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Monday, April 4, 2016

Why Florida Is Losing Its Grip on Retirees


Money - By Dan Kadlec  7 hours ago
Where do I begin and will my post ever end?
 :-)
To start with


Why Florida Is Losing Its Grip on Retirees
A greedy Florida House of Representatives for many years.
A greedy Florida senate for many years.
A greedy governor for far too many years.
A greedy Florida States Attorney.
A puppet setup in every committee in every county in the state of Florida.
High taxes!
Low employment unless you choose to work two or three, no benefit, jobs, just to pay rent or mortgage, put food on the table.
Every roadway in the state of Florida is quickly becoming toll roads, a lot of toll!
Tens of Thousands of drunk hit and run drivers a year in the state.
No housing for the poor and middle-class.
Crime is extremely high in every county in the state of Florida.
Yet Floridians keep on sending the same greedy useless people into office!
That is just the tip of the preverbal bucket, so to speak.


Are retirees looking for their dream home in all the wrong places? Florida, which helped popularize the notion of a snowbird retirement, has the most residents age 65-plus. Yet it now ranks near the bottom of a new list of states deemed most desirable for folks contemplating retirement. Virginia tops the list, while another long-standing retirement haven, California, comes in dead last. The Midwest generally shows well.

Quality of life, including weather, is just one of six components in the calculation. The others: financial health of the state and its residents, access to healthcare, affordable and age-friendly housing, employment and education opportunities, and residents’ overall wellness. The report from LPL Financial is designed to help pre-retirees, defined as those 45-64, choose a state now that they will be happy with when they retire.

The criteria may explain why Florida comes in at No. 38. It scored poorly on housing as well as on employment and education. Incredibly, the sunshine state also scored poorly on community and quality of life, which looks beyond weather to the impact of traffic patterns and crime rates. Florida is home to 11 of the nation’s 100 most dangerous cities.

At least among pre-retirees, who may still have kids in school and 20 more years of career, the weather in retirement seems almost irrelevant. These people may change their tune when they finally get to age 66 and tire of snowstorms. But at this point their life, the research shows, South Carolina, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico clock in at Nos. 43-46, respectively, joining California as among the least attractive places to call it quits.

Arizona and Nevada scored an F in health care; New Mexico scored an F in both quality of life and employment and education. The biggest problems with California are the state’s fiscal mess, which raises the specter of more tax hikes, and its high cost of living, which translates into stratospheric real estate costs. California is home to nine of the 10 most expensive housing markets in the U.S.

Meanwhile, the upper Midwest—known for cold, snow, rain and tornadoes—is the top-ranking region. South Dakota, Wyoming and Michigan claim 2, 3, and 4, respectively. They rate average, at best, in employment opportunities and wellness. But the region has some of the best scores on financial health, quality of life and housing. Evidently there is something to be said for down-home neighborliness, a low cost of living and downright affordable housing. An average four-bedroom two-bath home in Rapid City, S.D., lists for $194,199, vs. $2.1 million in Palo Alto, Calif.

Virginia seems to have it all—it is one of 12 states with no grade lower than a C. The state was a standout in the quality of life and financial categories, helped by a high median income, low cost of living and below-average tax burden.

Financial data get the heaviest weighting in the LPL report. But if your personal finances are in excellent shape, you may still want to consider more expensive destinations, such as New York (No. 49, but has an A for health care) and California (A for quality of life). Or even Hawaii, which ranks ranks No. 41 largely because of its oppressive costs but gets straight A’s in quality of life, employment and education, and wellness.

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In the end, where you will want to live in retirement depends a lot on how well you prepare financially. It’s easy to discount warm weather and emphasize employment opportunities and low costs when you are still going into the office every day and building a nest egg. But if all that hard work pays off, and you can afford to find a safe beach somewhere at age 66, the weather just might matter after all. Only time will tell.

Mon, Apr 4, 2016

Indian River Lagoon in the news


Again!
Brevard County Organizes Clean-up Effort for Indian River Lagoon Fish Kill
ALGAE BLOOM my FOOT!

Floridians, yours truth included, have been writing about our (Indian River Lagoon) and the abuse by the government officials and their, not telling the whole truth scientist, for many years.

If you are getting media coverage about this in your area, please take a long hard look at all of the homeowners all around the Lagoon.

Each one of the houses around the lagoon has rich, green, lawns, beautiful plants and trees and right on the water.

This means chemical fertilizing, constantly sprayed on the land.

Chemical pest control constantly on the land.

Chemical weed control constantly on the land.

Making the chemical companies very rich!

Oh, by the way, each building has a septic system.

Remember the homes are right on the water.

Farms

Cows and horse farms all around the Indian River Lagoon.

Horse poop, cow poop everywhere.

