Monday, December 17, 2012

Locksmart doorlock cylinder DL74540 + DL74360 Do Not Fit my 1997 F150 Truck!!

All the major parts stores recommend the Locksmart door lock cylinder DL74540 + DL74360 for replacment locks on my truck.  They do not fit!  Here’s a pic of the Locksmart locks:


Here's the factory lock below:


The above locksmart locks won't fit in the cylinder that the lock goes in.  I bought a new set, the ignition, both door cylinder locks, and a key that fits all 3 off Ebay for $50..  I wish I knew this before I spent a whole day driving around parts stores!

Friday, December 7, 2012

Guys, Need a date?

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

GIRLS! Do you want to make your ex Jealous?

Do you want to make your ex Jealous?  Or want to let people know you're single?  Click the Zazzle link below and check out this new product!  Be the 1st of your friends to get it!  Share link on your facebook or twitter!  Stay tuned for more products to come!!  Thanks!

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Friday, November 30, 2012

Something for the 99%

I think this book represents a lot of the views of the 99% !!  The power is in numbers, in the collective, if enough people will stand up to corruption!  Their goal is to keep us divided!  Help people get informed and share this link with your friends!  Go to the Amazon link below to read a free sample of the book!!

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

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Sunday, November 4, 2012

How is Hurricane Sandy going to effect the election?

  I don’t think anyone would disagree that Hurricane Sandy is going to have some type of impact on the election!  It’s just whether it’s going to help Obama or Romney?  Is Hurricane Sandy going to be Obama’s Katrina?  The New England states usually mostly vote Democrat but losing just one of these New England states could cost Obama the election!  Since I believe it’s going to be a close race anyways.  Does Obama want to be re-elected?  Is it possible he’d want to mismanaged Sandy to cost himself the election?  There’s a lot that could of already been done that politicians are standing in the way of!  These people in the disaster areas don’t have power and have to wait in line hours to get gas, and some have gone days without eating.  I don’t think voting is the first thing on these people’s minds if things aren’t straightened out by Tuesday!  Which that would seem to benefit Romney.  If people, generally, think Obama has done a good job with hurricane Sandy, that can boost his turnout.  Just the opposite if he is viewed as doing a crappy job with Sandy.  What if people don’t have electricity on Tuesday to vote?  I’m sure there will be some judges making injunctions on Tuesday to keep polls open past closing times for disenfranchised voters!  Who knows how this will play out!  The most important thing is that the people affected by Hurricane Sandy will get the assistance they need!  We’ll have to wait till Tuesday night to see what effects Sandy will have on the election!   What do you think? - Juggs Ó 2012

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Soundtrack for the TV Movie, Elvis and the Beauty Queen

 Elvis and the Beauty Queen is a 1981 made-for-TV film starring Don Johnson and Stephanie Zimbalist.

Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for the last four years of his life. The story begins with their first meeting and traces their years together when Thompson tried to keep Presley off drugs in the last years of his career.  It aired on NBC-TV on March 1, 1981 at 9pm.

Seven songs were recorded for the soundtrack in Nashville, Tennessee, with country singer Ronnie McDowell providing the vocals.  The band that backed Ronnie McDowell was The Glass Hammer, a Nashville based band. The Glass Hammer consisted of Joe Meador: Guitar, Don Lee: Lead Guitar, Bill Conn: Keyboards and Horns, Larry Leath: Bass, and Rick Judkins: Drums.  The soundtrack was originally going to be recorded in Los Angeles, CA with a local L.A. band but L.A. was having a writers strike at the time.  So the call went to Nashville, TN.


Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Who Ruined the Country?

The Republicans blame the problems of the country on the Democrats and the Democrats blame the Republicans.  People say all the time that the government is mismanaged and it should be run like a business, and we should elect a businessman to fix the problems.  Well, who runs the government?  Most of the members of Congress, Republican and Democrat, are Lawyers and successful Businessmen.  Most of the members of every cabinet, Republican or Democrat, are successful Businessmen from Wall Street.  So the screwed up problems of the government are the blame of Businessmen, the people who elected them, and the business's that contribute money to these campains.  And the solution to fix the problems of the country that businessmen caused in the first place is to?  Elect a businessman?  - Juggs Ó 2012

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Thursday, October 18, 2012

How to Replace a broke F150 Cylinder Lock


I couldn't find this information anywhere on the web, so I wanted to share my experience here! 
 
