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Fatrat said:
When my relative passed, the stash was divided up and mailed out...
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You're lucky you were all on the same page.

My old man had a small stack. As a little kid (age 9 when he started buying) I was unimpressed. He had his $20 gold pieces, he was so proud...I didn't get it.

IIRC, he had about 20 of them. I completely lost track of them; he died before I started stacking.

My mother took his estate, communal-property laws. I never thought to ask her, but in retrospect, she probably sold them fast. It was what she did with his guns...I don't know if she sold them or just made a show of giving them to the police for destruction. Only his Mauser escaped that, and only because it was outside his gun cabinet.

Once my mother died, the executor was in the safe before I could get to it. So I don't know if the gold was there or not. I did offer to BUY the gold out of the estate - it was about $500/oz back then, we didn't even get to prices. I got no answer - and that was my own brother, who also tried throwing me out of the house (I had moved in to help with end-of-life issues). It was ugly and in the end, also, I got the raw end of the turd.

That's another story; but it's what can happen when you're not of one mind. Now, I expect, probably, my stacks will either be stolen by Probate or sold at pennies on the dollar...but I can't help that, either.
 
Fatrat said:
Now now, can't blame this on just those two, plenty of republicans and democrats had a hand in this and Trump COULD have ended this already if he wasn't pleasing the tiny hat club first.
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They didn't design it, but they'll NEVER...EVER redesign it for actual fairness.

They're both Marxists. The Marxists - and the Dumbos, at various times - advocating seizing of estates.

THAT is THEIR idea of "fairness."
 
Fatrat said:
As a retiree, I'm bored, I may go back to work just because....hell, stack more PMs seems logical.
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I'm wrestling with that.

Now that my motorcycle-touring days are over; now that Alaska, summers, is out of my new, lower price range...

But, I'm not eager to go pay moar taxes. Nor am I eager for Sexual Harassment Training seminars, or White Privilege Training classes, mandatory on hiring.

Nor am I looking forward to working with the dull-normal Jab-injured types that wind up in entry-level throwaway jobs. Nor even, fighting OVER that Satanic Jab as a requirement.
 
Fatrat said:
As a retiree, I'm bored, I may go back to work just because....hell, stack more PMs seems logical.
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Hah!! I can tell yer not married, rat, cause if you were your honeydew list would dispel the boredom and replace it with schemes to get out of the chores.
 

Ultimate House of Cards: $5.1 Trillion Bond Fraud Set to Dwarf 2008 Crisis​

Mitch Wexler exposes what he calls the "biggest hidden financial time bomb in America"—a $5.1 trillion spiral of school district bond fraud. Speaking from the front lines of his legal crusade, Wexler details a system of inflated property appraisals and systemic over-taxation that is stripping equity from homeowners nationwide. He frames his battle in the Texas Supreme Court not as a local issue, but as a desperate fight for transparency against institutionalized fraud that dwarfs 2008. "Why do they want to prohibit discovery of the fraud?" he challenges. Wexler directly ties this local crisis to the broader erosion of confidence in fiat systems, arguing it makes physical precious metals the only true zero-counterparty-risk refuge.
 
Should translate to English when you click the link.

 

Corey Served 22 Years in the Army — Then Hung Up His Boots​

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He retired because he timed out for enlisted. Twenty years earns a pension; 24 is all an enlisted man CAN DO.

I'm not sure about officers.

In the Navy, you have to advance, or else be high-year-tenured OUT. No one can re-enlist unless he's E-4 or above. To re-enlist above ten years, you must be E-5 or above; and twelve years, E-6. First Class, E-6, will get you 20, but no more.

You have to be a CPO, E-7 or above, to go beyond 20.

But, the pension, while it's to reward an enlistee for 20 years of service, it's not intended to be a lifetime free ride. He's FORTY-TWO YEARS OLD. That's not retirement age. That's an age to transition to something less physical, something that utilizes what he'd learned.
 
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