CleaveTheGreat

Yeah it's not at all what I expected. I do mutual fund accounting and it can be incredibly irritating.

Sounds about the same as citi

How is Chase? We've had a few people leave here for Chase. And I don't plan on staying here forever...

On Stelzer. I work for Citi

I work over by Easton and when I left work at 6 270S was backed up for miles. Glad I was headed north

Ballin outta control. Did you get a raise at the job you're not getting fired from?

Unfortunately I'm not gonna be able to make this. Gotta head back north for some family stuff.

Like I said, I don't see it actually happeneing. I guess I should have said it won't happen for political or legislative reasons. Corporate lobbyists would never agree to something like that and I don't see congress even suggesting something like this. I suppose that the greed that is intrinsically built into the profit motive of running a business is what causes the low wage problem. If you cut corporate taxes without some type of requirement that part of the money be used to raise wages, then wages will remain flat and those savings will be distributed to those at the top, not the everyday worker. I don't really know what the solution is, but I know that it isn't regulating and taxing the shit out of businesses and forcing them to outsource to survive and it isn't taxing the rich more and then redistributing their wealth to those with less. The ideas coming out of Washington from both sides are flawed and unsustainable. We need wide ranging changes that are not being suggested by either side. Ugh.

You can thank the media for that. I don't even really think we need to raise taxes on the rich. Just cut corporate taxes and regulation costs and as a condition of these cuts, some of the savings must be funneled into higher wages. Doubt that this will ever happen due to political reasons.

This

I agree that corporate taxes and regulation are out of control and are driving businesses to invest overseas where the costs of operation are less. I also agree that a lower paying job is better than no job but if you allow businesses to create an abundance of low paying, unskilled jobs all you are going to end up with is a permanent, socio-economically disadvantaged underclass. One of the problems is that rising operating costs (due to regulation and taxes - not wage increases) has caused the cost of products and cost of living in general in this country to increase steadily over time. Producing a ton of low wage jobs will not solve any long term problems and will likely create more problems (more crime, larger ghettos, etc). Maybe we should cut corporate taxes and regulatory burdens and require that some of those savings be funneled into an increase in wages which would have wide ranging benefits.

It's true that Soros is financing the occupy movement which is unfortunate because I can't stand George Soros. However the orginal goal of the occupy movement was stated as eliminating corporate greed on Wall St and political corruption. While I think these are both good ideas I doubt that either is an attainable goal given the state of this movement and I fail to see where socialism fits into those two goals. Like others have said, the media always interviews the extremists in any given situation and that is what people have begun to identify the occupy movement with. They really have no clear leadership and their goals aren't exactly easy to find (I googled them and pulled from occupywallst.org) so I'm kind of hoping this whole thing fizzles out and someone comes up with an actual plan of action to effect change in regard to income inequality and money in politics. And btw, when I say effect change in regards to income inequality I don't mean welfare; I mean actually increasing wages to keep up with the cost of living instead of keeping them flat for 30+ years.

Where is it stated that socialism and government control of everything is the objective of the occupy movement?

I may be there for this

can't say I'm surprised

Did Keith get tired of it already?

Looks like a good time. Wish I would have seen this thread this morning. I was riding in the Coshocton area today. And I haven't been on 646 in a few years but I always liked that road...

Looks nice...wish I had the cash

This is from a short ride around the Hoover reservoir in Westerville about 2 hours ago. Only rode about 20 miles. Doing the speed limit of course

Rolling acres? Make sure you're carrying

Looks like an awesome weekend. Great pics too. I am incredibly jealous of where you live.

Pics or it didn't happen

wouldn't surprise me at all