Posted on 01/07/2016 2:22:16 PM PST by detective
In an interview on the "Hannity" show, son of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., said that current political leaders in our country would not last 5 minutes in the real business world.
"He's sick of being on the sidelines watching a bunch of incompetence in his mind. And in our world, in our business world, these people wouldn't last 5 minutes in real companies and he's sick of them making decisions that are costing our children, their children behind them, trillions of dollars and really giving up the great power we've built up over the last 200 years," Trump Jr. said.
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If bernie madoff was ‘congressman’ or ‘senator’ Madoff, he wouldn’t be in jail. He chose poorly
100 large? Ouch. Sorry to hear it.
Trump isn’t going to be able to convince everyone, and I don’t think he’s going to try. If this plays out how I think it will, the choices will boil down to 2 populists: BS and Donald Trump. It’ll be choose or stay home.
I happen to be a big fan of staying home. But I might actually choke down the bile and vote. Why? Because I prefer Donald Trump to civil war.
Trumps comments remind me of this freeper gem:
1. YOU ONLY NEED TO GET A 70
70% is NOT OK. 70% stinks. Name one occupation in which it is OK to be right only 70% of the time. What job lets you be totally wrong three times out of every ten -- and keep your job more than a week or two? How many mistakes can a surgeon make? Can a grocery checker give out correct change only 70% of the time? Can a teacher be wrong about 30% of what she teaches? Would you pay a guy who contracted to paint your house, and then quit after only painting three sides? That's 75% -- in school that was OK! Face it: even a farmworker will be fired the first day if he leaves behind 30% of the oranges he is being paid to pick. In real life, jobs require you to know all the answers, and do 100% of the work, all the time. How many mistakes can an airline pilot make?
2. THE TESTS WILL MOSTLY BE MULTIPLE CHOICE
Not a chance! Life never gives you four answers to pick from, one of which is guaranteed to be right. The world doesn't give you a "word bank". Sometimes life presents an infinity of choices, none of which is the "only correct answer". Sometimes there are only two choices, both of which are bad, but you have to pick one. And the penalties for being wrong are real, expensive, and sometimes fatal. Life is not a true-false test.
3. THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A RETEST
Only in school, never in life. Do you get to try again, with no penalty, after a car crash, after cancer, after a divorce, after being fired for stealing? You may get another shot, but only after a serious penalty. And your first failure may be a monkey on your back for the rest of your life. If the schools have taught you that it's no big deal to fail, because you'll get another try, we have done you a real disservice.
4. THEY CAN'T FLUNK ALL OF US
Yes, they can. They're not going to "curve the grades" so that only a small percent fail. Take a business, for instance. Imagine it's YOUR business. You're only going to hire employees who have the level of skills that you want. You will not hire, or will quickly fire, all who don't measure up -- even if that means "failing" 98%. If you don't follow such "unfair" practices, your business itself will soon fail. Would you trust a company that never rejected or fired any employees, no matter how lazy, incompetent, or dishonest they were?
5. YOU GET TO PASS, ALONG WITH YOUR BUDDIES
After eight years of this being true, it takes some kids a long time to realize that it is no longer true. After high school it's even worse. The world does not care how long you've been friends, or if your "self esteem" will suffer when your "peers" move on without you. Do you think those "peers" are going to pass up chances to move up in life to stay back with you? "Social promotion" only happens in school. If we've trained you to expect it, we've hurt you.
6. YOU ONLY NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S ON THE TEST
If that's how we've trained you, you should sue us! If we've taught you that in Biology, for instance, you only need to learn 30 things this week to pass the quiz on Friday, or that in English there are only 50 facts you need to know about Romeo & Juliet - - the facts you drilled on with worksheets and know will be on the test -- then we've taught you incorrectly. It won't be like that in college -- or in life. A real test is a SAMPLE: out of the hundreds or thousands of things you are expected to know, a test samples a few. That's why it's hard to study for a real test, like SAT: there isn't just a short set of facts you can memorize because you know they'll be on the test.
