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Old 03-18-2015, 07:38 AM
 
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It's pretty simple really. Schock was 27 years old when elected to office. His actions are absolutely greedy, but most likely are the result of a generation of babies being given "participation trophies" and feeling entitled to stuff that they didn't earn.

Let's hope that the Millennials can put someone out there that actually knows what hard work, earning what you have, and ethics actually means. Otherwise, we're doomed. Schock's demise is unfortunately not unexpected given what we already know about this generation.
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Old 03-18-2015, 07:44 AM
 
Location: Miami, FL
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Good sales guys, Repubs/Dems/Independents, know how to pad their expense account without being caught. We learned it from guys working back in the 1970s/1980s,etc.

Kid was a rookie at the craft.

Nothing to see here.
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Old 03-18-2015, 07:45 AM
 
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Good sales guys, Repubs/Dems/Independents, know how to pad their expense account without being caught. We learned it from guys working back in the 1970s/1980s,etc.

Kid was a rookie at the craft.

Nothing to see here.
Except the laws and ethics rules have changed since the 70's and 80's. What took place then is patently illegal now. That's the difference.

Read this if you want to know more about what's different:

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/0...on-116166.html
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Old 03-18-2015, 07:47 AM
 
Location: Miami, FL
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Well illegal is never worth the few extra bucks in a padded expense acct.

Like Sammy Davis sang on Baretta "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time"
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Old 03-18-2015, 07:48 AM
 
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Plenty of hard working Generation Mils out there. But I concurr that too much ego stroking has occurred with this generation as a whole.
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Old 03-18-2015, 07:50 AM
 
Location: Texas
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It's pretty simple really. Schock was 27 years old when elected to office. His actions are absolutely greedy, but most likely are the result of a generation of babies being given "participation trophies" and feeling entitled to stuff that they didn't earn.

Let's hope that the Millennials can put someone out there that actually knows what hard work, earning what you have, and ethics actually means. Otherwise, we're doomed. Schock's demise is unfortunately not unexpected given what we already know about this generation.

Aaron Schock's Resignation Proves that Millennials Are the Gimme Gimme Entitled Generation
No it doesn't.

Of course, grumpy old men still take great joy in yelling at kids to "get off my lawn!"

Carry on.



PS: animal mother is cool...
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Old 03-18-2015, 07:56 AM
 
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Do you have any actual information indicating that this behavior is more common now than it was fifty, or a hundred and fifty, years ago? Or are you taking a single case of a corrupt person whose background you aren't familiar with, and extrapolating your imaginary psychoanalysis to an entire generation of people?
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Old 03-18-2015, 07:58 AM
 
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Good sales guys, Repubs/Dems/Independents, know how to pad their expense account without being caught. We learned it from guys working back in the 1970s/1980s,etc.

Kid was a rookie at the craft.

Nothing to see here.

I made a living at one time catching expense report cheats amongst other corporate investigative duties . Many a middle level managers and a few executives found their careers sidelined and few ended up in jail.
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Old 03-18-2015, 08:00 AM
 
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What he did has been done by so many politicians and it's amazing someone would start a thread not realizing that.
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Old 03-18-2015, 08:05 AM
 
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Yet another politician from Illinois with ethics "issues". What's with that state?
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