Great Pic of Blimp in Article - Keep Contributing!!
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What you been smokin?
$500 a week is NOTHING...
They are looking for a web developer for $500/week full time... good luck with that.. a good American developer will run through $500 in about 13 hours. I guess they could out source it to India...
I cant believe people would say such things... I guess if you live off $50 a week it would appear to be a money grab...
$500 a week is NOTHING...
They are looking for a web developer for $500/week full time... good luck with that.. a good American developer will run through $500 in about 13 hours. I guess they could out source it to India...
I cant believe people would say such things... I guess if you live off $50 a week it would appear to be a money grab...
Why? Because of people like you...
People such as yourself were actually actively harming this attempt to help get Ron Paul elected... so they cut it under duress... it is a real shame... $500/week is hardly anything for full time.
People such as yourself were actually actively harming this attempt to help get Ron Paul elected... so they cut it under duress... it is a real shame... $500/week is hardly anything for full time.
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I think we can get a lot more press then that at just the launch, Let alone all the stuff afterwards.
We need to get the donations in quicker so the press has time to learn about it.
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You think we could fly over a few MSM outlets and when some anchors leave ,piss out of the windows of the blimp??
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$350,000 a month to lease the blimp
Whats $500 for? I also think it's a waste of money. Should be sending that money to Iowa and NH where the ground pounders could use it.
Anyway good luck with it!
Oh please, I have no problem with a blimp itself. I love the idea of the blimp, for maybe one week or a day over a high profile event like the Superbowl. But I question its value in the long run.
Don't compare campaign salaries with salaries in other fields. Go look at the FEC filings and you will see that $500 a week is very much in keeping if not a bit inflated for the jobs that they have compared to paid campaign staffers. And whether this single blimp requires a paid staff of this size is questionable too. And please posting one's picture and name all over the site is simply a way for them to drum up future, more lucrative employment.
Fame and sudden success can go to some peoples' heads and they immediately start to think very highly of themselves. There are lots of Ron Paul supporters out there every week campaigning for him for free on top of actually working other jobs for a living. They aren't expecting $500 a week salaries nor are they quitting their jobs and asking for $5 chipins to get them to NH. I find this recent trend, which has started in the last week or two to be a bit disturbing.
If they want to start a for-profit campaign, I have the right to say that I think their services aren't something I feel deserves the money and I don't want to pay them. That's the beauty of the free market that Ron Paul so much believes in.
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This is the coolest thing ever. I live 45 mins drive away from launch site.
My whole meetup and lots of other meetups are going to be there.
This is PHENOMENAL.
All the naysayers, I hope you're enjoying your crow.
This article was indeed in the Daily Advance! =)
My whole meetup and lots of other meetups are going to be there.
This is PHENOMENAL.
All the naysayers, I hope you're enjoying your crow.
This article was indeed in the Daily Advance! =)
Can somebody explain to me ...?
Hmm, interesting; the last time I looked at the Blimp site that was the information posted. Now it says:
Exactly what does this [expletive deleted] do that's worth a "retainer" (which I gather is money up front for no work at all, just to have his magical name on the site?) that's about what I live on for a year?
Sure, a guy who "manages attorneys for a living" is going to tell us his client is "worth every dime". They're members of the same club, after all. Apparently the Blimp is so legally vulnerable that it has to allocate a sizable portion of its total budget simply to protection money? Of course, I'm sure they'd love to have "much more work on our behalf" -- at $500/hour, who wouldn't?
When I first saw this blimp idea being discussed, I really liked it. Everyone loves a blimp, right? And, having graduated from left-liberal to libertarian over a quarter-century ago, I have no problem with the for-profit, free-market model, which actually seems a rather clever way to get around all the bureaucracy.
And I had no great problem with the $1000/week salaries for the principals, once I thought a little about how the currency has been inflated. I'm assuming they'll be working much more than 40 hours per week, and they have to live on something.
But to see the people who're actually doing the work take a 50% pay cut while this parasite is still getting a lump sum equal to 20 X what they'll earn (as in receive as compensation for real energy expended, a.k.a. work) per week -- just for being a [connected, I assume?] lawyer...
Not being financially flush, I don't up and donate to every chip-in I see here. I take my time to get a strong feeling about a project before contributing. I've been contributing an occasional mite to Ron Paul since 1981 (as my only representative in the District of Criminals), I've contributed to the Campaign this summer, I contributed to the Ames Mosaic ad and November 5th, and I was working myself up to contributing to the Blimp.
But the thought that my $100 (which will buy me at least a couple weeks of food) will cover only one percent of this apparently indispensible (?) staff member's "retainer" -- before we even get to the $500 he charges per hour (i.e. 168 times the "salary" paid to the people actually doing the work) ... well, shall I say, my enthusiasm has been considerably dampened.
And now this smiling (I can certainly guess why) parasite in his multi-thousand-dollar suit doesn't want us chumps to know what he's being paid? Hasn't even the balls necessary to fess up to how he's gouging us?
When I met Ron Paul in 1988, I realized that he was the first "politician" I'd ever heard of who I'd be pleased to invite into my home. Any other I'd stop at the property line, as I would any liar or thief. Well, there's a reason why (last I heard) 98 out of a hundred U.S. Senators are lawyers. And I wouldn't have any of them in my home.
