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The 2018 midterm elections!

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Rover said:
The reasons why coalitions won't happen in the US congress is because its easier to seize power from the traditional party apparatus and use that to advance your cause as opposed to creating a new party. The Dems and Goopers aren't splintering. In fact they're coalescing around some basic points. GOP = Trump Humping. If Trump is for something, so are they lock stock and barrel. Dems are coalescing around expanded govt intervention in health care, college affordability, and corporate regulation paid for by higher taxes on the rich. Yes, they may disagree on details but they've thus far been remarkably united.
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That's because the Ds have great cat herders in Pelosi and Schumer and the GOP doesn't.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Great cat herders when they get to the Hill. Horrible cat herders when it comes to voting.
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That's because the youth want everything handed to them and are unwilling to work hard for it.

(Yea, it's a generalization, but the more I talk to people who are doing the hiring, the more I think it's true)
 
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joecct said:
That's because the youth want everything handed to them and are unwilling to work hard for it.

(Yea, it's a generalization, but the more I talk to people who are doing the hiring, the more I think it's true)
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wasn't your generation handed a job for life with a pension when you graduated college?
 
BassAle said:
wasn't your generation handed a job for life with a pension when you graduated college?
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No. Jealous? We had to work, either 35 or 40 hour (or more) weeks. We had to find a job after college. Fortunately, most of us at Clarkson had employable majors so most of us got a job soon after leaving the mud soaked grounds.

Then we had to demonstrate that actually knew our subject matter. Culls happened.

And, depending on where you ended up, you may have had a pension upon retirement. Others lost theirs on mergers or bankruptcies or restructuring.
 
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joecct said:
And, depending on where you ended up, you may have had a pension upon retirement. Others lost theirs on mergers or bankruptcies or restructuring.
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That's my fave.

The companies increased their profits by promising great retirements to their workers so they could pay them less. Then they all cash out and bankrupt the pensions and the workers get screwed.

It's amazing what has happened since 1980. And we elected Trump to fix it. Hysterical.
 
joecct said:
That's because the youth want everything handed to them and are unwilling to work hard for it.

(Yea, it's a generalization, but the more I talk to people who are doing the hiring, the more I think it's true)
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And you walked up hill both ways thorough three feet of snow while wearing an onion on your belt, as was the style of the time.
 
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joecct said:
That's because the youth want everything handed to them and are unwilling to work hard for it.

(Yea, it's a generalization, but the more I talk to people who are doing the hiring, the more I think it's true)
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Hiring managers who are also your age probably make the same generalizations. "These kids today, they just don't get it!" So I'm going to take that as indirect confirmation bias.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
That's my fave.

The companies increased their profits by promising great retirements to their workers so they could pay them less. Then they all cash out and bankrupt the pensions and the workers get screwed.

It's amazing what has happened since 1980. And we elected Trump to fix it. Hysterical.
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I'm not going to say that there aren't individual cases where that happened. Promising future benefits to pay less today is a way bad management can kick financial trouble down the road a few years, or even decades.

But I don't think that is the sole, or even the primary reason for the demise of the pension/defined benefit form of retirement in the private sector. The primary problem is demographics. It was a lot easier to pay pensions when you might have four or five employees working for every retiree to whom you were paying a benefit. But by the 1970's/80's, anyone with a lick of sense could see the glut of baby boomer retirees coming down the road, and even "simple math" painted a pretty bleak financial picture for companies who continued to use them.
 
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SJHovey said:
I'm not going to say that there aren't individual cases where that happened. Promising future benefits to pay less today is a way bad management can kick financial trouble down the road a few years, or even decades.

But I don't think that is the sole, or even the primary reason for the demise of the pension/defined benefit form of retirement in the private sector. The primary problem is demographics. It was a lot easier to pay pensions when you might have four or five employees working for every retiree to whom you were paying a benefit. But by the 1970's/80's, anyone with a lick of sense could see the glut of baby boomer retirees coming down the road, and even "simple math" painted a pretty bleak financial picture for companies who continued to use them.
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Yet, every actuary on the planet missed it when it counted. And now we're all ****ed.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
Yet, every actuary on the planet missed it when it counted. And now we're all ****ed.
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No, they found it.

They found it when it was to their advantage and drove the plans to pile cash.

They found it again and drove the "reconfiguring" of retirement plans.
 
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The Sicatoka said:
No, they found it.

They found it when it was to their advantage and drove the plans to pile cash.

They found it again and drove the "reconfiguring" of retirement plans.
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Yeah, that works. And they lied to everyone they got involved in the plans.
 
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joecct said:
No. Jealous?
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nope. just sick of your whining.

joecct said:
We had to work, either 35 or 40 hour (or more) weeks.
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oh my god, 35 to 40 hour weeks! How did you manage?

joecct said:
We had to find a job after college.
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good for you. so did I.

joecct said:
Then we had to demonstrate that actually knew our subject matter. Culls happened.
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so no different from today, but for some reason you think you're special.
 
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Yeah it is so cute when Boomers criticize Millenials. There is no worse generation than the Boomers. Their entire selfish existence has done nothing but take and the last 30 years or so they have actively destroyed most of the economy and this country.
 
Handyman said:
Yeah it is so cute when Boomers criticize Millenials. There is no worse generation than the Boomers. Their entire selfish existence has done nothing but take and the last 30 years or so they have actively destroyed most of the economy and this country.
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At least we didn't get trophies for a winless season. On the other hand, we were the ones giving the trophies.
 
Handyman said:
Yeah it is so cute when Boomers criticize Millenials. There is no worse generation than the Boomers. Their entire selfish existence has done nothing but take and the last 30 years or so they have actively destroyed most of the economy and this country.
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Yeah, it's interesting that the generation who blew the greatest head-start in history through their own selfishness rags on everyone else for being entitled and lazy.
 
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