I'm white. Do you ever just get sick of white people?

[DFW]

129. My man in Geneva is very fortunate to be where he is.

When he first joined us, he said that if he was going to quit his job as a graphic designer (thus his sharp eye to detect counterfeit money), he wanted assurance that we would guarantee his job for three years. Dallas said no, but I never told him that. They didn’t know him. I did. I knew it xould work. He was soon earning a six figure salary and was whining about his new high tax bracket of 25%. I told him that Americans who earned what he did were already paying a marginal 39.6%. Yypical European, he said that’s their fault for being Americans.

He inherited his house from his dad. If he hadn’t, there is no way in the world he could have afforded to live in a house inside the city of Geneva, even an old, modest duplex like he has. Competing UN agencies, oil rich Arabs and Russians, and a few rich non-affiliated people (a few of whom are even real Swiss!) drive Geneva real estate prices into the Asteroid Belt. He could probably sell his house for fortune and a half, but he’d just say, maybe, but what in the world for? This was his FATHER’S house after all. You can’t force a Swiss to adopt Republican « money is more important » attitudes just because an American political party says they should. Most Swiss are something our Republicans are not: conservative.