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Marshall Thornside Inner circle chicago 2016 Posts |
you will remember my name
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Chessmann Inner circle 4242 Posts |
Yup! Them baaaaaad ol' elephants 'r at it agin'!
My ex-cat was named "Muffin". "Vomit" would be a better name for her. AKA "The Evil Ball of Fur".
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Marshall Thornside Inner circle chicago 2016 Posts |
The animals is only a part of it.
its the struggle of people in our society.
you will remember my name
World's Youngest Illusionista 7th greatest pianist in the world Go Red For Women and Stroke Ambassador www.mai-ling.net |
Steve V Inner circle Northern California 1878 Posts |
What elephants? I missed that part.
Steve V |
ralphdean Loyal user Northern Ca 300 Posts |
Education, education, education
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Marshall Thornside Inner circle chicago 2016 Posts |
I don't believe education has everything to do with it.
you will remember my name
World's Youngest Illusionista 7th greatest pianist in the world Go Red For Women and Stroke Ambassador www.mai-ling.net |
Payne Inner circle Seattle 4571 Posts |
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On 2006-08-31 14:32, Marshall Thornside wrote: Educating has very little to do with poverty. The average IQ in this country is estimated at around 98. All the education in the world isn't going to help you if you haven't got the intelligence to use it. Also we have, over the years, developed a culture of entitlement in this country. People no longer wish to work for what they want but feel that it should be given to them. Programs that were started to take care of those who were unable to fend for themselves now have been stretched to the limits by those who feel that they too should get money from social programs. On the other end of the scale is corporate greed. Corporations whose sole concern is the bottom line, payouts to shareholders and obscene salaries for their CEO's. This is entitlement on the opposite side of the scale. People who put profits before people. Those who shut down factories to move them off shore simply to fatten the bottom line. Corporations unwilling to share profits with their workers or let alone pay them a living wage. Businesses who, for years feast at the teat of government in the form of tax breaks and subsidies and then turn around and lay off their work force while making huge golden parachutes for the upper mangement. Most our problems stem from greed and avarice on both side of the socio-political spectrum. It has little to do with liberal or conservative policies but everything to do with the culture of entitlement we have created in the last fifty years.
"America's Foremost Satirical Magician" -- Jeff McBride.
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Steve V Inner circle Northern California 1878 Posts |
My brother was in a POV once about 'the state of health insurance in the US' staring Hill "the Pill" Clinton.
Of the four featured in the article I hold the following initial opinion: Jean: Change jobs! With your experience you should be able to get a job at a hospital that will pay you more. Maxed out? Move on. If you choose to stay where they won't pay you more than $11 an hour it is your choice. Jerry: A junky and a drunk and he made the decision to live in one of the most, if not the most, expensive cities in the US and works at a job that is notorious for low pay. He then compounds it by fighting with his boss and being a pro union guy openly (non union companies loooove to hire that type o' guy)! Hey Jerry, move to North Carolina, the cost of living is far less, they have a booming high tech that needs guards, and you'll be near your children. Barbara: I feel bad for you. Unlike the two stumps above you are really out there swinging. I do believe that the system should continue paying people like you for a period of a few months while you make the transition from 'the system' into independent living. The one thing that bothers me is 'single mom with five kids'. Come on, do you have to have five kids w/out a husband? Cross your ankles and keep 'em crossed. I wish you luck. Mary: I feel bad for you too. If you like waitressing, and many do, I suggest you find another job at a place with more generous tippers. Remember, a smile and a friendly greeting will draw in tips. Sorry your marriage fell apart. If you don't like being a waitress there is going to be a job opening where Jean works when she leaves for a better job. Steve V |
Steve V Inner circle Northern California 1878 Posts |
Hey Payne! I'm getting laid off in two months, the company will save $43 million! They are excited as heck, those of us in the manufacturing here are not so excited.
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Payne Inner circle Seattle 4571 Posts |
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On 2006-08-31 15:20, Steve V wrote: Well Mr. V, you should take your own advice and move to where your job will be in two months time. I hear China is lovely this time of year and the cost of living there is way cheap.
