Jesus Is Dead In My Basement Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 The Working Class or The CEO's and Executives?
guitarmann199 Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 working class the CEOs are just a holes who need to be fired and need to pay the country back they got the money too what about all those fancy houses everywhere, what about the cars? its not hard for them at all they just laugh while all us honest folks try to make a buck with a little thing called all american hard work
surfpup Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 Oh, the CEOs and Executives have it harder for sure! Should I have the seared tuna or the rack of lamb? Are you serious in this question? Sure there is pressure being in charge of a large endeavor, but do you really think the execs would want to swap for a second with someone who has to work hard for one hundredth of their salary?
Jesus Is Dead In My Basement Posted April 10, 2009 Author Posted April 10, 2009 Oh' date=' the CEOs and Executives have it harder for sure! Should I have the seared tuna or the rack of lamb? Are you serious in this question? Sure there is pressure being in charge of a large endeavor, but do you really think the execs would want to swap for a second with someone who has to work hard for one hundredth of their salary?[/quote'] I just heard that Banana Republic ran out of Khakis.
Murph Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 I work for my money. I'm debt free. I own my home, and 30+ acres of land. I'm not asking for a bailout, nor would I take one. I don't really give a damn who is too stupid to pay their bills (that they took on) , or bought a house they can't afford. When I was broke and busted in the early '80's I had to figure it out myself, and by God I did. That'll never happen again. The problem is, this generation may never figure it out, because the Government will just steal the money from me, to pay for their stupidity. How this plays out is pretty simple. And very well planned. But. Let me say this....... It's not gonna be pretty. Murph.
dc3c46 Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 I work for my money. I'm debt free. I own my home' date=' and 30+ acres of land. I'm not asking for a bailout, nor would I take one. I don't really give a damn who is too stupid to pay their bills (that they took on) , or bought a house they can't afford. When I was broke and busted in the early '80's I had to figure it out myself, and by God I did. That'll never happen again. The problem is, this generation may never figure it out, because the Government will just steal the money from me, to pay for their stupidity. How this plays out is pretty simple. And very well planned. But. Let me say this....... It's not gonna be pretty. Murph.[/quote'] +1
Murph Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 America has a working class? Yea, don't write us off yet. Most of us still have family here. And guns. It ain't over until we give up. I don't see that happening. Murph.
Rocky4 Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 Yea' date=' don't write us off yet. Most of us still have family here. And guns. It ain't over until we give up. I don't see that happening. Murph.[/quote'] I'm one of em I love what I do
Jesus Is Dead In My Basement Posted April 10, 2009 Author Posted April 10, 2009 I'm one of em I love what I do I am a Working Class American as well.
rocketman Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 I work for my money. Couldn't agree more. It's hard to explain how I'm the exception to the normal professor life. I actually generate more money in overhead from projects than my current salary. And these days most projects require you to build something useful (the days of paper pushing are long gone). Plus I've helped many companies bring in business based on my innovations. I never spent beyond my means, learned to live on my 9 month salary (my summer support from projects is "bonus money" for me, which is mostly invested, but an occasional guitar and BMW gets purchased here and there), and I put 15% of my salary into retirement in addition to a college fund for my kid. I also work upwards of 60 hours a week (well it's not real work because I love my job). But now I'm being asked to pay for other peoples excesses. Well they can all b!te me!!
wicked1 Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 I make my money the old fashioned way. Prostitution?
wicked1 Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 Inheritance I'm personally gunning for "kept woman."
Jesus Is Dead In My Basement Posted April 10, 2009 Author Posted April 10, 2009 Hookers do we have hookers? I had a Japanese Hooker but the Cops deported her. Sad day in America when you cant have Imported sex.
wicked1 Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 I had a Japanese Hooker but the Cops deported her. Sad day in America when you cant have Imported sex. Couldn't you just follow her to Japan?? Sex in foreign countries can be fun! :)
tuckomf Posted April 11, 2009 Posted April 11, 2009 Ask anybody out there, and they'll tell you that they have it harder than whoever is on the opposite end of the spectrum. It's usually accompanied with "What the other side doesn't realize about my side is..." Just shut up and live already. If you make money, good for you. If you lose money, too bad. But it is, after all, ONLY money. Once I got a better job and got married, our income put us in a higher tax bracket than we were used to. It was a shock at first, but then again.... I have a better job. And a wife. And our combined income allows us to live comfortably and buy a few toys and a house. As long as I'm in the black and I have a warm body to curl up with, a few guitars to play, and a place to call my own, I don't care how much I get taxed.
Jesus Is Dead In My Basement Posted April 11, 2009 Author Posted April 11, 2009 Couldn't you just follow her to Japan?? Sex in foreign countries can be fun! :) Yeah but i owe the Japanese Government a playstation 3.
Jesus Is Dead In My Basement Posted April 11, 2009 Author Posted April 11, 2009 Ask anybody out there' date=' and they'll tell you that they have it harder than whoever is on the opposite end of the spectrum. It's usually accompanied with "What the other side doesn't realize about my side is..." Just shut up and live already. If you make money, good for you. If you lose money, too bad. But it is, after all, ONLY money. Once I got a better job and got married, our income put us in a higher tax bracket than we were used to. It was a shock at first, but then again.... I have a better job. And a wife. And our combined income allows us to live comfortably and buy a few toys and a house. As long as I'm in the black and I have a warm body to curl up with, a few guitars to play, and a place to call my own, I don't care how much I get taxed.[/quote'] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oof60kDFqAc
KSG_Standard Posted April 11, 2009 Posted April 11, 2009 I've been a worker bee, a mid-level manager and an executive. I had to work hard at every position. As a worker bee, I got to start my day and end it at regularly scheduled times (for the most part) and I got a steady paycheck, didn't have to worry about the health of the company every waking minute and got to spend almost every night at home with my family. As an executive, I was always working, always on call, always attached to my cell phone, I traveled 5 days per week, every week for about 10 years. I was reviewed and my decisions were analyzed daily by other execs, my job might have seemed more secure to the folks that worked for me, but my job felt much less secure to me. I made at least 10 times the salary as an executive, but the money was almost all at risk. I was never home with my family. Both kinds of jobs have benefits, and both kinds of jobs have their drawbacks. It's always easy to judge a book by it's cover, but that kind of judgement is not always correct...
callen3615 Posted April 11, 2009 Posted April 11, 2009 I learned from watching my dad, just because you make a good paycheck doesnt make you like your job.
djroge1 Posted April 11, 2009 Posted April 11, 2009 I would add that not all CEO's are crooked money grabbing snobs. Sure we've heard about a lot recently in the news and there are plenty more out there, but it would be wrong to group all of them into one category. To help think of it another way consider the military. We have officers and enlisted. The officers are equated to the CEO since they plan and make the big decisions. On the other end we have the enlisted working class. I used to always tell people, "Don't call me sir, I work for a living." While there is some truth to that, the reality is that it took both officers and enlisted to accomplish any given mission. Some officers were fine respectible people while others were only climbing a ladder and you could tell the difference (the same could be said for the enlisted ones too). Too many chiefs and not enough indians doesn't work nor does too many indians and not enough chiefs - no offense to those of us who have native american heritage as it's just an expression to explain a truth.
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