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Republican conundrum - Trump or Cruz

Posted: Jan 10, 2016

I am sick and tired of working 60 hours a week to support the 1%. CEO bonuses in OUR industry. CEO COMPENSATION IN THIS INDUSTRY Industry Range Salary 334.2K Bonus 174.4K Total Short Term Compensation 384.4K Total Value of Options 16.1M Compensation as of Fiscal Year Go to Berniesanders.com Despite huge advancements in technology and productivity, millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages. The real median income of male workers is $783 less than it was 42 years ago; while the real median income of female workers is over $1,300 less than it was in 2007. That is unacceptable and that has got to change. There is something profoundly wrong when we have a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires at the same time as millions of Americans work longer hours for lower wages and we have the highest childhood poverty rate of any developed country on earth. There is something profoundly wrong when one family owns more wealth than the bottom 130 million Americans. The reality is that for the past 40 years, Wall Street and the billionaire class has rigged the rules to redistribute wealth and income to the wealthiest and most powerful people of this country. This campaign is sending a message to the billionaire class: “you can’t have it all.” You can’t get huge tax breaks while children in this country go hungry. You can’t continue sending our jobs to China while millions are looking for work. You can’t hide your profits in the Cayman Islands and other tax havens, while there are massive unmet needs on every corner of this nation. Your greed has got to end. You cannot take advantage of all the benefits of America, if you refuse to accept your responsibilities as Americans. ;

The donald's lavish lifestyle - Gilded

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*Maybe I can have all this if my dad would just lend me a million dollars.*

He sleeps in the penthouse, which has a gold and diamond door, indoor fountain and painted ceiling, all very baroque. It cost approximately $300m to build.

The Mar-A-Lago mansion in Palm Beach is expansive, housing 58 bedrooms, 33 bathrooms and 3 bomb shelters, just in case. The magnate lived there for 10 years before converting it into an exclusive private club.

Seven Springs Mansion. Trump paid $7.5m for this Bedford, NY, 213-acre property and initially wanted to develop it into a golf course. Instead, the 39,000 square-foot mansion has long been the family’s summer home.

Trump Winery, Boeing 757, personal helicopter, Lamborghini, gold motercycle.

"The Gentleman's Journal."

So what? Look at all the jobs he has created. - nm

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There is something wrong when you are born with a silver - sm

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There is definitely something wrong with this country when you are born with a silver spoon in your mouth and there are people working multiple jobs just for a dingy apartment and some meat and potatoes.

CEO's earning millions, yet are not held responsible for the environmental hazards they cause, hardly any sick leave for minimum wage hard working employees.

Then, when they overreach, their companies declare bankruptcy, their workers and independent contractors are robbed, and they go on living in their golden palaces.

So what?

Here's so what - Berkeley gal

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Don't vote more of them in and get rid of the ones who are already in there if you can. Vote them out on the next go-round. Enroll people to vote who do not know how to register to vote. I live in a huge city and there are a lot of people who have no idea how to register to vote. Let people know their rights and how to pursue them.

No there isn't - sm

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However, there is something wrong with people who think they should have equal share to other people's wealth when they have done nothing to contribute to it or earn it.

Our lives are what we make of them. It is not someone else's responsibility to give up what they spent their time and energy achieving to give it to someone who isn't doing anything to earn it.

I'm flat broke, but I certainly don't expect other people to share their wealth with me so that I can be equal with them. If people believe that, then that is what is wrong with people. And is definitely why a socialist will not win.

So you are OK with being a good ordinary citizen who... - VTMT

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pays their taxes even though people who make many times more than you pay no taxes, hide their profits, pay their employees dirt wages, and their employees therefore need government help to feed their families? It is not OK with me.

Yes, I am okay being a good ordinary citizen - sm

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that God put me on this planet to be. Nothing I (or you or any of us) can do that will change what you just wrote. This has been talked about for years and years and years. I don't know how old you are, but I can tell you it's been talked about since before we were even born. Nobody here will change that. We need an honest person in the white house. So far no politicians have helped us and no politician will go against any of the things you wrote above. It's what makes them rich. They have proven they don't care about us.

Yes, I am okay with being a good ordinary citizen. I help people in need when I can. Even though I am the one in need now I don't expect others to just hand it over to me.

Never has happened and never will happen. My trust in God is the only thing that matters. If I'm supposed to have more than what I do, it will be of His doing. When these people who pay no taxes (like the politicians), hide their profits, pay their employees dirt wages (like CEOs and executives who are big democrat supporters) are held responsible it will only be because He has intervened.

So to answer your question, Yes I am okay with being a good ordinary citizen.