I don't know how much Vijay Boyapatti was making at Google (probably less than $500/hour), but I note he quit his job to work for Ron Paul. So far as I know, Michael Maresco isn't getting paid anything for pushing a bicycle + a 75-pound trailer 3000 miles. It's this kind of dedication by Ron Paul supporters that really inspires others to add their efforts.
And again, I have no problem with people who do good work in this cause making a decent living while doing it. But why do we have to support the very parasite class that's been living off the sweat of honest working people for so long?
Perhaps someone can explain this to me?
Hmm, interesting; the last time I looked at the Blimp site that was the information posted. Now it says:
Exactly what does this [expletive deleted] do that's worth a "retainer" (which I gather is money up front for no work at all, just to have his magical name on the site?) that's about what I live on for a year?
Sure, a guy who "manages attorneys for a living" is going to tell us his client is "worth every dime". They're members of the same club, after all. Apparently the Blimp is so legally vulnerable that it has to allocate a sizable portion of its total budget simply to protection money? Of course, I'm sure they'd love to have "much more work on our behalf" -- at $500/hour, who wouldn't?
When I first saw this blimp idea being discussed, I really liked it. Everyone loves a blimp, right? And, having graduated from left-liberal to libertarian over a quarter-century ago, I have no problem with the for-profit, free-market model, which actually seems a rather clever way to get around all the bureaucracy.
And I had no great problem with the $1000/week salaries for the principals, once I thought a little about how the currency has been inflated. I'm assuming they'll be working much more than 40 hours per week, and they have to live on something.
But to see the people who're actually doing the work take a 50% pay cut while this parasite is still getting a lump sum equal to 20 X what they'll earn (as in receive as compensation for real energy expended, a.k.a. work) per week -- just for being a [connected, I assume?] lawyer...
Not being financially flush, I don't up and donate to every chip-in I see here. I take my time to get a strong feeling about a project before contributing. I've been contributing an occasional mite to Ron Paul since 1981 (as my only representative in the District of Criminals), I've contributed to the Campaign this summer, I contributed to the Ames Mosaic ad and November 5th, and I was working myself up to contributing to the Blimp.
But the thought that my $100 (which will buy me at least a couple weeks of food) will cover only one percent of this apparently indispensible (?) staff member's "retainer" -- before we even get to the $500 he charges per hour (i.e. 168 times the "salary" paid to the people actually doing the work) ... well, shall I say, my enthusiasm has been considerably dampened.
And now this smiling (I can certainly guess why) parasite in his multi-thousand-dollar suit doesn't want us chumps to know what he's being paid? Hasn't even the balls necessary to fess up to how he's gouging us?
When I met Ron Paul in 1988, I realized that he was the first "politician" I'd ever heard of who I'd be pleased to invite into my home. Any other I'd stop at the property line, as I would any liar or thief. Well, there's a reason why (last I heard) 98 out of a hundred U.S. Senators are lawyers. And I wouldn't have any of them in my home.
I don't know how much Vijay Boyapatti was making at Google (probably less than $500/hour), but I note he quit his job to work for Ron Paul. So far as I know, Michael Maresco isn't getting paid anything for pushing a bicycle + a 75-pound trailer 3000 miles. It's this kind of dedication by Ron Paul supporters that really inspires others to add their efforts.
And again, I have no problem with people who do good work in this cause making a decent living while doing it. But why do we have to support the very parasite class that's been living off the sweat of honest working people for so long?
Perhaps someone can explain this to me?
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Don't want to get sued, son. And not everybody has Google options to live off of.
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This is exactly what happened with the Obama LA guy that switched to Ron Paul.
He claimed that before he left the group he had put together, was being really nasty... and everyone started using the political campaign to improve their social popularity..
We need to stop these accusations before they undermine this campaign.
Who cares if someone else is getting media attention for these grassroots efforts...
Do you not want Paul to win? Is your jealousy and ego more important.
So what if someone is getting paid to pursue this project. Mitt Romney is paying people to vote in straw polls... Plus the amount of money we are paying the staff is very reasonable. Yes it could be less, but it is by no means unreasonable.
Stop being jealous and make this happen for RP.. do you even realize what this could do for the campaign. Just that alone should make you want to donate.
I will. Because I am a selfless humble person that wants RP to win. I think RP would advocate the same behavior.
He claimed that before he left the group he had put together, was being really nasty... and everyone started using the political campaign to improve their social popularity..
We need to stop these accusations before they undermine this campaign.
Who cares if someone else is getting media attention for these grassroots efforts...
Do you not want Paul to win? Is your jealousy and ego more important.
So what if someone is getting paid to pursue this project. Mitt Romney is paying people to vote in straw polls... Plus the amount of money we are paying the staff is very reasonable. Yes it could be less, but it is by no means unreasonable.
Stop being jealous and make this happen for RP.. do you even realize what this could do for the campaign. Just that alone should make you want to donate.
I will. Because I am a selfless humble person that wants RP to win. I think RP would advocate the same behavior.
So it is just protection money? One way you can tell is it has to be "off the books", out of the public eye. Everyone pretends. I forget what they call it in China -- money paid to the right people in the power structure to avoid being hassled. That's what it looks like to me. And, frankly, the idea that my money is going for an extorted bribe -- rather than a blimp -- does not have a lot of charm.
BTW, before you address someone as "son", you might first determine that you're enough older to justify it. I might accept that from Ron Paul, since he's a little older than I am, but I don't particularly care for it from strangers.
I sure don't. Do you? Who are you referring to?
