birdog1960
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This will ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS be the case. People will have good, very successful, parents. Other people will have terrible, very successful parents. Other people will have good, but not 'successful' parents and even others will have terrible, not successful parents. What should we do about that? How will regulating CEO pay help those kids?
paying a living wage for their labor will help many of those kids when they get to working age. a sense of worth and value is perhaps the most important thing that can be provided. if the ceo's insist on billions in compensation yet pay a living wage, i'm ok with that too. but they won't.
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Luck has very little to do with it. You make your own luck.
luck has much to do with it. there is not nearly as much upward economic mobility as most people believe. the economic strata you were born into will very, very likely be the highest strata you will obtain in your lifetime. that truth is only getting more evident with each passing year. the sperm (or womb) lottery is a really important predictor of ones financial and social destiny.
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So the busiest business in town is the opioid addiction clinic? I wonder if that has anything to do with their individual struggles.
These types of struggles have been going on for centuries and will continue for centuries long after we're all gone. Do you really think increasing this guys pay by a couple bucks an hour is going all of a sudden make his life enjoyable? Newsflash! It won't.
We're supposed to feel sad I guess. I actually feel better now knowing that if I hadn't made the choices I did in life I would have likely been in the same dead end life.
of course you see egg/chicken when it most likely is chicken/egg. people self medicate when they lead lives of quiet desperation.
yes, the struggles have existed for centuries. can we do better? don't we claim to be an advanced society?
interesting that you believe better pay wouldn't help at the same time it's being argued that a few stupid expenditures that amount to a short period of time working for that better pay are the cause of these folks struggles.
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This is true of most businesses. States and regions compete as the home of business. Boeing who opened a factory in my area won't be paying taxes for decades and was given free land and other tax incentives is not opening up its doors for the public or media, nor is anyone asking it to. Subsides and tax brakes are, however, a completely different issue from "media" access.
the obvious difference of course being the impact on good paying jobs created for everyday folk from subsidies to boeing versus the bills. but hey, we get a perennial loser to cheer for as a result all that money!
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Said it in a forum last week about someone's suggestion the team isn't transparent enough and I mentioned the media and then this buffoon wrote this today. No one has the right to access information from a private corporation, including the Bills. Buying a ticket or having a business card that says "reporter" (using the term loosely in this era of whiny opinionators) gives you zero rights to the teams information, practices, etc. There is no law that permits it, Freedom of Information doesn't apply. If you don't agree with it, don't buy a ticket, don't be a fan. It's really that simple. And if Yucky doesn't like it, have the news stop covering them. Oh wait, they won't, they'll just B word about this perceived injustice about something they have no claim to.
Man, it's sports people. Who really cares about what the team says, what happens in practice, and what the media says. You'll find it better as a fan to just watch for almost 4 hours in Sunday.
except in this case, this private corporation is subsidized by taxpayers. perhaps if the billionaires no longer asked the public to pay for their stadiums your point would be stronger.
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Behind the scenes at One Bills Drive:
Brainstorming session with ownership and upper level management.
Pegula - We have not made the playoffs since the last century. We currently hold the NFL record for consecutive seasons of futility. We need to end it this year. How do we accomplish it?
Get a better QB?
Groans heard around the room.
Fix the dumpster fire on the right side of the OL?
Sound of someone being escorted out of the building.
Get a quality WR to compliment Sammy and lessen double coverage of him?
Sound of someone being gagged.
Hire a coaching staff that tries to design our game strategy based on the skills and strengths of the players we have, rather than make them fit a generic predetermined strategy?
Brief violent scuffle, sound of someone being stuffed in the dumpster outside the building.
Draft smarter?
Another individual is escorted out of the building.
Pegula - It’s so hard to win when the reporters keep demoralizing our players.
Applause! Clapping!
Let’s hire a hit man to get rid of those traitorous reporters.
Pegula - Nice idea, but we might get caught.
SB- Let’s make such ridiculous restrictions on reporters that any reputable reporter with any integrity would not be able to follow them. That way the only reporters left following us will be our cheer-leading lapdogs.
Loud Spontaneous Applause.
Chants of Super Bowl ! Super Bowl! Super Bowl! SUPER BOWL!
Pegula – Make it so!
this.
like many here, the bills brass don't accept criticism well. the messengers are shot. those ultimately responsible for failure hold their jobs. business as usual.
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...Uh, he was dead. Not from a botched surgery though.
uh, he wasn't dead when he was her supposed "friend and mentor". she almost certainly felt she had something to gain from him and her relationship with him. she's an opportunist what pol except folks like bernie isn't?
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I can't believe gaytor and birddog haven't had to have their stomachs pumped from sucking so much of each others roosters.
sure. you never see agreement, support and coordinated attacks from the cons here...
So, voting against the Civil Rights act of 1964 can be nuanced. Got it. Like what the meaning of "is" is.
it was an incorrect vote. but he voted correctly other times including the voting act. on balance, he was much more progressive than Thurman or byrd. admittedly not saying much but it was the time and place for scumbags.
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So you agree that Senators Albert Gore, Sr., J. William Fulbright, and Robert Byrd are all despicable and dishonorable. Good.
Byrd, absolutely. Clinton's endorsement doesn't change his record. she probably needed something from him as I've said before, the only honorable candidate in the entire election cycle is Bernie.
