Do You Agree With Steve Bannon? Yes or No?

Originally Posted by WTF

Can't even get a pic that has correct spelling and grammar.

A&M would never have given Perry a degree with less than a 2.5 gpa. Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

That is a false statement. From the Texas A&M website. A student can earn a degree with 120 credit hours and a GPA of 2.0. Classes not needed to graduate can be waived. Perry had 147 credits. Waive some of the "D" grades that are not needed and that could get him to 2.00 GPA. No way he can get to 2.5. All of the rules to get a degree at Texas A&M are right here in this link. Do your homework next time before you post.

https://student-rules.tamu.edu/rule14/

i already do. have been since 2006. will until 2027. that's 2.5 million. i'm not wasting 2k a month on an apartment. i put that in my 401k every month. and 500 into savings for my 6,500 IRA individual contribution. and 500 into my broker's account.


you aren't going to retire a millionaire by wasting 2k on an apartment and not putting any money into retirement accounts. my house .. that i own .. will be mostly paid off and worth about 450k by 2027. and i easily pay 2300 a month on a 15 year mortgage and put 3k into investments ...


i think you are as they say in Texas .. All Hat, No Cattle.


let me show you some of my cattle .. just social security ...





so why don't you post directly from ssa.gov what your projected benefit is at 65 or 67?


thank you valued poster! Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

You would have lost your bet. From ssa.gov.

Your Retirement Benefit Estimate

The age that you start your benefits determines how much you receive each month.
We created estimates for you at three common retirement ages using your earnings information. You can also add your own custom estimates by changing your stop work age and future earnings.


If you start your benefits:
And you earn an average of:
Your benefit will be about:
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At full retirement
(age 66 and 4 months)
$76,000 a year
(from now until full retirement)
$2,634 a month
At age 70
$76,000 a year
(from now until age 70)
$3,447 a month











Not bad for a democrat huh. At age 70 we project almost the same amount.

If we make it to age 90 that would be $800,000 just from social security. What ever my Roth IRA does will be bonus. I had a 401K, but when I switched companies you can't leave it. You have to roll it over it into something else.

You would have lost your bet. From ssa.gov.

Your Retirement Benefit Estimate

The age that you start your benefits determines how much you receive each month.
We created estimates for you at three common retirement ages using your earnings information. You can also add your own custom estimates by changing your stop work age and future earnings.


If you start your benefits:
And you earn an average of:
Your benefit will be about:
Loading...
At full retirement
(age 66 and 4 months)
$76,000 a year
(from now until full retirement)
$2,634 a month
At age 70
$76,000 a year
(from now until age 70)
$3,447 a month











Not bad for a democrat huh. At age 70 we project almost the same amount.

If we make it to age 90 that would be $800,000 just from social security. What ever my Roth IRA does will be bonus. I had a 401K, but when I switched companies you can't leave it. You have to roll it over it into something else. Originally Posted by adav8s28

how did i lose when my numbers are better? and where is your screen shot? anyone can edit numbers in a post.

go post the screen shot .. like i did.


then we'll move on to w2's, 401k's, IRA's and investment accounts.

Did you look at his transcript which was in the link in post #45? Your source from Politico posted what he believed his GPA was with no back up. Look at Perry's transcript. It is not mathematically possible to have a 2.5 GPA when you have 2 A's, 22 B's, 29 C's 8 D's and one F. You can easily calculate Perry's GPA just divide the total grade points by the total credit hours. For Perry
Total Grade points = 282

Total Credit hours = 147

GPA = 282/147

GPA = 1.92

And that is with rounding. No way was Perry's GPA a 2.5. He had way too many 'C' s and 'D's.

It is okay to struggle with science but when you struggle with Arithmetic, that's an issue.

The transcript is right here with all four years of his classes.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-...cript_n_919357 Originally Posted by adav8s28

That is a false statement. From the Texas A&M website. A student can earn a degree with 120 credit hours and a GPA of 2.0. Classes not needed to graduate can be waived. Perry had 147 credits. Waive some of the "D" grades that are not needed and that could get him to 2.00 GPA. No way he can get to 2.5. All of the rules to get a degree at Texas A&M are right here in this link. Do your homework next time before you post.

https://student-rules.tamu.edu/rule14/ Originally Posted by adav8s28

This continues to be funny...Rule 14 - revised 2018. You do realize when Perry graduated right?

And by simply using your earlier numbers on credit hours vs. grade points, he gets to a 2.0 by simply waiving the "F" and the one "D" where he didn't receive Grade Points(see below for that inconsistency).

But the most interesting thing about the whole calculations you apparently used by taking the numbers directly from the transcript is how the Grade Points were allocated in the early semesters of it.

