tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post5521067529793248912..comments2024-03-28T14:32:19.334+00:00Comments on Who Would Have Believed The Singularity Would Be So Stupid?: Days of Whine and RagesPastoriushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169561459129778670noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-74292188196633190672011-10-11T22:49:57.434+01:002011-10-11T22:49:57.434+01:00You're always welcome here!! :-(
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ps... li...You're always welcome here!! :-(<br /><br />#1<br /><br />ps... little p says he can't wait to meet you :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-70771102564201006122011-10-04T19:30:56.394+01:002011-10-04T19:30:56.394+01:00I too have been wrestling with "late" pa...I too have been wrestling with "late" payments from a number of my creditors after losing my "fat" railroad job 1 1/2 years ago. Car loan companies, utilities, all..contribute to angst ridden days and some sleepless nights. Finding a worthy job when over 55 is mostly a joke unless you have specialist degree or a Public Safety connection. Us Humanist's, with a few letters after our names, trek about in a mist of hope and desire to work, create and just do some good outside of the home, yard or kitchen. <br />Prices are rising, Boomers like me cannot commute too far cause of fuel concerns. Trains are 40 miles away and Chicago 90 miles away is, well...quite a stretch . I am currently training for a Telemarketing job with a Billionaire Boys Club linked Subsidiary. Its all about the Commissions, Got Movies ?..<br />That said I live off of a tiny pension, plasma "donations" and a doting, fulltime employed Spouse. Why she keeps me I know not...Forget the Lepers in my head, it's the Devil on my trail some days or nights.<br />Keeping the Mortgage Monkeys at bay is a weekly endeavor, God Save us all. We the Infidels will survive or roam the land with Shish Kabob carts and Ouzo in our pockets....Go Bears and Rise Yuan Rise... aj not so anonymous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-54388959309931645832011-10-03T15:05:56.356+01:002011-10-03T15:05:56.356+01:00I just got home from the bank.
Traffic? Not to s...I just got home from the bank.<br /><br />Traffic? Not to speak of. During rush hour! WTH is going on? I have commuted at this same time for over 12 years, and I know what the traffic patterns should be.<br /><br />The federal workers are going into work, the school buses running.<br /><br />So, what's the difference? It has to be that other businesses aren't running.<br /><br />I did notice today that an entire office park in the Tysons Corner vicinity is now sitting empty. That particular office building has never sat empty before.<br /><br />Another office building, directly across the street from Tysons Corner Mall, has been sitting empty for months. Borders was the tenant for one half of that very large building. The other tenant, Filene's Basement, has been gone sine 2008. This is prime real commercial real estate -- or should be.<br /><br />With commercial real estate empty, the county is going to jack up residential taxes.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-49899271796076165352011-10-03T15:01:16.991+01:002011-10-03T15:01:16.991+01:00We don't even the nurse now.
