My brother Eman pointed out potential issues with a Brown's gas generator for diesel trucks to me: 1: Heat, and 2: Pre-ignition.
Pre-ignition would be very bad. No ECM would catch it before you blew something up. He also pointed out that the engine temp could shoot up faster than the water temp, and damage the engine before the engine-protect function shut you down.
So I've started doing my home-work. Here's one statement from an engineering site:
"Hydrogen has an auto-ignition temp. of 932 oF. As long as the surfaces and air inside the chamber are not higher than this, it won't pre-ignite.The way this is supposed to work is that when the diesel is injected, as soon as the diesel starts to burn, it ignites the hydrogen. In turn, the hot, rapid burn of the hydrogen should cause a more rapid and therefore more complete burn of the diesel fuel before the exhaust valves open. It should be noted that the absence of smoke at the tailpipe is not necessarily an accurate indication of a complete burn. Combustion often continues in the exhaust manifold, after the exhaust valves have opened. Of coarse, any combustion that happens after the valves open is of no use.As we've seen, it does work. Just not very well, for the reasons that have been stated.Remember, I'm not trying mearly to make an engine run only on hydrogen. By it "working" I mean that it works as stated above."
There was a great deal of dispute on this site, much of which involved mathematical formulas and ratios which gave me a headache. It also included gasoline engines, which are quite different. I have to do a lot of sifting.
This was an engineer, so I need to translate "just not very well": Not 100%. Diesel engines work. Just not very well; they're 40% efficient. Get it?
But I'm not cherry-picking. Some of those guys pointed out that the exhaust valves run a lot hotter...well look: I won't try to be an engineer and this guy shouldn't try to be an Intelligence analyst: Diesel ignites at half the temperature of hydrogen, so big deal. The diesel, once you've been running for awhile, is also pre-heated, right?
So the ECM accomodates both the cold and the hot diesel. There's a useful hint.
Pressure is another matter. None of the engineers got specific about that. I'm pretty sure that if hydrogen would self-ignite at a lower psi than diesel, somebody would have said something.
Then I hit a trucker forum. The first thing I read was "you can't produce more energy than it takes to make it". Thanks, Yoda. We're talking about the generation of an explosive gas using spare current from the alternator, ok?
This I haven't fully researched yet. The pre-assembled commercial units I've checked out pull from 40 to 60 amps, and strain on alternators might be an issue. I'm frankly clueless (so far) as to what this means. Some guys said they had their alternator settings changed. One guy said he has a switch he can flip to alternate between a higher and lower output. I don't understand any of this...I will in later posts, but for now that's what I've seen: 40-60 amps--figure it out.
I do know this: If I can get 8-plus mpg's, I'll replace my alternators ever 3-4 months if I have to.
Man, I got to find out just how big a drain that is...
These guys, however, were again mixing in their personal vehicles--talking about 5-15 amps and stuff, and it was hard to sort out the gassers from the diesels. I wish the truckers would stick to trucks, ya know? They were also talking about home-made units, and issues that don't exist with the pre-made generators I talk about.
The current to the generator bank here is controlled. No issue.
I also found out about heat. If you add too much electrolyte (baking soda or sodium hydroxide) the water will get too hot. Invariably, those who mentioned this said that reducing the amount took care of that.
You know what I haven't found so far? Anybody saying "ma engine blowed up!"
But I'll keep looking. Stand by.
Save $1,000s On Your Vehicle Fuel Costs! Onboard On Demand Vehicle Hydrogen Generator
Friday, July 18, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
HYDROGEN GENERATOR FOR COMMERCIAL TRUCKS
I did some more research, and have decided which hydrogen generator I'll buy and install on my truck...when I get out from under my lease and BUY one. On the low end, I can put four hundred bucks more per week in my pocket (and get over mountains faster).
I t's Save $1,000s On Your Vehicle Fuel Costs! Onboard On Demand Vehicle Hydrogen Generator
Another one I checked out includes a water-pump and cooling system, but nowhere else have I found any references to overheating; if there IS an issue, I can route an A/C vent to the self-contained diamond-plate box the six-pack of generators come in. (I'll get the skinny version and bolt it to the back of my sleeper.) I might also cut some vents--but I still don't see heat as an issue.
And the other one requires a drain and refill every 750 miles. For me, that's daily. This one, you refill every 250 operational hours. It's no doubt harder to refill, since (I think) you need to refill each of the six generators individually. But I can manage that once every 250 hours of driving!
I was also thinking that it would be great if every US big rig had one of these on it. Those mideast bastards hate us. Including Saudi Arabia. They're screwing us now in order to weaken us. I'm a patriot. (And if you just smirked, screw YOU.)
We can reduce demand. We SHOULD be drilling our own, but CONGRESS is preventing this. There isn't oil in the 68,000 acres, and they're just muddying the waters to block drilling...
But I digress: I'm also losing a boatload of money, sitting here idle trying to get credit approval (the potential lender stipulates a 60-inch sleeper! How much senseless crap do I have to deal with with these people? )...
But I digress again: So I thought to myself, well, why not see if I can make money by pushing this product, which (by creating a complete flame-spread and up to 100% combustion) eliminates (or at least drasticly reduces) carbon emissions? Which increases fuel economy by at least 20%? Which delivers more power? Which eliminates carbon deposits inside the engine? Which requires no circuits or adapters for big rigs, since fuel-air mixes are automaticly optimized by the ECM? Which would, if enough of us have them, drasticly reduce our national consumption of fossil fuels and, along with domestic drilling, could wipe out or need for foreign oil.
So I've signed up as an affiliate. I've tried this, unsuccessfully, before. Though I failed to generate much interest in those products, I learned a great deal about how it's done. NOW, I have the best product on the planet to promote!
And you'll note: I'm not automaticly pushing both of these products. I favor this one, and my targets are other owner-operators and carriers who are getting screwed right now. For me, the refill frequency thing is pretty huge. I'm too lazy for that: Each and every night, drain and refill. I just want to drive, eat, and sleep. And play internet poker.
And I am honorable and honest. (Are you smirking again? Who the hell told you that patriotism and these were a joke? Your marxist teachers and mass-media? All those war movies painting every situation as...ah the hell with it. And with you, you smirking pinko bastid.)
Anyway, I PROUDLY promote this product. I've been doing it for free. I told USA. I told SelecTrucks (would you want a truck that gets 8 mpg's? Huh? Would ya?) I've told everybody I know about the more common versions for gasoline engines. I've been prostelitizing about this simply because I want to help my peeps, and my country.
Hell--might as well make some money off it!
So, since I'm out of commission anyway, I'll be applying this to the internet, and getting the word out there.
I'll get a coded website. Maybe I can get some traffic over here (haha)---that's the one I'll be pushing in the engines and stuff.
Well......okbye
P.S. I have embedded some subtle pitches somewhere on this page.
I t's Save $1,000s On Your Vehicle Fuel Costs! Onboard On Demand Vehicle Hydrogen Generator
Another one I checked out includes a water-pump and cooling system, but nowhere else have I found any references to overheating; if there IS an issue, I can route an A/C vent to the self-contained diamond-plate box the six-pack of generators come in. (I'll get the skinny version and bolt it to the back of my sleeper.) I might also cut some vents--but I still don't see heat as an issue.
And the other one requires a drain and refill every 750 miles. For me, that's daily. This one, you refill every 250 operational hours. It's no doubt harder to refill, since (I think) you need to refill each of the six generators individually. But I can manage that once every 250 hours of driving!
I was also thinking that it would be great if every US big rig had one of these on it. Those mideast bastards hate us. Including Saudi Arabia. They're screwing us now in order to weaken us. I'm a patriot. (And if you just smirked, screw YOU.)
We can reduce demand. We SHOULD be drilling our own, but CONGRESS is preventing this. There isn't oil in the 68,000 acres, and they're just muddying the waters to block drilling...