If you look at the first three sections(semesters), they were reporting Grade points at a level lower than the entire remaining transcript.

An "A" netted only 3 times the credit hours instead of 4.
A "B" netted only 2 times the credit hours instead of 3.
A "C" netted only 1 time the credit hours instead of 2.
A "D" netted zero times the credit hours instead of 1.

So, I'm guessing those would have been recalculated for his final GPA based on the awards of those grades later in his semesters as opposed to your raw calculations.

Redo your calculations based on a consistent allocation and see what you get.

And he obviously had more A's and B's compared to D's and F's, so that would drag it up from a 2.0, especially if waiving the D's and F's were a viable option at the time.

how did i lose when my numbers are better? and where is your screen shot? anyone can edit numbers in a post.

go post the screen shot .. like i did.


then we'll move on to w2's, 401k's, IRA's and investment accounts. Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

This continues to be funny...Rule 14 - revised 2018. You do realize when Perry graduated right?

And by simply using your earlier numbers on credit hours vs. grade points, he gets to a 2.0 by simply waiving the "F" and the one "D" where he didn't receive Grade Points(see below for that inconsistency).

But the most interesting thing about the whole calculations you apparently used by taking the numbers directly from the transcript is how the Grade Points were allocated in the early semesters of it.

If you look at the first three sections(semesters), they were reporting Grade points at a level lower than the entire remaining transcript.

An "A" netted only 3 times the credit hours instead of 4.
A "B" netted only 2 times the credit hours instead of 3.
A "C" netted only 1 time the credit hours instead of 2.
A "D" netted zero times the credit hours instead of 1.

So, I'm guessing those would have been recalculated for his final GPA based on the awards of those grades later in his semesters as opposed to your raw calculations.

Redo your calculations based on a consistent allocation and see what you get.

And he obviously had more A's and B's compared to D's and F's, so that would drag it up from a 2.0, especially if waiving the D's and F's were a viable option at the time. Originally Posted by eccielover

Eccie_L you are still having difficulties with Math. No way Perry can have a 2.5 GPA with 22 B's, 29 C's and 9 D's. A one credit "A" will not offset a three credit "F". Even if you take away or not count six "D"s and three "C" s that would give him 120 credit hours and 246 pts. 246/120 = 2.05 GPA. That is the best you will get for Rick "Blockhead" Perry.

how did i lose when my numbers are better? and where is your screen shot? anyone can edit numbers in a post.

go post the screen shot .. like i did.


then we'll move on to w2's, 401k's, IRA's and investment accounts. Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

The screenshot won't take on here. You want me to email it to you?
You act like you have never seen text wrap around before. The social security software generated that number. You have to enter your SSN, date of birth, state where you were born in and your mothers maiden name, to get the calculation. I didn't change anything. Your projection was for 800,000 plus and so was mine. With all the social security tax that I have paid over the years, I don't need to cheat. You project $50 more per month, I am not going to lose any sleep over that.

Eccie_L you are still having difficulties with Math. No way Perry can have a 2.5 GPA with 22 B's, 29 C's and 9 D's. A one credit "A" will not offset a three credit "F". Even if you take away or not count six "D"s and three "C" s that would give him 120 credit hours and 246 pts. 246/120 = 2.05 GPA. That is the best you will get for Rick "Blockhead" Perry. Originally Posted by adav8s28

I'm thinking it's you and critical thinking that have the difficulties. And your math doesn't work either.

As I pointed out right there on his transcript it says the university switched to a 4 point system after his first three semesters in June 1969, which means that his final GPA isn't as simple as adding the numbers up. You either have to down weight the latter semesters or up weight the early semesters to be an apples to apples comparison.

Feel free to do the math and get back to us after you find out the exact policy in place when he graduated and how they handled the point system change and what he was allowed to waive. Until then, it's quite possible he graduated with a 2.5 as stated.

Yes too much evidence out there , Many books etc Just read ( if u can) Secret empires

Yes too much evidence out there , Many books etc Just read ( if u can) Secret empires
Originally Posted by rexdutchman

Read a lot, do yer, eh?

fake canucks who watch cnn have no need to read.

Feel free to do the math Until then, it's quite possible he graduated with a 2.5 Originally Posted by eccielover

A 2.5 GPA is not possible when you have 8 D's and a F on your transcript.

All his grades from first year got converted to 4 point equivalent.

1 A (1x12) = 12 points
21 B (21X9) = 189 "
11 C (11X6) = 66 "
6 D (6x3) = 18 "
1 F (1x0) = 0
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285

285 / 120 = 2.37 two of his D's not counted in this example.

Back to math class for you eccie_L.