Bernie Sanders

[SoCal Deek]

9 minutes ago, Governor said:

 

I’m done working. I’m not a young person entering the workforce. I came to this realization at 43. My brother retired at 40. He beat me! We’re very competitive.

I see. So now you’re going to contribute nothing? You’re just going to sit around and suck off society’s teet? Or are you claiming you’re financially independent? (It makes a difference.) Either way my suggestion is you turn your dreams of sloth into something that might be more fulfilling…and much less like WORK. You need to think about changing majors. You’ve missed the entire point of ….life. 

[Governor]

8 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

I see. So now you’re going to contribute nothing? You’re just going to sit around and suck off society’s teet? Or are you claiming you’re financially independent? (It makes a difference.) Either way my suggestion is you turn your dreams of sloth into something that might be more fulfilling…and much less like WORK. You need to think about changing majors. You’ve missed the entire point of ….life. 

I don’t just sit around. I have lots of interests and stay pretty busy. I just don’t like to do any one thing 50 hours a week. I like things to be on my terms. I may very well fall into something a few years from now but I’m not in a hurry to do so. 
 

Our parents aren’t getting any younger and I want to be available during their end of life. After that, I certainly could become bored enough to do something.

 

Lol. I’m not on welfare or anything like that. Yes, I’m independent.

Edited August 14, 2021 by Governor

[Governor]

2 hours ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:

I’ve gotten a taste of doing nothing. It’s pretty boring and unfulfilling. being dependent on others also isn’t freedom. 
 

im vaccinated and don’t have a cold- masking is unnecessary

I know I said that I don’t want this house, but perhaps I need to rethink that and lower my standards a bit. This housing market doesn’t look good at all. It’s going to crash and burn soon.

 

I don’t think they could get strong enough regulations in place quickly enough to stop what’s happening. This isn’t going to end well.

[SoCal Deek]

55 minutes ago, Governor said:

I don’t just sit around. I have lots of interests and stay pretty busy. I just don’t like to do any one thing 50 hours a week. I like things to be on my terms. I may very well fall into something a few years from now but I’m not in a hurry to do so. 
 

Our parents aren’t getting any younger and I want to be available during their end of life. After that, I certainly could become bored enough to do something.

 

Lol. I’m not on welfare or anything like that. Yes, I’m independent.

I can applaud your devotion to your folks for sure but you seem to be all over the place, and drifting through life. Not sure what you’re doing here in a Bernie thread but as long as you’re not expecting me to fund your lack of productivity then go ahead…live your purposeless life fir as long as you’d like. You do realize you’re blessed with your First World lethargy, right? 

Edited August 14, 2021 by SoCal Deek

[Governor]

11 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

I can applaud your devotion to your folks for sure but you seem to be all over the place, and drifting through life. Not sure what you’re doing here in a Bernie thread but as long as you’re not expecting me to fund your lack of productivity then go ahead…live your purposeless life fir as long as you’d like. You do realize you’re blessed with your First World lethargy, right? 

The way you view life and purpose is exactly what Andy recognized as a young kid and didn’t want to ever participate in. It’s commonly referred to as the “rat race.” You believe that a career equals purpose. It’s hard to unlearn everything you were taught your entire life. 
 

I hope that some day you see it too, preferably before you’re on your death bed.

 

American neo-feudalism is on the horizon. Are you prepared?

 

 

 

[SoCal Deek]

Just now, Governor said:

The way you view life and purpose is exactly what Andy recognized as a young kid and didn’t want to ever participate in. It’s commonly referred to as the “rat race.” You believe that a career equals purpose. It’s hard to unlearn everything you were taught your entire life. 
 

I hope that some day you see it too, preferably before you’re on your death bed.

 

American neo-feudalism is on the horizon. Are you prepared?

 

 

 

You’re an odd for sure. Believe me when I tell you again:

 

FIND SOMETHING YOU LIKE TO DO AND YOU'LL NEVER WORK A DAY IN YOUR LIFE! 
 

There is no rat race unless you see yourself as a rat. 