But I digress: I'm also losing a boatload of money, sitting here idle trying to get credit approval (the potential lender stipulates a 60-inch sleeper! How much senseless crap do I have to deal with with these people? )...
But I digress again: So I thought to myself, well, why not see if I can make money by pushing this product, which (by creating a complete flame-spread and up to 100% combustion) eliminates (or at least drasticly reduces) carbon emissions? Which increases fuel economy by at least 20%? Which delivers more power? Which eliminates carbon deposits inside the engine? Which requires no circuits or adapters for big rigs, since fuel-air mixes are automaticly optimized by the ECM? Which would, if enough of us have them, drasticly reduce our national consumption of fossil fuels and, along with domestic drilling, could wipe out or need for foreign oil.
So I've signed up as an affiliate. I've tried this, unsuccessfully, before. Though I failed to generate much interest in those products, I learned a great deal about how it's done. NOW, I have the best product on the planet to promote!
And you'll note: I'm not automaticly pushing both of these products. I favor this one, and my targets are other owner-operators and carriers who are getting screwed right now. For me, the refill frequency thing is pretty huge. I'm too lazy for that: Each and every night, drain and refill. I just want to drive, eat, and sleep. And play internet poker.
And I am honorable and honest. (Are you smirking again? Who the hell told you that patriotism and these were a joke? Your marxist teachers and mass-media? All those war movies painting every situation as...ah the hell with it. And with you, you smirking pinko bastid.)
Anyway, I PROUDLY promote this product. I've been doing it for free. I told USA. I told SelecTrucks (would you want a truck that gets 8 mpg's? Huh? Would ya?) I've told everybody I know about the more common versions for gasoline engines. I've been prostelitizing about this simply because I want to help my peeps, and my country.
Hell--might as well make some money off it!
So, since I'm out of commission anyway, I'll be applying this to the internet, and getting the word out there.
I'll get a coded website. Maybe I can get some traffic over here (haha)---that's the one I'll be pushing in the engines and stuff.
Well......okbye
P.S. I have embedded some subtle pitches somewhere on this page.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Little Rock, New Truck
Well, the Ryder deal sort of fell through. The lease wasn't escape-proof, and it became clear that my best deal overall would be the purchase of a used truck. So yesterday I drove Christine to Little Rock, straight to SelecTruck.
Figured I only had time to give them my credit info to get the ball rolling, and was prepared to hit five dealerships (and junk yards), shopping and applying, today.
But at SelecTrucks I parked directly facing a 2004 Columbia--which I of course ignored.
Then the guy says he has a 2004 Columbia automatic with less than 5000 miles on a Mercedes engine rated for 9000 miles--in a 430 configuration--for under 40k. Destiny!
I stopped looking, right there. There is my price, my mpg's, my automatic.
I'll ask for new batteries and maybe a left steer (but it's a gouge; not uneven wear, so the alignment seems ok). They offer a 2-year extended warrantee for under 4k. Sounds like a rip-off to 4-wheelers, but when one of my alternators costs over 300 bucks, and exhaust pipe section 200, one tire from 120-300? Yeah...I'll have to see what all is covered.
SelecTrucks has a good rep. Forget all the marketing stuff. Drivers know.
I looked it over. They'd painted the visible frame, and I easily found the corrosion underneath, but it was nothing serious in a 2004, and the paint will stall it for awhile. The batteries appeared a little old. The interior was clean.
I have to wait til this afternoon for the guy to get my credit report back and call me. I have some unjustified crap in my history, but I should be able to just make a down payment and be ok. I can pay it off early, except that if it's within two years there's a 2% charge on the balance. I can make extra payments to attack the equity, too.
Assuming we make a deal, they have to put it on an aerodyne unit for testing. This simulates loads and grades, and if there are any existing problems in the ecm or drive-train, they should show up. This I like. It's value-added yes, but they no doubt also do it for their own protection.
Before or after this, I have to move all my worldly goods from Christine into it. This will include getting my CB, inverter, and computer stand installed. It could take 6-8 hours. (Once I'm set up again, I really have to find someplace to stash my extra shoes, winter clothes, redundant spare wiring and parts, paperwork, etc.)
I'll try asking my brothers. Simon LaGree wouldn't let me before, but things might have changed. Never asked Eman. Worst case I'll rent a locker. If I'm making more money it won't sting so much.
I found two possible hydrogen generator kits--assembled and ready to install--for under 2200. One will work on diesel; but, based on it's size, is for 4-wheelers. The commercial one uses six individual generators, and comes in a case designed to be installed on the back or side of the truck. Either can be installed within two hours.
But I got red flags. The first one requires no catalyst, and includes circuits to adapt the oxygen sensor and ECU (ECM for cars). This might well mean that the second, commercial unit, would mess me up...
Although I can't imagine they'd be selling these units en-masse without having addressed that. All the same, I shot of an email interrogating them about it.
Why Iam I so determined to get one of these on my truck? Because it would save me over 400 bucks a WEEK (plus help climb mountains.)
Well, now I've got to call the recruiter and hope for an offer. No...I'll wait til after lunch. People are in a better mood after lunch. They're on the downhill side of the road to home.
Figured I only had time to give them my credit info to get the ball rolling, and was prepared to hit five dealerships (and junk yards), shopping and applying, today.
But at SelecTrucks I parked directly facing a 2004 Columbia--which I of course ignored.
Then the guy says he has a 2004 Columbia automatic with less than 5000 miles on a Mercedes engine rated for 9000 miles--in a 430 configuration--for under 40k. Destiny!
I stopped looking, right there. There is my price, my mpg's, my automatic.
I'll ask for new batteries and maybe a left steer (but it's a gouge; not uneven wear, so the alignment seems ok). They offer a 2-year extended warrantee for under 4k. Sounds like a rip-off to 4-wheelers, but when one of my alternators costs over 300 bucks, and exhaust pipe section 200, one tire from 120-300? Yeah...I'll have to see what all is covered.
SelecTrucks has a good rep. Forget all the marketing stuff. Drivers know.
I looked it over. They'd painted the visible frame, and I easily found the corrosion underneath, but it was nothing serious in a 2004, and the paint will stall it for awhile. The batteries appeared a little old. The interior was clean.
I have to wait til this afternoon for the guy to get my credit report back and call me. I have some unjustified crap in my history, but I should be able to just make a down payment and be ok. I can pay it off early, except that if it's within two years there's a 2% charge on the balance. I can make extra payments to attack the equity, too.
Assuming we make a deal, they have to put it on an aerodyne unit for testing. This simulates loads and grades, and if there are any existing problems in the ecm or drive-train, they should show up. This I like. It's value-added yes, but they no doubt also do it for their own protection.
Before or after this, I have to move all my worldly goods from Christine into it. This will include getting my CB, inverter, and computer stand installed. It could take 6-8 hours. (Once I'm set up again, I really have to find someplace to stash my extra shoes, winter clothes, redundant spare wiring and parts, paperwork, etc.)
I'll try asking my brothers. Simon LaGree wouldn't let me before, but things might have changed. Never asked Eman. Worst case I'll rent a locker. If I'm making more money it won't sting so much.
I found two possible hydrogen generator kits--assembled and ready to install--for under 2200. One will work on diesel; but, based on it's size, is for 4-wheelers. The commercial one uses six individual generators, and comes in a case designed to be installed on the back or side of the truck. Either can be installed within two hours.
But I got red flags. The first one requires no catalyst, and includes circuits to adapt the oxygen sensor and ECU (ECM for cars). This might well mean that the second, commercial unit, would mess me up...
Although I can't imagine they'd be selling these units en-masse without having addressed that. All the same, I shot of an email interrogating them about it.
Why Iam I so determined to get one of these on my truck? Because it would save me over 400 bucks a WEEK (plus help climb mountains.)
