AH slight miscalculation with profound consequences Mr. Fri. There are no rules. The financial markets stocks bonds etc. is a casino with the real name of TEGWAR. The exciting game without any rules. The average Joe has only one role and that is to be separated from his money by any means necessary. This is not a game of chance.
V
Exsanguination,
I hear you. Unfortunately, the productive American middle class is doing exactly as your name says. This situation is literally a war. TPTB launch an offensive, armed with weapons such as legislation, regulation, and litigation. The citizens either recoil from the shock of it and are driven back or gather their forces, offer resistance, and stop the attack … temporarily. Probing attacks occur repeatedly all along our lines. Where little or no resistance is offered, our lines buckle and the intrusion into our territory grows. Where resistance is offered, the attack pulls backs and then moves off to a new area to outflank the resistance, only to return later to probe the line again in this area and resume the attack when weakness is sensed. The pattern repeats itself again and again. We’ve been fighting a defensive war which, unfortunately, is ultimately unwinnable. Only taking the offensive will yield victory.
ao,
I am in the retail shipping business. If a customer comes through our doors more than twice it is a trend, and we do our best to greet them personally, using their name.
We provide access to the big three shippers, office supplies and commercial bulk mail rates and services for anyone who wants to mail more than 250 pieces at a time. And we customize, wedding invitations to lost dog fliers, we will help with it or make it for you. Our computers handle the package routing by providing the customer with 28 price points and delivery options each time they put a package on the scale. We have lowered prices twice since opening the doors 18 months ago.
I am trying to position us to provide all LOCAL shipping and mail services as a courier service as well, but that is still in the works. We see the nails in the coffin of the postal service. Now its a matter fo trying to figure out how to help people without the federal system if there is a decrease in postal services.
Jager
Speaking of poorly timed business taxes…the UK seems to have a special ability:
Companies that fail to register their energy use by next month will be hit with fines that could reach £45,000 under the little-known rules.I would be very interested to see exactly how such charges will reduce greenhouse gases. The cynic in me suspects that the fees will mainly expand a government bureaucracy while shrinking private hiring more or less by equal amounts.Those that do participate in the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) initiative by declaring their energy use will face charges for every ton of greenhouse gas they produce.
These payments are expected to average £38,000 a year for medium-sized firms, and could reach £100,000 for larger organisations.
Surveys have shown that thousands of businesses are unaware they are supposed to be taking part, or even that the scheme exists at all.
Business leaders criticised the CRC — which was created by Labour but implemented by the Coalition — as “complex and bureaucratic”. One accused ministers of swinging “a big hammer” at companies and questioned whether it would have any environmental benefits.
Of about 4,000 organisations estimated to qualify for the scheme, only 1,229 have registered to date, leaving thousands at risk of fines.
Missing the Sept 30 deadline will mean an immediate £5,000 fine, and £500 for each day after that, up to a maximum of £45,000.
(Source)
I’m sure the best of intentions were in play, and all that, but the effect here is most likely just another transfer of wealth from the private to the public sphere at an exceptionally poor time in the economic cycle.
Still, I don’t know much about the program so if anyone form the UK can describe how these carbon fees will actually go towards reducing carbon, I would very much appreciate an education on the matter.
Actually it was Mark Twain (Samuel Clemons).
I am more concerned about the return of my money than the return on my money
I checked into this and discovered the following from a page about Will Rogers quotes:
http://www.willrogerstoday.com/will_rogers_quotes/quotes.cfm?qID=3
About half way down the page of quotes this appears:
(This is NOT an authentic Will Rogers quote, although it is often attributed to him: I’m not as concerned about the return on my money as I am the return of my money.)
I have seen this quote attributed to Will on many occasions.
Will Rogers was a really interesting guy but as it turns out in this case he must have been copying something from Samuel Clemons.
I’m not from UK but this is what I found on good old Wikipedia:
[quote]
Organisations qualifying for CRC would have all their energy use covered by the scheme, including emissions from direct energy use as well as electricity purchased.[5] Such organisations - including hotel chains, supermarkets, banks, central government and large local authorites- mostly fall below the threshold for the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, but account for around 10% of the UK carbon emissions.
Although mandatory, the Carbon Reduction Commitment will involve self-certification of emissions, backed up by spot audits, as opposed to third-party verification. Emission allowances are to be auctioned rather than grandfathered (as was the case in the initial stages of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme). The policy sets out plans for the revenue generated by the auctions to be recycled back to participating organizations by the means of an annual payment…
Participants in the Carbon Reduction Commitment will also be able to purchase (but not sell) emission allowances from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme at a price that is the higher of the EU ETS price or the minimum CRC floor price. [/quote]
Sounds like a basic cap and share plan that seeks to disincentivize businesses from consuming too much energy and allows them to offset consumption by purchasing allowances. On the one hand, it doesn’t appear that much of the money raised will be lost to government bureacracy and I’m glad something is being done on the important issue of carbon emissions. On the other, this could certainly put a large economic strain on private businesses that are already struggling, but then again maybe businesses that can’t afford to control their energy use are the ones that shouldn’t survive.
Sorry the new gov’t regulations don’t allow for this. Your fresh milk and eggs must pass gov’t inspection and you must comply with all labor laws. Please make sure you provide the mandated health and workers comp insurances for all your employees as well as pay employment taxes and file the necessary paperwork for your employees. Also make sure you provide humane and sanitary conditions for your livestock and accept unanounce inspections of your operation by the benevolent government workers at the FDA.
Thank you
Best to join the underground economy, and use cash/barter for exchange. When the Big Guys do not play by the rules, why should we, if it is to our detriment? Seems to me that opting out of the system may be the only way to survive. Timothy Leary may have been right all along: “Turn on, tune in, drop out.”
“Turn on, tune in, drop out.”
Heres a funny little song by Cracker that came out a year or two ago on that subject.
Brilliant ao I wish I had your writing skills
V
“Also make sure you provide humane and sanitary conditions for your livestock and accept unanounce inspections of your operation by the benevolent government workers at the FDA.”
docmims,
I know you are kidding. 
FDA is agent of the corporations, not the animals or the consumers, so they are not concerned with sanitary and humane conditions. They just want to eliminate perceived threat to the corporations IMO. Nonetheless, anitary conditions sound like a good idea to me if I am going to let my family by Jager’s eggs.
take care
Denise
Ha!
I’ve got you all fooled. I won’t sell the egs. I will bundle them in lots of 6 and trade them as a future contract for 12. Then I will scramble 4 of the remaining 6 and serve them in the diner, charging for 6 of course, in return for labor on the nighbors farm, which I will be paid in vegetables for. The remaining two eggs will auctioned as souvenirs to unsuspecting tourists, with good luck promises of producing 3 chickens per egg. Of course the ability to retire will be destroyed when they realize all those eggs are much less than what they were promised. So I will purchase misery index eggs, rotten hollowed eggshells rejected by non farm workers, which can be used for fertilizer and trade them back to the neighbor for vegetables until I own the soil of his garden. If I own the soil then I own the property and the government will be so amazed by my trickery I will be listed Too Crazy Too Fail, and given subsidies while largely being left alone to corner the local farmers market.
Is it Friday yet?
Jager
Are you looking for investors. If so sign me up. Best ideas since Ponzi.
V
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