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[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”Kwhite1″] Hard to comment and dispute the facts I guess.[/quote]
What would be the point? Any facts I bring up to refute you, you just claim are lies. You rarely address the points I raise and yet feel I am obligated to address each one of yours. Seems a bit unfair, that.Besides, Scott has already declared this to be off-topic.[/quote]
I think it is right on point, addressing the immigration issue? Or did I miss something thing, I might have, I was out spending my money before the government could get it from me here is CR, the locals are happy cause I tip well.
Typical, do not address direct questions, divert into something else. That is what is so tiresome about your kind, you will not address direct questions. I would love to hear your take on all the the previous I posted about, even your beloved CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC reported these, so they must be true no? You can’t defend the obvious Steve, I would so love to shred you on these but if you admit even one your game is over. I would like to hear your defense on anything I stated…..or just stick to your talking points like good boy.
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”Kwhite1″]…and they did not give me a 90 day stamp, only 2 days past my return ticket…..[/quote]
I guess that proves your point that Costa Ricans have higher standards as to whom they let into their country LOL[/quote]
That was actually a good one.
No comment on the other points in my post huh? At a minimum you can at least call me a right ring conspiracy theorist, isn’t that the standard answer from the talking points you get everyday? Hard to comment and dispute the facts I guess.
[quote=”sweikert925″]I always get a kick out of the loony conspiracy theories that float around on the right wing fringes but this one is especially hilarious. Let’s see, President Obama orders thousands of immigrants – many of them children – from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala to pick up and trek hundreds of miles north while also issuing orders to the border control forces to look the other way. (It has NOTHING to do with the awful crime and poverty that exist in those places).
He did this even though one of his major policy goals – immigration reform – would be completely obliterated and of course, none of the hundreds of people who would be in on the plot is a right winger or knows how to dial the number of Fox News. This is the same President Obama who has deported nearly 2 million illegal immigrants over the past 6 years and is in fact getting considerable heat from the left for doing so.
Thanks, I always like to start the day with a good laugh. LOLOLOL[/quote]
Was the posting on the .gov site soliciting bids for escorts to bring bus loads of folks into the US a “conspiracy theory”? Oh wait….it was just seeing what the going rate is so they can regulate it, that must be it. The boy king stating he would use executive action via pen and paper to create a defacto amnesty program is also a conspiracy as well I take it. Or the Homeland Security not allowing Congressmen to visit the boarder holding site a conspiracy theory too? Or the media threatened with jail if the took pictures a conspiracy theory?
When the fine people came from other countries to Ellis Island, where they whisked away and deposited into towns all over the US? No, they were given the opportunity to go through the proper system and become legal citizens. Obama and his admin are doing this to make it nearly impossible to tract these illegals back down, clearly violating the laws established.
I find it astounding that even you, Mr. Uber Left Wing, see’s no harm or foul play here. Try that crap trying to get into Costa Rica….I am here right now and they did not give me a 90 day stamp, only 2 days past my return ticket…..
[quote=”davidd”][quote=”Scott”]Not sure I fully understand your comments Sprite…
Why would the feds be helping illegal alliens to enter the U.S?
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Scotthow was your trip???
regarding yor question about why the feds would be helping…?? there are some theory’s regarding this as this in my opinion is not accidental..
I forgot the name of one theory regarding to overload the current system and when it becomes so overwhelmed the people clamor for the government to come in and provide a solution..
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The “agenda” is called Cloward-Pivens, they were 2 socialist professors that wrote a very detailed plan of action or agenda of how to bring down the US by way of economically crippling the US by overloading the system via social programs, immigration, “free” healthcare, unemployment, ext. Gee, kinda like what is happening now? Rumor has it that the boy king is a fan and studied (at HAAAARVARD)this strategy, but we may never know because his school transcripts must have been on the same hard drive as the IRS emails…..
[quote=”sweikert925″]Pay all taxes you are legally required to pay. Problem solved.*
*And as a favor to the rest of us, please stop whining about it.[/quote]
Wow….I guess if they make a law requiring you to turn over 50% of your income for taxes, you would be ok with that as well? Or if they take 100% of your wages and distribute it as they see fit your ok with that too? I guess you would be because that would be the law.