Well, now I've got to call the recruiter and hope for an offer. No...I'll wait til after lunch. People are in a better mood after lunch. They're on the downhill side of the road to home.
Monday, July 14, 2008
To-Do List
1: Get debit card and checkbook done
2: Activate card done
3: Recieve, fill out, and fax application (call Randy to explain rollover) done
4: Have free lunch with Ryan and inform him that if the job is there I have to take it.
5: Hang out, watch cable, play poker, wait for phone calls
Tomorrow:
1: (Probably) drive to Little Rock to see Ryder about leasing a truck; finalize applications etc.
2: If possible--or when possible: Move my stuff out of Christine and into new truck.
3: (If accepted by new company) Drive back to Van Buren to have qualcom unit removed, turn in black book and plates.
4: Drive back to Little Rock to turn in Christine.
5: Take cab to Ryder, get truck, drive to southern Ohio to start orientation with new company.
6: Find new accountant.
7: Get new mailing address.
8: Change all accounts over to new address. Get new checkbooks.
Not included, to be handled in between all this crap:
1: See accountant back from vacation, see about taxes, get copies of all files and my articles of incorporation (before going to Ryder--I'll need them for the application, and might for the new company as well. Bat Owtahel Inc. will be the lessor and the entity which gets paid.)
9: Just DRIVE, baby.
Randy the recruiter sounded positive, even after I told him about the rollover. (Rollover is the hugest red flag there is. It usually means a load of freight lost, for which the carrier's insuror is responsible. It also usually means that the driver was irresponsible and reckless.
Randy seemed not put off, and I got the impression that I will get contracted by them. I know they won't find anything else of consequence in my record, and that anybody they contact about me will give rave reviews (blush-blush) including Central Hauling's safety man.
I have a Scheider application for back-up. I just don't believe in sending applications in and then telling some recruiter that you changed your mind. You waste their time for nothing.
I've just realized that I now have about five years' experience, which puts me in the top echelon experience-wise. It's got to be over seven hundred thousand miles, and every state. In fact, some of the companies I hit with USA, I also hit with Central Hauling. This will be the case with Jamestown (the company I've applied to).
So I've paid my dues.
Another option was Landstar, which is similar to Schneider percentage-wise, and in self-dispatching on the internet. But I found several hidden fees and charges in talking to their drivers, and at this point Schneider has them beat.
But this company, Jamestown: 74% is 9% more. It doesn't sound like a deal-breaker, but here's the thing: I still have to pay for fuel, and those costs will continue to rise. I'll NEED that extra 9%. And the percentage is deceptive:
The pay difference between Jamestown and Schneider averages out to about 18 cpm, and I drive over 3000 miles/week. Since my fuel consumption doesn't go up whether I'm hauling for .90, 1.30, or 1.48 cpmile, every penny of that is pure gravy, and it amounts to about 200 gallons of fuel per week.
It's hard to describe coherently--my fixed costs are what they are, and every penny over it is not offset. The 18 cpm all goes into my coffers.
I'd love to get to watch more Browns games with my peeps in Cleveland, and to look for property myself, but I'd be throwing away over 500 bucks per week!
I'm 52 (today) and don't even have more than 100k yet. Sure, my portfolio is smart and will ultimately go up a lot or a helluva lot (especially if we get in big trouble and I suffer as a trucker; so it's like insurance), but I aint secure yet, and need to make up for lost time.
Moe munnah moe munnah moe munnah. With this gig, I could be just just scooping up all those depressed stocks at their bottoms; averaging down my cost-basis, bargain-hunting--and doing it weekly. I could be working with my bro, Simon LaGree Coyote, in grabbing real property at the bottom, too.
I don't want to rent it or sell it, like Simon. I just want a home or homesite, along with someone to manage it til I'm ready to come off the road (somewhat) and do something with it.
And I have a lot of good ideas. Like I want at least one wind-generator and solar cells. If I'm on a grid, I can wholesale the surplus (after batteries are charged), and establish a nice monthly cash-flow. (As I've said, the new ones really crank out a ton of juice...this aint nickles and dimes, here).
Oh--time for lunch okbye
2: Activate card done
3: Recieve, fill out, and fax application (call Randy to explain rollover) done
4: Have free lunch with Ryan and inform him that if the job is there I have to take it.
5: Hang out, watch cable, play poker, wait for phone calls
Tomorrow:
1: (Probably) drive to Little Rock to see Ryder about leasing a truck; finalize applications etc.
2: If possible--or when possible: Move my stuff out of Christine and into new truck.
3: (If accepted by new company) Drive back to Van Buren to have qualcom unit removed, turn in black book and plates.
4: Drive back to Little Rock to turn in Christine.
5: Take cab to Ryder, get truck, drive to southern Ohio to start orientation with new company.
6: Find new accountant.
7: Get new mailing address.
8: Change all accounts over to new address. Get new checkbooks.
Not included, to be handled in between all this crap:
1: See accountant back from vacation, see about taxes, get copies of all files and my articles of incorporation (before going to Ryder--I'll need them for the application, and might for the new company as well. Bat Owtahel Inc. will be the lessor and the entity which gets paid.)
9: Just DRIVE, baby.
Randy the recruiter sounded positive, even after I told him about the rollover. (Rollover is the hugest red flag there is. It usually means a load of freight lost, for which the carrier's insuror is responsible. It also usually means that the driver was irresponsible and reckless.
Randy seemed not put off, and I got the impression that I will get contracted by them. I know they won't find anything else of consequence in my record, and that anybody they contact about me will give rave reviews (blush-blush) including Central Hauling's safety man.
I have a Scheider application for back-up. I just don't believe in sending applications in and then telling some recruiter that you changed your mind. You waste their time for nothing.
I've just realized that I now have about five years' experience, which puts me in the top echelon experience-wise. It's got to be over seven hundred thousand miles, and every state. In fact, some of the companies I hit with USA, I also hit with Central Hauling. This will be the case with Jamestown (the company I've applied to).
So I've paid my dues.
Another option was Landstar, which is similar to Schneider percentage-wise, and in self-dispatching on the internet. But I found several hidden fees and charges in talking to their drivers, and at this point Schneider has them beat.
But this company, Jamestown: 74% is 9% more. It doesn't sound like a deal-breaker, but here's the thing: I still have to pay for fuel, and those costs will continue to rise. I'll NEED that extra 9%. And the percentage is deceptive:
The pay difference between Jamestown and Schneider averages out to about 18 cpm, and I drive over 3000 miles/week. Since my fuel consumption doesn't go up whether I'm hauling for .90, 1.30, or 1.48 cpmile, every penny of that is pure gravy, and it amounts to about 200 gallons of fuel per week.
It's hard to describe coherently--my fixed costs are what they are, and every penny over it is not offset. The 18 cpm all goes into my coffers.
I'd love to get to watch more Browns games with my peeps in Cleveland, and to look for property myself, but I'd be throwing away over 500 bucks per week!
I'm 52 (today) and don't even have more than 100k yet. Sure, my portfolio is smart and will ultimately go up a lot or a helluva lot (especially if we get in big trouble and I suffer as a trucker; so it's like insurance), but I aint secure yet, and need to make up for lost time.
Moe munnah moe munnah moe munnah. With this gig, I could be just just scooping up all those depressed stocks at their bottoms; averaging down my cost-basis, bargain-hunting--and doing it weekly. I could be working with my bro, Simon LaGree Coyote, in grabbing real property at the bottom, too.
I don't want to rent it or sell it, like Simon. I just want a home or homesite, along with someone to manage it til I'm ready to come off the road (somewhat) and do something with it.
And I have a lot of good ideas. Like I want at least one wind-generator and solar cells. If I'm on a grid, I can wholesale the surplus (after batteries are charged), and establish a nice monthly cash-flow. (As I've said, the new ones really crank out a ton of juice...this aint nickles and dimes, here).
