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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

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Thursday, June 9, 2016

Donald Drumpf, Deadbeat


He says he's personally worth $10 billion, but most of that is his estimation of the value of his own "brand."  He refuses to release his tax returns because "it's none of your business."  And now it's revealed that refuses to pay his bills (because maybe he can't?).  Seems the Great Tycoon likes to stiff the help (it's what he likes to call "negotiation"):

“At least 60 lawsuits, along with hundreds of liens, judgments, and other government filings reviewed by the USA TODAY NETWORK, document people who have accused Trump and his businesses of failing to pay them for their work,” writes USA Today’s Steve Reilly. “Among them: a dishwasher in Florida. A glass company in New Jersey. A carpet company. A plumber. Painters. Forty-eight waiters. Dozens of bartenders and other hourly workers at his resorts and clubs, coast to coast. Real estate brokers who sold his properties. And, ironically, several law firms that once represented him in these suits and others.”

Waiters and bartenders?  Seriously?  What a colossal asshole!

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/06/trump-didnt-pay-his-bills-for-decades.html

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