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QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 08:47 PM) That's some s***ty situations to be in Kap. Do you ask for feedback in one on one's especially why you weren't moved up? Because if you get feedback and you improve in those areas and they still pass you up then you could bring that to HR (but from what I've seen that doesn't do you a whole lot of good). I can't say a whole lot right now about "right now"... ... but let's just say that I have asked THAT specific question at different places, and it didn't get answered because they couldn't say anything that I haven't done or to improve to get to what I was promised. Outstanding reviews, terrific job, but what is not said often times is "you're not my b**** and I don't like that". That's where the games come in, and I am absolutely not a game player. And HR is a puppet in most companies - and just so everyone knows or understands, HR is NOT there to represent you, they are there to represent the company, no ifs, ands, or buts.

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QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 03:41 PM) well, to be fair, the dems (still in majority) could have raised the debt ceiling after those december compromises the GOP leadership agreed to, but wanted the GOP to own it. Instead of doing that, the GOP is now demanding highly regressive cuts, and in return will raise the debt ceiling. Regardless of how this turns out,t he debt ceiling needs to be abolished. It's way too dangerous a bargaining chip. An economic atomic bomb and the GOP is north korea. Right. So does everyone really understand what the "debt ceiling" really is? Just wondering. (Hint: the McConnell plan isn't as retarded as the Republicans who bashed it makes it out to be). This is why I laugh (no, really) every time I keep hearing "default" being thrown around. If "default" were really that close, the dow would be at about 2,000 right now instead of 12,000.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 02:29 PM) The issue there is...they are signing off on every bit of the debt. Congress passes the budget, the President can't just spend money out of no where. Every cent of the evil debt has been approved by Congress once already. Every cent of that out of control spending gets passed by Congress. They already signed off on the debt that would guarantee we'd hit the debt ceiling when they passed the tax cut package last December. The only purpose of the debt ceiling is to give Congress a mechanism by which it can force a default. If there's another mechanism I'd love to hear it. "Default" Kool aid. It's not "Default". Fear mongerer.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 09:18 AM) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs describes Libya as a We sure got some big balls now, don't we?

Yea, I've seen it. And I've gotten personally screwed by it at least three times in my career now. And I do pretty much everything and more that's asked of me. I just don't suck schlong is about the nicest way I can put it right now.

QUOTE (T R U @ Jul 26, 2011 -> 03:40 AM) Thats always awesome isn't it? mine was at 106 today, and that was all the way until the sun went down.. man i hate texas so much I know a lot of you are like "oh its better than snow all the time" but you would change that tune quickly when its still in the 90's into November, like it was last year down here.. Its hotter than two squirrels f***in in a tube sock The low was 86. The night before last, it was 85. So, for 72 hours now, it's been 85 or hotter. That's crazy, even for Texas. Even for all that, I would take this before the whole winter of snow. on the tube sock comment. I haven't heard that one before.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 25, 2011 -> 09:23 PM) I know this is your ideology, but you keep ignoring that the criticism came in January 2009. It's hard for Obama to have failed at instilling confidence that quickly, for the claims that the stimulus was too small to be a smokescreen for that, or especially to be "hindsight." It's not like there wasn't quantitative analyses behind the claims that it was too small and predicted that it would have a weak effect on unemployment. You keep ignoring that, over and over, to shoe-horn this into your narrative. But it just does not fit. And you keep conveniently not counting QE I and II, which were trillions added to this so called stimulus, that never touched the votes of Congress. The goalposts keep moving.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 25, 2011 -> 08:43 PM) Taking supply off the market because you are mad about a political decision is patently illegal. If only.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 25, 2011 -> 08:11 AM) Sometimes it's that... Or you can just play the game and get the promotions. I give nobody any credit, "kudos" or "props" for not "kissing ass" in order to get ahead in the business world. This is how the game is played, if you don't want to play it, don't...but don't b**** when you get passed, either. Also, do note I surround the words "kissing ass" in quotes because it's a bulls*** term when related to business to begin with. Those people you claim are "kissing ass" are also the ones that do exactly what they're told, when they're told, and work extra hours that you're totally unaware of, etc. I know, because I've been accused of the same in many places. I'm an ass kisser, that's why I get the vacations I request and the promotions. Right. I'm also the guy the boss would call at 3am when something was broken, and fix it...only to come in that morning at 7am and work the entire day. Oh, and if it was a friend of the bosses...you just got welcomed to how the really real world really works. Balmer wanted to stay at Harvard and study finance. I'm sure he would have made some decent money, too... But his stupid friend Bill Gates told him, "f*** Harvard dude, come help me at Microsoft". Same with his other friend Paul Allen. Balmer is now worth about 14.5 billion dollars. So is Paul Allen. Had they not been friends with the right guy, they'd probably be working at an investment firm making decent money...but nowhere near $14,500,000,000. Contacts, friends, etc...in MOST areas of the business world, it's who you know. Not what you know or where you went to school. Edit. Damn, so much to say but I just can't. I do understand and agree with the "who you know" part, but the first part is pretty ridiculous now, unfortunately.

