A "zinger" of a week is all that can be said of this past week, we survived Camping, Arnie's extra marital affairs, Newt being Newt and Donald Trump declaring to be, well, Donald Trump and all the things that go along with that. Top subjects can be just that, or they can be a smattering of the silly little things that affect our lives. So why don't we get to affecting.
THE CHANGING WORLD OF DIDDY, (The Root)
Thank God the rapture was just a figment of Harold Camping's mind or the world wouldn't have known that Sean "Diddy" Combs was changing his name.....again, this time to Swag. So, according to Combs, for one week he will be referred to simply as Swag.
Launching a comeback, "I didn't know he was gone," this coming week, refere to the Rapper only as Swag. I'll bet that if the comeback is a success, Swag will remain his new adopted moniker, I know Swag would remain my new name if I could make a little money.
Sean John Combs was born in 1969 in a housing project in Harlem, New York, the son of a teacher/model mother and a gangster father who was shot to death in a car in Manhattan park after attending a party. Combs is a rapper, actor and business man, has an interesting history of accomplishments during his career. Plus his accomplishments, "Diddy" is estimated by Forbes to be worth more then $475 million, begging me to ask the question, "why do you want to make a comeback?"
Combs has also been known as Puff, Puffy, Puff Daddy, "my personal favorite", P. Diddy, Diddy and King Combs. The world of Rap, "short for rhapsody" is filled with interesting nick-names and the messages that come from "some" of the melodies, to me, is pure blues and carries a powerful story with it.
Some other interesting rapper or actor names, usually set aside for black performers, reads like a cornucopia of rhyming, sing songing, attention grabbing entertainment headliners and includes some of the following:
Ice Cube, Ice "T", 50 cent, 88 keys, 9th. Ward, The original 50 cent, Nipsey Hu$$le, Bow Wow, Bang, Beanie Man, Babyface, Balance, Sandman, "I like this one," Boss man, Bounty Killer, Cadillac Tah, Curren$y and Danger mouse.
These are just a few names in the fabulous history of Rap, filled with failed individuals, groups and recording labels as well as huge success stories. The message is interesting, can be touching and is steeped in people's lives, their failures and their triumphs, I suggest that we all give it a listen.
GRADUATE BLISS, NOT IN THIS LIFETIME, (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Like the man said, "saddle up boys and girls and prepare for a bumpy ride," this year's graduating college students will have an average debt to repay for a college education of between $20 and $150 thousand dollars during the first part of their working lives.
I remember having an argument with one of my cousins several years ago about this very subject. It was his contention that people needed a college degree in order to "make it" in today's upbeat technical business world. Although I value an education, "Lord knows I could use more," I maintained, and still do, that getting an education is an "overblown middle class pipe dream," fostered by the upper middle class, academia and intellectuals who not only run the cathedrals of higher education, but feel that they are the sharpers of future activity on the planet.
Education at the college level, without much exception does not take into account what the economy is doing, will do, or how valuable your degree will be worth once you graduate. Many, many people that have graduated during the past four years have found times tough in the real world and find themselves right back at some part time job, or the food service job that they had either before their college career, or during it. Still they are expected to pay their loans off per their pre graduation agreements.
As a nation, student loans now account for more then all credit card dept, $1 trillion. Student loan debt has grown to the point where it will began to have an effect or impact on the economy. Generally student loan debt is considered a good investment on the future of America, but "to much of a good thing can be bad," especially when your talking about debt.
Possibly the biggest misconception in middle class America is the belief that a college education is a necessity to make a decent living in the 21st. century, if the tab for that education takes years to pay off, like 20 years, about the time that your kids will be expecting to go to college, to follow the same dream you had.
College graduates take, on average, from 10 to 20 years to pay off their college loans, while some take as long as 30 years. The average earning advantage of a college degree is around $3 million more then a high school graduate, over a 40 year career, it had better be with the payments of anywhere from $500 to $2000 a month.
At the present time, I guess you have to look at where you would rather be, working in a dirty, sweat-filled factory job at $10 to $15 an hour, with shrinking benefits, or working in a clement controlled atmosphere, in a cushy professional job making $120 grand a year with a college debt package that you make payments of $1,500 a month payments on. For young people, the choice is yours', good luck, I'm glad I'm 67.
COMPLETELY UNFAIR AND I DON'T LIKE IT, (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
Those figures are just "average" and they are based on people who retired in 2010. For those that will be entering their golden oldy era, or the twilight of their lives, the figure goes up, expediently. The figures do not take into account nursing home, or extended care.
Most people are unaware of the costs for medical health care until they are forced to face the facts, usually only months before the time of their planned retirement. I am still covered by my wife's medical insurance, and although I don't fall completely in with those people that are clueless about medical costs in retirement, I do need some answers before her final day on the job.
Cobra is not an answer for medical coverage, it just offers retirees the chance to stay on the coverage that they had during their working years, at premiums as high as $2 or $3 grand a month. Medicare is not free, can cost between $300 and $600 a month, and Medicaid, well, it's better to be indigent.
