Turtle keeper

Yep Milosia2. Just think how many people would be out of business either way. Raise your prices to cover the new cost of employees and go broke or raise the cost of employees and go broke. Either way employees lose!!!! It happened in Mother Russia

Turtle keeper

Is this really M Obama writing under a pen name??? She h**es this country as much as you do. I know a young man in another country that can’t live well with the jobs he can get but let me tell ya. He has a mouthful of beautiful teeth. The govment’ pays for that but he can’t go to school because his family doesn’t have enough money. That’s messed up.

JR-57 Loc: South Carolina

Last time I checked, Biden is President and had two years with the Democrats in charge of Congress. Couple that with the 8 year Obama reign and ask yourself why the problems you see still exist. This isn’t a D or an R issue, it’s a federal government issue in general. Too large and way too corrupt.

Turtle keeper

Because the Democrats only want to talk about and pass new bills that take Billions and the last 2 years Trillions of dollars. If they can’t spend money they would panic attacks

JuristBooks Loc: North Carolina

The Lust for MONEY and power by inept, incompetent BureauRats and self-serving politicians.
Death Becomes them.

JR-57 Loc: South Carolina

You and I will never see eye to eye on this. I’ve tried to understand how you ended up with the attitude you have toward people with money. I’ve asked many questions of you and have never received a response, just more rhetoric and rants. I’m going to share with you one last time, then you are dead to me.

I’m part of that wealthy group you condemn. I’ve owned two businesses. The first I lost due to mistrust in my wife and mistrust in my business partner. My business partner screwed me and the company. My former wife screwed me and one of my so called best friends. Poor judgement on my part in both cases and I paid the price, literally. I lost everything. I started over at 42 years old with $5,000 to my name. I went back into the workforce and within 3 years left and started my second company. Not long ago I sold that company. During the past 20 years I hired on ability and ability only. Out of eventually 128 employees I had 2 leave the company during that period. I never fired anyone or laid anyone off during that time. Even during slow times we found something for everyone to do. As a point of reference, I employed high-tech engineers, machinists, assemblers down to entry level sweepers. I employed a CFO and an extremely talented research & development engineer who in my last two years with the company was paid more than me after his bonus and incentive pay. I made out very well when I sold the company. I want for nothing but I also have fairly modest requirements for me to be content. But that’s not the point I want to make with you. What I just shared can be accomplished with passion, a strong work ethic, perseverance, self reliance and respect for those that share the same values.

My father dropped out of school at the age of 15 to run the family farm, after his father abandoned the family.
The older of four siblings, he wasn’t able to make it go and they lost the farm.
He moved the family to a small nearby town and searched for employment to make ends meet. At the age of 17 he enlisted in the Marines in order to have a steady pay check to send home to his mother to raise the family.
After leaving the Marines he worked manual labor jobs until his retirement as a long time truck driver, of which he was proud. I don’t recall how many years and miles without one single accident.
Even when he was laid off he didn’t collect unemployment. He’d find side jobs to make those ends meet. I recall him hauling and unloading frozen quarters of beef. He’d come home at night with his back all colors of black, blue, red and yellow from bruising. Not one complaint and get up the next morning to do it again.
I was the first person in my family to graduate from high school. I was offered a full scholarship to study jazz. My dad, without any I’ll intent, asked… How do you make a living doing that? I declined the scholarship. I had so much respect for him and still do.
I couldn’t afford college and instead received a 2 year associate degree in mechanical design. I was independent and paid my own way since the age of 18. I worked two part time jobs while attending school.
Early in my career I was fortunate to have superiors who gave me the opportunity to prove myself, not based on a degree but based on potential and effort.
I took advantage of every opportunity offered to me and worked harder each time.
I started my first business at the age of 33. If you’ve read above you know how that turned out.

Am I now wealthy? More than you can imagine. Hell, more than I ever imagined. Am I one of the evil wealthy people you condemn? I’ve donated no less than 20% of my earnings since I was 35 not to mention countless hours of volunteering my time. I was responsible for providing the same opportunities I received to 128 people in my company. So when you light off on “the wealthy”, as the meme says, I take that personally.

I’m of average intelligence. Very intelligent in some areas and dumber than a fence post in others. My main point is, if I can do it anyone can. If you haven’t, it’s your own damn fault.

As I said earlier, after this rant, you are dead to me. Please excuse any misspelled words or grammar mistakes. It’s not worth my time to proof this and my second Manhattan of the night is melting down.

son of witless

You are so wonderfully clueless. You absolutely stun me into speechlessness. How do you come up with these thoughts ?

