Things that made you frown today (Political Version)

[cwolff]

Authorities in Pennsylvania are reportedly looking into the "suspicious" death of the father of former National Security Adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster.
The Philadelphia Police Department told Fox 29 it is investigating the incident surrounding the April 13 death of H.R. McMaster, Sr.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office confirmed its involvement in the investigtion to Fox News. The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office is also linked to the probe of the death, which was deemed "suspicious" by authorities, WPVI reported.

The elder McMaster, 84, was at Cathedral Village in Roxborough after having a stroke, the outlet said.

Anyone know what this is all about?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/19...uspicious.html

[RichardCranium]

Anyone know what this is all about?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/19...uspicious.html

Update:

According to the Philadelphia department of health, the former official's father, H.R. McMaster Sr., died on April 13 of blunt force trauma to the head.



While health officials have ruled his death to be an accident, investigators have labeled the death suspicious, and are looking into whether there could have been institutional neglect in treating him by the retirement community where he lived.


The 84-year-old Korean War veteran reportedly did not receive proper care at the Cathedral Village retirement home, where he was living after suffering a stroke.



The Philadelphia police's homicide unit is looking into allegations that McMaster Sr. had fallen and was placed on a chair and neglected. Employees also reportedly told the McMaster family that records related to his death had been falsified.



Police are investigating the death as suspicious and have obtained a search warrant for the retirement community.

[time4fun]

Unfortunately this is true. My understanding is that the average Apple engineer in the huge new Apple Park building in Cupertino makes around 190K/year. Nearby homes tend to start at around $1.6M - over $2M is common. Do the math and you'll see that even working at Apple doesn't mean you can afford a home in the surrounding area.

I think the median income in San Francisco is like $75k a year. The problem is that the wealth in the Bay Area is REALLY concentrated. So you've got people making $50k a year living in vans, and then you have the other side of the spectrum making what looks like monopoly money to the rest of the country paying $5k a month for a medium sized home in the suburbs or $6k a month for a two bedroom apartment in the city. There are fewer and fewer people in between every day.

This is what it looks like when you don't tax wealthy people enough, FYI. Inflation kicks in because there are enough people who can pay it, and everyone else gets left behind in a merciless way.


Don't feel too bad for those engineers though. Their salaries may be $190k a year, but they're sitting on equity packages worth $500k-$1m on a 4 year vesting schedule...plus yearly equity refreshes. TC for L5s at a FANG company is usually around $300-400k. The salaries are misleading in silicon valley.

[Wrathbringer]

I think the median income in San Francisco is like $75k a year. The problem is that the wealth in the Bay Area is REALLY concentrated. So you've got people making $50k a year living in vans, and then you have the other side of the spectrum making what looks like monopoly money to the rest of the country paying $5k a month for a medium sized home in the suburbs or $6k a month for a two bedroom apartment in the city. There are fewer and fewer people in between every day.

This is what it looks like when you don't tax wealthy people enough, FYI. Inflation kicks in because there are enough people who can pay it, and everyone else gets left behind in a merciless way.


Don't feel too bad for those engineers though. Their salaries may be $190k a year, but they're sitting on equity packages worth $500k-$1m on a 4 year vesting schedule...plus yearly equity refreshes. TC for L5s at a FANG company is usually around $300-400k. The salaries are misleading in silicon valley.

Pretty retarded.

[Wrathbringer]

No, I meant time4dung. She's pretty retarded, and the "this is what happens when you don't tax rich people enough" was pretty retarded. I should have specified.

[time4fun]

Yep it sure is. I live in Oakland as an IT specialist and I’m trying to move my family near Woodside for the schools, can’t even afford a 2 BR on 110 grand salary. The kicker is the realtor showing me around said a lot of these homes are being bought and kept empty purely for speculation, you have to start wondering where the country is heading when one dude can afford to buy up 5 or 6 homes and just sit on them then someone like me who played by the rules and got his MS in CompSci can’t even afford 1 measly house in a “middle class” district.

This is why there are no children in San Francisco. Unless you're a FANG engineer or exec, the second you have kids you're out of the city. You can go days without seeing a single child. When I go visit family in other cities, one of the first things that hits me is how many kids there are.

[Wrathbringer]

This is why there are no children in San Francisco. Unless you're a FANG engineer or exec, the second you have kids you're out of the city. You can go days without seeing a single child. When I go visit family in other cities, one of the first things that hits me is how many kids there are.

There are no children in sanfran because of the concentrated perverse culture of gayness. No one wants their kids around those people.

[cwolff]

Update:

I believe that I would not want to be an employee or owner of the old folks home that killed McMasters dad.

[Parkbandit]

Yep it sure is. I live in Oakland as an IT specialist and I’m trying to move my family near Woodside for the schools, can’t even afford a 2 BR on 110 grand salary. The kicker is the realtor showing me around said a lot of these homes are being bought and kept empty purely for speculation, you have to start wondering where the country is heading when one dude can afford to buy up 5 or 6 homes and just sit on them then someone like me who played by the rules and got his MS in CompSci can’t even afford 1 measly house in a “middle class” district.

You should save yourself the trouble of typing that all out Necro, and just say:

"IT'S NOT FAIR!"

If you can't afford a house, then do something about it. Don't go blaming the guy who has 5-6 homes.

[time4fun]

Uh bud, what exactly do you want me to do? I have a Masters in Computer Science, Clearence from my military service, impeccable extra-curriculars including volunteering 5~10hours a week in charities like Habitat for Humanity and the United Way, also coach soccer as well.

If someone like me can’t afford to purchase a modest home in his own hometown then I don’t know what to tell you, not everyone can be a YouTube star or be an exec for Google. Also, you may not know how the industry works here but very few of those guys actually worked from bottom to top, a lot of that stuff is still old school connections and family ties even in a place as progressive as SanFran.

Ignore him. What he doesn't understand about the world could just about fit in the Grand Canyon.

And you're right- the privilege cycle is very real. My first tech company made it very clear that if I hadn't gone to a top tier school I would not have been hired. (Note that the CEO is a college dropout).

And if I had not already had a tech job on my resume, my current company wouldn't have even looked at me. And I wouldn't have had a friend who could refer me.

Etc. Etc.

It's all very gross.