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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 2:40 PM

Re: Canada to Admit 1 Million Immigrants ...

Also, Canada doesn't have a big drug problem and a border with Mexico where MS-13 members flood across the border, setting up drug gangs, having battles with rivals, fighting for turf in US cities and drug routes.

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Atheist Fools board. 2:33 PM

Re: Gore on Daily Show

Simple: carbon tax

The moment you use the word "tax" you lose. Nobody hears anything you say after that. You lose 100% of the Reds, 75% of the independents, and 35% of the Blues.

These are actual internet [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 9:28 PM

Re: Poll: Raise Income tax rates

What we need is for the government to SPEND LESS!

Said critics of the Marshall Plan, because who cares if Europe is unstable and communism takes hold? It’s a whole ocean away, after all. And why do we need customers anywhere but [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 9:15 PM

Re: every mile of the U.S.-Mexico border

basically, your reason for doubting the Great Wall's relevance is pretty weak because it leaves out most of the Wall's length and most of the Wall's history.

In the very first class of military strategy you learn that [more]

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Goofyhoofy posted to the Atheist Fools board. 4:20 PM

Best one today

He doesn't have enough IQ points to decorate a pair of dice.

Can't imagine who they were talking about...

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 8:17 AM

Re: Truck Driving Jobs Won't Go Away

Why does a train only have one set of eyes looking out the windshield, when an airliner has two sets?

Because if the only pilot has a heart attack the plane probably crashes. If the only train engineer has a heart attack he takes [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Atheist Fools board. 2:09 PM

Re: Gore on Daily Show

That's the problem. If you raise voters' energy costs by $500 per year (to pick a number at random), they will get upset with you - especially if they don't have an extra $500 per year in their budget to float that cost. [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 8:08 PM

Re: Top 20% of Households Pay 88% of Fed Income

The issue that many lower income families face is that consumption taxes take up such a large portion of their total income; because consumption takes up 100% of it. (I include property taxes here because even if you rent you are paying those [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Atheist Fools board. 7:52 PM

Re: Gore on Daily Show

So I think Gore is completely, and dangerously, wrong in ascribing this to U.S. recalcitrance alone. He's misdiagnosing the problem. A change in the attitude of the U.S. federal government isn't going to fix things. The real problem is [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 7:25 PM

Re: Greenspan book, "Capitalism in America&

Goofyhoofy wrote: "In just the past 35 years we’ve hatched Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Cisco, Intel, and those are just in the US."

Not one of these tech companies produces food, clothing, shelter, medical care [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 7:52 AM

Re: How to stop stains on brick wall

You don't need to run bleach through the power washer. Just get something like "30 Second Cleaner" and spray it on. You could use the power washer after to clean the bleach off with water.

Easiest way is to buy a [more]

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Goofyhoofy posted to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 3:43 PM

Libertarians Finally enjoying National Parks

Libertarians are finally enjoying national parks during the government shutdown:

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

A use for the DVR

I hope when Trump gives his speech that at least one of the networks will run it on an DVR and pause it after each false statement and give a correction, then continue. This would be so much more effective than putting a correction in print at the [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 7:26 AM

Re: small claims against builder

Limits in small claims courts are generally between $5000 and $10000, so I don’t see how you are better off doing that. You have $20,000 in your generator alone. (Many states also limit how often you can bring a claim, twice a year is common, so no, [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 7:02 PM

Re: Greenspan book, "Capitalism in America"

This would be impossible in today's regulatory environment.

Oh, I don’t know. In just the past 35 years we’ve hatched Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Cisco, Intel, and those are just in the US. If you want to look [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 8:05 AM

Re: Texas has enough sun/wind to quit coal

Wind dies down at night, and no one has yet figured out how to get the sun to shine at night.

By amazing coincidence demand for electricity dies down at night. Stores close. Factories idle. Restaurants are done serving. Flat screen [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 7:55 AM

Re: Too much water, not enough water

by complaining about how long something takes to fix

I have found that if I estimate how long a job will take, I need to double the estimate. Then add enough time for at least one trip to the home store, and then double it [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Atheist Fools board. 11:55 AM

Re: Gore on Daily Show

think that's right. But I also think that the absence of progress by other nations - failing to live up to their Paris obligations, which themselves were woefully insufficient to address climate change - suggests that there are far deeper and [more]

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Goofyhoofy posted to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 8:10 AM

OT: Business hero

He changed an industry, single handed. Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines CEO obit:

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 6:31 PM

Re: Steve Jobs is dead

Fair enough. I think it is worth comparing Apple P/E with other tech stocks.

AMZN 188.6
MSFT 68.3
NFLX 173
GOOGL 44.1

AAPL 16.1

Only one of those relies to any great extent on hard goods [more]