Business is about making money for yourself. That's not why you're supposed to get into government. And when people DO get into government for that reason, they're corrupt. Ergo, business leaders shouldn't be politicians.
The problem (among many) of businesspeople in politics is that they confuse business with government. Yes, certain business practices (accounting, for instance) apply in politics. However, there is no bottom line in politics. Profit and loss statements are measured by methods other than money. Businesspeople confuse price with value.
verilyheld great scene from a miniseries about events prior to the First World War; Otto Von Bismarck explaining to German government ministers his plans to create social welfare programs to “take the wind out of the socialists.” The ministers complain about how much money this will cost, and Bismarck replies “A revolution would cost a lot more.”
Businessman sounds professional and solid. Community organizer sounds recreational. Community organizer is not a bad thing. It was a lazy & shitty excuse, among so many, conservatives used to gin up hatred for the man. Majority of businessmen are bullshitters. There out for themselves, not for everyone. Think about it. What do you gain from being a businessman? A profit. Money, money and more 💰. What does someone gain from being President?
Dick Cheney had business experience too. He worked for Halliburton. If I'm not mistaken, Cheney was once the CEO. Please stop electing big businessmen, America.
Running a business is completely different from running a country. When you run a country, you need everyone to do well, but you need to continue to encourage hard work, education, and health. Running a company ? If you don't like a guy's work, you fire him...you don't care whether he lives or dies. The company's bottom line is all that matters....
Harry Truman was an unsuccessful businessman, but was a great president. Abe Lincoln had a mediocre law practice business at best, didn't run any business at all.
Truman could only be seen as a great President when his administration was looked at 50 years later with rose-tinted glasses. That egomaniacal hayseed should never have been allowed anywhere near the job.
@@kieran1a2 Hmmm... His use of nuclear weapons in Japan smacked of an attempt to try and end the war in a way for him to avoid his treaty obligations to the USSR, despite the fact this let a very dangerous genie out of it's bottle. Then he proceeded to (depending on who you ask) either blunder into or play along with a war in all but name in Korea, that cost countless lives devastated the country and split it in two, and all this so he could create the very early stages of the military-industrial complex that so many Americans have a sick sort of love-hate relationship with.
I would be against a very successful businessperson for president. In order to be good at business, you have to be kind of a dick. We don't need those people in government. We need them employing people and paying taxes, that's it. And if they're in charge, there won't be anyone's interests but business interests on the table.
Well, some govermental organisations would greatly benefit from a business men's approach. Reducing the number of workers, making them more eficient, thus allowing tax cuts through decreased government waste.... a business mens îs especially necessary for state owned companies because a good bussiness men knows who to hire to put in charge of those companies to make them more competitive ... but that's really a problem more for europe than the US the US doesn't have any major government businesses. You are correct as well and maher too, government should deal with things that are not even supposed to turn a profit. But there are some thing a bussiness approach would do good in government.
RoScFan Certainly we need people who think that way, you're right. They serve an important purpose. If they're highly visible, like in gov., I think they do more damage than good.
We might also want to redefine "profit". Public education turns a huge profit - on the back end. Let's see how well our economy does when no one is educated. EPA? Property values in the entire Great lakes basin skyrocketed when our rivers stopped CATCHING ON FIRE! FEMA? Of course destroyed cities and towns, and dead people are far more productive that working cities and live people! Profit is not as easy to calculate as a balance sheet, and sometimes we actually have to just CARE about people.
The beauty of voting is that it's done in private. The bullying is illegal and should be brought out/exposed for what it is and legal action if deemed applicable. I thank your sister for doing that....in order to be free we have to fight these corporate lords. It's shameful but we are going to win. These people are desperate and they make me so angry. It's not that i don't trust romney he doesn't have my best interest at heart. He won't work for me, i'm working class.
Best line from this monologue: "Businessmen generally make lousy political leaders, because government isn't about turning a profit. It's about taking care of things that shouldn't have to turn a profit." I would add: given that government isn't about turning a profit or even efficiency, only have government take care of those things that are in fact essential so there is as little waste and bloat as possible.
