American Politics

[QUOTE=Villainy;2649875]You are saying you paid a 25% commission every year for 4 years and netted a 68% return over the 4 years? Where in the world do you pay a 25% commission annually? People who actually invest pick mutual funds or ETFs and pay 1% (sometimes a tiny bit more or a little less). Index funds (like Fidelity's Admiral Fund charge something like 0. 10% Even with professional investment advisors 25% commissions don't exist and only someone making it would make that claim.[/QUOTE]You are exactly right. It is a typo. I pay. 25 percent commissions. I would not ever invest more than 5 or 10 per cent in mutual funds or ETF. Most of my portfolio is invested in managed funds with great managers.

[QUOTE=ScatManDoo;2650216]In other words.

He has no complaints or point.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.newsmax.com/politics/joebiden-jobapproval-quinnipiacpoll/2022/01/12/id/1052154/[/URL]

[QUOTE=Canada;2650410]Portfolio gains are always after fees but obviously you didn't know that because your only source of income is government subsistence. If Jimmy Carter years we're your best years I know exactly why you can't afford to live in USA. I would bet that my 5 year old grandson has more invested in market than you.[/QUOTE]I am not receiving any government checks, not even my Social Security checks. I have been pleasantly and pleasurably retired in Thailand for almost 10 years entirely on my investment incomes and a pension from a USA company I was with for 25 years.

No, my greatest stock market returns per presidency were during those 264% gain Clinton years and 235% gain Obama years while your way overpaid even at 0.25% commission financial advisors were telling you how proud and thrilled you should be to have only gained something significantly less than 70%.

The Carter years were not my best stock market return years because I wasn't in the market during Carter's presidency. But Carter was the one who required companies to offer all of their rank and file employees one of the greatest tax deferred stock market investment and retirement planning instruments of all time, the 401 k, instead of only blessing their top management executives with that offer.

That alone was a greater "tax cut" and pro retirement advantage for the ordinary working American than any Repub ever produced or ever will produce.

Oh, and so many jobs were being created under Carter, I should mention those were the years I could pick and choose companies to work for, salaries to consider, future prospects in each plum company to calculate.

That sure as hell was no longer the case after Reagan took over, got his way and promptly plunged us into his Great Repub Recession with 10%+ unemployment rates for 10 consecutive months beginning in his 2nd year in office and extending into his 3rd year!

BTW, I notice no Wingers have mentioned or linked a report on the lastest inflation number yet. And I know why. LOL. It seems every headline on how high the number is also mentions it is the highest "since 1982". That means it was higher in 1982 or from the year before.

Hmm. I forget. Who was president in 1982 and had been for at least a year by then, just as Biden is today? LOL. Yes, higher inflation than today and crap jobs creation results and skyrocketing unemployment rates and a Great Repub Recession in the works and the start of his tripling of the national debt with absolutely nothing to show for it. That was the reality of the Reagan economy.

[QUOTE=Canada;2650407]Typo but everyone knows that fees aren't 25.[/QUOTE]So, you didn't bother to proofread or correct your error. But what is worse is that you don't have the cojones to admit it. Just like Cheeto McBonespurs.

"Everybody knows" is the line that wingers use when they found out something yesterday or don't have proof of anything.

As in, "Everybody knows" that windmills cause cancer.

Or as in, "Everybody knows" that Chinese thermostats changed votes.

Or as in, "Everybody knows" that injecting bleach cures COVID.

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2650443][URL]https://www.newsmax.com/politics/joebiden-jobapproval-quinnipiacpoll/2022/01/12/id/1052154/[/URL][/QUOTE][URL]https://cloudflarepoc.newsmax.com/newsfront/biden-voting-rights-abrams/2022/01/11/id/1051976/[/URL]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2650460]I am not receiving any government checks, not even my Social Security checks. I have been pleasantly and pleasurably retired in Thailand for almost 10 years entirely on my investment incomes and a pension from a USA company I was with for 25 years.

No, my greatest stock market returns per presidency were during those 264% gain Clinton years and 235% gain Obama years while your way overpaid even at 0.25% commission financial advisors were telling you how proud and thrilled you should be to have only gained something significantly less than 70%.

The Carter years were not my best stock market return years because I wasn't in the market during Carter's presidency. But Carter was the one who required companies to offer all of their rank and file employees one of the greatest tax deferred stock market investment and retirement planning instruments of all time, the 401 k, instead of only blessing their top management executives with that offer.

