they also can rent out their house for the week for big bucks.

driving by, you'd never know a world class golf course is right next to you, it is weird.

awesome place.

(04-06-2009 10:34 PM)GGniner Wrote:  they also can rent out their house for the week for big bucks.

Not this year. Houses in my neighborhood brought in from 9K-25K. This year, most houses didn't rent. My friends rented theirs to the UPS execs for 25K, but their house is about 11K sq ft with a damn elevator. Most of the other homes that normally rent are inhabited by the people that actually own them. ....including mine. Homes my size only get about 9K. I have seen some pull in 20K, but they come with badges. It sucks to be an Augustan right now. I, personally, can take it as I don't rely on it. I feel for those people that make less that cater, drive vans as chauffeurs, clean the rental homes, etc. Those people really look forward to this time of year.

It would be awesome if the first Female member to Augusta National was Sarah Palin

about a guarantee that Martha Burk isn't a fan of a real feminist like Palin.

(04-06-2009 10:45 PM)Rebel Wrote:  

(04-06-2009 10:34 PM)GGniner Wrote:  they also can rent out their house for the week for big bucks.

Not this year. Houses in my neighborhood brought in from 9K-25K. This year, most houses didn't rent. My friends rented theirs to the UPS execs for 25K, but their house is about 11K sq ft with a damn elevator. Most of the other homes that normally rent are inhabited by the people that actually own them. ....including mine. Homes my size only get about 9K. I have seen some pull in 20K, but they come with badges. It sucks to be an Augustan right now. I, personally, can take it as I don't rely on it. I feel for those people that make less that cater, drive vans as chauffeurs, clean the rental homes, etc. Those people really look forward to this time of year.

dang didnt realized you lived that close. Guess you have your house paid for if been there for awhile, thanks to the tourney.

I knew some people in Pinehurst, they knew people that lived on #2 who were getting over $100k for the week of the US Open when it was there.

(04-06-2009 10:49 PM)GGniner Wrote:  dang didnt realized you lived that close. Guess you have your house paid for if been there for awhile, thanks to the tourney.

I knew some people in Pinehurst, they knew people that lived on #2 who were getting over $100k for the week of the US Open when it was there.

Most people that rent, rent in Jones Creek, West Lake, Jones Creek Plantation (My sub), Barrington, and other subdivisions within 5 miles from me. I'm 8 miles from ANGC.

(04-06-2009 10:26 PM)GGniner Wrote:  I remember Bobby Jones golf shirts costing retail(over $100) w/masters logo on it.

I paid 148.00 for a Bobby Jones at the 101st US Open at Southern Hills.

(04-06-2009 07:01 PM)Paul M Wrote:  

(04-06-2009 03:04 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  

(04-06-2009 02:08 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(04-06-2009 07:59 AM)Paul M Wrote:  I think thats an artichoke.

Rob, he's talking about the community makes no money during the Masters if no one shows up to spend. People who depend on that infusion of money. You just never get it. If the rich suffer, everyone suffers.

Quote:"investments"(ie worthless paper instead of actual physical things) not expanding businesses and hiring people.

Jeez, your amazing. What do you think companies use to expand businesses and hire people? Investment capital i.e. your "worthless paper".

CEO's personal money tends to go into bank accounts(after they stimulated the economy-in Mexico- buy buying 2 million dollar plus houses which were built by Jose and Jesus(no, not the Bible Jesus)) and worthless paper.

Ok, so what do you think the banks do w/ it? Just keep it in some chamber guarded by goblins?

Wouldn't surprise me if he responded "yes".

I was going to say invest in China so you basically correct.

(04-06-2009 02:50 PM)Rebel Wrote:  

(04-06-2009 02:14 PM)RobertN Wrote:  Actually, what I would see is billionare CEO's, multi-million dollar golfers and a bunch of dressed up rednecks working the snack bars. Sounds like heaven to me.

....and this ******* is why I appear so damn anti-yankee.

