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  1. bwilson4web

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    I'd have to be pretty hard up to consider working for a nazi
     
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    EV God to Nazi. You guys are hilarious.
     
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    I've never had a political discussion in my work interviews. Both me and the interviewers were more interested in the work and qualifications.

    Bob Wilson
     
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    That's great; since VW just announced that they're laying-off 100K of their work force.

    May save some jobs here; since they usually start lay-offs here, since our labor laws are a lot less strict than theirs.....
     
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    I've never had a reason to have a political discussion with an employer, and I've worked for some conservatives.
    but none of them were known racist nazi's, or expressed similar views
     
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    I got so many people waiting for me to work for them that if they can't handle my radical lefty views they end up waiting forever, whereas the ones who play along get the job done right away...
     
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    You aren't JD Vance.
     
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    thankfully, I have faith in the pope's take on Christianity
     
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    ...and the price of beans.
     
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    I would have to work in a union shop, if I needed a job in a factory.
     
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    Harvested a bowl of sweet peas yesterday. Normally, I just eat them off the plant but there were so many, I cooked them in a bowl.

    Also, harvested the first zucchini today. Fair warning, keep your car doors locked.

    Is there a mutual fund that investing the money that put in the garden would give me enough money to buy my garden vegetables?

    Bob Wilson
     
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    You would be hard up if the nazi herded you into a box car, took all your possessions, and you went in the selection line to work, or the other direction. Not your choice, but children under an age went the other direction, with the old, the mothers, and the disabled.
    Then there is the next level of hard if you are lucky and selected to work. Maybe you will have to work helping with the box cars, the moving of the dead children, the selection lines, supervising the workers, and the ovens.
    I read a book recently titled Night, short book, quite good. That’s why this all came out plus watching Israel do things to and hate a group themselves, after what they went through.
    No working for a nazi, I agree.
     
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    That depends. How much did it cost to put in and maintain the garden? How much value has/will it return?

    I would not suggest anyone not already in the equity markets, to start doing so at your age. Or my age. Or even 15 years younger than me. Crashes happen, and you don't have a remaining paid employment expectancy, or even remaining life expectancy, to recover if the next major bear market or recession starts the day after you buy in. I'm in it because mother started me off very young, and I've already weathered 8 recessions and 10 bear markets, according to this chart. Another similar one won't make me homeless or hungry.

    Screenshot 2026-06-28 205135.jpg

    That leaves the safer choice of money-market-type mutual funds, similar to bank interest. It will be hard for them to keep ahead of an ordinary vegetable garden, though floods, drought, and pestilence have caused such to happen.
     
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    And as the Russians are about to face an almost certain defeat and a new Ukraine rises that Europe is fast becoming more worried about than Russia, its an important moment to remind everyone that 27 million Russians died in WW2, which is near three times as many as what the Jews called "the holocaust."

    As in I got a list of 15 ways the nation of The Nazi Holocaust has been alive and well and thriving in Israel ever since the end of WWII and this doesn't have anything to do at all with the beautiful loving and kind Jewish religion, the exact opposite.

    The Jewish people who don't care about their people's spiritual teachings fell for it!

    Point being: Never again means never again for everyone with no exceptions!
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    Need a job?

    Nope.
    Got one.
    My current job isn't something that can easily be done by Robbie the Robot - and with the current employment and labour participation rates I can remain employed for as long as I'd like to be....just like anyone willing and able to work! :cool:

    @ 27 million:
    Gee...
    MORE Inflation?
    Used to only be 16-20 million...... ;)
    I guess that's what happens when people don't study history...

    Those are probably Rooskie numbers, and besides:
    The Holodomor.
    That's when Stalin Allegedly said:
    "If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that’s only statistics."
    He didn't originate the thought, but he probably 'said the thing' and more importantly, DID the thing in Ukraine in the early 30's.
    I don't get all teary-eyed at Soviet losses during WW-1, Part II because THEY INVADED POLAND.

    One of the casualties of the current 'casual approach' to STUDYING ACTUAL HISTORY is that people fail to recognize the real Hitlerian figures when they think they see one - or is it Stalinian? Or Zedongian?

    After all - who killed more people?
    Hitler?
    Stalin?
    Mao Zedong?
     
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    Elon Musk’s biggest wealth-creation moment: SpaceX IPO turned 4,400 workers into millionaires overnight - The Economic Times
    "Elon Musk's startup SpaceX's historic IPO made around 4,400 employees millionaires overnight as they accumulated significant wealth through company stock. This massive employee wealth creation event saw individuals from various roles, like welders and engineers, benefit from their equity.

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