[Chef Jim]

5 hours ago, Governor said:

Well, he’s 55 now and still going. He wasn’t a guy that ever took risks. My guess is he had it in mutual funds and has been living off that similar to my brother. Perhaps at some point that million turned into 2 million. Back in 2000, he told me that he has to live on 45k a year to not eat into any his money. So, whatever that means.

 

He’s had 21 years of inflation chipping away at that income need.  I’m order to maintain his 2000 lifestyle he’s need a lot more than $45k. And he’s got potentially another 50 years of inflation. Not to mention the cost of aging. 

[ComradeKayAdams]

On 8/13/2021 at 9:53 AM, Irv said:

With the way Demented Biden has screwed thing up so badly, so quickly, I would take take Bernie or  idiot pantsuit Clinton over mush-for-brains.  Everything he touches goes to crap.  What a mess. 

 

Once again, Irv…you completely nailed it! I especially enjoyed this insightful gem: “idiot pantsuit Clinton.” She is indeed a frumpy sartorial disaster. The Benghazi of fashion, if you will. Total mess. Blazer dresses are where it’s at! MACA: Make America Chic Again. Make us less of a mess.

 

On 8/13/2021 at 1:28 PM, Governor said:

Green Party? So you’re an anti-Vaver?

 

You are so busted!

 

Just so you know, I’m wearing my Greta Thunberg “how dare you” resting b!tch face as I type: I’m not an anti-vaxxer and never have been at any point during my life. The science is compelling. Everyone who can get COVID vaccinated should have done so ASAP. The percentage of anti-vaxxers within the Green movement is no different from that among Democratic Party voters. 2016 Green presidential candidate, Jill Stein, is a physician and has long maintained a pro-vaccination stance. Clintonistas deliberately took Jill’s words out of context in 2016 in order to marginalize her presidential run and her third-party voters.

 

On 8/13/2021 at 1:40 PM, Governor said:

Bernie is Trump on the left. Both of their campaigns were specifically designed to appeal to people’s victimhood complex.

 

Trump: Brown people are going to kick your door down and take your wife if we don’t stop these evil democrats.

 

Bernie: You’re all victims of oppression and the eVIl corporations are trying to kill you.

 

I prefer candidates that don’t run unethical campaigns and have a positive message because I don’t live my life as a victim.

 

My problem isn’t his policies, it’s with HIM and the 2 campaigns her ran. He isn’t the right guy to deliver the message.

 

ALL politicians play into a victimhood complex...not just Bernie and Trump. They all run on proposed solutions to fix alleged problems. Those alleged problems are negatively affecting someone somewhere, no? I.e., victims, no? Biden ran on the fear that Donald Trump is a dangerous fascist who will permanently destroy American democracy if allowed one more term. So all of America and the world = victims, according to Biden, no?

 

On 8/13/2021 at 3:26 PM, Governor said:

Progressives AND Trumpers don’t realize that Nancy already delivered a long wish list full of progressive policies. She stuck them in Trump’s stimulus packages because she knew that he was scared and panicked and needed to address the economy early on in the pandemic.

 
(PUA)Pandemic Unemployment (framework for eventual UBI)

 

money for states

ACA expansion (now free for low income people)

 

Child tax credit(also UBI)

soon….Medicare expansion.

 

The list goes on and on.

 

We already got those things!

 

Those policies were all in Bernie’s platform.

 

We aren’t finished yet either! We’ve come a very long way in 2 years.

 

A lot of the COVID bill goodies fall into the category of “absolute bare minimum” (relative to what the rest of the industrialized world was offering their people) so to stave off a populist uprising. They were the legislative equivalent of writing one’s own name on the front page of a test. I won’t give credit to Pelosi and to the Democratic Party for that stuff, minus a select few exceptions like the nice child tax credit that you mentioned.

 

I could easily write a very long-winded and very angry dissertation right now which obliterates your claim that Pelosi and the Dems have delivered on progressive policies. I would do it if I had confidence that anyone here carefully reads what I write lol. Instead, I will select one policy you mentioned that should be paramount to any self-described progressive: health care.

