike bases around me two afb and two sub baces within 40 miles.
and a ex norad bace 20 mis away.

i live in the center of the silicon valley east where it all birn and i can say i have 100% confindence that missles are the least of my worrys.
i grew up in the cold war.

the russians are not comming anytime soon.
they be lucky to invade malta these days.

lol.

most of all russia nukes are so old and so unrelible that there have no real threat.
the whole point of nukes is MAD.
the threat of total drestrution on both side.
thats why i opose any missles in europe.
it removes the balance and swings it too far to our side.

history most clear on that.
i dont like the idea of MAD.
i like to see a small stock ple of safe working and percived threat to counter any silly notions of a easy war.
that has a balance all it own.
that threat on the table keeps nations from messing around in certin places.

the idea of a limited war is well known to be foolish between superpowers.
china knows this and so dose russia.
they know it get supersized quicker then a trip threw a macdonalds drive threw.

no bombs are gonna rain down in the usa anytime soon.
i am 100% certin of that fact and so is everyone in the joint command.

the only wars the usa been involded in the last 100 years are the ones we made ourself involved in.

i am 100 % certin no one is gonna get threw the us defences and even to try would be unthinkable on there part.

the shock and awe of iraq was less then 5 % of the us effectiveness.
they know it and seen it so i most certin they dont wanna see 50% effect for a attack on us soil.

naga again who the hell would screw around with the usa other then some insurgants.
huh.
i mean really?

all the wars in the last 50 years have been banaana republics.
there not been a major country attacked in the last 50 years sence ww2.

NagaSama
08-21-2010, 05:28 PM
lol

No, i dont watch rush, or beck

I read books, orion, something you barhoppers don't understand

NagaSama
08-21-2010, 05:32 PM
Orion, saying you grew up in the cold war is a lie

you never grew up

cos you are still here on these forums

Picking fights in all threads like a middle school kid thirsty for attention

You my friend, need a wife, someone you can sit down with and bitch and nag and argue with till the end of time

orion
08-21-2010, 06:21 PM
the only one i pick a fight with is you naga.
thats cause you pick one first.

allways talking crap.

you like to pick a few too from what i see.

but your allways no game.

just some cheap shot artist.

sucker punch then run out the door.

yea i live in the bar.
come done here and shoot ur mouth off.

we shall see.

naga now who about stearotypes.
dont worry i know all you guys just insecure cause you cant hold ur booze.

come to the bar and then vommit at the door.

i know you kind.
one night years ago some guy whine he getting too drunk he wants to eat.

no ! i said we drink now then eat.
lol
pussy ass wanna ask for food at a bar lol what they hell he think it is girls night out.

lol.

naga people should not talk about drinking that cant.
they should stay home.
watch sat night live or something.
mayby ophrah.

better do that.
for a guy from texas you whine a alot.

you know what i am thinking now.....lol
remeber that movie officer and gentleman.
what was that line in the movie.

only two thing from texas.

STEERS and opps what was the other one?

well anyway i dont see no horn on you boy.

lol.

NagaSama
08-21-2010, 06:55 PM
Lol

whats your drink of choice? beer? if so, better be Guinness from the tap, otherwise, you aint no Irish

orion
08-21-2010, 08:30 PM
guiness has to have special tap.
nitrogen too NOT co2.
bars hat serve has to be lic to serve.
same as sam adams.

i really only drink on vacation so i not had a beer in a while except a wake or two.

i like guiness it gose down smoth and fast.
normally i drink amstel.
if they dont have that i drink heinken.
most places outside the usa dont but every where has heinken.
lol even small tiny shop in the amazon has heinken.

in asia i like san meigal light.
it like corona.

san megal is one of the oldest brewers in the world in the phils is huge in asia as well.

japanese beer has a sharp bite like that one from bud.
i dont like that.
i like glass smoth.

corona not bad at all i like it more smoth less sharpness and not as skunky as heinken.