During those "30 years" there have been more instances of RAISING taxes than LOWERING taxes. I am a small business owner and it is hard to employ anyone under the changes in laws and taxes over the past 4 years alone. I and many of my friends are struggling to get by. Lets use taxes for what they were intended when the constitution was written and not what it has turned into. By the time I pay income, federal, social security (which I will never see), medicaid, fuel, property, sales and other
I've never heard anyone describe the unethical business practices of Bain Capital on any news show but Bill Maher did it with pinpoint accuracy! I worked for a company that was bought by Bain for 2.1 BILLION DOLLARS and was laid off with the section that I worked in for 7 years due to the purchase of an inventory software package that doesn't work and the company's need to downsize its accounting staff to gain a profit! Bill rules!
People fail to realize that each "bracket" of income is at a different rate, after you take care of the rates at the higher levels, it gets smaller and smaller as you go down the line. I had to calculate taxes manually for a class, after I had been paying them for almost 25 years before I went back to school. Its a complicated and convoluted process to figure out each rate for each portion of income.
If this country was run like a business, ie reducing the deficit, putting more people to work, lowering taxes, you know all those thing you'd do if this country WAS actually your business and you were trying to make it better and more successful, things would be a lot better off
The only time I ever go to Staples is for office chairs, the other selections are so pathetic and out of date that I only go there if other stores are out of stock and want to try my luck. However, their staff are friendly somewhat, but sad to say most of their products are not that great.
Depressions are not defined by their length, but by their severity. There is no set number, but roughly a 10% drop in GDP is a depression. A recession is a drop of GDP, but not to the levels of a depression.
I can appreciate that being beyond your understanding. What confuses me is why you believe that is what people are upset about in the first place. The US' political sphere has moved, inexorably, towards the right in the last 30 years, and the problems you see today are a result of that. 30 years of slashing corporate taxes, deregulation, regressing tax rates, increasing (and finally removing) spending limits for campaigns, and giving the rich everything they want. And look where it got us.
As for gas prices, funny, but I somewhat suspect that gas prices might be a little affected by, oh, the global recession, and the fact that oil is a finite resource that is becoming ever more expensive to extract. Of course, it might also have something to do with how much oil was spilled/wasted into the Gulf of Mexico, but gosh-darn-it, we just can't contemplate those strangling regulations, can we?
Also, why should someone pay over 40% of what they earn? Look at what taxes used to be in the early days. While I am willing to pay more in taxes than they did then for obvious reasons, I still think it is absurd to pay that much in taxes.
The response I will get is I'm an idiot,non American,unemployed,so on and so on......my response is IM A PERSON WITH FLESH,BLOOD,HEART, AND SOUL! We all come into this earth through birth with nothing and we shall leave this earth withe same as humans..........nothing!!! We are all species of humans
im also aware of him helping to find that missing girl. however, he was close friends with Robert Gay which gave him a personal interest in helping tho find the girl. When it comes to people he doesn't know he less likely to help them because he doesn't feel any kind of emotional attachment since he doesnt know them. he was against the auto bailout for example or his handling of KB toys and Dade. You only have the people over profits point in that instant, not when speaking in general
For example, if the top tax bracket starts at $250,000, and your taxable income is $260,000, only 10,000 (260,000-250,000) is affected by the rate increase. If the rate is to increase from 35% to 39.6%, the impact would be $460 (10,000*(39.6%-35%)). How much will $460 impact such taxpayer and his business. How much would a sales increase due to higher middle class income impact such taxpayer? Say his sales goes up by 10%. His sales in the past year was 300K, now it is 330K.
If you had HBO, or at least watched the new ones illegally online, you would know that constitutes half his show.
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Are you aware that many companies are sitting on cash because of all this uncertainty regarding the fiscal cliff. The government is over-regulating making it too hard for businesses to prosper, if you don't beleve me then look at all of the companies leaving the country. The government has made it so that employees can sue for almost anything thats mildly discriminatory. Why start a business here with all these headaches when your business can be profitable else where.
