Yeah, I need to reread the Creature from Jekyll island, it's been a while :-). And I knew they had started in 1913 of course, a lot of terrible things were done to weaken our Constitutional Republic between about 1913 and 1916 or so. But their success is far beyond the "magic of compound interest" they used to show us in home economics lol.
I am fine with basic finance. Accounts for a small business are not necessarily complex things. And I can handle basic taxes, personal, business, sales taxes and self employment.
But the bigger stuff simply doesn't interest me, and since I never needed to understand it deeply, I haven't put a lot of effort into doing so.
I keep a far closer eye on legislation and regulation than on the other side of the finance of government. And I keep an eye on the U.S. debt clock, though there are things on there that I wonder about also.
HAH! I KNEW THOSE BUGGERS WERE THE REASON FOR TARP. And everyone I talked to about it told me my tin foil hat was too tight (again).
Oh, I figured out long long ago hospitals were a racket, since the only times in my life I had "insurance" were when I was a milspouse (and that's different), and obamacare, which I ditched as soon as I met a loophole for not paying the fine.
Hubby and I have always paid cash for medical care. heck when I was a kid, only rich people had insurance, or folks with cushy jobs. The most anyone else had was catastrophic cap when it came out.
I never pay what they ask, we always negotiate. But I don't know whether we make it down to the medicare level. Thanks for the link!
We have always gotten our care down to an affordable for us level. Probably not as low as we could have, but far lower than they wanted.
I got an ER visit with an abdominal CT scan, full bloodwork, I.V., pain meds for my hubby for 550.00 a few years ago. Since they wanted 3800, I was pretty happy. But we don't need care often these days thankfully, and our doc appointments run us 30.00, his 2 meds are 5.00 each through the pharmacy program, and then bloodwork twice a year for both of us. Not much.
Yeah, I need to reread the Creature from Jekyll island, it's been a while :-). And I knew they had started in 1913 of course, a lot of terrible things were done to weaken our Constitutional Republic between about 1913 and 1916 or so. But their success is far beyond the "magic of compound interest" they used to show us in home economics lol.
I am fine with basic finance. Accounts for a small business are not necessarily complex things. And I can handle basic taxes, personal, business, sales taxes and self employment.
But the bigger stuff simply doesn't interest me, and since I never needed to understand it deeply, I haven't put a lot of effort into doing so.
I keep a far closer eye on legislation and regulation than on the other side of the finance of government. And I keep an eye on the U.S. debt clock, though there are things on there that I wonder about also.
HAH! I KNEW THOSE BUGGERS WERE THE REASON FOR TARP. And everyone I talked to about it told me my tin foil hat was too tight (again).
Oh, I figured out long long ago hospitals were a racket, since the only times in my life I had "insurance" were when I was a milspouse (and that's different), and obamacare, which I ditched as soon as I met a loophole for not paying the fine.
Hubby and I have always paid cash for medical care. heck when I was a kid, only rich people had insurance, or folks with cushy jobs. The most anyone else had was catastrophic cap when it came out.
I never pay what they ask, we always negotiate. But I don't know whether we make it down to the medicare level. Thanks for the link!
We have always gotten our care down to an affordable for us level. Probably not as low as we could have, but far lower than they wanted.
I got an ER visit with an abdominal CT scan, full bloodwork, I.V., pain meds for my hubby for 550.00 a few years ago. Since they wanted 3800, I was pretty happy. But we don't need care often these days thankfully, and our doc appointments run us 30.00, his 2 meds are 5.00 each through the pharmacy program, and then bloodwork twice a year for both of us. Not much.