How to fix a broken ignition cylinder lock on a 1997 Ford F150 pickup.  Other models should be similar.  Any method’s I found in repair manuals only show how to remove a working cylinder.  By turning the ignition to run, inserting a small tool to depress the tab on the bottom of the cylinder, and pulling it out to remove it.  It doesn’t say what you do if your ignition will not turn over with the key inserted.  Here are two suggestions:   

One, you can drill out the cylinder tab at the bottom of the cylinder lock.  Be very careful not to drill the hole that holds in the cylinder lock.  If you widen the mounting hole too much, it won’t hold the new cylinder lock in place.  This tab is the only thing that holds the cylinder lock in when the ignition is in the run position.  The tab and the end of the cylinder are what hold it in place when the cylinder is in the off position.  If you use this method you will most likely break a plate inside the column that holds the gear in place that tell the car what ignition position you’re in.  This part cost $3-$4 from Ford.

 Two, you can drill out the cylinder lock where the key inserts.  This will cause a mess!  If possible, you’ll have to drill the lock until it rotates to the run position so you won’t break any other parts in the column.  *Photo Below:  What the cylinder should look like when you remove the cylinder lock.*


If you break the stationary plate in the column, this was unavoidable in my case, buy a new one.  You can regrease this parts it you like as you put them back in.  The inner parts of the column may or may not fall out when you remove the cylinder lock.  If they do, the gear goes in first.  These parts only go in one way.  The gear has three prominent points on it, two of them are side by side and the other one is alone.  The one that’s alone should point straight down.  If your ignition doesn’t work right, you’ll have to adjust this gear until it’s in the proper place.  Next the stationary metal plate goes in.  You’ll have to insert it in horizontal until it’s all the way in and then turn it vertical.  This metal plate doesn’t move but the gear does.  The plate also holds the gear in.  Then you insert the plastic clip that snaps on the metal plate.  This also goes in vertical, but stays vertical.  Make sure your gear and plate are lined up.  Then install your new cylinder lock, with it in the run position.  If your ignition doesn’t start right, you’ll have to adjust the inner gear.       
*Photo Above:  The cylinder without the green plastic clip* - Juggs Ó 2012

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

College is a Waste of Time and Money!!

The point of going to college is to graduate and get a good job.  But half of the degrees colleges offer are a waste of time and money!  Degrees like Art, History, etc..  are probably not worth the money spent on them!  It’s not like you can get a degree to paint and then go apply somewhere to paint paintings.  With or without an Art degree, that job requires you to get your own customers.  This is the misconception of many young folks out there!  That if they just get any degree they are better off, or that somebody will hand them a job because of it.  While at the same time, some of their cohorts that didn’t go to college are better off just from the job experience that they accumulated instead of going to school.  There are people who drop out of high school, start a business, and become millionaires.  And there’s people who have a ton of college but are poor.  Because at the end of the day, your success is left up to YOU to accomplish!    

There are some jobs that you have to go to college for any order to do the work.  For example; Nursing, Teaching, etc..  It doesn’t matter if you could be better than any nurse just for your experience.  If you don’t have the degree/license, you will never be a nurse!  The ideal thing to do would be to find out what you want to be and do what it takes to get that job.  Not to just go to college and hope you land somewhere!  If you want to be a teacher, then go to college for that.  If you want to make a living playing guitar, then you don’t need college.  Just go play guitar!  All an employer cares about is hiring the best person for the job with as little money as possible to do it.  If the job doesn't require a degree/license and one person has 4 years of college and the other has just high school, if the employer thinks the person with just high school will better get the job done.  Then that's who will be hired.  The other guy don't get the job just because he has the 4 year degree.  This is the rule unless its friend/family being hired.  Knowing the right people is as important, if not more, than the college degree!!  Now if an employer has to have a licensed person for a job, then they have to hire the best licensed person they can find.  Your value is determined by haw rare of a skill you possess.  If anybody can do your skill, you probably won't make that much money.  If you are the only one who can do your skill, you can probably name your price! 

