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As the rich get even more tax breaks......
.....many others starve, or live paycheck to paycheck.
In response to:
If you want to stay in the most expensive hotel suite in New York, you’ll need about $75,000 to spare. A report from NewYorkHotels.org looked at the priciest places to stay in Manhattan, and the incredible abodes come with a variety of upscale amenities, like a chauffeured Rolls Royce and a personal styling from Christian Dior.
At the top of the list is the Penthouse at the Mark Hotel at $75,000 per night in October, according to the research. The 12,000-square-foot suite was designed by French designer Jacques France and includes five bedrooms, four fireplaces, six bathrooms, a grand piano and two bars. If that’s not enough, there is also a library, dining room, conservatory and a rooftop terrace that provides view so the Met and Central Park.
If you want to stay in the most expensive hotel suite in New York, you’ll need about $75,000 to spare. A report from NewYorkHotels.org looked at the priciest places to stay in Manhattan, and the incredible abodes come with a variety of upscale amenities, like a chauffeured Rolls Royce and a personal styling from Christian Dior.
At the top of the list is the Penthouse at the Mark Hotel at $75,000 per night in October, according to the research. The 12,000-square-foot suite was designed by French designer Jacques France and includes five bedrooms, four fireplaces, six bathrooms, a grand piano and two bars. If that’s not enough, there is also a library, dining room, conservatory and a rooftop terrace that provides view so the Met and Central Park.
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CEO pay has increased from about 20 times the typical worker’s pay to 271 times greater, from 1965 to 2016, according to 2017 a study by the EPI.
As the economic recovery continues, Price said that it is critically important to continue to look at growth and specifically how it is distributed.
“For some reason, the economy just doesn’t have the generation of wage growth we’d like to see,” Price said. “We like to focus a light on the way that income is distributed to share that the people who make decisions are benefiting from the economy in a way we might not all be.”
The gap between incomes of the top 1 percent and bottom 99 percent are growing
CEO pay has increased from about 20 times the typical worker’s pay to 271 times greater, from 1965 to 2016, according to 2017 a study by the EPI.
As the economic recovery continues, Price said that it is critically important to continue to look at growth and specifically how it is distributed.
“For some reason, the economy just doesn’t have the generation of wage growth we’d like to see,” Price said. “We like to focus a light on the way that income is distributed to share that the people who make decisions are benefiting from the economy in a way we might not all be.”
The gap between incomes of the top 1 percent and bottom 99 percent are growing
State/region
Average income of the top 1% ......Average income of the bottom 99%
New York $2,202,480..... $49,617
Florida $1,543,124..... $39,094
Connecticut $2,522,806 ..... $67,742
Nevada $1,354,780..... $41,470
Wyoming $1,900,659..... $60,922
Massachusetts $1,904,805..... $61,694
California $1,693,094..... $55,152
Illinois $1,412,024.... $52,216
New Jersey $1,581,829 $65,068
Washington $1,383,223 $57,100
Texas $1,343,897 $55,614
Georgia $995,576 $44,147
Arkansas $864,772 $38,472
Pennsylvania $1,100,962 $50,830
Michigan $917,701 $42,825
Tennessee $947,021 $44,219
Missouri $944,804 $44,650
Arizona $882,657 $42,000
Minnesota $1,185,581 $56,728
Colorado $1,261,053 $61,165
North Carolina $902,972 $43,850
South Dakota $1,130,048 $56,610
Oregon $908,898 $46,090
Utah $1,057,066 $53,614
South Carolina $761,185 $38,646
Alabama $743,644 $38,587
Montana $855,976 $45,197
Wisconsin $964,358 $50,953
Ohio $858,965 $46,157
Kentucky $719,012 $38,990
Kansas $1,034,676 $56,628
Rhode Island $928,204 $50,963
Louisiana $814,386 $45,060
New Hampshire $1,134,101 $62,796
Maryland $1,135,718 $63,656
Oklahoma $932,520 $52,533
Virginia $1,109,984 $62,844
Idaho $829,268 $47,727
Indiana $804,275 $46,501
Delaware $869,461 $51,049
Mississippi $580,461 $35,353
Nebraska $945,869 $58,013
Vermont $816,579 $50,283
North Dakota $1,080,845 $68,316
New Mexico $615,082 $39,675
Maine $655,870 $42,575
West Virginia $535,648 $34,987
Iowa $788,419 $53,753
Hawaii $797,001 $57,987
Alaska $910,059 $71,876
District of Columbia $1,858,878 $61,102
Source: Economic Policy Institute
CEO pay has increased from about 20 times the typical worker’s pay to 271 times greater, from 1965 to 2016, according to 2017 a study by the EPI.
As the economic recovery continues, Price said that it is critically important to continue to look at growth and specifically how it is distributed.