The system is whacked, it favors nobody and like Paul "I would be king," Ryan says, "needs to be repaired." One in four in 2007 spent more then 30% of their fixed income on medical insurance and it's going to get worse.
The worst part of the whole equation is that we are expected to live longer, "oh no, not that."
Launching a comeback, "I didn't know he was gone," this coming week, refere to the Rapper only as Swag. I'll bet that if the comeback is a success, Swag will remain his new adopted moniker, I know Swag would remain my new name if I could make a little money.
Sean John Combs was born in 1969 in a housing project in Harlem, New York, the son of a teacher/model mother and a gangster father who was shot to death in a car in Manhattan park after attending a party. Combs is a rapper, actor and business man, has an interesting history of accomplishments during his career. Plus his accomplishments, "Diddy" is estimated by Forbes to be worth more then $475 million, begging me to ask the question, "why do you want to make a comeback?"
Combs has also been known as Puff, Puffy, Puff Daddy, "my personal favorite", P. Diddy, Diddy and King Combs. The world of Rap, "short for rhapsody" is filled with interesting nick-names and the messages that come from "some" of the melodies, to me, is pure blues and carries a powerful story with it.
Some other interesting rapper or actor names, usually set aside for black performers, reads like a cornucopia of rhyming, sing songing, attention grabbing entertainment headliners and includes some of the following:
Ice Cube, Ice "T", 50 cent, 88 keys, 9th. Ward, The original 50 cent, Nipsey Hu$$le, Bow Wow, Bang, Beanie Man, Babyface, Balance, Sandman, "I like this one," Boss man, Bounty Killer, Cadillac Tah, Curren$y and Danger mouse.
These are just a few names in the fabulous history of Rap, filled with failed individuals, groups and recording labels as well as huge success stories. The message is interesting, can be touching and is steeped in people's lives, their failures and their triumphs, I suggest that we all give it a listen.
GRADUATE BLISS, NOT IN THIS LIFETIME, (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Like the man said, "saddle up boys and girls and prepare for a bumpy ride," this year's graduating college students will have an average debt to repay for a college education of between $20 and $150 thousand dollars during the first part of their working lives.
I remember having an argument with one of my cousins several years ago about this very subject. It was his contention that people needed a college degree in order to "make it" in today's upbeat technical business world. Although I value an education, "Lord knows I could use more," I maintained, and still do, that getting an education is an "overblown middle class pipe dream," fostered by the upper middle class, academia and intellectuals who not only run the cathedrals of higher education, but feel that they are the sharpers of future activity on the planet.
Education at the college level, without much exception does not take into account what the economy is doing, will do, or how valuable your degree will be worth once you graduate. Many, many people that have graduated during the past four years have found times tough in the real world and find themselves right back at some part time job, or the food service job that they had either before their college career, or during it. Still they are expected to pay their loans off per their pre graduation agreements.
As a nation, student loans now account for more then all credit card dept, $1 trillion. Student loan debt has grown to the point where it will began to have an effect or impact on the economy. Generally student loan debt is considered a good investment on the future of America, but "to much of a good thing can be bad," especially when your talking about debt.
Possibly the biggest misconception in middle class America is the belief that a college education is a necessity to make a decent living in the 21st. century, if the tab for that education takes years to pay off, like 20 years, about the time that your kids will be expecting to go to college, to follow the same dream you had.
College graduates take, on average, from 10 to 20 years to pay off their college loans, while some take as long as 30 years. The average earning advantage of a college degree is around $3 million more then a high school graduate, over a 40 year career, it had better be with the payments of anywhere from $500 to $2000 a month.
At the present time, I guess you have to look at where you would rather be, working in a dirty, sweat-filled factory job at $10 to $15 an hour, with shrinking benefits, or working in a clement controlled atmosphere, in a cushy professional job making $120 grand a year with a college debt package that you make payments of $1,500 a month payments on. For young people, the choice is yours', good luck, I'm glad I'm 67.
COMPLETELY UNFAIR AND I DON'T LIKE IT, (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
Those figures are just "average" and they are based on people who retired in 2010. For those that will be entering their golden oldy era, or the twilight of their lives, the figure goes up, expediently. The figures do not take into account nursing home, or extended care.
Most people are unaware of the costs for medical health care until they are forced to face the facts, usually only months before the time of their planned retirement. I am still covered by my wife's medical insurance, and although I don't fall completely in with those people that are clueless about medical costs in retirement, I do need some answers before her final day on the job.
Cobra is not an answer for medical coverage, it just offers retirees the chance to stay on the coverage that they had during their working years, at premiums as high as $2 or $3 grand a month. Medicare is not free, can cost between $300 and $600 a month, and Medicaid, well, it's better to be indigent.
The system is whacked, it favors nobody and like Paul "I would be king," Ryan says, "needs to be repaired." One in four in 2007 spent more then 30% of their fixed income on medical insurance and it's going to get worse.
The worst part of the whole equation is that we are expected to live longer, "oh no, not that."
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