I have employees that make 5-8 Percent of our revenue depending on our yearly sales, some of them make more than my salary I pay myself.
General CEOs didn't strip my healthcare
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I don't know how the hell you do it, man.
I was about to burn it all down in October. Not kidding. Was gonna close shop and do something else. With every dollar worth less and less with each passing month, people are reeling in spending. Combine that with Kamala taking power and I was ready to be done. Made peace with it and everything.
Still not sure if there's a viable long-term path. If Trump can get energy costs down to ease the rising costs of everything, maybe shit works out.
But an optimist, I am not.
I was about to burn it all down in October. Not kidding. Was gonna close shop and do something else. With every dollar worth less and less with each passing month, people are reeling in spending. Combine that with Kamala taking power and I was ready to be done. Made peace with it and everything.
Still not sure if there's a viable long-term path. If Trump can get energy costs down to ease the rising costs of everything, maybe shit works out.
But an optimist, I am not.
You're either retarded or being purposefully obtuse.
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For those who think it's easier to annoy you than to Google 'Ceos in prison for defrauding investors ' themselves.
And yet, the statement is still true.
How so?
My portfolio has done quite well for a modest set of investments.
And what on earth does that have to do with my lack of healthcare due to democrat law?
My portfolio has done quite well for a modest set of investments.
And what on earth does that have to do with my lack of healthcare due to democrat law?
What else can you make with your setup?
Glass breakers with a bottle opener on the other end? Brass knuckles. How about small survival shovels. Maybe camping tools like tongs and forks, spatula. I'd buy some camp cook tools from you for sure. Bike tools.
Getting closer to pulling the plug myself, taking it one year at a time, goal right now is to make it to next November so we can celebrate 20 years of operation. Will evaluate then, I'll just go back to LEO in some capacity if we do.
Similar to what I told Nic next year. Wanted to make sure we hit the 10 year mark. And we did.
Time will tell.
Damn, it's been over a decade
Ima need some new kitchen knives before you go, lost em in the divorce (i bought them for her and it would have been petty to reclaim them), and a kukri from one of my jeeps leaf springs.
So, uhh, no. Your shop will remain open good sir!
Ima need some new kitchen knives before you go, lost em in the divorce (i bought them for her and it would have been petty to reclaim them), and a kukri from one of my jeeps leaf springs.
So, uhh, no. Your shop will remain open good sir!
You are dead wrong on Sydney Sweeney being mid.
But I got your back on this "fuck the gov't" thing.
My portfolio has made gains as well, but they'd be a lot greater if it wasn't for the repeated shitty behavior of CEO's. But those are the risks you take investing in the kosher casino.
Now onto your lack of healthcare.
There's pretty much a consensus that almost all of our elected officials, at the highest levels, are wholly owned by corporations and special interest groups, correct?
If that's the case, how is it possible that the CEOs of these corporations had no influence or direction in the design and implementation of the ACA and probably every other shitty healthcare related law or mandate that's fucked over millions of Americans, including yourself and other members of this forum? Especially when so many healthcare corporations and entities have seen record profits, and their CEOs have received record pay since its passing. Is that just dumb luck? Maybe just coincidence and happy accidents?
It might just be my autism and overall tardiness, but that's a hump I'm having a hard time getting over.
People drastically misunderstand the roll of a CEO and his/her ability.
Nobody believes they can do open heart surgery or represent a defendant in a murder trial, but everyone believes they could run Microsoft or Apple.
It takes a tremendous amount of experience and special leadership qualities to successfully run a large organization.
ACA was done by politicians, not CEOs.
The CEOs were in the same boat as everyone else. Nobody got to read the bill before it was signed into law. Remember? We have to pass it to find out what's in it.
Sure but ACA benefitted insurance companies massively. They're probably the biggest benefactor to it.
Insurance is a cost plus business.. However it's still a competitive business so you can't just increase your costs to increase your profits or people won't buy your product.. You need an industry wide cost increase to increase revenues.
I have no doubt they probably lobbied Obama and democrats for ACA (I have never checked this just a guess).
That doesn't mean this particular CEO had anything to do with that lobbying effort though. I don't even know how much a CEO is involved with lobbying.
But again lobbying should be banned by politicians I don't blame companies from lobbying for their interests.. It shouldn't be legal in the first place.
The Stealth Campaign to Kill Off Obamacare (Published 2018)
How the country’s largest lobbyist for the pharmaceutical industry is using “dark money” to support an advocacy group’s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
I think most people with a small business had a hard look and thought if it was all worth it after these past few years. I only stayed open because I am such a stubborn bastard.
I'm not saying I can run a giant company, but I think there needs to be distinctions made regarding the value and abilities of CEOs. I have far more respect for the ones who built the companies, and much less than the ones who inherited it, make a move or two, good ones and often bad ones, and regardless leave with obscene packages
If you honestly believe that the CEOs were in the same boat as everyone else and that nobody got to read it before it was signed into law, I'm not even sure what to say. The whole "we have to pass it to see what's in it" was nothing more than a bullshit excuse used to pass terrible legislation.