frontline special on NY

nonchalance of suggesting another 85 billion dollars of bail out money is staggering.

you remain a hopeless jackass and we all know that you love it.

Do people realize that if we tacked tort reform we'd have 100 billion, but instead preferred to leave that for the lawyers..

rs, you must be joking? really. i think you're often not so sophisticated, but i never thought you'd take away that from my post.

hey modern: have you shut down your business yet?

speaking of sophisticated....

from modern:

"I am a small business that pays a lot of taxes. I am on the verge of saying the hell with it, closing down (more unemployment), buying tax-free munis, and relaxing. If combined Fed/NYS/NYC taxes reach 60+%, you will see me and many other small business owners say the hell with it."

so... when?

Ayn Rand frustration. The productive are frustrated.

really...do you have any idea what business modern is in? how do you know that he's productive? plus...tired of empty threats. close it down buddy.

columbiacounty
7 minutes ago
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report abuse hey modern: have you shut down your business yet?

Is that truly what you want?
You are more miserable than I thought.

make good on the threat or shut the fuck up.

you must be joking rs. the "productive" have had a slight setback. but they'll be going full steam ahead as soon as possible in emerging countries. assuming it is possible, which is a risk they elected to take.

rand would be happy. the selfish have totally sold out an entire country, that had a tremendous amount of issues, but also a tremendous amount of potential.

go selfishness. to india, and china, and brazil. and you, the successful business collective, will live with security guards behind gates because the population eventually will get off its collective asses and want to spear you with a very sharp pitchfork.

hey, shhhhhh, no need to get all worked up. Tomorrow will be another miserable day for you and you can rant and hate again. shhhh baby shhhh

The 40 year old Columbia grad with a failing personal training business, her mom paying her bills and a newborn baby at home...I didn't notice a baby in the parlor. I wonder if mom is taking care of it or if she hired a nanny? You know the recession's still on when Manhattan beauty parlors are filled with screaming, unattended children, after the nannies are let go. I also wonder what percent of the economy has been parents spending on their children given that 2007 was an all time high for births in the US. And how much real estate business was people with growing families.

aboutready, how can you call other people selfish.

You don't work
You need your landlord to replace your toilet seat that you broke
You want damages from your landlord but you were not harmed
You don't work

by the way, this population with its pitchforks, will it also go after your husband the corporate contracts lawyer (partner) at a big NYC firm?

Because she feels bad for people.

ok...gotcha...you're all of this posters. you are one sick fuck.

go selfishness. to india, and china, and brazil. and you, the successful business collective, will live with security guards behind gates because the population eventually will get off its collective asses and want to spear you with a very sharp pitchfork.

An engineer comes to the U.S. from India, china or Brazil and they are selfish? These people are our future, and the money that funds the NYC economy.

tell us something about your own contribution.

yes, columbiacounty, we know how aboutready takes from society but we don't know how you take or contribute, can you give us a hint of which direction you prefer?

Thanks!

rs: how come every time i ask you a question you respond with your other identity?

hey, hsf and rs, what do you do? have you shared? any honesty there?

80sman, interesting question. i'll freely confess here that our daughter will have no difficulties in the money department although the money will be very tightly controlled (interesting, many people seem to have more issues with the control than the fact that she'll get money, you just can't win with negative people).

so she'll be one of the ones who likely inherits or receives a property. but, having provided those caveats because i'll get slammed for them, births were down i read 10% from 2006 to 2008. i'm sorry, i can't find the source, but i very clearly recall the figure. hugely important. but how it will play out will be quite interesting.

You are unemployed (technically not in the workforce), how can you even be in a position to ask that question?

"you just can't win with negative people"

Crazy isn't it? How are your Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve dinners with your brother columbiacounty? Holidays are coming up!

hsf, you are one dumb fuck. let's talk about household income, shall we? only 65% or so of the workforce is employed. your knowledge of employment issues is so simplistic.

again, what do you do? what do you add? why can't you share some simple details of your life? are you ashamed?

"hsf, you are one dumb fuck."
Actually I'd put myself up against you any day. And I'm quite aware of where you got your free undergraduate education that you seem to have no use for or inclination to repay.

let's talk about household income, shall we?
Sure, you go first.

"only 65% or so of the workforce is employed. your knowledge of employment issues is so simplistic."
I know I'm well employed. I know you don't even try to work.

"again, what do you do? what do you add? why can't you share some simple details of your life? are you ashamed?"
The problem is that you have no shame. One week ago we had no idea you had so many encounters with toilets and plungers, and this week we know WAY too much.

Aboutready "In 2007, the number of births in the United States broke a 50-year-old record high, set during the baby boom. [And subsequently declined in 2008]"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/us/07births.html

I was thinking about what happens to the parents who started a family once the money started rolling in (including rising real estate values) and now are looking at a serious cash crunch. The 19-year old in the Frontline episode looked especially pissed to be going to a city college and not having money for the stuff she wanted.

Maybe I'm jaded having spent so much time with Wall Street types who openly admit to having lots of children as a sign of how much money they're making. If the child's birth is tied to family finances then that kid is in for one hell of a ride...