That works for them companies hire no where near the amount small business do. If you argue this than you either make more than a million with your own business or you work for corporate America, if so don't borrow money from the government!
taxes, I am to about 58% of what I make leaving my hands. THAT is why I am upset. I have family that works in the oil business that has had extreme difficulties making money due to the new taxes and regulations he has passed. It shows in the gas prices that have doubled over the past 4 years. I don't agree that it is "giving the rich everything they want" but rather not discriminating the wealthy because they are wealthy. We need to get past hating rich people, that is not the problem.
yeah we do. what we dont like is how much more romney cares about profits than people. there's nothing wrong with firing people if theyre incompetent. but Bain screwed companies out of their money and infrastructure and left it to fall in on itself
Mitt makes more a month than I will my entire life. I fully expect him to give more in charity than I do. The two big problems with a Romney administration are what Maher said in this video, and that while America isn't interested in economic authoritarianism, they are far more uninterested in social authoritarianism. The religious wing of the Republican party is killing it slowly. I might like Romney if I knew him, but his embracing of the right's social agenda makes him unelectable.
Superman turned a piece of coal into a diamond and Chinese American chefs turned crap into food (think chop suey). Soooo....I guess Superman/Martin Yan 2020?
I'm sorry for my bad English, I'm Polish and therefore have it difficult to express myself well politically, but I think that you and I are on the same track. The biggest difference is that I don't trust Obama, never have, because the ciris the US (and EU) are facing right now can't be fixed by polititians, at least not with banks drooling down there necks. It is the people and individuals that can make life good for themselves, if they understand the system we live in now.
he actually bought the companies with his dad's money but wanted to slash it's overhead (aka cost cutting) which included... FIRING people, or cutting their salaries, and if the money cant be made in any feasible way over here, he outsources them to China.
@sixtiksix No i follow him. I didn't get what you were saying because he never really said spend spend spend in this clip. He does say that just not here. You were saying its illogical because he said we have to spend. When he is really saying that just because you can run a business doesn't mean you can run a country. Business men know how to make money for themselves not others.
RE"Do you really believe the objective of Bain Capital, and companies like it, is to prevent people from becoming poor?" Ah NO.. are you high? However, they are a company that specializes in rescuing companies on the BRINK of failure / bankruptcy , so IF they specialize in saving business from going under, doesn't that help all the people who are employed, doesn't that prevent people from becoming poor? Do the poor just want money or a job? Yeah money was MADE to buy your computer ur on! Doh!
again a religious institution is not a charity. they dont get to claim humanitarian aid when they are proselytizing their faith. also charity is supposed to be determined by how much of your total wealth you give, not the individual dollar amount. they should also be expected to give back more because they have gotten more out of life than most people and therefore have an obligation to the rest of humanity so he doesnt get additional credit for doing what should be expected of a rich person.
In my business education, I learned Sales is the most important thing on the income statement. Yes, it seems obvious, and it should be obvious. But unfortunately, republicans who have been doing their best to shrink the middle class don't seem to agree. Without spendings from the middle class, sales will decline. Instead, so much time has been wasted on much less important income tax expense. The tax plan would only affect the flow-thru entities such as S corps and partnership and sole prop
i dont think anyone advertised it as free healthcare. the poor get tax brakes so they can pay so portion of theirs. it make sure everyone has some form of healthcare. if you decide you don't want healthcare and you get injured or sick everyone else pay for it. with the fine you cover some if not all of YOUR costs.
And the different is so small. Obama is only asking for a couple of percent increase. And most small business owners don't make above $300,000, which is the income before other deductions to get it down to $250,000. And even if the business owner earns above $300,000, say 320,000, the tax impact is insignificant. If you understand what a tax bracket is, you'll know that the increased rate at the top tax bracket only affect your taxable income above the $250,000 threshold.
you just said the poor now have healthcare so most people have it ie. universal healthcare and those who dont want pay a penalty so when they get sick it is paid for.
Kewl man. I know a couple of people who have immigrated over to the US. One even lives in my house ;). But anyways. Yes, I agree we have a terrible tendency to involve ourselves in other countries business, which I think is really stupid. If we really wanted to help somebody, maybe we could send thousands of dollars to help the dying people in (Insert Nation that needs aid).
...what? No. AS OF September. Not SINCE. That's 138... EVER. And.. um, what the fuck are you talking about, regarding taxes? Have you ever, and I do mean ever, actually LOOKED at the data, on this?
We are still in a VERY severe recession... not taking away from your point that Obama is to blame or anything. But yea.. we are still in REALLY bad shape..
"Now shut up before I mention Donald Trump". And now, 5 years later...
