Another jog down memory lane….ten years ago today in the Lampasas Dispatch. As a reminder, the corpse repository ‘business park’ still sits there an empty weed patch:
“Mrs. Monroe noted the Lampasas Economic Development Corp. is working with the business park south of town on U.S. Highway 183, and she said she hopes the site will attract good employers to Lampasas. [Council member TJ Monroe] –April 14, 2015
It has, in fact, attracted ZERO employers…good OR bad. The bill for that boondoggle is in the millions of dollars. It still looks like a useless weed patch and is nowhere NEAR ready.
In a 1998 experiment, 257 participants were asked what they would prefer in a theoretical world when comparing yourself with others, and were asked to choose between two options you would rather have.
One example is around how much salary you would prefer to earn, knowing what others in your organisation would earn. I’m going to adjust these number for inflation….
A: Your current yearly income is $100,000; others earn $50,000
B: Your current yearly income is $200,000; others earn $400,000
In both cases, the value of the money is the same. There are no inflation effects.
If you think of the two options in a logical way, the obviously correct answer is to choose option B. In B, you earn twice as much as in A ($200,000 compared to only $100,000).
What other people earn has nothing to do with what you can spend your money on. So even if someone else is earning $400,000, in that case you are still earning $200,000, twice as much as $100,000.
Yet that is not what people did.
The results: approximately 50% of the participants chose option A.
This means they would rather live in a world where they earned half of what they could, as long as they were earning more than other people
Clayton Tucker is most DEFINITELY in the half that would shoot themselves in the foot and earn FAR LESS if it meant he was better off relative to others.
This is so foreign to me, I couldn’t believe it was true. But it is.
When billionaires get to keep more of THEIR earnings (earned by taking risk and working hard, presumably – not the twats like Al Gore, Joe Biden, and Obama who are government grifters) other people aren’t “paying for” that. It’s the billionaire’s money to begin with…not yours.
When I was in my early 20s, I had a certain goal in my head I wanted to reach for my net worth. I knew as soon as I reached it, I was quitting work and getting the fuck out of the Chicago winters and spending the rest of my life doing whatever I wanted. I wanted to do all my bucket list stuff before I was old and decrepit. I wanted to hang glide and bungee jump in New Zealand. I wanted to dive the Great Barrier Reed. I wanted to go on safari to Tanzania and kayak with penguins in Antarctica.
They tie a rope onto you in case you have a heart attack when you hit the freezing water. No joke. There is a crazy Russian in a Zodiac taking the picture and ready to fish you out of the water if that happens.
Best fucking trip ever. Got blasted on vodka with Yuri and the other Russian crew members after this.
I didn’t want to risk waiting until I was 65 and possibly dead or disabled. It’s one of the reasons I worked three jobs, had three roommates, drove the same Honda Accord for 13 years, didn’t buy fancy clothes or designer sunglasses, didn’t have 5 kids I couldn’t afford, rarely took a vacation and saved about 90% of what I made while investing the rest. I drank Miller Lite and ate spaghetti and ramen for many, many years. I was working towards a goal, single-mindedly.
Almost everyone else I worked with stayed working another 15 or 20 years and they are probably worth five times what I am. Guess what? I don’t give a single shit. It doesn’t affect my life one bit if my former co-worker is worth $3 million or $30 million or $300 million. Good for them. I know I have it pretty good and I’m happy where I am.
My younger brother is wildly successful. He gets flown around in helicopters and owns a bunch of businesses he started all by himself. I’m sure he’s worth a hell of a lot more than me. Again, I don’t give two shits. I’d love it if the government taxed him even less so he can keep more of what HE earned.
The less money going to the federal government to waste, the better. Probably 85% of what they spend is wasted. Fuck them.
They’d probably be even MORE generous if the government didn’t rape them financially every chance they got.
So my suggestion to Comrade Clayton is to let go of your never-ending envy and jealousy. Stop worrying about everyone else and concentrate on your OWN life, which is currently an embarrassing shambles. Maybe set a goal of moving our of your mother’s house and getting a real job. Set another goal of moving up the ladder at work. This way, you won’t have all this free time to sit in your room and stew about what others have.
