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InnerTuber - Can you give me (us?) more detail about the retractable wheel provision you have on one of your work benches. I'd like to employ casters on a bench for portability, but like the thought of being able to retract them to provide stability.
Thanks!!
Tom
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If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you would have $49.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would have $33.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you would have $0.00 today. But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for a recycling refund, you will have received $214.00. Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. It is called the 401-Keg plan. A recent study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means that, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon! Makes you proud to be an American!
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Then I think you'll enjoy this lady. Wow.....what a voice. And a great back-up band too!
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I have several pieces of this brand of garage storage cabinets from Lowes:
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productList&Ne=4294967294&category=Coleman&N=4294950724
Although they're a bit of a PITA to put together, they're pretty durable and are an affordable solution. The drawer slides are heavy duty and the cabinets have held up well. I've used a combination of the base cabinets and then bridged across them with some 1" MDF for a work surface. I guess all this would make more sense if I'd just shoot a photo of what I've done, eh??
Now.....if you have the extra cash, I'd suggest this stuff which is a bit pricey but extremely well built and looks good.
And if you've just won the lottery......you can buy stuff from www.carguygarage.com with my suggestion being http://www.carguygarage.com/fuststgast.html
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Man......it is SO hard not to suggest B&K, but I will have to say that if you're budget is limited - go with NAD. It's not the cheapest, but ain't the most expensive and is very flexible. OTOH, Outlaw Audio ain't too shabby either. And the Emotiva stuff always gets great reviews. If you can spend a bit more, I say go with B&K or Anthem as they seem to offer a bit more when it comes to putting at bay planned obsolescents since their stuff allows for both software & firmware upgrades. Hell, so does Outlaw Audio. Something maybe to consider is that unlike many companies, B&K employees their own engineers and therefore develops their own processors. So when you call for assistance, you're getting someone who knows the product and the design. Ask me how I know this..........
Good lord......what a can of worms this post could open up.
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My wife and I just leased a 2008 Volvo XC70. It is a beautiful car and it drives and rides very nice. The only problem is that we don't really like it. Let me explain.
We have driven Ford cars and trucks our whole lives (both fathers are retired from Ford) and have become quite fond of them. The Volvo is very different and European which we are not used to. It's not a bad thing, it's just different. Plus, we feel alittle uncomfortable driving a car like this. I'm an electrician and drive an F150 and the car we just traded in was my wifes Freestyle, which was the ideal car for us but they don't lease out very well at all right now. The car just feels too fancy.
We are trying to find someone to assume the lease on this car. It's a 3 year, 12,000 miles per year lease on a brand new 2008 Volvo XC70. The car is white with a tan leather interior, sunroof, heated front seats, climate control, all wheel drive......, pretty well optioned. It only has 400 miles on it as I write this (we do drive it daily) and is showroom perfect. The monthly payment is $435.00 (we already took care of the down-payment for you!) and you will need very good credit to qualify for this lease.
If anyone on this forum is interested or knows someone who might be please email me at " the-henrys@comcast.net " and I will provide all the information they need. The car is located in Southfield, Michigan and can be seen in person by appointment. Thank you.
This post can't possibly be for real.
First of all, who goes through all the trouble of shopping for a car and (I assume) test driving it and then has some kinda revelation that they are driving a car that "feels too fancy". You've got to be kidding me, right??? Too fancy? What the heck is THAT all about? Did you not see/drive the thing before you signed the lease agreement? Has tha car morphed into something else other than what you shopped for and picked out? Or has all your buy American, Ford employee/retiree friends & family started ragging on you?
Too fancy.......
That just cracks me up.
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Sorry Michael for this tangent..........
Greg => Please explain this statement you made in a previous post, "The single pour of steel-reinforced concrete is one giant footing which will carry more weight."
This is not a trick question. It's just that your statement seems to fly in the face of everything I learned in Civil and Mechanical Engineering courses.
