Suggest if one is financing their lifestyle on a credit card, they're doing it wrong.
My bank VISA has a 7.75% rate which I ain't paid a nickel toward in 30 years, coughing up the balance in full on time every time the bill is presented, even during lean times when it meant a diet heavy on Ramen noodles, store-brand mac&cheese, and SPAM when it was cheap as well as similar budget cuts.
Pay one's bills on time every time through a combination of watching what one is billed through expenses and allocating one's income as needed to cover.
Using someone else's money through credit and a promise to pay next Tuesday for a hamburger today is never cheap, but it can be less-expensive when separated from those never intending to pay or play games with which 'next Tuesday'...
-- Posted by fxpwt on Sun, Apr 28, 2024, at 5:38 PM
Good. Such radical invasive surgery / drugging for children without parental consent should be banned. And any treatments even with parental consent should be delayed.
This radical democrat push in schools is killing children. Here's what a lengthy study from an expert found:
"A psychiatrist who has presided over youth gender transition treatments for more than a decade says “four out of five” gender-questioning children eventually accept their bodies if no medical interventions are carried out."
"During the interview, Kaltiala also cautioned parents of gender-questioning children against using their offspring’s preferred pronouns or a new chosen name. The medical expert insisted such acts weren’t a harmless “formality” and still counted as an intervention that could influence the child."
-- Posted by not_sorry on Sun, Apr 28, 2024, at 9:46 AM
It was also tragic/scary/traumatic to those who were held at gunpoint while at work at the two banking facilities. Afterward, one of the women involved actually had to attend the Jackson Band Festival to make a positive identification of him.
-- Posted by Amy Gilmore on Sun, Apr 28, 2024, at 8:57 AM
This is an excellent assessment of the challenges faced by banks, and many of the comments can also apply to other heavily regulated industries. It is good to know that there appear to be no problem banks in Missouri at this time. I think the most important advice he gives is to not click on a link in an email or text you might get; call the sender first. Also, I agree with his comments on the perils of a digital currency.
Lawmakers running out of laws to make! My 80 year old home has copper pipes and the previous owner lived to be 99 drinking out of those pipes! Is this worthy of a news article, just make it right and move on! Paranoid folks will be calling plumbers all week!
-- Posted by Outfield on Sat, Apr 27, 2024, at 6:56 PM
"...the (carbon capture) technology "is not yet ready for full-scale, economy-wide deployment,'' said Brouillette" "
Would also offer that the energy storage technology also is not ready for prime-time on an electric utility scale.
That's a tremendous heapin' helpin' of battery sites to build including the sourcing/mining of those amounts of battery materials.
Other alternatives such as pumped storage which can also be filled up or recharged during times of surplus power to later be drawn down when power generation is short have limited applicabilities, before getting shot down by environmentalists such as Ameren, then doing business as Union Electric, found out when trying to get permitting for a Taum Sauk II.
Suggest if the powers-that-be get this measure through, we'll all get to experience learning the hard way.
Not concerned about the 'green' direction being steered toward, but am concerned about the rate of turn. 8 and 15 years timeframes for these significant changes are doggone short in the scope of electric utility planning, especially when being forced to implement technologies yet unproven or unavailable on a large-scale.
It's been said that fast-cheap-good are interconnected, where can have any two at the expense of the third.
Since 'fast' is the driving force requisite in this mix, suppose we'll end up with either fast and cheap which won't be good (reliable) OR fast and good which won't be cheap OR somewheres in-between where things won't be as good or as cheap as they could have been with a less-fast approach.
As an aside, yet another reason for energy-intensive industries to locate somewhere else and just import their products here...
-- Posted by fxpwt on Sat, Apr 27, 2024, at 2:30 PM
Republicans are no worse than Democrats about shooting themselves in the foot. In 2000, if a few liberal Democrats in Florida had not voted for Ralph Nader and against Al Gore, Gore would have been President. In 2016, if the same people in Florida and a couple other states had not voted for Jill Stein over Hillary Clinton, Hillary likely would have won over Trump. To them, and to any readers here who may have done so...how did that work out for you? The same folks are going to sink Biden's chance of winning again this year. More Republicans will hold their nose and vote the Trump ticket than Democrats will for Biden. For the same reasons, I bet the Republicans will hold the House and take the Senate.
