Kieth: Sure hope you didn’t buy Apple @ $125 on Monday as you said you were planning. I’m also an Apple lover and am still waiting on the sidelines as I’m watching Apple slide by @ $117+.

I am also a former Yacht Salesman and owner of a 48′ Cockpit Motoryacht from Sausalito, now retired in Sun City West. Have been listening to your show since I got here in 2005. As you can guess I’m also really enjoying your weekly travelog updates. Great choice of boat also. Be careful, NEVER leave the helm unattended. Every accedent or grounding I’ve ever heard of the helm was unattended “just for a second”. My best friend went over 3 reefs while he and his wife were passing each other on the ladder going to and from thge helm on shift change in Fiji. Boat was a total loss and their world cruise came to an abrupt end. And acording to the charts he was right where he was supposede to be.

Bill Tempel
SCW, Az.

Great advice, Bill. Thanks.
–Keith

Hi! Keith keep up the good work I always looking in your web site to check where your now. You know I keep on praying that you and all the crews in the global adventure have a good health always and also have a safe travel around the world.
God Bless… More Power!

Regards,

Hans A. Potot

I’m a Chandler resident and catch your show every Sunday. I am a Vietnam Vet, USN, 2 years on the boats (’67-’68) in DaNang, Hue, Cua Viet and Tan My. We worked some special ops with a lot of Marines and I might even know you if you were in that area in that time frame. I think your site is better than National Geographic and I look forward to following your adventure every week. You have a beautiful family and a beautiful boat, you are truly living the dream. God bless you, you have certainly earned it.

Thanks, Doug for your very gracious email. You apparently beat me to Vietnam by a couple of years. I was there from June of ‘69 to June of ‘70. And thanks for the favorable comparison to National Geographic!

–Keith

Re: Reform Capital Markets

Mr. DeGreen,

Great program, unfortunately the wastral politicians won`t heed your sound advice. These hypocrites bemoan a slow economy, & the fact that jobs are going offshore, but they won`t admit that their punitive tax policies are the cause.
We hear financial experts advise, `pay yourself first,` yet powerful politicians demand, `pay us first.` Tax revenues sent to Washington, for politicians to squander, could be better utilized to expand the economy & create the jobs politicians cry for.
Interesting you mentioned SarBox to oversee corporate governace, yet politicians won`t dare create a much needed bill to oversee congressional governance. These slugs exempt themselves from what they inflict on corporations.
Corporate execs did nothing worse than what poliiicians have been doing for decades…politicians perfected the art of creative accounting, by cooking the federal books, by masking budget deficits using Socialist Insecuriy surpluses, & causing FICA payers to lose their retirement savings, if they don`t collect any Socialist Insecurity benefits, or have no eligible survivors.
SarBox requires corporate execs to certify the accuracy of financial statements, likewise, would politicians dare certify to the accuracy of the federal budget? Hmmm?
And finally, when you promote ending the double taxation of dividends, please promote the need to end the double taxation of wages.
The same dollar of gross wages up to about $94,000, are subject to income tax withholding & FICA tax withholding, in other words, a tax on a tax. And if FICA payers become victims of the FICA Death Tax, their FICA `contributions` are lost to the government, increasing the already obese Socialist Insecurity surplus.
Keep up the good work, alerting taxpayers to how their hard-earned money is being used to subsidize non-family members, before they`re able to provide for their own.

Very sincerely,

Harry Thompson
Socialist Insecurity retiree
Tucson, AZ

All good points, Harry. Well said.

–Keith

Great show, but disappointed you are cutting back to 2 hours. If it was up to me I would have you shackled to the microphone for an hour every day to give us an update on where you are!

Having lived overseas, including in China in the 1980’s, working in the oil exploration business, I am a great believer in travel broadening the mind. Through your program, the more insular among the population may be inspired to see some of the world. Your reports from Hong Kong and China brought back many memories for me, and I certainly plan a return trip.

I count on your show and Charles Goyette’s as the stations most valuable outputs, and probably they attract very similar intelligent audiences. It would be good if you advertised a little more on Charles’ show.

After today’s interesting discussion on corporate taxation, one disincentive not mentioned to investment for small businesses like my own is the state business property tax levied on plant and machinery. I avoid purchasing expensive equipment specifically because I object to paying never ending tax on it.

One topic that would be interesting to cover on a future show is where all the federal taxes go. I think there is a misconception that they pay for essential services like police/fire/education, but in fact these are paid out of state and property taxes. As I understand it, the government adds to the money supply by exchanging all their government bonds (that are not sold to China) for fiat dollars through the Fed. The Fed prints the dollars at the cost of the paper, or the cost of a computer entry, and charges the government interest on them. Federal taxes go largely to pay this interest, as well as interest on bonds that become due. Why we are paying interest to a private bank for something created out of nothing, is a big question. On top of this, through fractional reserve banking, the Fed uses the bonds as a book-keeping assett, to generate approximately 9 times as many new dollars, used as the source for all loans that trickle through the banking system to businesses and individuals. To pay for the Iraq war, the government is causing the Fed to generate a lot more money supply, causing inflation, and a record revalued dollar.

Your show is such a great concept, you should patent it and/or get some station affiliates! It is not many among us who get to live their dream. Keep up the great work.

David

David,

Keith