Tariffs leading to price rises
lucillle
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Comments (99)I see where the price of crude dropped to around $42/barrel yesterday, if that keeps going down the price of #2 may drop below $1.69 by the time I get my first delivery, ha. Who knows? Perhaps it's even folks like me that "pre-buy" who cause the later price to go up? Mid-Atlanic winter season is predicted to be colder and snowier than normal so I guess I'm ready? vgkg...See MoreThe rise of home cooking!
Comments (36)LPink, I am worried about you. Someone with your brains and talent shouldn't have to scrape by. I hope a great job comes along soon. I understand about being too tired to chew a salad. I feel that way so many times after work and my commute. I want to fall through the door, eat whatever is the easiest (no cooking, no prep, no chewing), get in my comfy clothes and flop in front of the tv. Bad lifestyle. Sometimes I buy takeout on the way home, but I sure have to pay a nifty sum for it. I bought a serving of spinach and cheese lasagna and it cost $8.50. Once I bought one crab cake and it cost $12. Never went back there. I don't do fast food except when there is nothing else, like along the NJ Turnpike. I look back at pictures from the '50s and '60s and hardly anyone is fat, no matter race or income. Families eating in restaurants was almost unheard of and we used to move around more. I walked to school, got up to change the channel, ran to answer the phone (it was hooked to the wall not next to me on the sofa), and since there was not a child molestor behind every tree, we rode bikes and went to the park for the entire day. I remember when we moved from one house to another my mom hadn't unpacked the kitchen stuff and we were all in a tizz, so we got hamburgers and sandwiches from a deli. This was 1960. It was the first time I could ever remember getting takeout food. We didn't even have pizza yet. When we were young and broke, once in awhile my ex and I would go out for dinner. I couldn't even enjoy it because all I could think was that I could have fed all of us for a week for the cost of one meal. I've gotten over that feeling and really enjoy a good restaurant meal. I know if my family were still home I'd be cooking up a storm, though....See MoreChina's new hi rise cities--what kind of home?
Comments (21)Well I am so very fortunate I was able to create my life away from so many people. To some living in a city of 150-180 people,not thousand, might be too remote. For me it is perfect. But then I lived in a town of 39 people growing to 42 people 3 years later. I guess I am a hermit. I would not survive in this crowded lifestyle. We do not have money or fancy things. Nor do we live a high lifestyle. To us going to subway for a five dollar foot long we split and water is the height of a dinner out. Being the city clerk here I get some behind the scenes governmental doings. I saw lots of bad boy stuff and so far have most of it has been stopped. This bad boy stuff was NOT in favor of the people. This was in favor of filling the bad boy's pockets with $$$ They wanted the big development. Only problem here is there are no jobs or infrastructure to support this development. the bad boys were in construction. What did they care if they ruin the town as long as they got their money for building the roads and houses. What happens to this tiny city after devil may care. I know many of you have had trouble with city/government control. Believe me I got run over by a city doing once too. Broke my heart to have to leave a cottage I loved and have showed pictures of here many times. NOW I do have some control of what happens in the city and the controls they try to put on, or not put on, people. Not that the clerk has any power but I do know how to find out what is legal and make sure the council makes sound and legal decisions for our city. These people in China are used to living this way. It is their culture. I think that is just fine. All I was saying is I can not live that way. I fought for 16 years saving money and learning to live off the land so I could live rurally comfortably. Totally agree it is a sad deal many have in the way they are forced to live because there seems to be no way out. Breaks my heart for them. I felt trapped too before I left California. But I was so miserable I just did something about it. If they are not miserable living this way they I am happy for them. I wish I had a closer view of the shrouds on the buildings.That would be interesting to see. I kind of figured it could be for safety. For workers and those below. Chris...See MoreSF Bay Area RE continues to rise
Comments (29)"Blaming the poor school results and poor quality of services to not collecting enough taxes is crazy." " In 2007, The New York Times reported the average property tax in California was .68 percent." No making such a statement from the wilds of NC is crazy. From folks that live there, the consensus is that Prop 13 is the victim of unintended consequences. California Schools went from among the best in the USA in the late 1970s to among the worst. The infrastructure went from one of the top rated to a situation that has become somewhat desperate. The fact of the matter is that 0.68% Property tax is unfair when the new purchaser pays 1.0% and the guy next door pays .34% for property identical in value. 1.0% is not an unreasonable tax rate for all to pay - higher in most areas - but 0.68% is not a reasonable base across all properties. You repeatedly apply your parochial experience in a Southrn State and generalize to apply it broad brush to rel estate practices, property taxes, weather impacts, etc, etc, etc. Read and learn from the folks above that have lived the actual experience. Denying the impact of a failure to collect adequate taxes on the quality schools shows a certain lack of knowledge of the real World. One of my favorite examples, and be careful this is a specific case. The Town of Lakehurst, NJ, in the 1980s was a very poor town. One nearly deserted Navy Base (Think Von Hindenburg Fire), lots of wooded and deserted farm lands, and a largely poor, minority population clustered in a "downtown" area. A huge Retirement Community (55+)called Leisure Knolls was constructed, including Single Family Detached, and high rise apartments. Pricey properties all and largely retired, wealthy owners. (Leisure is a developer with properties located all ovr the USA. NJ Schools are largely funded by Local Property Taxes, which is the case in many states. The problem in Lakehurst was the Tax Base was overwhelmingly comprised of older people that felt they had already paid for good (read expensive) schools while their Children were attending schools and darned if they'd pay for a ton of schooling for other people's children also. The tax base remained depressed, the schools got poorer and poorer. Finally the State of NJ stepped in and took over the Lakehurst Schools and funded them to higher minimum performance standard. My late parents were residents of Leisure Knoll. The same school situation existed in virtually every State in which I bought home. Shop around for jurisdictions that had seemingly good schools and inevitably you'd find a higher tax base - a meld of property values and tax rate. Essentially, locally you could group together and collect more taxes and fund better schools if so motivated. In both CA and Lakehurst in 1978 an later those jurisdictions acted to preclude this choice. In CA the Property Tax was mandated by Statewide Initiative. In Lakehurs the choice was precluded by annual voter mandate. Not blaming the poor school results and poor quality of services to not collecting enough taxes is crazy - particularly if basing that opinion on local NC experience....See Morelucillle
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