Trump urges Americans to work harder despite spending 22% of term golfing
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Agreed, but the person I'm responding to made a point about weeks vs. weekends.
Yes I suppose, just like anything, a nuance here would be whether or not we expect a person of such political authority to be able to have weekends at all.
On one hand, they're still a person working a job and no one should be working 365 days a year
On the other, the societal cost, in terms of income tax covering travel and security costs, of having a President that travels every weekend is a bit much.If the President was only golfing on the weekends, and wasn't charging the government to golf at his own clubs, then this whole thing of him taking leisure every weekend would be a harder thing to argue against without getting into that whole administration work life balance discussion.
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I had a pre-MAGA family member say to me "holidays are for Christians, you should have to work!" This is the level of intellect that will control our lives for the foreseeable future.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]It's a distinct lack of understanding given that Jews also have a sabbath day and so does Islam (sorta, it's a day of increased prayer but not literally a day of res) literally every Abrahamic religion I can think of has a sabbath.
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Honestly he should golf more
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I'd recommend Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the 21st Century' if you're into the deep economics side of all this. Its a bit dense, but really hammers home the point that the period from ~1940 - 1980 in the US was the ONLY period where wealth inequality was declining and therefore it was easier for people to believe that we lived in a meritocracy of some kind where 'adding value' at work actually did lead to added wages. That period has ended, and now inequality and trickle-up economics are reaching all time highs, with no apparent limit in sight.
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Thanks for the links
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Honestly he should golf more
With the amount he plays golf, you'd think he'd be better at it, but apparently he's a chronic cheat at that as well.
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Americans should definitely take Voting Day off, to maybe vote.
ahaha... good one.
Maybe they will go vote if they get a free burger with fries.
Or tacos...
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With all his golf clubs at the same time
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I urge him to get bent!
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Maybe he'll trip and impale himself on a golf club soon
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I keep seeing Ed's site posted everywhere and we need to promote the HELL out of him!!! It seems he is the only person actually making sense today. I send his articles to everyone I know and urge them to read it.
Who the hell is Ed?
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Americans should definitely take Voting Day off, to maybe vote.
They could also have voting day on a fucking sunday like the rest of us.
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Who the hell is Ed?
Click the link above my comment..