The most important thing in life is to be happy!  So if being a nurse is the #1 thing you wanted to do with you life, then don’t let nothing stop you from doing that!  Don’t let having to go into debt to go to college scare you from going!  Because if you save the money but aren’t happy cause you didn’t get to be a nurse, then it doesn’t matter you saved the money!  If you go into debt for college and come out the other side with the job you want, that’s good debt.  If you go into debt to college and come out the other side without a job, that’s bad debt!  If you do have to go into debt for college, common sense would be to find the cheapest way to go to school.  Like anything else; the rich have their college paid for and the middle class go in debt.  Student loan debt is another way to keep people enslaved to a bank.  Student loan debt would be the last debt I'd ever pay off if I ever paid it off!  Because most student loan debt is the only debt forgiven when you die.  And I think most are forgiven after 20 years.  So if I paid off 100k in student loan debt and died, I would be dead with nothing to pass on.  If I had the 100k in the bank, 100k in student loans, and died.  The debt would be forgiven, and my heirs would get the 100k.  This is why a lot of people don't want to pay off their student loan debt.

Society teaches us that payoff comes from sacrifice.  This is not always true!  It means that if you sacrifice by starting at the bottom and working your way up, you’ll be the one rewarded.  This is true if you start at the bottom of your chosen career, not starting at the bottom at a minimum wage job.  It’s a good thing to pursue your dreams but do it with as little of sacrifice as possible!  Life is too short to sacrifice!  Some people have the mentality that they’ll work 60 hours a week until their 50, and then they’ll kick back and start enjoying life like the way they want to.  But not everybody makes it to 50!!  Each day is precious!  I think we should enjoy all parts of our lives.  Yes we have to work and make money!  But if you sacrifice your life away for the future, you’re going to find when the future comes that what you saved for is gone!

You should not assume that just because a rich person has a degree that’s how they got rich and if you get the same degree you’ll be rich like them too.  A lot of rich kids don’t go to college because they have to, to get a job.  They go cause their parents have the money and you can’t be a rich kid and not have a degree.  Because their job is already lined up for them, getting the degree is just going through the motions.  Plus kids go to college for sex, drugs, and rock and roll!  Of course the parents know this and are ok with it, but don’t say so in public.  That’s why their kid goes to college in another city so nobody back home will see what he/she is really doing!  And yes this even goes for the Christian families too!  There’s a famous line to a song that says, “The poor man goes to work and the rich man goes to college.”  It’s just the way things are.  The rich have one lifestyle and the poor have another.  That’s way you should just do what you can and enjoy the moment!! What Do You Think?? - Juggs Ó 2012


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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Who won the presidential debate?

I have to admit Romney gave a good performance last night!  Unlike a lot of Republicans, he stayed firm and made his points.  I think both candidates made their points well!  If you’re a Democrat, then you probably thought Obama won and if you’re a Republican you probably thought Romney won.  I don’t think Obama can really blame anything on Bush anymore!  He’s had 4 years to turn things around!  Obama’s biggest achievement is his healthcare act.  Romney brings back up giving tax breaks to the rich to stimulate the economy like the Republicans always do.  Which is basically Reagan’s trickle down economics.  Which does stimulate the economy!  Cause the rich have more money to go shopping with and then business’ have to hire more people to meet demand.  So the rich go shopping and the poor/middle classes get a job.  What people fail to remember about Reagan’s trickle down economics, is that he exploded the national debt.  That would be like giving somebody $500 to go shopping but you charged the money on their credit card.  We’ll have to see how the other 2 debates unfold.  I’d say the last one is the most important, and its what people will remember going to the polls!  What do you think?? - Juggs Ó 2012 

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

What Women Really Want


Men are pretty easy going creatures as long as their needs are met.  Men aren’t perfect but women are a totally different story!

Men are attracted to looks.  Women are attracted to looks and/or money!  Women say they want a man who is nice, sensitive, etc..  But really want they’re saying is that they want a good looking guy who has lots of money, and that their girlfriends will be jealous over!  This gives mediocre guys the impression that they have a chance.  But the girl ends up with a piece of crap good looking guy/money.  Women do want a nice sensitive guy!  But looks and money are more important, they just don’t say that!  Women want what they see in a love story/movie!  But they just won’t accept that that story for the most part doesn’t exist.  It does exist if you look at things the correct way.

Time and time again, women fall for the smooth taking good-looking guy and ignores the good hearted mediocre one.  Whoever said looks don’t matter, was lying to you.  Your looks are one of the most important things in your life!  It’s sad to admit but true.  When it comes to men and women hooking up, we’re no different than the animals you see on tv!  A female peacock picks the male with the prettiest feathers, that’s no different than what you watch going on in any club. 