amstel has a more of a fizz and sharpness to it then heinken but no skunk.

guiness is by far the best.
it loaded with iron why in uk they give it in hosiptals.
note the english have lots of beers and hate the irish no less it the dr choice.

it also a ligh cal beer.
nothing in it german law not needed in ireland as it the oldest brewer known they dont add anything that should not be in a beer.

very few beers meet german law standards.

it also quite smoth and you can drink alot easy.
most people comment it thick and heavy.
they not drinken it really because all beer drinkers know it glass smoth.
there a good head on it and there a special way to pour it.

you need a spoon to pour guiness.
room tempture...........yuck.
sorry not me.
years ago that was they way.
not today.
room temp in ireland is 55-58.

beer should not be below 55.
we do that here kill the beer.

i comment there no cold beer in asia.
san migal and corona are beers you can serve super cold.
i pack a special cooler cause bag ice in the phils only at 7 eleven.
expensive too.
block ice or bag ice is commen but some towns zero ice.
i experence that before at a party.

mega drama.
the girl in the pic with me comment.
baby bottle.
want milk.
lol.
yea she drink anything.
i need a beer fridge.
the panisonic freige blows for beer.
coolers take too long but a block of ice will last days but it wont cool the beer unless it over night.

my next project is a bar.
for the house that is.
so next trip i build a bar and stock it and set up some lights and a sound system.

in the phils i saw a outdoor bar where u can buy kegs.....lol.
in bars they have a drink menu it by the bottle.
you buy bottles.
not shots.

alot of bars do that.
i dont order mixed drinks because no one have any concept of a mixed drink there.
for one it in martina glass.
for two only reason i order it was to srip the paint from a cabinet.


but the beer is outstanding there and they have everything there no need to worry EXCEPT cold beer.

i buy a beer bucket then ask for another beer buck full of ice so they dont complaine then and u can ice it down.

they put ice in the glass there.
they beer is like 6-7&#37; plus so no wonder.

NagaSama
08-22-2010, 01:34 AM
Only bar for me, is the original Cheers bar in Boston.

Sadly, don't have many chances to get to Boston as my Grandfather passed away, 3 years ago now....wow...time flies

orion
08-22-2010, 03:39 AM
cheers is a tourist trap.
lol i hate it but everyone wants to see so we go.
it really tiny not like the show at all but it dose have back room like the show.

boston is ok.
i much rather travel.
i been here done it all i kinda feel boston out.

i cant wait to go back to asia.
i like to do a docudrama there.
i have a idea for something but it very hard to find the right girl.
girls have so much dramas they act up prima donna as soon as the camera comes out.

to be real here that probley why hollywood wont here them because they know whats involved.
i heard a rumor that uk show with that pretty mexican i forget the name well she acted up and they pulled the plug.

she hot too.
hard to get girls to work and show up on time.
then they complaine.

anyway i wanna do this project and submit it to independent films.
it very hard to get backing unless you done something recent and it had a good showing.
and mo way i sink money into a project on my own.
i know how girls are.

i have 3 projects on the table.
the first one i can do myself np.
the other 2 i need backing 100&#37;.

if i get threw the first one i do a project here mayby.

NagaSama
08-22-2010, 05:36 AM
yes, ive been to the original cheers bar several times lol

but the thing i love the most about boston, is cos ya dont need a car, just the T, xD

but yeah, wouldn't mind heading to Asia for a while, cross country trip thru Japan, I have family in Hiroshima, also wanna visit indonesia, aka the lightning capital of the world LOL, and Anak Kraktau, the volcano formed from the ashes of Kraktau *Krakatoa*

orion
08-22-2010, 03:00 PM
japan is nice.
indonsia too but that a rough place.
phils is better they speak english there ,allmost....lol.

lots of volcano there to see.
indonesia has a problem with dogs and dog bites not that it not a problem in any of those countries it hust that it known for rabies and dog attacks deaths.

