JoeWeber

Well done. Another triumph for socialism. It's all the fine folks who pitch in for the greater good that really makes things nice. They're the reason I keep it going: I owe too much.

WTF, are you a retired hockey team? Out of curiosity, are the 6 of you able to do all jobs?

Fantastic. On my authority go ahead and double your salary.

No AVN award winners? That's too bad. Setting aside that everyone born after 1980 seems an IT guru to me, I have to say I've always been impressed with the quality of the people we've attracted for staff. But that's also just skydiving. Nationals, World Team, AZ Challenge, Power Play or just fun jumping down the road you're always taking grips on people who have more than one trick in the bag. Makes you wonder where all of the douchebag DZO's come from, no? But I digress. Given that a single 182 DZ doesn't have the economic mass to offer an all encompassing salary or respectable hourly wage with guaranteed hours it would appear that both you and your college students are gig economy workers. I do not say that's a bad thing. I've tried offering year around salaries and benefits and it didn't work. People like the personal freedom of gig work. The problem, as observed by the Dallas Fed is: "One reason wage growth has remained unusually subdued could be that the headline unemployment rate has understated the amount of available labor, or labor slack, owing to gig employment." So yes, the current unemployment number may be 3.5% but that number, owing to a changed economy, is probably not relative to a previous number in an especially meaningful way. So, kind of sort of, the gig economy has made the number look better than it should.

So the slaves are all part time gig economy workers? Just lovers of fuzz balls, humble workers in the gardens of the Brents?

Back in October you posted: "Wow, I can not even begin to figure out how to answer that. Please flesh out how tax cuts hurt the middle class. As a member of the middle class I can certainly appreciate the extra $5K+ my family has benefited from. Please explain how I have been harmed". But you're a business owner. From what I grasp of your circumstance you aren't drawing a wage. So, did you redistribute any of that 5 Grand to your employees? Do you have any hourly employees or like a lot of DZ's are you exclusively benefitting from the gig economy?

Now you're like Sergeant Shultz in Hogan's Hero's: I know nothing! But Colonel Klink, it's only a report! Nothing is in reports. Why would anyone put information in a report? No! That's what Fox and Friends and OANN are for! So now we wait. And sit. Q works in mysterious ways. Have faith. And know nothing.

Conservatives always want something for nothing. No worries, I know you'll pay the rent. Zero hate, brother. Even though I think half of what you say is somewhat premature, I actually enjoy your style. In this situation I happen to be tickled that whereas with climate change the evidence is observable in real time and right before your eyes when it comes to trickle down economics, that is the money your pay your own people, the evidence is statistical and needs graphs, arrows, percentages and other peoples money to be fully understood. I just love that.

You mean like at Skydive Happy Valley?

That's called a $60 show up fee, yo. And fucking right you'll buy. If nothing else maybe you can drink.

With your permission, like I actually give a fuck, I'm giving you a rep point for what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did to brighten my day at the NATO Summit.

Now that's industry odd. So is that an actual hourly wage where they are scheduled for a certain number of hours per day or week and get $30 per hour for their scheduled shift, fly or not? Or is that $15. per load in a 182?

That's outstanding news for everyone. I'm curious, how many hourly employee's at Skydive Happy Valley made $23.24 an hour on average this year? I'd argue that averaging them in with your winnings, your gig economy piece workers or other better paid workers elsewhere isn't valid. If the answer is none, that's cool, and not your problem. It'll trickle down to them sometime from somewhere, right? Simple economics and business.

I'll take the honor of giving your 100th rep point.

It's not the specific religion. Christianity is a "religion of peace", too. It's more about who is manipulating their receptive thought processes.

Did you? Bull Fucking Shit. Inexactness is as much of what you post as is your crazy Q crap. Counselor, you need to drive down the long and winding road to America, go into a Ronald Reagan mandated to be paid for by liberal states emergency room and ask for some help. Skydiving being the exception, it's never too late to make the right decision.

It would do this forum some good if everyone realized that engaging Ron was past futile and is now just plain stupid. Of course, if you just can not resist because you love going in circles, then have at it. But you are just playing with yourself and are not making this forum more interesting.

Goddamnit Rich, no sooner do I decide to ignore you and suddenly you pop up with just the sort of back hand slap, smart ass comment I so adore. Thank you for raising the level of play on SC. We need more of it.

"Trump is an idiot. Full stop. I have said it several times. I have even equated his intellect to that of an earthworm. I posted that Trump is a dumb man's idea of a smart man, a weak man's idea of a strong man and a poor man's idea of a rich man. Given your notion of me, with regard to my world view, it is not surprising that you would pigeonhole me as a Trump supporter. Your bad, not mine. You need to get out more." "I'm not so sure. The first time, I wrote in Mickey Mouse (because I couldn't spell Condoleezza Rice and thought that a fictional cartoon rodent would make a better choice than either candidate) but Trump has delivered on taxes, fossil fuels, deregulation, judicial appointments and confronting China. I personally think the man is a loathsome idiot but his policies are largely conservative boiler plate policies. In a perfect world Trump would be impeached and removed from office and Pence would take his place. Otherwise I will probably be forced to vote for him this time around." So you are not a Trump supporter but you love his policies and thus, regardless of the fact he's an absolute idiot who shreds the constitution daily, embarrasses our nation on the world stage, abandons our allies who are fighting hot wars and cold, defies the rule of law, and has by any measure has made us less safe you will be forced to vote for him? And all because you believe money he gave to the super wealthy will trickle down to you, fossil fuels will be ascendant again, nasty regulations that protect the environment and your fellow citizens health are being erased, he has made awesome judicial appointments which are all but guaranteed to erode the rights of women and the LGBTQ community and he also confronted China? Who, by the by, just happen to be kicking his ass around the South China Sea and aren't too impressed with his trade war. But what the hell, because of his $28 Billion in Farm Subsides none of which will ever be paid back, farm income is doing great. Clearly, when he claimed "I Could Stand In the Middle Of Fifth Avenue And Shoot Somebody And I Wouldn't Lose Any Voters" he was thinking of folks like you.

That's arrogant and no surprise. You're a forceful dude, and smart, and I'm sure you have everyone in your circle enthralled. But not me. Listen to yourself: "Joe I have been to places and seen things that you can not even imagine". You have no idea where I've been or what I've seen or done.

Do I? I'm guessing your ass is clamped down in Happy Valley listening to the same shit you listen to all year long. For a bonus, guess where I'm typing this response from. And no, tôi không có phở đêm nay.

Lovely. But as ever, you avoid the hard questions. For the third time: Trump posted this photoshopped image of himself. Are you cool with that? But also, given that you know he has zero skills beyond finding the Fox and Friends channel, how does it sit with you that someone did it for him? Are you frightened that our President so thinks and is so advised? And just for reference, .17 C is also 273.32 Kelvin. But really, for those of us challenged by the metric system, isn't Fahrenheit a better way to go? Not that I'm opposed to fucking around with someone who graduated with an engineering degree from MIT with Honors, mind you.

I'm thinking your talents are wasted doing tandems at a seasonal 182 DZ. Why not run for office and see what voters who don't post here think?

Sorry to interrupt but you danced past answering whether this bit of narcissistic insanity was cool as long as you were getting conservative judges and anything Obama erased.