I have no problem mocking the average social studies graduate who do 'research' that 'proves' a culture of rape, but that doesn't mean that I disregard real science.
I'm kinda sure he wants his kids/heirs to have what he has worked for so hard all these years.
I'm not sure about that. His kids are the third generation. The third generation typically squanders the family fortune. He may want to hang on to it for as long as possible before letting go.
He shouldn't have to kill their inheritance just because he wants to be president and help the country out by doing some civic duty.
Most presidents liquidate their holdings before putting them into a blind trust that invest the money in U.S. bonds. Trump's problem is that he doesn't believe that the rules applies to him, a position that ultimately caused Richard Nixon to resign from office.
I've mentioned in previous comments that my current job is government IT. Some commenters try to use it as an insult: "Gee... If this guy got laid off for two years, and now works for the government, he must not be very good." Never mind that I worked seven days a week for two years on 20+ different contracts after filing for chapter seven bankruptcy in 2011.
I've spent over a decade working alongside State governments, and it's damn near impossible to fire or layoff a government employee.
Full-time employees are difficult to fire, but contractors are easy to fire. Some contractors who get hired are shocked that they have to work at a government job. The few who insists on not doing any work at all are fired within two weeks of being hired. Some contractors have gotten fired for "anti-social behavior" (i.e., irritating the hell out of the full-time staff). Since everyone is ex-military, they have zero tolerance for crap.
Where are you living that you had to apply for legit minimum wage jobs?
Silicon Valley. There were seven applicants for every job opening in 2009 and 2010. Minimum wage employers refused to hire "overqualified" workers because they would quit when the economy got better. In 2011, it was three applicants for every job opening. A normal economy has two applicants for every job opening.
You know if you little snowflakes stopped worrying so much over what Trump might do and start telling him what you want done, well this might all work out after all.
I want Trump to either divest from all his business interests or resign from the presidency. Plus release his tax returns like every presidential candidate have done for the last 40 years, and like all his cabinet nominees will be doing for their Senate confirmation hearings.
And let me guess...you got a job in government IT?
Nope. Dell for a PC refresh project at the company I worked for before I got laid off for two years. Got promoted to project lead on my first day because I knew the company and everyone in help desk. Got a lot jokes about HR hiring anyone off the street.
They hire anyone, even the unemployable.
For the position I applied for in government IT, it required 20+ years of IT experience.
Uh, no. I was unemployed for two years (2009-10), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for chapter seven bankruptcy in 2011. For two years I was told by hiring managers that I was overqualified for minimum wage work and told by recruiters that I was unemployable. The day after my bankruptcy got finalized I got full-time work again because the economy turned around and employers needed to fill positions.
The trick to life is to run out of money and die at exactly the same time [...]
I've noticed that whenever someone dies, relatives throw out 99.9% of their worldly possessions. So I'm doing my relatives a favor by throwing out everything I own and keeping a bare minimum of possessions for daily life.
It's noble of you to be willing to jump off a cliff on principle, but not all of us have that ability.
My coworkers and I had substantial artistic copyrights that existed independently of our jobs for years or decades. If we signed that copyright assignment form that included everything we created off the job that was completely unrelated from work, we would have stopped being creative individuals at home. No corporate job was worth that kind of sacrifice. Some of us had families, mortgages and car payments that benefited from the extra income of a corporate job.
So, question, do you just get your rocks off being a dick for no reason?
Nope. If someone is preventing me doing my job, I do whatever it takes to get the job done. At the end of the day, that's the only thing upper management cares about.
You sound clueless about the industry at a fortune 500 level, and about basic human psychology.
I've worked at eBay, Fujitsu, Google, Intuit, Sony and many other Fortune 500 companies over a 20+ year career. I got an A in psychology when I took it in college.
That doesn't mean that my voice overrules my director's.
Then you never been in situation where the director is doing something so stupid that you have no choice but to resign. My coworkers and I at one company got a director fired because he wanted everyone to sign copyright assignments for everything on the job AND at home. We told the HR person we weren't signing the document and would resign instead. Faced with a dozen resignations and potential lawsuits for something has absolutely nothing to do with our daily work, HR got upper management to fix the problem in a hurry. None of us checked out bank accounts before threatening to resign. We did it because it was the right thing to do.
And being free to speak your mind != being an asshole.
Then you're doing it wrong. No wonder you need money to grow a pair.
I would suggest that lottery winners (to take a simple example) who return to work when they have the means to live comfortably are showing a monumental lack of imagination or simply are scared of change - the unknown life of a rich person and the choices it requires.
