** An American Promise **
● A Balanced-Budget Amendment to the Constitution, with appropriate exceptions for times of war and recession.
● A line-item veto, to give the President a fighting chance to eliminate pork and earmarks.
● A limitation on federal spending, to 20% of GDP.-
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** Building A Million Dollar Retirement Portfolio **
The average return on the U.S. stock market over the past 100 years is 6.6% after inflation. Caveat: history tells us that there is no such thing as an average return for any randomly-selected block of time. So instead, let's be conservative and use a 5% average return. That $1 million retirement fund would be worth only – "only" – $761,000 at age 67. And getting there is relatively painless: $7 per day, increased by 2% per year, from age 19 to 68.Have Your Say!
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- Did Government Agencies “Raid” Social Security “Coffers”? « Joejolly’s Weblog on “The Debt The Government Owes Itself For Raiding Social Security”
- John Lumbard on The Antidote
- Gen Y on The Keepers of the Flame
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- James Schaefer on The ENTIRE Government Runs on Borrowed Money
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Archive for December, 2010
Hair of the Dog
By John Lumbard.
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