Posted on 08/03/2003 7:42:08 AM PDT by RockyMtnMan
That's my point. To the super-wealthy man, if his wealth is reduced to a quarter of what it was, but everyone else is on the edge of destitution, then he's better off. Flunkies become much more eager to please if the alternative is starvation, and there are lots of pretty girls suddenly much more eager to share his dinner table (and bed). He can live out in the beautiful woods without uppity developers trying to build tasteless McMansions nearby for the upper middle class
Of course there is not a shortage of IT workers in the U.S. So why does Congressman Kirk say there is? I can't believe the guy is so clueless as to actually believe there's a shortage of IT workers in the U.S. What's in it for him?
Not as long as you think. That was a plant that may have been built here..that is happening all over the country.
LOL!
Incorrect.
In message #121 -- WELL before my message in #189 -- you identify yourself as self-employed and exude a sense of financial success. My point was that perhaps you became self-employed because you view working for somebody as 'kissing ass' and that you lack sufficient people-skills to get along with coworkers or bosses. This seems to be borne out by your behavior on this thread.
And -- trust this -- your financial success nonwithstanding, I am by NO wise "jealous" of you. I make enough to do very well, and I'm sure glad I don't have your people-skill set.
Check through the freedom of information act..want to bet who are some of his biggest supporters?
There are a lot of tech workers here on FR. What would happen if all of them and the men they know wrote to your congressman ?
Huh it seems that you are licking you chops at the prospect of a Dean or Gephardt presidency.
Either you are as Lenin put it a "useful idiot" or just a plain idiot working from the bowels of the DNC.
BTW, your alls mutual admiratition doom and gloom society for the last 50 replies or so, was amusing and yet kinda of sad, seeing that the world will always have chicken little glass half emptiers, such as yourself.
Thank God Ronald Reagan was a glass half fuller.
I've been approached recently by a few headhunters looking for C++ and Java people. I'm steering clear of Java in favor of C# and .NET technologies, and I cannot really say I'm a C++ guy. Besides, I'm okay where I'm at. You wanna relocate to Hotlanta? I'll give you contacts if you desire.
Oh that's right in your mind America is now 1789 France, filled with doom and gloom.
To put it in your mindset, "We bourgoise pigs had food that should have been destined for peasants".
Actually, I am #1 and am not #2. However, I am not so egocentric as to think that the well-being of my company does not depend upon the well-being of my client base - who are about 95% American residents. Therefore, even if I am doing just fine, I worry every day that there may be a bend in the road further along. As Andy Groves said, only the paranoid survive.
Kinda quick and awfully early to dine supper, but I'm glad you had a good time.
Oh that's right in your mind America is now 1789 France, filled with doom and gloom. To put it in your mindset, "We bourgoise pigs had food that should have been destined for peasants".
You know, you don't have to be a pr**k every time you post. I know you may want to, but you don't have to. All I did was ask about your dinner.
I have admired a number of Southack's cogent analyses, and I supect that his personal and business success is foreign to the "beggar-thy-neighbor" politics-of-resentment hair-shirt you prefer to wear.
Shed the sack-cloth and the woe-is-me and the perverted desire you harbor, which hopes to make yourself look good or feel better at someone else's expense, or failure -- Career mistake #4 --. Career success for you stands a long way off with an attitude like that.
If you are looking for my failure, you'll have a long wait. Why don't you crawl out from behind that rock of fear from which you spitball success (your own included), and finally after 17 years in your career you can get to work on earning some successes you can truly call your own.
Just following your lead.
That's why it pays to diversify, not just your stock, but your skills-set too.
Nonsense. I bear no resentment for success, as I have repeatedly mentioned. I only dislike people who exhibit personal character flaws that you have demonstrated on this thread.
Shed the sack-cloth and the woe-is-me and the perverted desire you harbor, which hopes to make yourself look good or feel better at someone else's expense, or failure -- Career mistake #4 --. Career success for you stands a long way off with an attitude like that.
You also seem to imagine things outright. In which post did I say 'woe is me' or don a sack-cloth? I am actually doing quite well financially right now. My concern is for my fellow Americans. That would be a foreign concept to you.... (exaggerated pause) .... a foreign concept.
If you are looking for my failure, you'll have a long wait. Why don't you crawl out from behind that rock of fear from which you spitball success (your own included), and finally after 17 years in your career you can get to work on earning some successes you can truly call your own.
I call all of my present successes my own.
You really need to work on your skills relating to people. Have you considered therapy?
LOL! Literally laughing out loud.
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