I am confused. You believe in God, a Christian I presume... - sm

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and you believe that God wants you, a believer, to suffer and feel inferior to those who have power and money? There is no need to feel inferior if you truly in your heart try to follow in the footsteps of Jesus, love every human being without prejudice, abhor war, feed the hungry, heal the sick and wounded, refuse to allow the allure of the antichrist movement to sway your faith. In this country, we the people have the power, but we must stand up together and refuse to allow the rich and powerful take it away from us. VOTE!

How can a guy like this - Old Pro

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possibly be in touch with reality? It sounds kind of like the time Mitt Romney was interviewed and asked what he considered middle class and he said it was people who made about $250K a year. Um, no.

ooooohhhhh, not even a nice try. - no proof -nm

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Proof? Go to Facebook and look up the groups...sm - VTMT

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Republicans for Bernie Sanders and Independents for Bernie Sanders. They like what he is saying. In a head-to-head against Donald Trump in the general election, Bernie wins by 13%.

FB? No thanks - sm

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Facebook is not a true reading of the country. I know just a few people who have FB. Too many people do not have it. Hence you cannot get a true reading of what is going on. And the ones that I do know that have it (with the exception of one person) are sick in the minds. So what they write is not the truth, but their own warped thinking.

Besides FB is more left leaning. Look at the CEO who came out and stated - "People Who Trust Me Are "Dumb F***s".

FB has so many lawsuits going now it'll give you whiplash. From privacy issues to mind control to other things. No wonder he is a huge supporter of the dems. Also have you read a lot of what people write on FB? I have a big concern about these type of people being able to vote when they can't even think clearly.

Burying your head in the sand and not acknowledging... - sm

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the influence that FB and social media have on politics today is pretty silly. Ignore its importance at your own peril. The Donald himself is the king of Twitter, though he mostly lies and embarrasses most Americans.

Twitter is a whole different thing than FB - head not buried

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FB is not a real representation of the country, just those who use it which are mostly libs. There are far more people who don't use FB. It's not called burying your head in the sand, it's called not needing groups to tell us how to think.

BTW, used to have a FB account. Until I saw how many people posted such childish rubbish and pic of their daily meals, oh yeah and those self-absorbed selfies. FB? No thanks I prefer to get my news from viable sources.

I guess my friends on FB are not like yours. You choose...sm - sm

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your friends and no one can post on your wall unless you allow it. You are dreaming if you think it is only liberals on FB. I have seen some pretty right-wing rhetoric on FB.

Like I said....no thanks. Not a true represenation - of the country

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nm

You have that mixed up - sm

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The 13% figure you used is people who are democrats who are voting for Bernie over Hillary. Not republicans. The only places you see anything of the sort about republicans voting for Bernie are fabricated in communist sites like LA Progressive (or anything progressive), or Bernie's site itself. However, there is nothing factual to base that on.

Not true. Do your homework. Hillary beats Trump by 7%... - sm

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Sanders beats Trump by 13%. Sorry to disappoint.

Sorry to disappoint you, but your figures are wrong - Do your homwork - sm

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How bout some proof.

Sanders beats Killary by 13%.

http://www.inquisitr.com/2692984/feel-the-bern-bernie-sanders-leads-hillary-clinton-in-new-poll-tips-elizabeth-warren-for-vice-president/

Clinton lost 13 points against Trump. Trump beats out Clinton, Sanders, Biden and even Gore.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3223919/Donald-Trump-leads-Hillary-Clinton-dramatic-new-poll-giving-45-percent-Democratic-frontrunner-s-40-percent.html

You are right - Old Pro

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I am so old I am on Social Security and we did not get any kind of a raise this year. But you can bet the big guys did not take anything away from themselves! I found this interesting: I have a niece who works for a very well known bank. She has worked for them for many, many years and has worked her way from being a teller up to a high executive position. She has the proverbial corner office in one of their headquarters buildings in a large city. The other day someone from "operations" came to her office to tell her that the contractors were coming to cut her office in half. They are moving even more of their bank people into the headquarters, so their solution for more space is to cut everybody's office in half. For the poor average folks like you and me who work in lowly cubicles, they redid the cubicles so that they are exactly 6 feet by 6 feet and that is the workspace. It will be like working in a little cage, like rats. I asked my niece if they cut the CEO's office space. Surely not.

Too bad there is no proof to back it up. - nm

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nm

I would absolutely NEVER vote for the Rump - because all it does is inflate his ego SM

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even more than it already is.

I dont care what he promises he'll do, I dont believe him. He's an egotistical A-hole, misogynist, and thinks he's so much better than everyone else that he's trying to suck up to, with his stupid thumbs-up gestures. Flaunting all that wealth in front of the common people he claims to want to represent.

