2016 Primaries

oldsoldier wrote: Oh great another Perot moment in history, just enough to secure a Hillary win.

Trump said he'd consider running as an independent if the RNC gets in his way through the primary process. 

I liked trump for not having a filter. Refreshing. He's an idiot, but refreshing.

Trump's up above the 20% mark in an ABC/WaPo poll, but only the last day of polling included his remarks about John McCain, and the last day curbed his numbers sharply. 

BARREL BREAK wrote: It's great that people who are apparently ok with Trump referring to Mexicans as thieves and rapists are outraged about an actual killer being slightly jilted. :)

It's great that people who are apparently ok with Trump referring to Mexicans as thieves and rapists are outraged about an actual killer being slightly jilted. :)

Whale I will get you source material as well as citations when I get the time.

The problem as you know is getting by the perceptions rather than the reality. The local farmers are up in arms as they see A and are told B by the State and Federal Government. My next door neighbor already lost money as his crop is going for far less than he put into it. All you got to do is sit by a table at the local breakfast joint and listen to the 'heartbeat' of America.

The tax code is available thru the IRS, I forgot what it was but momma doing or taxes was 'told' it through the tax program she used to do our taxes. Program is VA Chapter 35 http://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/resources/benefits_resources/rates/ch35/ch35rates100113.asp
And the tax code stuff I can find is as follows, which did not match what the IRS tax advisor momma called to verify the taxable status of our benefit.http://www.irs.gov/publications/p970/ch01.html#en_US_2014_publink1000178026

You talk of tax differences, what about the standard costs of consumer goods and the difference there from 2008 to 2015 and the root causes of this increase, and the drive to raise minimum wage, yet the unforeseen costs of increased cost consumer goods, and the fixed income people not able to keep up. What is it called again? Law of unintentional consequence?

Again you won't really notice all this until you get here as well, as every month you got to balance the 'fixed' inflow to outflow, and the outflow is starting to way outpace your 'fixed' inflow, dipping into that savings you planned to use way differently, then you will get it.

And I am not the only one at our age playing this 'game', and losing.

Really Whale take a research tour of rural farm America, and just listen, sit in the local and other truck stops and listen to the plight of the owner operator and company drivers, you understand the plight of the student, but what about the parents that provide for those students.
Two local professors did a tour with me to the Squeegie Breakfast joint and listened, then we sat at the Flying J truck Stop and listened over lunch and dinner, and the real liberal who missed out being a hippie female went on the back of my Harley on a Patriot Guard soldier's funeral, and she saw what diversity is all about, did not match her perception of 'Bikers' or 'Patriots' she was teaching. She passed recently and I attended her funeral on my Harley and dressed let's say diversely, and her peers came up to me and asked if I was the one who took her on that tour, and how she changed her outlook after it. Mission accomplished.

Education is great, but sometimes blind to the actual subject taught, and the economic argument I have with a local retired professor is great. He complains about the economy and pay inequity, and I ask him when he negotiated his salary did he go for the best deal and forget the students who pay for his salary and benefits, or a balanced deal he demands others today to accept. He got his, now time to ensure someone else can not do as he did.

Once again the political circus is just that anymore, and we pick the 'clown' who meets our perceptions of need, and will hopefully damage our wallet the least. Hillary, Bush or Trump DO NOT meet my needs.

Edited by oldsoldier - 17 July 2015 at 12:48pm

oldsoldier wrote: You are young and in your rebellious, I am going to change the world mode,

Edited by agentwhale007 - 17 July 2015 at 12:05am

Whale, as you too age and find the reality of wife, kids, work and taxes you will begin to understand the frustrations of many out here. You are young and in your rebellious, I am going to change the world mode, as I was 40 years ago, and 40 years from now you are going to review this time and go what was I thinking.

My concern now being on a fixed income is which political idiot is going to take less of this fixed income to give to someone else far less motivated than I was. I am part of the 'other people's money' the Government seems to enjoy taking to redistribute.

For example for three kids previously I received VA benefits based on my disability for their college education, tax free. April 15 based on some income tax legislation that benefit 'earned', by my service,and not entitled was determined now to be taxable income, so in the research this was a Democrat led snuck in under the radar Tax Law change. I had to write a BIG check to the IRS, and with the fixed income had a dramatic effect to my economy, and she has 2 more years to go. So that Obama claim on wanting 'free' college is total Bravo Sierra, for look what his party did to me, one individual who is 'paying' for one of his kids to go to college, I earned that 'benifit' with blood, tears, and sacrifice all those years ago, not standing on a corner with a sign saying I am entitled to this 'now'.

The wife's health care plan available through her employer (City of Lincoln) has now doubled the premiums on ACA becoming 'law'. So another case of an 'affordable' healthcare law is only affordable to those who get their healthcare paid for by someone else. The wife is now enrolled in CHAMPVA, so her healthcare is now affordable for she gets 100% of her medical needs as part of my VA benefit, not the option we wanted, but the option we can afford under this Affordable Healthcare.

I can actually look at my 2008 tax return, and my 2014 tax return and just based on the percentages I got to keep more of my money in 2008, than in 2014. So I can honestly answer the question, am I better off under Obama, or Bush, I can prove I was better off under Bush as I 'retired' in 2007 and went fixed income. So what can Democrats offer me, higher taxes, on a fixed income, so my incentives to vote Democrat are?

My priority in this election is to vote for whoever will take less of that fixed income to give to someone else, as I am the 'other people's money' that all this perceived 'free' stuff for the less motivated comes from.

You are a journalist and should understand the term 'Maskirovka' when it is applied to politics. Get the compliant media to yell "SQUIRREL" in a room to distract that room from the real problems and get them focused on some meaningless little problem of the moment.

I am just really tired of The Royal Families (Bush, Clinton), and the 'political class' telling us the people how we should live, while they exempt themselves. If public schools are so great, the Political Class kids go to them as well, if Obamacare so good the Political Class is enrolled as well.

I understand Hillary and her promises meaning little as her NY Senate promise was 'forgotten' in her first run. I understand Trump and his ability to fund his whole campaign himself (good thing), his need to speak his mind, not read a teleprompter, cue card based on a focused group tested speech writers words addressing the audience of the night. But I do not see Trump as even close to being my considered candidate.

Here in Nebraska, just like NY, Omaha/Lincoln are the focus, and the 'rubes' who grow the corn, process the beef for the states economy mean nothing in the face of all the entitlement needs of those who sit in North Omaha for example, unemployed by choice (our unemployment rate is around 4% there are jobs available). It is so bad here that we have to import labor from neighboring states as the professional unemployed here in Nebraska demand more in benefits and will not go to where the jobs are. And the Democrat state politicians foster this dependency as a solid voting base. The same mistakes NY made Nebraska Democrats are running headlong to repeat.

40 years from now one of your grandchildren will ask you a question where you know on the outside you will say X, but on the inside you will know the real response, as you look into that mirror of life.

Edited by oldsoldier - 16 July 2015 at 3:50pm

oldsoldier wrote: The current state of the nation is shown as more people were interested in the media 'reality show' circus of Confederate Flag and Gay Marriage than the real issues facing America.