I know it's in traffic and all, but my car thermometer hit 121 today. It's f***ing broiling down here.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 24, 2011 -> 06:41 PM) This is in comparison to GDP, so it would be easily skewed. The United States GDP is around 15 trillion. Germany's is 3.3. As a matter of fact, to surpass the US, it takes the ENTIRE eurozone, and depending who's numbers you use, they still don't. That said, the US *IS* a relatively low tax country, but we also don't have "free" healthcare and other such insane benfits (for example, look at the Greece retirement age). Government receipts vs GDP is not taxation rates. That's a very bad comparision.

No way, whitey.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 24, 2011 -> 02:16 PM) I dont really need it honestly. Outside of a few magazines, I barely get personal mail. Kleenex included? /ok, bad joke.

You know, actually, Herman Cain is probably the best of the bunch, except he's too blunt. Go figure. I mean, if you want to get elected, you can't run around saying that people should have the choice whether or not to have a mosque in their own community. (GASP!!!!!!) You become instantly unelectable. That, and Michele Baughmann takes away all his tea party love, and she is thoroughly unelectable vs. Obama. Rick Perry... ugh. I cannot stand him. He's a slimeball, but certainly a whole lot better then Romney or McCain three years ago.

QUOTE (FlySox87 @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 09:12 PM) The voters will destroy him in 2012. He's dug his own grave and I think he's starting to realize it. We can only hope (and change). Although, a termite in a yo yo is a better candidate then any of the idiots on the GOP side right now.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 03:57 PM) Been at this job for coming up on 6 years and just got passed up for promotion by a lady who has been there 3 months and is friends with the supervisor. Go me for not being an ass kisser. (edit... ) Yea... I will be getting that same treatment and that's about all I can say for now.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 09:03 PM) for f***s sake, you've been here a month. Stop making all of these dumb assumptions about what people say and believe here. me too! It comes across pretty clear.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 08:27 PM) No way! According to liberals, no way. We all need to pay our fair share... just a little more... just a little more... just a little more...

QUOTE (FlySox87 @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 05:29 PM) I somehow missed his temper tantrum. Link? Well, first off, it was "justifiable" (just read the comments elsewhere on this board and the MSM) as Speaker John put a can of whoop ass on him, I'm sure that Obama is absolutely right as evidenced by most here saying he's done a good job on these negotations and it's entirely the tea party assholes who are derailing EVERYTHING on this. But his demands and tone of summoning everyone to the White House and having to "explain everything to him" of why a deal can't be reached was like a 13 year old getting over his first break up. It might help if he looked in the mirror for that explanation. You know, at the end of all this, it won't matter. He's going to get his way anyway.

Humongous tax difference between individuals and corporations, while we are doing both. And marginal, average, and effective are COMPLETELY different things.

QUOTE (FlySox87 @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 03:31 PM) You were just dying to point that out, weren't you? Definitely could be myself, SS, you, or any other right wing nutjob on this website, right?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 04:39 PM) So the U.S. government should use tax dollars to actively subsidize heavy manufacturing to create jobs? The real answer is no, but they currently do. They incentivize who pays them the most. See SC Boeing plant.

QUOTE (FlySox87 @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 11:47 AM) We have some really unhinged elected officials in this country... One of them sits in the White House, as witnessed by his little temper tantrum yesterday.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Jul 23, 2011 -> 09:23 AM) I agree with most of this, especially to the extent this entire issue is being dominated by ideological and political extremes. And I also think Obama has moved more than the House leaders have, as is evidenced by the grief he's getting from his liberal base. To me, Boehner and Cantor haven't come close to risking similar ire from the Tea crowd. Why? Because this s*** has to stop. When does it? Why must the government continue to spend and spend and spend and spend and spend? Oh, because someone at Exxxxxxxon or Goldman Sachs might get rich. Those corporate jets that Obama has a hard on for (nevermind he's got the biggest one in the world) have to be taxed. Who makes those corporate jets? Who supplies what is necessary to make them? Who supplies the clothes? The boots? The gloves? The machines? The electricity? The cutters and tools? The buildings that are built to build those jets? Who gets the property taxes already on said buildings (local government, which is fine, at least it's local)? Oh, but let's just continue to bastardize everything "rich" and make the government bigger and bigger. It works. See Europe, who most of you just want to become so much like. Except Germany lowered taxes a few years back and they're growing more then any other country in Europe right now.