Posted on 12/01/2003 4:31:00 PM PST by Willie Green
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I am not a Dean supporter. I am a Goldwater-Reagan conservative who is sick of useless mindless rich kids using this nation as a prestigious toy to play with. That list of kids includes the Kennedys, Kerrys, Rockefellers, and the Bushs.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. factory activity rocketed to its fastest pace since 1983 in November and construction spending hit another record high the prior month, according to reports on Monday showing the economy's rapid growth is starting to turn the tide of three years of job losses.
The rest of the article about this current **cough** Depression is here under the title: Factory Growth Fastest in 20 Years.
Boo-effin'-hoo. I spent eight years in the Marines. Sensitivity training is wasted on us.
I'll give 'em a sympathy chit and the key to the weep locker.
It is devastating to have to switch from a Mercedes-Benz to a Ford Taurus.
Not to mention having to shop with the peasants at Costco.
Maybe it's because they don't have to adhere to the same stringent environmental regulations that are imposed on our domestic industry.
Steel production is NOT a labor intensive industry.
And U.S. steelmaking technology is unsurpassed when measured in terms of tons/employee.
Please learn something about this issue before babbling this nonsense again.
In other words, a lot of folks felt that they were entitled to a living and that they didn't have to learn anything new.
After losing a six-figure job a year ago, and after determining that I had gotten soul-deep sick of the whole corporate run-around, I started my own business. It's making us a modest living, no small thing here in the wilds of Northern Idaho. It can be done - it just takes a little creativity, ambition and most of all, a self-reliant spirit. Which, of course, flies in the face of the liberal politics of victimism.
I got laid off two weeks after 9/11. I was a 10 year employee making well over 100k per year. I had a 401k with over 200k which I depleted to pay bills, taxes, mortgage and cost of opening a business.
Business failed to meet expectations and when I went thru all my savings trying to save everything I was forced to file for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy.
Still looking for the right career, still trying to make it on my own in a new business adventure. I would prefer the later since I feel it is a better opportunity for me in the long run.
But for this article's rants and raves about the economy, I would STRONGLY DISAGREE with its message. It maybe tough out there, but you can survive. (Maybe not on the grandscale as they are use to living, but surviving non the less)
I believe we are already seeing one of the best recoveries this country has ever seen! I belive in Tax Cuts and Bush.
We don't need a big nanny (read Hillary)for government, way to many people like sit and complain about their lives, yet few are willing to do what is necessary for themselves or their families to move forward.
In sales and in life "pessimism sells newspapers, optimism sells everything else!"* Just my two cents....
Lessons:
1) My father's job was never HIS...it was THEIRS the whole time.
2)America...quit your f****** complaining. I'm 40, never married, no kids, lousy job...and can I still laugh at the liberals.
3)A 40 y/o son and a 70 y/o father is a better living arrangement than, like, ALL of my friends who are up their asses in mortgages (our house is paid for), bitchy wives, snot nosed kids they can't afford...and, of course, lousy jobs!!!!
4)I can drink...smoke...gamble...chase divorced women...eat whatever the hell I want...and laugh at the liberals...
...and there's no one around to bother me about it!!
You might want to make that yer tagline.
But most jobs in Massachusetts pay more than the minimum wage. Entry level supermarket and fast food jobs pay over $7 an hour and these jobs are worked mostly by teenage kids living at home and elderly people looking to supplement their Social Security. It would seem that this couple should have no problem rising quickly above that level if they ever had to do that line of work because those places are always starved for good management candidates.
I have a relative in New Hampshire who found himself out of work and he took a job at the local Wal-Mart. At first, he was driving forklifts at night, stocking shelves, making just a couple dollars above minimum wage. But he was quickly recognized as a hard worker and within six months, he was made a shift supervisor and nearly doubled his pay. He would have had quite a career going for himself there today had he not been recalled back to the job he was laid off at (where he makes about $30 an hour as a machinist).
BTW, if you were to work your way up to managing a Wal-Mart store (most Wal-Mart managers started at the bottom stocking shelves and whatnot), you could expect to make well into six figures. Working these jobs need not be a dead-end experience. Opportunities abound for those who are willing to grab them.
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