Being generous with other people’s money (socialism) isn’t generosity at all. It’s being a cunt. Getting online and demanding non-stop that OTHER people cough up dough at government gunpoint (IRS) for your pet projects is pure selfishness.
P.S. – notice how it’s BILLIONAIRES they vilify now? Not too long ago, it was millionaires. But now that Al Gore is worth $300 million from climate hoax grifting, the Clintons are worth over $120 million from all of their foundation grifting and theft, and Pelosi is worth around $200 million from all her insider trading, they have to say BILLIONARIES to exclude all the shitlib grifters.
Notice we were in danger of the “oligarchy” back when Clinton was president in 1993, 1994, 1995 and also when Black Jesus was president in 2012, 2014 and 2015. Oops.
Amazing. Today’s idiot kids think they are the first ones to ever hear this bullshit and nonsense. If they did ANY tiny bit of research (incredibly easy with today’s technology) they’d see that these same scams have been run over and over again. They are truly useful idiots.
I was out of town for a bit and finally got around to reading the Dispatch article on the recent City council candidate forum. I’ll leave my other thoughts for another time but I cannot BELIEVE the topic of a civic center was even on the table.
After the Hostess House bungling, the Business Pork money wasting, the Old City council remodel disaster, and all the empty buildings here in town, anyone who even SUGGESTS that Lampasas needs a civic center is a complete and utter moron who is unfit for office.
Let me direct you to some research I did almost SIX YEARS ago on the topic. I found a city similar to ours (6,300 people) who had made the disastrous decision to build a civic center back in the 1980s.
Six years ago, the budget numbers were revenues of $15,000 and expenses of $101,000 –for an operating loss of $86,000 dollars per year.
I just went and checked the LATEST budget numbers (pages 10 and 32) and NOW, the cost to run the civic center is $172,650! The are budgeting revenue from rental (page 10 under C/C rental fees) of $41,668.
So NOW they are losing about $132,000. Sounds like a fantastic idea.
That’s not even considering the astronomical cost to build the thing in the first place. We are talking probably $10 or $12 million by now. Then by the time the city got done fucking it all up, it would be more like $20 million with an AC unit that breaks down after 4.5 years.
Look at the Hostess House! They managed to blow over $2 million for a building that was ALREADY THERE!
No, no, no. Forget about any civic centers. Forever. Bury that turd and stop bringing it up.
About five years ago, a lot of local citizens got hoodwinked into an MLM con called “Corvive.” They were all going to look like Adonis and make a million bucks. Instead, they are all fat and broke.
Anyways, as I was perusing some old posts, I wondered if Fouts had been arrested or bankrupted yet for being such and complete and utter scumbag. Lo and behold, he’s STILL a huckster but now he’s on steroids!!
Here is Jeremy “Meatball” Fouts five years ago when he was conning a bunch of Lampasans, pictured with convicted sex offender “Boobie” Miles (who also pushed all the Corvive crap)….
Short, fat and thoroughly unimpressive. I routinely ridiculed him for being so out of shape for a guy who promised his shitty potions were transformative and original.
Here he is now:
Here’s what our completely ordinary protein powder can do for you!!
He also now has some silly-assed “life coach” podcast thing where he dishes out deep and profound nuggets like this:
“Every moment of the day we get to determine our mindset. Deciding whether we have a positive or negative attitude will immediately influence your world.”
Wow. Transformative and compelling.
He must be doing SUPER DUPER well with all the Corvive and life coach shit because his Twitter now has 655 followers! I think I have more followers on one of my burner accounts I use to harass commies.
Well, someone else must have died in the Tucker family and left Comrade a few shekels! Or more likely, that is some Firefly money right there! Thanks Dad!
How adorable! A little wind-up, 900-pound hybrid truck. It also matches his favorite shirt he wears with his rancher costume all the time. I drove by it the other day and it looked like it would fit into the bed of my own pickup truck.
LOTS of real ranchers drive these, I’m sure. They can tow upwards of 1200 pounds! That’s like TWO mini cows! Mark Langford probably has three or four of them. He loads them with Tannerite and blows them up on his gun range for fun.
However, Comrade Clayton explained his purchase of a hybrid ‘truck’ with a cryptic message: “I’ll be putting in a lot of miles soon, so I needed good mileage!” – which is yet ANOTHER hint he may actually be stupid enough to run for statewide office…like Ag Commissioner. PLEASE GOD let that happen.