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Not too long ago we were in the market for a new vacuum cleaner to replace an old Hoover. Personally, I've been partial to Hoovers, but the last one wasn't so hot. Anyhow, I looked at the latest Consumer Reports testing/rating of vacuum cleaners and based upon their list, we bought this Bissell:
It didn't get the top rating, but was ranked close to the top performers. Interestingly enough, we were leaning towards a Dyson until we saw the CR ratings, the feedback that owners had posted on the CR website and the price compared to other machines that were rated pretty close to the Dyson. In the end it came down to $$$ (well.....that and the fact that the wife like the way it looked
). From personal experience, I'd buy the same Bissell in a heart beat. The unit is powerful (maybe not as powerful as my RIGID tools shop vac) and very quiet (unlike my shop vac). Even the dogs ain't skeerd of it. It pulls the dog hair out of the carpet extremely well and does a great job on the hardwood and tile floors. Oh - and it looks nice.
I've attached the latest CR rating in case you're interested.
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True, you can get a better value on a Rear Projection DLP but do they produce the same quality you can get from a plasma? (Note, that is a question, not a comment against what you are suggesting). I'm in learning mode right now since I haven't ever really looked at TV's. I still am using a 32" CRT. LOL.
I think everyone has to judge for themselves on the issue of relative picture quality. I've seen excellent pictures from plasma, lcd and rear projection. Personally, I think lcd has the best detail, while plasma looks the most film-like. I find the better rear pro's to be a compromise between the two, with the added incentive of giving you more screen size per dollar. The best thing to do (of course!) is look at them side by side, if you can.
The big negative with plasma, to me, is the potential for phosphor burn. I think the life expectancy is probably good enough now to not be a real issue. And if you go beyond 50", hang on to your wallet!
LCD's are still awfully high too, once you get over 40" or so. And motion blur can still be a problem, but I think it's getting better; especially with 120Hz refresh.
I agree jdm. For anyone to come on here and say with almost absolute certainty that XYZ is the BEST is a bit much in my book. As the old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Bottom line is that if all you're gonna do is feed your TV a perfect signal, then yes you'll probably notice the subtle differences between LCD or plasma or RP. But in the real world where we watch DVD's 30% of the time and the TV gets fed from cable/SAT the rest, the differences ain't so great. At one time I had a 102" FP system in a dedicated HT room and a 46" Samsung RP TV. I liked both. Did I ever see another TV that made me go WOW! Yep. But when I was watching the Samsung I never said, "I bet I would enjoy this movie more with a plasma". Anyhow........
My advice is to take what we say here with a grain of salt, and buy the biggest display within your budget that looks good to you. Realistically, you'll be like the rest of us here that say, "Why.....this set should last me 7 or 8 years" yet 4 years from now you'll be saying, "But honey.....this new TV has got these cool features and it's the new generation 8644p super-duper hi def."
My 46" Samsung is gone now and was replaced only because I came across a deal I could not pass up. I now have a 60" Samsung RP DLP that's lit via LED and not a bulb. The picture quality is dang close to plasma with a price that didn't gag me ($1800). Add to that the fact that I can pick the thing up by myself and the 3 years same-as-cash financing and I was sold. And when fed a clean HD signal, you'd be hard pressed to know that it was a RP DLP. The other things like it having USB and RS232 ports just added to the flexibility of the set.
Of course.....I don't have the bragging rights of owning an XYZ PRO model TV, but that's ok. [
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>They are great for the memories but as an efficent means of transportation, their days are over.
Name a better way that we have? Only the airlines for long hauls as long as you can afford it and don't mind the discomfort. A single freight train carries the load of 280 trucks, with one driver being paid about the same as any one of the 280 truck drivers. The only reason trucks compete is because they are heavily taxpayer subsidized. Without that, it would be no contest except for the very short hauls.
As to passengers, the U.S. is the only developed country without a modern passenger infrastructure. A train like the French TGV would make commuteing from Dallas to Houston/Houston to San Antonio, or any combination of the above completely viable. There are many, many overnight routes that could be scheduled to take advantage of the "zero effective travel time" situation I described earlier. And the rails still go to probably 90% of anywhere you need to get if they'd just build the self-powered cars to be dropped off to do the "last mile."
Very efficient, but only if the playing field is leveled by providing taxpayer support as we do the highways and pick up technology development where we left off about 1947. Also, your experience in the 1960's was part of an orchestrated program by the railways to make people go away. I experienced it as well at that time. They wanted out in a big way as the airlines grew. Can't blame them. However, this is NOT the 1960's and the airlines cannot service Texarkana, Tallahasse, Trinity Falls, and such and with fuel costs escalating we need alternatives where they are viable.
