posted on July 8, 2003 04:23:20 PM new
" With the help of low interest rates, my house doubled in value in the just last few years and I got a line of credit that is currently at 4.45%. Things are getting better. Low interest rates and tax cuts are working. "
[ edited by ebayauctionguy on Jul 2, 2003 10:32 AM ]
Did your property tax increase also. I don't understand how people can be happy that their house value increases because that means you're paying more taxes, and that means you have to make more money.
posted on July 8, 2003 07:34:09 PM new
What saddens me is instead of standing up for what is right for our country, people like AUCTION FLAKE would rather play politics and side with his fellow NEO FASCISTS even though he knows what they are doing is evil.
Its time for people like him to get their heads out of Bushes ass and started thinking with their own heads.
posted on July 8, 2003 08:35:14 PM new
Salga, to the great dismay of democrats, property taxes cannot increase here more than 2% per year. (CA Prop. 13)
But after Gray Davis and his democrat buddies went on a spending spree of epic proportions and racked up the highest deficit ever in history, things are not well here in the People's Republic of California. California's debt is now higher than all of the other states' debt COMBINED. Democrats have had complete power (governor, assembly and senate) and they are turning California into a Third World country.
Davis is about to get the boot in a recall election and hopefully The Terminator can turn things around here.
posted on July 9, 2003 08:13:35 AM new
:avis is about to get the boot in a recall election and hopefully The Terminator can turn things around here.::
Before he can get the boot in said election, they have to finish getting the required number of signatures on deman a recall. If sig gathering practices in San Diego are any indication, I'd say only70% of the ones they are collecting are legit. Perhaps the republicans should have picked a candidate in the actual election that was not under investigation and so scummy thateven the part backed away from him mid election season.
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posted on July 9, 2003 08:25:20 AM new
The California economy has been devastated in part by the recession brought on by the Republicans in Washington. The icing on the cake was the energy ripoff orchestrated by the Texas Republican Party aka Enron. There are hard choices to be made as the state is short and cuts must be made and if we wish essential services (police, fire, education etc.) money must be found. As Californians we will have to pay or do without, it is our choice. Recalling Davis does not address the situation. This has been financed by San Diego Congressman Issa a convicted car thief who aspired to the governorship. Although Arnold seems to be a nice guy he has no record to run on. Only a reactionary idiot would see this as a positive step for the state. The Republican party should be run out of the state on a rail, returned to Texas so to speak.
[ edited by davebraun on Jul 9, 2003 08:27 AM ]
posted on July 9, 2003 12:08:09 PM new
"There is now a widespread fear among Mexico's elite that China will soon displace it as America's second largest trading partner. For this reason, Mexico was the last country to approve China's entry into the World Trade Organisation in 2001.
Mexican concerns about China are legitimate. The manufacturing companies in the maquiladora assembly zone have lost more than 200,000 jobs since 2000, in part because of companies transferring production to Asia. Mexican labour costs are three to four times as high as China's. Mexico's electricity costs twice as much because of a lack of foreign investment in the energy sector. Mexico depends heavily on exports of traditional cyclical goods, such as cars and television sets, while Taiwanese companies are rapidly expanding China's high technology exports. Foreign direct investment into Mexico amounts to $12bn-$14bn a year. China's FDI is now running at nearly $55bn a year, with $16bn in the information technology industry alone. A growing number of Japanese, US and European companies now regard China as an attractive manufacturing base for global exports, not just a robust market for domestic consumption. They will ensure that China continues to expand its share of world trade at the expense of other countries."
posted on July 9, 2003 01:08:42 PM newThe California economy has been devastated in part by the recession brought on by the Republicans in Washington.
What a stupid statement. The internet bubble and corporate corruption occurred on Clinton's watch and the economy started taking a dive in mid-2000 when Greenspan started raising interest rates. My stock portfolio crashed well before Bush was elected. Bush inherited the recession.
If you think it's bad now, imagine how bad would it be under Al Gore with tax increases, higher energy costs under the Kyoto Agreement, and wimpy responses to terrorism.
avis is about to get the boot in a recall election and hopefully The Terminator can turn things around here.::