[One DOES wonder how a kid with no visible means of employment who lives with mom buys a 2025 vehicle right off the lot and takes the 15% depreciation before he got home. A SMART guy like me only buys three-year-old vehicles. One also wonders how a kid who never shuts up about eliminating fossil fuels is now on his fourth vehicle in six years. And his family owns about 4 or 5 pickup trucks now – the worst gas guzzlers of all.]
Adorable. Perfect size to put a teeny, tiny little mini cow in there! It’s all so cute! Like my daughter’s Malibu Barbie shit with all the accessories!
He wants the tiny cow to be super nice, because he sells them as pets. Not as meat, as a real rancher would do.
He’s a genius! The tiny cows use HALF the water and food! Isn’t that great?! Of course, they grow to exactly half the size as well, so I’m not sure what exactly is gained by this. You could save a lot of time and money by just cutting your herd of “normal” 1200-pound cows in half, if you are worried you don’t have enough pasture or water, you half-wit clown.
Here’s a good joke for you….
A fake rancher named Clayton and a fake Mexican named Beto, are driving down a dirt road when they come across Teddy the tiny cow with her head stuck in the fence.
Beto says “Man I haven’t had any pussy in months!” He jumps out of the truck Prius and just starts banging the donkey like there’s no tomorrow.
Then Beto looks over at Clayton and says “Hey, do you want any of this?” Clayton replies “Sure….but do I have to put my head in the fence?”
🚨 NEW: Trump absolutely roasts windmills. Get this man a Netflix special 😂
“We’re screwing around with wind. Oh boy. Wind. These people are crazy. They say it’s great for the environment. Yeah, it kills all your birds. You want to see a bird cemetery, walk under a windmill… pic.twitter.com/qDErmB223x
Trump’s hatred of windmills is one of his best positions. We have nuclear energy. We don’t need to erect ugly, inefficient eyesores with a 20-year shelf life all over the landscape.
Wind power produces 17% of name-plate power. And you can’t schedule around when those hours will occur, with frequent days-long dead zones.
Windmills are a monument to the stupidity of the Green New Scam. Every one of them needs tearing down. Starting building big, beautiful nuclear plants to generate baseload electricity. Texas needs about 10 nuke plants and we have two. Absolutely insane.
I’m still waiting for shitlibs to run ONE TOWN in the U.S. entirely on wind and solar. They can’t even do that much, but they want the entire country to be “net zero” at a cost of multiple trillions? How about some shitlib city like Portland volunteer to show us all how easy it is to be 100% renewable. Ass hats.
Oh, and remote work. Because they are lazy twats like that.
“I pretty much live paycheck to paycheck with no savings,” said Aja Dunn, a state employee.
Dunn stood front and center on the South Steps of the Capitol, holding the “P” in the tall pay raise signs. She has only worked in a state lab for two years but has already considered better-paying alternatives.
She has “already considered” better-paying alternatives? Ok then why the fuck are you still standing around chanting with signs, moron? Oh right, because the BENEFITS of government work are pretty fucking sweet. They never mention that part – as we saw every year when Finley went begging to City council.
Her health insurance ALONE is probably worth over $10,000 – more if she has any kids. The state also matches up to 9.5% of her salary into a pension fund, which is ANOTHER $4,400 or so.
[Oh, and when recession hits and private sector workers are being fired, you will still have a job. Because government union parasites are pretty much impossible to fire.]
So she doesn’t really make $46,000, she makes more like $61,000. With tons of days off. This for a clown who is only a few years out of college and was a bartender before this. It’s called “working your way up,” sweetie. Your generation should try it some time.
Also, maybe ask mom and dad (who likely paid for your useless $360,000 Vassar degree) for a few bucks to help out. Or maybe go back to bartending on the weekends – I worked TWO other jobs in addition to my real job back in 1992 and 1993 when I was first starting out. I also had 3 roommates to save money on rent.
“It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.” – FDR
The Texas legislature needs to outlaw unions in the government sector then fire 70% of these assholes and give the competent ones a raise. You should get hired and paid on merit. Of course, a competent state government worker is about as rare as an un-raped goat anus at RX Ranch, so they will holler and wail if that idea is ever implemented.