Oh--time for lunch okbye
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Van Buren AR
I scheduled/am taking time off to take care of much overdue business.
1: Pick up my new debit card and checkbooks for my new personal account. These should have been mailed six weeks weeks ago. Naturally, they weren't there. Somehow their server omitted stuff out of the address, and they were returned. So...here we go again.
2: See my accountant about my taxes. She is on vacation til tuesday. I also need a copy of my articles of incorporation for other business.
3: Dump Christine (pending). Yeah...AEL tells me that after almost 3 years and 46k on a 3 year 47.5k lease I still owe ten grand. They say the maintenance deficit is 38k. Well they're getting the truck, and that's all. (Not productive or useful to waste time hellraising or whining or suing. Ya got to focus on practical matters.)
4: (Should be before 3, actually) Locate and nail down a truck that won't earn the name "Christine".
I internet searched, sent several emails and made some calls. Ryder appears to be my only option, unless I want to buy--which I don't in this economy. (Plus leasing is a better tax-deal). They have automatics and can provide the make/model of my choice. The problem is, all their automatics seem to be NEW.
Also, their leases aren't walk-aways. I don't think you're tied to the balance when you turn it in, but there are certainly penalties. I'll have to sort these details out face-to-face in Little Rock. (Those guys are, of course, on vacation too--but I fortunately got the guy in Van Buren, and he's writing it up for them. I should get a contact monday or tuesday.)
Little Rock is where I turn Christine in so that's the Ryder I want to deal with. I can empty her out on the Ryder lot, take her in, and get a cab back.
They have a good deal as far as monthly costs are concerned. As-is, I pay 300/week on my current lease, plus 12 cents/mile into my maintenance escrow. Ryder could provide me a truck for about 2k/month, and I think 6 cents a mile (non-refundable).
The thing is this: I get free maintenance, and they provide road assist. This includes my insurance, which I currently pay in addition to my lease. On a new truck, many of the warrantees run for three years. It is a lease-to-own, and I can get an early buy-out clause.
What all this means is that, as far as weekly average nets are concerned, I could run the new truck cheaper than I now run Christine.
They'll want all this stuff on my credit, and no doubt there's a lot of false BS on my report. But I can put down a big deposit, prove that I make good money, and have liquid collateral. Plus it will not be me, but rather the Corp. which will lease the truck.
I don't mind the deposit, either. It's just equity that I can use later to buy the note. It's an investment, and since I intend to own the truck, why should I get all bent out of shape? I shrug this stuff off.
But right NOW, being down for what appears to be more than ten days is painful. I still have to make my truck and insurance payments, and I'm still burning fuel.
But since I'm stuck anyway, I'll just make the most of it. Catch up on my cable. Play internet poker. Maybe go to a bar (in a cab, of course).
Oh: And I'm checking out other opportunities. I do like USA, and do well here. But I just can't ignore better deals when I see them.
I currently make .90/mile plus the surcharge (no surcharge on empty miles). At Schneider, I could make 65% of the line-haul (what the carrier charges) plus the surcharge. No pay for empty miles.
That's an average of about 1.30/mile. If I factor in the no pay for empty miles, it's still over 1.20/mile, or a 33% raise. AND I could self-dispatch; picking my own loads off the internet. Schneider also has a few other deal-sweeters--plus they have a terminal in Akron, Ohio, so that I could bother my relatives more often, watch some Browns games, get an old car maybe to park at the terminal, and watch some Browns games.
However, another company in southern Ohio pays 74%, and runs mainly LONG runs. (With Scheider I'm concerned about length-of-haul). Now THIS would average about 1.48/mile; 1.40 omitting empty miles. This extra .20 could mean 600/week!
I've had that one fax me an application. I need to find more out about Scheider, and at any rate can't do anything 'til the truck problem is settled; you must provide that information.
Each has it's pros and cons. The latter is a no-frills outfit, and small. I have to consider what might happen to them in a trasportation industry which, under pressure of fuel prices and inflation, could lose freight, and consolidate.
The thing is, then I could just return to USA or go with Schneider. This company is doing well, even now. If anything happens, it would be bought out by a larger company. I'd remain there, or else could always go to Scheider.
Their terminal is about 180 miles from Cleveland, but maybe I could still get an old car and cruise up there for Browns games occasionally--or at least to a Browns-freindly hotel/bar. (And yes--it DOES matter!)
At this point, I'm leaning heavily towards the smaller, higher-paying company in Bungles territory. I have a rollover on my record, which is huge. It wasn't my fault, but that might not matter to Schneider. I'll have a better chance with the smaller company, since most often if there's an insurance issue, I can get my own. Smaller companies tend to be more flexible--and to trust their own judgement more.
That's the bird-in-hand in terms of length-of-haul. They run freight from coast-to-coast.
Yeah, writing stuff down like this forces your brain to slow down to your typing-speed. You think more clearly and deliberately. You weigh everything.
I'm almost 52. I don't have enough piled up. I have to go for the big bucks, and start piling it up. With this gig, I'd be a lot mopre secure a lot faster. In fact, I'd use the lease-term to determine my (optional) retirement. I could buy the land I'll need much sooner; like during this housing crisis--and have somebody to manage it 'til I'm ready.
Yeah...thanks for making sure never to read this, everybody. You've helped me make my mind up.
I haven't told Ryan that I'm looking around yet. He'll understand, of course--money is money and that's how this business works. But it's still real uncomfortable, so I'm putting it off. I really should tell him though, since saying "surprise! I quit!" is pretty classless.
Wow. I just did some mental calculating...Ryan will absolutely understand.
1: Pick up my new debit card and checkbooks for my new personal account. These should have been mailed six weeks weeks ago. Naturally, they weren't there. Somehow their server omitted stuff out of the address, and they were returned. So...here we go again.
2: See my accountant about my taxes. She is on vacation til tuesday. I also need a copy of my articles of incorporation for other business.
3: Dump Christine (pending). Yeah...AEL tells me that after almost 3 years and 46k on a 3 year 47.5k lease I still owe ten grand. They say the maintenance deficit is 38k. Well they're getting the truck, and that's all. (Not productive or useful to waste time hellraising or whining or suing. Ya got to focus on practical matters.)
4: (Should be before 3, actually) Locate and nail down a truck that won't earn the name "Christine".
I internet searched, sent several emails and made some calls. Ryder appears to be my only option, unless I want to buy--which I don't in this economy. (Plus leasing is a better tax-deal). They have automatics and can provide the make/model of my choice. The problem is, all their automatics seem to be NEW.
Also, their leases aren't walk-aways. I don't think you're tied to the balance when you turn it in, but there are certainly penalties. I'll have to sort these details out face-to-face in Little Rock. (Those guys are, of course, on vacation too--but I fortunately got the guy in Van Buren, and he's writing it up for them. I should get a contact monday or tuesday.)
Little Rock is where I turn Christine in so that's the Ryder I want to deal with. I can empty her out on the Ryder lot, take her in, and get a cab back.
They have a good deal as far as monthly costs are concerned. As-is, I pay 300/week on my current lease, plus 12 cents/mile into my maintenance escrow. Ryder could provide me a truck for about 2k/month, and I think 6 cents a mile (non-refundable).
The thing is this: I get free maintenance, and they provide road assist. This includes my insurance, which I currently pay in addition to my lease. On a new truck, many of the warrantees run for three years. It is a lease-to-own, and I can get an early buy-out clause.
What all this means is that, as far as weekly average nets are concerned, I could run the new truck cheaper than I now run Christine.
They'll want all this stuff on my credit, and no doubt there's a lot of false BS on my report. But I can put down a big deposit, prove that I make good money, and have liquid collateral. Plus it will not be me, but rather the Corp. which will lease the truck.