 

Like AOC, Pelosi once began her own political career as a wide-eyed pro-M4A “progressive.” But as she quickly rose to power, she just as quickly abandoned the universal health care idea and gobbled up massive corporate bribes a.k.a. “campaign donations,” including ones from the health insurance industry. Medicare expansion from age 65 to 60 ends up being nothing more than another cleverly disguised gift to these health insurance companies because it shifts the coverage burden of what tends to be their most costly patient subset under 65 over to the taxpayers. You speak highly of ACA expansion, but it is akin to replacing a band-aid over a gunshot wound with a bigger band-aid. It does little to reduce incurred individual costs. For that, you need to eradicate the entire health insurance industry altogether which has no business existing in a civilized society in the first place.

 

But we’re not even getting Medicare expansion to 60 under Biden, let alone a public option, let alone M4A!!! Hillary Rodham Pantsuit ran on Medicare expansion to 55 back in 2016, so we’ve somehow moved a bit further to the right between presidential election cycles on this important issue. Furthermore, AOC and the Squad already seem to be on the same political career trajectory as Pelosi. Earlier this year they refused to leverage their collective voting bloc on the House floor in order to extract anything of importance related to health care, such as an up/down vote on Jayapal’s M4A bill that would have quickly exposed all of the M4A traitors during a once-in-a-century pandemic. Wonderful. Or rather…to paraphrase a famous new friend of mine, “mess.”

 

Random PPP Subforum A-Hole: “Ha! M4A?! Cool idea, baby Kay. But for such grandiose desires, how do you intend to pay? With leprechaun pots, unicorn farts, and fairy dust?”

ComradeKayAdams: “We’ve covered this like a million times here, Random PPP Subforum A-Hole. Reductions in wasteful MIC budgets, speculation taxes, tax codes that counter trickle-down economics, and MMT.”

Random PPP Subforum A-Hole: “Ah! My sincerest apologies, dearest Kay. In the future, I shall strive to be less of a condescending a-hole to you.”

ComradeKayAdams: “Oh no worries! We good!”

 

 

On 8/13/2021 at 5:53 PM, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

You did, however, catch the political eye of the politically seductive @ComradeKayAdams, soon to beguiling you with Green New Deals where you eat only free range goat cheese brioche and wear Earth Shoes made from recycled tires from 2015 and newer Beemers, likely the car Bernie or his spouse drives when the lens is not shined on him.

 

Goat cheese is just as unethical as cow cheese. Free-range animal farming is no good, either, because you’re accepting only a slightly more humane practice at the expense of so much more required land use that is globally unsustainable.

 

But thank you for acknowledging me as a political literary femme fatale, Leh-nerd. For sure, my tedious prose is as endless as my legs. My social democratic message clarity is as transparent as my negligee. My preferred marginal tax rate for the top income bracket is as high as my hem line. The TwoBillsDrive.com boys hate-read my posts with socialist red rage, yet they yearn during my BillsFans.com sabbaticals with Green New Deal envy. My dangerously subversive far-left manifestos titillate them in their dreams and haunt them in their nightmares. Such is the essence of ComradeKayAdams. Oh and I also like to write about Buffalo Bills history! Wooo! BILLS MAFIA TILL I DIE.

[Governor]

1 hour ago, ComradeKayAdams said:

 

Once again, Irv…you completely nailed it! I especially enjoyed this insightful gem: “idiot pantsuit Clinton.” She is indeed a frumpy sartorial disaster. The Benghazi of fashion, if you will. Total mess. Blazer dresses are where it’s at! MACA: Make America Chic Again. Make us less of a mess.

 

 

Just so you know, I’m wearing my Greta Thunberg “how dare you” resting b!tch face as I type: I’m not an anti-vaxxer and never have been at any point during my life. The science is compelling. Everyone who can get COVID vaccinated should have done so ASAP. The percentage of anti-vaxxers within the Green movement is no different from that among Democratic Party voters. 2016 Green presidential candidate, Jill Stein, is a physician and has long maintained a pro-vaccination stance. Clintonistas deliberately took Jill’s words out of context in 2016 in order to marginalize her presidential run and her third-party voters.