If you're rich but live a "normal" lifestyle, no one is going to sniff around to swindle you out of your fortune. Most millionaires — as documented in the book, "The Millionaires Next Door" — are largely invisible because they avoid conspicuous consumption. I have an uncle in Idaho who drives a tractor for 16-hours per day for eight months and goes on vacation for four months. On the street you would think he was just another farmer. His net worth is $1M+.
When PowerBall had a $1B jackpot, I bought some tickets like everyone else. But I gave serious thought about what to do with $500M after taxes in a lump sum. I wouldn't change my modest lifestyle or even quit my government IT job. My role model is Ronald Read, a janitor whom everyone thought was poor but left an $8M fortune to the local library and hospital upon his death.
There are so many people out there who are dirt poor and somehow manage to live through retirement.
How many of those people deliberately planned to live "dirt poor" in retirement? Not many.
After my mother passed away from breast cancer, my father sold everything and bought a trailer home for $10,000 and paid $400 per month for trailer spot. He lived on his $1,000 per month pension, banked his $1,000 per month Social Security benefits for eight years. When he was diagnosed with throat cancer and died six weeks later, all the money he saved from Social Security paid his hospital bills and funeral expenses.
For my father, this was an ideal retirement as he died with no debts and wasn't a financial burden to the family. For my older brother, he thought it was embarrassing that his step-father died poor from not pursuing the American Dream of having it all. For me, I thought my father was a perfect example of living a modest lifestyle.
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I have no problem mocking the average social studies graduate who do 'research' that 'proves' a culture of rape, but that doesn't mean that I disregard real science.
Fair enough.
You really believe this.....?
Yes.
I'm kinda sure he wants his kids/heirs to have what he has worked for so hard all these years.
I'm not sure about that. His kids are the third generation. The third generation typically squanders the family fortune. He may want to hang on to it for as long as possible before letting go.
He shouldn't have to kill their inheritance just because he wants to be president and help the country out by doing some civic duty.
Most presidents liquidate their holdings before putting them into a blind trust that invest the money in U.S. bonds. Trump's problem is that he doesn't believe that the rules applies to him, a position that ultimately caused Richard Nixon to resign from office.
I have no idea where this guy got this idea.
I've mentioned in previous comments that my current job is government IT. Some commenters try to use it as an insult: "Gee... If this guy got laid off for two years, and now works for the government, he must not be very good." Never mind that I worked seven days a week for two years on 20+ different contracts after filing for chapter seven bankruptcy in 2011.
I've spent over a decade working alongside State governments, and it's damn near impossible to fire or layoff a government employee.
Full-time employees are difficult to fire, but contractors are easy to fire. Some contractors who get hired are shocked that they have to work at a government job. The few who insists on not doing any work at all are fired within two weeks of being hired. Some contractors have gotten fired for "anti-social behavior" (i.e., irritating the hell out of the full-time staff). Since everyone is ex-military, they have zero tolerance for crap.
Where are you living that you had to apply for legit minimum wage jobs?
Silicon Valley. There were seven applicants for every job opening in 2009 and 2010. Minimum wage employers refused to hire "overqualified" workers because they would quit when the economy got better. In 2011, it was three applicants for every job opening. A normal economy has two applicants for every job opening.
So, he's a democrat?
He's certainly not a Republican.
An that answer would be none.
I certainly hope so.
You know if you little snowflakes stopped worrying so much over what Trump might do and start telling him what you want done, well this might all work out after all.
I want Trump to either divest from all his business interests or resign from the presidency. Plus release his tax returns like every presidential candidate have done for the last 40 years, and like all his cabinet nominees will be doing for their Senate confirmation hearings.
And let me guess...you got a job in government IT?
Nope. Dell for a PC refresh project at the company I worked for before I got laid off for two years. Got promoted to project lead on my first day because I knew the company and everyone in help desk. Got a lot jokes about HR hiring anyone off the street.
They hire anyone, even the unemployable.
For the position I applied for in government IT, it required 20+ years of IT experience.
Be careful what you ask for, you just may get it!
Like how much money does Trump owe the Russian mafia? Inquiring minds... in Congress... wants to know.
Now you're unemployable for life.
Uh, no. I was unemployed for two years (2009-10), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for chapter seven bankruptcy in 2011. For two years I was told by hiring managers that I was overqualified for minimum wage work and told by recruiters that I was unemployable. The day after my bankruptcy got finalized I got full-time work again because the economy turned around and employers needed to fill positions.