Plus how many times has he filed bankruptcy? You people want that sneaky, underhanded, cheating jagoff running the country? He'll bankrupt us even more than we already are, serve his term and get out with his ego inflated larger than his bank account.

Please. Anybody but the Rump.

I'm with you on that one - Nick

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I agree with Old Pro. I would vote for a rhinoceros before voting for Donald Trump. I once knew somebody, an old hippie, who was so dissatisfied with the candidates in the early Seventies, who wrote in John Lennon as the presidential write-in. That John Lennon was born on foreign soil and was therefore ineligible to hold the presidential office did not matter. It was simply done as a protest vote. People get desperate and do strange things. My GF once wrote in her cat in a local mayoral election because she felt that all of the human candidates were too corrupt to deserve a vote, so she actually wrote her cat's name in. It was a wasted vote, but it was pretty funny at the time.

Who cares about his ego. He knows the issues and can fix the economy - sm

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He has the best plans. Anyone who doesn't want the economy fixed and jobs created, budget balanced, the country respected, equal opportunity for all including women and minorities are not true patriots.

I don't care about his ego and neither do the other people who care about the country. We also don't care about his hair, the color of his suit, or the fact that he has money. He has proven in his career to care about people, create jobs and make lives better for people. He is encouraging to the younger people (who will be our future one day). He is an inspiration and he believes in equality for all (not equality only for someone who is democrat). He promotes women and has done a lot for all causes in his life.

Who cares how many times he has filed bankruptcy (or that he even filed bankruptcy at all). The most important thing is he learned from it and has become a great person. People who care about others like he does and is running to get our country back on track is a true patriot. Something Hillary is not. She only cares about herself. Nobody else and she has proven that throughout her career as she has walked all over anyone to get her way.

His ego? Really? And you don't think it would elevate Hillary's ego (not a question).

He is nothing but a braying jackass. - I would not vote for the Hillybilly either SM

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You really belive the Rump cares about people, created jobs and made life better for people? Maybe the illegals he uses to work in his properties, okay. Better than where they came from, I guess.

Equal opportunity for women and minorities? Rump? Cares about others? Became a great person? You're kidding, right? Just looking to stir the pot, right?

How much does he really do for others, charity work and such? Charity, I guess, if you count all the illegals he hires to do his work.

I care about his bankruptcies because it shows me he can't balance his own budget, how the H is he going to balance it for the country?

Not a popsicle's chance in that really warm place, no, not the Rump, never.

and I call him Rump because he is nothing but a braying ass.

I can just see Trump - Nick

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in a negotiating session with the head of some country we are not particularly friendly with and yelling out something like "You big fat idiot!" and next thing you know, we're at war. He just has no diplomacy.

There won't be 3 Republicans voting for Bernie. - For God's sake. What rubbish.

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Republicans vote for that pathetic socialist has-been? NEVER HAPPEN!

Thank you! Glad to know there are others who - are keeping on top of the news

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nm

The life you have is the life you made. - Own it!

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The same is true for me, you, and everyone. The class envy won't help you one little bit.

Is that what you call it, class envy? I call it greed by CEOs, - oldtimer

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Wall street and the banks. Time to rein them in.

If that is the acceptance --- the - brainwashing has worked

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they control many heart and soul. Not me---I have seen the light. The time is now. First it was Hope....Now it is Change. #FEELTHEBERN

Amen! - nm

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Please. Don't preach personal responsibility here. - You can already see the responses.

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Get an idea - something that people need or want. Then, go make it happen. THERE ARE PEOPLE DOING THIS EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK.

Stop sitting around on your dead behind, waiting for the government to confiscate other people's stuff and give it to you.

The "jealous gimme's" are pathetic, ineffectual people. - and Bernie Sanders is their leader.

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Hey - I wish I had more. I wish I hadn't gone into this field of work, frankly. I wish I'd seen the whole tech thing coming and gotten trained to have skills that are in demand. I wish I'd seen how much a share of Microsoft/Apple/Facebook, etc. would be worth.

If wishes were horses, BEGGARS WOULD RIDE - and that's exactly what Bernie Sanders is promising. He's going to make rich people give you their horses.

It's no one's fault but your own that you're in the situation you're in. Until you really grok that, you're living in a world of fantasy and denial.

Re: Jealous gimmes - Disgusted

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Judge others much?

none of those wishes have to do with hardwork - sm

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So you are okay with the MT corps having consolidated and sucked every bit of livelihood out of this job. A year ago it wasn't me, now it is (I haven't changed my tune, but I no longer feel fortunate) our hospital system just sold us down the river.

Please. - AM

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if only life were that black and white simplistic. If only.

This all sounds like new age sewage - Rationalist

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to me. Some people have genuine misfortune through no fault of their own.

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