-- Posted by nailswood on Sat, Apr 27, 2024, at 12:29 PM
IMO , the GOP problem went into it's divisions in 2015 and has snowballed every since. There doesn't appear to be any end to it soon either , extortion controls careers. Those who objected have either been thrown out or quit .
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The Republican Party can still do what’s rational and right. Here’s the proof
"The law-abiding public — the real victims of homelessness — need to elect local leaders who will say "no" to preferring the rights of the homeless over the rights of the rest of us." Betsy McCaughey
IMO Very true, to do or say nothing condones any practice!
-- Posted by Truth Slinger on Sat, Apr 27, 2024, at 9:22 AM
It is telling that the Biden administration is putting restrictions on oil and gas production in the U.S. but openly allowing Iran and Venezuela to continue production and exporting of their oil and gas by removing sanctions.
-- Posted by not_sorry on Sat, Apr 27, 2024, at 9:05 AM
The agreement back in the Bill Clinton days had an agreement among Great Britain, Russia, and the USA for Ukraine to give up their Nukes in return for protection of their Sovereignty. Obama let Russia get away with its take over of the Ukraine area of Crimea which IMO would void the Clinton agreement. The rest is a Cluster F!
The last sentence is interesting. He retired from the Cape Public Schools. It doesn't say in what capacity. Even though his crime did not involve children, it seems CGPS hires convicted felons.
-- Posted by The Papa on Sat, Apr 27, 2024, at 8:51 AM
Teachers are important public servants but you are overlooking a couple of important benefits to teaching.
- they do get time off during the summer months and other days for spring break, winter break, etc. I've known some teachers that work during the summer not out of a dire financial situation but simply as a way to make more money
- a teacher's pension plan in Missouri is very good and I wouldn't be alone in knowing some teachers who retire earlier than most people who continue working when they reach the "80" rule (I believe that is what it is called).
Life as a teacher could be a lot less stressful if administrators and boards would clamp down on outrageous behavior in the classroom. A teacher should NEVER have to interrupt a class repeatedly to deal with students who refuse to obey in class.
-- Posted by not_sorry on Sat, Apr 27, 2024, at 8:46 AM
This interview is very well done and is a great assessment and update on the state of banking in Missouri. Adrian has represented Missouri Bankers with great class and professionalism.
-- Posted by Jay Knudtson on Sat, Apr 27, 2024, at 8:44 AM
Chaffee played at Jackson that same year in high school football, at halftime when they introduced the acting band director, someone from Chaffee shouted, “Hold on to your wallets”
-- Posted by Outfield on Sat, Apr 27, 2024, at 8:32 AM
Everyone is going to have an opinion but when that opinion becomes a thorn and prevents unity for the common good, it’s time to step back and take a look at what you’re doing. Republicans are guilty of this….if they don’t get exactly what they want, it throws a wrench in creating a strong and unified body. Where as some legislation can be as crazy and stink to high heaven and the democrats will unite behind it. They hold their nose and unite. You have to give it to the democrats, they stand United more than the republicans do and if the republicans don’t learn a little from the democrats, Mr Reagan is right, they are doomed and we will see a country that continues to be less and less recognizable to what our forefathers fought so hard for.
-- Posted by Proud Paw Paw on Sat, Apr 27, 2024, at 7:26 AM
Teachers salaries: so minimal for the cost of their education and post graduate hours required to maintain their jobs. How many will be able to garner the Forgiveness $ being handed out after years of teaching and paying off debt to get their degree.
The operative word here for teachers is that they are PUBLIC SERVANTS and they are treated as underlings.
How did everyone from the President, Senators, Doctors, lawyers, etc get where you are today without having the education provided by teachers/under paid public servants? Now they all are drawing top salaries while teachers are still in a deep financial bog struggling to live an even average life. Let alone the horror of being a single teacher, with or without dependents. Most all teachers that I know have to work full time summer jobs and even part time jobs during the school year to make ends meet. They are not paid during the summer months. If they do get a check it is because their salary is divided by 12 and portioned out that way.