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Dave - You're starting to sound like my Dad. And I mean that in a good way!!
My Dad has probably written at least a hundred letters to local and national representatives about the ecomonics of rail tranportation - both passenger and freight. And you're right, rail transportation has taken a back seat because trucking was promoted. And in the end, it has cost the taxpayers waaaaaaaay more than what rail would've if it had been allowed to develop to its fullest potential.
Anybody remember that high school physics demonstration about friction? What do you think the coefficient of friction is between a steel rail and a steel wheel. It's practially nothing. What about a rubber tire and concrete or asphalt? When you do the math, the amount of diesel fuel a locomotive burns in order to move thousand of tons of frieght is a drop in the bucket of what 18 wheelers burn to move the equivalent load.
Oh....and what about the infrastructure costs?? Do all of you have pristine interstate roads or are they patched and broken and in bad shape? And why is that? I mean, look at all the tax that's collected at the pump or from trucking? How can our roads not be perfect? Because the damage is from large trucks on roads not designed for the constant loads. And the cost to maintain a railbed? Again - a drop in the bucket.
As far as passenger travel is concerned, rail wins again as the amount of fuel burned per passenger mile flat kicks the crap out of air travel. As has been pointed out. If you just gotta get there, airplane is the way to go. But how many folks flying just gotta get there? And is it really faster? If I were to fly to Atlanta from Savannah, the flight time is 36 minutes. If I drive it is 3.5 hours. But hold on, I have to get to the airport an hour early and then there's the 45 minutes to get off the plane and get my bags and then I have to get a rental car and......well, you get the picture. Except for not having to drive, it's much cheaper and almost as quick to drive. Now......if there was a high speed rail system between Savannah and Atlanta that was state-of-the-art, I guarantee you that it would be cheaper and just as quick as flying.
But how dare we suggest that rail is more efficient than air or trucking? Why.......we'd get the teamsters panties in a wad and have the airlines whinin' & cryin'.
Train joke => An old passenger train was heading out West when suddenly someone on the train pulled the emergency cord and the train comes to a screeching halt. The conductor begins walking through the car stopping & knocking on each compartment door and asking, "Excuse me....did you pull the emergency cord?" And each time he gets the same response, "No - I didn't pull it".
Finally, he gets to the end of the car where the bathroom is, knocks on the door and asks if anyone in there pulled the emergency. A man's voice hollers back, "Hell yeah I pulled the emergency cord!" To which the conductor asks why. The man replies, "Cause I got hemoroids!!" The conductor says, "Mister....there's probably 15 people on this train that has got hemoroids and they didn't pull the cord". The man shoots back, "I bet they're not wrapped around the axle!!!!!"
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I can't believe, as a guy, you haven't figured this out Greg. Your M-I-L is doing just what we guys do when our wives want us to do something that we don't want to do, but we don't want to say no. We purposely screw it up or act like we don't understand or ask a ton of questions or whatever so that our wife eventually says, "Oh nevermind....."
I think your M-I-L is trying to get out of looking after your dogs by driving you crazy. LOL.........
Seriously though, we're not keen about leaving our dogs at a kennel either. But we fortunately have a veternarian that has very nice boarding facilities with a staff that truly cares about animals that are boarded there. The kennel portion has accomodations for the animals to be outside, yet still in the confines of the facility. They also employee high school kids who's only purpose is to play/entertain the boarded animals. So, we board our two dogs.
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And this is a sweet ride too.
http://www.gizmag.com/vectrix-electric-superbike/8395/picture/40165/
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Michael -
In a previous home I had built, I specified blown-in cellulose throughout the home. In the den area the ceiling was vaulted and I was sure the builder was going to tell me that he had to use bat insulation. To my surprise, they used a fabric like material that was fastened (stapled) to the bottom edges of the ceiling rafters. Then, slit type openings were made in the fabric and the hose was inserted. After each rafter bay was filled, the slit was sealed with a fiberglass tape. Finally, the sheetrock went up. This "fabric" was pretty strong and would not tear, yet you could see through it. Not sure what it's called, but maybe it would be an option versus an attic door?????
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Almost any mathematical computation of figures can be manipulated and professionally interpretated for a political agenda. For instance: The inflation index minus food and fuel? Give me a break.
