That's a funny one, Mr. Lee. Too bad it's true.

Ernie

Her mommy is lieing. Far more important than how well she does is who she gets to to know and befriends. That more than anything, will determine her success.

I don't see any hostility in that picture , just simple facts


Mike

automation, more than anything, determines the productivity of the Earth.

how best to allocate or distribute the proceeds from this productivity is the challenge.

in other words, it dooesn't take many workers to supply the humans with their needs, but how are the goods and services distributed?

remember, when technology burst upon the scene, the world changed forever.

Must suck living with that kind of thought process. My kids have seen and know that if you bust it everyday, you can still win. When that ceases to be the case in this country, then the producers will leave.

If they lived in a Communist or Socialist country it would matter who they knew I guess. Hope they never find out here. Then again ask Joe the Plumber how it went when he dared challenge the King! Maybe we are closer than we think.

Boy are you living in the dark. It don't matter how smart or well qualified you are, or how well you did in school here. Want that great job as superintendent of buildings and grounds at the high school ? No problem, mommy and daddy are on the shool board and best friends with the administrators ! Oh, but you don't know anybody on the board ? Then you might as well forget it cuz they ain't even gonna look at your resume ! Want a job on the town highway crew ? No problem, uncle Butch and aunt Harriet are on the town board and it don't matter that John Doe has 15 years experience as a heavy equipment operator. He ain't even gonna hear about the job opening cuz you're hired ! That's how it works 99% of the time and I've seen it with my own eyes over and over and over again.

Sad, but true. Good looks don't hurt either.

for those that are still asleep, we have reached that state of being already.
Looks like some folks have their heads up their butts though.

The little girl needs to learn a foreign language because by the time she's outta school most jobs will have been outsourced to Bum-F-Egypt!!

That is a loser attitude.
It must be difficult perceiving yourself as a victim of the system.
Much easier if you can see your own contributions to your problems, then you can fix them.
I pity those without the personal responsibility to be able to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

Amen to that.

Good one, Mr. Lee, but we are already past the point of no return.

Something like 45% getting some sort of public assistance & growing............

MM

[bleep] you, you pitiful, stupid asswhole ! I've worked for the town here for the past 15 years and have two brothers who are teachers here. Like I said, I've seen just EXACTLY how things work with my own eyes. That's why I keep getting stuck with the stupid, lazy progeny of the "well connected" on my work crews. It's the same way in all the other towns/school districts around here as verified by friends and family who work for those other towns. Wake the [bleep] up or at least have the brains and decency to shut the [bleep] up !

I don't think we have a middle class anymore.

Sorry it works that way where you live, it ain't that way here. All City & County jobs are civil service via competitive examination.

You are absolutely correct. You obviously possess the keys to success.
I should have seen it sooner.

thanks be to all for allowing the BH to speak his piece. noone has to agree with anyone else. but, the messenger has a message. we don't have to agree with it, aceept it, or even consider it.

but, communication is the key. when someone comes on board with a different perspective, we have choices. we can hear them out, fail to open the thread, or place them on ignore.

i appreciate BH's willingness to come aboard and share with us his perspective. i fnd that i don't hardly ever agree with anyone anymore. maybe i'm individuating, or maybe i'm becoming a potential outlaw?

You will find ouy soon you voted for him don't cry

Gentlemen,
It is possible to work hard getting to know the right people AND pulling yourself up!
If you have ever been in sales you'd understand what I mean.

IOW, you are both correct.

With an attitude like that it's no wonder you have some pissant job supervising low level Government employees.

If you don't like it get another job or go into business for yourself so you can see what it is like to work for a real jerk

Join a new union, that always helps.

You are [bleep] me. I was a poor kid who pulled myself up by working my ass off in oilfields (24 hr call-7 days a week- 110 hrs/week) summers and construction during thanksgiving and christmas and spring break and became a dr. to spend my time paying the hospitals bills and food bills (raspberries at $2.48/6 oz, t-bones and fresh oysters) of mexicans and negros and white trash scum who drive new trucks and claim not to be married to the hubby making $80,000 in the oilfield. All this so the demoncraps can buy votes from scum and claim my 11 year old female patients with diabetes at 175 lbs are under nourished and you are too stupid to believe it when the Lord said there will be a 'great gnashing of teeth'. Your type has sold this country down the river for the votes to put lying scum in office.

...true on many different levels.

Why pull yourself up when the govt will steal from others to give you steak and raspberrys for your vote. The answer is unknown to those who are deaf, dumb, and blind.

I stole that pic from you TLee, hope thats okay.

I hope the happenings in England are a wake up call for the progressive crowd. Take people, many of whom have been there for 800 years, give them a free place to live, money to drink, subsidized university education......get five generations on welfare! These people were never slaves. They had rights since the Magna Carta was signed......and they're still burnin' it down! Basically, take away people's incentive to work....and they stop working. Bust your hump and YOU ALWAYS GET AHEAD!

And that's coming from the all knowing, all important [bleep] BOOK SALESMAN ! Talk about a pissant ! You may or may not make alot of money but you're still nothing but a goddam book salesman ! LMAO ! when you learn how to do a man's work you can come back and tell me how goddam important you are you poor pitiful slob. meanwhile the folks around here don't seem to look down their noses at the guys who keep their roads maintained and clean water flowing out of their tap's. I doubt like hell any of the folks hereabouts would feel your contribution to society is somehow greater than mine, particularly when it's been snowing all night and they need a foot of the stuff plowed off the roads so they can get to work in the morning. What a goddam pitiful load of self aggrandised horseschitt you are !

Yes sir, but the folks that beatch the most seem to have municipal, state or federal pensions. Some all three.

Networking is the most important thing going if you want a job. They even have internet social media networks now for those wanting a job. The more you network, the more opportunity for you to get a job. As jobs get more and more scarce, there will be more and more networking especially for family members to find work for there kin. You either find them a job or take care of them, that is why the mayor want to find his kid a job. Some will even get them signed up in the military, and kiss them and tell them goodbye.

Are you putting dried caribou [bleep] in your hash pipe again?

Blackie---I am a book publisher, an honorable profession of disseminating the world's knowledge going back to Gutenberg. Do you even know who Gutenberg was?

Yes, we do employ salesmen which is also an honorable profession. Pushing snow and digging ditches is important work for low level Government employees. Keep up the good work and either stop your bitchin or get another job. Also you might try to improve your communication skills. You come across as a ditch digger rather than an exalted Supervisor of ditch diggers.

Knock yourself out, I got it from another member via email.

'nuthin wrong with ditch diggers, they are as important as any other profession. My grandpa told me many times that a mans job was not what was important, it was HOW he did his job. Always do it to the best of your ability and you have nothing to be ashamed of.

I said it was important work...suitable for low level Government employees or employees of any firm that need dug ditches.

Hell, even I dug ditches at one time. Come to think of it two years ago I personally dug a 600 foot ditch going uphill to bury a water line at my ranch. That finally out witted the bear that used to chomp on it. Nothing wrong with digging ditches.