How government doesn’t work
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Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House. One is from Chicago, another is from Kentucky, and the third is from New Orleans.
All three go with a White House official to examine the fence.
The New Orleans contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil.
“Well,” he says, “I figure the job will run about $9,000. That’s $4,000 for materials, $4,000 for my crew and $1,000 profit for me.”
The Kentucky contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, “I can do this job for $7,000. That’s $3,000 for materials, $3,000 for my crew and $1,000 profit for me.”
The Chicago contractor doesn’t measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, “$27,000.”
The official, incredulous, says: “You didn’t even measure like the other guys. How did you come up with such a high figure? ”
The Chicago contractor whispers back: “$10,000 for me, $10,000 for you, and we hire the guy from Kentucky to fix the fence.”
“Done!” replies the government official.
And that, my friends, is how the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better legislation will work.
I guess we’ve already established the president can take paid leave with Biden checked out.
Just couldn't help yourself.
Now, someone will bring up how Trump was gone almost every week to play golf, and someone else will reply with TDS. Then you'll tell someone to go fack themselves, and we are right back where we started.
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First time I heard that joke was in Shanghai, from a “boss man”, with government officials in the Chicago contractor role…
Trump can be criticized for many things. I don’t think his work ethic is one of them.
Pete is 39 years old. He should have energy to burn. Go to Fing work
Okay, here we go. Let's see if you answer appropriately...
If anyone on here has TDS, it's you.
If the reports can be believed, Trump didn't spend much time actually working even when he was in the White House. Big blocks of "executive time" made up a good portion of his calendar.
He's 75. I'd be shocked if he put in 4 hours a day. What time is biden putting a lid on it. These guys are old. Pete is 39. I had a kid at 39. Cannot imagine going "offline" for a month and taking salary. The other partners would have baker acted me. He's an entitled pos. Me me me
Or it is generational. There was a time dads wanted little involvement. Children are to be seen, not heard. That has changed, and continues to change. Google millennials work life balance.
I am an old boomer, I was far more involved in my kids life than my dad was in mine. But I still prioritized work. I actually applaud seeing that change.
And honestly I'm okay with that. But not all careers afford that luxury. You may not get to have certain careers. And don't ask your employer to pay for your life choice. Leave FMLA as it is
This
thread is too funny. A bunch of aholes whining about someone taking leave when they spend countless hours posting crap on this board. McM is the leader of wasted time on this board. The only reason to visit this place every so often is for a good laugh.
Taxpayers aren't paying me $250k to do it moron
Hey, lay off. It's obvious mcm works long hours. How else could he afford his sbx habit?
I love how the aholes are the ones who don't expect to be paid for staying home and not working....
I would assume that he's intelligent enough to know that the babies were coming so he should have just turned the job down if it was gonna take a lot of his time which he wanted to spend with his family.
He did take some time to send some mean tweets.
Boy, what I would give for some $2.19 gas and some mean tweets.
I’m sure that was all it was. If you actually believe that I don’t know what to tell you.
The minimum wage in New York is $15 an hour. A married couple in New York each working full time at minimum wage jobs would earn more than $60k a year.
It's a reflex action. Whatever Republicans are for, they're against.
Shows that many of these boomer reps are out of touch. Families are scrapping even at $70-80k+ in areas where COL is crazy, which is most places if you look at the housing/rental market.
Spartans is right. Big difference between $60k in nyc and Bloomington Indiana. I support income caps but they aren't easy at the fed level
That does seem rather draconian - expecting people to try to support themselves.
People move all the time to better themselves. Why should the federal government subsidize NYC lifestyles?
If you mean I'm dumb enough to stay in an area I can't afford, then no, I'm not.
What others reasons come to mind? Like why would people and families stay and/or why would they be pushed out from their home?
And is that a good or bad thing?
So the federal government should subsidize you for wanting to stay in the same place, is what you are saying.
We have this thing today called the internet that allows you to stay in touch with friends and family.
Without teen workers, "we'd have to close our doors"
A hot job market continues to seek out teenagers. But will that hurt their academics and long-term job prospects?
When you can't hire adults you turn to teens. Despite their lack of experience and limited availability
This makes for a nice story as proven by the "likes" it received, but does our system really work this way?
Our system may have some corruption. However compared to other countries and parts of the world, we aren't too bad.
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