Fulbright. don't know much about. was portrayed as needing his arm twisted on civil rights in the movie. whether that is accurate, I don't know.
gore sr was a relatively progressive southern dem., a rare bird in those days. had dealings with some undesirables like armand hammer and I understand there are some ethical questions concerning finances but I don't consider him in the same group. didn't vote for the civil rights act of 64 but did for the voting act. he was more a supporter of civil rights than almost any other southern colleague in a time and place that it was very difficult to be one. he must of had some principles but was not perfect.
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Which is why I understand why they continually insist that they are actually the original Republicans.
the movie based on a play, based on a book and rarely challenged for it's portrayal of the most powerful dixiecrats of the time explains who they were much better than a few sentences here can. a picture is worth a thousand words. call em whatever you want, i'll call them despicable and dishonorable.
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Are the Democrats still upset that they have a horribly racist history?
I would expect anyone that was directly connected to racists and didn't attempt to change that would be upset.
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what do they know?
just liberal academics publishing in scholarly journals...The reason why people can't have a productive debate on this issue is because they're asking different questions.
The right is asking how to improve the economics.
The left is asking how to enact social justice.
One is a question of math.
The other is one of fairness.
no. the piece linked above is an economic paper. fairness is a separate issue. the paper talks about the economic implications. you just don't agree with the conclusions or at least don't want to.
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People will often cite what their boss makes after they get laid off.
People also complain that they are not making as much as their co-workers regardless of their income.
Everyone complains that they are not provided enough for a comfortable living, even rich people.
often times justifiably so. what positive consequences result from someone making 100's of millions per year? it's more than they can ever likely spend. it's money not going to those who would spend it immediately because of need. there is a diminishing return on incentivizing those making those salaries above a threshold. and it leads to short term planning in many cases because c level execs can get rich and get out. damned be the future. all in all, it's counterproductive.
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What does this mean, and how would you accomplish that without violating laws?
The answer is obvious. 50% is more than 1%. Duh.
let's talk math then. does 100x the lowest wage incentivize people to work harder? 20x's? it did for centuries. why does it now take 1000's of X's? or does it really?
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Yes. And near the end of the movie they talk about how for the first time EVER Georgia voted Republican. Ya, just a coincidence that Goldwater was against Civil Rights legislation, on "Constitutional Grounds"
mm hmm...where have we heard that argument recently?
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Loved it! Reminds me of the Lincoln movie. Saw it this weekend. That scene about the women who was tortured in Mississippi by the police for registering blacks to vote was chilling. I had never heard that story, terrible!
I suspect it wasn't an isolated incident.
I think jboys might rethink his notion of southern democrat history if he watched this. Thurmond, Byrd and several other shameless racists are cast in an appropriate light after many years of unjustified cleansing of their reputations.
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Why doesn't it matter? It's the basis of your dogma for the last seven years.
giving that money directly to workers as a subsidy would be more effective in the short term (no trickle down lag or loss) and just as unsustainable. neither model matters. they won't work. we need taxation that redistributes wealth and removes the incentive for salaries 1000ands of times those of the lowest workers.
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Answer the question. How does the stock market affect wages?
doesn't matter. it's ultimately a losing formula.
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http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/19/media/all-the-way-hbo-movie-review/index.html
onr e of the best for tv movies I've ever seen. Spielberg produced. the acting is phenomenal and the subject matter compelling. anyone else see it?
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How does a rising stock market, propped up by the Fed, affect workers' wages?
It's unsustainable. what happens after the crash?
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and some people have figured out that there is a happy medium and it's worth having a bit less in order to smell the roses once in a while. Billy Joel told us abvout it years ago:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/billyjoel/movinoutanthonyssong.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UBpt1dya60
unfortunately, it gets more difficult by the day when wages stagnate and wealth concentrates at the top.
the need for laws like these http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-overtime-pay_us_5727b961e4b0bc9cb0442db9illustrate where much of the problems lie.
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Please point out where any of us have stated that all 2/3 of the us population mentioned in that article do not have $1,000 for an emergency because of themselves. I think your shot just went off the windmill.
yes, I meant to write circle jerk ad hominem but straw man holds as well. I never said splenectomy and shoulder surgery were in any way equivalent. that's just the kinda weak shite that passes for argument around here.
Because Mexico has laws that don't allow me to leave our country and enter and stay in theirs without a huge penalty.
well, no. seems more than a million expats have found a way. https://internationalliving.com/2014/09/the-best-places-to-live-in-mexico-as-a-u-s-expat/
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It's no surprise you've come to the wrong conclusion. Thanks for playing.
what is the opposite of hard work?
the opposite of dedication?
what descriptor does not "pouring everything into being successful" imply.
now it's a circle jerk concerted straw man attack. par for the putt putt course of tsw. that and calling something that is clearly black, white, while denying the existence of gray.
Bills have new media reporting guidelines
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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neither can I. that was funny!
The Bills can’t honestly believe their rivals are trying to gain an advantage from information gathered at their workouts. We’re talking about the Bills, not the Patriots. It’s not as if Buffalo holds some secret to success. They have a blueprint for what not to do. Stealing information from them is like cheating off the dumbest kid in class