Five locations inundated with dead fish because of an algae bloom in Indian River Lagoon

Will be the focus of a clean-up effort beginning today involving

Brevard County Government,

Brevard County Sheriff’s Office,

St. Johns River Waterway Management,

Keep Brevard Beautiful and citizen volunteers.

(Ted Matthews Image)


Massive fish kill has many wondering how Florida lagoon will survive

MELBOURNE, Fla. — The ides of March ushered in the worst known fish kill in Indian River Lagoon history, a watershed moment in a war to save a $3.7 billion annual economic engine.

Scientists say low levels of dissolved oxygen in the lagoon’s waters led to thousands of fish suffocating. More than 30 species in all died in the kill-off.

The same scientists believe the recent “brown tide” of algae blooming in the lagoon is responsible for the low oxygen levels.

The massive death spiral outraged the collective conscience of coastal residents, leaving many scratching their heads, pinching their noses and wondering what’s next: Dolphins? Manatees? Pelicans? A repeat of four years ago when all three died en masse?

Researchers say it likely will be years before the full impact of the fish kill is known.

500 lb grouper found dead in Florida canal.

Sunday, March 6, 2016

An Excellent Plan!


Trumps healthcare plan
An Excellent Plan!

If you are planning on voting for Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders in November, you should know about their plans for you the next four years? 

The main reason why congress, the insurance companies, the super-Pac's and their lobbyist, hate President Barrack Obama, is the fact that he, our president, has been trying, without the help of congress, to get each one of their plans in writing from congress, so that he can vote those very same plans into law!


Congress that not, is not and will never, pass those plans into a bill for any president to sign and for sure not from two male Chauvinistic Bullies!

Hillary has proven time and time again that she can and is willing to work with congress and working with her plan, the same plan as Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and our president only she can do this with a woman's finesse.

Donald Trumps 19 point plan for America and his 7 point healthcare plan are just like the plan of that

Independent, Socialist, Democratic, Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders,

"A Pie in the Sky.

read about the Donald's plans for yourself, after a few explanations as to why the plans will not float in a Vermont/ New York winter pond.

Each plan will depend on getting the millionaires and billionaires in congress to go along with the plans.

Trump comes out with extraordinary 7-point healthcare reform plan

March 6, 2016


If you read this plan and do not wonder who, what and how?

Donald Trump’s formula

19 points to make America great again.

Sell junk to Saudi Arabia, since the goods we send them are blown up anyway;

Repeal Obamacare “and replace it with something that benefits everybody”;

“Turn off that spigot” of sending money to China (in the form of debt payments) by taxing them “until they behave properly”;

Renegotiate our foreign trade deals;

Call up the head of the Ford Motor Company and tell them they are going to be taxed at 35 percent for every car coming from Mexico until they decide to nix their plant in Mexico City;

End President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration;

End border crossings from Mexico because some of those border-crossers are “rapists”;

To do that, build a “great, great wall” on the U.S.-Mexico border;

Have Mexico pay for that wall;

Don’t appoint a secretary of state who rides bikes and breaks his leg;

Avoid riding bikes himself;

Work hard on the Islamic State problem;

Stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons;

Find the General Patton or General MacArthur from within the U.S. armed forces to “make it really work” in the Middle East;

Rebuild the country's infrastructure -- “nobody can do that like me";

Create jobs -- “I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created”;

Save Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security “without cuts”;

Protect the Second Amendment;

Take the brand of the United States “and make it great again.”


It is too bad that Governor Mitt Romney is such a loser because he did 'hit the nail on the head' with his assessment of the Donald.

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Centereach New York


Welcome Centereach New York
To
Sachem Speaks
By way of
Sachem Uncas
By way of
Tahtonkah (Tah's 2nd website, about uniting our people on tripod).
Travels

In your travels on the internet to find our people, you followed us from California (Tahtonkah), to Connecticut (Uncasvillage), to our retirement home in (Central Florida), Sachemspeaks.

Relocate Congress to Guantánamo


Executive Order Relocate Congress to Guantánamo


WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—


Photograph by Pete Souza / The White House

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Making good on one of his key campaign promises, President Obama signed an executive order on Tuesday relocating the United States Congress to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

The President seemed to relish signing the order, calling the relocation a “win-win for America,” and indicating that Congress could be moved to its new headquarters “immediately.”

“We don’t envision doing any renovations to the facility down there,” he said. “It is ready to house Congress right now.”

The President did not specify what the current U.S. Capitol building would be used for in the future, but he hinted that it could be the setting for historic reënactments in the manner of Colonial Williamsburg.

“I think it could be fascinating to school groups,” he said. “It could really take them back to the olden days when it was a real, functioning place.”

Minutes after the President signed the order, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) called it “an outrage” and “grounds for impeachment,” but Obama appeared to take such howls of protest in stride.

“If Congress believes that this executive order is illegal, they can take it up with the Supreme Court,” he said. “Oh wait—we don’t have a Supreme Court.”