 

 

ALL politicians play into a victimhood complex...not just Bernie and Trump. They all run on proposed solutions to fix alleged problems. Those alleged problems are negatively affecting someone somewhere, no? I.e., victims, no? Biden ran on the fear that Donald Trump is a dangerous fascist who will permanently destroy American democracy if allowed one more term. So all of America and the world = victims, according to Biden, no?

 

 

A lot of the COVID bill goodies fall into the category of “absolute bare minimum” (relative to what the rest of the industrialized world was offering their people) so to stave off a populist uprising. They were the legislative equivalent of writing one’s own name on the front page of a test. I won’t give credit to Pelosi and to the Democratic Party for that stuff, minus a select few exceptions like the nice child tax credit that you mentioned.

 

I could easily write a very long-winded and very angry dissertation right now which obliterates your claim that Pelosi and the Dems have delivered on progressive policies. I would do it if I had confidence that anyone here carefully reads what I write lol. Instead, I will select one policy you mentioned that should be paramount to any self-described progressive: health care.

 

Like AOC, Pelosi once began her own political career as a wide-eyed pro-M4A “progressive.” But as she quickly rose to power, she just as quickly abandoned the universal health care idea and gobbled up massive corporate bribes a.k.a. “campaign donations,” including ones from the health insurance industry. Medicare expansion from age 65 to 60 ends up being nothing more than another cleverly disguised gift to these health insurance companies because it shifts the coverage burden of what tends to be their most costly patient subset under 65 over to the taxpayers. You speak highly of ACA expansion, but it is akin to replacing a band-aid over a gunshot wound with a bigger band-aid. It does little to reduce incurred individual costs. For that, you need to eradicate the entire health insurance industry altogether which has no business existing in a civilized society in the first place.

 

But we’re not even getting Medicare expansion to 60 under Biden, let alone a public option, let alone M4A!!! Hillary Rodham Pantsuit ran on Medicare expansion to 55 back in 2016, so we’ve somehow moved a bit further to the right between presidential election cycles on this important issue. Furthermore, AOC and the Squad already seem to be on the same political career trajectory as Pelosi. Earlier this year they refused to leverage their collective voting bloc on the House floor in order to extract anything of importance related to health care, such as an up/down vote on Jayapal’s M4A bill that would have quickly exposed all of the M4A traitors during a once-in-a-century pandemic. Wonderful. Or rather…to paraphrase a famous new friend of mine, “mess.”

 

Random PPP Subforum A-Hole: “Ha! M4A?! Cool idea, baby Kay. But for such grandiose desires, how do you intend to pay? With leprechaun pots, unicorn farts, and fairy dust?”

ComradeKayAdams: “We’ve covered this like a million times here, Random PPP Subforum A-Hole. Reductions in wasteful MIC budgets, speculation taxes, tax codes that counter trickle-down economics, and MMT.”

Random PPP Subforum A-Hole: “Ah! My sincerest apologies, dearest Kay. In the future, I shall strive to be less of a condescending a-hole to you.”

ComradeKayAdams: “Oh no worries! We good!”

 

 

 

Goat cheese is just as unethical as cow cheese. Free-range animal farming is no good, either, because you’re accepting only a slightly more humane practice at the expense of so much more required land use that is globally unsustainable.

 

But thank you for acknowledging me as a political literary femme fatale, Leh-nerd. For sure, my tedious prose is as endless as my legs. My social democratic message clarity is as transparent as my negligee. My preferred marginal tax rate for the top income bracket is as high as my hem line. The TwoBillsDrive.com boys hate-read my posts with socialist red rage, yet they yearn during my BillsFans.com sabbaticals with Green New Deal envy. My dangerously subversive far-left manifestos titillate them in their dreams and haunt them in their nightmares. Such is the essence of ComradeKayAdams. Oh and I also like to write about Buffalo Bills history! Wooo! BILLS MAFIA TILL I DIE.

Comrade, I want you to do me a favor. Find an old person and ask them if they like their Medicare and believe that would be a fix to our HC system. 
 

Most blue-hairs have to carry supplemental private insurance on top of Medicare because it doesn’t cover anything. There’s also no dental and vision presently, so most are forced to do without.

 

Biden expanding on that is a HUGE deal until we can move onto a better system. 
 