“For some reason, the economy just doesn’t have the generation of wage growth we’d like to see,” Price said. “We like to focus a light on the way that income is distributed to share that the people who make decisions are benefiting from the economy in a way we might not all be.”
The gap between incomes of the top 1 percent and bottom 99 percent are growing
CEO pay has increased from about 20 times the typical worker’s pay to 271 times greater, from 1965 to 2016, according to 2017 a study by the EPI.
As the economic recovery continues, Price said that it is critically important to continue to look at growth and specifically how it is distributed.
“For some reason, the economy just doesn’t have the generation of wage growth we’d like to see,” Price said. “We like to focus a light on the way that income is distributed to share that the people who make decisions are benefiting from the economy in a way we might not all be.”
The gap between incomes of the top 1 percent and bottom 99 percent are growing
State/region
Average income of the top 1% ......Average income of the bottom 99%
New York $2,202,480..... $49,617
Florida $1,543,124..... $39,094
Connecticut $2,522,806 ..... $67,742
Nevada $1,354,780..... $41,470
Wyoming $1,900,659..... $60,922
Massachusetts $1,904,805..... $61,694
California $1,693,094..... $55,152
Illinois $1,412,024.... $52,216
New Jersey $1,581,829 $65,068
Washington $1,383,223 $57,100
Texas $1,343,897 $55,614
Georgia $995,576 $44,147
Arkansas $864,772 $38,472
Pennsylvania $1,100,962 $50,830
Michigan $917,701 $42,825
Tennessee $947,021 $44,219
Missouri $944,804 $44,650
Arizona $882,657 $42,000
Minnesota $1,185,581 $56,728
Colorado $1,261,053 $61,165
North Carolina $902,972 $43,850
South Dakota $1,130,048 $56,610
Oregon $908,898 $46,090
Utah $1,057,066 $53,614
South Carolina $761,185 $38,646
Alabama $743,644 $38,587
Montana $855,976 $45,197
Wisconsin $964,358 $50,953
Ohio $858,965 $46,157
Kentucky $719,012 $38,990
Kansas $1,034,676 $56,628
Rhode Island $928,204 $50,963
Louisiana $814,386 $45,060
New Hampshire $1,134,101 $62,796
Maryland $1,135,718 $63,656
Oklahoma $932,520 $52,533
Virginia $1,109,984 $62,844
Idaho $829,268 $47,727
Indiana $804,275 $46,501
Delaware $869,461 $51,049
Mississippi $580,461 $35,353
Nebraska $945,869 $58,013
Vermont $816,579 $50,283
North Dakota $1,080,845 $68,316
New Mexico $615,082 $39,675
Maine $655,870 $42,575
West Virginia $535,648 $34,987
Iowa $788,419 $53,753
Hawaii $797,001 $57,987
Alaska $910,059 $71,876
District of Columbia $1,858,878 $61,102
Source: Economic Policy Institute
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Bill Cosby's new apartment...
On Tuesday, actor Bill Cosby had moved to a new apartment at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility. He was found guilty of 3 counts of aggravated indecent assault and sentenced to 3-10 years in prison. Some say his stay will be a short one. Some say his sentence should have been greater.
I read a fellow inmate greeted Cosby with a stale hotdog bun to the face. Reading comments to the news story, I believe someone said 'bun today... hotdog tomorrow...'
Well Bill, payback is a bit*ch.
Free cable TV so you can catch up on reruns of The Cosby Show.
I read a fellow inmate greeted Cosby with a stale hotdog bun to the face. Reading comments to the news story, I believe someone said 'bun today... hotdog tomorrow...'
Well Bill, payback is a bit*ch.
Free cable TV so you can catch up on reruns of The Cosby Show.
Hypothetical situation.
Hypothetical situation.
A man, lets say James and a woman lets say Carol are in a bar and enjoying each others company. They both get a little tiddly and end up leaving the bar together. We don't know what happens next but Carol claims James raped her. There are no witnesses and the police have to make a case. There is a trial and James is convicted of rape. He is given a 20 year sentence and begins serving.
James claims he is innocent. The charges against him are allegations and there is no proof of the crime ever being committed. James goes through the humiliation of the ordeal and knows he is not guilty.
James gets a lawyer and fights the charges that he is a sex offender and actually wins his argument.
James is set free. He is exonerated.
My question is this. Does Carol need to be imprisoned for falsely accusing James of a crime he didn't commit? Also how much time should she serve if she is found guilty?
A man, lets say James and a woman lets say Carol are in a bar and enjoying each others company. They both get a little tiddly and end up leaving the bar together. We don't know what happens next but Carol claims James raped her. There are no witnesses and the police have to make a case. There is a trial and James is convicted of rape. He is given a 20 year sentence and begins serving.
James claims he is innocent. The charges against him are allegations and there is no proof of the crime ever being committed. James goes through the humiliation of the ordeal and knows he is not guilty.