The only way Trump is going to get coal miners back to work is to use taxpayer money to give every American a sack of coal for Christmas.
The trick to life is to run out of money and die at exactly the same time [...]
I've noticed that whenever someone dies, relatives throw out 99.9% of their worldly possessions. So I'm doing my relatives a favor by throwing out everything I own and keeping a bare minimum of possessions for daily life.
It's noble of you to be willing to jump off a cliff on principle, but not all of us have that ability.
My coworkers and I had substantial artistic copyrights that existed independently of our jobs for years or decades. If we signed that copyright assignment form that included everything we created off the job that was completely unrelated from work, we would have stopped being creative individuals at home. No corporate job was worth that kind of sacrifice. Some of us had families, mortgages and car payments that benefited from the extra income of a corporate job.
So, question, do you just get your rocks off being a dick for no reason?
Nope. If someone is preventing me doing my job, I do whatever it takes to get the job done. At the end of the day, that's the only thing upper management cares about.
You sound clueless about the industry at a fortune 500 level, and about basic human psychology.
I've worked at eBay, Fujitsu, Google, Intuit, Sony and many other Fortune 500 companies over a 20+ year career. I got an A in psychology when I took it in college.
That doesn't mean that my voice overrules my director's.
Then you never been in situation where the director is doing something so stupid that you have no choice but to resign. My coworkers and I at one company got a director fired because he wanted everyone to sign copyright assignments for everything on the job AND at home. We told the HR person we weren't signing the document and would resign instead. Faced with a dozen resignations and potential lawsuits for something has absolutely nothing to do with our daily work, HR got upper management to fix the problem in a hurry. None of us checked out bank accounts before threatening to resign. We did it because it was the right thing to do.
And being free to speak your mind != being an asshole.
Then you're doing it wrong. No wonder you need money to grow a pair.
Oh, wait. I see now that this "research" was lead by a university professor.
Your anti-intellectualism is why this country is going down a gold-plated crapper.
Or you could get a job as an IT professional to do all the things you want to do on your job. You don't need money to be an asshole.
Larry Ellison was reportedly taking a shower with two chicks when the maintenance crew turned off the water. Rich people problems.
I would suggest that lottery winners (to take a simple example) who return to work when they have the means to live comfortably are showing a monumental lack of imagination or simply are scared of change - the unknown life of a rich person and the choices it requires.
If you're rich but live a "normal" lifestyle, no one is going to sniff around to swindle you out of your fortune. Most millionaires — as documented in the book, "The Millionaires Next Door" — are largely invisible because they avoid conspicuous consumption. I have an uncle in Idaho who drives a tractor for 16-hours per day for eight months and goes on vacation for four months. On the street you would think he was just another farmer. His net worth is $1M+.
Meh... Get a job to buy your own prostitutes and blow.
When PowerBall had a $1B jackpot, I bought some tickets like everyone else. But I gave serious thought about what to do with $500M after taxes in a lump sum. I wouldn't change my modest lifestyle or even quit my government IT job. My role model is Ronald Read, a janitor whom everyone thought was poor but left an $8M fortune to the local library and hospital upon his death.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/get-there/the-remarkable-life-and-lessons-of-ronald-read/2015/04/24/7c12a26a-e944-11e4-9a6a-c1ab95a0600b_story.html
There are so many people out there who are dirt poor and somehow manage to live through retirement.
How many of those people deliberately planned to live "dirt poor" in retirement? Not many.
After my mother passed away from breast cancer, my father sold everything and bought a trailer home for $10,000 and paid $400 per month for trailer spot. He lived on his $1,000 per month pension, banked his $1,000 per month Social Security benefits for eight years. When he was diagnosed with throat cancer and died six weeks later, all the money he saved from Social Security paid his hospital bills and funeral expenses.
For my father, this was an ideal retirement as he died with no debts and wasn't a financial burden to the family. For my older brother, he thought it was embarrassing that his step-father died poor from not pursuing the American Dream of having it all. For me, I thought my father was a perfect example of living a modest lifestyle.
Of course. No one wants to confuse Linux 3 with Windows 3.
How is that supposed to make sense?
Trump logic. If it's little, make it YUGE!
Give a five-year-old a nod, he'll come back with all kinds of bait-and-switch naughtiness.
Once natural selection takes care of the scum like you, rates will rise again.
Unlikely. Humanity doubled in size twice in the 20th century. It won't even double once in the 21st century.