Yes, it’s going to collapse. Passing M4A tomorrow won’t prevent that. The problem is cost.

 

Did you know that your insurance is billed 17,000 for a routine colonoscopy?

 

You can’t fix that unless government drops a huge hammer on the system and sets the prices.

 

That’s not happening anytime soon. It doesn’t matter what model of coverage we use if we’re going to let doctors get away with that. That simply isn’t sustainable.

Edited August 15, 2021 by Governor

[TSOL]

42 minutes ago, ComradeKayAdams said:

 

Once again, Irv…you completely nailed it! I especially enjoyed this insightful gem: “idiot pantsuit Clinton.” She is indeed a frumpy sartorial disaster. The Benghazi of fashion, if you will. Total mess. Blazer dresses are where it’s at! MACA: Make America Chic Again. Make us less of a mess.

 

 

Just so you know, I’m wearing my Greta Thunberg “how dare you” resting b!tch face as I type: I’m not an anti-vaxxer and never have been at any point during my life. The science is compelling. Everyone who can get COVID vaccinated should have done so ASAP. The percentage of anti-vaxxers within the Green movement is no different from that among Democratic Party voters. 2016 Green presidential candidate, Jill Stein, is a physician and has long maintained a pro-vaccination stance. Clintonistas deliberately took Jill’s words out of context in 2016 in order to marginalize her presidential run and her third-party voters.

 

 

ALL politicians play into a victimhood complex...not just Bernie and Trump. They all run on proposed solutions to fix alleged problems. Those alleged problems are negatively affecting someone somewhere, no? I.e., victims, no? Biden ran on the fear that Donald Trump is a dangerous fascist who will permanently destroy American democracy if allowed one more term. So all of America and the world = victims, according to Biden, no?

 

 

A lot of the COVID bill goodies fall into the category of “absolute bare minimum” (relative to what the rest of the industrialized world was offering their people) so to stave off a populist uprising. They were the legislative equivalent of writing one’s own name on the front page of a test. I won’t give credit to Pelosi and to the Democratic Party for that stuff, minus a select few exceptions like the nice child tax credit that you mentioned.

 

I could easily write a very long-winded and very angry dissertation right now which obliterates your claim that Pelosi and the Dems have delivered on progressive policies. I would do it if I had confidence that anyone here carefully reads what I write lol. Instead, I will select one policy you mentioned that should be paramount to any self-described progressive: health care.

 

Like AOC, Pelosi once began her own political career as a wide-eyed pro-M4A “progressive.” But as she quickly rose to power, she just as quickly abandoned the universal health care idea and gobbled up massive corporate bribes a.k.a. “campaign donations,” including ones from the health insurance industry. Medicare expansion from age 65 to 60 ends up being nothing more than another cleverly disguised gift to these health insurance companies because it shifts the coverage burden of what tends to be their most costly patient subset under 65 over to the taxpayers. You speak highly of ACA expansion, but it is akin to replacing a band-aid over a gunshot wound with a bigger band-aid. It does little to reduce incurred individual costs. For that, you need to eradicate the entire health insurance industry altogether which has no business existing in a civilized society in the first place.

 

But we’re not even getting Medicare expansion to 60 under Biden, let alone a public option, let alone M4A!!! Hillary Rodham Pantsuit ran on Medicare expansion to 55 back in 2016, so we’ve somehow moved a bit further to the right between presidential election cycles on this important issue. Furthermore, AOC and the Squad already seem to be on the same political career trajectory as Pelosi. Earlier this year they refused to leverage their collective voting bloc on the House floor in order to extract anything of importance related to health care, such as an up/down vote on Jayapal’s M4A bill that would have quickly exposed all of the M4A traitors during a once-in-a-century pandemic. Wonderful. Or rather…to paraphrase a famous new friend of mine, “mess.”

 

Random PPP Subforum A-Hole: “Ha! M4A?! Cool idea, baby Kay. But for such grandiose desires, how do you intend to pay? With leprechaun pots, unicorn farts, and fairy dust?”