You should really start to think for yourself Stevie…”as a favor to the rest of us”. But I guess some folks are just not capable of thinking for themselves, doesn’t it get old always having someone tell you what to think? Do you have someone order for you in a resturant as well?
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”Kwhite1″]… except when you try and use the typically liberal talking points..[/quote]
What exactly is a “liberal talking point” and how is that different from an idea?
[quote=”Kwhite1″]Instead of acknowledging a point that you know deep down is valid..[/quote]
I’m curious as to how you would know what I believe “deep down”? I assure you I say what I mean and I mean what I say. Why would you assume otherwise?[quote=”Kwhite1″] I too have read some of the liberal handbooks[/quote]
If the “too” implies that I have read the works of Alinsky and Ayers then I hate to disappoint you, I haven’t. Why would you assume that I had? Just because they live (or in Alinsky’s case lived) here in Chicago?
[quote=”Kwhite1″]…acknowledging that someone else may be correct[/quote]
I often acknowledge that someone else was correct about something, including on this very message board. I don’t assume I’m right about everything because no one can possibly be right about everything. I’ve twice invited you to make a similar admission but you’ve refused.[/quote]
Steve, I say that because you use the same “talking points” and diversion tactics most liberals use when faced with direct questions that are backed up with facts. I find it quite a qwinkidink that you would use the same diversions and tactics that the talking heads use but yet you claim to not be a liberal and you are confrontational on just about every subject.
You would not even admit that the US economy is in bad shape, and that the government is overreaching is authority. Until you can admit that and open your eyes, I place you in the category of sheeple. I have no use for sheeple, I am tired of supporting them.
Just so you know, not all conservatives are bad, I support 2 orphanages here in Belize and give just about 50% of my income to both. But yet I get taxed on that because the IRS says I can only deduct so much.
[quote=”pixframe”][quote=”Kwhite1″][quote=”pixframe”][quote=”Kwhite1″]I doubt this has anything to do with FATCA right? Highly doubt it……..
“When adjusted for inflation …”. Trust the government to spin the numbers. They manipulate the data they use to calculate the inflationary factor. And, by doing so, make the numbers say what they want them to say … leading me to believe the deficit is much higher than depicted in this article. I’d love to review their work papers to see if that same rate of inflation was applied to their “pay outs” such as Social Security where in January of this year they gave a C.O.L.A. increase of a meager 1.5%.[/quote]
Whatever numbers they tout, I automatically double it to get at least in the ball park of reality. Anyone that thinks because unemployment benefits run out on 800,000 people means unemployment actually dropped is not some entity that I would put merit in much less believe.[/quote]
Based on the way the government calculates it, when unemployment benefits dry up and run out for all the people collecting we’ll have an unemployment rate of ZERO … LOL.
You being a small business owner will appreciate how even more misleading their unemployment count is when you consider small business owners, whose businesses fail, don’t qualify for unemployment (at least here in New York State they don’t). As long as the government can tax them up the wazoo they’re highly visible …. but as soon as their business fails they become invisible … not even to be counted in the number of unemployed.
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You are correct, I do not qualify for unemployment benefits should my company go under. I am not sure why, because I was told that I did not build my business, someone else did. So that means I actually work for someone else thus I should be eligible for benefits?
99 weeks of benies would be awesome!! As long as I get a free phone with it!! But I digress…..
FATCA….yeah, good move by the idiots in charge, good thing I don’t have any conspiracy theories or believe in them, but if I did, I am sure there are some incredible coincidences that tie them together.
[quote=”pixframe”][quote=”Kwhite1″]I doubt this has anything to do with FATCA right? Highly doubt it……..
“When adjusted for inflation …”. Trust the government to spin the numbers. They manipulate the data they use to calculate the inflationary factor. And, by doing so, make the numbers say what they want them to say … leading me to believe the deficit is much higher than depicted in this article. I’d love to review their work papers to see if that same rate of inflation was applied to their “pay outs” such as Social Security where in January of this year they gave a C.O.L.A. increase of a meager 1.5%.[/quote]
Whatever numbers they tout, I automatically double it to get at least in the ball park of reality. Anyone that thinks because unemployment benefits run out on 800,000 people means unemployment actually dropped is not some entity that I would put merit in much less believe.
