Posts by Brother Apostate

It couldn't be any easier to start a business right now...COULD NOT BE EASIER. $100.00 and a good idea get it going...I live it every day, have for over 2 years.

Whatever sector you are in is an anomaly. As has already been pointed out in this thread, the tax, workers comp, liabilty, and other obstacles to starting your own business in this country currently stack the deck against you. Want to see the ability for nearly anyone with a good idea and ambition succeed in their own business? Then, at a minimum, the tax obstacles need to be eliminated. The history you refer to still had the same obstacles in place, plus there were no anti-trust laws back then. What this country needs is a small business incubation program. The best and most succesful way to get there is to eliminate all taxation on profits less than $1 million/yr. BA

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Any thoughts about increasing Minimum Wage?

by journey-on in

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friends

some people want to up the minimum wage to $10 - $12 per hour!

what are your thoughts about this?.

Brother Apostate

Oh, and one more thing to make it all happen succesfully:

Eliminate all taxes on the first $1 million per year per wage earner, and the first $1 million per year profits for all businesses. This would encourage everyone with any drive, ambition, intelligence and potential to start their own business, which would create much more real competition and would ignite the economy and worker morale to ensure success, rather than the current state of stacking the deck against small businesses by over taxation.

BA- Think outside the box.

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Any thoughts about increasing Minimum Wage?

by journey-on in

jw
friends

some people want to up the minimum wage to $10 - $12 per hour!

what are your thoughts about this?.

Brother Apostate

Here's what needs to be done:
(1) Abolish the minimum wage totally.
(2) Abolish the laws that make it difficult to impossible for upstart businesses to form.
If both are put in place, you will have the big, lazy, dishonest, and greedy companies trying to exploit the workers by paying them next to nothing. At which point, the good workers would quit without giving any notice and start their own businesses. New hires at a penny an hour would not want to take that kind of money if they were really worth it, because they would either start their own businesses or would bid up the wages to free market levels on their own. At the same time, those that really want to create value would be able to do their thing, driving prices down.
Soon, everyone would get what they were worth. Employers that dragged their feet in giving deserved raises would soon (and I mean in days, not months) find themselves looking for a replacement for those workers, who would likely do crap work. People would seek to improve their workmanship, since they would be swiftly rewarded for doing so (or they would simply go elsewhere). And, once again people would be able to earn a living wage on one job, while the crap workers would be the ones that would be poor.

I couldn't agree more wholeheartedly!

The only thing I can add is this- publicly traded (as opposed to privately held) companies need to immediately have regulations put into place to control total compensation of executives on a ratio commensurate with lowest (or perhaps average) pay of employees. Until that is done, the US, both from an economic and political standpoint, will continue its runaway landslide into mediocrity. Unless and until such legislation is drafted and passed, the US will become increasingly more polarized into a nation of haves and have nots, with virtually no middle class eventually.

What would the above solve?

1)- CEOs and other C-level executives of publicly traded entities would no longer be able to profit from selling out their stockholders, customers, and employees. No more multi-million dollar bonuses or golden parachutes for mismanagement, unneccesary outsourcing and short-sightedness. Countrywide Mortgage anyone? The CEO just got a $100 million dollar bonus that we taxpayers ultimately end up paying, while the housing bubble he and his ilk fomented and caused the failure of we will also pay.

2)- Politics of, for, and by the highest bidder would be severely limited. The politics of this country would begin to return to the citizenry at large rather than corporately controlled special interest lobbies. Campaign finance could still be controlled by privately held corporations and wealthy financiers, but large, publicly held interests could no longer have their way with stockholder's investments being used to enact legislation that punishes stockholders, customers, and employees.

BA- Think about it.

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Your Day ...

by snowbird in

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friends

what time is it in your area and what are you having for your morning, mid-day, or evening meal?.

i'm having grits, canned salmon, tuna, and chicken for breakfast.

cabbage and cornbread for mid-day and evening.. life can be beautiful and good - if we allow it.. sylvia.

Brother Apostate

Had my protein shake before my bike ride (36 miles) this morning. Now having a quart of yogurt before calisthenics and weightlifting now while I write this. For lunch I'll probably have 4 eggs with bacon on the side. For dinner, who knows, I'll probably go out somewhere, or broil some seafood here at home.

BA- Keepin' it healthy.

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Oh yeah, she looks like a Christian!

by FlyingHighNow in

i'd say she'd make it real big with jim bakker.

and she'd likely be very welcomed into the amish community.

i remember all the single brothers were looking for girls that looked like her who were virgin elder's daughters.

Brother Apostate

Lol, as if Christians can't be attractive and physically fit.

Sounds like a clear cut case of extreme jealousy to me.

I can't recall the last time I met an attractive atheist, but I meet attractive Christians daily.

BA- Christians rock.