ComradeKayAdams: “We’ve covered this like a million times here, Random PPP Subforum A-Hole. Reductions in wasteful MIC budgets, speculation taxes, tax codes that counter trickle-down economics, and MMT.”

Random PPP Subforum A-Hole: “Ah! My sincerest apologies, dearest Kay. In the future, I shall strive to be less of a condescending a-hole to you.”

ComradeKayAdams: “Oh no worries! We good!”

 

 

 

Goat cheese is just as unethical as cow cheese. Free-range animal farming is no good, either, because you’re accepting only a slightly more humane practice at the expense of so much more required land use that is globally unsustainable.

 

But thank you for acknowledging me as a political literary femme fatale, Leh-nerd. For sure, my tedious prose is as endless as my legs. My social democratic message clarity is as transparent as my negligee. My preferred marginal tax rate for the top income bracket is as high as my hem line. The TwoBillsDrive.com boys hate-read my posts with socialist red rage, yet they yearn during my BillsFans.com sabbaticals with Green New Deal envy. My dangerously subversive far-left manifestos titillate them in their dreams and haunt them in their nightmares. Such is the essence of ComradeKayAdams. Oh and I also like to write about Buffalo Bills history! Wooo! BILLS MAFIA TILL I DIE.

 

 

Hy crap commander, did you get the WHOLE trailer park together to come up with that?

 

I want the last 1m 25s of my life back from reading that rubbish 

[Governor]

4 hours ago, Chef Jim said:

He’s had 21 years of inflation chipping away at that income need.  I’m order to maintain his 2000 lifestyle he’s need a lot more than $45k. And he’s got potentially another 50 years of inflation. Not to mention the cost of aging. 

Well, he has a house that’s paid for and doesn’t squander money like most people do today. 
 

I honestly don’t know how much he has left. He doesn’t seem too concerned about it. It looks like he’s going to make it. If my NJ house was paid for, and my property taxes were “grandfathered” in at like 7k a year which I assume his are, I could easily live on 35k a year.

Edited August 15, 2021 by Governor

[Chef Jim]

10 hours ago, Governor said:

Well, he has a house that’s paid for and doesn’t squander money like most people do today. 
 

I honestly don’t know how much he has left. He doesn’t seem too concerned about it. It looks like he’s going to make it. If my NJ house was paid for, and my property taxes were “grandfathered” in at like 7k a year which I assume his are, I could easily live on 35k a year.

I talk about inflation and you mention that his home is paid for.  Inflation doesn’t affect the mortgage.   NJ property tax is not a fixed expense worker. 
 

Again. You’re not looking at inflation.  In just 10 years in order to buy the stuff that costs you $35k today you’ll need nearly $50k.  That’s why when someone says “I can just live off the interest!” they have no clue. Has he ever worked?  If not he has no SS which would make it a lot easier. And that has a COLA though modest.  But they’re expecting a 6% COLA for 2022!  

[SoCal Deek]

10 hours ago, Governor said:

Well, he has a house that’s paid for and doesn’t squander money like most people do today. 
 

I honestly don’t know how much he has left. He doesn’t seem too concerned about it. It looks like he’s going to make it. If my NJ house was paid for, and my property taxes were “grandfathered” in at like 7k a year which I assume his are, I could easily live on 35k a year.

What I can’t understand is what the heck you’re doing proudly preaching this independent lifestyle in a thread devoted to Bernie Sanders? He’s hardly the poster child for that sort of independence. It leads me to believe that you have one foot in the bathtub and the other still out on the mat. You declare that your annual $35k is going to last you until your final demise but you’re secretly praying the rest of us out here putting our backs into it every day will toss something into society’s tip jar just in case your math is wrong and you end of eating dog food in your freezing cold run down Trenton hideaway. Is that it? Do I have it right?

[Chef Jim]

20 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

What I can’t understand is what the heck you’re doing proudly preaching this independent lifestyle in a thread devoted to Bernie Sanders? He’s hardly the poster child for that sort of independence. It leads me to believe that you have one foot in the bathtub and the other still out on the mat. You declare that your annual $35k is going to last you until your final demise but you’re secretly praying the rest of us out here putting our backs into it every day will toss something into society’s tip jar just in case your math is wrong and you end of eating dog food in your freezing cold run down Trenton hideaway. Is that it? Do I have it right?

