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Proud of all my MFO brothers and sisters for all these posts. From this day forward EVERY REPUGLICAN is complicit with the treasonous traitor. I don't know any of them to speak to but if I did I would ask in plain language if they will change parti…
@ted. With all due respect,,, you should NEVER,EVER, comment on some other dudes choice of topics. You, the self styled linkster have started literally thousands of threads that were totally ignored. At least a few folks cared enough about this topi…
@Old_Joe. Why would V.F. use that word to describe a fund manager? Mr.Minerd is not a lawyer nor a money lender. Minerd wrote an option piece about the market. Hardly makes him a bad man. What do you suppose V.F. really meant? It sure wasn't a comp…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-apologizes-for-using-anti-semitic-term/
You can find any number of definitions for that word but believe me,,, it is offensive. Mr. Minerd is not a lawyer. Calling him a shyster was hardly called for in this s…
@vintagefreak.you ought to be very careful about using the word "shyster." Do you actually know the history of that word? If you do,,,, shame on you.if you don't,,,, shame on you.
@maurice. I think I get you. You must be posing as a right wing nut case. No intelligent conservative would post such nonsense. Oh SORRY,,, intelligent conservative is a contradiction in terms. No such animal. Goodby.
@Old_Joe. Actually " you can't argue with a sick mind"
Is the title of a 1976 album by Joe walsh. But seriously
How can you reason with the likes of Maurice and Ted? If we take them as representative of their party then what's the point of talking…
This dialogue is as close as I get to exchanging ideas with members of the ______old party. Thanks Ted and Maurice,,,, I can see why I don't waste my time. You can't argue with a sick mind.
@Maurice. "You folks"....... Who are you talking about? Do you mean the 99% or anyone not of the party of ignorance, greed, division, fear and hatred? Do tell.
Ted, Ted, Ted, the author could be the devil himself, what matters is the facts. The message is what matters, not the messenger. The fact is that in many measures, america is exceptionally underperforming it's peer group of nation's. If it were a mu…
Thanks for posting this. Three comments. This article is more important than one hundred links to nowhere and nothing. While one party did not create this situation absolutely one party makes it worse everyday. Now stand up and put your hand over yo…
I just called vanguard. Got to a human almost immediately. I asked him where on the website I can find what is labeled "Day Change" on my Schwab page. He was sure it was somewhere,,,, it's down there somewhere (the dude abides) but it was nowhere to…
To be fair, my experience with phone support has been fine. At this point I don't call that often but when I have a question I want an answer now. Schwab phone support is always open. Vanguard has limited hours. Maybe it's because I have more experi…
I want to thank the contributors to this excellent and most helpful discussion. Links are links but the exchange of ideas help all of us. It's just my opinion but a half a dozen discussions are worth more than a thousand links.
Absurd. Why should anyone peg retirement cost of living to income? Happily my income has increased geometrically but my cost of living has only increased with inflation. Same car, same house, same boat as in 1999. Kids grown, no debt. Not everyone l…
@Old_Joe- of course you are right. But I always felt bad when some lazy, shiftless so and so wanted to buy health insurance and could afford health insurance but were turned down because they had the nerve to have some minor medical issue. Or they w…
Thanks for your comments. I have different opinions of course. But your opinions on the affordable Care act are way misinformed. I have been a health insurance broker since 1988 and know the in and outs of health insurance from day to day experience…
Thanks David for the explanation. Apparently two members of the party that shall not be named are very thin skinned. If pointing out the salient planks of said party's social policy "begets heat" and is so offensive to this crowd I am in the wrong p…
@ Maurice. If you consider the depiction of repuglican positions on many social and economic issues as slimy personal attacks then you must not feel too comfortable with your party. So sad.
@rono.of course one is entitled to their own set of beliefs,,,,, that sounds pretty reasonable. But what happens when those beliefs are not reasonable, fair, human, moral or constitutional? The KKK has beliefs, the Nazis have beliefs, the NRA has be…
@ Crash. I hesitate to single out one portion of the right. There are so many,,,, let's see,,, the racist cohort, the xenophobic cohort, the homophobic cohort,,, the I got mine cohort, the misogynistic cohort, the anti any religion but mine cohort,,…
