| What an investment! |
[Jan. 8th, 2005|12:04 am] |
You can expect to pay $553,859 in Social Security taxes over your working life for retirement and survivors benefits. For those taxes, you can expect to receive $3,080 a month in Social Security retirement benefits. Your rate of return under today's Social Security is -0.94%.
However, if you had been able to invest your Social Security taxes in a Personal Retirement Account (PRA), you would have had a total of $1,569,079 when you retired. Your monthly benefits would have been $12,781. You lost $9,702 a month.
Want to find out how much this socialist nonsense is screwing you? Try the Social Security Calculator and find out! |
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| Sorry Martha Stewart.... |
[Nov. 4th, 2004|10:58 pm] |
You and the other 'insider traders' of corporate America can't compare to the sleazeballs in power. Next time the feds crack down, we should ask why they don't start on Capitol Hill.
Link:
Our Elected Insider Traders |
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| Internet geeks of the world unite! |
[Oct. 25th, 2004|10:48 pm] |
Was playing CounterStrike: Source tonight and one of the other players was named 'VoteBadnarik'. I had a couple kind words for the guy, so another guy pipes up that he's a card carrying Libertarian Party member. So yeah, why do I keep getting the impression that there are a lot more libertarians out there than we are led to believe? And is the media blackout so effective that without it the rate of libertarians might even be as great or better than that of the robot Right and Left?
I was leaning towards not voting at all since it is an absurd concept. But if this stuff is really spreading I think I want to help get the word out. I would also get a chance to vote NO for every new statist scheme they are trying to cook up. |
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[Oct. 18th, 2004|11:05 am] |
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How common are astralshade's interests |
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[Sep. 20th, 2004|10:32 am] |
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I seem to have a never-ending supply of gmail account invites, so I will send to anyone that wants onew! Just drop your email address as a comment so I can send it to you. |
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[Sep. 5th, 2004|11:53 am] |
Here in Cincinnati for work. Should have stayed home in the hurricane. Would have had 7 days off and the place I would have stayed had cable and power the whole time so far. Anyway, thought I'd post something I found about the protests of the RNC. I don't really see the point in protesting them, but if this person's post is truthful, then it's another shining example of the joys of our coercive monopoly on force that we call the police. No accountability, no justice. Apparently the city may have been fined for their treatment of these people, This is merely a punishment the taxpayers will bear, not the actual people responsible.
So this is something I was going to write about anyway. No matter how many rights the government decides to grant you, they can still violate them all they want, and what can you do? If you have to undergo cruel and unusual punishment what happens? They say they are sorry later and let you go? You aren't compensated for it and you can't seek restitution as you would be able to do if the police service wasn't 'pubic'. so basically whatever rights you have are meaningless. |
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| Voting |
[Aug. 31st, 2004|02:00 am] |
As sick as this makes me, I will probably be voting for someone for Sheriff tomorrow here in Martin County since it is a friend of a co-worker. I was told by someone today that cliche' that if you don't vote, you can't complain. Right, as if the two retards they put up for you to choose really represents what you want. But anyway, if voting was really so democratic and indicated your preferences, why isn't there an option to have NO president, senator, etc. How are you supposed to vote if you think nobody should have power over your life and liberty? The only thing you can do is not vote, and then you are back to not being able to complain because you could have changed it!
I know it's pointless to talk about since it all relies on Doublethink like everything else in politics, but I still have to rant. |
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[Jul. 4th, 2004|02:32 pm] |
Luckily I will get out of work at 3 today b/c my boss is in good 4th of July spirits. I somehow doubt I'll be doing anything too patriotic tonight. Looking at probably some gaming with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) taniman
And now, for some friends-list fusion:
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| Haha gotcha bastards |
[Jun. 16th, 2004|03:03 pm] |
Ok my daily commute takes me up and down a stretch of US1 that leads between the county I live and the county I work. It is quite empty as it passes through a large state park and therefore no homes or businesses. The speed limit is 55 mph, but NOBODY goes that slow, as there is nothing around and visibility is excellent. I'd say average speed is 70+ mph, and I usually go 80+. They tend to radar the desolate area late at night. I got a ticket at like 11 pm on a Sunday, and just the other day saw one radar me at 1:30 am. So, I decided to find out how they go about setting these limits because as I have read you can contest the law itself in court (this is doubtful, I know).
