Posted on 12/28/2015 2:33:48 PM PST by Isara
Mmmmhmmm:
"CNNMoney turned to PrivCo, which researches and tracks privately-held companies. According to PrivCo, the Trump Organization has 22,450 employees and brought in $9.5 billion in annual revenue last year."
http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/03/news/economy/donald-trump-jobs-created/
“There was no reason Cruz couldn’t have gotten at least a half-dozen supporters, and a really good leader would have gotten half the GOP caucus.”
Leadership in today’s Congress offers members sex, money, and power to vote for the party. The consequences of not voting the party line are:
1) Being outed on sexual behavior, drug abuse, or other human failings if you have them.
2) Being denied campaign money from wealthy contributors. The kiss of death for most politicians who are not independently wealthy
3) The denial of support for pork projects.
4) The denial of choice committee assignments and leadership posts.
5) A whispering campaign in the media against you.
6) Ostracism by fellow members of the “club”.
All Cruz as a leader had to offer was an opportunity to take a stand in support of the American people and conservative principles.
The reason Cruz couldn’t have gotten at least half a dozen supporters is the same reason Peter denied Jesus in the garden. The majority of the GOP caucus is bought and paid for (sex, money, power) and they fear the consequences of bucking McConnell and the GOPe.
Yes, that is it. I will vote for someone Bob Dole doesn’t like. That seals the deal. Just because Cruz has open-border donors, that doesn’t mean anything compared to Bob Dole’s displeasure with Cruz.
But wait a minute. Who likes Trump? This can be so confusing.
Which, without context, means exactly duke squat.
But carry on.
His “very little” includes arguing and winning more US Supreme Court cases as the youngest ever Solicitor General of Texas than anyone else his age. And his disruptive over achievements at the FTC. His overachieving at Harvard and at literally everything he's ever done. Trump is not even on the same planet as Cruz.
Notice you keep spreading the lie: "without context." Why must you lie so much?
I can think of 9.5 billion, 22 thousand reasons why Trump is not on the same planet as Cruz!
Because making 9.5 billion in revenue for one year must obviously mean Trump's networth is only 4 billion, because Forbes says so!
‘He’s never smoked. Nor has Cruz for that matter, who’s commented that a muscled, tattooed, hip, bare chested poster of him was wrong in one particular, “I don’t smoke.”’
So why is Cruz’ campaign selling enlarged, framed copies of this creepy, disgusting photoshop to raise campaign cash?
Revenue and Net Worth are two different things.
I am not electing TRUMP’s history, all of which is one long street fight in NYC, against some good and some very bad players, in a rough political neighborhood.
The man is a sympathetic. Being “for* immigration is excusable. I’m from TEXAS. We grew up with illegals around here for decades. They are our friends and mostly work for us domestically, or in plants and factories. We don’t want them ship wrecked, back to a place where some have never been.
HOWEVER, full scale invasion by Mexicans and South Americans, in a culture of now drug cartels and human trafficking is NOT what TRUMP supports.
We change when it becomes a whole sale ASSAULT on our country, peppered with criminal elements, killers and become a forever cradle to grave, with real potential for ISIS infiltration! That is the TRUMP of today.
If TRUMP is meant with congressional enemies he will MOST CERTAINLY enjoy the precedent Obama has set, in order to UN-do what Obama has DONE. Count on it.
Don’t talk to me about “true conservative” when electability ACTUALLY matters in the first place, and chutzpah is critical.
TRUMP has it all, thanks.
TRUMP, 2016
Yes I know, but when you’re making 9 billion in annual revenue, suddenly a networth of 10 billion doesn’t seem like a big stretch!
GPH has trouble putting things in their proper context.
creepy, disgusting photoshop ...
Yes it is. Anything for money?
www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2015/06/16/trump-exaggerating-his-net-worth-by-100-in-presidential-bid
www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2015/06/16/trump-exaggerating-his-net-worth-by-100-in-presidential-bid
I suspect it’s worse than that. But the idea that the naked, tattooed prison look and dangling cigarette will be a hit with evangelicals is pretty sad.
By 100 percent huh? So if you have a business that can bring in 9.5 billion in annual revenue-- then, of course, you have to pay the employees (all 22,000 of them), whatever else that is spent-- and this is not including the value of the properties, the golf courses, the advertising revenue, etc etc., how does Forbes figure that Trump is "exaggerating his net worth by 100 percent?"
Could it be... Forbes has an agenda?
TDS is getting worse not merely by the day, but even by the hour.
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