JJK
No.....you give US a break and can the paranoia political agenda crap. Did you actually READ what I wrote?? It was a 10 year period from 1996 to 2005. How in the hell do you infer that some IRS statistic that doesn't include THE LAST THREE YEARS is a political agenda?? Good lord......maybe you should put your aluminum foil hat back on.
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In my minds eye, I see a design variation of this product:
Instead of having provisions for the mowers' tires, there would be a platform for the speaker to sit on. And since the footprint of the speaker jack would be some-what square, it would eliminate the unstable nature of a three point contact. Additionally, it could accomodate any number of different size speakers and hold them much more securely than a tripod.
There....I've given you my design for free. You just gotta go find someone to weld it up for you. Maybe that feller that does Crites' trailers.
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Thanks for askin'!
I got the Dewalt DW716. It's a 12-inch double compound, non-slider, that can cut a 2X10. I wanted a non-slider because they're really more stable than the sliders, and I wanted a real precise saw. I picked up a Forrest Chopmaster blade (locally, on Craigslist) for use with furniture and stain-grade trim. It's pretty light, too. At least it's lighter than my 15-inch Hitachi!
I bought it on Amazon. They had it for $377, with a Dewalt tool of your choice (4 choices). I chose the LED light accessory. It casts a shadow on the work, indicating where the kerf is. Pretty neat!
(sigh......) Maybe one day my lowly el-cheapo 10" compound miter saw will grow up to a DW716.
I've been doing more trim work projects lately and a 10" saw is a PITA due to the cutting width limitation. And I'd love to have one of those miter saw stands with the support extensions. Sheesh......you should see the jerry-rigged contraptions I come up with.
Something I've noticed that you don't see much anymore is radial arm saws. Wonder why??
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Funny you should mention recessed lights. I was really struggling with my lighting plan and one day the wife & I were in Lowes looking at flourescent light fixtures and she asked what about using recessed lights. I explained that I wanted broad even coverage lighting and that even if I could achieve it with cans, it would cost too much. She then points out (man....I hate when this happens) a stack of boxes that contained 6 recessed light fixtures (contractors pack) each and says, "These are on sale for $12.95 for 6 and that one T8 fixture your looking at is $60. Am I missing some thing??"
So now I have twelve 6" recessed cans in my workshop and the total cost including trim rings & bulbs was less than $70. I'm sure that flourescents would've been better, but I've decided to use dedicated lighting in those areas where I need serious illumination. And something else I see as a benefit to the recessed lights - I never have to worry about swinging around a long piece of wood or a ladder and whacking a T8 bulb! Done that before. YIKES!!
Oh - and don't forget the ceiling fans. I installed two of these:
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=214705-1811-UT56TBC3M&lpage=none
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I suggest you read this and other articles on their website:
http://www.projectorcentral.com/projection_screen_size.htm
And I agree that with the limited depth you have, your best compromise may be either two couches or recliners in front and a couch in back. When you figure in the footprint of a recliner in the reclined position and then a couch behind and then space to walk, that 19' of depth gets eaten up real quick. If it were me, I'd park outside and commandeer that garage for the HT!! LOL........
And as far as building a custom or semi-custom home.....I have to politely disagree. Like all things in life, the bad experiences get more "press" than the good. I've had 4 homes built in my life. The first two were spec homes, the 3rd was a modified spec and the last was a semi-custom. Was there stress involved? Yes. But 90% of the time it was brought on by my an*l retentive & perfectionist nature. Would I build another house? In a heart beat.
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Michael -
I don't know if I completely understand the orientation/placement of your garage doors, so forgive me if this suggestion isn't possible.
Having owned a boat or two in my life, the one thing I've said I would do if I could build the garage of my dreams is to have a garage door on opposite ends of the building so that I didn't have to back the boat into the garage. Instead, I could just drive it in and pull it out the other side.
And I have an electrical suggestion that actually eminates from a suggestion my wife had about my workshop/garage. When I was laying out where to place my electrical boxes, she suggested I place a few outlets up near the ceiling. When I asked why, she said, "Well, that way when I want to buy you some of those cool neon garage or bar signs, you'll have a convenient place to plug them in." Gotta love a woman who understands what a garage means to a man. LOL.........