So I call up Martin county traffic engineering division. They have no idea how speed limit is set and US1 is state run. She gives me the number to the state of Florida highway dept's local office. I ask how they set the speed limits, he kind of mumbles something about state guidelines. I ask if I can get information on what the guidelines are. He says it is just 55 mph in a rural area, in every rural area. So I clarify that there were no tests or surveys run on this highway to determine what the speed limit would be. He says no, but that he can tell me when the speed limit was set. I say yes, and he says that there is no record of when the speed limit was set, meaning it was done when the road was built. So when was US1 built? Over 50 years ago I'd imagine. Apparently the cars of today are supposed to handle high speeds the exact same as the cars of 50 years ago? I think not. These bastards don't have a leg to stand on.
Of course this isn't going to mean jack. I'm going before a magistrate who probably knows nothing about the law and doesn't care. All he knows is I broke the 'rules' and should pay. It won't matter that there is no evidence that I ever committed a crime, or that it isn't even a crime to begin with! |
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| Weekend |
[May. 24th, 2004|08:48 pm] |
Time to enjoy my days off. Hopefully I'll actually get something done this time, like writing a letter for continuance of my court case and get my place cleaned up. I'm sure there are a million other things I should do but I can't think of them.
Forgot to mentioned I finished the Machinery of Freedom a while ago. It wasn't bad, but Friedman's arguments for utilitarianism weren't very convincing to me. I was hoping he'd illustrate the practicality of an anarchist society more, which he did to an extent, but not too above and beyond what I had heard before. His writing left something to be desired also. What can I say, he's no Rothbard. |
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[May. 23rd, 2004|09:22 pm] |
Well I booked my ticket. I'll be flying up June 24 for the Porcupine Freedom Festival in New Hampshire. I fly into Boston but it looks like it's not ultimately that far from where I'm going. Will be cool to meet some of the people on here and the other members of the Free State Project. Hopefully I'll get to talk to Doug Stanhope too.
ghostcow actually left for the festival today. He's walking the 1000 miles and apparently expects it to take a month. Talk about dedication!
Maybe I should just go up there now. I already have to drive two towns away to get fast food. Things couldn't get much more backwards than that. And not having friends there isn't exactly a problem either since I have none here! Can't lose. |
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| Taking the red pill |
[May. 16th, 2004|05:14 pm] |
"You've felt it your entire life; that there's something wrong with the world; you don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. "
That was Morpheus in the Matrix movie. It has been true for me though, and that feeling has led me to the knowledge I have today. That we are born free, but everywhere we are in chains. After becoming an anarchist the parallels between our lives and the Matrix have become clear as day. Today polyanarch posted an article that went into more detail about it. The Blue Pill People.
So what do you do? Take the blue pill? Go on pretending that we aren't slaves fooled by some twisted illusion? Ignorance is bliss after all. Or you could take the red pill in which case your life will never be the same. Then join the ranks of those like me and the characters in the Matrix, who believe freedom should be won at any cost.
By the way, that movie was ruined by its sequels. |
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| An attempt at an update |
[May. 16th, 2004|12:35 am] |
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Sometimes I get frustrated when I go to my friends list and there is nothing new. But I don't update often myself so I don't have a leg to stand on.
Sucks to spend all day programming and all night sitting on my ass. I'd rather sit on yours.
Spent most of the night watching Tivo so far. Without that my brains would be splattered over my living room by now. Well maybe not but things would suck more.
Tru Calling, while having a cheesy premise, is actually turning out to be a pretty good show. I just now watched all the episodes from april.
I wanted to see how to upload a pic onto here, but photobucket fucked me in the ass. Will have to figure out more options. |
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| Bored! |
[May. 13th, 2004|11:14 pm] |
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OK I've gone like seven months up here in this god-forsaken place. Sitting on my ass is starting to get a little old. Don't know why it's all of a sudden such a problem, but I need to find something to do. But what am I supposed to do at night? Go sit at a bar? Fuck that....
OK I'm off to start shooting holes in my freezer. |
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| Holy Bejeesus! |
[May. 12th, 2004|07:08 pm] |
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Got a quote from another insurance agent (can't remember name of the company). He got my info then called me back with the numbers. He sounded kind of somber like there was no way I'd go with this high of a price. Well it ends up being one HALF of what I pay now! That's right, 300 bucks a month down to 150. I couldn't believe it. He wanted to know how that compares to State Farm. I'm like yeah, that's a little better :)
Maybe I can hang on to this car for another year. |
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