Posts by FedUpJW

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The Poor the Wealthy and the Middle Class

by Simon in

the poor spendthe middle-class savethe wealthy invest.

the unique circumstances of the lockdown and stimulus checks has highlighted these differences in stark ways.. on one hand, you have jumps in sales and valuation of companies like foot locker and nike, as people spend their "free" government money on sneakers.

they blow it on useless tat.

FedUpJW

The profits are also reinvested. The thing that stops most people is they fact that it takes twenty years or so for this to start showing significant gains.

Compounded interest is a wonderful; thing, the longer one can collect it. Another thing that helps is, as my dad used to say, "Live below your means." Just because you have a dollar does not mean you need to spend it. It was investing as much as I could at any given time in a 401k, and not trying to spend or borrow my way to wealth that enabled me to retire, comfortably, before I was 50 years old.

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The Animal Sentience Bill - what next?

by LoveUniHateExams in

so, in the uk there was recently a bill which was nodded through parliament - the animal sentience bill - which was backed by vegan activists.. dogs, cats.

cows, even lobsters now have been recognised to have feelings.. first of all, let me say that if you want to go vegan that's fine with me.

we're all allowed our individual dietary choices.. but for how much longer?

FedUpJW

I've often wondered why some of the most rabid anti-meat, pro animals rights advocates also are pro abortion?

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The left keeps topping its self on crazy

by mickbobcat in

https://youtu.be/ffmhcph_ops.

FedUpJW

Either way they need to be destroyed

I hope the left gets slaughtered

That pretty well reflects my thoughts, at this point in time.

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JWs who are now paying the price of following the cult.

by mickbobcat in

my in-laws are two such people.

people who pioneered and did not work and try to save, instead they made just enough to get by and waited for the end to come.

now my mil is in palliative care and the state is paying for her keep, my fil lives in a dilapidated home and can not keep it up.

FedUpJW

A 78 year old elder who was never going to go to school in this system is now scraping by trying to get odd painting jobs to try to keep afloat financially. Always complaining that he and his wife never worked enough to build up any (United States) social security benefits to even pay the bills consistently.

Another late seventies fellow who can barely walk due to nerve and back damage who never built up anything in the social security reserve, or saved anything through banking or investments, now slowly and painfully working in his own heavy equipment mechanic shop by himself and wishing there was someone to help him, and not able to afford either the time from work or the money to get needed medical treatment.

Many more that I know personally, and to a person they still conDAMN me for having worked full time, set aside savings and investments, having been able to retire before I was 50, and now living on the fruits of my stored labor, and they have the nerve to still ask if I might be able to offer financial help.

Not only "no", but 'HELL NO!"

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Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains!

by Simon in

so janet yellen, the us treasury secretary, thinks taxing unrealized capital gains would be a way for them to fund their runaway spending.. first, they claimed that the real cost of their nonsense spending was $0, so they were lying then or are lying now ("why not both?!").

second, they claimed that money printing doesn't affect inflation, so why not just print the money instead?.

third, the "for billionaires" is to get the feeble minded masses on board, those that live on benefits and vote democrat for more "free money", but the irs monitoring of $600 bank accounts is also apparently to target the ultra-wealthy as well.

FedUpJW

A tax like this would be a Boston Tea Party like event...

Normal people would think so, however there are too damned many lazy, perpetual poor welfare leeches who will stand with their hands out to ever get a decent citizen revolt off the ground.

They couldn't do much more damage if they set out specifically to destroy the economy, so you start to wonder - is that the real plan?

Yes, yes that is the plan, there were just too many idiots who were always chirping about conspiracy theories and wanting mo' free stuffs to ever get anyone to take the left's stated goals seriously until now, when it is too late.

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Was told I was not progressing!

by Overrated in

jw
friends

you're doing everything you can, meeting attendance, field circus, helping out where you can and you are told your not progressing!?!

as anyone had that happen to them in the "trooth "?.

FedUpJW

Yep, when I was still running on the hamster wheel I was told that many times. When I asked what I needed to do different I was told, "Just keep doing what you are doing." I replied that if what I was to just keep doing what I was doing then it was good enough, and if what I was doing was not good enough that I could do something different. So I did do something different. I got FedUp, got off the hamster wheel, quit giving any $$$$$, quit helping anyone other than the ignored older ones, handicapped, and ones who the Pharisees in Jesus day called, an elders today treat as am ha'aretz or uneducated Jews/JW's, who were deemed likely to be negligent in their observance of the commandments due to their ignorance, and those boorish, uncivilized, ignorant.

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Butchered pronunciation

by road to nowhere in

since it is my turn (wife) to have the assembly streamed they start with the music.. i have never in 70 years heard it called a "pree-lood".

twice, morning and afternoon..

FedUpJW

One I used to hear repeatedly was Capernaum (Ca·perʹna·um) being pronounced as Capper-Num'

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Remember when HITTING A WOMAN was just WRONG!

by pistolpete in

just a few years ago, any man that slapped a women was considered a piece of shit.

today people are are paying and cheering to see a man knocking the shit out of a woman.

what feminists, social warriors, and gender recognition fighters don't realized is that their actions are actually causing the world to revert back to the days when the world treated women as property, second class species, with no rights whatsoever, whose only value was a sex instrument for the male species.

FedUpJW

If women are to receive and maintain equal rights with men then that means they should have equal responsibility for their actions and receive equal punishments as men as well.

One would think so, but the reality is not so. IMO

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Butchered pronunciation

by road to nowhere in

since it is my turn (wife) to have the assembly streamed they start with the music.. i have never in 70 years heard it called a "pree-lood".

twice, morning and afternoon..

FedUpJW

Yeah, Gee-HO'-Vuh is the way I hear it.

As far as "butchered pronunciation" what would one expect from the mouths of mostly functionally illiterates who conDAMN any higher education and now are pretty well hone "schooled"?

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Alec Baldwin Shot a Woman Dead

by Simon in

so alec baldwin shot a woman dead on set and seriously injured another man.. what do we put this down as?

a tragic accident?

maybe ... except that implies no one was to blame.. the more you find out, the more it seems that this was due to negligence and lack of attention to safety.

FedUpJW

By me? YES! Firearm idiots know no political party, and any moron who carelessly handles a firearm without practicing firearm safety and injures or kills another person is a piece of crap! It just happens Baldwin is a liberal piece of crap!

However , the majority of anti-firearm nutcases are in fact liberals.