The fact he can live on $35k a year tells me all I need to know about him.  He’s boring as *****. 😂

[Governor]

42 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:

I talk about inflation and you mention that his home is paid for.  Inflation doesn’t affect the mortgage.   NJ property tax is not a fixed expense worker. 
 

Again. You’re not looking at inflation.  In just 10 years in order to buy the stuff that costs you $35k today you’ll need nearly $50k.  That’s why when someone says “I can just live off the interest!” they have no clue. Has he ever worked?  If not he has no SS which would make it a lot easier. And that has a COLA though modest.  But they’re expecting a 6% COLA for 2022!  

I was wondering about his SS but wouldn’t he already be collecting that since he was 13 after his father died?

 

His property tax is a fixed amount.

[SoCal Deek]

18 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:

The fact he can live on $35k a year tells me all I need to know about him.  He’s boring as *****. 😂

On the contrary…I actually applaud his independence. I hope he uses all of that free sitting around time to do some deep thinking. Maybe write the great American novel, or volunteer in a soup kitchen. But leave the rest of out of it Bernie. I’m not going foot the bill for that lifestyle. Don’t depend on me to pay your bills when you’re sick, or build that high speed rail train he can’t afford to ride to places he can’t afford to stay or to visit restaurants he can’t afford to eat at. Go ahead….enjoy your NJ hideaway! But as a hint, he should find somewhere much cheaper to live than NJ if that’s indeed his strategic ‘plan’.

[Chef Jim]

2 minutes ago, Governor said:

I was wondering about his SS but wouldn’t he already be collecting that since he was 13 after his father died?

 

His property tax is a fixed amount.

Child survivor benefits only run until the age of 18. You really think if a minor’s parent dies we’re on the hook paying for the rest of their lives?  
 

How do you know his property taxes are fixed?  

[Governor]

9 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:

Child survivor benefits only run until the age of 18. You really think if a minor’s parent dies we’re on the hook paying for the rest of their lives?  
 

How do you know his property taxes are fixed?  

I wasn’t sure about his SS. So, he’s definitely going to be screwed there at some point. He’s never worked. I’m sure he factored that in.

 

He’s in the same situation I would be in if I take my gf’s family house. The property taxes are fixed because the family owned it for so long. it’s some “senior” law.

Our house is just under 2 acres and that’s locked in around 7k. His house is only on 1 acre so it’s less.

 

 

[Governor]

35 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

On the contrary…I actually applaud his independence. I hope he uses all of that free sitting around time to do some deep thinking. Maybe write the great American novel, or volunteer in a soup kitchen. But leave the rest of out of it Bernie. I’m not going foot the bill for that lifestyle. Don’t depend on me to pay your bills when you’re sick, or build that high speed rail train he can’t afford to ride to places he can’t afford to stay or to visit restaurants he can’t afford to eat at. Go ahead….enjoy your NJ hideaway! But as a hint, he should find somewhere much cheaper to live than NJ if that’s indeed his strategic ‘plan’.

I think Chef has spending problems. His family cell phone bill is probably $500/month. If a single person that has all their expenses paid can’t live in 35k, we obviously need to raise the minimum wage right? 

[Chef Jim]

10 minutes ago, Governor said:

I wasn’t sure about his SS. So, he’s definitely going to be screwed there at some point. He’s never worked. I’m sure he factored that in.

 

He’s in the same situation I would be in if I take my gf’s family house. The property taxes are fixed because the family owned it for so long. it’s some “senior” law.

Our house is just under 2 acres and that’s locked in around 7k. His house is only on 1 acre so it’s less.

 

 

 

You do realize that NJ's property taxes do increase over time.  They are not "locked in".  

 

It's people like you that keep me in business. 

Just now, Governor said:

I think Chef has spending problems. His family cell phone bill is probably $500/month. If a single person that has all their expenses paid can’t live in 35k, we obviously need to raise the minimum wage right? 

 

You don't know me very well do you.   I could live on $2,300 a month but I don't have to so I don't.