Want to get happy? Here’s a lovely article highlighting that over the past 18 months, the percentage of Federal Government employees making over $100,000 jumped from 14% to 19%! An even more astonishing fact is that 1,690 employees at the Department of Transportation now make over $170,000 vs. only one before the recession started. My
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Jane White’s book America, Welcome To The Poorhouse is an angry rant that you just may agree with incessantly. Author Bio: Jane White is Founder & President of Retirement Solutions, LLC, which promotes 401(k) reform and provides investment education. Publisher: FT Press. A compact 247-pages in hardcover. Summary: America, Welcome To The Poorhouse is one angry,
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What is this blasphemy you say? One of our main tenets is to observe what people DO with their money, and not what they preach. The public clearly loves Bank of America and Wall Street again because how else would Bank of America be able to raise $19 billion from us, to pay us back?
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It upsets me to no end when I read statistics stating there are roughly 50,000 homeless veterans in America, representing roughly 8.6% of the total homeless population. Why are there homeless veterans?! If the motto “leave no man behind” holds true, why has the US government abandoned the very people who served their country the most?
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I recently read a post on GRS on how to make “6 Figures in 7 years.” By the time I got to his post, there were already 95 comments with a very negative undertone. I was surprised how many angry people were lashing out. Why can’t folks be civil even if they are trying to challenge
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A reader writes in: “FS, not sure if you heard the news, but Ken Lewis is stepping down as CEO of Bank of America by year end! My colleagues and I work for a boutique bank, and were all hoping Ken would go on an acquisition binge again and take us out at a huge
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Every now and again, it’s good for the little people to ask the big people for some help. Our inaugural “Open Letter Series” to Vikram Pandit is inspired by a bank teller friend of mine at Citigroup who lost her job through no fault of her own. She recently found a new position at
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After reading several of my favorite sites out there, I’m beginning to wonder whether there is a shadow government running America. The “Cash for Clunkers” program will cost the US tax payer $3 billion to graciously put 700,000 people who drive beaters into cars costing 5-6X more. Yay, there’s a one time boost to August
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Do higher taxes lead to Socialism in America? This is the question I had on September 1, 2009 when I was still slaving away at my corporate job. Paying lots of taxes while the world was falling apart wasn’t sitting well with me. I had also just started Financial Samurai in July 2009. Now that
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