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Oh no! How can I live on $2,777 a month?

jhbutcher — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:00:04 +0000

Why does the New York Times get on my nerves? Stories like this. This guy is bitching and moaning about having to get by on $2,777 a month (after taxes and alimony). It also mentions his base salary of $120,000. It’s shocking that somebody could be that freaking whiny. Don’t get me wrong, I feel sorry for the guy – a little bit. Why do people who graduated college think they’re entitled to Starbucks & beach houses?

Knowing that money is the ONLY thing that matters these days and considering that we never know what tomorrow will bring. this is my personal plan for dealing with the unknowns: no marriage, no kids, no house.

ButcherBank

jhbutcher — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:47:50 +0000

If the taxpayers end up owning Citibank, does that mean I can give myself a cut in my credit card interest rate?

1932 Democratic party platform

jhbutcher — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:13:20 +0000

With the recession and the insane stimulus bill (buy your own damn condoms!), there’s been a lot of talk lately about Hoover was a Republican and bad and didn’t want to do anything about the recession and how Roosevelt was a Democrat and good and wanted to stop it in it’s tracks. Much of that is political and historical B.S. I decided to take a look at what Roosevelt actually ran on in 1932 – the Democratic Party platform, as obtained from the American Presidency Project.

We advocate an immediate and drastic reduction of governmental expenditures by abolishing useless commissions and offices, consolidating departments and bureaus, and eliminating extravagance to accomplish a saving of not less than twenty-five per cent in the cost of the Federal Government. And we call upon the Democratic Party in the states to make a zealous effort to achieve a proportionate result.

Wow, wasn’t expecting that one. That’s, um, different that today’s ideas. Here’s another one:

We favor maintenance of the national credit by a federal budget annually balanced on the basis of accurate executive estimates within revenues, raised by a system of taxation levied on the principle of ability to pay.

Balanced budget? No kidding? And there’s more…

The removal of government from all fields of private enterprise except where necessary to develop public works and natural resources in the common interest.

Like health care? Here’s another:

We oppose cancellation of the debts owing to the United States by foreign nations.

Bono would be so mad!

Here we come to save the day

jhbutcher — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:41:52 +0000

Oh shit.

Facing an increasingly ominous economic outlook, President-elect Barack Obama and other Democrats are rapidly ratcheting up plans for a massive fiscal stimulus program that could total as much as $700 billion over the next two years. That amount, more than the nation has spent over the past six years in Iraq, would rival the sum Congress committed last month to rescuing the country’s financial system. It would also be one of the biggest public spending programs aimed at jolting the economy since President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.

An interesting point about about bailouts…

jhbutcher — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:24:01 +0000

…that I heard today:
How can a company be “too big to fail”, but not big enough to be taken on under U.S. antitrust law?

The only way to fly

jhbutcher — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:17:40 +0000

When the CEOs of GM, Chrysler and Ford went to Washington to beg for taxpayer’s money, how did they get there?

Why private jets of course.

[Of course, my company sells jet fuel so fly away boys!]

Bailout gets bailed on

jhbutcher — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:48:23 +0000

Here’s what you get when a lot of people in government and intelligentsia are for something and the American people aren’t.

See how all the House of Representatives members voted on the bailout bill.

My representative, Culberson – God bless him, voted against it.

And before you start blaming Republicans, there were 95 “no” votes by democrats. If the Majority Whip had done his job…

You know, it seems like the House Democrats are a community in need of some organizing. Now if they only had a community organizer in their midst who claimed to be good at that kind of stuff. Oh wait…

O.T.S. says F. you to WaMu

jhbutcher — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:46:09 +0000

WaMu, my bank, failed. Whoo Hoo, indeed!