read well before you go.
most the places there are major tourist killers.
most tourists forget how danerous the usa is.
then they go globe hopping.
the usa can be one of the most dangerous places on earth yet few know this and then forget even more so other places.

one big killer in asia is booze and bikes.
motto bikes are a gland slam tourist killer in thaland.
idiots do that bike taxi thing.
it not commen in the phils as you need a taxi sticker.
but in taxi a biker will offer fast way of tranportation in heavy traffic.
it done in south america too.

thailand can be cheap and has alot but seen the army took over the place has changed.
seems thailand dont like any outsiders now.
they killing there tourism.

japan is expensive,inflation was heavy there but not as bad as it was before.
it has suffered from the stagflation from many years but they have neg numbers now.
the exchange rate sucks ass though.
the yen is around 85 now was 120.
this is really bad.
and the fucker charge too.
the phils u walk in any place they wont charge and they wont shave points either.
i go to chinese store i get a rate to so good it shocks me how they make money at all.
no need to wait at the bank and do silly rules.
show passport or that nonsence of 300 doller max.

the yen loss would be in the ballpart of 33&#37; about what i found in asia in last 5 years.
factor in inflation and it around 40%.

wipe 1/3 of money off the table.
1 grand on 3 is a pretty hard hit.
the yen has moved alot in a the past year or two where the other curencys were past 3-4 years.

this is really a bad whammy for japan as they get less in yen for there products such as music,film rights things of remitence.
it also screw the bag out them on trade.
our products show up cheaper on there shores not that they allow that much there big anti trade busters.
japan really rome in decline.
not long before the celts climb the gates there.

all in all japan great too see people are so polite and dont be fooled by the low crime talk.
crimes there go unreported.
why they have speacial train cars for women.
they not be doing that if there was zero crime.
but japan by far the most safe out all the asian countries.
if you loose your way just ask anyone there more then helpful unlike the usa where people counldent be bothered.

japan not as expensive as europe.
europe just run a muck inflation and now stagflation means the doller dont do a thing for yea.
the low doller by the way helps the usa on trade and it really put the screws to europe.
i rember all them laughing at the doller as airbus moved out europe.
they was soo overconfindent for a while.
they not now i can tell yea.
this is why i laugh at the worthless doller talk.
they only worthless part is when you travel.
this after all is why we up in arms about the chinese ren.

china not worth going too.
nothing cheap there at all.
there no deals there and a beer is 12 bucks.
they even selling pabt blue ribbion for a c note a botte.
crazy.
china FLEECES the bag out of tourists.
worse then europe.
far worse.
they tax at a murder rate too and coupruotion is rampart.

china doing exectly what japan did in the 80's.
it mobed up the same exact way.
they gonna pay the piper soon.
anyone who says china is gonna take over the world has never been to china.
china is a mess plain and simple.
malls built everywhere that are dead.

one of the top 10 guys in forbes is herny the guy who owns sm malls in the phls.
malls there are packed.
there a million people that pass threw the mall of asia and that a old mall now.

in china many new dead malls.
china has done what the japanese did years ago.
made very bad investments based on corupption.
the countie offer a stimuless to promote growth and help buisness.
there not sopose to let govt buy up land and run real esate projects.
it illigal there.
yet that what going on.
coruption is rampet.
local leaders are running most of the big projects in condo and such where they have a huge bubble.
and the banks are underwriting it and soon will fail.
there talk that china stoped this with permits.
only true to the non corupt.
as the local govt passes around the mula the permits get pulled.

china a ticking time bomb.

the thing about china most people fail to understand is they never factor in the couruption.
it a place where it as old as time.
3000 years worth of it.
some think becuase it marxist they controll it with a iron fist.
beijing has no controll outside the city.
zero.
the provences even have secert prison inside bejing to grab anyone that complaine to bejing whats going on.
the local governers make sure they dont get bad reports.
china invted mr wynn to macau to prevent a chinese man from gaining power there and controling the city.
they where wise to do so.
there only mistake was not having americans run the country.

