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Every time you post meaningless drivel that you got from Rush or Hannity (congrats on expanding your horizons to include Hannity), I reconsider voting for a 3ed party and vote for Obama instead. Hopefully my sanity will prevail, but keep inspiring the Obama types with the absolute worst takes on things. Mind you you, Rush is good at what he does. He even occasionally skewers the dems. Hannity on the other hand is a wannabe with a big audience. What does that say about the audience?

Please, everyone knows he is a partisan hack. His hypocrisy isn't even noteworthy.

I was hoping you wouldn't read that... Seriously, it is probably because of the mutual restaurant back grounds where we moved on and made something of ourselves after that. You more so than me...but I am pretty sure I am still younger so lots of time to make up ground...

I was hacking on Chef and said so at least once when someone else got involved. I can't help it, I just like arguing with him, even though I like him. I freely admit I know next to nothing about the financial sector. I have admitted this on numerous occasions.

That explains your last 14,383 posts.

My apologies

I simply find it hard to believe your company never crunched those numbers. I would accept a guesstimate if you are willing as I trust you mostly.

Congrats, do it to a few other southerners. In my case, the vote is lost for other reasons, but you can lose others. Keep trying.

A guesstimate would have helped as I said. Look, I am sorry. I know you have a job, I know you have your beliefs and frankly I agree with some of what you say. I have my own small nest eggs in several places invested in different things. I don't look at them too often because I don't know enough. The CFO of our company manages them and until this year managed about 12%. Mind you, I went conservative. My mom just lost 30k in "conservative" investments. She got bad financial advice actually. She wasn't a Sarah Palin Type. She will get by, but that was a huge blow to her since her financial adviser essentially parroted you. Maybe you told your older clients that they needed to move their funds face to face. You said nothing of the sort on this board as far as I recall.

Because that was my question. I asked for ror in my first post and you were condescending (totally cool as we have done that tons of times and I used the wrong term) and changed the topic off the bat. I totally understand what your job is even if I couldn't do it without a lot of training. No worries and best wishes.

That has nothing to do with it brother. I started hacking on Chef (even though I like his very conservative ass) because he was still pimping the investment route. Sure that is probably the best route in the long term. But, no one knows for sure at this time and he was starting to sound like a shill. Much as you are for Obama. I understand being Liberal, but I lost faith a few years back. The insults didn't help.

And the liberals play right into it. I wasn't calling you a liberal per se...but...

I understand there are different portfolios for different clients. But... Well, if you have dozens of allocations (say 100 for simplicities sake) you could plug them into a spreadsheet easily enough. Might take you a bit, not sure if it would take you as long as you spent talking to me as you could simply pick representative investments and see where they ended up in a 3 year period, guesstimate from there. My guess is you are scared. You know the actual figures and you know how bad they are. You seem to be dodging the issue. In any case, I am sorry I gave you a hard time. Sorta nervous myself to be honest.

Wrong, elitist liberals that live in the East and West coast as well as Chicago act elitist. Do you remember "!@#$ the South"? It was an e-mail that spread throughout the country. Let's not even get into their economic philosophies. They alienated a huge chunk of the electorate. Why? Because we were dumb ass red necks. Well that's what they said. Most moronic electorate move ever. Lets alienate 1/4 of the country. Why aren't those states in play? Oh they are ignorant rednecks. It has nothing to do with how we treated those morons.

I worked at a BBQ restaurant. I bartended for ages. I live in the South. Ask yourself why I used to support smug, self important liberals and stopped a few years ago? Ask yourself why the Dems lost again and again when they spewed hatred towards the south. It must be Bushes fault...

You mean your company doesn't break it down further than what they give the actual investor? If you advertise 10% on this particular mutual fund, 12% on this slightly more risky one, 6% (or whatever) on T Bills, and then you break it up 33/33/34 for a particularly simple example, what is the frigging rate of return? A spreadsheet can do this math. Fine and fair enough, has anyone made a profit over the last 3 years? If so, what were they in? Have any of your clients made a profit? 5 years?

"That One" at least smacks of dumb politics. If Biden had done that to Palin, the country would have been up in arms. Not saying that is right mind you.

OMG you are that good? Damn, everyone else (except a few) loses money but you are the master at the market. Can't provide facts, figures, name of the company, but all your clients didn't lose say 20% or so?

Odd, I thought you were in managing individual accounts that I would have assumed normally included ror (since you insist on being pedantic) in any sort of advertisement for your services. I was simply curious as to how well your expert management had performed. I wanted to know how your overall services did. Since you evidently are far past that point, one can only assume that those beneath you knew even less. So what is the name of your company so I can avoid it in the future?

Ahh 5 years now is it? Let's hope none of your clients were approaching retirement age. Surely that didn't happen though.

Perhaps I phrased that poorly. What is your average rate of return for your clients. Say ytd, 3 year and 5 year. You really can't look up those figures? The rest of the post was directed to someone else.

^^^Smug bastards for people who got punked by conspiracy theorists.

Who?

45 million uninsured or so. Many of the people you are talking about are at least partially insured due to other programs, mainly children. So lets go with a conservative cost, say 300 per family and 5 to a family? I doubt the government can run it so cost effectively after the bribes, kickbacks, cronyism and such are settled, but what the hell. 9 million families multiplied by $300 and multiplied again by 12 months is $32,400,000,000. That is 32 billion a year, because the government will have to foot the bill. That is bare bones and very conservative. We are barely getting by as is. You want to chunk an extra 30+ billion on the budget?

Now health care = public education = right