Clinton's were "dead broke" in 2001 and they are not considered to be plebes.

and global foundation director

Do you travel? Can I get the DUer Discount?

Good for you and the Mr.

do for a living?

Definitely not. I grew up on government cheese. My mother is retired; her last job was working behind the counter at a drugstore. Don't know my father.

And also, you were not very polite in the way you asked your questions.

perception of your reality. I didn't intend for them to come across as harsh. Sorry for my lack of communication skills.

then she finally started working. My dad drove a cement truck. Family of 6. I grew up poor.
After the military (USAF, got out on 4/20/01), I went to college for film/video, but I didn't finish my degree as I got a job in the field that took up more time than I had available to finish school.

come from money. In fact, I was very poor growing up. Divorced parents, mom worked in construction (yes, really) and my dad was a machinist.

smartass

And I don't work....that's what you get when you move every 10 mins and can't finish your education, or start any sort of career.

From a long line of dirt poor laborers and drunken layabouts, raised in a series of increasingly-squalid trailers.

The only reason we didn't live in a trailer is because it's hard to get them into the inner city. But drunken layabouts is my entire family tree, basically.

My wife is an attorney.
She operates her own law office doing guardianships and estate planning for
parents of special needs kids.

We have 4 children.
1 is pretty severely Autistic and another has CP non mobile non verbal.

We use ABA with our clients and it is generally extremely successful - I don't know if that's something you guys are using.

It's a good thing you're part of the 1% or it might be REALLY challenging!

We voted for Hillary because we think things will get
a little bit better for us especially if the Democrats retake the senate.

On it's surface I love the things Bernie says, but when you start looking
past the sparkly parts it doesn't hold up.

My wife was always for Hillary but I started out being for Bernie.
Until I started paying attention to what he was actually promising.

He doesn't have any solutions. Just slogans.
He's a 20 year politician with very few accomplishments from a a very small very liberal
very non diverse state.

Look, who wouldn't be in favor of some of Bernie's ideas? But you need, you know, a PLAN to actually make them work. A plan that takes into account the realities of our congress and our electorate.

I think it's interesting that Bernie supporters post all these pictures of huge rallies where Bernie is giving his same old stump speech, and make fun of the smaller rooms and fewer people that Hillary has at her events. But Hillary TALKS to people at her events. They hash out ideas, she clarifies her positions, it's a dialogue. Not rhetoric.

Bernies giving a performance.

One is real. One is lights and laser shows.

You are evidently and informed voter that does not get caught up in one-liners. Good for you.

They ain't Millennials, that's for sure.

But it will not help you grow personally or politically. We enjoy much more strength through diversity than Mr. Sanders' supporters. Diverse. You know, like America.

Measurable, quantifiable. Those who have cast votes for Hillary (being the only supporters ultimately who count) are demonstrably more diverse than Sanders voters.

Hillary wins states that look like the Democratic party:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/clinton-is-winning-the-states-that-look-like-the-democratic-party/

Facts.

And a reptile rehabilitator.

Previously I was an animal handler at a zoo (cold birds and Amazon) and a volunteer coordinator for the Court Appointed Special Advocates.

That sounds fascinating!

We're just rolling in it over here.

ETA: The first in my family to earn a degree, my mother was orphaned and went to a poor childrens' home at 7, my parents never made it out of the working poor, and further back in the family tree we were depression-era farmers.

CLEARLY the ELITE!!!!!

Financial technology

Wife is a social worker.

I came from low income family, wife came from upper middle class. I have no degree, wife has masters.

The long term evil plan is finally coming to fruition!

Bwaaaahaaaaa haaaa!

Still waiting for my paycheck.

Big check!

Maybe I can get my car fixed!

I'm beginning to think the "Hillary's paid operatives" story is a psyops mindfuck. It does seem to be agitating Sanders supporters

but I spend the vast majority of my time volunteering

For a place that makes/distributes it, on the software dev team. Coming up on 15 years here.

But contrary to the hopes and dreams of the Clinton-Haters, I say raise my taxes all you want if it means helping the rest of the country.
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up until a month ago when an 82 year old man decided to take a nap in the middle of the highway and I ended up totaling my truck trying not to kill him. He lived but I spent several days in the hospital with a head injury. Technecally I guess I am still a trucker. I just can't driver for a while.

Hope you get back to full recovery soon.

I'm so sorry for what you went through. I hope you can take all the time you need.

so far. I am just grateful the other driver didn't get hurt.

I'm getting a little better each day.

Corporate shills, absolutely.

Now that I think about it you are right it is kind of funny.

I guess these are all made-up jobs and made-up human beings on this thread. I know I'm definitely making the effort to post lies on DU while I sip champagne in my hot tub in Monte Carlo.

I tried to wave from the sunroof of Lewis Hamilton's car but that damned model I'm dating kept getting in my way.

I have people who do my waving for me.

...American Bridge is one of the best GOP oppo research groups around.

Would be a nice OP for the Hillary group.

For GDP it just seems like a distraction.

I just read on a thread 5 minutes ago a Bernie supporter accusing a Hillary supporter of being a corporate elite.

or just that one thread you saw 5 mins ago. I never made any assertions about Clinton supporters, other than to wonder why they think she was a better choice. Still wondering too.

But they aren't representative.

Point being, some Clinton supporters might be of that demographic, but not all.

Following up unfair generalizations made by a handful of Sanders supporters with an OP that generalizes Sanders supporters just seems silly.

