UAW On Strike

[Creedmoor]

BTW. Imma equal opportunity hater. I can’t stand crony capitalists like the **** who is the HBIC of GM either.

I gonna bet a few here, are a blast at social functions.

 

[foszoe]

According to most socialists/communists I think it is anything over 130k a year. Unless they themselves are making 130k a year, then it is like a 1Mil. Unless they are worth around 1 Mil, then it is like anyone with a billion dollars. It is a sliding scales for communists and socialists. Perfect example is the leader of the UAW who wants to eat the rich. He himself is rich, but does not want those under him to know he is rich, makes them easier to control that way.

I should have been more clear in my question. What salary do you think makes one rich?

I know Biden made his comments around a $400,000 figure as far as taxation.

For myself, when I was young, I thought anything in 6 figures was rich. Maybe that plus inflation is at $200,000ish now.

I would settle in at $500,000 I think with out really thinking about it a lot.

 

[pmbiker]

I gonna bet a few here, are a blast at social functions.

At least I'll know which social functions to avoid....

 

[jamil]

200 grand doesnt make one rich.
You need to get out of Indiana and see what rich really is.

This sounds like yet another way to dismiss a valid point. He’s not gonna be driving a Bugatti. But with $200K/year he can afford most any of the cars available now. He is not in the working class of earners. You guys talk a good “working class” game. Until it’s one of your own.

 

[Creedmoor]

According to most socialists/communists I think it is anything over 130k a year. Unless they themselves are making 130k a year, then it is like a 1Mil. Unless they are worth around 1 Mil, then it is like anyone with a billion dollars. It is a sliding scales for communists and socialists. Perfect example is the leader of the UAW who wants to eat the rich. He himself is rich, but does not want those under him to know he is rich, makes them easier to control that way.

Do you realize that most in the Union Skilled Trades, LE, Fireman, Lower management, middle managment and thousands of different jobs pay 100 grand and up very easily.
Those in sales can easily make a 150 plus a year.

Base pay for a Mechanic in the elevator trade is above 90 grand. If one works a few hours of OT each week it ain't hard to bust you figures.

My youngest sister was a detective in a Florida Sheriffs dept, she made over 130 grand.

 

[jamil]

I should have been more clear in my question. What salary do you think makes one rich?

I know Biden made his comments around a $400,000 figure as far as taxation.

For myself, when I was young, I thought anything in 6 figures was rich. Maybe that plus inflation is at $200,000ish now.

I would settle in at $500,000 I think with out really thinking about it a lot.

“Rich” is relative. Any one of us spending our time on INGO is “rich” to someone. We’ve become so comfortable in the West that we can’t imagine real ass poverty on a third world scale.

 

[Creedmoor]

This sounds like yet another way to dismiss a valid point. He’s not gonna be driving a Bugatti. But with $200K/year he can afford most any of the cars available now. He is not in the working class of earners. You guys talk a good “working class” game. Until it’s one of your own.

As a kid that grew up just off the DC beltway at my fathers house in Bethesda.
One exit each way was Potomac and the other was Chevy Chase, MD.
A mother and Sfather in Annapolis.
I married a girl from old Chevy Chase, a family of attorneys.

I am very aware of what rich is. And 200 grand ain't it

 

[foszoe]

“Rich” is relative. Any one of us spending our time on INGO is “rich” to someone. We’ve become so comfortable in the West that we can’t imagine real ass poverty on a third world scale.

Which is why I wasn't asking for what salary makes one rich. Hence the rephrase of the question. I can ask the same of you.

What salary is rich, to you?

 

[jamil]

I gonna bet a few here, are a blast at social functions.

So if I notice some criticisms that can be made against both the union and management sides, I must be a social outcast? I mean, I actually do just fine at social gatherings.

 

[jamil]

As a kid that grew up just off the DC beltway at my fathers house in Bethesda.
One exit each way was Potomac and the other was Chevy Chase, MD.
A mother and Sfather in Annapolis.
I married a girl from old Chevy Chase, a family of attorneys.

I am very aware of what rich is. And 200 grand ain't it

See post # 1766.

 

[jamil]

Which is why I wasn't asking for what salary makes one rich. Hence the rephrase of the question. I can ask the same of you.

What salary is rich, to you?

An order of magnitude more than I make.

 

[Creedmoor]

“Rich” is relative. Any one of us spending our time on INGO is “rich” to someone. We’ve become so comfortable in the West that we can’t imagine real ass poverty on a third world scale.

Have you seen true poverty and dispair?
And I don't mean Appalachia.

 

[Creedmoor]

See post # 1766.

kut is that you?

 

[jamil]

Have you seen true poverty and dispair?
And I don't mean Appalachia.

I grew up poor. And “rich”. Never thought when we were poor it was poverty. Never felt in despair. It was just what it was. We went through financially prosperous times and financially ruinous times.

My dad grew up poor. He grew up in the South. Most of his childhood was during the depression. He lived in a one room shack. 3 brothers, 3 sisters, mither and Father. Dirt floor. He had to quit school in the 3rd grade to pick cotton to help the family. He never said he lived in poverty. Or acted like grew ip in despair. It was what it was.

But what has that to do with the discussion? I said “rich” is relative. That’s true. Poor is as well.

 

[jamil]

kut is that you?

Now that’s an odd thing to say in a discussion such as this. Have you run out of meaningful things already?

 

[foszoe]

I grew up poor. And “rich”. Never thought when we were poor it was poverty. Never felt in despair. It was just what it was. We went through financially prosperous times and financially ruinous times.

My dad grew up poor. He grew up in the South. Most of his childhood was during the depression. He lived in a one room shack. 3 brothers, 3 sisters, mither and Father. Dirt floor. He had to quit school in the 3rd grade to pick cotton to help the family. He never said he lived in poverty. Or acted like grew ip in despair. It was what it was.

But what has that to do with the discussion? I said “rich” is relative. That’s true. Poor is as well.

You never said what rich is relative to.

Sometimes you and Kamala Harris have things in common.

 

[bobzilla]

Now that’s an odd thing to say in a discussion such as this. Have you run out of meaningful things already?

About 20 pages back.

For the topic of rich, it's less a salary and more a way of life. Do they struggle to purchase things they WANT (not need)? All their needs are comfortably covered. Their wants are easily attainable within reason. Wanting a 400 acre island with private security isn't an attainable goal for 99% of the population. PAying cash for their new car every 2 years is.

 

[Creedmoor]

Now that’s an odd thing to say in a discussion such as this. Have you run out of meaningful things already?

You want me to go back to a post, thats been deleted.
Seems you did days ago.

 

[Creedmoor]

I grew up poor. And “rich”. Never thought when we were poor it was poverty. Never felt in despair. It was just what it was. We went through financially prosperous times and financially ruinous times.

My dad grew up poor. He grew up in the South. Most of his childhood was during the depression. He lived in a one room shack. 3 brothers, 3 sisters, mither and Father. Dirt floor. He had to quit school in the 3rd grade to pick cotton to help the family. He never said he lived in poverty. Or acted like grew ip in despair. It was what it was.

But what has that to do with the discussion? I said “rich” is relative. That’s true. Poor is as well.

So, I'm one of those lucky kids that has four parents.
My birth mom, born on a sharecroppers farm in Cotton Plant, Miss
My Smom of 58 years born in a coal mines company housing in Page, WV.

We all have parents that grew up then.

 

[pmbiker]

No further expansion of the strike today.