Conservative Thread: U.S. Steele - Back In Business

[DisneyMomOK]

[QUOTE="Got Disney";30290875]

Hi and Happy Valentines day! I got candy and flowers and dinner and the bathrooms cleaned

I have a question to a aske the smartest people i know on the DIS....yes you all....

With this stimulus money that comes back weekley in paychecks.....not going to the GOV...what happens to people like me that are independent contractors and pay quarterly or at the end of the year...do we not get $13 back?

With all the news I watch ya figure that I would have coaught that [/QUOTE]

Lucky you! I am so jealous!!!!!

 

[Disneycrazymom]

While I totally agree about the spending bill I did ride the monorail last summer from the Mirage, where we were staying, to the Hilton for the Star Trek exhibit. We then rode all the way to the end to see the hotels and back. It was a good deal for the day pass to get us around. I didn't know that it broke down often!!! I would not have gone to Disneyland on it and I am a big Disneyland fan!!!

 

[Tink & Goofy]

Got Dis~~ I don't know. That's a very good question.

So far I have received nothing for valentine's day; DH is at work still.
I got him a flower, a card from me, and a card from DS. He said he still has to pick up my valentine's present. I'm interested to see what it is....

 

[Mahnahmahnah]

While I totally agree about the spending bill I did ride the monorail last summer from the Mirage, where we were staying, to the Hilton for the Star Trek exhibit. We then rode all the way to the end to see the hotels and back. It was a good deal for the day pass to get us around. I didn't know that it broke down often!!! I would not have gone to Disneyland on it and I am a big Disneyland fan!!!

It did for a while. Then they hired another company to take over. I don't know how it's running now. Hopefully no one gets stuck in there again. Were there a lot of riders on it? For a long time they said they were losing money because ridership was lower than anticipated.

 

[Humphrey Bear]

What???!!!

Isn't a 'magnetic levitation train' a monorail?

Vegas has a monorail now and no one uses it! It runs along the strip from the Sahara to the MGM Grand. It was free for a while, then they decided to charge $5 a person.

It is similar to a monorail but it doesn't touch the track, it floats over the track guided by magnetic force:

MAGLEV, or magnetic levitation, is a system of transportation that suspends, guides and propels vehicles, predominantly trains, using magnetic forces. This method has the potential to be faster, quieter and smoother than wheeled mass transit systems. The technology has the potential to exceed 4000 mph (6437 km/h) if deployed in an evacuated tunnel.[1] If not deployed in an evacuated tube the power needed for levitation is usually not a particularly large percentage and most of the power needed is used to overcome air drag, as with any other high speed train.

The highest recorded speed of a maglev train is 561 km/h (350 mph), achieved in Japan in 2003, 6 km/h slower than the conventional TGV speed record. This is slower than aircraft, since aircraft can fly at far higher altitude where air drag is lower and thus high speeds are more cost effectively obtained.

So why is this needed between LA and Vegas? It sounds very expensive and I'm not sure that I would ride it considering it would be built by the lowest bidder and if Robert Reich gets his way, unskilled labor.

 

[Mahnahmahnah]

[QUOTE="Got Disney";30291415]does no one have an idea about the big bucks that I will not be getting each week the smartest people I know [/QUOTE]

I would think if you are paying taxes, you get the $13, no? Do you pay yourself weekly? If not, when you file your taxes then maybe you'll get it along with your Spendulous Rebate

I'm just guessing.

It should be enough to buy ya some Two-Buck chuck and some smokes.

 

[Mahnahmahnah]

It is similar to a monorail but it doesn't touch the track, it floats over the track guided by magnetic force:




So why is this needed between LA and Vegas? It sounds very expensive and I'm not sure that I would ride it considering it would be built by the lowest bidder and if Robert Reich gets his way, unskilled labor.

Of course it's going to the lowest bidder!

Can you imagine being on a magnetic monorail that broke down in the middle of the desert when it's above 100 degrees?

 

["Got Disney"]

I would think if you are paying taxes, you get the $13, no? Do you pay yourself weekly? If not, when you file your taxes then maybe you'll get it along with your Spendulous Rebate

I'm just guessing.

It should be enough to buy ya some Two-Buck chuck and some smokes.

I dont smoke so does that mean all bets are off and Whats a Buck chuck

We dont write ourselves a pay check...and we have no employees...but we pay our taxs either quarterly or at the end of the year. I wonder if we will get a tax credit at the end of the year for the amount alotted...

I will have to ask our tax guy.....Hm maybe Turbo Tax can answer that question if he cant

 

[AlexTina]

Get ready to bend over folks here it comes!!! He's got his spendulous through and now we're gonna get it. Who wants to take a guess as to whether spending will be cut or taxes will be increased??

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,493124,00.html

With a $787 billion stimulus package in hand, President Barack Obama will pivot quickly to address a budget deficit that could now approach $2 trillion this year.

He has scheduled a "fiscal-responsibility summit" on Feb. 23 and will unveil a budget blueprint three days later, crafted to put pressure on politicians to address the country's surging long-term debt crisis.

Speaking Friday to business leaders at the White House, the president defended the surge of spending in the stimulus plan, but he made sure to add: "It's important for us to think in the midterm and long term. And over that midterm and long term, we're going to have to have fiscal discipline. We are not going to be able to perpetually finance the levels of debt that the federal government is currently carrying."

Along those lines, White House budget director Peter R. Orszag has committed to instituting tougher budget-discipline rules -- once the economy turns around. Those include a mandate that any "nonemergency" spending increases be offset by equal spending cuts or tax increases.
Officials say the budget blueprint to be released this month will also attempt to make public the full extent of the dire fiscal situation, by not repeating some of the accounting used in crafting President George W. Bush's budgets.

Recent budget blueprints excluded from deficit projections the long-term costs of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those budgets also didn't include the cost of preventing the alternative minimum tax -- instituted in 1969 to ensure the rich didn't escape taxation -- from hitting the middle class.


Tina

 

[TLSnell1981]

I would think if you are paying taxes, you get the $13, no?

I don't think we know who gets what yet. Now, there are rumors, but nobody really knows.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, "Who knew...when Obama said he would give us change...he meant it literally?"

 

["Got Disney"]

If I unserstand this correctly...anyone over 175,000 gets nothing....correct?

 

[LisaMommy]

Hi there, any room for a newbie? I have no idea how I missed this thread before. But, it's so nice to see some fellow conservatives on the board.

 

[honugirl]

So, I talked to the endo. We're going to Houston!!!!!!

 

[Disneycrazymom]

The day we were on the monorail there were others on it but it was not in any way full.

I don't think anyone with maybe the exception of a very few die hard Obama fans will be surprised by the tax increases. Everyone I talk to says they are just a matter of time.

 

[Mahnahmahnah]

[QUOTE="Got Disney";30292343]I dont smoke so does that mean all bets are off and Whats a Buck chuck

We dont write ourselves a pay check...and we have no employees...but we pay our taxs either quarterly or at the end of the year. I wonder if we will get a tax credit at the end of the year for the amount alotted...

I will have to ask our tax guy.....Hm maybe Turbo Tax can answer that question if he cant [/QUOTE]

I wish the Tag Fairy came here.

Two Buck Chuck is a cheapy wine at Trader Joe's It's not too bad actually.



TL- now that is funny! I was just taking a stab at it.

 

[Tink & Goofy]

I got a dozen pink roses, a Mickey Mouse card, and Tink denim tote bag.

 

["Got Disney"]

Hi there, any room for a newbie? I have no idea how I missed this thread before. But, it's so nice to see some fellow conservatives on the board.

Hi there and welcome...I am the Fiscal conservative that is saddened to say that I am a Democrat and I hangs in here with my conservative friends and not the snooty liberals...make sense...probably not

But what in this whole election has

 

[Humphrey Bear]

Hi there, any room for a newbie? I have no idea how I missed this thread before. But, it's so nice to see some fellow conservatives on the board.

Welcome.

 

[Mahnahmahnah]

Hi there, any room for a newbie? I have no idea how I missed this thread before. But, it's so nice to see some fellow conservatives on the board.

Hi! Welcome! Of course their's room.

So, I talked to the endo. We're going to Houston!!!!!!

Excellent!!!!!

 

["Got Disney"]

I got a dozen pink roses, a Mickey Mouse card, and Tink denim tote bag.

That sounds nice and I love Tink are pink roses your favorite?