The US to be just another 3rd World Country in 10 years?
POSTED BY: 6IXSTRINGJACK
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 22, 2024 00:07
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
I'd say that one of the reasons why its so shitty to be in the US if you in the lowest wage bracket IS because you are so poorly unionised. That's where unionism grew out of, the most poorly paid, poorly treated workers being sick to death - literally in some cases - of being treated with contempt and cruelty by employers.
Collective action has many benefits. I wouldnt diss it if you are feeling so put upon.
I'm not dissing it. That's not what I meant. :(
The "idea" of Unions makes a TON of sense to me, and in the history of Illinois alone a LOT of people actually DIED for a better quality of life for their family and the future.
The problem is, at least in Illinois, the Unions are run by people who are just as corrupt as the politicians. (I won't say it's like this everywhere in the US). Low wage unions like at grocery stores do absolutely nothing for you except give you a very high tax on your earnings which nearly nullifies the extra money over minimum wage you do get.
Also, the Good Unions are ridiculously overpaid compared to most people who don't at least have a bachleor's degree, or more likely a master's degree. Is it seriously ANY wonder why I can't get into a Union job without any family working in them?
I guaranty that on any given night I work, I hustle more than 80-90% of the Union Workforce in Illinois, yet some of them are banking 6-7 times an hour what I make, and are constantly offered overtime putting them at 10-12 times what I make an hour. Double-Time-and-a-Half on Sundays? I don't want to even think about it......
I know that welding is a skill that shouldn't be taken for granted. My point is, if at least 50 other dip-shits didn't get the job every year I applied because daddy was an Ironworker then I'd be a pretty goddamned fine welder at the ripe old age of 35.
I really don't know what to say MD.....
I REALLY want to LOVE Unions.
But when I'm making 200 bucks a week and I have to pay a plumber $200 bucks for an hours worth of work to rod out my drain to my sewer, I'm not a real big fan......
I'm not bitching that I did half of the work. I wanted to learn. Next time it will cost me for a $25-50 rental to do it on my own. It was basically a high-priced crash course.
Wouldn't it be nice to be a lawyer or something and just sit inside watching the News while he did the work because there was no way you're ever going to get your hands covered in your own, literal, shit?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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FREM!
Actually had a great night at work last night for a change.
My "work Mom" that was fired is back! I don't know if the attitude we all had about it was what made the new manager reconsider, at least for a little while, "mom" said that the store manager said that she'd work with her for now until they can get a 2nd car. :)
Also, I was getting REALLY tired of watching people nearly killing themselves trying to get heavy product out to the floor. This new manager seems hell bent on moving away completely from using pallets when unloading the truck so we're using "4 highs" and flat beds to push the product. On paper, this is actually pretty smart because it can eliminate a step to getting the product on the shelf.
Sometimes though, it just doesn't work. They were seriously loading a pallet worth of bleach and detergent chemicals on a flat bed and expecting us to roll a few of those out every night. In the first place, these things haven't seen any WD40 since they were born in the 60s and they aren't the easiest things to maneuver with a light load on them. They aren't even designed to bear this much weight. When they're loaded up with 1,500 lbs of liquid, they're damn near impossible to drag halfway across the store on my own, and there aren't many there who can haul what I can haul.
When this was brought up to the new manager we were told back that we just have to deal with it because that's the new "protocol".
Last night, I had it. I just watched old man Al take literally 15 minutes to get his flatbed out to the floor and I thought he was going to have a heart attack. There is NO reason to make us do something 10 times harder than it needs to be just because you can't admit that even a part of your grand plan is a mistake.
I left a note for the receiving crew on days that said "Load the HEAVY chemicals on a pallet or YOU can pull it out to the floor for us before you leave. THANKS!!!"
I'm already not the new manager's favorite employee and I hear that I'm actually on her shit list now. Boo Hoo.
That being said, all of the chemicals were loaded on pallets for us today.
SCORE two for the downtrodden part-timers!!!!