I don't mind the deposit, either. It's just equity that I can use later to buy the note. It's an investment, and since I intend to own the truck, why should I get all bent out of shape? I shrug this stuff off.
But right NOW, being down for what appears to be more than ten days is painful. I still have to make my truck and insurance payments, and I'm still burning fuel.
But since I'm stuck anyway, I'll just make the most of it. Catch up on my cable. Play internet poker. Maybe go to a bar (in a cab, of course).
Oh: And I'm checking out other opportunities. I do like USA, and do well here. But I just can't ignore better deals when I see them.
I currently make .90/mile plus the surcharge (no surcharge on empty miles). At Schneider, I could make 65% of the line-haul (what the carrier charges) plus the surcharge. No pay for empty miles.
That's an average of about 1.30/mile. If I factor in the no pay for empty miles, it's still over 1.20/mile, or a 33% raise. AND I could self-dispatch; picking my own loads off the internet. Schneider also has a few other deal-sweeters--plus they have a terminal in Akron, Ohio, so that I could bother my relatives more often, watch some Browns games, get an old car maybe to park at the terminal, and watch some Browns games.
However, another company in southern Ohio pays 74%, and runs mainly LONG runs. (With Scheider I'm concerned about length-of-haul). Now THIS would average about 1.48/mile; 1.40 omitting empty miles. This extra .20 could mean 600/week!
I've had that one fax me an application. I need to find more out about Scheider, and at any rate can't do anything 'til the truck problem is settled; you must provide that information.
Each has it's pros and cons. The latter is a no-frills outfit, and small. I have to consider what might happen to them in a trasportation industry which, under pressure of fuel prices and inflation, could lose freight, and consolidate.
The thing is, then I could just return to USA or go with Schneider. This company is doing well, even now. If anything happens, it would be bought out by a larger company. I'd remain there, or else could always go to Scheider.
Their terminal is about 180 miles from Cleveland, but maybe I could still get an old car and cruise up there for Browns games occasionally--or at least to a Browns-freindly hotel/bar. (And yes--it DOES matter!)
At this point, I'm leaning heavily towards the smaller, higher-paying company in Bungles territory. I have a rollover on my record, which is huge. It wasn't my fault, but that might not matter to Schneider. I'll have a better chance with the smaller company, since most often if there's an insurance issue, I can get my own. Smaller companies tend to be more flexible--and to trust their own judgement more.
That's the bird-in-hand in terms of length-of-haul. They run freight from coast-to-coast.
Yeah, writing stuff down like this forces your brain to slow down to your typing-speed. You think more clearly and deliberately. You weigh everything.
I'm almost 52. I don't have enough piled up. I have to go for the big bucks, and start piling it up. With this gig, I'd be a lot mopre secure a lot faster. In fact, I'd use the lease-term to determine my (optional) retirement. I could buy the land I'll need much sooner; like during this housing crisis--and have somebody to manage it 'til I'm ready.
Yeah...thanks for making sure never to read this, everybody. You've helped me make my mind up.
I haven't told Ryan that I'm looking around yet. He'll understand, of course--money is money and that's how this business works. But it's still real uncomfortable, so I'm putting it off. I really should tell him though, since saying "surprise! I quit!" is pretty classless.
Wow. I just did some mental calculating...Ryan will absolutely understand.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Think with your Brain
True conservatives are libertarians. Bush and McCain are not true conservatives. Reagan and Goldwater were. The current Republican party is full of Bush's and McCain's, who betrayed their conservative bases.
True conservatives are loyal to the founders and their constitution--as it was written and intended. The principles set forth in this document are timeless, and transcend population, technology, and societal changes. It was designed that way, by some of the smartest people who have ever lived.
True conservatives, like the founders, believe in the smallest, most limited federal government possible. In FREEDOM, LIBERTY, AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. This is the core of it: These elements are not the governments' to grant or restrict. These are enate.
Libertarians in the first continental congress attempted to end slavery. These were MY antecedents. New York and the southern colonies--the antecedents of the democratic party--threatened to withdraw and (presumably) form a separate nation over this issue. Now there would be two separate nations, slavery would continue anyway, and both might be doomed to conquest.
So the issue was tabled, and omitted.
Abolitionists--my antecedents--fought to end slavery until, finally, Abraham Lincoln was elected President. On this very day, the south ceceded, and the war began shortly thereafter.
Lincoln's actions were technicly unconstitutional, as I've heard scholars point out. But you have to understand--it was the intent of the founders to end slavery, and they were prevented from doing it by extortion. These included Jefferson and other slave-owners, by the way.
And the main constitutional issue was states rights. Do you mean to tell me, Professor, that States were meant to have the right to legalize the OWNERSHIP of people? Hey, how bout let's legalize rape and murder? No sir--it's not legal for a state to legalize an abomination.
Slavery was the singular issue in the Civil War.
And again, the antecedents of the democrats fought a war to preserve it. The cannon fodder were convinced that it was about federal oppression, but there WAS no oppression, other than the threat to slavery. We must honor their courage and motives, but in truth, they fought the North to preserve slavery, and the wealth of their "top" whatever "percent".
Once again, our beliefs remained constant and immutable, as the Constitution: Freedom is enate. NO government has the right to take it. This applies to EVERY (honest) citezen, including black ones.
After a generation of my antecedents was decimated, more of my antecedents (especially the rich ones) founded the first black schools and colleges, and provided scholarships. This was all private money, from those greedy selfish rich white people. These were the first Republicans, and they were the real ones.
Within twenty years of the end of the war, communites of former slaves and their children had established thriving communities. They HAD to, because the democrats wouldn't give them their rightful place in the broader communities.
These were farmers, blacksmiths, barbers, doctors, etc.; mostly owners of their own businesses, which formed the base of these communites. They hired their own police to protect their businesses, extending this protection to their customers (and friends). They didn't complain about the poor farmer not helping pay the bills.
They didn't need anybody's help. They were Amercans, living the dream. WE were happy for them.
Then the Democrats burned all these communities down.
The 14th amendment was passed by Republicans to tell southern democrats that if they prevented black people from voting, owning guns or property, etc. they were comitting a crime.
LBJ, obliged to get JFK's Civil Rights act passed, was blocked by democrats. Al Gore's father filibustered against it. It was the unanimous Republicans in Congress who forced this through.
LBJ also passed his own Bill: WELFARE. He had the strong support of the very people who a year before stood behind water cannons and attack dogs, and filibustered Civil Rights. The Republicans fought it.
"AHA!", you say? THINK! This bill was INTENDED to BUY your votes, and establish an exponetially-expanding base of loyal democratic DEPENDANTS. The Republicans fought it because the government has no business subsidizing a permanent under-educated underclass. This was POISON to a free society, and especially to the "beneficiaries" of the free money.
It destroyed the black family. It discouraged enterprise, competition, and achievement. It created criminals, and ghettos.
Those who fought it were the same people who wanted to educate the slaves and their children--so that they would be equipped to SUCCEED.
Well, the new Plantation worked like a charm. You fell for it.
Today, the majority of the Domocratic Party is eager to vote for Obama. Every rebuttal or question will be portrayed as a "vicious racist attack".
Idiots. True conservatives and libertarians ARE color-blind. It is YOU who are going to vote for this guy BECAUSE he is black! Because you feel guilty, or he's the same color, or it's affirmative action--whatever. It's all about race for YOU.
WE judge people by the content of their characters. Do you?
WE would prefer Colin Powell to McCain. We like Condi Rice even better. We'd go right to the WALL for Watts, Steele, or Blackwell.
Their color or sex means nothing to us. All that matters to us is their honesty, and where they intend to take this country. WE think with our brains. Logical, rational, mature, sane.