But thanks for trying to tell people where they should or shouldn't post.

Or maybe in both forums.

But posted in GDP only, it tends to have the appearance of provoking discussion or complaining about DU than simply polling Clinton supporters.

So, there's that.

It's a big board, big groups, room for all, I ain't trippin'.

This is one thing I keep hearing from continually from Sanders supporters. Either that or flat out evil and corrupt 1 per center.

To me this is a hallmark of an ideologue...that anyone opposing me is either stupid or evil. I know this because years ago I thought the same way. No I realize that 2 intelligent, well meaning people can just honestly disagree with no stupidity or malice involved.

I really like Sanders but I think Clinton is a better candidate and will be a much better President.

out of the water.

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Anone can join, rich or poor, simply by letting the wealthy run things.

youth home.

I work with runaway and homeless kids.

Making bank hand over fist for 27 years.

You wouldn't believe how much we bilk out of indigent families with autistic kids! SUCKERS.

I also work at a music store part time, selling guitars and what not.
My wife works accounting/billing with a tile & flooring company. Combined, we pull in about $40k/year before taxes (she pulls in about $35k/yr, professional musicians don't make much money). I have a special needs daughter (ASD, high functioning), so I can't work a regular job anymore.

Before that I was a full-time graphic designer/video editor for a local ad agency as well as a gigging musician (at that point, we pulled in around $50k/yr with me pulling in about $30k and my wife pulling in $20k working as a receptionist for a doctor).

And to not expect to be a moneymaker. It's fun... The life chooses you. But very few actually "make it". I'm OK with not making it. I write songs that I like to play. Luckily, peeps in the area like it, too.

Thanks!

If I had more money, I'd have better gear... But I've learned how to make what I have sound great.

Being a musician is not a choice. It's something that chooses you.

Just kidding.

Professor

Does a tycoon HAVE to be rich?

I didn't even major in math in college, but I think being a professor of mathematics would be cool. And I was always very good at it in high school.

Would it be inappropriate to ask you what subject you teach?

I see that you are just 11 posts away from reaching your 10,000th post. Congratulations!! I hope you have a big post planned for your big number 10,000.

Stats, qualitative methods, mixed methods, research methods.

My advice to you is to go for it. My grad students are anywhere from mid 20s to late 60s. Average age in late 40s or so. You are never too old!

As for my 10k I will probably blow it out in the Hillary forum. I've been around since February of 2001. Such a long time! I love DU and it has become a part of my daily life!

I took it and did fairly well and I don't have much of a problem at all with Algebra but...GOD is Stats annoying. I'm talking terminology. I mean I understand the concepts of Stats but it's like when the field was created they tried to find the WORST words they could use to make you understand it. It's like Osmosis. Ugh. I get needing it for my field but GOD is it painful.

You are correct! It can be maddening but I love it!

... for the past thirty-one years. Before that, I worked in the music biz as a writer for a music industry magazine.

She was a music teacher who then became a court reporter.

I wound up having a consulting business with an entertainment lawyer who represented musicians, songwriters, etc. - and quickly realized I was more interested in the law than I was in the music biz.

Over the years, I've met countless lawyers who started as musicians, and wound up going to law school. Several of them actually worked their way through law school by playing in bands.

He even moved to Italy for about 9 months to study opera and work with opera teachers.

Eventually he gave up this dream and decided to go for a career in a less competitive field--he went to medical school instead. Today he is a surgeon.

... in unforeseen directions.

I had a great time writing for a music magazine. I got to interview all of the bands who were "big" at the time (late '70s) - invites to private parties, and always the best seats at every concert. It was wonderful.

But the first time I sat in a courtroom for my first trial, I thought, "THIS is the most exciting place to be."

My wife and both came from pretty humble beginnings. My dad was a coal miner, and there were seven of us kids. Our home was an old farmhouse that was built in the 1890's - and resembled an abandoned house. It was that bad. My wife grew up in mobile homes in some pretty bad places. I went to college on a football scholarship and she went to college on an academic scholarship, but had to work to pay for her living expenses. I worked every summer in an underground coal mine to have some spending money. We have done very well for ourselves, but have never forgotten where we came from. I own an engineering firm and she is an IT executive. We give what we can to our favorite charities and will never look down on anyone, regardless of their plight.

I'm sure you both worked very hard to gain success in your chosen fields. You should be proud of yourselves.

There, there.

taking care of me. Not taking care of the disadvantaged, but those of us that are doing ok. I am voting against my interest giving Clinton my vote, in an economic perspective. Others, then yes, I am voting my interest as she is an advocate for women and breaking the glass ceiling.

I'm not a nosy person. My mom, on the other hand, has never seen a drawer she didn't want to open. She'd be all up in your profile if she were a poster here.

There are no other reasons for me to support Hillary, are there?

Exiled Romanov Archduchess here, planning to summer at a lovely castle in the Scottish Highlands with the Brit cousins.

Did I mention a fellow paid Hillary shill who is third in line to the throne of Brunei, a black belt in Aikido, an MI5 secret agent with a license to kill and a Nobel laureate in economics?

Queen Dowager of Transylvania.

Internal HR Consultant ... and Co-owner (with my wife) of an HR Consulting firm.

My spoiled dairy goats are definitely part of the 1% in their species... does that count?

And I earn far less than the techies who support Bernie and gentrify the Bay Area.