Fate is another thing people shouldn’t believe in.  No man or woman is going to be sent your way!  You must do the work in putting a relationship together!  Anything you want in life, you have to go get it!  Fate is just something people tell others that have been heartbroken to make them to feel better.  That things will be better tomorrow!  Things will only be better tomorrow if YOU make it better!  Women constantly lie in order not to hurt someone’s feelings..  How noble!  But the person is really being hurt by not being told the truth!

So improve your looks anyway you can!  If you’re a guy and don’t have looks, then get as much money as you can!  What do you think?? -Juggs Ó 2012

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Amphora (Band)



Left to Right: Jason Judkins, Hunter Hamilton, Nathaniel Walker
'''Amphora''' is a band from Nashville, Tennessee (not to be confused with the Sacramento, California based band “Amphora”) and was formed in 1998 by Nathaniel Walker (Vocals, Guitar, Bass), Hunter Hamilton (Guitar), and Jason Judkins (Drums).  Nathan and Hunter met while attending middle school in Arkansas and both attended college together in Nashville, TN.  Nathan and Hunter had previously played in a band called, “Together We’re Tugboat.”  Which was a popular band on the local scene of Little Rock. 

Nathan met Jason though a guitar teacher named Jackie S. in Nashville, who was also a mutual friend of Nathan’s.  Jason began playing drums at around age 10.  Whose father, [Rick Judkins], also played drums professionally.  Although his dad played drums, Jason learned how to play drums by watching his older brother.  Jason played drums in various bands in high school and also recorded 1 and 2 song demos with various bands.  Jason was taking guitar lessons at the time but played drums for his guitar teacher’s recital.  The guitar teacher was impressed by Jason’s drumming skills from this performance.  Nathan had given Jackie a two-song demo tape of himself and told Jackie he was looking for a drummer.  After the recital performance, Jackie referred Jason to Nathan and gave him the demo tape.  Jason was impressed by Nathan’s writing and singing ability’s.  Soon after, Jason called Nathan to set up an audition time. 

The first time Nathan and Jason met was at Nathan’s apartment on college campus.  Jason played the audition on Nathan’s own drumset.  One of the first songs that came out of the audition was, “Answers.”  Which Nathan called, “The Funky Tom Thing,” before it had a song title.  After that, the three practiced together.  Forming what would be, “Amphora.”  They practice repeatedly, at different locations, and adding songs to the catalog.  Amphora's sound was unique.  It was a mixture of Nathan and Hunter’s influences of U2, Jeff Buckley, P.M. Dawn, and Radiohead combined with Jason’s influences of Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Buddy Rich.  The band recorded some demo’s with a couple of different engineers but couldn’t capture what they had in mind.  That change in the spring of 1999. 

The band recorded its first album “Sometimes Stillborn Breathing” at a college studio in Nashville, TN on spring break of 1999.  All the drum tracks where recorded the first day.  The remaining tracks were recorded over the following 1–2 weeks.  Nathan also recorded the Bass tracks since Amphora didn’t have a bass player at the time.  Amphora later had various Bass players when playing live.  The album was then mixed in a mobile studio.  CD’s were printed up and the band played clubs around Nashville.  Soon after, the first song on the album, “Last Train to Kolyma” was played on Nashville’s rock station 102.9.  The group then went and did an interview for the radio station promoting the album.  The song, “Simple Six” reached number one on mp3.com’s recording contest but placed 3rd when the contest ended.  The number one spot winning a $250,000 recording contract.  Amphora being a Rock group and Nashville being a Country town, the two didn’t seem to mix.  Amphora’s music would of probably been more supported on the West Coast. 
Inside CD Booklet w/ Lyrics

CD Booklet (Back w/ Credits)
   Having to start a career and a family, Jason regretfully felt like it was time to leave the band.  The band changed its name to “The Ups and Downs of Industry,” and used various drummers until landing a permanent one for their 2nd album.  Jason did come back temporarily during this time and record the drums on a 3-song demo for the new group and filled-in on a live show.  “The Ups and Downs,” put out their 2nd album in 2004, but shortly after went there separate ways and moved on to different towns to start careers of their own. 
Came the spring of 2000 and Jason was graduating from college.

For better or worse, it’s hard to find the creative music style that Amphora embraced.  Sometimes life happens during Art but maybe Amphora's greatest days are still ahead! 

The Track Listing to Amphora's "Sometimes Stillborn Breathing," Last Train To Kolyma, Pilot, Simple Six, Little Postcards, Quiero, Painkiller, Flirting with Solar, Answers, Embryo, Safe, For the Rats, and Triangle.  The album was released on July 1st, 1999.  Check out a sample of the album at Amazon.com and on Spotify!! http://open.spotify.com/album/7A1p0qBw3oov8bKYsA26Aw  Also help us out by sharing the Amazon and Spotify links on your Facebook and Twitter!