Somehow the message was received and understood with Romney yet fell on deaf ears concerning the Orange Idiot.
I love your username. Haha. It's quite amusing.
yup and he fucked the whole country xD bill was so right here
Business is about making money for yourself. That's not why you're supposed to get into government. And when people DO get into government for that reason, they're corrupt.
Ergo, business leaders shouldn't be politicians.
Gunman610 In other words, trumps whole cabinet.
The problem (among many) of businesspeople in politics is that they confuse business with government. Yes, certain business practices (accounting, for instance) apply in politics. However, there is no bottom line in politics. Profit and loss statements are measured by methods other than money. Businesspeople confuse price with value.
verilyheld great scene from a miniseries about events prior to the First World War; Otto Von Bismarck explaining to German government ministers his plans to create social welfare programs to “take the wind out of the socialists.” The ministers complain about how much money this will cost, and Bismarck replies “A revolution would cost a lot more.”
People still give Obama shit for being a "community organizer" and it's never been explained to me why this is a bad thing.
Because of Hillary's e mails!
Businessman sounds professional and solid. Community organizer sounds recreational. Community organizer is not a bad thing. It was a lazy & shitty excuse, among so many, conservatives used to gin up hatred for the man. Majority of businessmen are bullshitters. There out for themselves, not for everyone.
Think about it. What do you gain from being a businessman? A profit. Money, money and more 💰.
What does someone gain from being President?
A community organizer spends all their time listening and talking chiefly about things beyond their knowledge.
Dick Cheney had business experience too. He worked for Halliburton. If I'm not mistaken, Cheney was once the CEO. Please stop electing big businessmen, America.
Actually Halliburton was about to go bankrupt. Then Cheney with W Bush lied the US in IRAQ and then their stock soared
Running a business is completely different from running a country. When you run a country, you need everyone to do well, but you need to continue to encourage hard work, education, and health. Running a company ? If you don't like a guy's work, you fire him...you don't care whether he lives or dies. The company's bottom line is all that matters....
Sad but unfortunately true, hence the term "profits over people".
"government isn't about turning a profit it's about taking care of the things that shouldn't have to turn a profit,"... couldn't agree more
No wonder Romney lost. That was a classic roast
so funny to watch now
JasonT404 You ain't seen nothing yet.
JasonT404 8?
Yeah. Hilarious.
Harry Truman was an unsuccessful businessman, but was a great president. Abe Lincoln had a mediocre law practice business at best, didn't run any business at all.
Truman could only be seen as a great President when his administration was looked at 50 years later with rose-tinted glasses. That egomaniacal hayseed should never have been allowed anywhere near the job.
@@kieran1a2
Hmmm... His use of nuclear weapons in Japan smacked of an attempt to try and end the war in a way for him to avoid his treaty obligations to the USSR, despite the fact this let a very dangerous genie out of it's bottle.
Then he proceeded to (depending on who you ask) either blunder into or play along with a war in all but name in Korea, that cost countless lives devastated the country and split it in two, and all this so he could create the very early stages of the military-industrial complex that so many Americans have a sick sort of love-hate relationship with.
@@msaoichan How dare Trump not want a full-scale invasion of Japan.
Who else is watching december 2017
Chiagozie Iwu Me.
Oct 2018......crying....
I was born and raised here like all....unless native American and love this land and all the earth we share!!!
Soy sauce turns coal into diamonds?!?!?! Where's my Kikkoman?!?!?!
I would be against a very successful businessperson for president. In order to be good at business, you have to be kind of a dick. We don't need those people in government. We need them employing people and paying taxes, that's it. And if they're in charge, there won't be anyone's interests but business interests on the table.
Well, some govermental organisations would greatly benefit from a business men's approach. Reducing the number of workers, making them more eficient, thus allowing tax cuts through decreased government waste.... a business mens îs especially necessary for state owned companies because a good bussiness men knows who to hire to put in charge of those companies to make them more competitive
... but that's really a problem more for europe than the US the US doesn't have any major government businesses. You are correct as well and maher too, government should deal with things that are not even supposed to turn a profit. But there are some thing a bussiness approach would do good in government.
RoScFan Certainly we need people who think that way, you're right. They serve an important purpose. If they're highly visible, like in gov., I think they do more damage than good.
