(04-04-2019 10:31 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(04-04-2019 09:53 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(04-04-2019 06:58 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(04-04-2019 05:48 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Got in my quarterly statements today. Trump can tell all the bad jokes he wants and nickname anybody he wants as long as the economy keeps up this performance.

I live off my retirement funds and support my invalid sister from them, so maybe this means more to me than it does to you paycheck cashers.

Whats with the paycheck casher line?

I roughly divide people into two groups.

The first is entrepreneurs, company officers, managers, etc. they are the people who worry about how to make payroll. They have skin in the game. I call them paycheck signers.

The other group are employees who have little skin in the game, and little understanding of business or economics. I call them paycheck signers.

It has nothing to do with the size of the checks. A self-employed plumber is a check signer. The head of security for a Fortune 500 company is a paycheck casher.

Do you sign paychecks, lad? My guess is no.

Do you have a 401K? My guess is yes, and that you are happy with the returns you got this past quarter. Do you hope for those returns to continue? I do, and that is one reason I won't be voting for the Democrat on 2020.

Listened some to Howard Schultz today. If I don't vote GOP, he is a viable alternative. My guess is that you did not hear him.

did I go 3-3 with my guesses?

OO... how did you enjoy your returns under the Obama presidency? Did you vote for him for his second term based on those returns?

Why do you assume that Lad is not one of your vaunted "paycheck signers"? Is it a pure percentage play given that the majority of people are employees rather than employers or is it something specific to Lad?

Nope. I could not stand his apology tour. I didn't like the way he let Putin push him around. I didn't like the way he abandoned the Crimea. I didn't like the way he abandoned Israel. I did not agree with his health care plan. I didn't like being called a bitter clinger. And BTW, he is a great example of a casher. When did he start a business, run a business, finance a business? His business experience was less than that of a kid with a lemonade stand. To this day, he gets checks from speaking engagements and book publishers, and cashes them.

I vaunt paycheck signers? What exactly does that mean?

Obviously, not all paycheck signers or cashers are the same. But so many cashers are anti-business, anti-boss, and anti-wealth. I blame it on a lack of understanding. They have never walked a mile in the boss's shoes. When did AOC ever have any skin in the game? Maybe that is why it is so easy for her to make the proposals she does. Easy to decide what to do with OPM when you never had to put any of your own in.

I would rather have leaders who have some idea of what it takes for the millions of business owners in this country to open a business and to stay in business, rather than somebody who thinks making a profit and growing a business is inherently evil. Maybe that is one reason I liked Schultz. He's been there. Harris, Biden, O'Rourke, et al, not so much.

Yeah, if the stock market falls 25% between now and election day, I won't be happy, but a lot of Democrats will be. Why is misery, loss, and unemployment on their wish list? Oh, yeah, gotta win the WH.