Are you ready? I think this is gonna be a rough couple years.

[rice paddy daddy]

I took a run into the town on the Georgia side of the line. The population of the whole county is about 9,000.
The Dollar General was closed down, this is the sign on the door.
Bring manufacturing back to America? Who’s going to do the work?

 

[Snowman]

Cleaner than most I see Opened...!!!

 

[Acdoctor]

America First...!!!

I run a small heating and air company, I’m constantly getting call from other state supply companies. They all get pissy but I tell them if I can buy it in my home town I do , if not in my county or state. I keep it local if at all possible, I will pay more for products made in the USA, I look at it this way if you can afford a 2+ million dollar lake house to live in three to six months out of the year then you can buy quality parts and equipment.
I’m pretty much that way with all things I buy. USA first.

 

[Amish Heart]

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I took a run into the town on the Georgia side of the line. The population of the whole county is about 9,000.
The Dollar General was closed down, this is the sign on the door.
Bring manufacturing back to America? Who’s going to do the work?

Ugh I hate signs with words spelled incorrectly.
I saw this alot during covid at the Dollar Tree and Dollar General

 

[Mountain trapper]

I run a small heating and air company, I’m constantly getting call from other state supply companies. They all get pissy but I tell them if I can buy it in my home town I do , if not in my county or state. I keep it local if at all possible, I will pay more for products made in the USA, I look at it this way if you can afford a 2+ million dollar lake house to live in three to six months out of the year then you can buy quality parts and equipment.
I’m pretty much that way with all things I buy. USA first.

Before I retired I was in charge of over 10,000 pieces of equipment. I made a policy of buying only American made parts, unless I approved it first.

 

[Magus]

i hired one guy who went to lunch on his first day and never came back. LOL

I fired one out the door because he was pretending he couldn't understand English and using it as an excuse to freeload.

 

[Amish Heart]

I had that happen a few times when we had the school. Would hire an assistant teacher, and they'd disappear after the first day. One disappeared on her first day during her break. It would always make us laugh after the initial shock.

 

[RJ2019]

Ugh I hate signs with words spelled incorrectly.
I saw this alot during covid at the Dollar Tree and Dollar General

That's as much education as they can afford for the wages they're paying.

 

[Hardcalibres]

Today has been another lesson in unpredictability.

It has been suggested that the US send troops to Gaza to sort out that mess.

Even Netanyahu was struggling to know what to say about the idea.

I challenge people to even make this stuff up.

Of all the places in the world, Gaza takes a special kind of crazy for someone to voluntarily take that on.

 

[sonya123]

All the Americans that want jobs already have them.
There are plenty of Central Americans that want jobs, but Trump is busy rounding them up.

what the US SHOULD do IF ( doubt it) they need the additional labor from Central Americans is what Germany did after WW2 , hire 'guest workers' at a lower wage, no benefits , and no permanent rights, and limit the amount of time they work here and send them back home. If you want to come, you apply, have your background checked to make sure you are not a criminal and then you can come. What's wrong with that?

 

[SLADE]

a special kind of crazy

That's what we have at the moment.

 

[SLADE]

what the US SHOULD do IF ( doubt it) they need the additional labor from Central Americans is what Germany did after WW2 , hire 'guest workers' at a lower wage, no benefits , and no permanent rights, and limit the amount of time they work here and send them back home. If you want to come, you apply, have your background checked to make sure you are not a criminal and then you can come. What's wrong with that?

Borders on Slavery.

 

[Magus]

I had that happen a few times when we had the school. Would hire an assistant teacher, and they'd disappear after the first day. One disappeared on her first day during her break. It would always make us laugh after the initial shock.

I'm up for it if I can bring my bullwhip and cattle prod.

 

[Amish Heart]

I'm up for it if I can bring my bullwhip and cattle prod.

Ha Ha Nope.

 

[Magus]

Today has been another lesson in unpredictability.

It has been suggested that the US send troops to Gaza to sort out that mess.

Even Netanyahu was struggling to know what to say about the idea.

I challenge people to even make this stuff up.

Of all the places in the world, Gaza takes a special kind of crazy for someone to voluntarily take that on.

Well, first of all, we level it to the ground, we'll do that when we send Buff and Puff over to send those nice young Moslems to their virgins. build a bunch of McMansions for the goats to live in and hand out God bless America shirts and MAGA hats and put them all to work in the casinos and Walmarts.

 

[old tex]

Two phrases that I see constantly thrown around in this country that I hate are: Living Wage & Slavery. We have programs to help people with physical & mental impairments. We also have programs to help people that are temporarily out of work. Those that don't fall into those categories should be able to find jobs & be paid IN LINE WITH THEIR SKILLS. Low skills means low pay & a required side hustle of some type to earn extra money. It does not mean that you should get paid more. I did side hustles for YEARS because of low pay & a family to feed. As far as slavery, DUH? It's illegal here & if you're not being paid enough for your talents, go somewhere else.

My last comment because I think it applies to a heck of a lot of people in this country. You deserve what you can afford & you deserve the consequences if you spend more than you can afford. Buy a $40,000 car & have a $500 cell phone & make $30,000 a year, you deserve what's going to happen.

I know, I know sometimes bad things happen to good responsible people. But by far those I've seen in trouble are in trouble because they screwed up. Society now makes it so easy for people to blame others, circumstances or the government for their problems. And they do all the time & because of that they never learn that they are at fault.

 

[Tootsie]

what the US SHOULD do IF ( doubt it) they need the additional labor from Central Americans is what Germany did after WW2 , hire 'guest workers' at a lower wage, no benefits , and no permanent rights, and limit the amount of time they work here and send them back home. If you want to come, you apply, have your background checked to make sure you are not a criminal and then you can come. What's wrong with that?

That worked for many years for summer help. The same people and sometimes families would come for the summer season. Great for college students to come, make some money, and see a different culture.