 






Amphora changed its name to The Ups and Downs of Industry in 2001.  The track listing to their first self titled album; Better Luck, Gemini, MPD, Hannover, Flightness, Hide-Out, $5.15, The Bees, Workers of the World' Unite!, Book of Saints and Martyrs, and Perfect.











The track listing to their second album "Transit;" Auto Auto, Your Big Idea, Failsafe, Canada, Neustadt, You Don't Know What You're Asking For, Humdrum Town, Tribute, Kinetic, I Have to Go, Dresscode, and Utopia Crush.   The cd was released of July 25th 2003. 
 

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Friday, September 28, 2012

You Lose Having A Political Opinion!!


You Lose Having A Political Opinion!!


The saying is that the two things you can’t voice your opinions on are Politics and Religion!!  Even though it’s a noble cause to try and persuade people to join your cause, I find in most cases it’s pointless. 

Look how business takes this approach.  Many big businesses’s, regardless of their political opinion, donate just as much money to the Democrat party as they do the Republican party.  That way they give support to whom ever assumes office.  So these businesses are putting aside their beliefs for the good of business.  Well, why should you do any different?  Since, no matter if you’re an employee or a business owner, you are your own business!!  Instead of having a political opinion you should do what’s best for yourself and your business, just like the big boys!  Which leaves a whole country without opinion!  Which isn’t healthy but the flipside is that you piss off half your customers/co-workers by having an opinion.  Just imagine a country if we all put our opinions aside and cater to the whim of business and government!  That would eventually make us all servants! 

There is no advantage by saying you’re a Republican or Democrat!  Nobody’s gonna give you a job based on that!  Even if a business owner/boss is a Republican, he/she’s not gonna give you a job just because you say you are.  All they care about is finding the person who will do the best job for them!      

 Why are taught ideas that we all have freedom of speech and that debate is good.  Well that’s not really the case in the real world!  You only have freedom of speech outside of work.  When you are at work, you are the property of who is paying you!  You should be selfish like most others and put yourself before your country because people ultimately can’t handle a difference of opinion!  So voice your opinion when you vote or privately to your congressman.  But doing so in public, you’re just hurting yourself!  What do you think?? -Juggs Ó 2012

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Is Church/Religion Good or Bad for Society?


Is Church/Religion Good or Bad for Society?

 

  Not a favorite subject of mine because most Religions’ intent is a positive one.  Cause evidently mankind cannot achieve this on our own.  We must have someone else tell us what is right and wrong.  Religion almost seems to give guidance to people who don’t have role model figures in their lives.  Churches help the needy, people with drug problems, financial problems, etc..   Services a society needs, and I think that is why they are tax-exempt!  Also being tax-exempt they can be told what, or what not, to say.  Churches pretty much try to avoid politics being tax-exempt.  Before they were tax-exempt, churches were very political!! 

  If you go to church, you have to do it for your own reasons!  Don’t go to church expecting everyone else to, “follow the rules!”  Nobody is perfect!  We all sin!  A lot of people don’t let church stop them from having a good time!  They follow church on a “best effort,” basis.  Basically if a Christian wants to go out, have some fun, and drink some beer.  Chances are they will, and then just ask for forgiveness the next day.  So don’t let the idea of Hell stop you from enjoying yourself!  I’m not saying to go out and overdose on drugs!  Just don’t let church stop you from enjoying your life!  Some people get so wrapped up n church that they question every move they make.  Guess there are extremes to everything!  I mostly find church to be rules for everybody else.  Rules people tell you to follow but don’t follow themselves.  Just the way life is!

  Does prayer work?  I don’t know?  Seems like prayer is a form of self-healing.  That if you address a problem long enough, you’ll fix it yourself!  I’m sure anybody in a life or death situation is going to pray to a higher power.  You’d have to if something were out of your control.  But what about people who want you to pray that they’ll have a good day, get over their cold, or pass a test?  Really?  People want other people wasting their time on petty things?  And why would God answer your prayer about getting a good job but let people starve to death in Africa?  Doesn’t make sense!  I’m sure the people in Africa were praying too! 