I doubt this has anything to do with FATCA right? Highly doubt it……..
(CNSNews.com) – Federal tax revenues continue to run at a record pace in fiscal 2014, as the federal government’s total receipts for the fiscal year closed April at $1,735,030,000,000, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement.
Despite this record revenue, the federal government still ran a deficit of $306.411 billion in the first seven months of the fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1, 2013 and will end on Sept. 30, 2014.
In the month of April itself, which usually sees the peak tax revenues for the year, the federal government ran a surplus of $106.853 billion. While taking in $414.237 billion in total receipts during the month, the government spent $307.383 billion.
In fiscal 2013, the federal government also ran a one-month surplus in April, taking in $406.723 billion during the month and spending $293.834 billion, leaving a surplus of $112.889 billion.
After the one-month April 2013 surplus, the federal government promptly returned to the red in May 2013, taking in $197.182 billion in tax receipts while spending $335.914 billion, leaving a deficit of $138.732 billion for the month.
Through all of fiscal 2013, the federal government ended up running a deficit of $680.229 billion according to the Treasury.
The White House Office of Management and Budget has estimated that in the full fiscal 2014, the federal government will collect $3.001721 trillion in taxes, spend $3.650526 trillion, and run a deficit of $648.805 billion.
The OMB has also estimated that, while running that deficit, the federal government will collect a record amount in inflation-adjusted tax revenues.
When adjusted for inflation (to constant 2014 dollars), the second-greatest federal tax haul through April was in fiscal 2007. That year, the federal government took in approximately $1.715 trillion in total receipts (in 2014 dollars) by the end of April.
The single largest source for the federal government’s record tax receipts in the first seven months of FY 2014 was the individual income tax, which brought the Treasury $823.079 billion. The second largest source was what the Treasury calls “Social Insurance and Retirement Receipts,” which includes the Social Security payroll tax, the unemployment insurance tax and other retirement taxes. This accounted for $602.698 billion in tax revenue.
The third largest source of federal revenue in the first seven months of fiscal 2014 was the corporation income tax, which brought in $156.808 billion.
As CNSNews.com previously reported, federal tax revenues for fiscal 2014 set records through February, through March, and through Tax Day, April 15.
[quote=”davidd”][quote=”Kwhite1″]Try this http://naturallyearthfriendly.com/what-is-the-difference-between-aquaponics-areoponics-and-hydroponics/
Do a search of versus each other, you will receive tons of info with pros and cons on the 2 methods, I prefer aeroponics, easier to maintain the water chemistry without fish poop messing the PH up.
do you have any pics of your past set ups??? I wouild agree with the poop but being able to raise your own fish.. also adds to the protien factor 🙂 BBQ and some garlic and butter.. hmmm 🙂
BTW I am very satisfied with a recent purchase..
highly recommended.. i have tried various but this is the best I have found so far.
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I have a Berkey filter as well in my “special” room in Fla, nestled between all of my favorite noise maker toys.
The tower garden site I sent you, take special note of the net cups or growing cups, those allow the roots to grow through as well as the mist to get to the roots. I don’t have pics (I’m a dummy). Simple directions;
8″ pvc sewer pipe, 2″ holes drilled on 45 degree angle from top center alternating (figure out what spacing you want). The net cups have a rim on them that prevent them from falling inside the tube. The 8″ pvc, make it as long or shart as you want, I did 10′.
1/4 inch micro tubing mounted on the outside with micro jets protruding through the pvc. This allows the spray nozzles to spray inside the pipe and create a mist/fog.
On one end of the pipe cap, drill your pick up tube hole on the bottom for gravity feed routed to a 100+ gallon an hour garden pump. You will need an inline filter like a fuel filter or sediment filter. You will also need a fill hole on the other end. The water that is not absorbed runs back down to the pick up tube and is ready for recycling. I also added miracle grow liquid fertilizer.
For the growing medium, I used shredded coconut husk or rock wool.
You can grow everything except root veggies. Lettuce grows great, strawberries, all of the squash, melons, tomatoes,, and the list goes on. Your a pretty bright guy, you know the concept now and I am certain you can tweak it to fit your space and situation.
