Monday, December 31, 2012

How Much Money Does The U.S. Government Give to the poor?

How Much Money Does The  U.S. Government Give to the poor?

IRS estimated that in 2009 the Earned Income Tax Credit lifted nearly $7 million people out of poverty.

Nationwide in 2012, close to 26.5 million received nearly $60.7 billion in EITC for the 2011 tax year.

$2,290.00 per person.

Total annual cost of food stamp program in 2012: $71,800,000,000.

Number of Americans using the food stamp program in 2012: 46,670,373

$1.725.00 per person

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Relation between interest on the public debt and money lost by companies

Relation between interest on  the public debt and money lost by companies

Ten percent of FORTUNE 500 companies  lost money last year.

The total amount of money these companies lost was 5.6 billions.

Budgeted net interest on the public debt was approximately $251 billion.

Fortune 500 generated nearly $10.8 trillion in total revenues last year and $824.5 billion in earnings (7.6%).

U.S. nominal GDP was estimated to be $15.8 trillion in 2012.


Saturday, December 29, 2012

Gun control and subway train control.

Gun control and subway train control.

A woman accused of pushing a man to his death in front of a speeding subway train in Queens  has been charged with murder as a hate crime on  December 22nd.

It was the second such attack in New York City in less than a month.

“It’s unbelievable, and it only happens in America, and it happens again and again,”
 "We are killing each other, and we are the only industrialized nation doing it."
Mayor Bloomberg said on December 17th , describing a mass shooting
at a Connecticut elementary school.

Friday, December 28, 2012

Why To Pay Social Security Is Not The Investment You Think It Is

Why To Pay Social Security Is Not The Investment You Think It Is

If your social security benefits are the only income you receive, then they will not be taxed.

If you are a single filers and your  income is more than $34,000  a taxable rate of 85% will be applied to benefits received.

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Number of atheists or agnostics in U.S.

Acording a Pew poll only a 20% of Americans  identify themselves as  having no religious affiliation.

53% of Canadians believe in God.

35% of people in France are atheist or agnostic,  45% in South Korea and 84% in Estonia.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Total retirement assets of US government versus total U.S. retirement assets

Total retirement assets of US government versus total U.S. retirement assets

Total U.S. retirement assets were $17.5 trillion in Fourth Quarter 2010.

The Investment Fund (G Fund) of the Federal Employees’ Retirement System Thrift Savings Plan
has balance approximately of $156 billion.

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Home robbery per capita

Home robbery per capita

Home Robbery Per Capita Statistics (most recent)

California 70,968

=0.0018 home robberies per capita

Spain 425,000

=0.0090  home robberies per capita

Belgium 211,000

=0.0200  home robberies per capita

U.S. 447,403

=0.0013   home robberies per capita

Baja California  15,035

=0.0050 home robberies per capita

 Arizona 9,226

=0.0014 home robberies per capita

 Wyoming 72

=0.0001  home robberies per capita

Friday, December 21, 2012

Why Inequality Will Save Us | Why Innovation Will Save Us.

From 1993 to 2008, income growth among the bottom 99% of earners was 0.5 points slower than the economy's overall growth rate.

Incomes of Top 1% Increased 275% Between 1979-2007

Three-fifths of all income growth from 1979-2007 went to the top 1%.

According the CBO most of the gains in income of the 1% have come from employment and business income, not dividends, interest, and capital gains.

Technology has made highly educated and talented people more valuable, by creating jobs that demand their talents and allow them to manage larger, more-complex activities, while
it has made less-skilled people less valuable.

What happen if you place one TSA employees in each public school?

There are 58,401 employees of the TSA.

There are 23,200  public schools in the nation.

 The estimated total number of guns held by  civilians in the United States is 270,000,000

In the first seven months of the year, TSA agents seized 821 guns, rifles and pistols, which were discovered
in carry-on luggage.

What happen if you place one TSA employee in each public school?

The disappearance of the middle class in the developed countries

According to the intelligence assessmen of the National Intelligence Council, one  of the most important trends over the coming  two decades will be the growth of the middle class, which “will become the most important social and economic sector in the vast majority of countries  around the world”.

According to my intelligence assessment one of the most important trends over the coming two decades will be the disappearance of the middle class in the developed countries which shall be substituted by an unknown new "sophisticated" welfare-society class under the umbrella  of a big bureaucratic government
in which success, creation and  talent will be punished.

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

What is success?

Success is keeping your independence forever.

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Per capita money income in cities with shootings


Per capita money income in the past 12 months  (2011 dollars) , 2007-2011 :

U.S.: $27,915

Newtown, Connecticut:    $48,922     
Portland, Oregon :  $30,631
Oak Creek, Wisconsin:  $30,235
Aurora, Colorado :   $24,257
Oakland, California : $31,675
Binghamton, New York: $20,951
Fort Hood , Texas : $15,203       
Blacksburg, Virginia : $17,899   
Brookfield, Wisconsin: $45,317   
Atlanta,Georgia : $35,884
Columbine,Colorado :  $38,203
   


Source: United States Census Bureau

Saturday, December 15, 2012

The killer who killed 20 children

The suspected gunman’s parents divorced in 2009 when he was 17 years old.

His former grandmother said she remembered Adam  as a young child but didn’t know him as a teenager.

His parents had separated “years” before they divorced, she said.

