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    Dave Ramsey - 12%?!?!?!!

    Interesting... I live in Nashville (where Dave's show originate's from) and met with the Endorsed Local Provider (ELP) he recommends and says he uses. There's about a 1.3% management fee plus the expense ratio's of the funds themselves (Dave recommends against individual stocks or bonds). So the...
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    If I had a million dollars . . .

    After immediately leaving my current employer I would also diedl diddle day, though probably not full time.
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    New Hobbies

    I used to love to tinker in the garage, paint and draw, but I recently got a request from my daughter to make her a box for the ringbearer to carry her rings down the aisle in for her upcoming wedding. I made the box and started painting it and have realized just how much my skills have...
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    New member today, from NW Fla.

    Most of it is in Tennessee. I have driven parts of 127 while it went on and its not exactly continuous, pretty cool though. Lots 'o junk...
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    Size Of Government - What Do We Really Want?

    As a former entrepreneur who hung out with a lot of other entrepreneurs I can say that in MOST of the businesses I was associated with hiring overseas was not an option. A great deal of jobs are provided by small businesses in this country, mostly in service industries but also in manufacturing...
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    Get Ready for the Tax Sunset

    The 0-10% will never happen. That's part of the problem right now, ~50% pay no income tax at all. Some get money back without paying in.
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    Funny/annoying grammatical mistakes and odd neologisms

    I always preferred "irregardlessly" for emphasis...:rofl:
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    Size Of Government - What Do We Really Want?

    Ok, really... who voted for the bigger government? Gotta hear the justification for that...
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    Nashville

    That's the Musicians Hall of Fame.... R&R is in Cleveland, OH... It was torn down to make room for the new convention center. Country Hall of Fame is still here though. All the best places have been mentioned above, though there are lots of little music venues everywhere (Broadway, 2nd Ave, S...
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    Poll:Do you have it made?

    Pretty sure I have it made though I'm still w*rking.... just got the new Roland guitar synthesizer so I can at least sound like I have it made...
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    Memphis

    The Gibson guitar factory is pretty cool, about a block from Beale Street. It's where they make the electric hollowbodies. I second the Hampton Inn also. Skip Cordova Square, it's gone...
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    How many years do you work before retire???

    33 years so far, but next year I start working as a consultant again, sort of like semi-retiring. May do that forever...
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    When calculating worth do you look at combined or individual total assets?

    To me it depends on whether you plan on being together through your retirement. I combine our net worth because if something were to impact one of us financially, it would impact both of us. Welcome to the site!
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    Would you stay in a marriage if your spouse Cheated?

    +1 Unequivocably, no.
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    Poll - should we eliminate the debt ceiling"

    I don't see where not raising the debt ceiling makes us default on our loans. Its not like there isn't income always coming in to pay for things, it just means we would have to choose between making interest payments on the debt or paying for something else. Just like your choice to pay for your...
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    Hello from Detroit!

    Welcome to the board! You certainly shouldn't have any problem finding a deal in the Detroit area...;D
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    Recent Photo

    Family pic from December
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    WAY too much notice! Drat...

    I gave almost a one year notice about a month ago stating that I am leaving Dec.15, 2011 at the latest. A big plus has been only being assigned to shorter projects. It hasn't eliminated the idiotic planning meetings though...
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    Porter Stansberry - endofamerica2

    Actually they were $49.50 and included 5 free reports/booklets. I didn't buy them.... I think the Yugoslavia simile and the holocaust references helped me make up my mind
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    Porter Stansberry - endofamerica2

    I have been hearing commercials on our local talk radio station about a guy who had predicted the collapse of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GM and Bear Stearns and that he had made a new prediction that we must hear. My curiousity got the better of me and I checked it out last night. So after...
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    Finally chose my path!

    Unless she gets a bad empanada or cooties! :rofl:
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    Finally chose my path!

    An update... I actually left this forum for a while, I was kind of torqued at what I felt was the hijacking of the thread to discuss perceived marital relations rather than what I considered the point of the thread, but at this point I realize just how lucky I am in my relationship with both...
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    Finally chose my path!

    25 years. And we discuss everything, but we also do a lot of things independently of each other. As an example, she is a member of a different church than I am (she is from Japan as are most of the church members) and attends many church events and travels with church members. I am involved with...
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