James gets a lawyer and fights the charges that he is a sex offender and actually wins his argument.
James is set free. He is exonerated.
My question is this. Does Carol need to be imprisoned for falsely accusing James of a crime he didn't commit? Also how much time should she serve if she is found guilty?
The 3 Rs
In SA criminals use what is commonly known as the 3 Rs literally to get away with murder or to cut their sentence by more than half at times.
REMORSE
REGRET
RELIGION
This while the victim has just about no rights...
REMORSE
REGRET
RELIGION
This while the victim has just about no rights...
My 2 Weeks Behind The Iron Curtain
It was about this time of the year in 1985 that I went to Poland. Poland was still behind the Iron Curtain.
I was picked up at the airport in Warsaw by my host family. We drove about 4 hours south to the town of Nysa. Along the way we got low on gas so we stopped at a station. We banged on the door and awakened the fellow working there. He told us come back in the morning. I flashed an American 10 dollar bill and he couldn't pump the gas fast enough. I stayed on a farm. When it was dinner time they grabbed a chicken, chopped his head off and plucked it then cooked it. Every meal had potatoes. Everyone bathed while dinner was being cooked because the hot water pipes were run through the stove. That was the only way to get hot water.
I toured the Auschwitz concentration camp. I was told that I would still smell the stench of death, but that was not the case. I was able to visit the barracks that the interred were living in. Several of the hallway walls were removed and replaced with plexiglass walls and was able to see inside. In one room there was a mountain of shoes, from the deceased. In another room, there was a mountain of eyeglasses. In another room there was a pile of false teeth. In another room there was a pile of prosthetic limbs. It was truly the most profound experience I have ever had in my life.
I was able to walk away from a place that thousands were not. My life changed.
I was picked up at the airport in Warsaw by my host family. We drove about 4 hours south to the town of Nysa. Along the way we got low on gas so we stopped at a station. We banged on the door and awakened the fellow working there. He told us come back in the morning. I flashed an American 10 dollar bill and he couldn't pump the gas fast enough. I stayed on a farm. When it was dinner time they grabbed a chicken, chopped his head off and plucked it then cooked it. Every meal had potatoes. Everyone bathed while dinner was being cooked because the hot water pipes were run through the stove. That was the only way to get hot water.
I toured the Auschwitz concentration camp. I was told that I would still smell the stench of death, but that was not the case. I was able to visit the barracks that the interred were living in. Several of the hallway walls were removed and replaced with plexiglass walls and was able to see inside. In one room there was a mountain of shoes, from the deceased. In another room, there was a mountain of eyeglasses. In another room there was a pile of false teeth. In another room there was a pile of prosthetic limbs. It was truly the most profound experience I have ever had in my life.
I was able to walk away from a place that thousands were not. My life changed.
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Skinning Cats...
If I had a dollar for every time someone told me "There's more than one way to skin a cat" I'd be retired and living off the profits of my investments. Well, I'm not collecting dollars and it's true, although I've never skinned a cat, I'm sure there is more than one way to do it.
So, let's say I really did work for a place that skinned cats... Taxidermy perhaps?
Right answer. It was my summer job... lots of cats came in and I got them all. The boss told me he's never seen someone work so quickly and paid me extra if I could skin them in a way that required less time to stuff them (that was his job) because I skinned them and he stuffed them. What a great job, but many things come to an end and I found another job.
Later in life, I got to talking at a pub and the subject came up about skinning cats. Okay, I skinned a few... hundred and described how I developed some different ways to skin cats. But... it sounded so over the top that no one believed me. I really was telling the truth and someone at the end of the bar went around telling people I was a BS'er simply because in his neck of the woods no one had accomplished what I said I had done.
Trump fabricated a story/lie about Obama that people believed. Millions of dollars were wasted on finding the truth. Years later, he admitted it was a farce but people to this day believe the lie... it did sound convincing. If you are convinced that the lie was true chances are the person who started the lie would be unable to change your mind.
That's human nature.
So any time I went into that bar I was perceived as a liar simply because of a person who fed people BS about me. Then one day, the best customer of the taxidermist happens into the pub. He recognizes me from years past and mentioned how much money he made selling stuffed cats that he knew I had skinned. Some of the people stood around with mouths opened... "You mean he was telling the truth?" one of them said...
I've seen some YouTube videos uploaded by Dude Perfect. It's a group of guys who document some amazing stunts, some have been entered into the Guiness Boooook. Anyway, their videos are really cool... I've seen an outtake of the amount of failures it takes to get one successful stunt. Hundreds.
What sticks in your mind is the 'first try' success these guys have on video...
So, let's say I really did work for a place that skinned cats... Taxidermy perhaps?
Right answer. It was my summer job... lots of cats came in and I got them all. The boss told me he's never seen someone work so quickly and paid me extra if I could skin them in a way that required less time to stuff them (that was his job) because I skinned them and he stuffed them. What a great job, but many things come to an end and I found another job.
