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Thread:  Join "MyOnlineTeam" Today - Chapter 60 |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7659 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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A nation's choice between spending on military defense and spending on civilian goods has often been posed as "guns versus butter." But understanding the choices of many nations' political leaders might be helped by examining the contrast between their runaway spending on pensions while skimping on military defense. Huge pensions for retired government workers can be found from small municipalities to national governments on both sides of the Atlantic. There is a reason. For elected officials, pensions are virtually the ideal thing to spend money on, politically speaking. Many kinds of spending of the taxpayers' money win votes from the recipients. But raising taxes to pay for this spending loses votes from the taxpayers. Pensions offer a way out of this dilemma for politicians. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/201..._and_pensions_117047.html Don't tar everyone with the same brush. I worked in the private sector for 12 years and the government sector for just shy of 30 years. I do have a government pension. I also pay about 1/3 of that net (after taxes)pension to maintain my health insurance. About 1/10 of my net (after taxes)pension goes to pay my property taxes. Out of my gross pension I do pay about 1/8 in federal and state taxes. I do not even want to know what percent of the pension I pay in sales taxes, gasoline taxes, utility fees etc.etc. I willingly pay these taxes because I know what goods and services these taxes provide. I am not a fan of government waste, fraud and abuse and think my tax dollars should be wisely and frugally spent. Not everyone who gets a government pension is living high off the hog. (Off my soapbox now.) Cheers
Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 02/21 - All Members:
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Points milestones report ======================== No points milestones found.  Runtime milestones report ========================= No runtime milestones found. Results returned milestones report ================================== SteelDragon reached 12,000 results  pauldarleen reached 400 results New members report ================== No new members found. Retired members report ====================== No new retired members found. For the week as a team: Statistics Total Run Time Points Results Team Records: Results Returned: 11/13/2012 8,777 Points: 01/06/2013 3,311,422 Runtime: 04/05/2012 1:197:18:06:42 Team Streaks: Results Returned: -Over 1000: 174 days -Over 2000: 174 days -Over 3000: 90 days -Over 4000: 23 days -Over 5000: 6 days -Over 6000: 0 days -Over 7000: 0 days -Over 8000: 0 days -Over 9000: 0 days Points: -Over 250,000: 174 days -Over 500,000: 174 days -Over 750,000: 174 days -Over 1,000,000: 145 days -Over 1,250,000: 133 days -Over 1,500,000: 116 days -Over 1,750,000: 23 days -Over 2,000,000: 23 days -Over 2,250,000: 23 days -Over 2,500,000: 6 days -Over 2,750,000: 0 days -Over 3,000,000: 0 days -Over 3,250,000: 0 days -Over 3,500,000: 0 days Runtime: -Over 90 days: 174 days -Over 180 days: 174 days -Over 270 days: 23 days -Over 365 days: 0 days Good crunching folks!!!!! |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 02/21 - Active Members
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Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days. Top Twenty active members returning points today: 01: RT - 1,362,498 points 02: GeraldRube - 325,156 points 03: brown chris - 147,716 points 04: judson Somerville MD - 126,827 points 05: David Autumns - 121,935 points 06: dkt - 86,319 points 07: xroule - 59,804 points 08: NiceMedTexMD - 57,140 points 09: smcclarigan - 50,818 points 10: SteelDragon - 49,449 points 11: parmesian - 42,756 points 12: finman - 42,694 points 13: Tomwp - 34,476 points 14: Coingames - 31,377 points 15: pramodp - 27,910 points 16: Vuj - 25,948 points 17: keithhenry - 20,148 points 18: darth_vader - 16,216 points 19: lawrencehardin - 11,091 points 20: largethunder - 10,757 points Total points returned today: 2,694,844 Active members returning points today: 31 Average points per member active today: 86,930.4516 |
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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 Good Friday Morning Team I don't want to get into the political discussion but I will quote one of my favorite historical figures.. Will Rodgers. "It is a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for." Everyone have a Super day. |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 02/22 - All Members:
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Points milestones report ======================== brown chris reached 44,000,000 points Runtime milestones report ========================= judson Somerville MD reached 118 years of runtime keithhenry reached 26 years of runtime Results returned milestones report ================================== No results returned milestones found. New members report ================== No new members found. Retired members report ====================== No new retired members found. For the week as a team: Statistics Total Run Time Points Results Team Records: Results Returned: 11/13/2012 8,777 Points: 01/06/2013 3,311,422 Runtime: 04/05/2012 1:197:18:06:42 Team Streaks: Results Returned: -Over 1000: 175 days -Over 2000: 175 days -Over 3000: 91 days -Over 4000: 24 days -Over 5000: 7 days -Over 6000: 0 days -Over 7000: 0 days -Over 8000: 0 days -Over 9000: 0 days Points: -Over 250,000: 175 days -Over 500,000: 175 days -Over 750,000: 175 days -Over 1,000,000: 146 days -Over 1,250,000: 134 days -Over 1,500,000: 117 days -Over 1,750,000: 24 days -Over 2,000,000: 24 days -Over 2,250,000: 24 days -Over 2,500,000: 7 days -Over 2,750,000: 0 days -Over 3,000,000: 0 days -Over 3,250,000: 0 days -Over 3,500,000: 0 days Runtime: -Over 90 days: 175 days -Over 180 days: 175 days -Over 270 days: 24 days -Over 365 days: 0 days Good crunching folks!!!!! |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 02/22 - Active Members
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Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days. Top Twenty active members returning points today: 01: RT - 1,326,052 points 02: GeraldRube - 275,221 points 03: judson Somerville MD - 235,996 points 04: brown chris - 213,450 points 05: David Autumns - 94,568 points 06: xroule - 64,736 points 07: dkt - 57,416 points 08: NiceMedTexMD - 55,603 points 09: smcclarigan - 45,655 points 10: Coingames - 44,682 points 11: SteelDragon - 43,301 points 12: finman - 34,702 points 13: pramodp - 34,406 points 14: parmesian - 29,122 points 15: Tomwp - 26,044 points 16: darth_vader - 23,122 points 17: keithhenry - 18,030 points 18: lawrencehardin - 12,693 points 19: largethunder - 12,678 points 20: Vuj - 11,855 points Total points returned today: 2,701,344 Active members returning points today: 29 Average points per member active today: 93,149.7931 |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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..........................CONGRATULATIONS brown chris ON REACHING 44,000,000 MOT POINTS !!!.......................... |
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Morning Team
----------------------------------------Don't panic if those numbers of mine take a dive. I'm just going to be "of not fixed abode" for a while with my crunchers and the rest of my worldlies in temporary storage. I changed jobs last week - the new place is great But I'm moving out of my lovely flat this weekend So look after this for me  Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) (Rank) 53:342:03:35:22 (#1,111) Points Generated (Rank) 63,658,330 (#942) Results Returned (Rank) 129,772 (#922) I'll be back  ,,,it might be a while Dave  |
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Morning Team Don't panic if those numbers of mine take a dive. I'm just going to be "of not fixed abode" for a while with my crunchers and the rest of my worldlies in temporary storage. I changed jobs last week - the new place is great But I'm moving out of my lovely flat this weekend So look after this for me Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) (Rank) 53:342:03:35:22 (#1,111) Points Generated (Rank) 63,658,330 (#942) Results Returned (Rank) 129,772 (#922) I'll be back ,,,it might be a while Dave Dave. Speaking for myself and I assume for the rest of the team, it is great to have you back... The guy that started MOT. We wish you the very best in your move and everything else in your life. We look forward to seeing you back here. Be sure not to forget us. Your Friends at WCG/MOT |
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Good Saturday Morning Team Congratulations brown chris! That is, when you think about it, A LOT of computing you have contributed. That should be good for a chest thumping and a Tarzan yell |
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