The suspected gunman was a “socially awkward” teenager, a neighbor said.

The suspected gunman was kind of a loner and shy, a neighbor said.

His former grandmother ex-husband, who died in 2010, was a widower when she met him, with children and grandchildren of his own.

They married  in the 1990s and divorced in 2001, she said.



Thursday, December 13, 2012

Our politicians have a hard time to figure out how it's working.

Start ups have a loss making initial development without any access to bank loans, they have many founders vs one owner, have many shareholders (founders, friends & family, angels, VCs…) vs a few. Our politicians, who are mainly civil servants or doctors and lawyers, are far away from the startup scene and have a hard time to figure out how it's working.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

How Much Money Has the Fed Printed?



 At $85 billion a month, the Fed's balance sheet will  keep growing from its current $2.9 trillion, heading toward $4 trillion by the end of the year 2013. Four years ago it was less than $1 trillion.

Who works in U.S.A.?

 Who works in U.S.A.?       
       
Today total population in    U.S. 314,930,258   
       
Persons under 18 years in U.S.    72,433,959   
Public sector employees in U.S.    20,540,000   
Private sector employees in U.S.    104,347,000   
Number of retired people in U.S.    62,067,000   
Involuntary part-time workers in U.S.    8,200,000   
Unemployed in U.S.    11,970,000   
 Illegal immigrants in U.S.    11,125,000   
Armed Forces in U.S.    2,914,000   
Self employed in U.S.    14,460,000   
 Total:   308,056,959   

Monday, December 10, 2012

Why living standards will go down and inequality will go up in America in the next 30 years?

Why living standards will go down and inequality will go up in America in the next 30 years?

Because the difference between the the pensions and retirement  savings that American households ages 32-64 have today and what they should have today to maintain their living standards in retirement is $6.6 trillion based on the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Why Charitable Giving is a tax deduction?

Why Charitable Giving is a tax deduction?

Why the complete elimination of the charitable deduction has not been achieved?

Because it is the main tax break employed by Warren Buffett and other wealthy taxpayers.

Total giving to charitable organizations and foundations was $298.42 billion in 2011 (about 2% of GDP) , 90% given by individuals (because corporations have better tax breakers).

Saturday, December 8, 2012

God bless the printing money machine

God bless the printing money machine

Benefits for not working:

Food stamps:

 45.8 million people,  15% of the U.S. population
 Average food stamp benefit was $133.80 monthly per person
Total full-year cost = 73,536,480,000

Disability payments:

10.7 million people
The average  monthly benefit payment was $1,190
Total full-year cost = 152,796,000,000

Unemployment insurance:

The total number of people claiming
 benefits in all programs for the week
ending November 17 was 4,959,240
 The average weekly benefit payment was $376.  
Total full-year cost= 95,931,538,560

Benefits for not working
are increasing the incentive not to work.


Number of Social Security Beneficiaries
55,404,480

The average monthly Social Security benefit
 for a retired worker was about $1,230 at the
beginning of 2012.

Total full-year cost =817,770,124,800

Friday, December 7, 2012

How to move back 15,001 years

Environment and Energy Minister Delphine Batho wants all the lights in shop windows, offices and storefronts  across France to be turned off between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m.

Prehistoric people used  lamps to illuminate surroundings.

Hundreds of these lamps  have been found in the Lascaux caves in modern day France, dating to about 15,000 years ago.

Environment and Energy Minister Delphine Batho wants to move back 15,001 years

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Average salary in Long Beach port versus average salary in China.

Average salary in Long Beach port versus average salary in China.


Clerical workers in Los Angeles, Long Beach ports make an average base salary of $87,000 a year.

When vacation, pension and other benefits are  factored in, their annual  compensation package reached $165,000 a year.

Port of Los Angeles received from China imports valued at$110,517,865,053 in 2010 (more than 50% of total imports).

Average Salary in the Manufacturing Sector in China is $ 134   monthly.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

What do you need to finance the welfare state?

What do you need to finance the welfare state?

There is no way to finance the welfare state with taxes and public debt.

In order to finance the welfare state you need the printing money machine.

And the money printed for that machine must be the  reserve currency of the world.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

What is the human capacity to be lazy, fat, uneducated, homeless, smoker and whatever you want to be and to pay the price for it?

 It is freedom.

Freedom is the human capacity to be lazy, fat, uneducated, homeless, smoker  and whatever you want to be and to pay the price for it.

Monday, December 3, 2012

Why university is not a good investment

Why  university is not a good investment.


Two-thirds higher education of graduates now take out loans.

9.1% of borrowers in 2011 had defaulted on their federal student loans within two  years of graduating. 

3% of US GDP is spent  in higher education.

Coursera and Udacity are free.

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Elites and bureaucrats are the middlemen in the transfer of resources from the tax payer to the poor

Elites and bureaucrats are the middlemen  in the transfer of resources from the tax payer to the poor and vulnerable and the cut that elites and bureaucrats are taking for their job is becoming bigger and bigger.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Liberty creates more inequality.

People vote indicates a belief, or a whim, but not a  choice.

Economic growth is needed to improve the well-being of the poor,  and economic growth means instability.

People who cannot govern their own lives cannot afford nothing unpredictable.

Liberty  creates more inequality.

Entitlements are becoming the modern social injustice.