  This is the fault I find with Church/Religion; is that they sell you the idea that God is going to do something for you, if you pray enough or believe enough.  That’s just not true.  The reason you get anything in life is because you’re the one who makes it happen!  For the most part, people do not practice their Religion at work!  I’ve never worked a job where the employer got his Bible out to guild him/her in any disciplinary action.  When people are at work they do the demands of the person paying them, not Gods’.  Church people are no different than any other group of people!  Some in the church are good, some bad.  Some follow the message more, some follow it less.  I’d say Religion is ultimately good for society but not perfect!  What do you think?? -Juggs  Ó 2012

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Friday, September 21, 2012

The Rich DO NOT Pay A Majority Of The Income Taxes!!!!!

The Rich complain all the time that their taxes are too high.  A figure came out earlier this week that 47% of Americans do not pay income taxes.  Which, on paper, is probably true.  Anybody who has a job, has income tax taken out of their paycheck.  But when you file your taxes, if you get back more than you paid in.  You technically didn’t pay any income taxes because you got all the money back in your income tax refund.  This gives the rich the argument that they pay a majority of the taxes.  Let me explain how they DO NOT!! 

If a person makes 100k and has to pay 30k of that in taxes, that is the cost of doing business!  The 100k (Gross Earnings) is not your money.  It’s the money before you pay your tax bill.  The 70k (Net Earnings) is your earned money.  No different than if I make $15/hr (Gross) and my (Net) pay comes out to $11.50/hr.  The $15/hr (Gross) money was never mine; I never had control over that money.  The $11.50/hr (Net) money is mine, it’s what I have control over! 

Your taxes are factored into your cost of doing business.  If they weren’t, nobody would be in business.  No matter what job you do, employee or self-employed, everybody has a cost to doing business.  If I’m a business owner I have many cost to pay; electric, salaries, health insurance, rent, etc..  I have to factor these cost into what I charge for my product or service.  If I’m an employee, I also have cost to get to work.  The price of gas, have a car, meals, etc..  I have to recoup this money from my salary.  If not, I can’t afford to work.  And what determines a persons pay?  The collective market.  Take a plumber for example.  The world of plumbers collectively and subconsciously determine what it will take for them to go to work.  If the going rate for a plumber is $20/hr, then you’re not going to be able to hire one for $5/hr.  And the collective group of plumbers factor in all cost to determine $20/hr, including their income taxes.  The figure the collective group of plumbers determine they’ll go to work for, is their (Net) pay.  And in order to get a (Net) pay of “X” the (Gross) pay must be “Y.” 

In this theory, the customer is the one paying the income taxes.  The customer is the one who pays all the expenses of the company, and we are all consumers!!  When you buy a can of soda, you are paying for all the salaries of the company, all the taxes of the company, and all the bills of the company.  If a company can’t stay competitive, they go out of business.  If an employee can’t stay competitive they lose their job, unless they're the boss's family or friend. 

Another example; Say I put a $1,000 tax on all plumbers.  The plumber will say, “I can’t pay that, that cost will have to be passed on to the customer.”  So all plumbers raise their rates to cover this new $1,000 tax.  So the customer now pays the new tax!  Business will say that they can’t always pass the new cost to the customer.  That they’ll have to “eat it.”  This is probably true at times.  Just like if I work for $15/hr and the price of gas is $2 a gallon.  And then the price of gas goes to $4 a gallon, even though I still make $15/hr.  It now cost more for me to get to work!  I can’t immediately pass that new cost onto my boss!  I have to wait for the collective market to do it! 

Even though the tax here was on the plumber, the customer is the one who paid it!  And this is how the Rich say they pay all of the taxes but they DO NOT!!  The consumer does!  Which is all of us! – Juggs Ó 2012

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Welfare/Bailout People

  I'm gettin tired of people bashing on others who are on welfare!!  Sure, there's a lot of people out there who suck off of somebody else's hard work, but what about the rich companies on Wall Street that got bailed out?  What about people who get loans for a business and then defaults on the debt?  How is that not also welfare?  Well, when poor people get money from the government it's called welfare and when rich people get money from the government it's called a bailout..  So if somebody gets $200 a month in food stamps, that's wrong but a corporation gets billions and that's ok??  Sounds like free market capitalism to me!  Basically if you lose your job, that's life.  But if their job gets threaten, we can't have that!

Here's one huge problems with the "Bailouts."  When business owners are making tons of money, they say they deserve it because they're the ones who took the risk!  But when business started to fold in 2008, the risk, they yelled to be bailed out.  You can't have it both ways!!
- Juggs Ó 2012

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