Goofyhoofy

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Atheist Fools board. 12:52 PM

Re: Tennessee Promise

I think there are actually quite a few that do that (many are income-based though).

That's kind of the point. The one in Tennessee is not needs based. It's not "welfare" or a penalty if you happen to have a good [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Atheist Fools board. 10:40 AM

Re: Tennessee Promise

Great. BUT! Why require full time attendance?

A normal course load is 15 credits, the requirement here is 12. I think the idea is so that it doesn't become a long "student life" lifestyle, as opposed to working hard and [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 8:22 AM

Re: Progressives & the Democratic Party

But you can't change if you hide in the middle of the road and never take on the real problems - like healthcare, and immigration, and campaign finance reform because you are afraid of the names the right wing echo chamber are going to call [more]

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Goofyhoofy posted to the Atheist Fools board. 8:06 AM

Tennessee Promise

I decided to start a new thread here rather than continuing to argue about “math”, and yesterday recalled that my bright Red state, Tennessee, has one of the most progressive education programs in the country. Not with K-12, which is pretty [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Atheist Fools board. 7:47 AM

Re: Our changing economy

If you were a high school guidance counselor shouldn't you be suggesting students take more math rather than extolling the virtues of a job mounting tires?

Not if the person doesn’t like math. There is little point in forcing [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Retirement Investing board. 7:44 AM

Re: No One Gets Rich By Shunning New Cars

I’m tempted in this already overlong thread to say “I did,” but that would be an exaggeration.

But I have *always* bought used cars, except when Westinghouse was buying new cars for me as a work perk. At the moment I have 3: a 1997 Infiniti [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Atheist Fools board. 9:46 PM

Re: Our changing economy

Take car repair. Cars are increasingly becoming more like computers with wheels. As Tesla is demonstrating, future car repair will more likely involve fixing glitches in the self-driving software than replacing belts

Yes, and [more]

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Goofyhoofy posted to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 5:19 PM

Ah yes, the stock market

Just a quick observation that Fortune Magazine notes that Boeing's share price is actually *higher* now than it was at this same time in 2019. And higher than 2018.

This, after recording *minus* 37 deliveries last year - yes, they had [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 5:16 PM

Re: Mike Bloomberg

After all I didn't think it would accomplish much, that she would only be able to delay sending them over for approximately the amount of time of the recess, and that it wouldn't get the Senate to change their approach to the trial. [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Atheist Fools board. 11:24 AM

Re: Our changing economy

But imagine if you were a high school career counselor. Telling kids to follow their passion without also suggesting that they take as many math classes as they can handle would in my opinion be irresponsible.

Well this is just [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 8:00 AM

Re: Mike Bloomberg

Do you think that maybe the electoral has changed in 11 years? I think you need to update your argument because people do change their views.

Well if you’re going to base your argument on that then you should support it with some [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 7:50 AM

Re: Mike Bloomberg

The reason the legislation barely passed is because Pelosi made sure she put in exactly as much as she could get away with and no more. Nothing was added or subtracted to insure people could keep their own doctor because that had nothing to do [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 7:33 PM

Re: Mike Bloomberg

Are these insurance polls via telephone? The other day I heard an on-the-ground campaign reporter say the polling for the Presidential race has a lot of people who have landlines or are otherwise OK with answering their phone when they [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 7:08 PM

Re: Induction Cooking Elements

Looked at it when redoing our guest suite. Decided against, because it meant throwing out all of the cookware and starting over. More to the point, it also limits what you might add in cookware in the future. The selection and styling of [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 5:21 PM

Re: Mike Bloomberg

I'd say to you again, no they don't

You have to stop listening to those voices in your head.

70% of the country is satisfied with *their* health insurance. It's like the "I hate Congress but I like my [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 4:29 PM

Re: Root cause of slow GDP growth

Or holds stocks. Jeff Bezos holds $117 billion in Amazon stock. That money represents his reward for his ingenuity and risk-taking, but it is just sitting there in stock. It isn't circulating or being invested in something else. More power to [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 7:36 AM

Re: Mike Bloomberg

I do think Bloomberg offers the best opportunity to split Republicans, since he IS a Republican.

Well for the record he was a lifelong Democrat until 2000 when he switched parties to run on the Republican ticket because the [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 5:49 PM

Re: Root cause of slow GDP growth

This is the first time I've seen a blanket statement that investing is a drag on the economy.

As with salt and most everything else in life, too much of a good thing is usually not a good thing.

We don’t need “capital [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 5:31 PM

Re: Mike Bloomberg

Mike Bloomberg Exploited Prison Labor to Make 2020 Presidential Campaign Phone Calls

It was done by a 3rd party vendor. He found out in the morning and by lunchtime the vendor had been fired. Not just for the phone bank work but [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Retirement Investing board. 3:42 PM

Re: The Mortgage Mistake - Part 2

But his "zero-risk" scenario is far from zero risk. For one, you are tying up lots of money into a single, illiquid asset. But another major risk is inflation.

Another is, well, housing. Sure it does well most of the time. [more]