No wonder teachers are leaving the classroom and few are becoming teachers. Besides salary they are being forced to follow the rules made by people not even cognizant of how to operate a school and teach.
Every politician should have to go into a classroom for a month and then reevaluate their priorities on schools, teachers and the direction they are proposing for them.
-- Posted by PokerRunx6 on Fri, Apr 26, 2024, at 7:21 PM
Teachers salaries: so minimal for the cost of their education and post graduate hours required to maintain their jobs. How many will be able to garner the Forgiveness $ being handed out after years of teaching and paying off debt to get their degree.
The operative word here for teachers is that they are PUBLIC SERVANTS and they are treated as underlings.
How did everyone from the President, Senators, Doctors, lawyers, etc get where you are today without having the education provided by teachers/under paid public servants? Now they all are drawing top salaries while teachers are still in a deep financial bog struggling to live an even average life. Let alone the horror of being a single teacher, with or without dependents. Most all teachers that I know have to work full time summer jobs and even part time jobs during the school year to make ends meet. They are not paid during the summer months. If they do get a check it is because their salary is divided by 12 and portioned out that way.
No wonder teachers are leaving the classroom and few are becoming teachers. Besides salary they are being forced to follow the rules made by people not even cognizant of how to operate a school and teach.
Every politician should have to go into a classroom for a month and then reevaluate their priorities on schools, teachers and the direction they are proposing for them.
-- Posted by PokerRunx6 on Fri, Apr 26, 2024, at 1:30 PM
Patriotism by a convicted Felon from shooting at the FEDS at a REZ uprising is what is called being a person who speaks out of both sides of the mouth!!
-- Posted by Truth Slinger on Fri, Apr 26, 2024, at 11:56 AM
I'll protect my country every time . Sorry if that hurts your feelings , if you don't like it go back to Europe. Do you choose your country before President . Bring that up everytime I post Patriotism too Trump man . And quit following me around like a lost pup , you got nothing better to do..
-- Posted by Diseased*Turtle on Fri, Apr 26, 2024, at 11:00 AM
I read articles like this and it amazes me that I somehow managed to survive these past 72 years. I mean, not only did we survive and thrive with lead solder, but we also drank from water hoses, rode bicycles without helmets, rode in cars with no seatbelts and the dashboard was made of steel in my early years. We played outside without sun screen, we walked across town to get to the swimming pool. No GPS trackers to know where we were. Oh, as far as I can recollect, and my brother Don could possibly correct me on this, when we got home from school, I don’t remember having to unlock a door to get into the house.
Wow, the more I think about it, the more I miss the 1950s and early 60s. Oh, and by the way, my generation and those who came before produced some pretty smart, or should I say, intelligent individuals, lead or no lead.
-- Posted by Lynn Niswonger on Fri, Apr 26, 2024, at 10:12 AM
The accountability stardards public schools have? The Papa are you kidding me? Private schools have higher standards. Most of the kids at say central can barely pass the standard skills test. Most private schools have stricter grading scales. An A at central is not the same as an A at notre dame for example. The “standards” at notre dame actually punish kids when it comes to colleges. Colleges do not look at the grading scale. They look at the numbers on paper. So to say the private schools are not up to the same “standard” as public school is ridiculous.
And yes, parents kids going to private schools choose to send their kids to private schools but are still taxed for public school.
-- Posted by Legend89 on Fri, Apr 26, 2024, at 8:59 AM
Well, maybe the parents of those attending a private or parochial school should not have to pay any school taxes since their kids aren’t using the public system. Then let’s see how “short” the system is on money. Parents of private and parochial schools are helping to fund the public school system and when a very small portion is suggested to go to help other schools….oh my gosh the world is caving in. What kind of shortfalls do you think there would be if all the parents now using private and parochial schools opted for a public education. You’d better be thanking these parents instead of whining that you might not get every penny.
-- Posted by Proud Paw Paw on Fri, Apr 26, 2024, at 7:45 AM
Private, parochial, and charter schools do not have the accountability standards that public schools have. So until there is accountability, we won't know how effectively those dollars are being used. But gosh, if this passes, Cape and Jackson may have to cut athletics and spend the money on teachers and real education.
-- Posted by The Papa on Fri, Apr 26, 2024, at 6:46 AM
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