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by Falconoffury » Mon 11 Jul 2005, 16:28:20
Smiley, it's likely those with families or substantial debts who would work overtime without pay. I wouldn't work any place that didn't pay me overtime pay for every overtime hour unless I was desperate. I don't like to be abused.
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"There is not enough trash to go around for everyone," said Banrel, one of the participants in the cattle massacre.
"Bush, Bush, listen well: Two shoes on your head," the protesters chant
"There is not enough trash to go around for everyone," said Banrel, one of the participants in the cattle massacre.
"Bush, Bush, listen well: Two shoes on your head," the protesters chant
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by I_Like_Plants » Mon 11 Jul 2005, 17:19:23
There's black poor and white poor.
Black poor get given welfare, food stamps, college "loans" (notice quotation marks) and grants and money thrown at them non-end.
White poor are not even supposed to exist, and if they do, it's "their fault". (Read Jim Goad or Dale Maharidge on this).
Black poor have bigscreen TVs, new sneakers, new clothes, etc etc ec.
White poor often drink well water, if at all possible part of their food comes from hunting (at least I fished as a kid) patch their clothes, and may have an old hand-me-down black and white TV. I've seen a truck with a bunch of white kids, thin as whippets, peering out, and experienced a shock of recognition. It might well have been myself and siblings back in the 70s. White poor are big on gun-ownership because they often have this uneasy underlying feeling that the powers the be, having the stance that they don't exist, are willing to go the next step and make sure they don't exist. They are almost certainly right.
Black poor get given welfare, food stamps, college "loans" (notice quotation marks) and grants and money thrown at them non-end.
White poor are not even supposed to exist, and if they do, it's "their fault". (Read Jim Goad or Dale Maharidge on this).
Black poor have bigscreen TVs, new sneakers, new clothes, etc etc ec.
White poor often drink well water, if at all possible part of their food comes from hunting (at least I fished as a kid) patch their clothes, and may have an old hand-me-down black and white TV. I've seen a truck with a bunch of white kids, thin as whippets, peering out, and experienced a shock of recognition. It might well have been myself and siblings back in the 70s. White poor are big on gun-ownership because they often have this uneasy underlying feeling that the powers the be, having the stance that they don't exist, are willing to go the next step and make sure they don't exist. They are almost certainly right.
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by I_Like_Plants » Mon 11 Jul 2005, 17:47:45
Smiley the US is one step further in its decay, people who want any job beyond a min.wage one typically go jobless for a year or more before they find one. This is people with degrees/advanced degrees like you say. From the sound of it, where you are is where the US was in the 70s, you were screwed if you were working class but the college educated still had it pretty easy.
Really, the way it's going, the only chance at security in life is to have good farming and living off the land skills and a strong tribe.
Really, the way it's going, the only chance at security in life is to have good farming and living off the land skills and a strong tribe.
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by emersonbiggins » Mon 11 Jul 2005, 18:43:43
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'T')here's black poor and white poor.
Black poor get given welfare, food stamps, college "loans" (notice quotation marks) and grants and money thrown at them non-end.
White poor are not even supposed to exist, and if they do, it's "their fault". (Read Jim Goad or Dale Maharidge on this).
Black poor have bigscreen TVs, new sneakers, new clothes, etc etc etc.
Black poor get given welfare, food stamps, college "loans" (notice quotation marks) and grants and money thrown at them non-end.
White poor are not even supposed to exist, and if they do, it's "their fault". (Read Jim Goad or Dale Maharidge on this).
Black poor have bigscreen TVs, new sneakers, new clothes, etc etc etc.
Unbelievable. Did the "grand wizard" write this himself?
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by smiley » Mon 11 Jul 2005, 20:03:46
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')miley, it's likely those with families or substantial debts who would work overtime without pay. I wouldn't work any place that didn't pay me overtime pay for every overtime hour unless I was desperate. I don't like to be abused.
Debt is indeed a part of it. A lot of companies offer special deals on an ARM. That gets them hooked. They cannot finance their debt without their job and the reduced interest rate so they cannot afford to loose their job.
But ambition and greed is another driving factor.
The worst are the 'traineeships' that are offered by banks, law and consultancy firms. They hire 6 guys for a very basic pay, and they tell them that when they make it to the higher management they will receive those fabulous salaries.
The catch is that only one of the six will make it. The other five will be fired. So you basically have 2 years to outperform the other 'contestants'. You cannot begin to imagine what the atmosphere in such a company is like. People are working 60 hrs a week on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
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by PenultimateManStanding » Mon 11 Jul 2005, 20:10:35
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smiley', 'T')he worst are the 'traineeships' that are offered by banks, law and consultancy firms. They hire 6 guys for a very basic pay, and they tell them that when they make it to the higher management they will receive those fabulous salaries.
The catch is that only one of the six will make it. The other five will be fired. So you basically have 2 years to outperform the other 'contestants'. You cannot begin to imagine what the atmosphere in such a company is like. People are working 60 hrs a week on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
The rat race scenario painted here is so vile. No one in their right minds would want to be a part of such a screwed up job environment. Sadism. The catch is that only one of the six will make it. The other five will be fired. So you basically have 2 years to outperform the other 'contestants'. You cannot begin to imagine what the atmosphere in such a company is like. People are working 60 hrs a week on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
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by ubercynicmeister » Mon 11 Jul 2005, 20:11:41
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ubercynicmeister', 'A')nd who uses most Oil in the world?
The United States.
Once again, no-one forced the US to do so. No-one made them, threatened them into doing so
It was all voluntary.
The United States.
Once again, no-one forced the US to do so. No-one made them, threatened them into doing so
It was all voluntary.
Thats rather a veiled statistic though. I want to see the per barrel per person per mile figure.
I've said it before, I think the reason we use more oil is our country is so much bigger. Hell, America is damned near the size of Europe. If you have more area, you naturally would use more oil.
Rubbish.
China is ABOUT the same size as the US (about).
The United States uses slightly over 22.5 million barrels of oil per day. (1st in use)
China uses slightly over 6.3 million per day. (2nd in use)
Japan uses sliughtly over 4.5 million barrels per day (3rd in the world)
Everyone ELSE comes after that!
US Population: 300 million (rounded up to the nearest 100 million)
22.5 million barrels of oil per day divided by 300 million people = 0.075 barrels per person, per day...and it doens't matter WHAT the use is.
China's population: 1.3 BILLION
6.3 million divided by 1300 million = 4.846153846153846 x 10-03 (0.0004) barrels per day.
0.075 / 0.0004 = 15.47 TIMES as much oil, per person, per day is used in the United States over the Chinese.
Now, China has an economy growing at 9% per annum, average, over the last 20 years. In 2007, the Chinese Economy will be bigger than the US' economy, Peak oil or NO Peak Oil. So much for the "they're less developed than the US"....China will then be MORE developed than the US.
in 2007, the projected Chinese Oil Usage rate is around 10 million barrels of Oil per day.That's under 1/2 the PRESENT usage rate of the US.
In ANY CASE, is anyone FORCING you to use your car? Someone sticks a gun to the side of your head and FORCES you to drive places you don't want to go, once or twice per DAY?
In other countries, that's known as "car jacking". In the US it seems that it's situation Normal.
And you put UP with that?
Why?
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