I am 46, single, no kids. I am a health care professional. I feel that I'm generally a very good saver and a not so good budgeter - hence the credit card debt payoff I worked through in 2020.Roughly 10 days out from the November election & it can't come soon enough.
There's a certain very popular radio personality that I l just got back to listening to in the past couple of years. I had stopped listening to him over a decade ago because I got tired of his political rants. Well with the upcoming election he can't seem to stop making comments about politics. I think I'll take a break from the show until the election is over.
One of my pet peeves in life is people who think that everyone wants to hear their political opinions all the time. I listen to him for financial advice, though I certainly don't always agree with his. It's probably more like 50-50 with this particular money guru, but I still enjoy the discussions. What I'm not interested in is hearing his political opinions.
Just vote how you want to & be quiet. I'm pretty well set on my political leanings & I only discuss politics in certain venues. Other than alluding to having some strong feelings after the 2016 election I try not to discuss politics here.
I am in a TSP group & the administrators are militant about no political posts. I love it. If there's even a hint of politics in a post it gets taken down. There's a certain group of people that get mad, but I think it keeps the focus on the group's real intent.
October 28th, 2022 at 09:25 pm 1666992305
To me, they are deeply linked.
October 29th, 2022 at 01:16 am 1667006176
What is TSP?
October 29th, 2022 at 02:30 am 1667010651
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October 29th, 2022 at 05:13 am 1667020393
Financial advice to me is almost entirely a numbers game. “Based on current tax policy doing X opposed to Y will be better for you in the long run.” Now I may have opinions on those policies, but that’s not the question at hand. When it comes to financial advice the question isn’t what the policy should be, it’s what is the best move for me to make with the policies we have today. And that’s the difference. I’m not here to get opinions on how I should vote or what laws they should be making in Washington. That’s not advice, that’s advocacy.
October 29th, 2022 at 01:51 pm 1667051500
October 29th, 2022 at 09:09 pm 1667077745
I live in Illinois and I don't know why, but somehow a group in Wisconsin has gotten my cell phone number and text me a couple times a day telling me who I should vote for. I have done the "stop to opt out", replied and said I don't live in Wisconsin so quit sending me this stuff, and to no avail, I continue to get them. I just block the number and delete it now because they aren't paying attention to anything I'm sending them.