That alone was a greater "tax cut" and pro retirement advantage for the ordinary working American than any Repub ever produced or ever will produce..[/QUOTE]If you are lying about the Carter years then probably your whole post is a lie. Everyone knows Carter was the worst president ever until this year when Biden took the title. If you haven't lived in USA in last 10 years you obviously are only making your posts off fake news.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2650460]I am not receiving any government checks, not even my Social Security checks. I have been pleasantly and pleasurably retired in Thailand for almost 10 years entirely on my investment incomes and a pension from a USA company I was with for 25 years.[/QUOTE]You must be lying. Everyone who disagrees with Canada and right-wingers in general is a destitute welfare recipient whose only source of income is government subsistence. It's common knowledge.

Of course, thanks to the 4 dismal years of Trump, more Americans are now disagree rather than agree with Canada et al, but who's counting, LOL?

[URL]https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/06/24/more-americans-now-socially-liberal-than-conservative-for-first-time-poll-finds[/URL]

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2650679]You must be lying. Everyone who disagrees with Canada and right-wingers in general is a destitute welfare recipient whose only source of income is government subsistence. It's common knowledge.

Of course, thanks to the 4 dismal years of Trump, more Americans are now disagree rather than agree with Canada et al, but who's counting, LOL?

[URL]https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/06/24/more-americans-now-socially-liberal-than-conservative-for-first-time-poll-finds[/URL][/QUOTE]Not everyone but I think I am right about you and a couple others on this site. 70% of Americans are blaming Biden policies for record inflation. Front page of our liberal newspaper today is half page article about Biden inflation worst inflation in 40 years. Every article on the internet says worst inflation in 49 years. Since Carter presidency. Any yet you and others keep lying about it and post articles that Trump was worse. If the 4 years under Trump was dismal for you then 2021 was a disaster for you. On the economy and inflation now 70% think Biden is doing a bad job. Don't you think that will affect the next election? Under Carter inflation reached as high as 14% and interest rates were 18%. The only way to slow inflation is to raise interest rates and the feds will do it now but how much are they going to have to raise them to stop this runaway inflation. And yes the poor do suffer more when gas is $4 a gallon and groceries are unaffordable.

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2650497]So, you didn't bother to proofread or correct your error. But what is worse is that you don't have the cojones to admit it. Just like Cheeto McBonespurs.

"Everybody knows" is the line that wingers use when they found out something yesterday or don't have proof of anything.

As in, "Everybody knows" that windmills cause cancer.

Or as in, "Everybody knows" that Chinese thermostats changed votes.

Or as in, "Everybody knows" that injecting bleach cures COVID.[/QUOTE]I didn't proof read it and I corrected it. Your posts make no sense.

Windmills don't cause cancer they kill thousands of birds.

Making outlandish statements doesn't make you look smarter.

[QUOTE=Canada;2650638]If you are lying about the Carter years then probably your whole post is a lie. Everyone knows Carter was the worst president ever until this year when Biden took the title. If you haven't lived in USA in last 10 years you obviously are only making your posts off fake news.[/QUOTE]Yes, "If".

But since I did not lie about Carter, Reagan, the Bushes, Clinton, Obama, Trump, Biden, any other presidents, their parties or their economies, you can rest assured I did not lie about anything else in my posts.

Now, what is difficult to believe is that somebody had money in as many as 200 stocks during the Clinton and Obama presidencies, paying 2 firms to guide him in his picks, asset allocation, etc yet still managed to underperform the broad USA stock market so badly he only squeezed out significantly less than 70% total return out of those 264% and 235% gain presidencies.

You have boasted about the killing you made during Biden's first year as POTUS on oil stocks while the broad USA stock market as measured by the industry standard S&P 500 Index gained an easy 28% not counting dividends. Serious question; by "killing", does that mean you saw a gain of about 5% or 6% last year?

[QUOTE=Canada;2650690]Not everyone but I think I am right about you and a couple others on this site. 70% of Americans are blaming Biden policies for record inflation. Front page of our liberal newspaper today is half page article about Biden inflation worst inflation in 40 years. Every article on the internet says worst inflation in 49 years. Since Carter presidency. Any yet you and others keep lying about it and post articles that Trump was worse. If the 4 years under Trump was dismal for you then 2021 was a disaster for you. On the economy and inflation now 70% think Biden is doing a bad job. Don't you think that will affect the next election? Under Carter inflation reached as high as 14% and interest rates were 18%. The only way to slow inflation is to raise interest rates and the feds will do it now but how much are they going to have to raise them to stop this runaway inflation. And yes the poor do suffer more when gas is $4 a gallon and groceries are unaffordable..[/QUOTE]Every report I've seen on the inflation report says it's the highest level "since 1982".