I am headed back to Fla for a few months and will send you some pics when I get there.
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”Kwhite1″]Wow Steve, I don’t recall mentioning you in my post at all[/quote]
That comment was in a reply to me. (You know there’s a way to post a comment without replying to someone here right?) If someone replies to me, I assume they’re addressing me.[quote=”Kwhite1″]I assure you that a overwhelming majority of the “average Joe citizen” is not planning, has not planned…[/quote]
And there I totally agree with you. Those who choose not to are foolish. But if you are truly committed to personal freedom then you have to accept the choices other people make, whether you agree with them or not.
[quote=”Kwhite1″]I just defended you…[/quote]
Which would have been rather touching if it had been sincere, but, of course, it wasn’t.[quote=”Kwhite1″]If you are that brainwashed…there are more of you out there that think just because the teleprompter says its all good then it must be. [/quote]
So this proves my point: You believe anyone who doesn’t think the way you do is stupid, blind or corrupt.
[quote=”Kwhite1″]…you come out with “guns a blazin”…Maybe I hit a bit of a nerve?[/quote]
When you reply to me I assume it’s just because you have something more to say. Which is great! The more ideas we exchange the better. But you don’t seem to like it when I reply to you. Why is that?No answer to the question I raised. Well, no surprise there but I was kinda hoping…[/quote]
Those are the only “points” you chose to comment on or try to defend?
I don’t mind at all when when you reply to me, except when you try and use the typically liberal talking points when you get backed into a corner on a subect or comment. Instead of acknowledging a point that you know deep down is valid, you come up with an assinine general comment that is accusatory and ridiculous to remove the focus on the real issue. ( I too have read some of the liberal handbooks, from Brother Saul and Brother Ayers). Thats what bugs me about you, instead of opening your mind to a possible point of view and acknowledging that someone else may be correct, you fall back onto the liberal handbook for your tactics of diversion.
Tell the bossman I said whasup…..also tell him to get some better donuts in the breakroom for crying out loud!
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”Kwhite1″]…don’t plan for your own survival… [/quote]
Whatever gave you the idea that I haven’t planned for my financial future? I’ve been socking money away for the past 3 decades.
[quote=”Kwhite1″]..the dollar declines and no longer is the worlds reserve currency…[/quote]
Has it never occurred to you that there are nearly 7 billion people on this planet who are NOT Americans and whose currency is NOT the world’s reserve currency? Does the fact that the the Norwegian Krone is not the world’s reserve currency have any kind of affect on the ability of Norwegians to lead happy productive lives?[quote=”Kwhite1″]I find it utterly stunning that there are so many blind people. [/quote]
And I find it funny that there are people who believe that everyone who doesn’t believe EXACTLY like they do are either blind or stupid or corrupt.
Is it possible that you are wrong about some things and that other people may be right about them? (I suspect you won’t answer that question but thought I’d ask anyway.)
From [url=http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323455104579014772169287210]this Wall Street Journal article:[/url].
[i]Although the U.S. State Department doesn’t keep official statistics, it estimates that 7.2 million U.S. citizens live abroad….Despite the campaign against undeclared accounts, U.S. taxpayers filed only 825,000 foreign-account reports last year—meaning that millions of people likely aren’t complying with the law.[/i][/quote]
Wow Steve, I don’t recall mentioning you in my post at all, and I just defended you and told everyone to leave you alone, but yet you come out with “guns a blazin” (oh wait, your a liberal, you don’t like guns, sorry bad analogy), but yet you seem to go on the defense pretty hard and fast there. Maybe I hit a bit of a nerve?
Yet again, you missed the big picture, did I say Steve hasn’t planned, did I say Steve isn’t planning for the decline of the dollar, did I say Steve is blind? So you assume because you think a certain way that everyone else does as well? Is that what I should read into that?
I assure you that a overwhelming majority of the “average Joe citizen” is not planning, has not planned, or is even awake to what is coming down the tracks. I am sure you have seen the latest reports that the average wage in the us has declined over the past 10 years, a record number of folks that are unemployed (and I really like how that because your unemployment benefits run out that you are no longer unemployed, nice accounting), with that being said, most people are just worried how they are going to pay the mortgage, rent, or electric bill, much less than what is looming because they hear some politician telling them everything is hunky dory.
