I completed the 10th grade when I dropped out of school and 48 years later retired as a 1%er.  I did get a strategic education later because every  degree I got was planned to advance my earning potential and avoid debt.  I was not picky about what jobs I got, hours worked or location; so I was always employed.  Almost...more

By law the Post Office has to survive on its own but Congress should not interfere with its management and if anything Congress should cover the costs of the part of the retirement system that was unfunded at the time the Postal Corporation was created.  I was looking forward to not having to walk to my mail box, an 1/...more

President Obama is too preoccupied with the things he cares about; promoting gay marriage, free condoms and giving food stamps to Mexicans to notice.

I spent 43 years in the Navy and Army and most uniform changes were unnecessary and costly.  Enlisted get their uniforms at government expense but officers after receiving a small initial uniform allowance buy their own uniforms.  The rumor was always that the uniform manufacturers lobbied the Pentagon; so they could s...more

In the Doctor Shivago movie his brother comments that one person stealing a board from a fence is not a problem but a million is.  The people who cheat on the earned income credit are the dead beat free loading Obama voters who live off the work of others.  I pay 20% of my gross income in Federal Income tax  and don't ...more

There has been a huge expansion in Federal non military workforce pay and benefits. We need to cut federal civilian pay and benefits. Eliminate every Federal Agency created in the last 50 years as they drove manufacturing overseas with their over regulation and harassment of business. Any Federal Agency created in the ...more

I will probably buy a ticket but I dread winning.  I like my life and have everything I want now,  If you are not happy now winning the lottery won't help.  As far as I can tell lottery winners exchange one set of problems for another.  My State won't allow you to win anonymously so there goes your personal safety, you...more

It depends on your stage of life. At 17 I lived in a barracks with a 100  men to a room in a double bunk and a wall locker for everything I owned and I thought it was great.  Now I am retired my wife and I are buying a vacation home with 3 beds and 2 baths and plan to add a garage to it for extra storage. Our regular h...more

Living wage is a meaningless term as living age for a high school kid living at home is vastly different from a middle aged adult with a spouse and six kids.  The wage for a job should be determined by the market; anything else means the job goes away in the long term and neither the kid or the adult has a job.  If you...more