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Work earlier, later, and harder says Doktor Oz (Original Post) SamuelTheThird 21 hrs ago OP
get to it, MF... ret5hd 21 hrs ago #1
We're just machine parts. RandySF 21 hrs ago #2
Next press conference: And die quickly. Hassler 21 hrs ago #3
Yep. Ideally before collecting a cent of SS. pat_k 19 hrs ago #8
Undocumented immigrants paid $100 billion in taxes in 2024 Coldwater 21 hrs ago #4
And yet the regime is determined to either deport or corral them like animals in MAGA concentration camps. nt littlemissmartypants 19 hrs ago #9
Another con artist who should f*ck off. Dave Bowman 21 hrs ago #5
These people... Cirsium 21 hrs ago #6
Oh, really? DFW 21 hrs ago #7
Righteous! littlemissmartypants 19 hrs ago #10
Start working right out of highschool means no college, which means low end, dead end job. patphil 19 hrs ago #11
Things-that is how the wealthy see us..the world is a worse place because the wealthy exist Stargazer99 18 hrs ago #12
"The debt" markodochartaigh 18 hrs ago #13
I started delivering newspapers at 14. I worked till 60, how much longer Oh Lord irisblue 18 hrs ago #14

ret5hd

(22,332 posts)
1. get to it, MF...
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 12:42 AM
21 hrs ago

i ain’t seen you do shit except move that jaw….and i seen plenty of ho’s do it better.

pat_k

(12,798 posts)
8. Yep. Ideally before collecting a cent of SS.
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 02:37 AM
19 hrs ago

And failing that, you'd better shuffle off this mortal coil long before you've "spent down" your assets and Medicaid starts paying for your long-term care.

Coldwater

(1,116 posts)
4. Undocumented immigrants paid $100 billion in taxes in 2024
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 12:55 AM
21 hrs ago

and paid at a higher tax rate than most major US corporations

littlemissmartypants

(32,767 posts)
9. And yet the regime is determined to either deport or corral them like animals in MAGA concentration camps. nt
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 02:50 AM
19 hrs ago

DFW

(59,868 posts)
7. Oh, really?
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 01:14 AM
21 hrs ago

Today, I had to get up at 4 A.M. to get to work, and I’ll be lucky if I get to bed by 11 PM in the third country I have to be in today. I was recruited for by my job in 1975 at age 23, and I’m still with the same employer, full time, today.

Just how much “longer” does Doctor Effendi expect me to be doing this in order to satisfy his social expectation? Does he work MY kind of hours? And since the Republicans in Congress are just as uncaring as the Democrats about fixing Residence Based Taxation for the 9 million Americans Abroad, I get hit for about a 73% income tax rate between Germany and the USA (Heil Honecker).

I am not interested in some TV quack spouting off about some subject on which he is clueless. Well, he IS a Republican, so if he is spouting off on any subject whatsoever, he is likely to be clueless.

patphil

(8,829 posts)
11. Start working right out of highschool means no college, which means low end, dead end job.
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 03:19 AM
19 hrs ago

After all, we're deporting all the people who usually take those jobs, so someone's gotta do them.
And what does he mean by work better because we're healthy? Is he implying we aren't working good enough now?
Just what does this walking sack of shit expect from us?
He expects us to be the one who pay the taxes that support the government because he sure ain't gonna be paying taxes.
So, the bottom line is work harder, not smarter, and work longer for less so we can pay more taxes than they do and thus pay down the debt that they aren't paying down because they don't pay taxes.
Wow, that sounds great, sign me up!

Stargazer99

(3,476 posts)
12. Things-that is how the wealthy see us..the world is a worse place because the wealthy exist
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 03:22 AM
18 hrs ago

The planet and the "things" would be better off if the wealthy never existed- God's Commandment to treat each other as we want to be treated seems to difficult a concept of the wealthy...maybe wealth makes them Satan's partner...sure seems the end result as we look at the world

markodochartaigh

(5,218 posts)
13. "The debt"
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 03:28 AM
18 hrs ago

Oh, the debt that was incurred to give the 1% tax cuts?
I started work at 14. I'm done. I literally cannot work any more because I have long covid. And I have long covid, almost certainly, because these reich-wing psychopaths fed their gullible fellow travellers the line that covid was no big deal.
More than three decades ago I asked my oldest cousin why he and his wife didn't have kids. He told me that he didn't want to breed more servants for rich people. Every year that I have aged I realize more and more how correct he was.

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