Bernie Madoff + Tim Ferriss
March 13, 2009 – 9:27 amBernie is in jail! Ponzi schemes still prevail. I hope I don’t have black helicopters over my house, but isn’t Social Security a Ponzi Scheme. Who do we put in jail for that?
Take a little or a lot from the bottom layers of the pyramid and pay the top of the pyramid. Only the top of the Pyramid flies in tax paid for jets, owns 8 houses, colludes with industry and commercial interests, subsidizes student loan companies who also get kickbacks from boomer run universities, bails out their banker friends, and so on.
Taxation without representation. Youth Fiscal Literacy.
Tags: 4HWW, Bernie, credit, debt, finance reform, financial freedom, four hour work week, generation debt, generational accounting, lifestyle design, Madoff, social security, Tim Ferriss, Young Money
dead mouse. AARP life expectancy calculator.
February 4, 2009 – 6:35 pm
i thought of the mouse. see on any given timeline life expectancy is zero. thanks tyler durden of fight club. boomers have at best another 40 years. well that’s a stretch cuz they all just turned 60 a year ago. so maybe 20 years. that’s not a lot of time if you think about your average 20 year old person, girl or guy. u haven’t been here very long have you. your old enough to carry a gun in IRAG, and vote, but not old enough to drink, or some would say get married or have a baby. but you are TWENTY! tick tock boomers. so it’s like, “What can we do, spend, take, pillage, rob, mortgage, and pilfer (means samething as rob) over the next twenty years? In fact boomers spend 90 million lobbying congress every two years making sure they get better medication, better rates on insurance, better deals on contacts, etc. who pays for that? do they? hell no that’s why they LOBBY!
Tags: aarp, anya kamanetz, baby boomers, bailouts, barack, Barack Obama, boomers, buyouts, college, economy, inflation, jay-z, men, minorities, Money, mortgage, obama, pell grants, retirees, scholarships, taxes, Tom Daschle, tuition, women
what a world what a world
January 21, 2009 – 5:26 pmfrost mentioned way leads on to way. scripture says weeds grow and choke the seedlings and modern science calls it ADD. Whatever it is it’s been a fascinating 3 months. the American Assoc. of Young People has settled it’s suit with the AARP (the are now lobbying for seniors but in their literature using rhetoric like “and others” or “for all”… which is misleading as a recent email from their online manager rallied the AARP ranks by referring themselves as the most powerful Washington lobby ever.
Tags: "american association of young people" money, aarp, aayp, babel barack, china, healthcare, housing, india, jobs, market crash, pregnancy, scholarships, social security, stock, stocks, students, taxation, taxes, teachers, unemployment, waste
what a world what a world
January 21, 2009 – 5:26 pmfrost mentioned way leads on to way. scripture says weeds grow and choke the seedlings and modern science calls it ADD. Whatever it is it’s been a fascinating 3 months. the American Assoc. of Young People has settled it’s suit with the AARP (the are now lobbying for seniors but in their literature using rhetoric like “and others” or “for all”… which is misleading as a recent email from their online manager rallied the AARP ranks by referring themselves as the most powerful Washington lobby ever.
Tags: "american association of young people" money, aarp, aayp, babel barack, china, healthcare, housing, india, jobs, market crash, pregnancy, scholarships, social security, stock, stocks, students, taxation, taxes, teachers, unemployment, waste
youth impotence
September 22, 2008 – 5:45 pmmy head is spinning. so should yours. i’m holding time magazine. it reads “How Wall Street Sold Out America. They had a party, now your going to pay.”
But the reality is wall street is who? on page 36 and 37 it gives you a really big hint. boomers. every single one. old, rich, and careless. why careless. they sold generations in to bondage and economic slavery. i work very very hard to make a buck. or not to. now that 1 trillion dollars of our tax money is going to bail out the fuckers who got us here. and it rests on the shoulders of one man. he has more power than the president. sec. of treasury henry paulson.
Tags: 90210, african american, barack, bear sterns, careers, Cindy McCain, college, depression, economics, education, finance, financial regulation, gas, Gas prices, geopolitics, goldman sachs, green energy, green financing, green jobs, green washing, iPhone, Jessica Palin, jobs, lehman brothers, Lindsey, MacAir, Michelle Obama, Money, MTV, oil, paris, peak oil, Perez Hilton, Sarah Palin, stock market, the hills, TRL, tuition, university, VH1, Young Democrats, Young Republicans, youth, youtube
How selfish soever man may be supposed…
May 24, 2008 – 8:59 amThe following is reposted with permission from Ryan Allis.
I just sent this to a couple of my friends and wanting to blog it as well. I just watched the video of the much-talked about Gates speech on Creative Capitalism on Friday at Davos. For me, it was one of the most inspiring and influential speeches I have ever heard. Though Gates is not the best speaker in the world, his message is right on. The WSJ article on the speech is here and the video of the speech is here.
I especially enjoyed the Adam Smith quote Gates references:
“reinventing america!”
April 22, 2008 – 9:33 pmThis is the write up for Bill Novelli’s book 50+ from buy.com
“Calling for the unification of retirees, “50+” is an uplifting and inspirational rallying cry for Americans age 50 and over by the head of the AARP. Abridged. 4 CDs.
Annotation:
In this call to arms to a key American demographic, Bill Novelli, who is the CEO of the AARP, states that the over-50 generation is well-positioned to significantly change the social fabric of a troubled American society. The aging Boomers represent a substantial voting bloc, and they have the energy and smarts to make a difference in things like health care, political reform, consumer action, community involvement, and change in general. Novelli tells the Boomers to defer those couches and clickers, crank it up, and kick out the jams!”
Tags: aarp, aayp, anya kamanetz, Books, britney spears, earth day, generation debt, generation gap, generational disparity, hillary, jonas brothers, obama, pollution, social security, the hills, work place
Miss Teen SC Trys… Then Trys Again
April 22, 2008 – 9:20 pmIf at first you don’t succeed, try… then, try again.
Miss Teen South Carolina was asked a particularly daunting question on The Today Show. When she realized that the segment wasn’t going well, she did what anyone would do. She asked for a do-over:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DEBNMhziqc]
Tags: beauty pageant, persistnace, teen, youtube
another shitty day in young america
April 7, 2008 – 10:17 pmanya kamentz of generation debt-how this title gets longer and longer when i see it in the press (although it really is an important book) took a trip upstate ny recently. she goes on to say in the huffington post or reposted in the huffington post that a deli sandwhich like the canary in the mine predicts usa based riots b/c of rising costs of food and that citizens of foreign nations already riot in the streets. her detractors, the comments from the post, poke at obesity issues (very real- heart disease is the number one killer amongst rich geezers- and a belt expanding problem amongst american youth. anya serenely tells us what’s she’s going to do-all great. and then asks us what we (the reader will do?) again. but seriously. rumor has it anya didn’t graduate with any debt from yale. but seriously kids that’s bad ass and we should applaud her for being one of the lucky ones. she could be manging or writing about stock picks in some crappy stock periodical that obviously didn’t do shit for bear sterns or lehman brothers. anya keep it up. awesome! anya thank you for taking a stand and nudging the sleeping giant that 100m young americans represent.
Tags: aarp, aayp, anya kamenetz, boomers, budgets, business, career, cash, economics, economy, finance, financial education, gas, generational disparity, global, healthcare, housing, job loss, jobs, matt murray, Money, oil, options, poverty, real estate crash, saving, sub-prime, youth