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ParticipantGo even simpler, go single payer. Eliminate all the office staff and insurance overhead that is bundled in costs to handle the insane billing hoops.
Participant[quote=flu]Geesh BG, how many “illegals” mexicans and “anchor babies” stole your paralegal jobs? Really?
It’s like the same question I asked Paramount. How many H1-B or even U.S. citizens that are asian stole Paramount’s defense jobs?
Seems like there’s a lot of hate and blame going around. Don’t get it when it doesn’t appear to apply.[/quote]
Not to side with Trump, however, I think the relevant discussion point is bad corporate behavior. That discontent is getting targeted at the people being employed.
A good example, is Disney’s failed IT outsourcing attempt in Orlando.
And ironically, Trump’s own exploitation of H2-Bs for temp labor in his hotel.
ParticipantTrump hasn’t even gotten 40% of the popular vote. Go add the numbers. He’s “winning” but usually with. Umbels in the high thirties.
More don’t want him than want him.
ParticipantWhat if what needs to change is the financial culture of our country?
ParticipantDirect Deposit is nice.
Paper check mailed has been fine. (hint, if you’re worried the check is going to be claimed lost in the mail, you’ve picked the wrong tenant.)
When I was a tenant, a landlord picking up the check was always a PIA and factored in me moving.
ParticipantLooks like police have released the video from the gas station altercation.
ParticipantAs said, one month and twelve months.
As for mangement firm, no way unless remote, like two plus hours away.
The work is two fold, screening and selecting a tenant and operations grunt work.
The grunt work boils down to cashing the check, scheduling preventative stuff like AC/Hvac service twice a year and handling the hopefully odd as in (annual) call for something flaking out. Plus the annual visit to view the rental for wear concerns. Granted, a condo for a single something in a party zone may have completely different ops requirements.
The screening work is the critical part. Review the credit situation, talk and LISTEN to the tenant and pick.
When the tenant moves out, you schedule cleanup, listing and refurb if needed. Repeat screening process. Done right, no reason to not have a tenant that stays long term.
A PM firm will churn your tenants as most have clauses where they get tenant placement and listing fees.
ParticipantIn my personal experience, Trump’s on podium personality is pretty representative of the C-level in business when they drop their PR mask. Bigger companies have a modicum of veneer, but small business lacks even that.
While Fortune 500 C-level is predominantly white and male and individuals may have some racism, I think the issue is they are really more cliquish than racist. best case you get group think, worst case, you’ve got the equivalent of a drunken Frat if you’re lucky and a street gang if you’re not.
The problem isn’t race, the problem is they pick people like them, think like them, behave like them, do sh*t like them and tells stories like them.
It’s the same shitty bar, white, black, latino, asian, male or female.
That’s IMO, YMMV.
Participant[quote=AN][quote=bearishgurl][quote=AN][quote=flu]To be fair, I don’t this sort of racism was any more or less than before Trump. Its probably always existed. Its just now people probably think it is acceptable behavior.[/quote]I don’t think Trump is making America more racist. But I do think he make those closet racist to think it’s OK to say it out loud and “make America great again”.[/quote]If this is actually, true, why should any of us be bothered by the utterance of a “racist” idiot? Is this person actually your boss, your pastor or your landlord? Just let it roll off your back.[/quote]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-violence_us_56e6ca5fe4b065e2e3d66f79
Easy for you to say. No one is going to beat you up because of your skin color.[/quote]http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article66147652.html
The police are using plenty of caution. Reviewing multiple videos, other witnesses in the parking lot.
ParticipantBunk, I too worked in Detroit once removed from auto. Go and Chrysler died because executive management took theceasybpath and short term profits and gains for themselves instead of making necessary structural changes.
Sure the unions were tone deaf, management was short sighted.
[quote=njtosd][quote=bearishgurl]
The “desperation” you describe isn’t about race. It’s about families which have, for generations, been able to support themselves with union factory jobs with full benefits and now find themselves permanently out of work and their long-owned homes worth nearly nothing, due to lack of living-wage jobs in the area. They can’t even sell their homes and transfer out of the region for a better job and likely can’t find good renters because there aren’t any living-wage jobs in the region. I can see why these people feel that they’re “stuck” and frustrated with NAFTA, etc.[/quote]
BG – I grew up outside of Detroit and although my Dad wasn’t directly employed by the auto companies we were supported by the auto companies once removed, like almost everyone in Detroit. I could see in the 1980s that Detroit was in a death spiral and when I looked for a job I looked in Chicago as did my sister and brother. I know lots of people who stayed because it was easier to hang around where things were familiar (and getting cheaper by the day). People are responsible for finding work where the work exists – the world is not responsible for providing jobs where people choose to live (which is how my Irish ancestors ended up in the U.S. . . . )
The death of Detroit is attributable to the over reaching of the auto unions and the tendency of Detroit politicians to tax city businesses who couldn’t vote against them (the owners generally weren’t city residents). In addition, the weather is as bad in Detroit as it is good in San Diego. My Dad’s firm moved from downtown to the suburbs due to the political climate and the growing crime problem. . . and I haven’t heard of many businesses moving back.
We as individuals are responsible for finding a way to support our families. No one owes me a job anywhere. If I’m lucky enough to get a job in the place that I want – that’s a plus. People need to prepare themselves for engineering jobs in Minnesota and Wisconsin or wherever, not comparative religion “jobs” in San Diego. And if they don’t prepare themselves, they are at the mercy of the job creators. Maybe it’s not desirable – but as long as people blame their failures on factors outside of their control they are destined for more failure.[/quote]
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Agree.
I was wrong for thinking trump was entertaining.
It is not funny anymore.
The republicans need to shut him down. Just change the rules and put someone not insane and preferably not Cruz on the ticket. Screw trump.[/quote]
No. America desperately needs Trump. The disenfranchisement, the resentment, has metastasized into full blown cancer and the people haven’t realized it.
Pushing it under at this point will make it worse going forward.
What America needs, is for Trump to be the nominee and for decent Americans to give him the pummeling he deserves and not just pummel, but give the embarrassing exposure that he needs.
Suppressing it will not make this cancer go away, it will make it stronger the next time it rises, which will be rapid. Literally, next election cycle.
No, the American people really need to see Trump and what he’s doing for what it is and to that they’re getting hijacked by the cancer and need to eradicate it.
Perhaps we’ll get lucky and one party will collapse and we’ll end up with a fight in one majority party between extremists and moderates.
Unfortunately, Hillary makes this less likely, IMHO as she represents the status quo that is leaving 90% of our country behind.
ParticipantMore like Deutschland 1932.
ParticipantI don’t think any of them will care anywhere. Those in power and with money hear Trump pretty clearly. He may say Muslim, Hispanic or any other dterm but I suspect they hear the poor, politically weak and really, the 99%.
You’re just a loser to him. Cattle to be farmed.
ParticipantTo date the vast majority of accidents involve the Google car getting rear ended.
The laws of the road are the real world. Bump something and you’ll find out how quickly they apply.
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