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Do you guys strongly condemn the Trump supported House Budget that raises the debt over 20 Trillion Dollars over a decade?
I can only speak for myself. I do not know the specifics of what you are alluding to. What I did hear about the most recent budget that I believe just passed in the house, I don't like. Whether what I heard about the budget proposal was a fair and accurate characterization, I do not know. The Cliff's notes version of what I heard is that it's another one of those "we'll cut a little bit of spending over the next 10 years, so that cumulatively we'll cut less than a single years overrun when you add it up over a decade". To me that's like the guy who's about to go bankrupt deciding he'll skip his drive thru Starbucks one day a week to fix the problem. It's a sleight of hand.

As far as what the specific dollar allocations may be, I don't have an opinion because I haven't seen any details yet. Full disclosure, I'm much more of a cut spending hawk than I am a raise taxes hawk. As a younger man I fell into the trap of borrowing to speed up lifestyle inflation. To reverse that in my middle years all the heavy lifting came on the spending side of the ledger and leveraging gains there to retire all my debt. It's a hard road, but it works.
 
You do know a reply is all it takes to keep their job, don't you? Not a high hurdle.

Speaking of AI, let's commemorate the 5th anniversary of the Scandemic. 5 years ago today, 2/25/2020 the stock market had crashed as the Deep State needed to topple Donald J. Trump. They convinced Bunker Jeff to shelter in place, mask up, and be scared of all humans.

Meanwhile, out here in Arizona, I said if this is the end and everyone is going to die, I shouldn't leave cash on the table. So, I reviewed the market and went all in on 2 stocks.

APPL: I paid $73.09. Today's close: $247.04
NVDA: I paid a split adujsted $6.54/share. Today's close: $126.63

I'm glad I chose NVDA and APPL as opposed to a panic buy of LT T-Bills/Bonds. And yes, I haven't sold a single share of APPL or NVDA yet.....

Back to unhinged Stone, please give me 5 things you did last week. I can tell you to collect unemployment they require recipients in Arizona to name 4 things they did the previous week to collect a very, tiny government check. It's unreal that this troubles you so deeply. It really is nothing more than a ping test / heartbeat signal.
You have participated in two extraordinary run ups in recent History.

The unsolicited advice I would give any client as their stockbroker would be as follows; 1. Lock in your investment using profits. Based on initial investment. Example; $ 10,000 initial investment. Action; Sell $ 10,000 current stock value.
Result you have back your initial investment and reduce any losses that might occur. While still participating in any future $ run up.
2. Tax issues. Do you have any losses in market for current tax year ? If so, sell approx the same $ amount of profits to equal losses for year = no taxable event. And you may get more current money for investing/money management.

Good luck !
 
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The Sun Life release does not mention the vaccine at all. Says the number of claims submitted hasn’t increased (that’s key here), and that the size of the claims has increased.

Cancer drugs are very expensive. There are new gene therapy drugs that cost millions per treatment. I actually brought this up on this board a while ago. It’s a major issue that businesses are facing.

People are waiting longer to have kids and are using treatments like IVF much more often. Not surprising at all to see more neonatal costs. Many variables involved. Focusing on the vaccine only does not address what is happening.
So we need to focus on kids getting married sooner and pooping out kids sooner.
 

The Sun Life release does not mention the vaccine at all. Says the number of claims submitted hasn’t increased (that’s key here), and that the size of the claims has increased.

Cancer drugs are very expensive. There are new gene therapy drugs that cost millions per treatment. I actually brought this up on this board a while ago. It’s a major issue that businesses are facing.

People are waiting longer to have kids and are using treatments like IVF much more often. Not surprising at all to see more neonatal costs. Many variables involved. Focusing on the vaccine only does not address what is happening.
The article did not say the vaccine only. The author attributes much of it to the vaccine. Mortality is still UP.
 
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You have participated in two extraordinary run ups in recent History.

The unsolicited advice I would give any client as their stockbroker would be as follows; 1. Lock in your investment using profits. Based on initial investment. Example; $ 10,000 initial investment. Action; Sell $ 10,000 current stock value.
Result you have back your initial investment and reduce any losses that might occur. While still participating in any future $ run up.
2. Tax issues. Do you have any losses in market for current tax year ? If so, sell approx the same $ amount of profits to equal losses for year = no taxable event. And you may get more current money for investing/money management.