I've dumped ...We don't even the nurse now.<br /><br />I've dumped prescription coverage and, in its place, have joined the Walgreen's Pharmacy Club. What we're paying now for meds is less than the copays we paid when we had health insurance with pharmacy coverage.<br /><br />Policies with pharmacy coverage is expensive. Most government policies (federal, state, and local) have such policies; and we the taxpayers are picking up the employers' portion of those policies.<br /><br />In essence, the policies Mr. AOW and I have are catastrophic policies: $2500 deductible for each of us, 70-30 until $5000 out of pocket for each of us.<br /><br />The problem that has now arisen for many people: they can't afford that deductible because the premiums themselves are too damned high.<br /><br />BTW, Medicare doesn't have a maximum out-of-pocket provision. Hence, Mr. AOW will need Medigap coverage in March. The cost of that coverage because he isn't age 65: $800 a month!Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-5012585820291898822011-10-03T13:27:25.135+01:002011-10-03T13:27:25.135+01:00AOW,
Yep. Health Insurance premiums are up. There ...AOW,<br />Yep. Health Insurance premiums are up. There is no doubt about that.<br /><br />That post by Reliapundit yesterday (which I saw you commented on) made the academic point that premiums are up as much, if not more, because healthcare is better now than it was before.<br /><br />I made the point that most people don't need the really top notch healthcare, and ought to be able to choose not to afford it, if they want to choose such.<br /><br />You and Mr. AOW do not need the top-notch healthcare. All you need is a nurse to come in once in awhile, and for wheelchair and other equipment, meds, etc.<br /><br />None of that ought to be expensive, and most of it is not.<br /><br />But, the premiums are killers.<br /><br />I know, because I was in business wholly for myself for a few years and I paid 20K a year in healthcare costs for a family of five. $10 of that was premiums on catastrophic healthcare insurance. There was one trip to the Emergency room, a few Dr. visits, and that made $20K for the year.Pastoriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169561459129778670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-63236992564023100172011-10-03T10:52:52.330+01:002011-10-03T10:52:52.330+01:00Years ago, when my neighbor was unemployed, she go...Years ago, when my neighbor was unemployed, she got throw-outs from grocery stores and from local vegetable stands.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-89305351121790432992011-10-03T10:51:07.794+01:002011-10-03T10:51:07.794+01:00Or can only heat their homes for a few hours a day...<i>Or can only heat their homes for a few hours a day, and keep the thermostat on 60 at best. . .</i><br /><br />We're having a cold snap here. I refuse to turn on the furnace. Mr. AOW is getting by without freezing (body thermostat problems since his stroke) by using a heating pad. I'm all bundled up, and the cats are huddling with us.<br /><br />I can't afford to turn on that furnace! My income is down by some $5000 this year as compare to last year, and I was barely scraping by before the food-price hikes (gasoline not a factor here). What is tanking the AOW household right now is the hike in health-insurance premiums.<br /><br />I could sell my other property -- except that values are down so damn much in that city that it's scary.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-12121023784292044902011-10-03T10:47:29.903+01:002011-10-03T10:47:29.903+01:00But something else I've noticed in recent week...<i>But something else I've noticed in recent weeks.<br /><br />Shelves that used to be full no longer are.</i><br /><br />You're correct, MR, that people are skimping on buying to the point that expired products are removed.<br /><br />And something else is going on, too.<br /><br />1. Some food and other-products companies have gone out of business. One I've personally noticed and asked the store manager about: the company that makes the bacon bits we use here in the AOW household. The manager told me that the company is gone.<br /><br />2. Fewer trucks are making it to market. Hauling companies out of business and, even scarier, the shops that repair big rigs are going belly up.<br /><br />In fact, as I think about it, I'm seeing fewer big rigs on the interstate highways around here.<br /><br />"Who is John Galt?" is upon us.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-62438964482323195922011-10-03T07:59:06.441+01:002011-10-03T07:59:06.441+01:00Nice headline. :)
From my experience in vendor st...Nice headline. :)<br /><br />From my experience in vendor stocking store shelves, salvage items are sometimes given to the vendor stockers. Stockers that work directly for the store are not so lucky. Check the store dumpsters out back if things get really bad, that's where you'll find lots of salvage. One store I worked at would not give workers outdated or damaged items, but had no problem with someone driving up and going through the dumpster. If you steal it from the dumpster, they are not liable for anything. If they give it to a store worker and the worker gets sick, they're liable. You would be surprised the amount of good food that gets thrown away even in the best of times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-8620401768483078792011-10-03T01:22:33.827+01:002011-10-03T01:22:33.827+01:00I wouldn't be surprised to see Dumdo-ears try ...I wouldn't be surprised to see Dumdo-ears try to use disturbances (a.k.a. riots, protests) as an excuse to instute a state of Martial Law to try to cancel elections. I put nothing past him & his gang.<br /><br /><br />SilverladyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-36549807666499126512011-10-02T23:09:20.302+01:002011-10-02T23:09:20.302+01:00Great post.
You're right.
Obama will wish he...Great post.<br /><br />You're right.<br /><br />Obama will wish he had never heard of riots, if he doesn't get the fuck out of office and out of our lives.Pastoriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169561459129778670noreply@blogger.com