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MCO is the worst airport in the US.
Precheck…I mean no airport has longer lines, it’s comically slow.
Try getting a meal there, good luck.
That place can not deal with the mix of convention visitors and the once a year tourist family. If you’re a Group 1 or Group 2 UA flyer, it’s a maze due to a lack of space.
MCO flat out sucks, burn it down.
The correct take.
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I have been compared to Dan Quayle, so it fits.
What is your position on Mr Potatoe head?
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« Last post by dgies9156 on Today at 01:05:37 PM »
That is definitely not the whole story on inflation
No, I agree, it's not. Let's throw in that porky infrastructure bill as well and run-up in petroleum prices.
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I will also say that a lot of athletic departments, even though they have raked in the revenue, have also gotten themselves in budget issues because they have tied up a lot of costs in long term capital projects. Oftentimes these projects were initiated years ago, by people who are no longer in charge, yet their successors have had to deal with those costs plus now dealing with the costs of the liabilities in this case as well as paying additional for labor.
Oh and I have never seen an athletic department with a significant operating reserve. They generally spend every nickel they make.
Professional sports has a much longer history of consistent revenues, which are directly tied to player expenses, which makes financial planning much easier. College administrators have had to deal with a potential rapid increase in player costs, without a corresponding increase in revenue. (Except for the B10 and the SEC)
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So, when Israel invaded the West Bank in January, June and July 2023, did they violate a ceasefire?
What about when Israeli bombs killed 22 people in Gaza in July 2022?
Only the dumb and disingenuous would argue there was a ceasefire in place 10/6/23.
He'd probably have sided with England in 1776 as well. 3/5/1770 was just police putting down a peaceful protest, aina?
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« Last post by Goose on Today at 01:00:16 PM »
BM
I think your post was the best one today. You provided real life examples. Like you said, you are fine and comfortable, but that does not mean there cannot be a bit concern or frustration. Every time I read about the economy on scoop, I am floored. This group has to be the most successful, financially secure group in the USA.
I look back to when we were raising our family and I now appreciate having some financial stress regarding living expenses. I am glad that no scoopers raising a family have monthly concerns, but I am glad I did. It made me keep my eye on the ball and made me appreciate the smaller joys in life.
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« Last post by tower912 on Today at 12:59:27 PM »
I get it. Michigan was ahead of the curve for the last great recession. Nasty contracts dropped my take home down 15%. It took me to 2016 to match my take home pay of 2005. With a mortgage. And Catholic schools. And a surprise kid at 40. Hell, there was a 5 year stretch where I was worth more if I died in the line of duty. I did not let my wife know that.
Hang in there.
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« Last post by dgies9156 on Today at 12:58:51 PM »
Either you got very unlucky or spent a whole lot of money on improvements that didn't increase the value of your home. Because over that 28-year period, the housing price index in the Chicago market more than doubled.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CHXRSA
The Chicago market appreciation was not uniform. Some communities saw huge increases. Some didn't. In our Central Lake County neighborhood, a couple who bought a home for $320,000 right after we did sold for $550,000 in 2008. The couple that subsequently purchased the home for the $550,000 sold for $440,000 in 2018. That was typical for Central Lake County in those days. What happened was that a large-scale housing development in nearby Vernon Hills, one of the biggest in Illinois, opened for construction right when we bought the house. The development is just now being completed. We did put in a new kitchen, finished the basement, redid two bathrooms, replaced two air conditioning compressors and two furnaces. We replaced one cedar roof and one outdoor hot tub. We also replaced every window in the house with high-efficiency windows. Most of the house had hardwood floors courtesy of us. What didn't had new ceramic. Central Lake County has lost a number of large employers in recent years, which affected the value of our home. Allstate, in Northbrook, hired significant numbers of folks from our area, as did several pharmaceutical firms (including Abbott Labs). All have cut back or moved elsewhere. It's possible from our old neighborhood to commute downtown every day, as Metra served it, but it took 1:25 door-to-door.
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Not being combative just providing more context.....
100% agree on where you choose to live, and when you bought your house. I bought last year after a divorce. The mortgage rate for the first house we bought was 3.7% in early 2022. The one I bought after the divorce was 6%. And I received better than average rates both times. But the rates getting worse certainly cost me some money and refinancing when that's an option will help. And obviously having a second income in the future will be beneficial.
Re: necessary expenses....the only two that are unnecessary are YouTubeTV and the 7% I'm putting towards my 401K
Mortgage, property taxes, electric, WiFi, water run me over $3K per month/$40K per year. Add in food, transportation, healthcare....it adds up quickly.
At $95K per year, I could not afford decent child care unless I sold my house and did not contribute to my 401K. I'm certain you're correct that others are managing, but I'm not sure how.
My guess is that their cost of housing is less, or they aren't saving for retirement like you are. And, unlike what Goose said, I wasn't suggesting you were irresponsible with money or anything. Just curious.
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I don't get it. We've been told by the media that colleges have been making billions off the slave labor. Multi-million dollar buy-outs are merely rounding errors to schools. $500k to MU is like you and I being charged twice for fries at McDonalds. Whoop-de-doo.
Or maybe, just maybe, not all parties to this discussion have been 100% honest?
I don't think you're being 100% honest with this take either. I think generally when people talk about schools making billions, they are talking about college football in general making billions, not every individual school within the FBS making billions. And those billions are nowhere close to being evenly distributed. College football making billions and the existence of cash-strapped athletic departments can both be true. For the elite schools, multi-million dollar buyouts are merely rounding errors. I don't know about MU but to a school like Bama, $500K is not a significant amount of money. Slave labor is inflammatory and insensitive to the horrors of actual slavery, but the general point that many athletes were grossly underpaid compared to the value that they brought is accurate.
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