Good to know I can still get under your skin. Btw, maybe if the city tried to become diverse(I know that word scares you) with all kinds of businesses instead of having to rely on one golf outing for it to survive.

(04-07-2009 02:49 AM)RobertN Wrote:  

(04-06-2009 07:01 PM)Paul M Wrote:  

(04-06-2009 03:04 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  Ok, so what do you think the banks do w/ it? Just keep it in some chamber guarded by goblins?

Wouldn't surprise me if he responded "yes".

I was going to say invest in China so you basically correct.

Umm.. Rob, you don't understand much about how things work, do you?

The net flow of investment capital is FROM China TO us, not vice versa. We send them money to pay for our imports, and that money pretty much completes the cycle when China invests in the US--and buys our debt. It simply is not physically--or fiscally--possible for things to work the way you imply. True, the banks loan lots of money in the form of credit cards, which people use to go to Wal-Mart and buy electronics that were made in China, so that money ends up in China, but not in the form of investment.

There are two ways out of this situation.
1. We revitalize American industry, in particular our value-added components, and ramp up our exports--either to China or elsewhere--sufficiently to balance our trade, pay off our debts, and we become increasingly prosperous.
2. We discourage the money we spend on imports from coming back as investment by adopting tax and regulatory policies that are less favorable to investors, the cash flow becomes a net drain as the world bleeds us of our wealth, and we go ever further in debt that we cannot repay, until we become Zimbabwe.

Which path do you think Obama has us on, and why?

For the record, I'd say it's the same path Shrub had us on.

(04-07-2009 02:52 AM)RobertN Wrote:  Good to know I can still get under your skin. Btw, maybe if the city tried to become diverse(I know that word scares you) with all kinds of businesses instead of having to rely on one golf outing for it to survive.

Who says that's all we rely on? We have a 4000-personnel NSA Complex, Eisenhower Army Medical Center (SE Regional Medical Command), 2 VA's, the only public medical school in Georgia, Savannah River Site, Club Car, EZGO, P&G, Fort Gordon, Augusta State University, Doctors Hospital (including the Joseph M. Still Burn Facility which recently treated Travis Barker), and an equine industry that brings in millions.

This metropolitan area has over a half a million people, Robert. BTW, care to explain why some of those norther "diverse" cities ARE failing?

(04-07-2009 07:38 AM)Rebel Wrote:  

(04-07-2009 02:52 AM)RobertN Wrote:  Good to know I can still get under your skin. Btw, maybe if the city tried to become diverse(I know that word scares you) with all kinds of businesses instead of having to rely on one golf outing for it to survive.

Who says that's all we rely on? We have a 4000-personnel NSA Complex, Eisenhower Army Medical Center (SE Regional Medical Command), 2 VA's, the only public medical school in Georgia, Savannah River Site, Club Car, EZGO, P&G, Fort Gordon, Augusta State University, Doctors Hospital (including the Joseph M. Still Burn Facility which recently treated Travis Barker), and an equine industry that brings in millions.
This metropolitan area has over a half a million people, Robert. BTW, care to explain why some of those norther "diverse" cities ARE failing?

There you go, confusing the situation by adding facts.
Don't you know that Robert likes nice, neat statements that fit his prejudices?
Facts are nasty things that get in the way of opinions.

(04-07-2009 02:52 AM)RobertN Wrote:  

(04-06-2009 02:50 PM)Rebel Wrote:  

(04-06-2009 02:14 PM)RobertN Wrote:  Actually, what I would see is billionare CEO's, multi-million dollar golfers and a bunch of dressed up rednecks working the snack bars. Sounds like heaven to me.

....and this ******* is why I appear so damn anti-yankee.

Good to know I can still get under your skin. Btw, maybe if the city tried to become diverse(I know that word scares you) with all kinds of businesses instead of having to rely on one golf outing for it to survive.

Got any good examples?

http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/06/most-mi...ities.html

http://midwest.chicagofedblogs.org/