sho Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 21 hours ago, BigRedBuster said: This is why politicizing these things just wreaks. It's idiotic to think that all of a sudden Walmart is giving raises to everyone because of the tax cut. Someone one twitter did the math on this, and I can't remember who or i'd post it. The 'bonus' equates to roughly $180 an employee. The bonus will be roughly $400M, closing these 60+ stores will save the company $220M. Now Walmart is still paying $180M that they are bonusing to employees, which is nice. Also, nice that the new tax bill will save Walmart $18B. If Walmart would have actually used the tax savings and split it evenly to employees, every employee would have received over $8,500. The 'bonus' looks nice, but it's token gesture by Walmart to say thanks for the huge savings. It's like if someone found my wallet that I lost and had $100 in it and as a thank you, I gave them a penny. 1 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Soo....if the Republicans don't pass something by tonight, he doesn't get to hang out at Mara Lago this weekend and golf??? 1 Link to comment
schriznoeder Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said: Soo....if the Republicans don't pass something by tonight, he doesn't get to hang out at Mara Lago this weekend and golf??? And if he doesn't golf every single weekend, how is his handicap going to get any better? Oh, the injustice! Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 So.....the president uses an executive order to do one hell of a lot of things that hurt people. But, he tries to tell the American people that a government shut down will hurt the military and veterans.....instead of just signing a simple bill or an order to make sure it doesn’t. 1 Link to comment
Moiraine Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 (edited) We're now shutting the government down over the border wall Mexico was supposed to pay for, and it's somehow Chuck Schumer's fault. Edited January 20, 2018 by Moiraine Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 1 minute ago, Moiraine said: We're now shutting the government down over the border wall Mexico was supposed to pay for, and it's somehow Chuck Schumer's fault. Well....duh...... Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 This is going to be very interesting to see how this ends up. Trump came into office with the economy on a slow but steady upswing. Over the previous 6-7 years, unemployment steadily decreased, jobs were created, stock market rose...etc. Republicans flat out couldn't admit to that and called all the reports on jobs and unemployment fake. Now, they are touting those same reports claiming Trump has miraculously turned everything around and the economy is booming....all because of Trump. I was riding with my father down I-80 this weekend when he saw a coal train going down the tracks. He said, "I think theirs more coal trains now than there were.....it must be because the economy is booming now". The mentality of Republicans now is totally baffling on how they can talk themselves into believe that because Trump is in office, everything is fantastic. 2 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted January 29, 2018 Author Share Posted January 29, 2018 So in other words, because we are a consumer driven economy, more immigration is needed and not less. Birth rates are such that internal growth isn't sufficient to drive the economy - while not as bad as several European countries and Russia (we haven't announced a "make a baby day" like they did in Russia for example), it is sufficiently slow to slow down consumerism. It also lowers that worker vs social security ratio - we need sufficient workers to fund the huge # of us who have retired or will retire in the next 10 years. Funny think, those families that come from south of the board tend fit the bill - hard working, large families who tend to be loyal. Some bad apples for sure, but there have been a few bad apples that were internally grown as well. 4 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Love me some Krugman, BRB. Good stuff. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Ahhh.....I forgot....we aren't supposed to worry about this anymore. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Wow....I don't think this plant was opened that long ago. 1 Link to comment
Fru Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Gosh darn I'm sick of all this winning. Link to comment
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