YOU, conversely, think with your hearts. None of his american terrorist or america-hating or criminal friends and mentors matter to you. His lies and flipflops don't matter either. You perform olympic-calibre mental gymnastics of rationalization to explain them all away--lying to yourselves. He's black (and promises to screw rich people and give you free stuff), and that's all that matters to you. Little freaking kids!
And he's a Marxist. You say that's just the Republican attack machine (what a joke). You have been indoctrinated. Schools don't teach about communism or Marx anymore. You haven't checked out the Communist Manifesto yoursels, and have no idea what you're talking about.
I was a communist. That doesn't matter either, does it? He's talking about sticking it to the rich and giving you free stuff. That's Marxism, and it never, ever works. It's FATAL to a free economy. Rich people provide jobs in the course of their business. As it is, they pay the bulk of the taxes. When you tax a corporation, it cuts costs by reducing labor, and passes the tax onto YOU, the consumer. These PT Barnums tax YOU more through corporation, and then YOU believe it when they blame greedy rich people for it! Are you retarded or something?
When you institute labor laws and restrict businesses, they LEAVE. They throw up their hands and move facilities overseas, because they can no longer survive over here.
And you blame REPUBLICANS for these problems?
Back to Marx: Another pillar of communism is to confiscate the property of rebels and EMIGRANTS--so stand by.
Marx wanted the state to provide education, where the curriculum could be controlled and everybody could be raised to be unselfish good little commies with zero ambition. This is why, contrary to the constitution, education became a Federal institution. And today, you are not taught about Marx, or the Contitution, or economics, or real history. You are indoctrinated.
Obama wants to extend this through college. Aside from buying your votes, this is his agenda.
Marx believed in the collective. That's you, Mr. Worker ant. We believe in INDIVIDUAL rights. Marx didn't believe in competion, calling it destructive. We believe competition is good. The framers patterned the constitution based on natural law and human nature. Marx no doubt studied ants and bees. Grow up. We're people.
Obama regards himself as the intelligencia. He and his Comrades in the Democratic Party (and unfortunately several who infest the Republican Party as well) know what's good for you, and intend to take care of you.
They want to institute a windfall profit tax on the oil companies, like Jimmy Carter did in the seventies. Comrade Carter also instituted price-caps. The results were shortages and rationing. He also raised taxes on "the wealthy". Almost immediately, we got up over 15% unemployment. He CAPPED DOMESTIC WELLS, too, and now here we are. In fact, we'll never recover from all the damage this man did, and now you want to elect somebody who's even worse.
Do you understand this? Reagan undid this, and we rebounded, bigtime. (Remember--Federal spending is a SEPARATE issue...think with your brain.)
Social Security is Marxist. Medicare and medicaid are marxist. Public Education is marxist. Welfare too. ALL GOVERNMENT ENTITLEMENTS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Because of all this CRAP, our growth has been stifled. It's not the land-of-opportunity the framers intended. We are not as strong, and not as free.
All this CRAP makes everything you buy cost more, sucks something like 40% of the money out of free people's hands, and has all but destroyed our individualism and enterprise. Free market capitalism made us the most powerful and prosperous people on the planet, and marxism is out to destroy it. It's been under attack since the Revolution.
Free market capitalism has not caused problems. Socialism is the huge monkey-wrench in these gears, and Obama says the solution is MORE SOCIALISM are you insane?
If not for the meddling of parasites, the whole world might be free, right now.
Marx also understood that socialism couldn't compete with free market capitalism. This meant that the rest of the world needed to be socialist before true communism could be instituted. (They have substantially accomplished this everywhere but here...and have eroded us a bunch.) They don 't believe in national borders. Marxism trancends patriotism. A marxist here is more loyal to a marxist in Russia or Korea than he is to the USA.
This, along with a simple lust for personal power, is why today's Marxocratic Party has no problem crippling our economy and undermining our soldiers at war. This is the real reason why you haven't been told that the global warming theory has been discredited.
They won't drill because they reckon you are stupid enough to blame "Big Oil" and Republicans for the high oil prices. They think that, in a few more years of steady indoctrination, you'll allow the government to take over the oil industry...which will be only the first.
1: Create a Problem. 2: Blame it on capitalism and the burgoise. 3: Offer a solution.
Another element of the Marxist agenda is wealth redistribution on a worldwide scale. The UN is the tool. Wealth redistribution is integral to it, on every scale. The ultimate goal is a World Government overseen by the UN.
They will use every excuse and pretext to accomplish this. They lie and create problems, for what they percieve is a higher purpose. The scum floats to the top within their movement, and they are corrupt. They have to hide their real agenda, until the general population is better "prepared". Conservative radio is exposing them. That's what the Fairbess Doctrine is all about: silencing Radio Free America.
I don't lie. Our message has remained constant since the First Congressional Congress. Liberty, freedom, and more freedom. We don't offer separate messages to minorities, gays, or women. Our message is for everybody, because everybody is created equal, and everybody is free to pursue their own happiness.
Free market capitalism leaves your life up to you. This is the most precious thing we own, don't you understand that? It is what MADE us the land of opportunity!! Why immigrants come here and get rich, while you idiots demand more hand-outs and repeat conspiracy theories about how you're kept down and oppressed.
Somebody works 70 hrs/week, studies, risks everything, and makes some money and you say "where's MINE?" YOU HAVE BEEN INDOCTINATED! BRAINWASHED!
A free society and free enterprise is the real greatest good for the greatest number. Think with your brain. Grow up. It's almost too late.
Be careful what you wish for.
True conservatives are loyal to the founders and their constitution--as it was written and intended. The principles set forth in this document are timeless, and transcend population, technology, and societal changes. It was designed that way, by some of the smartest people who have ever lived.
True conservatives, like the founders, believe in the smallest, most limited federal government possible. In FREEDOM, LIBERTY, AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. This is the core of it: These elements are not the governments' to grant or restrict. These are enate.
Libertarians in the first continental congress attempted to end slavery. These were MY antecedents. New York and the southern colonies--the antecedents of the democratic party--threatened to withdraw and (presumably) form a separate nation over this issue. Now there would be two separate nations, slavery would continue anyway, and both might be doomed to conquest.
So the issue was tabled, and omitted.
Abolitionists--my antecedents--fought to end slavery until, finally, Abraham Lincoln was elected President. On this very day, the south ceceded, and the war began shortly thereafter.
Lincoln's actions were technicly unconstitutional, as I've heard scholars point out. But you have to understand--it was the intent of the founders to end slavery, and they were prevented from doing it by extortion. These included Jefferson and other slave-owners, by the way.
And the main constitutional issue was states rights. Do you mean to tell me, Professor, that States were meant to have the right to legalize the OWNERSHIP of people? Hey, how bout let's legalize rape and murder? No sir--it's not legal for a state to legalize an abomination.
Slavery was the singular issue in the Civil War.
And again, the antecedents of the democrats fought a war to preserve it. The cannon fodder were convinced that it was about federal oppression, but there WAS no oppression, other than the threat to slavery. We must honor their courage and motives, but in truth, they fought the North to preserve slavery, and the wealth of their "top" whatever "percent".
Once again, our beliefs remained constant and immutable, as the Constitution: Freedom is enate. NO government has the right to take it. This applies to EVERY (honest) citezen, including black ones.
After a generation of my antecedents was decimated, more of my antecedents (especially the rich ones) founded the first black schools and colleges, and provided scholarships. This was all private money, from those greedy selfish rich white people. These were the first Republicans, and they were the real ones.
Within twenty years of the end of the war, communites of former slaves and their children had established thriving communities. They HAD to, because the democrats wouldn't give them their rightful place in the broader communities.
These were farmers, blacksmiths, barbers, doctors, etc.; mostly owners of their own businesses, which formed the base of these communites. They hired their own police to protect their businesses, extending this protection to their customers (and friends). They didn't complain about the poor farmer not helping pay the bills.
They didn't need anybody's help. They were Amercans, living the dream. WE were happy for them.
