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Demsrule86

(68,595 posts)
1. It is a gift to own and run a business in my opinion.
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 08:01 AM
Aug 2016

Especially when you get 'seed' money from Daddy. Trump is an argument to stiffen up the inheritance laws as are his useless offspring...especially the ones who enjoy killing essentially tame animals.

Chemisse

(30,813 posts)
3. It was a sacrifice for him to have to actually PAY his employees.
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 08:09 AM
Aug 2016

He tried to avoid it when possible, but sometimes he just had to make that 'ultimate sacrifice.'

grossproffit

(5,591 posts)
5. The sacrifice is different. Losing a child is the ultimate sacrifice.
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 08:17 AM
Aug 2016

When you own your own business, you sacrifice, but you're ultimate goal is to be rewarded for your hard work. There is no reward in losing a child. They are not comparable.

Doodley

(9,095 posts)
7. More than Trump has done who has a record of not paying bills, not paying salaries, not paying banks
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 08:46 AM
Aug 2016

threatening legal action, left right and center, filing bankruptcy so people lose their jobs and investors lose hundreds of millions of dollars. while never putting his hand in his own pocket, so it costs him personally. That is not sacrifice.

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