100amps??? You're kidding right?? Dude - I've got a 200amp service going to mine. Think about it. A typical 220v air compressor is gonna draw 40 amps! Well......there's more to the story for me. I plan on using the extra service capacity for a pool/patio project and a room addition. Sadly, the breaker box on our home is max'd out so I was forced to have a separate feed/meter on my workshop.
Please keep us updated.
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Hello David -
I too am a bit late to this thread, but have been readng it over the last couple of days. I just want to chime in and say that I too have asked for God's hand to be upon Sophia and your family both now and in the future. All of us, and I mean ALL of us have been touched by God's hand - some of us are just more in tune with it than others and are able to see the outcome of His blessings.
Growing up, I had a friend (Jimmy) who was my age who had a similiar condition to Sophia's. His complexion had that blueish coloration and his fingernails and lips were as you described. As a geeky, kinda outsider of kid as I was, I often wondered why of all the folks that he hung around with, that he picked me to be his bestest friend. Amazingly, I can still picture him. LOL....he was skinnier than me! But for good reason. His older brother was only 2 years older than him, yet was built like an ox. I remember how his brother use to pick us BOTH up and toss us around like rag dolls - being more gentler with Jimmy than me naturally. Jimmy started playing drums when we were around 11 and shortly thereafter he got into a band. I can still picture him on the stage in our High School auditorium drumming to a Grand Funk Railroad tune. He was special kid that everyone gravitated to and I was proud to be his friend. Didn't see it at the time, but that was God's hand touching me and others thorugh Jimmy.
Unfortunately, medical science wasn't as advanced as it is today for kids like Sophia and Jimmy passed away long after he was supposed to be on this earth (according to the Doctors). As for Sophia.....my speculation is that due to the exponential rate of advancement in medicine, her life on this earth will be much longer than you think and I pray that she out lives you.
Thanks for sharing this with us and letting me share a memory and for making me remember Jimmy.
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What the he11???? Is no one MAN enough to suggest the Bose Wave radio?? You guys are such pusses.
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I understand and can appreciate your zeal Stephen, but please cool it with the political slant thing. Amy be watching. [:#]
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Thanks for the update Fini. I was wondering what this thread was about. Naturally....all of us Klipsch forum buds can count on mdeneen and Jeff Mathews to single (double??) handedly take a rather benign topic off into "the sky is falling" and "I'm not paranoid - I KNOW they're out to get me" territory. Lordy.....can't Amy create a separate forum for them????
Anyhow.....glad you got to piddle with your RO thingy. As for a permanent solution to the noise issue.....might I suggest a wrap or two of a gym sock?? LOL.....
Oh - and one last thing. I did some research and found that the same folks that make that RO thing also make these products:
http://www.gnc.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=2108499&cp=2167069
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Hometown America Must Save the Nation
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The following was penned by Ken Hoagland of the FairTax organization. Regardless of whether you support the FairTax or not, there is some seriously good commentary in his piece that I personally feel ALL OF US should chew on and digest. Right now, if I had $10M I would spend every last cent trying to reach the minds of every person in this country in an effort to make them realize that the enemy is not necessarily the Taliban or big oil or illegal aliens - no.....the enemy is our Imperial Federal Goverment (IFG). Case in point.....
We simple Americans who do our very best to live within our means and generally have no idea of all those fancy financial ideas & concepts, told our elected leadership NO on the bailout. They did what they wanted anyway. The next day....the market tanks. The IFG starts talking about spending more on other things starting to fail and what happens? The market continues to decline. How come everyone - us & investors - get it and the IFG doesn't? I'll tell you why. BECAUSE THEY DON'T CARE. Anyhow......enough of my rant. Here's what I said I'd post.
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At the heart of the financial meltdown now bedeviling Americans is a simple and profoundly ignored fact that does not require an advanced degree in economics to understand: Our government spends more than it takes in—a lot more.
Sure, regulators could have done a better job but, in truth, politicians at every level have frustrated attempts to blow the whistle on bad loans, bad reporting and bad ethics. Why? Because politicians have been buying our votes with our money—and our future earnings—for a long time. And they don't want any interference from those they are "helping."
It's not just the naked bribes represented by "earmarks" for hometown voters; it is new entitlement programs like the prescription drug benefit, new rules governing the behavior of favored banks and investment houses and a headlong rush to buy the votes of the poor by guaranteeing home ownership, irrespective of one's financial ability to repay a loan. Lest we forget, let's also add up all the special tax breaks for favored contributors that have bloated income tax code rules to 67,500 pages. It's a bi-partisan betrayal of our future cloaked as concern for the common good.
