Posted on 03/29/2015 9:18:22 PM PDT by sickoflibs
He got fired?
Gee... that’s a shame.
Thanks.
I found Utilizer’s post doing a search. But his post gives no live source link and only a few words of text because he references USA Today.
I went to that source thread and it said that the same article was originally posted on ‘newser’ and it gave a link, so I was able to post it the correct way with all the text and a full live link without copyright problems.
Ex-CFO who slammed Chick-fil-A now on foodstamps USA TODAY | 2:04 p.m. EDT March 29, 2015 | NEWSER
I post a lot on FR but create very few threads. Why? Because in a 24 hour period there is some FReeper in the world awake somewhere and they probably got the “Hot Story” posted here already.
If it’s breaking news it gets posted here on FR pretty quick.
I come to this site in the morning and hit the News/Activism button and when the page loads I just pull down through all the latest posts - and sometimes see a number of threads on the same subject.
I like the “I did a search and didn’t see it posted” crowd when their thread is about 5 above the latest post on the same thing.
If the story is a day or so old it ain’t “New News” at FR.
Big mortgage, leased cars, private schools...
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Taxes, don’t forget taxes.
Some people make 200k a year and spend 205k.
Very easy. High end 5-star dinners every night, best wine, 160k in Cars, 500k Home.
It's the "Look at me, better than you" syndrome. And he still has the ego
to spend that way. This man regrets nothing he did and is still living in a dream
land where it all will come beck because he Knows he deserves it.
Maybe he should go into Democrat politics.
Totally agree. I've wondered that. too.
Saturday, I suggested to a Chick-fil-A cashier and a manager that Chick-fil-A should hire him.
They thought it was both hilarious and a good idea.
(see also Romans 12:20 and Proverbs 25:21-23)
Duplicate posts can help ensure a wider audience. Merely "bumping" an older thread does not have the same effect because most people don't navigate Free Republic that way. They just quickly scan the new articles that have come in.
Many times I've posted an article at night and seen it only get a handful of views. Then the next day, somebody else will post the same article and it will get hundreds of views and over 100 replies. That's just the way it works sometimes. It doesn't matter to me one way or the other.
As for "wasting bandwidth", I think you are still stuck in the 1990s, when we used to pay those hourly fees to Prodigy and AOL on those 14.4kps dial up connections, where images used to take forever to load on your screen. In fact, Free Republic used to have an option where you could load threads without the images. They may still have that option but nobody uses it anymore because bandwidth is so high that nobody notices a delay in images or even audio and video. Besides, all images posted to Free Republic are "hot-linked" from somewhere else so even those don't burden the Free Republic servers.
Suffice to say, multiple posts are hardly killing bandwidth on Free Republic. If anything, I notice LESS posting than in the old days, which is a shame.
Lastly, want to address all the comments about how people would be "set for life" if they made $200K. Well maybe in Tulsa, Oklahoma or Guntersville, Alabama. But see how far that income goes in Southern California or New York City! Now you can live okay on $200K anywhere if you live within your means but you won't necessarily be in the lap of luxury. Even starter homes in those areas go for $500K and up.
As for this total loser who was such a dick to that nice lady at the Chick-Fil-A, well, you reap what you sow.
Excellent. He covered most of my pet peeves.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t have the mental wherewithal or discipline necessary to invest for the future. I’m surprised his leftist buddies aren’t “go funding” him.
Thank God for Christian companies.
Funny thing about that. 10 years ago when I was an engineer working with lots of other engineers. They and their spouses all made well over $120K per year combined. When I took 3 weeks off unpaid they all asked "How can you do that!?". Even at that pay they were barely doing better than living paycheck to paycheck.
Only 17? It should depress you, douche.
So NO ONE will hire this jerk? I'm pleasantly surprised.
How can someone be making $200,000 a year, for what I assume is at least several years, and then be broke 3 years later? That’s what I want to know.
Heck, if I made $200,000 in just one year, I’d be set for at least 5 years.
“I’m already going broke on a million dollars a year! The appalling figures came popping up into his brain. Last year his income had been $980,000. But he had to pay out $21,000 a month for the $1.8 million loan he had taken out to buy the apartment. What was $21,000 a month to someone making a million a year? That was the way he had thought of it at the time-and in fact, it was merely a crushing, grinding burden-that was all! It came to $252,000 a year, none of it deductible, because it was a personal loan, not a mortgage. (The cooperative boards in Good Park Avenue Buildings like his didn’t allow you to take out a mortgage on your apartment.) So, considering the taxes, it required $420,000 in income to pay the $252,000.
Of the $560,000 remaining of his income last year, $44,400 was required for the apartment’s monthly maintenance fees; $116,000 for the house on Old Drover’s Mooring Lane in Southampton ($84,000 for mortgage payment and interest, $18,000 for heat, utilities, insurance and repairs, $6,000 for lawn and hedge cutting, $8,000 for taxes.[…more expenses I don’t feel like typing out…]
The tab for furniture and clothes had come to about $65,000; and there was little hope of reducing that, since Judy was, after all, a decorator and had to keep things up to par. The servants…came to $62,000 a year…the abysmal truth was that he had spent more than $980,000 last year. Well, obviously he could cut down here and there-but not nearly enough-if the worst happened!”
-Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
If he was living big, he gambled and lost. That said, a mortgage and a couple of private school or college tuitions can put a pretty good dent into one's disposable income. I know a lot of upper middle class people who live fairly modestly and pay a king's ransom for schools. The choice, here at least, is to head out to the suburbs and deal with a brutal commute.
You must know the answer to that one.
Yep, it was a rhetorical question, thrown out there for discussion.
If he hadn’t posted his video at youtube none of this would have happened to him. He obviously didn’t have a clue how it looked to others.
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“RE:”Heck, if I made $200,000 in just one year, I’d be set for at least 5 years.””
When all taxes get done, you ain’t earning that 200K. Trust me. Been there, done been hosed like that : )
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