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The Secret To Making Lots Of Money Without Working.
This is not an infomercial on buying homes for no money down, investing in stock options, or the procedure on starting an internet business. Frankly, obtaining 100 credit cards to use the maximum cash out credit to buy a house wreck to fix and flip, or second mortgaging your home to buy thousands of stock option contracts for high returns is way too risky for me.
I’m here to tell you about a great way to earn over 6 figures for hardly ever working and my advice is risk free! Actually, it’s not really a secret as the blog title implies. Any American can do it as long as they are over the age of 25 (some states require just being 21)
Here’s the plan: Run for Federal Office!
Let’s start with getting there. Why risk your own capital when you can solicit others to donate to your campaign? When your funds start running low, reserve several 5 star restaurants, invite high roller donators and request thousands of dollars a plate to replenish your stake. Eat good, drink top shelf and stay at the best hotels while travelling all over your state using other people’s money. As your campaign flourishes, more people, even major companies will want to give you money. You might have to promise them a couple of favors after you get elected but they will always take care of you as long as you play ball. Maybe you can get some free home improvements, company stocks or acres of real estate. What’s the big deal about getting invited to a Hawaiian resort to play a few rounds of golf and dining at the islands best Luau with a couple of pharmaceutical company big-wigs? They just want to help you enjoy life for only a few little favors later on. Sadly, if your path to the Capitol starts to wane and your opponent looks like the victor, don’t worry as he or she will have dinner parties to help raise enough money to pay off your debt. But why be pessimistic? You’re going to win and when you do WHOOHOO!
How long is the gig and what are your responsibilities?
A two year term for congress or a six year stint for senate with no term limits and if you fake out the public they will keep you in office forever. You will do nothing, lay low and never have to show up to vote. Once in a while you may have to splutter a useless soliloquy in the Capitol Rotunda while C-Span broadcasts the event to its audience of 3. You can dance, fart and boogie down without a care in the world as nobody will be in the hall to watch you. Another cool part of the job is causing gridlock and dissention. How much fun will that be? Watching your fellow co-workers yelling and blaming each other over nothing is really cool especially if you’ve started the disagreement.
What’s the pay and benefits for this job? How much vacation time do I get?
The current salary (2008) for rank-and-file members of the House and Senate is $169,300 per year including medical and dental coverage. Time off includes about a week off for President's Day, a week for Memorial Day, a week for July 4 and two more weeks in April, the entire month of August and the week around Labor Day, New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day and Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas and personal vacation time of course. Per Diem is for 3 days because that’s how long your work week will be. Best case scenario, you will have to do nothing for only 120 days a year.
CliffyWorld's hero of the month is Congressman Dan Lungren from California's 3rd District.
Lungren lambasted the Congressional Majority for doing nothing to increase American energy production in the face of record gasoline prices. ‘Don’t Just Sit There, Do Something’ Lungren yelled.
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China is progressing in their quest for energy and helping their oil companies expand, while the US threatens their oil companies and makes it more attractive to invest outside the country. And of course, the US Corn-ethanol program is a fiasco that increases starvation around the world and is Energy-negative. The Environuts have stifled coal and nuclear. Wind, solar and other methods to produce energy are adjuncts but will not be enough to offset the coming supply problems in crude, or even natural gas, which will be increasingly sent to Asia and Europe because THEY are willing the bid the highest for it.
And there are significant problems in actual crude production/exploration capacity in the US so that ANY increase in exploration and development is retarded by the lack of trained manpower, pipe, rigs, and many more supplies needed by E&P companies.
I know, I specialize in this industry.
But most Americans are focused on oil prices and know little about economics or the petroleum business, which is worldwide. They also still seem to think that the US is the big dog in the world, when it no longer is, except in terms of military power...which we have seen being counterproductive in obtaining more supply of crude or friends.
Regrettably the people in the US have the Congress and President they elected and deserve. And until the people are worried about having enough energy, other countries will pay the price and they will be the ones that will be able to fill up their new cars, while more and more Americans will be forced to no longer own a car. Major E&P projects have normally taken 7 years to develop, so oil companies take a longterm view. The time to have acted was 5+ years ago to have gotten any benefit soon. The idiots that blocked action 5 years ago are the same ones who now say that it isn't necessary to do anything now because the effect won't be felt for 10 years. Anyone who buys this argument should be among the first to give up their "ration card" because ration cards are the logical outgrowth of policy that focuses on today and neglects tomorrow.
Price rations supply.
And if Congress tries to restrict price or profits, there will not be enough crude supplies for Americans. This is what Environmental extremists want, to get rid of the Petroleum economy. Too bad a peasant economy will be the result, but they apparently don't mind or are relying on an as-yet-undiscovered technological breakthrough.
Energy is at the base of everything.
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