Who Will Stop This Madness?

[Mike Gray]

Originally Posted by Eddies66

You are wrong on the school rating, it is 44 but we still have some the best universities in the nation and students have to complete an SAT/ACT to get in, does Berkley, Stanford and USC sound familiar. Both of my daughters were AP students in high school and had no problems getting into the school of their choice. California also has the largest apprenticeship programs in the country. The cost of everything in California is higher but so are the wages. California is not a "Right to Work" state. Failure to improve your lot in life via training and education is not a failure of the State but a failure of the individual. If you can't afford to live here...move on! Homelessness is transparent it is everywhere, example: there are 48,000 Vets in this country that are homeless and we have a Vet taking their life very day at a rate of 16.8 per day. What are the Feds (Dems/Repubs) doing about that? What makes this country great is the fact that is the land of opportunity and choice. It is not perfect, but it is ours!

Gee, I agree with everything you just wrote above. It makes you sound like a conservative! I was partner in a union construction business and we had up to 100 employees. California goes out of its way to make running a business very difficult. They mandate every aspect of what we do and have their hands in our pockets with taxes and fees. They regulated our trucks, our warehouse and even our parking lot. They tell us who we could employee and keep statistics on our employees by race and gender.
Our journeyman cost us over $72.00hr to employ and we were having a hard time getting apprentices who were willing to work. Most young people don’t want to work hard and move through the apprenticeship program. They want government hand outs and wages beyond what their skill levels are and the politicians will make sure they get it in return for votes. But then the complaints start all over again as the cost of living outpaces their handouts and minimum wages. A vicious cycle that needs to end.

[Eddies66]

Originally Posted by Mike Gray

Gee, I agree with everything you just wrote above. It makes you sound like a conservative! I was partner in a union construction business and we had up to 100 employees. California goes out of its way to make running a business very difficult. They mandate every aspect of what we do and have their hands in our pockets with taxes and fees. They regulated our trucks, our warehouse and even our parking lot. They tell us who we could employee and keep statistics on our employees by race and gender.
Our journeyman cost us over $72.00hr to employ and we were having a hard time getting apprentices who were willing to work. Most young people don’t want to work hard and move through the apprenticeship program. They want government hand outs and wages beyond what their skill levels are and the politicians will make sure they get it in return for votes. But then the complaints start all over again as the cost of living outpaces their handouts and minimum wages. A vicious cycle that needs to end.

When in Rome do as the Romans do. My wife is a Wage Compliance Officer monitoring prevailing wage on public works jobs. Recovering this year $3.5 million in wages that workers are cheated out of by management, the majority are out of state and nonunion employers. She is a retired Deputy Labor Commissioner. If you want to come to this state you will hear from people just like her. Floating through an apprenticeship has gotten harder here, example are electricians have to pass a certification test after school, you don’t pass you don’t work. So slacking off in school won’t work. And lowballing a bid on a contract and then complaining about what you have to pay your employees is nonsense. I push a lot of military personnel to consider the trades.

[Mark Yacavone]

[Eddies66]

Which president started taking money from Social Security…the same person who made that speech.

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Eddies66

Which president started taking money from Social Security…

Eddie, you had better start checking your history a bit closer..........
It was Jimmy Carter.

[Eddies66]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

Eddie, you had better start checking your history a bit closer..........
It was Jimmy Carter.

After a close check….Congress passed and President Reagan signed into law the 1983 Amendments. Under the '83 Amendments, up to one-half of the value of the Social Security benefit was made potentially taxable income.

[Billy Nees]

Alright, 1969 Johnson adm. took S.S. from an independent fund into the Fed. Budget. 1977 Carter adm. made it possible for the Fed. to "borrow" funds from S.S.. 1982 Regan adm. made it possible to "tax" S.S. if certain income thresholds (50%) were met (obtw, on a bipartisan vote) based on income. 1993 Clinton adm. raised "taxable" threshold from 50% to 85%..

What else would you like to talk about? How about those racist Kennedy bros. and the way they tried to trash M.L.K. Jr.?
How about Johnson's "Great Society" and his famous quote, "I'll have those n----rs voting Democrat for the next 200 years!".