Re: Talking Heads & Commercial Interests

You're right Fed Peasant. Remember the commercial a few years ago....a brokerage house manager was pushing some new stock on his brokers to sell. He knew the stock was a piece of crap but the sales commissions would be huge. He told them, "All right people, let's put some lipstick on this pig."

Re: We are responsible for our own investments

Your first 2 paragraphs were good. Then you went to the socialist garbage. Obama is doing this because of Bush's depression. The health care is needed to help people who cannot afford medical insurance because they were laid off by Bush's depression or by greedy employers who will not supply decent medical insurance. I am talking about the big employers and not monm and pop stores.

Re: We are responsible for our own investments

Why not the smaller stores? They haven't let people go? Your paragraph was as filled with garbage as the one you responded to.

At some point, you have to be responsible for yourself. We talk about health care as though it's a national right. If you believe that it is, then you likely believe that food and shelter are rights as well. In truth, they are more pressing issues than health care.

I don't believe health care, be it Medicare or Medicaid, or any semblance of retirement, a la Social Security, is a right. We did better as a people when we had more management over our money. The government gets its money only from taxes; any increase in taxes, fees, currency devaluation, etc. is an expansion of government, a government that is too big already by at least a third.

Re: So you are going to predict the future? Again

I cannot help but wonder at the thought process and lack of common sense and good manners that a person goes through to use the services of a site (at no cost); that has good articles and general advice for the federal community; and then has the temerity to to make derisive comments if you happen to disagree with a particular article.

I don't always agree with all of the columns from the various writers but the information seems timely, well thought out and very helpful in my federal career. Why would someone who professes to have a good education want to act like a jerk?

Perhaps this is the result of the educational system that awards someone a ph.d?

Re: TSP

Exactly! Great point.

(But to answer your question: No better than "weathermen," they're all over cable news telling us what to do now.)