Curt Christensen That's a weird comment that added nothing to the discussion
We might also want to redefine "profit". Public education turns a huge profit - on the back end. Let's see how well our economy does when no one is educated. EPA? Property values in the entire Great lakes basin skyrocketed when our rivers stopped CATCHING ON FIRE! FEMA? Of course destroyed cities and towns, and dead people are far more productive that working cities and live people! Profit is not as easy to calculate as a balance sheet, and sometimes we actually have to just CARE about people.
I love the way Bill tells it like it is!
We can't afford another war. Remember the last two and how much they cost us?
no experience doesnt qualify you for prez either.
MAHER really DESTROYED ROMNEY'S image on his show !
a depression is just a long recession. you cant leave a depression and go directly into a recession
The beauty of voting is that it's done in private. The bullying is illegal and should be brought out/exposed for what it is and legal action if deemed applicable. I thank your sister for doing that....in order to be free we have to fight these corporate lords. It's shameful but we are going to win. These people are desperate and they make me so angry. It's not that i don't trust romney he doesn't have my best interest at heart. He won't work for me, i'm working class.
Best line from this monologue: "Businessmen generally make lousy political leaders, because government isn't about turning a profit. It's about taking care of things that shouldn't have to turn a profit."
I would add: given that government isn't about turning a profit or even efficiency, only have government take care of those things that are in fact essential so there is as little waste and bloat as possible.
Come on bill get your ass to Washington you got my vote.
During those "30 years" there have been more instances of RAISING taxes than LOWERING taxes. I am a small business owner and it is hard to employ anyone under the changes in laws and taxes over the past 4 years alone. I and many of my friends are struggling to get by. Lets use taxes for what they were intended when the constitution was written and not what it has turned into. By the time I pay income, federal, social security (which I will never see), medicaid, fuel, property, sales and other
I've never heard anyone describe the unethical business practices of Bain Capital on any news show but Bill Maher did it with pinpoint accuracy! I worked for a company that was bought by Bain for 2.1 BILLION DOLLARS and was laid off with the section that I worked in for 7 years due to the purchase of an inventory software package that doesn't work and the company's need to downsize its accounting staff to gain a profit! Bill rules!
Working hard for employee welfare is not lazy.
This is so funny! And so true! MC Hammer...lmao I love Bill Maher.
Ok
People fail to realize that each "bracket" of income is at a different rate, after you take care of the rates at the higher levels, it gets smaller and smaller as you go down the line. I had to calculate taxes manually for a class, after I had been paying them for almost 25 years before I went back to school. Its a complicated and convoluted process to figure out each rate for each portion of income.
If this country was run like a business, ie reducing the deficit, putting more people to work, lowering taxes, you know all those thing you'd do if this country WAS actually your business and you were trying to make it better and more successful, things would be a lot better off
I somehow have to suspect that when Romney heard the last line of this monologue, he said, "Fuck! you nailed it!"
Trump is a joke. But now he's the president. Surprised!
Re-structuring a failing business is how you save it.....and that includes (unfortunately) layoffs. That's not Hollywood......that's reality Bill.
The Snark Report. I always feel better after your recap. I need a vacation home to get away from this one.
Wasn't Kerry wealthy? Why do people have such a hard on for Romney's wealth?
One more thing, I am a Swedish citizen, but a Polish immigrant :)
Good for you
The only time I ever go to Staples is for office chairs, the other selections are so pathetic and out of date that I only go there if other stores are out of stock and want to try my luck.
However, their staff are friendly somewhat, but sad to say most of their products are not that great.
im voting for Garry Johnson too, so there is hope out there, thanks for the feed back
well i looked at and there i found answers supporting both of us... and others as well
I have the utmost respect for Ron Paul, I truly do. However, I disagree completely with most of his policies, save for some of his foreign policy.
And that was a good summary you did as well.
If you told me that this video came out in 2019, I would totally believe you. 😆
Depressions are not defined by their length, but by their severity. There is no set number, but roughly a 10% drop in GDP is a depression. A recession is a drop of GDP, but not to the levels of a depression.
damn that house was winter wonder land
Government is not for profit, suppose to be for people. While corporations is so why bail them out...for the
I'm not even American, I'm a Swede.
I like Staples. It's better than Office Depot in some ways. Leave Staples alone.