Good luck !

All good advice. I learned early on that wishy-washy is the way to go. Sell some (perhaps the principal amount) and then if it goes UP you are smart for keeping a bunch and if it goes down you feel good because you took some off the table.

My best purchase was on 1/18/91. It wasn't the day the Gulf War I kicked off, it was the day after. Everything went up on 1/17/91, except ORCL which fell from 6.25 / share to approximately 5.50 per share. Knowing someone who worked there (including visiting the place) and having been inappropriately courted by ORCL while in college (a $2.50 mailer sent to every EE at Illinois), they stuck in my mind. Anyway, I bought ORCL at what today would be a split adjusted $0.25 / share (current price $173.00 / share). Of course, I sold much of it along the way to pay for "big things". God Bless Larry Ellison.
 
Do you guys strongly condemn the Trump supported House Budget that raises the debt over 20 Trillion Dollars over a decade?
This is a legit question. I am assuming if this passes he has given himself some time to fix the budget without constantly fighting to raise the debt ceiling. I could be wrong here.

I believe this is the first administration that really wants to change waste, fraud and abuse. I have stated that I believe his policies will take awhile to fix a DC spending mess that has been going on for decades.

We will see.
 
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This is a legit question. I am assuming if this passes he has given himself some time to fix the budget without constantly fighting to raise the debt ceiling. I could be wrong here.

I believe this is the first administration that really wants to change waste, fraud and abuse. I have stated that I believe his policies will take awhile to fix a DC spending mess that has been going on for decades.

We will see.
A barge takes a while to change course. Need to win more House and Senate seats at mid-terms and also get a MAGA candidate elected to POTUS in 2028.
 
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The article did not say the vaccine only. The author attributes much of it to the vaccine. Mortality is still UP.

The life expectancy in the USA in 2024 was 79.25.

The life expectancy in 2014 was 78.84. The article you shared stated that it was worse than 10 years ago. Factually untrue.

The author didn’t mention people having babies later or gene therapy as variables. Makes me think they aren’t looking for all of the answers.

You could find a pseudoscientist on the other side that would say life expectancy is UP because of the vaccine. I would call that nonsense too.

I love real science, and am very curious about the vaccine, but this author is writing click bait. Too many things missing, or inaccurate, to accept this as scientific.
 
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This is a legit question. I am assuming if this passes he has given himself some time to fix the budget without constantly fighting to raise the debt ceiling. I could be wrong here.

I believe this is the first administration that really wants to change waste, fraud and abuse. I have stated that I believe his policies will take awhile to fix a DC spending mess that has been going on for decades.

We will see.

It is a great question and of course a concern. My take is in order to get the economy moving in 6-12 months this had to be done NOW and could not include everything. The more DOGE uncovers the more cover lawmakers have to make hopefully real cuts. We do know from the vote that Democrats hate the people. They want tips Taxed, they want SocSec taxed, and they want to tax OT. Jeff would be proud.

Per President Donald J. Trump on Truth Social this morning:

Big First Step Win for Speaker Mike Johnson, and AMERICA. Now let’s start to BALANCE THE BUDGET. IT CAN BE DONE!!! DJT
 
So we need to focus on kids getting married sooner and pooping out kids sooner.

Hopefully this administration is looking at ways to force colleges to charge less for tuition. Way too many young people straddled with massive debt.

Just to be clear, not in favor of cancelling young people's student loans. I am in favor of putting pressure on colleges to lower tuition.
 
The life expectancy in the USA in 2024 was 79.25.

The life expectancy in 2014 was 78.84. The article you shared stated that it was worse than 10 years ago. Factually untrue.

The author didn’t mention people having babies later or gene therapy as variables. Makes me think they aren’t looking for all of the answers.

So, basically the takeaway is that COVID was a complete scam. I just reviewed the data and in no way can I detect a "worldwide pandemic" in the 2020s. In fact, the years where life expectancy fell were in the 2010s.

