@jackjjackson You've never bought a book in your life? Look up how many copies were sold.
DUUHHHH!!!
I mean, it's not like Qatar overpaid his family for a building in NYC. It's not like Saudi Arabia handed him $2 billion to "manage" as soon as he left the White House.
Merit doesn’t exist among many federal “civil servants” in DC. Obviously they won’t be evaluating themselves. However a nice blue ribbon panel will. Doubtful that many that see things your way are able to spell MERIT. @ElwoodBlues
Cute fantasy! Is that another name for a flying unicorn??
Do you have any clue how many full time employees work for the federal government?? And you propose some giant additional bureaucracy to evaluate them all in 30 days??
This idea is every bit as stupid as "defund the police," and your mechanism to evaluate "merit" is absurd, fool!!!
UPDATE
I get it; you know your suggestion is ridiculous and indefensible, but you aren't mature enough to admit it so you throw insults instead. Well, if that's how you like to concede defeat, I accept your surrender.
@jackjjackson Oh, watch out Jack! Dark Brandon is gonna steal FIVE TIMES as many votes this election!!
You guys were so inept! You couldn't find a SINGLE vote flipped by a voting machine, you couldn't find a SINGLE foreign printed ballot - the floodgates are open now!!
@jackjjackson what does who lives in those houses have to do with any of the issues you raised here. Why did you even raise the racial item? Feeling a little guilty?
The top is the Obama's vacation home on Martha's Vineyard, the bottom the 1,583 acre vacation home of GW Bush. What is your point?
WHERE DID THE MONEY COME FROM TO PAY FOR THE TOP ONE?
I've told you repeatedly where the money came from, yet you cower with your eyes and ears closed and cling to your absurd GiAnTt CoNsPiRaCy Theories!!
Here, let me cut and paste it again.
While the exact terms of the book deal have not been publicly revealed, multiple reports said Penguin Random House paid more than $60 million to acquire rights to one book each written by Michelle and Barack Obama. The former president has yet to release his book, which is widely expected to detail his own experiences as the 44th U.S. president. https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/obama-memoir-becoming-released-as-part-of-60m-book-deal
Michelle's book has sold 17 million copies so far - more copies of Becoming in the 1st week than Trump has sold of Art of the Deal in 20 years!
That's a minimum of $340 million in sales for Michelle alone; probably closer to $450 million. The bookseller keeps 40%, the publisher keeps 45% to 50%; so you can see how smart the publisher was to bid $60 million for the pair of books (Barack's book sold 3.4 million copies the first year; not bad either).
In short, @jackjjackson, CAPITALISM earned Barack and Michelle eight figures - read it and weep!!
P.S. Yeah, I know you'll keep repeating your comforting lie about how Obama got rich somehow while President, but we all KNOW it's a lie. Just like your comforting lie that corruption in Illinois elected JFK even though the electoral vote totals PROVE that JFK would have won without Illinois.
The total from book sales is far less than the Obama’s received.
The total from book sales is in excess of $400 million. Ten percent plus the $60 million advance is $100 million, which is $30 million more than the Obama's net worth.
Do I have to do ALL the math for you???
Managing is not owning.
Managers take a percentage of funds under management as a yearly fee (ask redred; he knows). What is a quarter percent of $2 billion? I'm sure you can handle that one if you try!!! @jackjjackson
I’d like to think there are more honest people than you imagine. However it’s high time honest people overthrow the deep state, media and dems. @IM5688 @DavidT8899