[B]Inflation reaches highest level since 1982 as consumer prices jump 7% in 2021[/B]

[URL]https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/9178235002[/URL]

Carter wasn't president in 1982. Reagan was and had been for a year, just like Biden now.

And the thing is, the inflation rate was the best factor in the Reagan economy of 1982 because at least it was steadily declining, thanks solely to Carter and the Fed Chairman he appointed in Q4 1979 to do exactly that and nothing whatsoever to do with anything Reagan did.

What had everything to do with Reagan's favorite Repub economic policies in 1982, his 2nd year in office, was the unemployment rate that was I'm steady decline into the 7% range when he took office was just beginning to skyrocket into ten consecutive months of double digits stretching well into his 3rd year in office, his Great Reagan / Repub Recession, then the worst economic downturn since the Great Repub Depression of the late 1920's / early 1930's was just beginning and he was making the usual Repub moves to add massive amounts to the national debt and deficit trying to spend his way out of the mess he made of everything with nothing to show for it.

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2650520][URL]https://cloudflarepoc.newsmax.com/newsfront/biden-voting-rights-abrams/2022/01/11/id/1051976/[/URL][/QUOTE]Yet, the consensus of polls still shows Biden is viewed more favorably than your Dear Cult Leader:

[URL]https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/other/FavorabilityRatingsPoliticalLeaders.html[/URL]

Interesting, huh?

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2650754]Yes, "If".

But since I did not lie about Carter, Reagan, the Bushes, Clinton, Obama, Trump, Biden, any other presidents, their parties or their economies, you can rest assured I did not lie about anything else in my posts.

Now, what is difficult to believe is that somebody had money in as many as 200 stocks during the Clinton and Obama presidencies, paying 2 firms to guide him in his picks, asset allocation, etc yet still managed to underperform the broad USA stock market so badly he only squeezed out significantly less than 70% total return out of those 264% and 235% gain presidencies.

You have boasted about the killing you made during Biden's first year as POTUS on oil stocks while the broad USA stock market as measured by the industry standard S&P 500 Index gained an easy 28% not counting dividends. Serious question; by "killing", does that mean you saw a gain of about 5% or 6% last year?[/QUOTE]My oil stocks increased about 50% on average. My Berkshire stock went up about 40% and the balance of my other dicks went up about 17%. My one share of Berkshire is up to $483,000 thanks to his generous donations to Biden. I did well in Clinton years but I didn't have as much invested then. With Clinton being a lame duck president and republicans holding the house and senate, it forced to Clinton to join the republicans on passing legislation. Worked well. Clinton was smart. The one thing I know is that I did better this year than you did in all your years of investing. Satisfaction in that.

[QUOTE=Canada;2650690]Not everyone but I think I am right about you and a couple others on this site. 70% of Americans are blaming Biden policies for record inflation. Front page of our liberal newspaper today is half page article about Biden inflation worst inflation in 40 years. Every article on the internet says worst inflation in 49 years. Since Carter presidency. Any yet you and others keep lying about it and post articles that Trump was worse.[/QUOTE]Somehow, I'm not surprised you've either overpaid your financial advisor to the tune of at least 2,500% or have an attention span of a 5-year old.

Carter wasn't President 40 years ago. Reagan was -- a Republican.

Carter wasn't President 49 years ago. Nixon was -- a Republican.

I have no idea where you pull your "49 years" from, but it's not important. What important is that with every new illiterate "argument" you keep shooting yourself in the foot.

I don't know how you can still walk around treating your feet the way you do.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2650235]Of course they are working to keep any American smart enough to take the vaccines Biden made free and available to them from getting seriously ill, requiring hospitalization or dying from Trump's Pandemic virus in all its variations.

Any and all tests we have for now are thanks to Biden and every Dem who voted Yes on the American Rescue Plan. All shortages are to be blamed on the Repubs who didn't even bother to participate, didn't support a greater number of them be included in the bill and didn't bother to earn their pay for a change.[/QUOTE]I love your arguments, we must select Biden for next term as well, not election needed.