3Hotdogs
3Hotdogs's JournalI have debt. Just like most Americans. Around $40k. It will be paid off in about 2 1/2 years
unless President Elon fucks with Social Security or inflation, cause by actions of Anal Fistula disrupt my ability to pay.
If that happens, I will file for bankruptcy. FUCK THE BANKERS. They backed Anal Fistula.
We need more reference to President Musk.
The idea of President Musk seems to get under Anal Fistula's skin.
Proposal for billboard Copy ---- January 20., price of eggs: $6.20 per doz.
February 20. Price of eggs: _____. "THANK'S DONALD."
Price of gas. $3.10 per gallon.
February 20. Price of gas ______ per gallon. "THANK'S DONALD."
Air traffic controller shortage? Not a problem. I'm MENSA certified and I just solved it.
Beginning tomorrow - All take-offs are on even number days.
Landing? Like you do in your car, make sure you have enough gas to land on the odd number days.
(In fact, I'm so proud of this, I'm going to recommend my own post.)
Fighting back. AND benefiting yourself at the same time.
Besides raging with our fingers on the keyboard, there are things we can do.
Here's one. Don't buy the shit they sell. Really. Literally. The less you buy, the more it stick them where it hurts.
I'm not talking about not buying stuff you NEED. You need food. But do you need to spend $50 in a restaurant for something you can make at home for $10.00? I started cooking and then learning to cook about 4 years ago. Yeah, I went about it backwards but the stuff I make now, you ain't gonna find in a restaurant. Y'all have been talking about Pezny's spice? Get come Maharajah curry and some Beri-beri a cumin and oregano - maybe 20 spices you would not have thought of by yourself.
Last week, I mixed my own corned beef spice. My spaghetti sauce with caramelized garlic, onion an Lions Mane mushroom.....
Clothes --- do you really NEED the latest stuff somebody came up with? You need clothing to adapt to weather and to not get arrested. But you don't need to spend hundreds of dollars to replace articles of clothing because some company convinced you that you would be more likely to get laid if you were wearing...... instead of ......
Cars? We are laughing at the poor soul who bought at Tesla truck. What about you and your car. Think on it. Maybe your 4 year old car that you just paid off, needs transmission work and brakes. $6,000. And maybe you ain't got the cash. Is it better to swipe the plastic for $6k than to put down $30k or $50k for a new(er) car that is going to face the same problems in three years?
My friend's Volvo has 230K miles on the odometer. Mine has 84k and I plan to keep it for a minimum of 200k miles. My last one got 104k before it got totaled.
And I can go on and on. Vacations? Save the gas and fuck the oil company profits. New iPhone? Timmy just gave a million to Trump for the inauguration. Fuck you, Timmy.
But here's the best part. The money you don't spend, you get to keep. You can save it. You can donate some to Act Blue. You can pay down existing debt.
Think on it.
AND
If you don't like this suggestion and think I'm full of shit, let me hear your suggestion. And even if you do like my suggestion, let me hear your suggestion.
We can go into depression over the Trump shit or we can act.
3H
I'm 82. Got nothin' to live for. Then I had my cardiologist visit on Friday.
He says I will likely outlive Trump!
2026 - one plan for resistance.
Yeah, this one needs some fine tuning.. Congresscritters are afraid of being primaried. And so far, all of the threats have come from conservative Republicans.
The plan: Select 10 Republican Representatives from swing districts. Notify them that we are starting a fund to primary their asses if they vote against the American people and for the oligarchs.
Raise that money.
Does anyone else have a plan for anything other than venting?
For profit health insurance companies are the problem. Everyone on D.U. agrees.
The only ones on D.U. who have opportunity to go to single payer, are the seniors.
SO ---
How many of you have, or are planning to go from their advantage plan to straight Medicare?
Why? or Why not?
Grandkid: 12. Sophisticated. Grandma is trying to teach him the joys of letter writing (Snail mail to yiz gen.z'rs).
So she sends him a letter in a large envelope. Enclosed is a self-addressed, stamped envelope with instruction to "Write me a letter. Put it in the envelope and put it in the mailbox at the end of your driveway.
4 days later, a letter comes back.
Dear Grandma,
"This is quaint. ......."
Love E..
Tax question - My life partner and I are not married. We live in a 2 family home that she owns. 2nd floor is occupied by
her step daughter & family. We share expenses but do not charge rent.
As we age on, we want to sell the house to her at a substantial discount in exchange for life estate for the both of us. Since I own no share of the house, would my part of the life estate have tax consequences?
THEN --
She will take the proceeds, around $300k and invest in index funds so as to give us some money to enjoy life. We do not have expensive tastes in anything. She drives a 2013 Kia (that the grandkids make fun of her for). The rest would be inherited by the kids.
Question: If she adds me on the index accounts as Joint Tenant With Right of Survivorship (JTWROS) would there be tax consequences with this plan since I would be contributing nothing?
OR. -- just better to list me as beneficiary, with kids as secondary beneficiaries?
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