Then the Democrats burned all these communities down.
The 14th amendment was passed by Republicans to tell southern democrats that if they prevented black people from voting, owning guns or property, etc. they were comitting a crime.
LBJ, obliged to get JFK's Civil Rights act passed, was blocked by democrats. Al Gore's father filibustered against it. It was the unanimous Republicans in Congress who forced this through.
LBJ also passed his own Bill: WELFARE. He had the strong support of the very people who a year before stood behind water cannons and attack dogs, and filibustered Civil Rights. The Republicans fought it.
"AHA!", you say? THINK! This bill was INTENDED to BUY your votes, and establish an exponetially-expanding base of loyal democratic DEPENDANTS. The Republicans fought it because the government has no business subsidizing a permanent under-educated underclass. This was POISON to a free society, and especially to the "beneficiaries" of the free money.
It destroyed the black family. It discouraged enterprise, competition, and achievement. It created criminals, and ghettos.
Those who fought it were the same people who wanted to educate the slaves and their children--so that they would be equipped to SUCCEED.
Well, the new Plantation worked like a charm. You fell for it.
Today, the majority of the Domocratic Party is eager to vote for Obama. Every rebuttal or question will be portrayed as a "vicious racist attack".
Idiots. True conservatives and libertarians ARE color-blind. It is YOU who are going to vote for this guy BECAUSE he is black! Because you feel guilty, or he's the same color, or it's affirmative action--whatever. It's all about race for YOU.
WE judge people by the content of their characters. Do you?
WE would prefer Colin Powell to McCain. We like Condi Rice even better. We'd go right to the WALL for Watts, Steele, or Blackwell.
Their color or sex means nothing to us. All that matters to us is their honesty, and where they intend to take this country. WE think with our brains. Logical, rational, mature, sane.
YOU, conversely, think with your hearts. None of his american terrorist or america-hating or criminal friends and mentors matter to you. His lies and flipflops don't matter either. You perform olympic-calibre mental gymnastics of rationalization to explain them all away--lying to yourselves. He's black (and promises to screw rich people and give you free stuff), and that's all that matters to you. Little freaking kids!
And he's a Marxist. You say that's just the Republican attack machine (what a joke). You have been indoctrinated. Schools don't teach about communism or Marx anymore. You haven't checked out the Communist Manifesto yoursels, and have no idea what you're talking about.
I was a communist. That doesn't matter either, does it? He's talking about sticking it to the rich and giving you free stuff. That's Marxism, and it never, ever works. It's FATAL to a free economy. Rich people provide jobs in the course of their business. As it is, they pay the bulk of the taxes. When you tax a corporation, it cuts costs by reducing labor, and passes the tax onto YOU, the consumer. These PT Barnums tax YOU more through corporation, and then YOU believe it when they blame greedy rich people for it! Are you retarded or something?
When you institute labor laws and restrict businesses, they LEAVE. They throw up their hands and move facilities overseas, because they can no longer survive over here.
And you blame REPUBLICANS for these problems?
Back to Marx: Another pillar of communism is to confiscate the property of rebels and EMIGRANTS--so stand by.
Marx wanted the state to provide education, where the curriculum could be controlled and everybody could be raised to be unselfish good little commies with zero ambition. This is why, contrary to the constitution, education became a Federal institution. And today, you are not taught about Marx, or the Contitution, or economics, or real history. You are indoctrinated.
Obama wants to extend this through college. Aside from buying your votes, this is his agenda.
Marx believed in the collective. That's you, Mr. Worker ant. We believe in INDIVIDUAL rights. Marx didn't believe in competion, calling it destructive. We believe competition is good. The framers patterned the constitution based on natural law and human nature. Marx no doubt studied ants and bees. Grow up. We're people.
Obama regards himself as the intelligencia. He and his Comrades in the Democratic Party (and unfortunately several who infest the Republican Party as well) know what's good for you, and intend to take care of you.
They want to institute a windfall profit tax on the oil companies, like Jimmy Carter did in the seventies. Comrade Carter also instituted price-caps. The results were shortages and rationing. He also raised taxes on "the wealthy". Almost immediately, we got up over 15% unemployment. He CAPPED DOMESTIC WELLS, too, and now here we are. In fact, we'll never recover from all the damage this man did, and now you want to elect somebody who's even worse.
Do you understand this? Reagan undid this, and we rebounded, bigtime. (Remember--Federal spending is a SEPARATE issue...think with your brain.)
Social Security is Marxist. Medicare and medicaid are marxist. Public Education is marxist. Welfare too. ALL GOVERNMENT ENTITLEMENTS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Because of all this CRAP, our growth has been stifled. It's not the land-of-opportunity the framers intended. We are not as strong, and not as free.
All this CRAP makes everything you buy cost more, sucks something like 40% of the money out of free people's hands, and has all but destroyed our individualism and enterprise. Free market capitalism made us the most powerful and prosperous people on the planet, and marxism is out to destroy it. It's been under attack since the Revolution.
Free market capitalism has not caused problems. Socialism is the huge monkey-wrench in these gears, and Obama says the solution is MORE SOCIALISM are you insane?
If not for the meddling of parasites, the whole world might be free, right now.
Marx also understood that socialism couldn't compete with free market capitalism. This meant that the rest of the world needed to be socialist before true communism could be instituted. (They have substantially accomplished this everywhere but here...and have eroded us a bunch.) They don 't believe in national borders. Marxism trancends patriotism. A marxist here is more loyal to a marxist in Russia or Korea than he is to the USA.
This, along with a simple lust for personal power, is why today's Marxocratic Party has no problem crippling our economy and undermining our soldiers at war. This is the real reason why you haven't been told that the global warming theory has been discredited.
They won't drill because they reckon you are stupid enough to blame "Big Oil" and Republicans for the high oil prices. They think that, in a few more years of steady indoctrination, you'll allow the government to take over the oil industry...which will be only the first.
1: Create a Problem. 2: Blame it on capitalism and the burgoise. 3: Offer a solution.
Another element of the Marxist agenda is wealth redistribution on a worldwide scale. The UN is the tool. Wealth redistribution is integral to it, on every scale. The ultimate goal is a World Government overseen by the UN.
They will use every excuse and pretext to accomplish this. They lie and create problems, for what they percieve is a higher purpose. The scum floats to the top within their movement, and they are corrupt. They have to hide their real agenda, until the general population is better "prepared". Conservative radio is exposing them. That's what the Fairbess Doctrine is all about: silencing Radio Free America.
I don't lie. Our message has remained constant since the First Congressional Congress. Liberty, freedom, and more freedom. We don't offer separate messages to minorities, gays, or women. Our message is for everybody, because everybody is created equal, and everybody is free to pursue their own happiness.
Free market capitalism leaves your life up to you. This is the most precious thing we own, don't you understand that? It is what MADE us the land of opportunity!! Why immigrants come here and get rich, while you idiots demand more hand-outs and repeat conspiracy theories about how you're kept down and oppressed.
Somebody works 70 hrs/week, studies, risks everything, and makes some money and you say "where's MINE?" YOU HAVE BEEN INDOCTINATED! BRAINWASHED!
A free society and free enterprise is the real greatest good for the greatest number. Think with your brain. Grow up. It's almost too late.
Be careful what you wish for.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Memphis, TN
This time it was Christine's driver's side wiper blade assembly. It disintegrated. And my usual coolant leak...the pressure leak from hell. Once this is fixed, the air leak from hell will be back. She hasn't got around to leaking fuel or oil. YET.
...dammit.
Anyway I also really hate Freightliner--which is why I took my Freightliner truck to Kenworth. But Freightliner screws you anyway. At 3 pm friday Freightliner's parts guy told me it was "after the deadline" to get a particular part, which is why I'm stuck here til monday afternoon.
