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Old 07-09-2015, 09:27 AM
 
Location: Barrington
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Reagan holds the record in speaking fees at $ 1 million for a single event.
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Old 07-09-2015, 04:52 PM
 
Location: Upstate NY 🇺🇸
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ABC thought this was important enough to run during the first 5 minutes of the evening news with reporter Brian What'shisname wigging out about his "scoop." Stephanopoulos probably suggested it.

No wonder the Old Media is tanking.
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Old 07-09-2015, 05:38 PM
 
Location: Maryland about 20 miles NW of DC
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So instead of working the 50-60 hours per week that many jobs require, we should be working 80 hours per week? Is that what Jeb expects of us? Never spend anytime with your family ever and just work constantly? I did that garbage for two years when I worked at a CPA firm, and when I left I vowed I would never work more than 40 hours a week at a job. Life is too short.

The funny thing is it is not relevant how many hours you work if you hold a management, supervisory or professional position and are paid a weekly salary. You are not eligible for over time or any special incentive pay. Your pay will be the same if you work 40 or 80 or even 100 hours straight with a few cat naps . Its amazing how many employees these days are classed as salaried professional workers (like facility professional) or supervisors even if the only thing you supervise is a broom and a bucket. Other ways to keep your pay to a minimum is to class you as a contract worker, a trainee or intern or keep you in part time purgatory!
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Old 07-09-2015, 05:48 PM
 
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that criteria eliminates HRC, EW and the field of GOP candidates. Maybe Lincoln chaffee fits your criteria?

if you have a choice and vote for HRC instead of Jeb, if he is the rep candidate, you sold the country down the drain. Same as if you don't vote.

Come up with a better reason why you won't vote for Bush. Of course you don't have to, but be honest with yourself and at least pretend to make a decision based on substance. He's not my first choice either because there are other candidates that appear more qualified. Fiorina speaks from the heart, is intelligent and well versed in global affairs. She has demonstrated leadership skills and and knows how to run a worldwide organization.

Fiorino, Trump or CC would eat HRC's lunch in any face to face debate. Too much word smithing and PC legal language to even understand what any of these candidates are saying. CC shows strength here but doesn't have the resume of accompolishment in NJ like Kasich who is not yet in the race. Unfortunately Rubio and the others are immersed in mimicing the charcteristic republican style of speaking as if they were at a scientific convention addressing peers that are assumed to be up on all the terminology and political minutia. Results in zero communication, leaves people cold.
Trump is high in the polls because he is making contact and touching the heart of the issues but is too clumsy with his words. The wordsmithing media and pols on both sides are having a field day treating his words literally and out of perspective with his demonstrated history of accomplishment. It is frustrating to hear these pols talk immigration and never once implicate the MX government.

Cruz is a dream but he is too dramatic.
Not a Hillary fan either but I don't remember using class comments like the Bush family. George W often made comments about being a C student. The Bush family comes from generations of wealth. Hillary's family was well off but not especially wealthy and Bill Clinton's family was poor. I wouldn't vote for Fiorina either because she outsourced many HP jobs.
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Old 07-09-2015, 05:51 PM
 
Location: Maryland about 20 miles NW of DC
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Think about it ? Obama has turned the US into a 32 hour work week with lower wages. many have to work a side job to make it work.

The Speaking Fee's is GWBushes Business, if your OP has merit.

Why do you blame Obama for something that was decided by employers who laughed all the way to the Investment Bank or Cayman Islands where they pocketed all those wages they didn't have to pay workers and forced their workers to make bricks with out straw ( the modern equivalent is expecting workers to do all that work that used to take 40 or more hours into the 32 hours they would pay for). With appropriate threats the workers ( salaried chumps) almost always meet employer expectations even if they have to work uncompensated late into the night. Threatening a worker's job and livelihood is a great incentive in the work place.
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Old 07-09-2015, 08:02 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Let's take Economic advice from the Bush family!

G.W.Bush : led us into a economic recession during the 1st. Gulf War in 1990

Dubya : Led us into 2 Wars in the middle east in IRAQ & Afghanistan, murdered 4500 of our US Troops for a "WMD" Lie and tens of thousands of Iraquis in the process.

Jeb : Americans need to work 40 hours a week to bring up American productivity.

If you vote for another Bush maybe we do need "true" Obamacare "that leads to a "lobotomy".
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Old 07-09-2015, 08:17 PM
 
Location: Georgia
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Awww...typical Repukes...go back to deflect everything against the Clintons...Guess what Repukes they are all conniving scum making it big off our backs, Clintons, Bushes, Faux News, etc...it's just the Bushes/Repubes are by farther the bigger scum that nobody supports Your phony-assistance 'holier than thou' bull**** republican party is dead!
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Old 07-09-2015, 09:15 PM
 
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Why do you blame Obama for something that was decided by employers who laughed all the way to the Investment Bank or Cayman Islands where they pocketed all those wages they didn't have to pay workers and forced their workers to make bricks with out straw ( the modern equivalent is expecting workers to do all that work that used to take 40 or more hours into the 32 hours they would pay for). With appropriate threats the workers ( salaried chumps) almost always meet employer expectations even if they have to work uncompensated late into the night. Threatening a worker's job and livelihood is a great incentive in the work place.
You are forgetting the 28 hours work week that mandates insurance coverage by employers under "Obamacare" law. That has contributed to workers' hours being cut so the companies didn't have to offer health insurance.
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Old 07-09-2015, 09:21 PM
 
Location: Planet Telex
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Jeb Bush would be the same as voting for a democrat
Look at Jeb's advisors. He's worse than even the worst of Democrats.
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