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How Sempra used cash-balance plans
Back then Pac Bell was a monopoly, they offered wages benefits and pensions FAR above the public sector, same with all the rail roads and utilities. Today things have switched, except for the utilities, and no one gets a decent pension in the private secotr. It is shameful.— November 29, 2011 5:08 p.m.
How Sempra used cash-balance plans
49.No, the market ticker report has no bias whatsoever. == Baloney, the ticker is just a reflection of a market at any given time, and we all know the markets are biased and gamed.— November 29, 2011 4:03 p.m.
How Sempra used cash-balance plans
Thank you progressive surrender monkey, my check is in the mail.— November 29, 2011 3:58 p.m.
How Sempra used cash-balance plans
I agree 100%, cut the 43%, take 33% out of the defense spending.— November 29, 2011 3:57 p.m.
How Sempra used cash-balance plans
No, it was Lassitar and the others that made/are the soul of Pixar, but without Jobs money and backing (from the sale of his apple shares when he was forced out at apply in 86 (??)) Pixar would have been long gone....... As I said before, Apple was 90 days away from BK when Jobs came back on board, shares were selling at $11 a share and my Mom wanted to buy 1,000 shares because she LOVED Apple, I told her NO WAY, Apple is going BK, and with Jobs back Apple became the biggest turn around in US history, to the largest company in the world, trading places with Exxon for #1. I have never heard the end of that. Get bitched at over that every year, still.— November 29, 2011 3:56 p.m.
Let the Awards Season Begin!
Best Male Lead Demián Bichir, (A Better Life), Jean Dujardin (The Artist), Ryan Gosling (Drive), Woody Harrelson (Rampart), and Michael Shannon (Take Shelter). ============== I'm sorry, this is the best male lead of the year right here; http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2726167/ His latest starring role; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leqdNPmfYdU— November 29, 2011 3:49 p.m.
How Sempra used cash-balance plans
think it would be easier to shut your big mouth than shut down those banking centers. Falstaff, you really haven't thought of the ramifications of shutting down a large banking system, the liquidity problems, and finally the simple mechanics of doing so. You oversimplify greatly because it would take more than a stroke of a pen. You'd need an entire bureaucracy and work out group the size of the Resolution Trust to close down a center. Plus, they would be suing in the world court etc as a breach of sovereignty etc. ================ "sueing in world court"....LOL...best line I have heard in ages! Yes, I am sure "sueing in world court" will remedy USA policy- rendering it void. The USA has already SHUT down large banks in Columbia, where billions were taken out of the liquidity market-the sky didn't fall.... and the sky won't fall if the USA does the same to thew Caymans. I swear, my pet rock has more brain power than you do, you progressive surrender monkey............— November 29, 2011 2:45 p.m.
How Sempra used cash-balance plans
And yes you do need study for established facts, == Oh brother....you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink, especially if his name is nokomisjeff.— November 29, 2011 2:38 p.m.
How Sempra used cash-balance plans
130.Low cap gains taxes are supposed to stimulate investment but stimulate gambling, too == According to former savings and loan regulator Bill Black, he says the lower capital gains taxes are producing NOTHING, the people who get the windfalls are actually taking that windfall tax money and building manufacturing plants OFF SHORE with the money, so the lower tax is destroying jobs, not creating them.— November 29, 2011 2:37 p.m.
How Sempra used cash-balance plans
I do not recall the exact date Standard Oil was busted up, but it was in the time frame mentioned, 1909-11. I think it was 39 different companies, but that is from memory from the book on John D Rockerfeller called "Titan". I read that book like 15 years ago when it came out and was going from memory. Back then oil was not used for cars but for lighting and heating purposes, when the internal combustion engine became mass produced that is when oil really took off as a commodity. Rockerfeller was a very smart guy, and I have to think that some of the stories about him crushing the little guy may be a bit over the top. Many times hi OVERPAID for a local oil dealer's company, and many times he would have to shut the facility because the equipememnt was so out of date it was useless to him. Then there was that ida tarbell who wrote a critical expose on Rockerfeller in McClure's Magazine, she claimed Rockerfeller drove her father out of business......... I will have to check on exactly how many companies Standard oil aws broken into........— November 29, 2011 2:34 p.m.