Beau retired as a Construction Manager two years ago. His old employer is so desperate for workers that they’re paying him an amazing hourly wage to fill in for people on vacation and even honcho a few projects. We need a new barn, so he’s stashing the cash towards that so we don’t have to borrow.
He can work up to 400 hours in a year (no matter what they pay him - no cap on $, just on hours) and it doesn’t effect his pensions (Laborers and Electricians) at all.
He told me that the Laborers Union and other unions are thinking of raising that cap to 600 hours in a year, they are so strapped for workers.
I’m glad our Economy is booming under President Trump, but we really DO need to do something on the back-side to get people working and productive, again.
A decade of being paid to be a layabout or being given a phony ‘disability’ is going to be tough to overcome - not to mention all of the young people we put through the meat-grinder of Iraqi and Afghanistan for the past 25+ years. And, to what end, that?
Prayers up for those smarter than me to figure this all out.
“I’m glad our Economy is booming under President Trump, but we really DO need to do something on the back-side to get people working and productive, again.”
Thanks to unrestricted immigration, widespread drug use popularized in the media, and three decades of outforcing America’s Middle Class jobs, we really do have a “lost Generation”.
Hopeless people get stoned and vote Democrat, which is why they have tried so hard, and spent so much money to wreck the economy.