Comments for YooperSmith.com http://www.yoopersmith.com Advise, amuse and enlighten. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:37:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 Comment on Step 2: Pay off your Credit Cards by Yooper http://www.yoopersmith.com/archives/6#comment-3660 Yooper Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:29:04 +0000 http://www.yoopersmith.com/wordpress/?p=6#comment-3660 Erica: THANKS! for the comment and for reading the post...its very cool that people still read these posts that I have written a while ago and have mostly forgotten about. The value of this post will, unfortunately, be relavant for some time to come. Yoops :-) Erica: THANKS! for the comment and for reading the post…its very cool that people still read these posts that I have written a while ago and have mostly forgotten about.

The value of this post will, unfortunately, be relavant for some time to come.

Yoops :-)

]]> Comment on Step 2: Pay off your Credit Cards by erica http://www.yoopersmith.com/archives/6#comment-3656 erica Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:42:55 +0000 http://www.yoopersmith.com/wordpress/?p=6#comment-3656 I couldnt agree more...pay off your debt first! I couldnt agree more…pay off your debt first!

]]> Comment on How do we fix Our Economy? by yooper http://www.yoopersmith.com/archives/149#comment-3653 yooper Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:08:31 +0000 http://www.yoopersmith.com/?p=149#comment-3653 Thomas: Good points all! Thanks as always for adding to the discussion. I like the a couple of basic ideas: - Less defense spending. - Universal health care...however we pay for it. - Refocus the primary purpose of business to provide value for a fair price versus profit as the end all be all of existence. I don't want to get a PHD in economics...so I will leave it up to others to implement my "PLAN". :-) Thomas: Good points all! Thanks as always for adding to the discussion.

I like the a couple of basic ideas:

- Less defense spending.

- Universal health care…however we pay for it.

- Refocus the primary purpose of business to provide value for a fair price versus profit as the end all be all of existence.

I don’t want to get a PHD in economics…so I will leave it up to others to implement my “PLAN”. :-)

]]> Comment on Step 3: Learn where to Invest your Money by yooper http://www.yoopersmith.com/archives/49#comment-3652 yooper Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:04:15 +0000 http://www.yoopersmith.com/archives/49#comment-3652 Nathan b: In my experience, most dividends are issued quarterly. I generally have auto-reinvest set on my index funds. THANKS! for the comment. Nathan b: In my experience, most dividends are issued quarterly. I generally have auto-reinvest set on my index funds.

THANKS! for the comment.

]]> Comment on How do we fix Our Economy? by Thomas http://www.yoopersmith.com/archives/149#comment-3651 Thomas Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:23:23 +0000 http://www.yoopersmith.com/?p=149#comment-3651 Seems to me to be an oversimplified way the economy works. Probably making things worse in some areas in not many. The housing market if you listen to Sec. Paulsen on Charlie Rose tonight is directly discussing efforts to "save people's homes" but many of these people walked into situations they couldn't afford. Now they are simply walking away now rather than find a way to make it work. That is why the banks are facing crisis. The healthcare thing sounds great but how to pay, it doesn't say and simple transfering to government control will not resolve that. For example recently in the UK it turns out that the government paid doctors not to refer people for potential further research of medical problems and the death rate from cancer is on the rise. I don't care about abortion as an issue, but to people who do, putting the government in charge of your health care means it will in time tell you if you can have an abortion or not. Even if Obama is elected today it means someday someone else would be deciding the issue later. The issues of stock and price control in the stock market reek of goverment mandated market controls, or more honestly *ahem* Socialism. The market is a very complex system this sounds great but it reads in the details something that will ultimately hurt the US productivity and economy even further. Frankly I don't buy it, sorry. Transparency, freedom are the answers to all, anything else is lipstick on a pig that will cost us all in more government intervention and taxes in the long run. Seems to me to be an oversimplified way the economy works. Probably making things worse in some areas in not many.

The housing market if you listen to Sec. Paulsen on Charlie Rose tonight is directly discussing efforts to “save people’s homes” but many of these people walked into situations they couldn’t afford. Now they are simply walking away now rather than find a way to make it work. That is why the banks are facing crisis.

