And then I'd be a billionaire instead of a working stiff.
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It's not fun, exactly, but it has a menschy, working-stiff sense of humor.
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Figure another $240 billion to keep the tax cuts for the working stiff coming.
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Back then there was no traffic, and you could afford to live in Austin if you were just a regular working stiff.
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As Vincent Martino, Franco finds considerable heft in a role as a working stiff confused by the way the world turns around him.
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If you're a working stiff employed by one of them, you may be tempted to hand in your notice and start one of your own.
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"And it's why every beaten-down, forgotten, nameless working stiff who used to be part of what was called the middle class loves Trump," he adds.
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It was the conspiratorial wink of one working stiff to another, and I knew immediately what I had to do: Walk a few feet away, pretending to be disconsolate.
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Though he was born into genuine if provincial affluence, with second-tier European royalty filling out the family's dance card on vacation, he chose to become a working stiff.
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The sound of the bell makes the ears of every working stiff perk up, because when that bell tolls for the 12th time, it can only mean one thing: lunch.
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Just a working stiff who endured the anonymous drudgery of a daily commute but then, at night, often felt connected to something larger than himself, larger than all of us.
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Our definition of what it means to be a "working stiff" has changed so much in such a short time that The Belko Experiment ends up seeming like a period piece.
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Spencer Tracy, in his second feature, stars as "Bugs" Raymond, a shrewd, cocky roughneck who rises from working-stiff truck driver to the ruling racket boss of an unnamed Midwestern metropolis.
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But The Mandalorian may turn out to be the most blue-collar Star Wars yet — in part because it gets to take its time, to linger over one working stiff in particular.
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But the accretion of details about this seemingly salt-of-the-earth working stiff and the eccentric artistic genius who paid him creates an irresistible picture of friendship, loyalty and artistic temperament.
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The general thrust of these proposals is that moneybags big investors making a fortune in profits are taxed at a lower rate than your average working stiff taxed at normal income rates.
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Though the so-called Turkers tend to value the flexibility and independence of freelancing and often reject the idea of a traditional union, many have also developed a kind of working-stiff identity.
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Her New York Times best-selling memoir "Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner," co-authored with her husband, writer T.J. Mitchell, is now available in paperback.
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She is also the co-author with her husband, writer T.J. Mitchell, of the New York Times best-selling memoir Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner.
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Paul Ryan, the House speaker, sees the tax act as a bonanza for the working stiff: He tweeted that a public school secretary would see a whopping $1.50 a week extra in her paycheck.
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Mr. Sandler's characterization of a working stiff with too much pride, while not as complex as his performance in Noah Baumbach's "The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)," also on Netflix, doesn't entirely lack in verisimilitude.
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It's pretty arguable whether he's even a good wrestler, given that he's always had a reputation for working stiff and also delivered the kick which concussed the legendary Bret Hart so badly he had to retire.
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O'Gallagher was born into a wealthy family, making it arguably easier for him to focus on his physique than would a working stiff (though he says he does not receive an inheritance from his father's real estate empire until his 30th birthday).
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In addition to compelling Smith to review scenes of his younger self, the film also made him consider his life from the perspective of Henry, an amiable working stiff who just wants to retire after a career of good and faithful murders.
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Their columns lionized the working stiff, gave cops their due when they were heroic — yet showed them no mercy when they were on the take or being abusive — and shook City Hall until the corruption and hypocrisy spilled out onto their crisply printed pages.
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But what about the lower middle class working stiff who eats right and exercises having to pay more in taxes to cover the guy next to him on the bus who needs a heart bypass because he ate three cheeseburgers with supersized fries every day for 10 years?
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He discovers powerful American magic, terrifying threats and some friends: Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler), a working stiff who toils in a factory but yearns to be a baker; Porpentina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston), an astute officer of the Magical Congress of the United States of America, ; and Porpentina's flirty, often underestimated sister, Queenie (Alison Sudol).
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Also, Emanuel seems to be talking about artists, intellectuals, and scientists who will be pained by the prospect that their brain power and creativity may ebb in their twilight years, and not about your average working stiff who, after years of toiling in factories or offices, may want to spend more time golfing or reading books about golf.
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But whatever perch they once occupied as defenders of our horny-handed sons of toil during the glory days of labor unions, Team Blue has done a lot of squirting down the working class's leg while telling them that it's raining: from suspect trade deals to frying up globaloney sandwiches to renting out the party to the Davoisie and tech titans, too many of whom seem more comfortable with a working stiff being replaced by a robot or some crappy iPhone app, rather than enabling work that pays a living wage in meatspace.
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"IN PERSON; The Poet as Working Stiff", The New York Times, December 6, 1998. Accessed February 28, 2008. "Joe Weil is Elizabeth: working-class, irreverent, modest, but open to the world and filled with a wealth of possibilities." Weil's mother died of cancer when he was 17.
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Mitch goes to a resort in Antarctica, only to become lost outside in a blizzard. He recovers to find that he has been shanghaied as an ordinary working stiff. His ID number tattooed on his arm has been altered so he cannot reclaim his old identity. However his skills remain intact.
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In 2003 Melinek was appointed to the Santa Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner. She moved to the Office of the Chief medical examiner in San Francisco in 2004. Her first book, Working Stiff, is a memoir of her medical training in New York City. It appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list.
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The landmark Akron pizza shop Luigi's is the inspiration for the pizza shop Montoni's in the comic strip Funky Winkerbean, written by Akron native Tom Batiuk. In the Flaming Carrot Comics, Iron City, where the Carrot lives, was made similar to Akron and another working-stiff town, Pittsburgh. Writer and illustrator Bill Watterson has also lived in the county.