By the way, right now am I amusing you or boring you?

riversider.

rs, they're not going to continue to come here. multi-national companies will go there, and they'll insist that our employees go overseas to keep their jobs. our educational and health care systems are a joke. why wouldn't you relocate most of your business overseas? and they already are.

long live rand. selfishness is grand.

Oh columbia, you are funny, Riversider is the 5th person you or aboutready has accused me of being just this weekend.

Do you really think that only one person thinks you are a miserable jackass?

And isn't "miserable jackass" actually a compliment to you?

yep...its riversider. interesting.

makes sense.

80sman, i know those figures. so just try to get your head around a 10% decrease between 2006 and 2009.

and i agree with you. what a sad life we lead when people need to procreate just to show that they are able to support them. although i don't think this is necessarily anything new among the upper class in NYC. what i do think is something new is the condition the middle to upper middle class is in. but there hasn't been enough press or statistics yet about this. we'll see.

Our Toilet Seat Lady, a new topic you are angry about, interesting.

riversider, you poor suck fuck.

columbiacounty "riversider, you poor suck fuck."

columbia, close the Craigslist Erotic Services section when you post on Streeteasy

so sad. i really thought hsf had been around for awhile. but he/she continually shows a lack of knowledge about what i've been concerned about, despite the rabid effort to follow me. demographics are one of my consistent themes, and have been for at least two years on this board.

HAVE YOU ANSWERED A SINGLE F'NG QUESTION? NO. so, by default, as you've been given plenty of opportunity, you're deemed useless.

useless? I thought I was amusing. Hmm, maybe I should change tack

By the way aboutready Our Lady of the Toilet Seat Welfare Queen, your "consistent theme" of demographics. Is that to justify only one child, no employment, and your landlord is to blame?

yes. please change tack. there are any interesting threads on SE and they keep getting hijacked. it is one thing when they are amusing, but when they are repetitive, it is more than boring. pity if SE posts fell off the cliff like the economy --- but it is the same risk.

I thought this ceased to be interesting on the second post when columbiacounty lied and said he was speechless.

and you think you had nothing to do with boring, repetitive posts?

amusing but useless. unlike ford and the pinto, the cost benefit analysis is more accurately listing against your presence in my on-line life. have fun. since you haven't proven otherwise, your obsession with me seems to be a full-time career for you. i hope that you'll find some other outlet. you NEED help. really. rather badly.

Thanks, is that your Yale BA in Psychology speaking?

see. a boring oft repeated post on numerous threads. AR: is this a spurned lover or a really horrifying karmic blowback situation?

Choice B

yes it is. get help. your anger and anti-social behavior need help. get it. this is not an argument, like rs and i have. this is an obsession. and it's unhealthy. i don't know why you are such a pit bull full of anger, get help.

Wait, I thought I was riversider.

By the way, what makes you social? Can't hold down a job. Argue over your toilet seat. Want money from your landlord even though nothing bad happened to you.

And to call me a pit bull full of anger ... how many people did you curse at today? Seriously, is it possible to count? Try it and get back to me who is full of anger.

While you are reviewing your posts, check your brother columbiacounty's and give him his own tally.

the fact that you admit to choice B indeed means that you need help. this thread is now dead to me and I hope to others who are saddened that an interesting thread has collapsed due to a venomous poster.

Yes, one among many

Yes, one among many.

apt23, i dont think i've gathered that much bad karma. maybe i was stalin in a prior life and i don't know it?

my past lovers generally still like me, so that would not be an obvious source. although i did leave a few in the dust, but they certainly wouldn't recognize me here.

That says it all. Says it all. Goodbye

My last post was directed at hfs. not AR. and finally, goodnight.

How nice, you two can hang out tomorrow and plot how you can take what you are not entitled to.

get help. now.

What is the # of the people you use?

i don't have anyone. but i can certainly find you a referral. let me know.

Go for it.

Green Acres is the place to be
Farm livin' is the life for me
Land spreadin' out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan just give
me that countryside

New York is where I'd rather stay
I get allergic smelling hay
I just adore a penthouse view
Darling I love you but give me Park Avenue

The chores, the stores
Fresh air, Times Square

You are my wife
Goodbye city life
Green Acres we are here

"Raising taxes in NY will short term increase revenues but longer term will cause an exodus and fewer jobs."

Perhaps the answer is less people in NY, CA, Fl...... and more people in Kansas on free lots? (perhaps only partly joking)

The Rich are highly mobile. Raise taxes enough and they will avoid them. The poor by definition do not pay taxes. So we're talking the middle class. Seems obious the answer is to lower taxes, but that's how the legislature gains favor, by handing out other people's money to gain political favor, so I am not hopeful.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/11/debt-stress-in-middle-class-america-revisited.html

sure says it all. hope that people here read this.

interesting link. Reminds me of that recent thread we had about the people living in the projects.

It's a shame that you have to be dirt poor in order to qualify for medicaid and other assistance. Maybe if it was easier to get public assistance for housing, foor, or healthcare, more people wouldn't end up becoming poor and/or staying poor in nyc.