china is a box of strings.
very hard to unravel.
what makes me worry most is what we do when china dont step up to the fed window anymore.
on that we need to think of that.
cause that day is comming soon.

i know many people might not agree or like what said but you really have to vist asia alot over time the picture paints itself there.
asia done this time and time again.
and we too.
but what asia dose is far worse as they have some many more people then the west and less resouces to work with.

austrila i see as the next usa.
it the only place that can grow.
it the only one big enough with resoucces.
it also what i see as the usa before the great drepression.
in many ways there a boom there going on and that boom will end.
too much 3000 sq ft homes.too much lending.
too much mine exports to a would in resession.
they about to get a slap.
but we had many ressesions here and so they must as well.
they however have what we did at that time.
room to grow and a vast land.
they also got our problems of then too.
dust bowl like issues.
it a hard land like here was or still can be.
but like i said vast land room to grow resouces means it asia real gaint.

not china.
the tigers are dead.
anyone who bets on cambodia,vietnam,indonesia has no idea about asia.
too many people too many coups.
the govts can change over night at the whim of the people.
high oil ,no food ,no work a curency colaspe anything possible.

fuji chance overnight in the blink of a eye tourism gone and who now speaks there name.
this is asia things change over night.

like the song from the dead kenedys it a holiday in cambodia.
make sure you pack a wife.

orion
08-28-2010, 06:32 AM
by the way if you look at the data from and the great drepression it far worse now.

much much worse.
we have half the GDP now.
the unemploymet is really around 25&#37;-35% .
we only count now those WHO GET unemployment befits.

we dont dont those who befits ran out or who are on welfare now that were not before.
or those who gave up and took SSI early.

we talking about much worse then then if you factor in where we are now at only 3 years in we in far worse shape then then.

if you also factor in the debt the data far worse because they did not have a monkey on there back like we do today.

most might lost everything but the slate was wiped clean with ww2.

we dont have that luxgury today in 7 years time.

my predictions on this 5 years ago as we started this downturn are 100% on.
i saw the attack on the middle class as we farmed it out and hide the problem with home values.
and wall street income.

now we have neither and china starting to buckle from the pressure.
they cant hold on waiting for us to buy or europe much longer and when they break they take all of europe down with them.

when that happens it be really bad here as investment there now is the only safe haven.

companys will be forced to lay off here in a new round that be massive in scale.

i know most people dont care what happen in china or anywhere else or can see the conection but we now are like america was in the 1930's only the usa now is just state.
we are on a world stage here and when one state fails soon it spreads.

what happens in china will feel like florida real easte bust of the 1930's.
we are all conected under this world trade now and so interlaced.

i fear that we far worse off now because we just fight and not agree like europe.
where every state fights with the other over controll within the eurozone.

i feel most people are plain innorant or just so mad they refuse to think at all like a screaming child that wants a toy.
we just dont wanna read or think or listen we just want.
we vote for anyone who say yes to the toy even if it just to get us out of the store.
just the same as when your mother tricked you then because no one is going to give you the toy when you act up in the store every time.

i feel no one thinks of how bad it be in 2 years time when we in 5 years and it a election year.

i fear worse after that.
i think most people just dont see how bad the reports on wall street are.
they look at two numbers only.

the two that make zero sence because they backward looking.

i feel most ignore it because a iphone just sound so much better,

enjoy it while it lasts.
no one is immune here.
the 2012 layoffs will be massive mark my words and in 20 years i never missed a call.

kramtime1
08-28-2010, 04:25 PM
Interesting comments, not surprisingly. It's time to be creative. 2 years ago, after 25 years, I scaled back ( mostly due to the economy ) Backtrack- I've owned and operated a boat repair business , pretty successfully for 25 years. With that, due to higher gas prices and a dwindling economy in this area. With rising insurance and operating prices. I could see a drop in business, slowly but surely. Not a good time to panic. However what I did, is go back to seasonal and part time ( I'm buying the property- not paid for yet ). I've supplemented income by using knowledge as a boat captain during down times ( withstanding, this year they paid so good in the gulf, that i shut down my business, for the big bucks ) I came out ahead. As a independent, I can tell you working for unreported business is the key ( CASH ) In the last two years ( since I scaled back ) not only am I not paying out profit to the state tax commission, but with deductions. I'm making money. Praise..........

