Posted on 05/01/2016 10:11:11 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
I worked with a guy who would have been at the leading edge of millenials. He’s a great guy with a good work ethic. He definitely marches to his own drummer. Quit a perfectly good corporate job to be a freelance media guy and is enjoying the fruits of his labors and all the flavors of Ramen Noodles.
His one flaw is that he is absolutely helpless when it comes to practical things. We were working on a project that involved building a wood frame. I laid it out and marked where the nails went, then I had to leave for about a half hour. When I returned, he had successfully installed one nail. His dad never taught him how to use a hammer and he literally had no idea.
Thank you, Robert Heinlein (as in STARSHIP TROOPERS).
No. I meant cops and firefighters, not the morbidly obese molesters at the airport (TSA = Touch Sexual Area). Also, abolishing public sector unions is paramount. Taxpayers don’t have a seat at the table. So many of these jobs need to be privatized, anyhow.
Imagine an impact fee of nearly $1000 before being allowed to get a building permit for a property far from the power grid in a poor, sparsely populated county far from cities, thanks to a local fire chief with a monstrous salary and judicial immunity from being ousted. It’s happening. Camping is illegal for property owners on their own large lots (more than 35 acres, more than 90% undeveloped and vacant), also thanks in part to a fire chief. They don’t care about resident safety. They’re making property owners homeless and grabbing their land (trespassing, adverse possession issues, homestead exemption violations and more).
Some fire departments are owned by multinationals, and costs of some ambulance rides have approached $1000. We would be better off without them.
Well, clearly that’s an abuse of power. Sounds like you have some unpleasant personal experience with them.
Correction:
Some ambulance services in fire departments are owned by multinationals, and costs of some ambulance rides have approached $1000. We would be better off without them.
I’ll add that there are no unions in those fire departments, and some of the firefighters are volunteers. But the administrators are rich with graft.
Property owners, you don’t have legal protection against trespassing without fencing your properties. Fencing is easy and doesn’t cost much, if you do it yourself. Instructions can be found on the web. Buy game cameras. They work well, have their own power supplies and memory, and they’re cheap.
Learn and prepare to build tiny houses for low property tax generation. Do it yourselves in order to avoid local government builder/regulator rackets. Make sure that your tiny houses are built to locally chosen building codes (get the right plans). It’s not hard. Watch the NIMBYs leave after their foreclosures in the remainder of the default process just ahead. Make spare time for study. It’s easy!
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