" Your country is failing right now.
How did we get to the year 2023 ?
Today it will be a wonder if we can make it 2 more years under
Teapublitaryan Leadership ? "

Are you an adviser to President Joe Biden ? You have to be to say what you said. Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chucky Schumer have pretty much been calling the shots for two years, and yet you have the gall to ask " How did we get to the year 2023 ? "

You guys still have the White House and the Senate. Republicans have the thinnest of of majorities in the House and you have the further gall to exclaim " Today it will be a wonder if we can make it 2 more years under
Teapublitaryan Leadership ? "

You positively amaze me. You are a credit to the left.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

The prices are all out of sight. Dallas; dbl meat whopper, medium fries and medium drink is $16.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

My money started drying up the moment Biden took office.

son of witless

My retirement account lost 13.43 % in 2022. Add in 8 % inflation and I have lost lost 21 % of my purchasing power. Thanks Joe v**ers. I h**e stupid people.

Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

While we’re on the subject of sharing JR, I’ll share my story. This is something else that Milosia doesn’t understand – having perseverance and a strong work ethic instilled in you.

As a kid, earned a quarter per week doing chores around the house. Usually spent it on penny candy and 12 cent comic books. Wanted a football game that cost $3 so I had to save up for it for 3 months without candy or comics, an eternity to an eight-year-old, but I was successful. At the time I went to buy it I found out I needed nine cents for sales tax so I dejectedly thought I was going to have to wait ONE MORE WEEK. My father later told me that he was so proud of me that he reached in his coin purse and sprung for the sales tax.

At twelve I started a paper route and got EXCELLENT experience running a small business. Saved up for things such as a cassette-radio and went on an eighth-grade class trip to Washington DC at thirteen, paying for it myself along with new clothes.

At sixteen, got a part-time after school job as a stockboy at a light fixture store where I worked through high school and two years after high school. Got my first car and paid for the insurance and gas for it. My senior year of high school I applied for a 4-year machinist apprenticeship that was equivalent to a bachelor’s degree in manufacturing engineering but didn’t pass the entrance exam so I took night classes at the local community college; going to high school during the day, working after school and going to night school after that. I eventually finished that and passed the entrance exam the second time with flying colors and was put on a waiting list for my machinist apprenticeship. During that time, I was laid off from the light fixture store and had a job within the day at another one that I worked for until I started my apprenticeship.

At nineteen, I started working full-time as a machinist apprentice, working in a factory and taking classes. Three years later I was laid off and that division eventually closed. I was laid off for a year with 95% pay which made it disadvantageous to find another job – see how that works Milosia if you’re reading this. So, after the year off work, because of the work ethic and sk**ls I had acquired so far, I applied for and was hired as a quality control inspector. A few weeks later, having heard that another division in my old company was hiring, I applied and was hired by them the only caveat being was I had to move two states away at the tender age of 23. I didn’t get directly hired into the apprenticeship but was able to get back in after 4 months. The only thing was a short time later I got laid off 5 months before a 9-month labor strike happened and I wasn’t called back until 3 months after the strike ended.

During my layoff, I went back home, and again with the sk**ls I acquired and despite the unemployment rate in my county being 14 percent, I got another job as a final line inspector. I was later promoted to Layout Analyst before I was called back 8 months later and returned to my apprenticeship, something I had a strong desire to complete and the fact the company offered good future opportunities.

I could go on but you get the picture. I’ll finish by saying that it took seven years, but I eventually graduated from my apprenticeship and went on to work 25 years in manufacturing in increasing levels of responsibility and salary. After retirement, not wanting to quit work, I was able to leverage my sk**ls and experience to work 9 years as a Supply Optimization Analyst at a major fork lift truck parts distribution center. So, with a little bit of smarts, a little bit of luck, hard work, and perseverance – something I don’t think was ever instilled in Milosia – my wife and I have forged out a comfortable and content life. I know that you’re jealous of JR and me Milosia because of everything we’ve worked for – unlike you Milosia – we live quite a comfortable and content life.

JR-57 Loc: South Carolina

👍🏻👍🏻

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

So do I!!!! They obviously haven't looked at their accounts lately.

JuristBooks Loc: North Carolina

That was an excellent right jab followed by a left uppercut.
Nicely worded.

tiredofcrap

JR. I believe f all was known Milisoi2 was a and may still be a pot head. He or she lived in Mommy and Daddies basement. when it came out of the basement for a job it thought that a living could be made as a "you want fries with that" job. I bet before the job interview it practiced the line over and over.