President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Show your work. Would like to understand how steel tariffs play into your economic model.

 

New cars gonna be more expensive, eh? Guess I have another reason to keep my 28-year-old Lexus a little longer.

 

This one cuts across party lines. It’s been protectionists vs. people who actually understand economics from both parties for awhile now.

 

"People who actually understand economics" have gotten us $20.8 trillion in debt, FWIW.

 

At the risk of oversimplifying: good. A country with our economic standing should be running up debt. Granted, we should have spent more of it on infrastructure and investment and less on depositing shrapnel and blowing up weddings, but that's a separate issue.

 

Now here's how you troll. Major leaguer.

 

Give them a big tax cut. Employees will get raises and the economy will grow.

United is cutting bonuses and asking employees to enter a lottery for $100,000

"Employees of United Airlines used to get quarterly bonuses if they hit certain performance targets. Now, they’ll all be entered into a lottery, out of which one—and only one—lucky person will win $100,000.

United president Scott Kirby broke the news in a memo on March 2, calling the change “an exciting new rewards program.” He noted that, in addition to the $100,000 award, quarterly prizes would also include luxury vacations, smaller cash awards, and Mercedes-Benz C-Class sedans. Instead of getting individual bonuses each quarter, workers who achieve their performance goals will be all entered into the drawing, from which winners will be chosen at random."

United Airlines' President Just Showed How Not to Talk to Employees (and Now They're Mad as Hell)


Here's how Kirby began his sell: "As we look to continue improving, we took a step back and decided to replace the quarterly operational bonus and perfect attendance programs with an exciting new rewards program called 'core4 Score Rewards."

Just like that. We decided to replace.

So looking to continue improving meant taking a step back and summarily removing a bonus that many of the staff relied on? It's a curious logic, one that says: "How do we get them to improve? How about taking away their bonus?" To be followed by "heh. heh. heh."

 

Very helpful.

 

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Every time I see one of these "MSD" references I think of some disease, a cross between Multiple Sclerosis and Muscular Dystrophy.

When I worked in South Florida we just called the school "Douglas."

"Three Douglas High graduates earned DI scholarships . . . "

 

Mr. Dennard lost control and went into the trees with "successful international real estate developer."