Today was a good day. ;)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Inflation sinks Biden’s approval ratings as Americans deal with rising prices for gas and other essentials
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-inflation-
sinks-bidens-approval-ratings-as-americans-deal-with-rising/
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1 year to go, another predictions fail?
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
1 year to go, another predictions fail?
I already made that prediction with a year to spare.
We've just arrested a US President based off of nothing just like all the great 3rd World Countries do (usually with our hand guiding them too, might I add).
Nah. We might have gotten there in a way I didn't plan, but we got there nonetheless.
I got this one right.
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Quote:Nothing? Your memory is failing, 6ix. Trump's lawyer went to jail over what Trump is charged with:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
We've just arrested a US President based off of nothing just like all the great 3rd World Countries do (usually with our hand guiding them too, might I add).
Cohen was sentenced to prison in December 2018 after pleading guilty to campaign finance charges and lying to Congress, among other crimes. In all, he spent about 13 1/2 months behind prison walls and a year and a half in home confinement. His time was further reduced through good behavior.
The campaign finance charges came after he helped arrange payouts during the 2016 presidential race to keep the porn actor Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal from making public claims of extramarital affairs with Trump. Trump has denied the affairs.
He implicated Trump at the time in the campaign finance charges, as he did again on Monday when he said that his release from home confinement “in no way negates the actions I took at the direction of and for the benefit of Donald J. Trump.”
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-crime-new-york-manhattan-campa
igns-3a0413202e80ab99c9f6377f97d07c04
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Nothing? Your memory is failing, 6ix. Trump's lawyer went to jail over what Trump is charged with:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
We've just arrested a US President based off of nothing just like all the great 3rd World Countries do (usually with our hand guiding them too, might I add).
Cohen was sentenced to prison in December 2018 after pleading guilty to campaign finance charges and lying to Congress, among other crimes. In all, he spent about 13 1/2 months behind prison walls and a year and a half in home confinement. His time was further reduced through good behavior.
The campaign finance charges came after he helped arrange payouts during the 2016 presidential race to keep the porn actor Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal from making public claims of extramarital affairs with Trump. Trump has denied the affairs.
He implicated Trump at the time in the campaign finance charges, as he did again on Monday when he said that his release from home confinement “in no way negates the actions I took at the direction of and for the benefit of Donald J. Trump.”
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-crime-new-york-manhattan-campa
igns-3a0413202e80ab99c9f6377f97d07c04
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Oh fuck off dude.
I don't want to hear it after the media won't even mention Hillary's server or the Biden* Family ties with both Ukraine and China, both of which have actual tangible effects on Americans.
Nobody gives a shit that Trump was trying to hide from his wife that he was fucking around on her and he's got a team of asshole lawyers working for him.
Did it ever occur to you that he doesn't actually handle any of his money and the people he pays 6 figures a year to handle his money handle his money.
I'd say he's 10,000 times more likely to have cheated on his wife than having any clue about any of this dumb bullshit.
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Quote:6ix, Trump is so crazy he does not even pretend to obey the law. Manhattan has a case where the crazy man got caught because his stupid lawyer also got caught and went to jail for it. Too bad for Trump.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh fuck off dude.
I don't want to hear it after the media won't even mention Hillary's server or the Biden* Family ties with both Ukraine and China, both of which have actual tangible effects on Americans.
Nobody gives a shit that Trump was trying to hide from his wife that he was fucking around on her and he's got a team of asshole lawyers working for him.
Did it ever occur to you that he doesn't actually handle any of his money and the people he pays 6 figures a year to handle his money handle his money.
I'd say he's 10,000 times more likely to have cheated on his wife than having any clue about any of this dumb bullshit.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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No. Trump didn't commit a crime.
Saying it over and over again for 6 years isn't going to magically make it happen.
Trump will be fine. 
He will also be your next President.
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Quote:All your years of smoking and drunkenness have rotted your brain and your teeth, 6ix.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
No. Trump didn't commit a crime.
Saying it over and over again for 6 years isn't going to magically make it happen.
Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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