"America's Foremost Satirical Magician" -- Jeff McBride.
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Steve V Inner circle Northern California 1878 Posts |
Good guess but actually the jobs are moving to a place with odd little people who speak in a strange way, Boston. Fortunately I do live where there are jobs, if not then I would move to where they are.
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Payne Inner circle Seattle 4571 Posts |
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On 2006-08-31 16:42, Steve V wrote: Well at least they're keeping the jobs on shore, though the opposite one. Boston isn't a bad place I hear, even though they supposedly all drive like maniacs.
"America's Foremost Satirical Magician" -- Jeff McBride.
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Steve V Inner circle Northern California 1878 Posts |
No supposedly, they are terrifying. I tried to pull out of the way of an ambulance and almost got killed, I did get flipped off and screamed out. They drive the shoulder and on sidewalks and on pedestrians. They also have that Winter stuff, that scares me.
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Chessmann Inner circle 4242 Posts |
Too many people are getting into debt, too.
Folks used to save up for things they wanted. Now they put it on the card, not knowing the ramifications of interest. Heard about a couple who bought a $4000 sofa for their living room. By the time they paid it off, it cost $11,000.
My ex-cat was named "Muffin". "Vomit" would be a better name for her. AKA "The Evil Ball of Fur".
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
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On 2006-08-31 15:16, Steve V wrote: I have 20+ years experience as a typesetter and graphic artist. After the company I worked for was absorbed and abandoned by a larger company I didn't think I would have any trouble finding a position. 11 months later, I'd had three interviews, none of which panned out. I was down to my last unemployment check when Wal*Mart called and offered a cashier's position "for the holidays." I took it and three years later, I'm still here. I'm making a lot less than I was as a typesetter, but I'm working. I have an application in at the local hospital for a clerical position, I'm in line with about 109 other people! It's always easy for someone on the outside to say; "Change jobs!"
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Payne Inner circle Seattle 4571 Posts |
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On 2006-09-01 05:41, mandrake01 wrote: It's hard to have ones careers shot out from under you. I was trained to be a visual merchandiser (once known as a display man or window dresser) and worked in that field for several years. The trade however collapsed as the traditional mens wear business collapsed to be replaced by large chain stores that had low wage employees set up the displays. I've known several typesetters and pressmen who've changed careers as they were unable to locate new jobs in their field after losing their jobs when low wage copy centers put them out of business. My father was once a sign painter but lost this job to the new cheap vinyl shops that started opening in the mid eighties. Yet another example of a skilled position being lost to a new low skill, and thus low payed one. We are on a rapid race to the bottom as we move off shore the last remaining manufacturing jobs left in this country. Soon we will be a country based on service industry jobs. A land of slave wage paid positions like clerks, fast food workers and filing clerks. I was fortunate to fall into a job that pays me a living wage and has at least a modicum of security, as well as benefits and a retirement program that most likely will still be there when I retire in a dozen years time. But not everyone is nearly as fortunate.
"America's Foremost Satirical Magician" -- Jeff McBride.
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Steve V Inner circle Northern California 1878 Posts |
Mandrake, recommending one changes their job if the one they are in isn't paying enough and never will doesn't mean to 'quit their job' and find a new one. I see you are looking to change your job from working retail to the health care field, my advice would apply to what you are trying to do.
Steve V <---works part time at Home Depot, gets to sell appliances soon! |
hkwiles Special user Howard Wiles 797 Posts |
Don't think things can't get any worse...
Over here we now DON'T have...a steel industry.. a coal industry..a car idustry.. a ship building industry...and we were World Leaders in the fields not long since. Ah well ! we do live in a Capitolist society where everyone wants everything and wants it cheap. Everybody has "their rights".....Diversity and PC rules. Glad I'm retired and out of the rat race..but I still have a nice little "no responsibility clerical job" that tops up the pension nicely and allows me watch everyone else get stressd out. Howard |
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