Although our nation was founded on the principle that the citizen was sovereign, government spending increases and more and more taxes taken from our earnings, savings and investments have effectively transformed the American citizen into a serf working another's land for the privilege of taking a fraction of the fruits of his or her own labor.
Just Trust Us
"Trust us," we are told. "We have the best interests of the nation at heart." Citizens are now left with no rational choice to protect savings, college plans, and investments but to accept the new aristocracies' trillion dollar picking of our pockets to prop up institutions that must function. It is not the first time in recent years that we have accepted the grasping hand of the federal government in our wallets to avert a disaster not of our making.
In 1983 a "Blue Ribbon" panel of similar leaders including Alan Greenspan, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and others "saved" Social Security from another big collapse by dramatically raising taxes on earnings of up to $97,500 annually. The promise, then, was that Baby Boomers would actually "pre-fund" their own retirement with astoundingly increased taxes, decades ahead of time. It was also promised as relief to the coming generations so they would be free of crippling taxes. Sounded good.
Lo and behold, the trillions of dollars taken in since then—far exceeding promised payments to senior citizens—have since been spent on everything else. Turns out, that it was nothing more than a new tax levied on those with earnings below $97,500 a year so executive and legislative branch office holders could have more of our money to spend extravagantly on "us" so they could win new terms in office. The FICA payroll tax has become a major factor in keeping the poor that way, retarding new business growth and keeping middle-class earners from moving up. Worst, it also turns out that our children and grandchildren will, in fact, still be burdened an ever-growing and mind-numbing national debt AND unbelievably high FICA taxes to support their parents.
In yet another example of playing fast and loose with politics and our money, 1986 saw Congress reject the tax policies of the Reagan administration and as consequence, the Savings and Loan industry collapsed. Turns out the definition of the tax value of real estate holdings had been changed overnight by the House Ways and Means Committee and banks no longer met liquidity rules. That politically inspired cat fight cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. And worse, we didn't learn.
It is past time--way past time--for hometown America to save America from our well-intentioned but criminally incompetent, at best, and cynically corrupted , at worst, national leadership. Do we have a moment to lose? Do we really need any more examples of how the new aristocracy can—and will—destroy the pursuit of happiness?
The reform that can save the nation and restore our identity as citizens who have empowered and limited government (instead of the other way around) is called the FairTax.
Because the FairTax allows every American to take home everything that is earned without any federal withholding, millions of distressed homeowners could actually afford home mortgage payments. The elimination of FICA taxes eliminates the highly regressive Social Security and Medicate tax but the FairTax provides a far broader stream of revenue into these faltering programs. Because the FairTax eliminates all exemptions, gimmicks and loopholes, Congress would be removed from the ability to buy votes with tax giveaways and billionaires pay taxes when they spend money. Because the FairTax makes nearly all federal government taxes entirely transparent, the sovereign citizen can know the score and put the brakes on extravagant new spending. Because the FairTax eliminates the price advantage now enjoyed by overseas producers, American jobs won't be leaving our shores. In fact, because the FairTax makes the USA the most favorable tax environment in the world, we can expect trillions of dollars of investment rushing into the US economy. With the FairTax, our money is ours first and only secondly devoted to government. Savings growth, investments and business decisions are guided by opportunity and real progress instead of tax avoidance tactics.
We've lost more than $2 trillion of our retirement savings in a week's time and our kid's future at college is in serious jeopardy. This didn't happen by accident but at the hands of the very same people who have given the FairTax a cold shoulder. Those candidates and incumbents of either party who would spend our future earnings to stay in office and who reject the FairTax for similarly self-interested reasons now need a strong reminder from voters about whose offices they occupy. Please pay attention to our voting guide and send that message.
Finally, our campaign needs your help—as always. We never have enough to do the job right. Send us a contribution if you can, even in these hard times. It may turn out to be the best investment you ever made. If you can't afford a donation, then help us by recruiting two new supporters. And keep your cards, letters, phone calls, faxes and e-mails going to incumbents and candidates.
The plain fact is, we either now save ourselves from our new aristocracy or suffer the consequences as modern day serfs in a nation never contemplated by our Founding Fathers.