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Holm employs frequent lateral movement while working stiff jabs to an opponent's head. When standing within the pocket, she often waits to attack with counter-strikes, usually employing a straight left hand. Holm is also known for her punching combinations, typically done while her opponents are against the cage. Decorated boxer and ONE Championship fighter Ana Julaton has described Holm as a "natural mover", noting her footwork as an asset in setting up strikes.
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He also reunited with Cyrano star Jose Ferrer for the made-for-television films The Rhinemann Exchange (1977) and Gideon's Trumpet (1980). In the latter, Ferrer played attorney for petitioner Gideon, Abe Fortas, and Prince was seen as one of the Supreme Court Justices. In 1992 he appeared on the long-running NBC drama Law & Order in the episode "The Working Stiff", playing a corrupt former governor involved in a banking scandal.
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Although Moon briefly lost the lead, he eventually regained it after eliminating veteran players like Steve Begleiter and Phil Ivey. Moon ultimately lost heads up against Joe Cada, earning Moon US$5.18 million for his second-place finish. Although some criticized his playing style and lack of experience, Moon was also praised for his working stiff personality and self-deprecating manner. Moon participated in the 2010 National Heads-Up Poker Championship, but lost in the second round to poker professional Annie Duke.
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Evans cites Hayabusa, Great Sasuke, and Blitzkrieg as his main inspirations while growing up. In November 2003, at ROH's Main Event Spectacles event, Evans was involved in a backstage altercation with Samoa Joe. In March 2009, Evans was involved in a backstage fight with Juventud Guerrera. The fight started when Guerrera was involved in a confrontation with Konnan, and Guerrera claimed that Evans had been working stiff during the match that he and Evans had competed in earlier that night.
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He says that he intends to leave behind his life of comfort and become a working stiff, despite Treemonisha urging him against this and warning him that he is unprepared for a life of poverty. Peter forces entry into her sanctum in the head of the statue, and is surprised to find a cold cleanroom filled with computing hardware. Unbeknownst to him, his mother had been dead all along, existing only as a "downloaded intelligence". Peter leaves with Treemonisha, hoping that being poor is better than "being rich and hating yourself".
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Based on a best-seller by Elizabeth Berg, this made-for-TV movie stars Christine Lahti as Samantha Morrow, a middle-class mom deserted by her shallow husband, David (Chris Potter). In order to keep a roof over her head—not to mention the head of her son, Travis (Mark Rendall) -- Samantha decides to take in boarders. Among these is a runaway teenager named Lavender Blue (Grace Lynn Kung) and a chubby working stiff named King (Daniel Baldwin). Also on hand are Samantha's down-to-earth mom (Eva Marie Saint) and cable-TV home-design expert Colin Cowie (as himself).
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She began her career working under the ring name La Nazi (The Nazi), inspired by El Nazi, a hated Mexican rudo (a bad guy character or heel). Her early days as a professional wrestler was tough, she was met with a lot of resistance with people complaining that she was too rough in the ring, not protecting her opponents enough while wrestling. Her reputation for working "stiff", as it is called in wrestling, made it so hard for her to get work that she retired in the late 1990s. During her retirement she worked in a furniture factory and as a tailor.
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Moon had almost no experience in heads-up poker, which some commentators said factored into his loss against Cada in the final hours of the 2009 World Series. Many fans and commentators praised his working stiff style, with some dubbing him "Darvin Gump", a reference to the underdog protagonist of the 1994 drama film, Forrest Gump. Moon wad also bestowed with the nickname the "Luddite Logger" because of his distaste for anything technological, including credit cards and online poker. Moon refused to sign a sponsorship deal with an Internet poker company during the 2009 tournament because he said he did not want to answer to anybody.
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My Favorite Husband also marked the beginning of Oppenheimer's successful collaboration with I Love Lucy writers Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. In December 1950, when CBS agreed to produce a TV pilot starring Lucille Ball and her husband, Desi Arnaz, Lucy insisted on Oppenheimer to head up the project. But with a completed pilot due in just a few weeks, nobody knew what the series should be about. "Why don't we do a show," Oppenheimer suggested, "about a middle-class working stiff who works very hard at his job as a bandleader, and likes nothing better than to come home at night and relax with his wife, who doesn't like staying home and is dying to get into show business herself?" He decided to call the show I Love Lucy.
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The show's premise, as narrated in the opening credits by Fox network's chief announcer Joe Cipriano in a deadpan comical fashion, was that two sisters, earthy Rochelle Dunphy (Gilbert) and loud, crass Lorraine Popowski (O'Donnell) agreed to live together for emotional and moral support while their husbands were doing time in prison for robbery. Rochelle was a trophy wife who had married Roger Dunphy (Sam McMurray), a former working stiff who had become wealthy, supposedly as a successful manufacturer of sunroom and patio furniture. As the narrator said about Rochelle "One sister married a business owner and lived in the lap of luxury", while the camera focuses on Roger's palatial home in Franklin Heights, New Jersey. She thought her life of luxury was near perfect until her husband was discovered to have committed a series of major bank robberies.
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With its controversial theses, the book received attention and several reviews from newspapers and scholars. Christof Dejung from the University of Konstanz criticised the book for not considering the oppressive aspects of colonialism, and concluded: "It seems that the warm welcome the book has found in some circles comes not least from the fact that it discharges the West from every responsibility for the grinding poverty most people on the globe are living in until today."Christof Dejung, University of Konstanz: Review for geschichte.transnational und H-Soz- u-Kult , 2009 The book has received praise from authors like Benjamin M. FriedmanBenjamin M. Friedman: NY Times Book Review and Tyler Cowen (Mercatus Center director) ("idea-rich book", maybe "next blockbuster in economics"),Tyler Cowen: What Makes a Nation Wealthy? Maybe It’s the Working Stiff although authors from this political direction do not all agree fully with the theses of the book.
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