7. IT'S THE TEACHER'S JOB TO TEACH YOU STUFF
Many schools work that way, so it's not your fault if you think that. But it's a CHEAP FRAUD. If you've learned to learn by sitting back and letting the teacher do stuff to you, then we have seriously stunted your educational growth. Here's the way it's done in colleges and other centers of real learning: the teacher provides the opportunity and guidance for learning, and maybe some clarification now and then. But learning is something the STUDENT does himself -- to himself. He goes after it ACTIVELY. He learns far more than he will ever be tested on, more than a teacher can possibly drum into him if he just sits back passively and lets himself be taught at. A real student uses a teacher, as just one of his resources, to get all the education he can. If you only learn reluctantly, passively, what the teacher can teach you, then you're doomed to never learn much, and forget it quickly. Learning is something YOU DO, something you GET, not something done to you.
8. DON'T BE TOO SMART
Yes, I'm afraid we've taught you that, too. Look at all the effort we put into getting low-ability kids to pass state minimum competency tests, compared to how little we work on maximizing your SAT. Look at all the flash and glamour surrounding high school football, compared to that surrounding academic competition -- or just getting top grades. Do we try to protect the "self esteem" of "poorly motivated" or "at risk" students by ignoring or playing down the superior accomplishments of superior students? Are we so afraid of having a high "failure rate" that we lower our standards to the point where the smart kids feel no sense of accomplishment at getting an A? Do we allow a subculture to develop among kids that says, "Don't be too smart -- that'll make the rest of us look bad"? Does school ever convey the idea that "guys like Shakespeare and Einstein and Darwin were nerds with lots of crazy ideas to confuse us -- you don't really need to know any of that stuff."? If that's the lesson, subliminal or overt, that we've taught, we should be closed down. That's the exact opposite of what we should be doing. We have been hurting you, not helping you.
If you're one of our victims, if we've unintentionally taught you any of these truly destructive attitudes, we're sorry -- and guilty. Not every student lets the educational system victimize him, though. Some have refused to learn these attitudes, refused to become victims. They have learned how to learn, despite the system. They have learned to use us, and they will learn far more than we can ever teach.
If you're a victim and never realize it, you'll join the bleak statistics: another washout product of the American school system, with a third-rate education and no competitive skills. If you do realize it, whining won't help (we probably taught you that "skill", too). You have to decide what you really want and need, and go after it. Quit being a victim. Refuse to be a victim any longer. Use the system to get every bit of knowledge out of it you can. Don't let your willing-passive-victim friends hold you back. Go for everything you can get.
Marco can’t even balance his checkbook
So true. Most politicians are incompetent.
"See, see he's a secret agent for Hillary!"
“The Clinton beat that by just giving it away.”...........
To China, now look what we have.
Romney? /sarc
“Fired? Hell, they’d be in jail.”.........
OK, its jail first and then fired, a win win for everybody.
exactly!
So true.
“What is concerning is how long would we survive with a self made billionaire all of the sudden placed in a must know all position”......
Odumbo has been given almost 8 years to get it right, he hasn’t because he selected EXTREMELY POOR advisors who are losers like he is, the kind that hate this country, many who are Muslims.
Trump is accustomed to winning and will surround himself with WINNERS, the BEST advisors he can find that also love this country like he does.
That is the reason I back Trump. TIRED OF POLITICIANS!!!!
Politicians on both parties have sold us down the river and have screwed up so bad and ruined our country when it was not necessary to do so.
Screw them all—including TED who is a lawyer like so many of the politicians that ruined our country, Never created anything and like most lawyers, play compromise and games with words. PFFFTTTT!
Perfect Hannity & Trump Jr hair and tie.
I just love the term “public service” as though these crooks are doing it to benefit the public. They’re all in “public service” to enhance their bank accounts, period!
For me to date:
1. Stay home.
2. Stay home.
3. Somehow convince myself to drag my carcass to the polls to vote for the Donald.
4. Stay home.
Like hell!
It’s an improvement from last month. Dragging my carcass to the polls has moved up the list. Give it a month and it might make it to #2.
I really don’t like voting.
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