tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post7750623860477534948..comments2023-11-05T05:17:45.320-05:00Comments on Model Minority "Thugs, Feminists and Boom Bap": New York, Wealth and Taxes: A Teaching MomentM.Dot.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05113752779973426025noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-75513046252767838252008-04-19T00:36:00.000-04:002008-04-19T00:36:00.000-04:00ps. i learnt something from this post. thx!=====Th...ps. i learnt something from this post. thx!<BR/>=====<BR/><BR/>Thank you 'ma. You know I be trying to share-bear.M.Dot.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05113752779973426025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-44139114681877842332008-04-19T00:35:00.000-04:002008-04-19T00:35:00.000-04:00And my economic stimulus check wasn't shit - Fuck ...And my economic stimulus check wasn't shit - Fuck Bush.<BR/>=======<BR/><BR/>I could see ya face when you said that sh*t. LOL's.M.Dot.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05113752779973426025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-85907000281833837612008-04-18T21:43:00.000-04:002008-04-18T21:43:00.000-04:00ha! JPOLLARD... me too!its some BS but whatev...i ...ha! JPOLLARD... me too!<BR/><BR/>its some BS but whatev...i got a movie to make so ima take my wages and run. ;-)<BR/><BR/>~lightdigga<BR/><BR/><BR/>ps. i learnt something from this post. thx!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-14608019441856173282008-04-18T15:04:00.000-04:002008-04-18T15:04:00.000-04:00I moved into a higher tax bracket and got less bac...I moved into a higher tax bracket and got less back on the refund. I need more investments son. And my economic stimulus check wasn't shit - Fuck Bush.jpollardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06123457281764922599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-22011175567719458672008-04-18T11:06:00.000-04:002008-04-18T11:06:00.000-04:00even though the program will reimburse their first...even though the program will reimburse their first couple weeks' wages, because their high absentee/delinquency rate, poor vocabulary, and inability to center on *customer* service<BR/>=======<BR/>=======<BR/>I wonder if there was another way of dealing with this than to no hire them.<BR/><BR/>Please believe, I am not judging, I just always wonder about other choices.<BR/><BR/>She didn't lie: in her mind, coming 20 minutes late just doesn't count as late.<BR/>=========<BR/>Man....I am historically and categorically late to EVERYTHING. usta say....Only since I have started doing logistics professionally have I got a handle on it . My Dean and l-school professor usta say "you were late...and that was your way of saying that something was wrong w/o saying it". That was the realeness. WE as negros are on CP...not an excuse tho. It makes us look really bad and tarnishes ANY thing else we may have to offer an organization/institution.<BR/><BR/>that many of them don't understand the standard needed to succeed in the main stream. How do we stop the creeping madness enough for them to learn?<BR/>========<BR/>Birkhold would say that it starts with having radical self love for themselves. ( I tell him, blood when you say that shit in public you are going to sound like the uber hippie) but he is right. Think about it, if your self love game is tight, you will keep our word, arrive on time, be less likely to MURK someone because you are angry at them...etc.... How do we start bringing about self love....man listen...let me know...M.Dot.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05113752779973426025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-15132697410891761012008-04-17T21:24:00.000-04:002008-04-17T21:24:00.000-04:00you and I both know that there is a HUGE differenc...you and I both know that there is a HUGE difference between theory and practice.<BR/>====================<BR/>True enough -- and it goes both ways. My ex-lady friend and I have a hair salon (which we're now selling). We stopped interviewing grads from the local ROP program, even though the program will reimburse their first couple weeks' wages, because their high absentee/delinquency rate, poor vocabulary, and inability to center on *customer* service hurt our business more than the free labor was worth. We had to choose between keeping them or keeping our customers.<BR/>.<BR/>I had a check-in conversation with one of our stylists, who lives in a rougher neighborhood, yesterday about her attendance. She told me that she missed one day for illness and was two hours late another day for a MediCal appointment that she couldn't reschedule. When I pulled her time card after our discussion, I noticed that she hasn't clocked in on time once in the last two weeks. She didn't lie: in her mind, coming 20 minutes late just doesn't count as late.<BR/>.<BR/>To me, this suggests a deeper problem that people in some pockets of our society are so bereft of stability (family, housing, neighborhood, etc. -- my fiancee lives in a hurting part of LA and she has a bullet hole in her door) that many of them don't understand the standard needed to succeed in the main stream. How do we stop the creeping madness enough for them to learn?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-37115617378314328012008-04-17T20:50:00.000-04:002008-04-17T20:50:00.000-04:00(e.g. Michigan's newly-announced 40%-of-expenses r...(e.g. Michigan's newly-announced 40%-of-expenses rebate to film makers who go there)<BR/>======<BR/>My girl is getting ready to shoot. I will let her know. I wonder how comparable this is to the discount offered in Canada.<BR/><BR/>which theoretically<BR/>=======<BR/>I love that. Because you and I both know that there is a HUGE difference between theory and practice.M.Dot.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05113752779973426025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-65150513192273773482008-04-17T20:46:00.000-04:002008-04-17T20:46:00.000-04:00FWIW, the umbrella used for the lower tax rates on...FWIW, the umbrella used for the lower tax rates on investments is that they redirect capital to create solutions for the social needs favored by the taxing body: job creation, housing, pollution reduction, scientific research, etc., but wages and salaries (i.e. labor) aren't so redirectable to create social solutions. <BR/>.<BR/>(Or, the capital owners just bought off the politicians to get favorable treatment)<BR/>.<BR/>Government training programs frequently offer incentives to prospective employers of their graduates, which theoretically increases the money available to pay the graduates in more jobs/higher pay, but this more redirects who's hired in the same fields than spur investment in new social solutions.<BR/>.<BR/>Republicans tend to favor tax-rate incentives and Democrats tend to favor tax credits and discounts to redirect capital, (e.g. Michigan's newly-announced 40%-of-expenses rebate to film makers who go there). The parties trumpet their difference in philosophy, but aside from the Republicans' method using a-priori enticements and the Democrats' method using after-the-fact rewards, both parties offer lower net taxes to direct the use of capital.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com