A Great Money Making System....To Me

A friend of mine called me in November to tell me about what he thought was a great money making opportunity. Now this friend of mine is what I call a "searcher", he is constantly on the look-out for money making opportunities. He's called me about a couple of things and because he is my friend I listen to him.

He started off telling me he found something that is so incredible and blah..blah...blah. One word caught my attention and that word was "Gold". He went on to ask me if I wanted to save gold and get paid to do it. 

Right away (being the skeptic that I am) I said to myself, "yeah right, here we go". He asked me if I knew about the power of "2". I said "what's that", he asked me if some one came to me and asked me if I wanted 1 million dollars in 30 days or $100,000 dollars in 30 days or if I wanted a penny doubled everyday for 30 days which one would I take. 

Of course I said a million dollars, he asked me why I wouldn't take the penny. I said because a million dollars is worth more than a penny doubled everyday for 30 days. He told me to double a penny everyday and see which was more, so I did. I multiplied a penny by 2, i.e. .01 x 2:

                                              Day 1: $.01
                                              Day 2: $.02
                                              Day 3: $.04
                                              Day 4: $.08
                                              Day 5: $.16
                                              Day 6: $.32
                                              Day 7: $.64
                                              Day 8: $1.28
                                              Day 9: $2.56
                                              Day 10: $5.12
                                              Day 11: $10.24
                                              Day 12: $20.48
                                              Day 13: $40.96
                                              Day 14: $81.92
                                              Day 15: $163.84
                                              Day 16: $327.68
                                              Day 17: $655.36
                                              Day 18: $1,310.72
                                              Day 19: $2,621.44
                                              Day 20: $5,242.88
                                              Day 21: $10,485.76
                                              Day 22: $20,971.52
                                              Day 23: $41,943.04
                                              Day 24: $83,886.08
                                              Day 25: $167,772.16
                                              Day 26: $335,544.32
                                              Day 27: $671,088.64
                                              Day 28: $1,342,177.28
                                              Day 29: $2,684,354.56
                                              Day 30: $5,368,709.12

I was like o.k. cute trick. He said it was not a trick. I said ok what does this have to do with gold? 

He then went on to tell me about this system involving a company called Karatbars. He told me about the amount of money one could make,. that was all fine and good but I asked "what do I have to do"? 

Then he lowered the boom, he said well you get 2 people and they get 2 people and etc...etc...etc. I said immediately "that sounds like a pyramid". He said it has a pyramid structure but it's affiliate marketing. 

Now I'm rolling my eyes in my head and I just want to get off the phone. But because he is my friend I listen some more. 

He starts talking to me about the value of the dollar and how gold will always have more value than the dollar. And how affordable the gold is when you buy it from this company. But what really got me was he started showing me information on the internet about the gold standard in the U.S. 

For the people who don't know (besides me) there is no gold standard in the U.S. He further showed me how in '71 Richard Nixon took the U.S. off of the gold standard. 

So now I ask what does that mean? He said that the U.S. has nothing to back up it's currency. He had me look at a dollar bill and at the top it says federal reserve note. Then he asked me what gave the note value. There was nothing I could say. 

He further explained that gold is what gave the U.S. currency it's value and that now the dollar was only worth what a person made it out to be. 

For example 5 dollars is only worth 5 dollars because a person thinks it is. Now I'm going...hmmm. 

I just didn't jump in right away I started looking and researching the plight of the dollar and how other countries viewed the dollar. I won't boor you with my findings just let me say it was an eye opener. 

He got my curiosity aroused. He sent me to a website called U.S. National Debt Clock: Real Time  I then went to a tab that is on the bottom labeled Gold Supply/Demand. Needless to say I had a concern about my dollars. 

He further explained to me how this was not investing in gold but simply saving gold. The same as a savings account at a bank. For example, if I save $100 dollars every month now I would be saving small grams of gold every month. 

Anyway there is more to it and it would take a lot more time than I have right now to put it in this post. But I did join and I will keep a journal here of how good or bad I am doing and the amount of time I am investing.

