Padawanbater2
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How the wealthy constantly screw the poor
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Padawanbater2
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Trump budget: $800 billion in Medicaid cuts
As a result, the wealthiest Americans will see at least +$200,000 in tax cuts per year while 25 million are kicked off of health insurance
As a result, the wealthiest Americans will see at least +$200,000 in tax cuts per year while 25 million are kicked off of health insurance
ttystikk
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This makes me sick, and I know it's just the tip of the class warfare iceberg.
TacoMac
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Years ago, I remember my boss telling me the company couldn't afford raises.
Then his wife pulls up in a brand new E class Mercedes.
Then they couldn't afford Christmas bonuses.
His daughter comes in from college in her brand new Cadillac STS.
Then they couldn't afford paid time off for any holidays anymore.
They bought a new beach house in St. Augustine, Florida and a new 50 foot boat.
On a Friday afternoon in August of 2001, while they were all out on their boat off the coast of St. Augustine, everybody walked out. All 22 of us. We locked the doors, turned out the lights, and left. None of us ever went back.
They went belly up a year and a half later.
All it takes to overcome the rich is the conviction to put them in their place. Sadly, the people of this country don't have it on anything approaching a large scale.
You want Walmart out of business? Stop buying from them. They'll go under.
You sick of the stupid amounts of money professional sports teams are charging for tickets? Stop buying them. Completely. They'll all go under.
Anything we as a people want done we can make happen, we're just spineless pussies that will never follow through with doing it. It's we that are the problem, not the rich.
The rich only do it because we let them do it.
Then his wife pulls up in a brand new E class Mercedes.
Then they couldn't afford Christmas bonuses.
His daughter comes in from college in her brand new Cadillac STS.
Then they couldn't afford paid time off for any holidays anymore.
They bought a new beach house in St. Augustine, Florida and a new 50 foot boat.
On a Friday afternoon in August of 2001, while they were all out on their boat off the coast of St. Augustine, everybody walked out. All 22 of us. We locked the doors, turned out the lights, and left. None of us ever went back.
They went belly up a year and a half later.
All it takes to overcome the rich is the conviction to put them in their place. Sadly, the people of this country don't have it on anything approaching a large scale.
You want Walmart out of business? Stop buying from them. They'll go under.
You sick of the stupid amounts of money professional sports teams are charging for tickets? Stop buying them. Completely. They'll all go under.
Anything we as a people want done we can make happen, we're just spineless pussies that will never follow through with doing it. It's we that are the problem, not the rich.
The rich only do it because we let them do it.
I want small businesses to realize they are not C corps and vote left; I've stopped buying from them because I used to support to the point of where I'd spend 50% more for the SAME product at Wal-mart and THEY don't get it..I put myself out for them- no more.
I did this forever and stopped a few months ago- tired of putting myself out financially for my neighbor when they don't return the favor.
Rob Roy
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Some good points in your post.
Rob Roy
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Licensure and regulation (government constructs) are what disallow the emergence of real competition in a given market.
A free market rewards excellence and provides consumer value. An unfree market featuring government rules will always be skewed, since it reduces the amount of potential service provides, thus stifling innovation and causing protected prices to the detriment of the consumer.
A free market rewards excellence and provides consumer value. An unfree market featuring government rules will always be skewed, since it reduces the amount of potential service provides, thus stifling innovation and causing protected prices to the detriment of the consumer.
DiogenesTheWiser
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Question: What happened to your former employer and their family. Their business went belly up but that was an LLC, right? They're still rich, right?
Not disagreeing with anything you wrote, just curious about the fate of the wealth after the exploited stood up to them. Usually in this country when that happens, the rich come out just fine...because they're rich!
They don't spend their money and live quite frugally..
Mitt Romney turns off the hot water tank located outside the elevator past the 10 cars..
TacoMac
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Being an LLC doesn't stop you from going broke. It only protects you from how much you can be sued for.
They came back 10 days later to find that a good many of their contracts had been cancelled. They started calling everybody to find out what had happened. It took them another several weeks to hire people to replace us, and they did it in such a hurry that the people they hired weren't really that well experienced, so they lost even more clients to that.
Then of course all those mega bills they racked up started catching up to them.
I wasn't there when it happened, but a couple of my former workmates were there when they shut the place down and started auctioning off equipment. A couple of months later, the boss blew his brains out at a Motel 6 down the street from where the office was.
I have no idea, nor do I care, what happened to his wife and daughter.
DiogenesTheWiser
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Wow, what a story. Usual experiences of mine is that the owners of the means of production rarely if ever have their comeuppance.
ttystikk
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I've always striven to take care of my people as well as they treat me.
Often, this meant letting slackers go, because I didn't want them dragging good people down.
I'd bend over backwards for people who busted ass for me, and they knew it.
TacoMac
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I worked for a man like that when I was young back in the early '90's. He was not just the owner and my boss, but my friend.
When I first got there, he had 12 employees. Within 1 year, I alone replaced 6 of them. In the end, it was just him and me.
He went back to real estate. I carried on in printing/graphics for a while (the last being the above story), but eventually left it to teach.
To this day, I still remember the most profound thing he ever taught me after my first wife had left (and that is a story to end all stories). He said, "In the end, there are no excuses for ever making a mistake. None. Not one. However, there are two very good reasons: number one - you didn't know; number two - you didn't care."
He was, and still is correct. More importantly, he is still to this day my good friend.
UncleBuck
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Cool imaginary story.
Moldy
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I was lucky, I had good employers throughout my working history. Sure, I had one boss/owner that ran the company into the dirt by overspending on his personal shit and not paying payroll taxes. But after that one back in the early 70's all my employers were straight up. The last company I retired from was family owned by a Jewish family. They always gave a ham for Easter and Xmas (nice bonus too) and made sure everyone got the same treatment. When I retired they gave me a car and a very nice cash bonus. Better lucky than good.
ttystikk
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UncleBuck
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we're jewish and eat ham all the time. only about 1 in 5 jews keep kosher.
the fuck is wrong with these bernie lovers?
TacoMac
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It's not hard to believe at all for me. I worked for a Muslim family that did the same thing. They wanted so very hard to do the right thing by us...almost to a fault.
One day I went looking for the bindery production manager, who was a black fellow and couldn't find him anywhere. I went up front and the receptionist was not there either. I finally went into the general manager (one of the family) and asked where the bindery manager was (I needed his figures to set schedules as I was the production manager).
He just looked at me as if I should have known and said, "Well, it's Martin Luther King day." as if that explained everything.
They had given only the black folks the day off paid.
It's how they roll, man.
ttystikk
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Stuck in the past, I guess. Seriously, I thought eating kosher was more common than you're telling me.
What the fuck is wrong with you, dissing me because I'm trying to keep up with cultural norms?
ttystikk
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That's a class act.