Retirement accounts: Regulated investments so the gov’t and Wall Street can influence where your money GOES and where it IS.
IE, it GOES into… Wall Street!
It IS…. where the gov’t can get its hands on it!
Some types of tax deferred accounts, you can manage them yourselves thru an online trading account. But afaik you are still constrained to the abstracted and imaginary matrix of Wall Street, ETF’s, equities, etc.
In any case, might be time to consider drawing your money out now, and laying it aside as either cast, or into hard investments like real estate, precious metals, survivalism gear in the case of natural disasters, unrest, etc, or even just paying off debts.
The best thing you could do with your money, of course, is to invest it with God by giving it away.
He who gives to the poor LENDS to the LORD
You might not get paid back till That Day, which actually would probably be a best case scenario in the long run. But money will stick to the people who are right now cultivating generosity.
This dynamic will become more and more important as the fundamentals of society begin to be squeezed and shaken.
Anyways, folks might want to look at what is going on in other Western democracies and plan for it to happen here in the USA at some point probably not so far into the future.
Don’t let that ‘tax bite’ scare you off. That tax bite now will be far less than what the Gov’t leaves you if they plunder your IRA to pay for entitlement programs.
You can always buy gold and silver… physical, of course.
Don’t rush out, necessarily, but be aware. This stuff may or may not be coming to the USA, but maybe you should put your assets where they cannot get them so easily. At least make them work for it!
h/t: LewRockwell.com
Will True Finns succeed in stopping bailout of the PIIGS?
I always thot Finns were universally and confirmed commies, but the transcript of this speech, I will admit, it thrilled me!
Def worth reading.
Keep your printer cartridges from drying out. Just use Ubuntu’s built-in scheduling tool, cron, to send a test page to the printer every few weeks. The Ubuntu test page is very colorful unlike the Windows test page, so it will keep both your black and color cartridges fresh until you refill them again.
OTOH, you will use more ink. But ink, if you are refilling from a kit, is much cheaper than buying even a refurbished cartridge, so, I think over all this will surely save money.
lpstat -p # to get the name of the printer
crontab -e # select your editor if you have not done so already
0 7 */25 * * lpr -P PRINTERNAME /usr/share/system-config-printer/testpage-letter.ps # paste this line into your crontab editor and save.
I just tested this command in Natty 11.04 and it works, even on a network printer on a Windows machine accessed via samba.
It should run a test page every 25 days at 7 AM. If you wish to change the frequency, notice the */25 part of the command.
Let us assume you are the kinda guy who keeps track of every single purchase he makes on his debit card, by stashing the receipt in your wallet and then later recording the purchases in Gnucash | spreadsheet | etc.
If you only have one debit card account, it is easy.
But what if you have 2 or 3 debit cards on different accounts? Retailers are starting to scrub credit card info from the paper receipts.
It used to be that in a pinch, you could look for the last 4 digits of the account number, but I began to notice more receipts without this identifying info, and this is a GoodThing.
So I got the bright idea (or I remembered reading it somewhere) to tear off a corner at the top of the receipt!
Say you have a main debit/credit card, a secondary card on your wife’s account, and perhaps a third card, like a rebate debit card. A, B, C.
Card A is used every day, it is your main card, do nothing to the receipt
Card B is used less often, so tear off the top right hand corner of the receipt, but leave enough to see the info
Card C is infrequent, but it still needs to be tracked, so you can fold the receipt down the middle, longways, and tear off a little piece in the fold at the top
I suppose there is room for Card D here, too, as long as you have a main account you don’t need to mangle the receipts over. Use the top left
Since the bottoms of the receipts are often ragged from being ripped from a printer, we would only use those in a last resort. How many debit cards do you have, anyways?
It occurs to me, this is a great way to separate work related expenses, like a company credit card, from personal ones. Just get those receipts, dawg!
