A good friend of mine was in the interview process to become an astronaut, and, I have to be honest, I don't think that it hurt her career or her life in any way. She didn't end up an astronaut, but she met a bunch of interesting people, did cool things, and ultimately landed a job at a top university. I doubt she regrets it one bit. If that's what failure looks like, sign me up.
Maybe you should look at the graph that YOU provided, and notice that the years that Reagan was in office '81-89 in fact leveled off the steep decline from the Carter years...go figure.
You've clearly got no fucking idea what you're talking about. Everyone makes mistakes in parenting. But then my own circumstances were never part of the topic. But since you asked, I've raised a child (including 7 yrs as a single parent) very successfully, put her through college, and she's spent the last year in a three year leadership program at a major national company. So yeah, I guess I fucked up.
Blah, blah, blah. You don't answer the question...where's the push to get more men into teaching and nursing.
And for the record, I've personally hired more women then men for the last several years. Sometimes for the right reason...they were more qualified, but more often than not, it's only to meet the quota. Not only that, they're given larger pay raises, and more are promoted to meet this politically correct agenda at my company. So don't start your bullshit about whining.
The people making money or I should say, making the decent returns, on your house are the banks.
Guess I'm a bank then.
Bought a home in '85, sold in '91. Made money, even through the housing decline of the late 80s.
Bought a home in 96, sold in 02. Made money...early housing bubble days.
Bought a home in '02, and based on the Zillow estimate, we've added 65% equity above the purchase price (current valuation minus purchase price...not including the equity we've gained paying the mortgage...that adds another 15-20%), and are roughly back to within 15% of the bubble valuation. We'll be selling this in a few years to retire, and purchase our final smaller place outright in a lower cost area.
Only an idiot pays 6% now.
I haven't read the linked article, but from my own experience, having purchased my first townhouse in '85, then another in '96, and finally a single family in '00, I've pulled gained value over renting in each case. And that's even in a down housing market (late 80s), I got a traditional 30yr fixed mortgage each time, no debt consolidation, or second mortgages. The single exception is the HELOC I have on our current home, which I've used to help pay my daughter's college, and a new vehicle...that' is debt is nearly zero now. The point being with the mortgage interest tax write off, you're not only building equity, you're paying less in income tax.
Maybe your average ex-con anus. Mine is a bit tighter.
Well first, no one attributes the economic expansion of the 1980s with trickle-down economics. Literally nobody of any importance in the field of economics.
Yeah, I guess that recession were were in when he entered office disappeared by itself. Were you not around back then? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
I didn't pull the numbers above out of my anus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
And, If you believe that trickle down policies were responsible for the 1980s economy, your position is equally the same to me as an anti-vaxxer or a climate change denier. You believe in fantasy.
I guess I'll just live with the facts that were presented then, and you can ignore them and cite an imaginary equivalency...Squirrel!!!
Second, for a current example of those same "cut taxes results in boom" ridiculous ideas in action today, you need only look as far as the state of Kansas, who now have a two billion dollar deficit directly caused by lowering the income tax. Unsurprisingly, increased revenue did not result.
Yeah, I'm well aware of the Kansas situation. It's not the same. It's an extreme case, and doesn't compare.
You've clearly never worn those shoes.
I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky
