Hey S-M!
Would you
mind if I sent you a private email? I'll be in your city next month and could use some advice. I have access to
your email address so you don't have to post it here.
Thanks!
Greg
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Hey S-M!
Would you
mind if I sent you a private email? I'll be in your city next month and could use some advice. I have access to
your email address so you don't have to post it here.
Thanks!
Greg
Hi Idesign, have just look
in my email-account but I could not find a mail from you! Perhaps the mail was mistakened filtered out, because the
system has it seen as spam! And the "spam"-mails are deleted by the system after three days!
Could you mail me
again please?
I didn't send it yet S-M, but
now that I have your permission I will! I didn't want to "spam" you from the forum. Thanks for the reply!
Email sent S-M! From idesigngr
at yahoo
Hallo Idesign, have just
send you an email about interest places in and around stuttgart! I hope the dates are still up to date, as I am only
rarely in the center of stuttgart (live in a subburb of stuttgart) and do not like museums ;) and so many dates I
have mentioned are from my youth-time!
I hope you have a nice time in Germany! :)
Stuttgart-man
Thanks S-M! I got your email.
I'll let you know how the trip goes. I'm sure it will be great. I've always wanted to visit your country, and
finally I have the opportunity.
I've been looking at the temperature there, is there anything you can do about
making it warmer next month? :rofl:
I will contact the meteorogolists that they will bring warm weather nextQuote:
Originally Posted by idesign
month ;)
One wonders if someday in the future
the weatherman/meteorologists really *will* control the weather rather than just forcast it...
"Expect a light
rain from 0200 to 0400 Tuesday, sunny, with an average of 12 clouds in the sky during the day and with temperatures
following our standard gradient for this date..."
You've inspired me Rbt. I'll
get a huge V-12 SUV and drive it around as much as possible for the next month. That should create enough "carbon
footprint" to raise temps in Europe 10C by February, just about right. Thank God for Al Gore, without his
"leadership" I'd freeze in Germany.
"... thanks for that report on gas shortages in North Carolina Fred. And
now some breaking weather news from our meteorologist, Wink Martindale, on location from Southern Germany..."
You're welcome.Quote:
Originally Posted by idesign
As we are experiencing near record cold in my neck of the woods this
winter I am starting to wonder about the "warming" part or "global warming."
Shoot, even Miami Florida was getting
frost warnings this past week.
Hey! Maybe we're on to something here... What with the nasty high petrol prices
this past year, the big driving cutbacks by folks who couldn't afford to feed their Lincoln Navigators and Hummers,
therefore the reduced pollution emissions recently.... no wonder the temps have plummeted! Get out there and drive
folks if you want a warm summer!
:thumbsup:
Oil-prices are crashed in
the past months, so the weather should become warmer next time :rofl:
And if yet share-prices
rises than the folk have much money to buy much (cheap) petrol and then they can drive many thousands of miles and
we get a really hot summer \o/
Except for some odd reason it seems
that at least around here even as oil prices go down, the price for gas/petrol at our local stations is going up,
again...
We also get hit during the summer months because where I live they must sell "reformulated"
low-pollution gas/petrol, which is more expensive.
Of course it's stupid. I used to visit relatives in another
state where such "summer gas" wasn't required. Not only was it cheaper, I got far better fuel economy. I would burn
almost a full tank of gas going to them on "my" gasoline, but after I filled up on "their" gasoline for the trip
back, I would only go through about half a tank of gas. Distance covered was identical. So in the end I would burn
less gasoline and probably contribute less pollution with the "regular" fuel, rather than with the "low pollution"
fuel... Go figure.
Politicians - phooey.
An astute observation! But stocks and banks have crashed too, so there is no money and no demand.Quote:
Originally Posted by stuttgart-man
What we need is more government intervention. They can give money to the banks, who can loan it to the
investors at low rates (see Fed Reserve Bank, see Greenspan legacy), who will start buying more oil, which will
create more demand for crude, which will raise prices, and we'll get to pay twice! At the gas pump and in more
government debt! (and, sooner or later, taxes) So, we can't afford to drive.
Wait a second... did I just "cure"
global warming? Ha! I just predicted the political future.
Replay that same basic scenario in the housing
market (with adamant Congressional "encouragement") and you'll see the future, and the past which led us here.
Well Rbt, as of yesterday (or the day before) Our Benevolent President has signedQuote:
Originally Posted by Rbt
legislation which will pretty much duplicates your scenario across the country, and then some. Look for everything
auto-related to become more expensive, from cars to petrol.
At a time when the auto industry is in shambles,
they have to deal with irrational gov't mandated controls. Sighhhhhh....
Its a shame that Obama has not learned
from the lessons of the sadly failed third-world economics of his Father's heritage, which he supported (Kenya),
and is determined to drag America into that same dump of economic tyranny and failure. Its only the beginning of
sorrows with this president.
Why the Fed and/or the ECBQuote:
Originally Posted by idesign
do not loan money to private persons (of course limited to an amount of for example $2000) and companies (loan
limited by the number of employees or turnover) too? this would create a strong demand and the tax payer have not to
pay anything because the money payed by the Fed / ECB is new created!
Yes this is usually dangerous because this
could push the inflation rate, but at the moment people are not willing to buy anything and so this threat is
low!
Furthermore the Fed / ECB could reduce the bank rate to nearly zero and so the banks can get cheap money!
A significant tax cut would
achieve a better purpose... prosperity. Reduce gov't intervention and let business and people do what they do
better than gov't: manage money.
Exactly what a former President said in a previous down turn.Quote:
Originally Posted by idesign
His name Herbert Hoover, perhaps
you've heard of him??:angel:
If I recall, it was partly a top
tax rate of 70%+ that led to the Big Crash and Bigger Depression. Suck the life out of all the bulls, and
you're left with a herd of cows, in Washington, fat with milk.
After the stuff hit the fan, Hoover was a "big
gov't", fix-it-by-policy politician if ever there was one, only to be surpassed by FDR, who was able to pass more
of Hoover's bloated "reform" policies. Americans learn to suck the teat of dependency and the cows keep
"producing".
Though the rateQuote:
Originally Posted by idesign
did get to all the way up to 4% in 1934, in 1929, the year of the crash it was
less than
1%.
Then againQuote:
The chart above shows the increases in the lowest marginal tax
bracket between 1929 and 1940, which for all years applied to taxable income between $0 and $4,000. Starting from
.375% in 1929, the lowest rate tripled to 1.125% in 1930, and then increased again by more than 3.5 times to 4% in
1932, for a total increase of more than 10 times.
Then again Corporate rates were a tad higher, perhaps that's what you are thinking of.Quote:
By imputation, one
needed to be at the 92nd percentile of income or higher to pay any income taxes in The Great
Depression.
Hey Idesign,
you are
already back at home? How was your journey to Stuttgart? Hope you have had a nice time there :)
Thanks S-M, but due to some complications I never made the trip! I do have something scheduled forQuote:
Originally Posted by stuttgart-man
late April or early May though, and think that would be a better time to visit anyway. Warmer weather! I'll keep
you posted, and I've saved your email with all the good advice.
In fact, on this trip, I'll be driving into
Germany from the southeast. Anything great to see in that part of the country? Along the E60 from Wien to Munich,
then to Stuttgart?
Use my private email if you like.
SorryQuote:
Originally Posted by Mtnjim
Jim, I completely forgot about this thread. What I was referring to was the the top marginal rate
before the depression. Confiscatory tax rates on employers never did anyone any good, ditto for huge
gov't programs, as we're about to see. :)