Re: Social Security

2005-01-13 Thread Erik Reuter
* Doug Pensinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sometime listmember Brad DeLong's take: http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/ Why Am I Not For Bush's Social Security Reform? Thanks, Doug. That's a good summary of Brad's opinion. Here's an even shorter version (my words, based on what

Re: Update on Tommy

2005-01-13 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 1/12/2005 10:57:46 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Good news, Julia, glad to hear it. You seem to be in better spirits as well. -- Doug I'm not a drinking man, but if you have a well full of spirits, I'd suggest that you never light a match

Re: Social Security

2005-01-13 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 13, 2005, at 3:32 AM, Erik Reuter wrote: That's a reasonable argument. But I think it is premature. Bush said he will release an actual plan in February. If the plan is bad, or if it looks okay but still seems likely Bush will screw up the implementation of the plan, then it would be

Re: Social Security

2005-01-13 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 7:10 AM Subject: Re: Social Security On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:52:13PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote: The private investment part of social security

Re: Social Security

2005-01-13 Thread Erik Reuter
* Dan Minette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: But, I think they are doing funny math. Let me do a back of the envelope: No, you are calculating a different quantity. As I said in my post, the figures are lifetime net tax rate. Basically, the percentage of income you pay in taxes net of the benefits

floodgates opening

2005-01-13 Thread Gary Nunn
I love the view from my back porch, it is over a wooded river that is usually about 10 inches deep and 30 feet wide on bedrock. The bank is about 10 feet over the riverbed. I live about 7 miles below a small county dam. Today I got calls from several people at work because they had heard that my

Re: Social Security

2005-01-13 Thread Erik Reuter
* Dan Minette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: (taxes paid to government over one's lifetime- cash benefits received from government over ones lifetime)/total income over one's lifetime. I just realized the source of the difference. We are both writing out the formula for lifetime net tax rate, but

RE: Update on Tommy

2005-01-13 Thread Ritu
Julia wrote: Doc says that Tommy appears to have a virus. Antibiotics are *not* in order at all (which is just as well, I'd worry about how his stomach would take it). We need to monitor his temperature and bring him bck tomorrow if it's too high. Doc is also very pleased that

Re: Update on Tommy

2005-01-13 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Killer Bs Discussion' brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 10:44 PM Subject: RE: Update on Tommy Ah, if anyone else can handle vomiting, that's always good. :) True. :) 30 years ago, that was the one thing I

Re: Social Security

2005-01-13 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 9:45 PM Subject: Re: Social Security * Dan Minette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: (taxes paid to government over one's lifetime- cash benefits received

Re: Social Security

2005-01-13 Thread Doug Pensinger
More from DeLong: Violating the Constitution Max Sawicky watches the Republican clown show continue: MaxSpeak, You Listen!: LENINIST-OLIGARCH EXPROPRIATIONIST WATCH: This is becoming too frequent a feature. It never pays to underestimate the craven, reactionary mendacity of the Grand Old Party.

Re: Pozen's SS plan Re: Social Security

2005-01-13 Thread Gary Denton
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:17:22 -0500, Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: answering portions of my post * Gary Denton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: --- Expense TICKER Ratio === 0.09%ETSPX Sorry - http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=ETSPX shows the expense

Re: Social Security

2005-01-13 Thread Gary Denton
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:40:50 -0500, Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Gary Denton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You have no clue do you? Do you even know how to read? I wrote that the budget has been in almost continuous deficit for the last 30 years. You say that I am wrong because