musings - way waay OT

Could be as simple as that employee being careless setting their
exemptions. Maybe they get big refunds each April because they overpay
during the year.

Anyone with any intelligence would never do that. Why give the government
an interest free loan.

I know plenty of college educated employees of the university who do
precisely that, as a method of savings. It's just about the dumbest
investment strategy on the planet -- but that doesn't prevent
intelligent people from doing it.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

So Jay do you draw a salary that is "almost unimaginable?"

I know you know the answer to that question, but here it is:

Mary and I are the lowest-paid employees at the hotel, if you figure
out what we make per hour.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Work smarter, not harder, Denny!

Matt - putting in a few hours this Saturday.

I've always hated that canned response. I first heard it when I was a
corporate drone in the '80s, when they were cutting our pay and adding
to our workload.
--
Jay
(Who works every Saturday....and Sunday...for my "vast" pay... :-)

Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Our "poor" live like (or even better than) the middle to upper class in most
other nations.

I believe America is the only society in human history to have a
documented obesity problem amongst the "poor".
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
Hey, Jay!! Give this a read; long, almost 30 pages, but well worth it if
anyone thinks the Repubs are going to change any of this, ever.

http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/...nservatism.asp

I'll check it out, but I don't need it to outline the decline and fall
fo conservatism. I've watched it die on the vine for the last 8 years.

How about 40 years?


We need a socially liberal (and I don't mean welfare-state liberal),
fiscally conservative third party in this country, and we need it NOW.

One that will get 5% of the vote?

Funny thing is, so many people declare themselves that way in polls, but
they don't vote that way.

Take away the rhetoric from the polls (ie, just ask questions about one's
principles) and the overwhelming majority of people are socialist, or at
least collectivist, despite what they CLIAM to be.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
Work smarter, not harder, Denny!

Matt - putting in a few hours this Saturday.

I've always hated that canned response. I first heard it when I was a
corporate drone in the '80s, when they were cutting our pay and adding
to our workload.

Actually (ANAICT) it originated in DILBERT.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
Could be as simple as that employee being careless setting their
exemptions. Maybe they get big refunds each April because they overpay
during the year.

Anyone with any intelligence would never do that. Why give the government
an interest free loan.

I know plenty of college educated employees of the university who do
precisely that, as a method of savings. It's just about the dumbest
investment strategy on the planet -- but that doesn't prevent
intelligent people from doing it.

Maybe you have a faulty definition of "intelligent"?

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
Our "poor" live like (or even better than) the middle to upper class in
most
other nations.

I believe America is the only society in human history to have a
documented obesity problem amongst the "poor".

I believe that's more a factor of junkfood/couch potatoes.

I do believe that America is the only society in human history to have a
"Leisure Class" at the bottom of the economic scale.

In article ,
"Matt Barrow" wrote:

Meanwhile, CEOs and upper management draw salaries that are almost
unimaginable, and the gap is rapidly growing.

check out what CEOs were making 100 years ago vs the "average" worker
and compare that to today. I think you'll be surprised.

Irrelevant

it's certainly relevant wrt to the "gap is rapidly growing" claim,

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

In article .com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

We need a socially liberal (and I don't mean welfare-state liberal),
fiscally conservative third party in this country, and we need it NOW.

Can I wordsmith that a little: We need a socially and fiscially responsible
third party.

"Liberal" and "conservative" have been misused and abused for so long now
that the meanings of those words are too ambiguous.

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate