[blam]

I already have to 'work-around' the Black people at the VA to get decent service there. This is just hiring more unmotivated incompetents to get in the way of real work.

I'm not kidding, folks.

I swear, when I think of the effort and hard work I made through-out my life (I'm 71) to climb out of the poverty of a 'share-cropper' family I can't believe the opportunities GIVEN to people who seem not to care at all...gimme,gimme, gimme.

My son has made it 'over-the-hump' by getting a PhD in physics.(No student loans what-so-ever)

[rktman]

Some folks have the drive to succeed. When I took my last job, it started with a 95 cents an hour cut from my previous job. As it turned out, one of my bosses “recognized” me as possibly having some talent/potential and that plus a LOT of hard work ended up providing me a career that lasted 36 years going from a labor grade 7 mechanic to a senior engineering position. You MUST seek out your opportunities. Folks can’t sit waiting for it to come knockin’ on the door.