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burrocrat
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or a person could think of it more like a library. not all the books get checked out all the time, but that is usually not a good reason for burning them.
of course, we do live in america so a person is always free to invent their own bookmobile.
RealMoneyIssues
Well-known member
Yet someone else stopping by to bite the hand that feeds them...
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nasa1974
Moderator
Not a bad observation. It might be worth the MODS and Tom discussing it.
DrDetroit
Banned
A true bureaucrat, inefficient and snarky when they know they are wrong. Cool story bro.
DrDetroit
Banned
The only thing I get from this site is the humor of Intrepid Timer's market system. You probably have one too amirite? lolololololol
alevin
Well-known member
I think the good Dr could serve a useful purpose here, if the good Dr. replicated Birchtree's approach. Forge your own investing path in terms of b&h steady as she goes-like he did, without lobbing grenades at others or allowing other's potshots to cause you to deviate from your own path. Birch served as an excellent successful role model for those who may choose to follow B&H consistently from the very earliest years of their investing life. the good dr. does not serve in similar capacity, not given the current derogatory attitude towards those who don't see things the same way.
The sniping at basically Tom and everyone but B&Hers, is hardly productive. Haven't you learned yet, better results with carrot than with stick? what are you hoping to accomplish with the mockery and snark, anyway? If the philosophy of this forum doesn't fit your view on investing, and you despise people who practice non-B&H approach, this probably isn't the place for you. It won't help you and you aren't helping make the forum a better place, not with the current attitude.
Birch used the carrot approach by hinting at what his approach had achieved for him over 30+ years of consistent b&h and reinvestment, especially with dividend-producing stocks outside his tsp. He didn't put down others who chose a different path. People actually listened to him and respected him. You? not so much. I'd encourage you to go find Birchtree's account thread and read it if you really want to influence people around here to reconsider b&h in a productive way, especially people just starting out on their tsp careers. lose the attitude if you want to contribute in a positive way and still be a B&Her.
How many of the recessions has your tsp ridden down and back up since the 80s or 90s, how long did it take for your account to recover each time. how close to retirement are you, could you afford to ride another big one down right before retirement or in first couple years of retirement. What works for you will not necessarily work for someone else who's in a different stage in their career or current tsp balance or life experience with major market dives over the past few decades.
The sniping at basically Tom and everyone but B&Hers, is hardly productive. Haven't you learned yet, better results with carrot than with stick? what are you hoping to accomplish with the mockery and snark, anyway? If the philosophy of this forum doesn't fit your view on investing, and you despise people who practice non-B&H approach, this probably isn't the place for you. It won't help you and you aren't helping make the forum a better place, not with the current attitude.
Birch used the carrot approach by hinting at what his approach had achieved for him over 30+ years of consistent b&h and reinvestment, especially with dividend-producing stocks outside his tsp. He didn't put down others who chose a different path. People actually listened to him and respected him. You? not so much. I'd encourage you to go find Birchtree's account thread and read it if you really want to influence people around here to reconsider b&h in a productive way, especially people just starting out on their tsp careers. lose the attitude if you want to contribute in a positive way and still be a B&Her.
How many of the recessions has your tsp ridden down and back up since the 80s or 90s, how long did it take for your account to recover each time. how close to retirement are you, could you afford to ride another big one down right before retirement or in first couple years of retirement. What works for you will not necessarily work for someone else who's in a different stage in their career or current tsp balance or life experience with major market dives over the past few decades.
Warrenlm
Well-known member
Birch got in a lot of trouble frequently. Usually I was too late to see what he wrote that caused the problem. Did see the one where he told someone here to sit on it and rotate. If I recall correctly that involved someone not respecting patriotism and military service and America.
userque
Well-known member
That might have been me (but not for the reasons you suggest), but there could have been others as well.... He told me to rotate. I told him to kick rocks. But it wouldn't be fair/proper for me to delve into it as he has not been around lately.
burrocrat
Well-known member
just place it on your seat, like you do with a napkin in a fancy restaurant if you are just stepping out for a fresher. otherwise put it neatly on the table when you are finished.
alevin
Well-known member
account thread is always the most appropriate place to discuss why one chooses the tsp investing path they do, and how well it's doing for them, or not. cobbler, stick to thy own last. as far as Birch goes, yes, he definitely holds opinions on things other than B&H, and chose to express them pretty clearly, with a certain j'e ne sai quoi. I'm speaking to his B&H lifetime of consistent methodology in how he built up his retirement account. after all, interest in building up our retirement accounts is the primary reason most of us joined the forum in the first place. Birch accomplished what few of us here have, but he had his strategy figured out pretty much from the getgo and stuck with it all the way to retirement, consciously. And he even moved around in his tsp every now and then based on his prognosis of how various funds were being affected and were likely to be affected, his tsp approach wasn't immutable.
alevin
Well-known member
ok, Q. I confess I haven't done any of those things. Still, from what I saw of him over the years, he was consistent in his expressed beliefs, political, social and investing. If he had an agenda in promoting b&h all those years on this site, I failed to see it. My point in bringing his name into this thread is to invite the dr to not tear others here down for going about managing their tsp accounts as they see fit, but simply hold her position on b&h and their own rationale for that choice, if that is what the dr holds to be best way to go about their own business. as Birch did.
userque
Well-known member
Alright alevin, I see your point. You're right, (there's one of those phrases I talk about) he didn't seem to hide much. I tend to believe he did well also. But I do recognize that we can't be certain.
We see on the news all the time how shocked people are to find out that someone they thought they know well, in real life, was living a lie for a long time...undetected. And here we all are...only internet acquaintances.
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