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Trump's Presidency

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Maximus said:
I don't know this...and neither do you. It's one of the smarter companies around, they know what they're doing.




What's the big picture @KI4MVP, myself and other small business owners don't understand. Enlighten us.

And there's a big part of me that thinks you don't have any idea what it's like to own a small business. Im really not trying to be a prick, but i dont think you have a clue what a battle it is. Selfish? Our health insurance can't keep going up 20-22% every freaking year...it's not sustainable. Our customers can't keep saying "we're going to keep on using the same old equipment" every year because THEIR insurance is going up, they're getting strangled by regulations and the economy isn't growing. And for those lucky enough to make a profit, the USA has the highest tax rate on the planet.

I think big corporations can be selfish. Sure, some small ones can too. But, most small business owners are usually very close with their employees...their employees are like family. Making decisions aren't just about how it effects the owner's wallet, but everyone. There's a massive risk and stress in owning a company. If the govt is anti-business and making it harder to make a decent profit, there's no real incentive to do it. I told several here that i was planning my exit plan because it's been that miserable the last 8 years...it's wasn't fun anymore. Now, i'm going to stick around a while longer and see if Trump can make my company great again. :chuckle:
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I am curious why you wouldn't support universal Healthcare? I have never understood why you are responsible for your employees health insurance to begin with. It is a major detraction for starting your own business. If you can't offer health insurance, how can you attract good people? When you hit the 60 person minimum you have to take a hit to offer insurance. If anything universal healthcare should be good for business, but republicans don't see it that way.

Whoever handles that for you could actually be tasked with doing business instead of dealing with employee health coverage. If you didn't lose insurance when you quit your job to start your own business. I just don't get it. Health care costs are most likely completely unrelated to the products you make, so why should it be tied to your success as a businessperson?
 
Damien O'Connel said:
madman
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Damien O'Connel said:
actively working to see to it that my children starve.
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I just realized it's after 4:20...

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Damien O'Connel said:
Literally described where I work to a T. Just hired a lean guru as COO.

I'm going through the leadership program, getting paid, getting a knowledge base and then I'm OUT.

But my point was that I think a lot of small business owners lack the strategic vision required in an enterprise environment where neglecting the smallest details can create exponential risk.
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Well, you used to be able to do the thing you love and make some money in the process. Large companies have made operating on small margins the norm, which has devastated the economy and made less money for everyone to make.

I don't mind a little competition, but this is the biggest reason for wealth disparity now. It is a race to the bottom to see who can make the smallest amount of money from the most people. These things don't scale in niche markets like mine, it just makes everyone's products garbage.
 
Cavatt said:
Well, you used to be able to do the thing you love and make some money in the process. Large companies have made operating on small margins the norm, which has devastated the economy and made less money for everyone to make.

I don't mind a little competition, but this is the biggest reason for wealth disparity now. It is a race to the bottom to see who can make the smallest amount of money from the most people. These things don't scale in niche markets like mine, it just makes everyone's products garbage.
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The contractors from Amazon are laughing at how behind the times our IT department is. I'm honestly using this to learn about what not to do. Re-org to implement Agile happened today. Roughly 10 years late.


But at the same time, because i rotate to a different area every 6 months, I'm learning about infrastructure, cyber security, enterprise application development, and big data utilization on the largest scale there is.

I'll be able to get a job anywhere after this. Dig my teeth into building something on someone else's dime and then do my own thing, hopefully before I'm 30.

That's Damien's Life Plan phase II
 
Maximus said:
I thought one thing everyone agreed on, is that the war monger lost the election. I don't think Trump has any interest in starting wars, he's wants to make the US economy robust again. I think he wants a strong military, everyone should, but i don't think he wants to be the world police. Hillary i think would have wanted to be involved in everyone's conflicts.

Lastly, HE can't nuke someone...there's checks and balances to prevent that. I think he will exceed your expectations if that's the bar you've set...damn, i hope i didn't just jinx it. :chuckle:
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No, Max, there aren't. The president has supreme authority when it comes to nuclear weapons and can only be stopped if there's a mutiny.
 
Czvosec said:
No, Max, there aren't. The president has supreme authority when it comes to nuclear weapons and can only be stopped if there's a mutiny.
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Yeah, then there'd be a mutiny. This "finger on the button" thing gets overblown...the generals aren't going to nuke someone unless it's justified. It's not like he can take the football and start shooting at people like a video game. Damien and others are calling him a madman. Look, he has no interest in war. Piers Morgan says the same thing i said earlier in the video i just posted, Hillary was the war Hawk. Trump, the businessman, has no interest in it. He doesn't want to be the world's police.
 
1. History is riddled with leaders who have committed horrible atrocities simply because they were in power and no one stopped them. Or they did attempt to, and they were forcibly pushed aside. This idea that we're passed that or it's too far fetched seems naive, especially when we just elected the man this country did.

2. I don't think trump having no interest in war has anything to do with it. The fact that hes talked so openly about and has seem to show so little regard for their actual ramifications is concerning enough.
 
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