The healthcare thing sounds great but how to pay, it doesn’t say and simple transfering to government control will not resolve that. For example recently in the UK it turns out that the government paid doctors not to refer people for potential further research of medical problems and the death rate from cancer is on the rise. I don’t care about abortion as an issue, but to people who do, putting the government in charge of your health care means it will in time tell you if you can have an abortion or not. Even if Obama is elected today it means someday someone else would be deciding the issue later.

The issues of stock and price control in the stock market reek of goverment mandated market controls, or more honestly *ahem* Socialism.

The market is a very complex system this sounds great but it reads in the details something that will ultimately hurt the US productivity and economy even further. Frankly I don’t buy it, sorry.

Transparency, freedom are the answers to all, anything else is lipstick on a pig that will cost us all in more government intervention and taxes in the long run.

]]> Comment on Step 3: Learn where to Invest your Money by nathan b http://www.yoopersmith.com/archives/49#comment-3650 nathan b Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:50:32 +0000 http://www.yoopersmith.com/archives/49#comment-3650 ok ,how often will they cut you a dividend ? a. weekly b.monthly ok ,how often will they cut you a dividend ?
a. weekly
b.monthly

]]> Comment on Infected Novel in Hard Cover…check this video trailer by yooper http://www.yoopersmith.com/archives/130#comment-3643 yooper Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:43:36 +0000 http://www.yoopersmith.com/?p=130#comment-3643 Scott, Funny you should mention “image” when you the FDO just posted a gay guy singing about triangles on the FDO’s EVIL web page… All due respect boss (and I realize you will now torture me to death EVEN longer and torture innocent bunnies in MY NAME!)…you screwed the “image” pooch with that gay video (even though it was really funny!). Scott,

Funny you should mention “image” when you the FDO just posted a gay guy singing about triangles on the FDO’s EVIL web page…

All due respect boss (and I realize you will now torture me to death EVEN longer and torture innocent bunnies in MY NAME!)…you screwed the “image” pooch with that gay video (even though it was really funny!).

]]> Comment on Infected Novel in Hard Cover…check this video trailer by Scott Sigler http://www.yoopersmith.com/archives/130#comment-3641 Scott Sigler Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:17:08 +0000 http://www.yoopersmith.com/?p=130#comment-3641 Thomas, dammit, don't tell people I am anything but an Evil Asshat. I'm a horror writer, for crying out loud. You know, those sallow-faced dudes that wear all black with silver skull jewelry? Come on, I've got an image to uphold here! PS: Dragon*Con was fun, but I'm pretending it was a very tortured experience (the image thing again ...) Thomas, dammit, don’t tell people I am anything but an Evil Asshat. I’m a horror writer, for crying out loud. You know, those sallow-faced dudes that wear all black with silver skull jewelry? Come on, I’ve got an image to uphold here!

PS: Dragon*Con was fun, but I’m pretending it was a very tortured experience (the image thing again …)

]]> Comment on Michael Moore’s new film is online for free by yooper http://www.yoopersmith.com/archives/134#comment-3640 yooper Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:33:53 +0000 http://www.yoopersmith.com/?p=134#comment-3640 Thomas: You know me oh so well...and my only reader! Please keep reading and commenting so I know the world is still out there. Anyone else out there...the comment feature works...and I'm am insecure and don't think anyone loves me...comments help though. THANKS! Yoops! Thomas: You know me oh so well…and my only reader! Please keep reading and commenting so I know the world is still out there.

Anyone else out there…the comment feature works…and I’m am insecure and don’t think anyone loves me…comments help though.

THANKS!

Yoops!

]]> Comment on Michael Moore’s new film is online for free by Thomas http://www.yoopersmith.com/archives/134#comment-3639 Thomas Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:25:55 +0000 http://www.yoopersmith.com/?p=134#comment-3639 Except your not egotistical, full of yourself, and full of sh*t....well okay maybe that last one is true. Ha! Except your not egotistical, full of yourself, and full of sh*t….well okay maybe that last one is true. Ha!

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