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DFW

(59,875 posts)
7. Oh, really?
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 01:14 AM
Yesterday

Today, I had to get up at 4 A.M. to get to work, and I’ll be lucky if I get to bed by 11 PM in the third country I have to be in today. I was recruited for by my job in 1975 at age 23, and I’m still with the same employer, full time, today.

Just how much “longer” does Doctor Effendi expect me to be doing this in order to satisfy his social expectation? Does he work MY kind of hours? And since the Republicans in Congress are just as uncaring as the Democrats about fixing Residence Based Taxation for the 9 million Americans Abroad, I get hit for about a 73% income tax rate between Germany and the USA (Heil Honecker).

I am not interested in some TV quack spouting off about some subject on which he is clueless. Well, he IS a Republican, so if he is spouting off on any subject whatsoever, he is likely to be clueless.

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