 If you want to see how this works there are 2 sites you can go to the first is Karatbarstv.com (this is a site that has more information than I care to mention and you might find yourself all over the place) and the second is Karatbarspayplan.info If you go to karatbarspayplan.info scroll down and to the right of the screen you will see Dual Plan system (something like that) click on the video and it will explain the plan. 

I have made some money from this so far and my friend has absolutely blown up, he has been doing this since Nov 2013 and I just started (April 2014) so I am going to see if I can catch him. Stay tuned.....

Collective Bargaining For Student Athletes: Yes or No

Recently here in Illinois a local university (Northwestern) lost a court case concerning whether or not student athletes should be considered employees of the school. And the student athletes won! I was very surprised at some of the reactions I received from  people that I know. The majority of the people I talked to disagree with the outcome.

I am not in that group.

I think they should be considered employees and I think they should get paid! Let me enlighten the unenlightened, the following is a article I found concerning the agreement, to me it says it all:

........Northwestern's scholarship football players should be eligible to form a union based on a number of factors, including the time they devote to football (as many as 50 hours some weeks), the control exerted by coaches and their scholarships, which Mr. Ohr deemed a contract for compensation.

"It cannot be said that the employer's scholarship players are "primarily students,'" the decision said.

the ruling comes at a time when the NCAA and its largest conferences are generating billions of dollars, primarily from football and men's basketball.  The television contract for the new college football playoff system is worth $7.3 billion over 10 years, and the current deal to broadcast the men's basketball tournament is worth $10.8 billion over 14 years.

If you want to read more the following is the link to the entire aticle:
                                                       

College Players Granted Right to Form Union In-Depth-New York Times-Mar 26, 2014

To me it's ridiculous how schools have the nerve to want to make this public. They should just be quiet about it and do what's right. I guess I am a little biased by this, having been a former student athlete.

 I'm not even going to put my argument in this post about why I agree with the decision made in favor of the student athlete, because if I did I would never end this post. Schools and coaches have been making money off of student athletes for a very long time. 

I will mention one argument that was presented to me. It was "the athletes are getting a free education". I mentioned Dexter Manley a former NFL football player who could not read yet he went to Oklahoma State University. How did he even get in the school and couldn't read, I'll tell you why because most of the schools out here want revenue, money, it's called greed and they don't want to share it with the athletes who are getting it for them. 

So don't give me that crap of getting a free education, there are probably more student athletes that got pushed through and given a pass than the ones who actually went to class and busted their rear ends to get out. 

So now the schools are appealing the decision. I hope they lose and I hope that this will set off a domino effect for all the student athletes to come together and say to these big time universities...PAY UP!!!

Raising Kids: What's Next!!??

I just received a call from the 8th grade principal of my sons school. He started off saying it was a delicate matter and that another parent called him and was very upset. The rumor going around the school was that a 8th grade girl performed fellatio on an 8th grade boy.

The rumor started by the 8th grade boy telling my son this happened at a basketball game. My son then went and told one of his friends and then the rumor spiraled out of control until it reached the 8th grade girls mom. Needless to say the mom of the 8th grade girl was livid. The principle called me and told me he was trying to get to the bottom of this as far as trying to find out who started this whole "mess".

He questioned the 8th grade boy who told him he did not tell my son the girl was going to perform fellatio on him. He said he told my son the girl was going to give him a kiss. The principal then questioned my son who told him "that was different" as far as the answer the 8th grade boy gave the principal. My son then went on and told the principal the 8th grade boy sent him a text message saying the fellatio part. My son also told him he didn't know if he had deleted the message from his phone. The principal wanted my permission to see if he could retrieve the message from my sons phone.

It all ended well (at least for me and my son) because the 8th grade boy did finally confess and say he did tell my son that about the 8th grade girl. The most surprising thing about this to me was how, at such a young age, kids can distort and spread rumors. I am angry with my son  for telling anyone something like that.

I am curious about one thing. The principal asked my son which parent he wanted him to call his mom or his dad. He chose me (his dad) I am writing this while at work and I have not had a chance to talk with him about this yet, and he most assuredly knows he will get a good talking to when I get home. Now I'm curious about what else my  winged angel, halo wearing son is doing once he leaves the comfort of his home. WHAT'S NEXT!!!!