Later in life, I got to talking at a pub and the subject came up about skinning cats. Okay, I skinned a few... hundred and described how I developed some different ways to skin cats. But... it sounded so over the top that no one believed me. I really was telling the truth and someone at the end of the bar went around telling people I was a BS'er simply because in his neck of the woods no one had accomplished what I said I had done.
Trump fabricated a story/lie about Obama that people believed. Millions of dollars were wasted on finding the truth. Years later, he admitted it was a farce but people to this day believe the lie... it did sound convincing. If you are convinced that the lie was true chances are the person who started the lie would be unable to change your mind.
That's human nature.
So any time I went into that bar I was perceived as a liar simply because of a person who fed people BS about me. Then one day, the best customer of the taxidermist happens into the pub. He recognizes me from years past and mentioned how much money he made selling stuffed cats that he knew I had skinned. Some of the people stood around with mouths opened... "You mean he was telling the truth?" one of them said...
I've seen some YouTube videos uploaded by Dude Perfect. It's a group of guys who document some amazing stunts, some have been entered into the Guiness Boooook. Anyway, their videos are really cool... I've seen an outtake of the amount of failures it takes to get one successful stunt. Hundreds.
What sticks in your mind is the 'first try' success these guys have on video...
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venezuela refugee
I'm willing to take one in the house...
about my age, female,
I feel like somebody has to have a right to a better life and future.
and oh my god, what is happening there.
I do think i already posted something about that a year ago
about my age, female,
I feel like somebody has to have a right to a better life and future.
and oh my god, what is happening there.
I do think i already posted something about that a year ago
Sometimes a person, a name, personifies a whole time of your life
Sometimes, you don’t even realize until you hear their name years and years later and it is a TARDIS moment, you suddenly see people you’d forgotten, hear voices as though they were still speaking, you are scooped back in time and it is magical
It also destroys you a little.
This is not an interactive blog, but if you have had a similar experience, and if you are moved to share it here - sawubona. I see you.
It also destroys you a little.
This is not an interactive blog, but if you have had a similar experience, and if you are moved to share it here - sawubona. I see you.
Guilt feelings about ageism.
Hello guys.
Just want to share some thoughts about ageism, that keeps on coming back and forth in my mind since 4 days.
There's been an uproar lately with the launch of dating apps, that would popped up on our widow, so not bad to be relieved from curiousity, and communicating with people all over the world is beneficial too, just travelling around the world with less expenses.lol
Building a profile sounds like..I have to attract people on here. Here comes the age range..50 to 60 only, I don't need a father, as nobody could replace my father. Needs a caregiver? I could be, just hire me then. I did not realized I feed ageism, and only a step, I could be counted as member of the club.
men of 70's could beat those on 20's when it comes to stamina and women as well. So age range should be omitted to open the dating pool...
and don't we all want more choices???::peace:
Just want to share some thoughts about ageism, that keeps on coming back and forth in my mind since 4 days.
There's been an uproar lately with the launch of dating apps, that would popped up on our widow, so not bad to be relieved from curiousity, and communicating with people all over the world is beneficial too, just travelling around the world with less expenses.lol
Building a profile sounds like..I have to attract people on here. Here comes the age range..50 to 60 only, I don't need a father, as nobody could replace my father. Needs a caregiver? I could be, just hire me then. I did not realized I feed ageism, and only a step, I could be counted as member of the club.
men of 70's could beat those on 20's when it comes to stamina and women as well. So age range should be omitted to open the dating pool... and don't we all want more choices???::peace:online today!
Soaking up free Wi-Fi at the coffee shop...
It's standard business to offer free Wi-Fi nowadays. Donuts shops, restaurants, fast-food establishments. The lobby of the medical clinic has a sign on the wall with the login code to access their free Wi-Fi.
Twenty years ago the place to get online was at an Internet Cafe. I used to video chat with some women in the Philippines who paid by the hour to share time with friends family and the possibility of meeting a guy online. Owning a computer and having an internet at home was only for the wealthy. The cafe was the normal way get a computer and connect with the outside world.
Often, it's dark when I leave my office heading home and pass by a 24 hour McDonalds. I can see groups of people on the outside patio relaxing at tables typing away on their laptops soaking up the free Wi-Fi.
Twenty years ago the place to get online was at an Internet Cafe. I used to video chat with some women in the Philippines who paid by the hour to share time with friends family and the possibility of meeting a guy online. Owning a computer and having an internet at home was only for the wealthy. The cafe was the normal way get a computer and connect with the outside world.
Often, it's dark when I leave my office heading home and pass by a 24 hour McDonalds. I can see groups of people on the outside patio relaxing at tables typing away on their laptops soaking up the free Wi-Fi.
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