Another example of AR posting an article and CC immediately commenting on its validity...this is getting more obvious by the day

you on crack, apt_boy? we're both profane, and we care about some of the same issues, but i'm clearly female and he's clearly not. but think what you want.

This front line keeps me thinking...

http://www.lowerycustomcarpentry.com/products/frontline_plus_dog.jpg

aboutready
about 4 weeks ago
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you on crack, apt_boy? we're both profane, and we care about some of the same issues, but i'm clearly female and he's clearly not. but think what you want.

i watched this last night on my DVR....DEPRESSING to say the least....esp since im approaching 50 and my company aint doing so well.......meanwhile....all the apts in murray hill that i looked at since summer have SOLD.......people are still buying.....i wonder if these apts will ever fall like those homes in florida that lost 50% of their value.......the story of that woman who purchased a home in 2006 at the peak thinking it was a great investment is SAD.....she lost over 50% of her value.....is that possible here????

Mhillqt - that apartment at 35 Park closed at $535,000, so I gueess it was a good thing for the sellers that you walked away.

Yes I noticed........it was good for them since i was going to get it at a much lower price....

hf-scumm, you bumped this thread why exactly?

To comment on the Frontline piece?

Or to share details of your personal life ... namely that you're obsessed with aboutready and are willing to bore an entire discussion board with your stalking behavior?

Kindly contact SE and have them deactivate all of your accounts and delete all of your posts.

Hello hfs.

looks like hfs threads are all gone. what a shame.

"Do people realize that if we tacked tort reform we'd have 100 billion, but instead preferred to leave that for the lawyers.."

But then what would they use to buy off all the politicians?

columbiacounty, I'm unclear what you mean.

Did you mean that all threads about me are gone:
- http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/16553-hfscomm1-is-incompetent-and-i-have-proof
- http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/16114-hfscomm1-is-actually-riversider

or did you mean that all threads that I created are gone:
- http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/16531-inspiring-thanksgiving-day-parade-injury-story-sure-to-upset-aboutready

or did you mean that my posts from the http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/16554-hfscomm1-is-a-liar thread are all gone, like:
-Rhino, do you think you are better than everyone because you know how to do an NPV calculation and can punch people who can't?
Or is it the opposite, you need to mask the fact that you got beat on streeteasy by a "gay translating accountant" and had what seemed to be described by others at the time as a complete shameful meltdown.
Big old meathead Rhino melting down. What would coach say?

or
-aboutready, I suck and I'm well-linked to you in steeteasy readers' minds. People read your posts and they also think hfscomm1 and they think toilet seat (and toilet plunger) and they think the unemployed lady who wants money for nothing and they think the woman who sacrifices her daughter's privacy.
and they think about 230 pounds of piss and vinegar.

or
-Why is it wrong for me to chase aboutready regarding her toilet seat woes, which are representative of her generally repugnant attitude towards property owners and landlords in the city and her own entitlements and failure to contribute to our society? But, it's ok for her pal columbiacounty to chase around other posters reflexively calling them liars or asking repeatedly if they have a flat screen TV coming out of their ass? http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/12009-lic-total-joke. Aboutready gently describes columbiacounty as someone who "cc gets a bit angry" http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/16649-one-in-four-borrowers-is-underwater-the-role-of-realtors

or
-As for your "sarcasm." Nice try. No evidence whatsoever of sarcasm. None.
In fact, just the opposite. This supposed sarcasm might have some credibility if you weren't demanding treble punitive money damages from your landlord for DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG TO YOU. Explain why after your sarcastic point you then continued on to make statements that effectively supported the position?
Plus, explain to us one more time why you don't work, honestly that was the most lawyered up convoluted answer - I have to give you credit: "i fit in as a person in a household which makes a certain amount of money that makes it very cost ineffective for me to work in a traditional sense."

its back.

What was it that mimi said about you stalking 24 hours a day?

Oh, here it is:
mimi
God, do you do this in other forums? Look for the self righteous and arrogant and stalk them 24 hours a day? Can you see how sick is this ? You might sound just trivial, but you are a psycho. You just want people feel bad, that makes you feel good.

Oh, wait, that was about me. Well, kind of hard to distinguish us from that point of view, my bad.

why are you so interested in pretending you're me?

you despise me....yet, you want to be me?

That's right, the conflict is tearing me apart.

don't feed the troll
don't reinforce negativity
don't engage the darkness
pray that his soul will open to the light

Agreed dwell. Ommmmmmmm.

mimi, where are you?

hi hfscomm1

did you get columbiacounty's permission before posting?

ph41, do you agree?

hi hfscomm1

hey, what time is the van coming in the morning?

hi hfscomm1

hi hfscomm1

call you in 10

hi hfscomm1

Hi hfs

Hi mimi,

yes, ommmm. I see why people pray for their adversaries; it's because one's adversaries are often stuck in darkness & negativity, which, imo, is what we have here: a tormented soul in pain who afflicts pain on others. I know it sounds new agey & BS, but I think it's true. Send light & prayers to the afflicted, but send me cash!!!!!