For you to even have the balls to even try to come up with a defense of what is happening in the United States of America is deplorable. If you are that brainwashed in believing what these jack holes are spewing gives me even greater concern than I already have because I know there are more of you out there that think just because the teleprompter says its all good then it must be. What concerns me even more is that you and your type will be the first ones screaming when things start affecting you. Until you have your own business, deal with the BS regulations, pay an absurd amount of taxes because the government thinks you made too much, lay in bed at night worrying how you are going to make payroll to support your employees families, go without a paycheck so your employees get paid on time, be told by the leader of our country that I did not build my company, someone else did, lied to every single day by the politicians on both sides, until you experience that Steve, I would not expect you to understand the “real” life situations business owners face everyday, that is why things will unravel very quickly and very soon. So just sit in your cubicle, on your bosses dime, surfing the internet, and make sure your check is there every Friday.
And I had done such a good job of not feeding quarters into the machine, unfortunately today, when I picked up my fresh made tortillas, she gave me change in……quarters, so I had to use them.
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”sprite”]I have been reading about imminent economic crash/rest for the last 4 years. It has not been very “imminent” so far. But more and more indicators of such a dramatic event keep piling up while the actual world economy continues to slowly grind down.[/quote]
Well we actually DID have en economic crash 5 years ago – the worst the world had seen since the 1930s and yet here we all are today. Some are still suffering from it (to which some of you will probably say “Who cares?) so I don’t want to downplay their suffering. But for the majority of the world things are pretty much the way they were.
[quote=”sprite”]It has not been very “imminent” so far. [/quote]Which makes me wonder why (since you know the story of Chicken Little) you don’t begin to wonder if just maybe the people who are peddling that theory might be wrong? Isn’t it an amazing coincidence that so many “financial experts” who are predicting an imminent collapse have a book that, for a mere $19.95, will tell you how to avoid it?
[quote=”sprite”]Is it apathy, denial or ignorance?[/quote]
There is actually another alternative. Namely, that the risk just isn’t that great. The earth WILL someday be hit by a meteor large enough to wipe out mankind. It’s not a matter of “if”, only “when”. But I don’t feel the need for a plan B for that either.[quote=”sprite”]Either way, it is not entirely useless to contemplate a plan B.[/quote]
If the sky is falling then a plan B is pretty much useless and if it’s just an errant acorn then the only plan B you need is to keep away from Oak trees.[/quote]Part of the master plan…..don’t plan for your own survival when (not if), the dollar declines and no longer is the worlds reserve currency, why you ask? Because the government will take from those that did plan and give to you….so it is true, you can have your cake and eat it too…yippee.
I find it utterly stunning that there are so many blind people. It was mentioned that FATCA was to catch the “bad” guys…as a by product (benefit of the givernment, yes givernment) it forces all of the USD to remain on US soil making it soooo much easier to capture when the EBT, SS, Welfare checks run dry, those evil rich people that saved their money are holding out from you getting your checks, we will go get it for you.
The government can see what text I sent to my wife today, see what websites I went to, can see what my account balance is, but cannot catch a drug/money laundry operation running millions through an account? As Jefferson said, question with boldness….. I just don’t buy the we don’t have the ability to catch them because we are so dumb so that’s why we need FATCA…to catch those evil guys.
I would love to see the logic/excuses on this one.
Do a search of versus each other, you will receive tons of info with pros and cons on the 2 methods, I prefer aeroponics, easier to maintain the water chemistry without fish poop messing the PH up.
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[quote=”sprite”]Kwhite,
I am interested to see how the coming economic “reset” will effect expats in Costa Rica. Money upon which many expats rely may dry up and not just social security. And speaking of social security, upon which pensionista status relies, what does Costa Rican migration law say about cessation of social security checks?[/quote]
Sprite, I am far from an expert on the migration laws of CR, but I would imagine that the CR government is closely monitoring the situation. I would suspect that the ones that have qualified just over the minimum might be prime candidates to have their immigration status revoked, or at minimum have to re qualify to maintain the status.
That brings another question to ponder, if the USD losses value, would CR raise the monthly minimum to offset the deflation of the dollar?