It was definitely a scamdemic and the MANDATED injections should be treated like war crimes.

 
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So, basically the takeaway is that COVID was a complete scam. I just reviewed the data and in no way can I detect a "worldwide pandemic" in the 2020s. In fact, the years where life expectancy fell were in the 2010s.

It was definitely a scamdemic and the MANDATED injections should be treated like war crimes.


You just told me that mortality was up. Now you are showing that it's actually down? Like I told you after my conference a month ago?
 
Took a look at the data, isn't that what you want? Boy, you must be miserable.

2014 - 78.9
2024 - 79.25

Your article stated "Life expectancy has really flatlined and is worse now that it was a decade ago."

Why would I believe anything else in that article, when they clearly stated something that is untrue?

Don't be mad because I pointed out something that is clearly wrong in the article that you shared. Don't be mad because I know a ton about this topic, including about Stop Loss insurance, and why it is getting so expensive.

I had a client last year that had an employee with a very sick baby. The owner had decided to self insure, and they didn't have Stop Loss insurance. Well, the owner had to decide whether to pay $2 million+ to save the baby's life, or let it die a painful death. The owner paid to save the baby, but told me he wouldn't be able to do it again. He now has very expensive Stop Loss insurance.

These are the things employers worry about. Gene therapy and assisted reproductive technology is massive these days. Driving costs up considerably.
 
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Hopefully this administration is looking at ways to force colleges to charge less for tuition. Way too many young people straddled with massive debt.

Just to be clear, not in favor of cancelling young people's student loans. I am in favor of putting pressure on colleges to lower tuition.
Yes. Get rid of worthless degrees. Bare minimum pay professors what the degrees are worth in the market place and pass out student financial aid accordingly. Liberal arts gets less money. Less kids going into liberal arts. Liberals arts teachers pay decreases. More kids go into trades or choose a better major. Get rid of needless administrators. Stop sending so much government funding. Anotehr way, which may be a bit over the top, is force them to take over cosigning on the loans. For every loan that goes into default, the university has to pay the government back.
 
Yes. Get rid of worthless degrees. Bare minimum pay professors what the degrees are worth in the market place and pass out student financial aid accordingly. Liberal arts gets less money. Less kids going into liberal arts. Liberals arts teachers pay decreases. More kids go into trades or choose a better major. Get rid of needless administrators. Stop sending so much government funding. Anotehr way, which may be a bit over the top, is force them to take over cosigning on the loans. For every loan that goes into default, the university has to pay the government back.
They should go back to more traditional admin/student and admin/faculty ratios. My understanding is those are the numbers that have balooned and to a large extent driven up the cost. Another thing, if the gov't doesn't get completely out of the loan guarantee business, they should put a cap system in place on a by degree basis. Basically as a way to lower public culpability for as far as encouraging kids to borrow a quarter million dollars to get a BS degree in the history of sexuality of the Clovis People or something. In other words, cap the taxpayer money in programs where there's little chance the degree will allow a student to pay the loan working in a related field. Cutting off the unlimited source of money will force schools to adapt.
 
They should go back to more traditional admin/student and admin/faculty ratios. My understanding is those are the numbers that have balooned and to a large extent driven up the cost. Another thing, if the gov't doesn't get completely out of the loan guarantee business, they should put a cap system in place on a by degree basis. Basically as a way to lower public culpability for as far as encouraging kids to borrow a quarter million dollars to get a BS degree in the history of sexuality of the Clovis People or something. In other words, cap the taxpayer money in programs where there's little chance the degree will allow a student to pay the loan working in a related field. Cutting off the unlimited source of money will force schools to adapt.
We're seeing it the same way.
 
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"You can't just change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America!!"

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"Happy Inseminated Person's Day!"

- also Democrats
 
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So, basically the takeaway is that COVID was a complete scam. I just reviewed the data and in no way can I detect a "worldwide pandemic" in the 2020s. In fact, the years where life expectancy fell were in the 2010s.

It was definitely a scamdemic and the MANDATED injections should be treated like war crimes.

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LOL. Hahahahahahahaha! It would be even funnier, if the Dems have some activist judges who might just try it.

 
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