I can appreciate that being beyond your understanding. What confuses me is why you believe that is what people are upset about in the first place.
The US' political sphere has moved, inexorably, towards the right in the last 30 years, and the problems you see today are a result of that. 30 years of slashing corporate taxes, deregulation, regressing tax rates, increasing (and finally removing) spending limits for campaigns, and giving the rich everything they want.
And look where it got us.
As for gas prices, funny, but I somewhat suspect that gas prices might be a little affected by, oh, the global recession, and the fact that oil is a finite resource that is becoming ever more expensive to extract.
Of course, it might also have something to do with how much oil was spilled/wasted into the Gulf of Mexico, but gosh-darn-it, we just can't contemplate those strangling regulations, can we?
Also, why should someone pay over 40% of what they earn? Look at what taxes used to be in the early days. While I am willing to pay more in taxes than they did then for obvious reasons, I still think it is absurd to pay that much in taxes.
The response I will get is I'm an idiot,non American,unemployed,so on and so on......my response is IM A PERSON WITH FLESH,BLOOD,HEART, AND SOUL! We all come into this earth through birth with nothing and we shall leave this earth withe same as humans..........nothing!!! We are all species of humans
Neither does no experience but we still elected Obama. America is a business. It's a corporate entity
I want to see Donald Trump in his show.
Technically there's still a recession.
But there was a -Depression- and now there isn't.
im also aware of him helping to find that missing girl. however, he was close friends with Robert Gay which gave him a personal interest in helping tho find the girl. When it comes to people he doesn't know he less likely to help them because he doesn't feel any kind of emotional attachment since he doesnt know them. he was against the auto bailout for example or his handling of KB toys and Dade. You only have the people over profits point in that instant, not when speaking in general
For example, if the top tax bracket starts at $250,000, and your taxable income is $260,000, only 10,000 (260,000-250,000) is affected by the rate increase. If the rate is to increase from 35% to 39.6%, the impact would be $460 (10,000*(39.6%-35%)). How much will $460 impact such taxpayer and his business. How much would a sales increase due to higher middle class income impact such taxpayer? Say his sales goes up by 10%. His sales in the past year was 300K, now it is 330K.
Business people are the most popular in America (USA).
And being a community organizer and charasmatic does make someone a good president? lol Bill really is a comedian.
If you had HBO, or at least watched the new ones illegally online, you would know that constitutes half his show.
Are you aware that many companies are sitting on cash because of all this uncertainty regarding the fiscal cliff. The government is over-regulating making it too hard for businesses to prosper, if you don't beleve me then look at all of the companies leaving the country. The government has made it so that employees can sue for almost anything thats mildly discriminatory. Why start a business here with all these headaches when your business can be profitable else where.
yeah too bad No one's running as an economist this year.
@sixtiksix Just curious. How isn't it a logical argument?
That works for them companies hire no where near the amount small business do. If you argue this than you either make more than a million with your own business or you work for corporate America, if so don't borrow money from the government!
Fuck no. We've got just as many flaws as every other nation out there. And you still side stepped my question.
taxes, I am to about 58% of what I make leaving my hands. THAT is why I am upset. I have family that works in the oil business that has had extreme difficulties making money due to the new taxes and regulations he has passed. It shows in the gas prices that have doubled over the past 4 years.
I don't agree that it is "giving the rich everything they want" but rather not discriminating the wealthy because they are wealthy. We need to get past hating rich people, that is not the problem.
Which path creates more jobs? Suppress the middle class or support it?
most presidents leave alot to be desired- still wouldnt vote for romney if there was a gun at my head
yeah we do. what we dont like is how much more romney cares about profits than people. there's nothing wrong with firing people if theyre incompetent. but Bain screwed companies out of their money and infrastructure and left it to fall in on itself
A strong stable middle class is better for the country.
I did not know it was bad to make money in America.
Mitt makes more a month than I will my entire life. I fully expect him to give more in charity than I do. The two big problems with a Romney administration are what Maher said in this video, and that while America isn't interested in economic authoritarianism, they are far more uninterested in social authoritarianism. The religious wing of the Republican party is killing it slowly. I might like Romney if I knew him, but his embracing of the right's social agenda makes him unelectable.
This aged very well.