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What would you do if your bank locked its doors?

by sammielee24 in

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friends

now that most of the major news sources are saying that the usa is already in a recession - will there be a run on the banks like there was in the uk in the fall?

i know that the government insists that will never happen because they insure your funds up to a specific amount but so far already two banks have reduced the amount of money that you can withdraw from your account.

they say its because of increased theft from their atm machines but who's really willing to buy that excuse?

Brother Apostate

Read a "sound bite?"

Edited to "or its written equivalent", lol. Good catch, though 'tis elementary, my dear watson. BA- Burp.

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What would you do if your bank locked its doors?

by sammielee24 in

jw
friends

now that most of the major news sources are saying that the usa is already in a recession - will there be a run on the banks like there was in the uk in the fall?

i know that the government insists that will never happen because they insure your funds up to a specific amount but so far already two banks have reduced the amount of money that you can withdraw from your account.

they say its because of increased theft from their atm machines but who's really willing to buy that excuse?

Brother Apostate

Russian style communism I don't know I would prefer we try to create a new American style of communism first.

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Really, 5go, learn to comprehend what you read, please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS- Also, learn to comprehend what you read.

PS#2- Did I mention that you should learn to comprehend what you read?

PS#3- Just in case I forgot to ask, did I ever tell you that you should learn to comprehend what you read?

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What would you do if your bank locked its doors?

by sammielee24 in

jw
friends

now that most of the major news sources are saying that the usa is already in a recession - will there be a run on the banks like there was in the uk in the fall?

i know that the government insists that will never happen because they insure your funds up to a specific amount but so far already two banks have reduced the amount of money that you can withdraw from your account.

they say its because of increased theft from their atm machines but who's really willing to buy that excuse?

Brother Apostate

so if we create our own currency would you put your face on a coconut or what?
Are you suggesting a barter system? Or like the Indians...trade turquoise for sea shells? How would you regulate such currency.
Lets hear it. Maybe you will be elected the Apostate Treasurer and we will form our own trade system.

Left to right, groups of words followed by a period (.) make a sentence. Now, go back and read the article. Then read about 1913 and how the Federal Reserve Act was passed. Read your history about Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Lincoln, etc, and their thoughts on turning over Banking to a private entity such as the Federal Reserve.

BA- I won't waste my time, there's simply too much information available to anyone who isn't too lazy to Google and read.

PS- This might get you started, however, provided you are willing to invest more time than it takes to listen to/read a sound bite (or its written equivalent):

http://libertyforlife.com/banking/federal_reserve_bank.html

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2005/tst082205.htm

http://conspiracyrealitytv.com/the-money-masters-how-international-bankers-gained-control-of-america/

http://libertyforlife.com/banking/federal_reserve_bank.html

http://www.seobook.com/archives/001772.shtml

http://www.maxexchange.com/ybj/chapter4.htm

http://www.fdrs.org/bankers_conspiracy.html

http://www.fdrs.org/rockefeller.html

http://reactor-core.org/money-changers.html

http://www.heritech.com/pridger/lincoln/lin-ken.htm

http://www.orwelltoday.com/readerlincolnmoney.shtml

http://www.john-f-kennedy.net/thefederalreserve.htm

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What would you do if your bank locked its doors?

by sammielee24 in

jw
friends

now that most of the major news sources are saying that the usa is already in a recession - will there be a run on the banks like there was in the uk in the fall?

i know that the government insists that will never happen because they insure your funds up to a specific amount but so far already two banks have reduced the amount of money that you can withdraw from your account.

they say its because of increased theft from their atm machines but who's really willing to buy that excuse?

Brother Apostate

When deflation is tackled by creating new money in the form of debt to private banks, the result is a spiraling vortex of debt and price inflation. The better solution is to put debt-free money into consumers' pockets in the form of wages earned. Workers are increasingly losing their jobs to "outsourcing." A government exercising its sovereign right to issue money could pay those workers to build power plants using "clean" energy, high-speed trains, and other needed infrastructure. The government could then charge users a fee for these services, recycling the money from the government to the economy and back again, avoiding inflation.

Other considerations aside, we simply cannot afford the bank bailouts coming down the pike. If it takes $300 billion to avert a market collapse precipitated by a few failing hedge funds, what will the price tag be when the $400-plus trillion derivatives bubble collapses? Rather than bailing out banks that have usurped our sovereign right to create money, we the people should skip the middlemen and create our own money, debt- and interest-free. As William Jennings Bryan said in a historic speech a century ago:

[The bankers] tell us that the issue of paper money is a function of the bank and that the government ought to go out of the banking business. I stand with Jefferson . . . and tell them, as he did, that the issue of money is a function of the government and that the banks should go out of the governing business. . . . [W]hen we have restored the money of the Constitution, all other necessary reforms will be possible, and . . . until that is done there is no reform that can be accomplished.

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