Fortune
I live in a rural area. Developers have come in and replaced rice fields that are supposed to flood with houses that flood. But there’s plenty of cotton, corn, feed grain, and pecans. There’s even a little rice left.
So, I know a lot of farmers and they are fond of telling me, “You know how to make a small fortune in farming? Start with a large fortune.”
And that’s exactly what Donald Trump did.
I remember many, many years ago when he was young and ran head on into bankruptcy that many people around his age felt sorry for him and hoped that something would happen to bail him out. We are a helluva lot older and wiser. His injuries are self-inflicted.
1Can we RICO him now? Please?
2For a “businessman” Trump is not very good with numbers. The NYT story points out he’s never been good at numbers.
Like a reality show, it’s all in the editing.
3This morning on the way to work, I passed a hay field which — yesterday — had neat windrows all ready to run through the baler. Except we had beaucoup rain last night (plus isolated hail and a few localized tornadoes to the north of us) and could only see about half of the windrows because the rest were under water. And the only development nearby is the farmhouse, barn, silos, and grain bins. Creeks have been running high and fast for 2 weeks now and there’s not much room for more runoff.
4“And that’s exactly what Donald Trump did.”
How do y’all think it will play in the ‘heartland’, AKA: MAGAville, if and when they find out that Baby Donnei from age 3 was getting paid a salary of $200,000 per year from apparently illegal shell companies set up by Daddy Fred Trump?
A $200K/yr salary for a pre-schooler, not bad work if you can get it…
At the median current US annual income of about $50,000/yr (25% of little Baby T’s income, assuming it’s all been adjusted for inflation and stuff), that ain’t too shabby for a hardworking little toddler. And remember that most workers spend most of their $50K salaries on living expenses, Baby Donnei just let his $200K pile up in tax avoidance schemes.
Baby Donnei continued to receive dodgy money like this from his Daddy for the rest of Fred’s life, a staggering total of more than $413 Million dollars.
A true self-made ‘pulled himself up by his bootstraps’ man, that little Baby Trump.
His brother and sister had similar arrangements, they all received part of more than $1 Billion total from Daddy Fred T.
The above gleaned from a DailyKos article about a huge New York Times (8+ pages) investigative story:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/3/1801107/-New-York-state-authorities-looking-into-Trump-s-history-of-massive-tax-fraud-and-deception
(I haven’t had as much as a beer for weeks now, I think I need an ice cold Shiner Zeigen Bock right about now, eh?)
5Let’s face it, if 45 ran his businesses like he’s doing this country, it’s no wonder he flushed his father’s money…
6Lagunitas “Little Sumpin'” IPA for me, Sandridge.
7Charles R Phillips, Ain’t a lot of beer choices at the local boonies HEB, I take what I can find.
A while back they were stocking (one of) my favorite, Shiner Ruby Redbird (with a touch of RubyRed grapefruit and honey), but not any more :[ ; Ruby Redbird isn’t one of Shiner’s seasonal either, it’s a year around style.
I’ll look for some Lagunitas next time I go grocery shopping.
Anybody else remember when the HEB grocery stores were completely dry? The H. E. Butt family were hardshell Baptists I think, and kept all alcoholic beverages off the shelves until the late 1970’s or maybe early 1980’s.
8I lived in NYC in the 1980s. No surprises with this info. He was notorious. And critical thinking should inform a critical mind that one does not lose billions in bankruptcy, and then soon again have billions.
9For me, this story indicates how shockingly inept and/or corrupt the NY regulatory agencies were. These were such simple, obvious swindles. I wonder if it’s still that bad. Given how much dirty money is laundered throughout real estate transactions, I imagine it is.
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