Superman turned a piece of coal into a diamond and Chinese American chefs turned crap into food (think chop suey). Soooo....I guess Superman/Martin Yan 2020?
Really? I didn't know my views fell so much in line with George Bush.
no president should have to do this, what do you think of ron paul?
I'm sorry for my bad English, I'm Polish and therefore have it difficult to express myself well politically, but I think that you and I are on the same track. The biggest difference is that I don't trust Obama, never have, because the ciris the US (and EU) are facing right now can't be fixed by polititians, at least not with banks drooling down there necks. It is the people and individuals that can make life good for themselves, if they understand the system we live in now.
he actually bought the companies with his dad's money but wanted to slash it's overhead (aka cost cutting) which included... FIRING people, or cutting their salaries, and if the money cant be made in any feasible way over here, he outsources them to China.
Thats all well and good, but I think they will have trouble making money when nobody has a job to buy things from them with...
@sixtiksix No i follow him. I didn't get what you were saying because he never really said spend spend spend in this clip. He does say that just not here. You were saying its illogical because he said we have to spend. When he is really saying that just because you can run a business doesn't mean you can run a country. Business men know how to make money for themselves not others.
Vintage Trump jokes...a simpler time...
sense Bill is such an expert on how to be prez , he should run
Go for it.
RE"Do you really believe the objective of Bain Capital, and companies like it, is to prevent people from becoming poor?" Ah NO.. are you high? However, they are a company that specializes in rescuing companies on the BRINK of failure / bankruptcy , so IF they specialize in saving business from going under, doesn't that help all the people who are employed, doesn't that prevent people from becoming poor? Do the poor just want money or a job? Yeah money was MADE to buy your computer ur on! Doh!
again a religious institution is not a charity. they dont get to claim humanitarian aid when they are proselytizing their faith. also charity is supposed to be determined by how much of your total wealth you give, not the individual dollar amount. they should also be expected to give back more because they have gotten more out of life than most people and therefore have an obligation to the rest of humanity so he doesnt get additional credit for doing what should be expected of a rich person.
Soy espejo y me reflejo... it is precisely people like you that our Country is in a big hole.
In my business education, I learned Sales is the most important thing on the income statement. Yes, it seems obvious, and it should be obvious. But unfortunately, republicans who have been doing their best to shrink the middle class don't seem to agree. Without spendings from the middle class, sales will decline. Instead, so much time has been wasted on much less important income tax expense. The tax plan would only affect the flow-thru entities such as S corps and partnership and sole prop
One of his better ones
Hey! Don't rip on Staples. I fucking love Staples.
I could not agree with you more.
i dont think anyone advertised it as free healthcare. the poor get tax brakes so they can pay so portion of theirs. it make sure everyone has some form of healthcare. if you decide you don't want healthcare and you get injured or sick everyone else pay for it. with the fine you cover some if not all of YOUR costs.
What domestic policy did you disagree with ?
And the different is so small. Obama is only asking for a couple of percent increase. And most small business owners don't make above $300,000, which is the income before other deductions to get it down to $250,000. And even if the business owner earns above $300,000, say 320,000, the tax impact is insignificant. If you understand what a tax bracket is, you'll know that the increased rate at the top tax bracket only affect your taxable income above the $250,000 threshold.
Any company and he doesn't sell a product (casino)
No accomplishment? Where is YOUR Harvard Law degree?
@sixtiksix you're still not explaining how its not a logical argument.
you just said the poor now have healthcare so most people have it ie. universal healthcare and those who dont want pay a penalty so when they get sick it is paid for.
Kewl man. I know a couple of people who have immigrated over to the US. One even lives in my house ;). But anyways. Yes, I agree we have a terrible tendency to involve ourselves in other countries business, which I think is really stupid. If we really wanted to help somebody, maybe we could send thousands of dollars to help the dying people in (Insert Nation that needs aid).
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No. AS OF September. Not SINCE.
That's 138... EVER.
And.. um, what the fuck are you talking about, regarding taxes? Have you ever, and I do mean ever, actually LOOKED at the data, on this?
come on think about it if bush cared a little more about a profit we would not be in this mess
He exposed his image, not destroyed it.
We are still in a VERY severe recession... not taking away from your point that Obama is to blame or anything. But yea.. we are still in REALLY bad shape..