And can I have some peace? Well, here comes this black woman knocking on my door. Oh, sorry, a friend of hers was staying here. But could she please use the john? Do I have anything else to drink? Shoes off, parked in bed. Hey I just really want to be alone and not lose my ass in the internet poker game you interrupted. No I'm married. And broke. No not a blowjob either.
JEEZ!
On the plus side, I had fallen into a regular run. Now, I'm an OTR driver and like it that way. I've been all over this country and that's cool. But THIS run is a load at Longview, TX and deliver/reload at the same plant in Spring Lake, TX, and back to the same place in Longview to repeat the process.
A thousand miles each way, early delivery not a problem, surcharge paid on every mile, and because of the combinations of weights, terrains, and speeds, I got SEVEN POINT THREE mpg's.
This, of course, is why Christine threw another damn fit. I was too happy.
Ryan is going to try to get me back on it when I come back.
Meanwhile, I've checked out a couple other options. One: I might convievably buy a truck. That's a last resort: I'm afraid that because of congress not allowing drilling and obstructing refineries (in order to engineer nationalization per Marx), our economy will be a casualty of this noble cause. Incurring a 45k debt on a commercial truck is very, very risky.
There's another company in Ohio which pays 74% of the line haul--the total charges. That would translate to nearly 1.50/mile, or half again what I earn now. Since they're OTR and other specs meet my needs, this is mighty attractive.
I dunno. Lots to think about.
Ok, now to test your Objectivity:
One rule for this: We are only concerned with employment levels and revenues to the treasury here. You are not allowed to muddy the issue with memorized talking points, or to raise any other issues. Gevernment spending has nothing to do with this.
John F Kennedy promoted a tax bill which drasticly cut capital gains and corporate taxes, and reduced top marginal rates "for the rich". The results were a drop in unemployment and a big increase in revenues to the treasury, per the IRS. You should not be running your mouth yet. This is empirical fact, so shut up.
Ronald Reagan did the same thing, with the same results. Specificly, I think the revenues increased 87%.
In the 90's, Gingrich and the Republicans won congress, and the first thing they did was to undo Clinton's tax increase. After being forced to sign the tax cut, he took credit for it. I don't care. Same results. Unemployment down, t-revenues up.
Then Bush Jr. Same results.
Are we seeing a pattern here? Please admit that the Laffer curve works, or that you are an idiot. Those are your only two choices.
Now, deficits come from spending. LBJ escalated the war in Viet Nam and launched his "Peoples' Para..." I mean, "Great Society" in which he massively increased welfare in order to estblish an exponentially expanding underclass of loyal dependant democratic voters.
Reagan rebuilt the gutted military, and Tip O'Neal increased discretionary spending by over 150% in order to undermine Reagan and buy votes. Spending outraced increased revenues.
Gingrich's congress fixed welfare and reigned in spending, for which Clinton was credited. We got a surplus.
Most recently, we were hit by 911, went to war, got hit by some of the worst natural disasters in national history, earmarks went through the roof, and Bush himself never met a spending bill he didn't like (trying to be by-partisan-he's a big brown-noser), so now we have a deficit again.
So, repeat after me: Supply-side economics works. The Laffer curve has been proven. Deficits come from spending, OR punitive tax-rates--regardless of who you want to blame.
Are we thinking clearly, with our actual brains yet? I mean, about reality?
Carter "punished the rich", (and imposed a windfall tax on "big oil") and just about destroyed the economy. Obama wants to do exactly the same thing. Congresspeople are now out of the closet, talking openly about nationalizing the oil companies. For all the damage which they KNOW this will cause, they already plan to blame the Republicans, and know that you will believe them.
I told you. I predicted all this. You thought I was nuts. Well, do you see it yet? If you don't, we're about to turn into France DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
Ah! I feel much better now. God bless what's left of America (with a "c").
...dammit.
Anyway I also really hate Freightliner--which is why I took my Freightliner truck to Kenworth. But Freightliner screws you anyway. At 3 pm friday Freightliner's parts guy told me it was "after the deadline" to get a particular part, which is why I'm stuck here til monday afternoon.
And can I have some peace? Well, here comes this black woman knocking on my door. Oh, sorry, a friend of hers was staying here. But could she please use the john? Do I have anything else to drink? Shoes off, parked in bed. Hey I just really want to be alone and not lose my ass in the internet poker game you interrupted. No I'm married. And broke. No not a blowjob either.
JEEZ!
On the plus side, I had fallen into a regular run. Now, I'm an OTR driver and like it that way. I've been all over this country and that's cool. But THIS run is a load at Longview, TX and deliver/reload at the same plant in Spring Lake, TX, and back to the same place in Longview to repeat the process.
A thousand miles each way, early delivery not a problem, surcharge paid on every mile, and because of the combinations of weights, terrains, and speeds, I got SEVEN POINT THREE mpg's.
This, of course, is why Christine threw another damn fit. I was too happy.
Ryan is going to try to get me back on it when I come back.
Meanwhile, I've checked out a couple other options. One: I might convievably buy a truck. That's a last resort: I'm afraid that because of congress not allowing drilling and obstructing refineries (in order to engineer nationalization per Marx), our economy will be a casualty of this noble cause. Incurring a 45k debt on a commercial truck is very, very risky.
There's another company in Ohio which pays 74% of the line haul--the total charges. That would translate to nearly 1.50/mile, or half again what I earn now. Since they're OTR and other specs meet my needs, this is mighty attractive.
I dunno. Lots to think about.
Ok, now to test your Objectivity:
One rule for this: We are only concerned with employment levels and revenues to the treasury here. You are not allowed to muddy the issue with memorized talking points, or to raise any other issues. Gevernment spending has nothing to do with this.
John F Kennedy promoted a tax bill which drasticly cut capital gains and corporate taxes, and reduced top marginal rates "for the rich". The results were a drop in unemployment and a big increase in revenues to the treasury, per the IRS. You should not be running your mouth yet. This is empirical fact, so shut up.
Ronald Reagan did the same thing, with the same results. Specificly, I think the revenues increased 87%.
In the 90's, Gingrich and the Republicans won congress, and the first thing they did was to undo Clinton's tax increase. After being forced to sign the tax cut, he took credit for it. I don't care. Same results. Unemployment down, t-revenues up.
Then Bush Jr. Same results.
Are we seeing a pattern here? Please admit that the Laffer curve works, or that you are an idiot. Those are your only two choices.
Now, deficits come from spending. LBJ escalated the war in Viet Nam and launched his "Peoples' Para..." I mean, "Great Society" in which he massively increased welfare in order to estblish an exponentially expanding underclass of loyal dependant democratic voters.
Reagan rebuilt the gutted military, and Tip O'Neal increased discretionary spending by over 150% in order to undermine Reagan and buy votes. Spending outraced increased revenues.
Gingrich's congress fixed welfare and reigned in spending, for which Clinton was credited. We got a surplus.
Most recently, we were hit by 911, went to war, got hit by some of the worst natural disasters in national history, earmarks went through the roof, and Bush himself never met a spending bill he didn't like (trying to be by-partisan-he's a big brown-noser), so now we have a deficit again.
So, repeat after me: Supply-side economics works. The Laffer curve has been proven. Deficits come from spending, OR punitive tax-rates--regardless of who you want to blame.
Are we thinking clearly, with our actual brains yet? I mean, about reality?
Carter "punished the rich", (and imposed a windfall tax on "big oil") and just about destroyed the economy. Obama wants to do exactly the same thing. Congresspeople are now out of the closet, talking openly about nationalizing the oil companies. For all the damage which they KNOW this will cause, they already plan to blame the Republicans, and know that you will believe them.
I told you. I predicted all this. You thought I was nuts. Well, do you see it yet? If you don't, we're about to turn into France DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
Ah! I feel much better now. God bless what's left of America (with a "c").
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