[Newfie]

HVAC,
My observations and yours are similar, except I tend to see it more among engineers. I started as a tech, then worked as a maintenance super, then as construction Project Manager/Engineer before moving into design. My whole life has been learning. That and working outside of my comfort zone.

But I see many others who, while competent within their self define specialty, are rigidly stuck there. It is one of the biggest challenges of our company, finding interdisciplinary folks. Another way of saying that is most folks want a safe and routine job, they have no zeal for learning or a challenge.

I'm reminded of this daily in a current project I am working. We have a well known manufacturer as a sub, there is a bit of an unusual design requirement that requires some digging into a set of very bad as asbuilts to replace a control system. Working under 2 days a week I've been able to keep ahead, well ahead, of their team. Simply astounding. I'm not that smart, I've just put some energy and thought into the project. Their folks, mid career and older, are seemingly just unable to move out of a manufacturing product development mode into a trouble shooting, problem resolution mode. If they haven't done it before they can't do it.

[Cog]

Giv e it up pops, Obamacare is a complete disaster. I understand as a Democrat that you will come to Oba8ma's defense whenever possible though you should be intellectually sound when you do so

why should you care how much profit an insurance company makes? are you a stockholder or the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield?

just because you made bad decisions in life and can't afford insurance without stealing from my wallet doesn't make that my personal problem

[Newfie]

One has to wonder, since all other developed nations have a better/cheaper system why don't we just find one of them and emulate it.

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'O')ne has to wonder, since all other developed nations have a better/cheaper system why don't we just find one of them and emulate it.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'O')ne has to wonder, since all other developed nations have a better/cheaper system why don't we just find one of them and emulate it.

[PrestonSturges]

It's heartwarming that Cog is retiring to an area where he can gloat as he watches other white republicans dying of poverty and neglect.

The difference between Cog and the guy in this picture is that the little rat bastard in the photo probably at least has loyalty to his own group.

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'I')t's heartwarming that Cog is retiring to an area where he can gloat as he watches other white republicans dying of poverty and neglect.

The difference between Cog and the guy in this picture is that the little rat bastard in the photo probably at least has loyalty to his own group.

[Newfie]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'I')t's heartwarming that Cog is retiring to an area where he can gloat as he watches other white republicans dying of poverty and neglect.

The difference between Cog and the guy in this picture is that the little rat bastard in the photo probably at least has loyalty to his own group.

[Newfie]

Cog,
It always amazes me that you and I agree on quite a lot. Except perhaps the delivery.

Guess I'm just a wuss.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'O')ne has to wonder, since all other developed nations have a better/cheaper system why don't we just find one of them and emulate it.

[Cog]

Better donate if you want to make America great again.


https://www.donaldjtrump.com/

[Shaved Monkey]

Will it trickle down?

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shaved Monkey', 'W')ill it trickle down?

[Plantagenet]

NPR just broadcast a report detailing how the use of synthetic marijuana---known as "spike"..... is exploding in the US.

surge-in-use-of-synthetic-marijuana

Calls to poison centers have doubled in last year. Use of "spike" is growing rapidly among the same population of middle aged drug users who have contributed to the surge in death rates seen nationally.


Synthetic marijuana user going to the hospital

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'I')f you look at the unsubsidized buyers of Obamacare their 2016 rate increase is 3x (300%) more then the 3.6% number.

[Plantagenet]

Heres another drug epidemic affecting aging boomers. More people are smoking synthetic marijuana (aka spike)--- and more people are dying

synthetic-marijuana-deaths-tripled-year

[Shaved Monkey]

Here is a quite eyeopening story in the Guardian today.
No jobs, no hope, poor white folks who are trying to survive on a pittance and self medicating to obliterate their reality, while still voting Republican.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs

In the first of a series of dispatches from the US’s poorest communities, we visit Beattyville, Kentucky, blighted by a lack of jobs and addiction to ‘hillbilly heroin’

[Plantagenet]

Good news for Beatyville KY. Hillary has just proposed a 30 billion program to build new infrastructure and retrain coal mine workers who lose their jobs as the coal mines are shut down by the EPA.

hillary-clinton-coal-country-economy-

Once Hillary is elected this new program will help people in Beatyville and other coal mining areas who have been hurt by the EPAs new restrictions on coal mining to get retrained as IT workers, rock climbing guides, and other useful professions. Hopefully it will also include money for clinics to help people get off Hillbilly heroin and other drugs so they are capable of working at a job again.

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shaved Monkey', 'H')ere is a quite eyeopening story in the Guardian today.
No jobs, no hope, poor white folks who are trying to survive on a pittance and self medicating to obliterate their reality, while still voting Republican.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs

In the first of a series of dispatches from the US’s poorest communities, we visit Beattyville, Kentucky, blighted by a lack of jobs and addiction to ‘hillbilly heroin’

[Shaved Monkey]

or poor education standards has led them to their self destructive lifestyles politically and physically