kramtime1
08-28-2010, 04:32 PM
On one more note ( your can see my post on HD ) For the last 5 years 20 plus &#37; unemployment in my area. It makes you be creative and do things that really aren't too savvy.

orion
08-28-2010, 05:22 PM
i saw the same exact things.
the insurance went threw the roof mostly because insurance companys sold policys to homeowners for building and when they got claims they just pay them rather then fight and raise the builders rates.

i was so shocked when i was told it was near imposible to get insurance now.
greed is what did in america.
the need to make more and more on wall street and pass the costs onto main street.

health care is a small buisness nitemare.
most small buisness now do what you do.
close the doors and go mircro avoiding the law.
all that left is wallmart like buisness where the serivce is horible because they hire the cheapest of the cheap help.

i seen carpet companys do this as they can just day work the imagrants and use them any old way they feel like.
the service is horible and the thing is when one buisness dose this all follow.

i had homeowners tell there clients i dont want imigrants on my job.
as much as i thought it unfair i could why.
the workmanship was a joke but the companys just would keep doing it.
they now put them self in a spot where they counted on day pick up labour.

they did not want to have to pay any costs such as workers taxes,unemployment,libal,medical,ssi.

i seen this everywhere even big money jobs high end the clients would comment.
i knew alot of these workers were illigal too.
yet it went on and most people ignored it at the top.
they sub it all out so they could look the other way what was going on.

the problem is we got used of bad service in america.
even though there was rules on how many workers could be under a lic person and who had to have what lic it matter little here as no one now had a lic on the job.
if something went wrong the homeowner was left holding the bag.

i saw everything go fly by night as more and more comapnys went downsize.

years back i did my own downsize thngs i cut costs.
however i never did what most of the others did.
i cut my phone or whatever things like that or try to really push for a cheaper insurance rate and such.
most companys i saw spend more and thats why they do the worker downsize with illigals.

i feel bad for them 70 dead in mexico.
people tht did not have much took a risk to help there familys.
now they worse off.
my heart gose out to all people that come here becuase i know why there comming and what they risk.

but if you hire a illigal alien i think you should do a min 1 year in jail.
no exception ,manitory.
if you hire them and break other laws then it should be 5 years.
i feel this just and right because there human beings all the same and they have some rights mayby not in there country but here.

problem is no one cares.

some feel good arizonia pick up illigals is all press release nonsence.
you dont see them saying if you hire a illigal you A. go to hail for a year.
B. pay them what a normal worker would got.
C.make you a felon.

never ever happen.
bush and the repubicans LOVE illigals in america.
they sure do at the plants.
oh there have a token bust or talk anti imigration allright but they promote companys who hire illigals.

for 10 years i saw the normal workforce wiped out by illigal workers.
citizens just gave up looking to work in a certin trade.
all they do is call themself a company with no expernce and hire illigals.

sub it all out.

all this anti illigal chatter is all smoke and mirrors.
no one going to close the borders.
all press.
all bullshit.

if congress passed a law you get 1 year in jail for every illigal you have well no illigal would come here.

i know 100&#37; no illigal would cross the border when there no work here.

we are to blame not them.

they only doing what they do out pure despration.
we should feel guilty how we treat them when they here.
we should should feel worse when we hire them and use them as cheap.

there human beings not dogs.
i treat them with respect allways and they know that but i also dont aprove of whats going on here.

we are willing to have them cut our lawns and eat bananas and tomotos in the hot sun and not even wonder if they have a cold drink.
we talk about human rights in dafor as we piss all over the human rights of people here.

it so nice to look the other way.