Well when Politco, NYT, Washington Post, CBS, NBC, and ABC and several other publications all went out of their way to cheer on the Obama administration repeatedly. Even going as far as to send them stories prior to publication to make sure they weren't damaging, I'm sure that Fox News going after Obama is simply fair. What you didn't hear about that? Let me fill you in, it was called journolist.
What gets far more interesting in this story, is that this person was engaged(read fucking her sources) with multiple high security individuals dating back to college. To put it bluntly, she was a literal presstitute and now we're going to see exactly what happened. Especially since it's come to light that Wolfe transferred to her directly classified material and she apparently retained it(by her own words on social media of all places - absolute fucking genius on that one) in order to dish it out to further her career. This might not be a similar case to Obama snooping on AP, Fox and several independent journalists phones.
So what does that mean when Obama did the same thing? That he's a petty tyrant that is lashing out? I guess so. Good thing he was the one to put this framework into place and abuse the fuck out of it isn't it.
Incorrect. Impeachment does not have any prerequisites.
Incorrect. Impeachment requires a felony, misdemeanor, or high crimes.
With none of that, you have nothing. Clinton was impeached for lying. Nixon for evidence tampering. And ONLY the house can determine that level if at all.
That would be an improvement over the current situation. You seem to misunderstand people's grievances about the current president.
Get out of your social and political bubble, and go find the people who spent a decade suffering under Obama's shit policies and regulations. You'll find they're quite happy vs the big metropolitan city folk. Just like those of us in Ontario, that suffered under the 'big city' pandering by the Liberal Party, to Toronto and the GTA. Guess what? They no longer exist as a official political party.
Much as the current president is finding out, things in government are easier said than done. Should the need arise, he too could be impeached.
Yes, it's far more difficult to get things done when both sides are playing for the same team isn't it. That same team? Well it doesn't appear to be the average person in the US. But you seem to be quite happy to get in the way of it as well.
Tax cuts. This is what I consider his biggest achievement. Unfortunately it's only good if you are rich, for everyone else it's a shocker.
You mean it's good for everyone who doesn't live in a big city, or in specific coastal areas. Where the state was using tax-offsets via federal taxes to lower what they were actually charging people. Suddenly, when those places got to pay their fair share, their taxes went up. While everyone in flyover country as democrats like to say, went down.
Employment. I give him credit for maintaining Obama's hard work to turn around the sinking ship, however there are two caveats. Job growth is slightly less than it was under Obama, so even though it's good it's not as good, and it's a lot easier to maintain short term momentum when you're already headed in that direction.
Here's the problem. The regulations Obama put into place, hurt wages a lot. It discentivized employers to hire new people or increasing the rate of pay. With things like the ACA, forced mandates and so on, that further pushed employers to cut back, or even lay people off. Which is why when the regulations dropped off wages started spiking upwards(something they haven't done since ~2002). Remember Obama's words that low GDP growth was the new normal? Why did it spike just after Trump was elected. Why have we seen a double GDP rate(not real GDP), but flat GDP go up when regulations were removed. Especially when the GDP is now being revised upwards towards 4%. Don't confuse the two either. One is a measurement without inflation, the other with.
You mean the guy who was trying to break into his own house, and when the cop asked him for ID. The guy became belligerent. Yes, very racist. It's not like police ask for ID all the time when they give the person the benefit of the doubt, to see if they were the person in question. And then Obama jumping into the entire thing, and flaming the "well maybe he was a racist." Nope, no race-baiting there. How about "his son trayvon" who had a long history of petty crime, and was well on his way to being yet another banger? Nope that wasn't race-baiting at all. Especially when the media got on board and called the guy who shot him white(because it fit the narrative). Remember, the progressives set the standard on what racism is on that. They attacked McCain, Bush, and several other people and used hispanic as race. You don't get to play one-off with this. Same rules for both sides hypocrite.
How about his race baiting statement in front of the UN with regards to Ferguson. He was a race baiting piece of shit, and no different then any other. The fact that you immediately jump to the "people who were his critics were the real race-baiters" simply shows that you, yourself have a serious racism issue.
In general they don't suffer the same thing. In contrast, we can already see the impact of poor work ethics from those younger kids, compared to even a generation ago. When you hand someone everything, and they never struggle, put into positions that make them grow, you end up with people who are "fine with the status quo" and are unwilling to strive for more.
~25 years ago when I was in high school, the school didn't shut down unless there were two things going on: Severe weather(severe snowfall 10+cm, blizzard, tornado, fog with visibility under 10m), or the bus was broken. Even then, they expected kids who didn't take the bus to show up to class. Just this last winter(in december), there were multiple cases where we got 1cm of wet snow on the ground, that will melt in 2hrs when the sun comes up. All of the schools in the area were shut down. That's in an area of Canada were +30cm snowfalls overnight are common. By all means, explain how this benefits anyone and doesn't foster a mentality of "well that's a reason to blow it off..."
There are always better ones. Be the change you want to see, otherwise you're only making your own misery. That's why over here in Ontario, one of the longest standing political parties(liberals at 150 years old) just officially became a non-party(less then 8 seats) in the new provincial government. The collapse is akin to the Progressive Conservatives of the 1990's not existing as an official party.
The newest trend is to throw all that data out because it's not accurate enough. This is then followed up by using very selective samples in very small time frames, 20-30 year windows and extrapolating them over a very long time frame.
So you're saying Trump is trying to build the wrong wall.;)
Considering the influx of '2nd party' illegals from the US in to Canada, it's very possible. That's only because the US has spent the last decade and change sitting on it's ass and not really deporting people, and whenever the idea comes up the first response from progressives is to screech "racist" luckily, that's lost it's effective power.
Hope you know that we've been building LNG stations on the east coast of Canada and the US for the last decade with the entire purpose of being able to sell NG via tanker to Europe. Your politicians are simply idiots, vote for better politicians.
Carbon taxes don't have to harm the economy as a whole, and especially not individuals. If they are used to fund development of cheaper, clean forms of energy and consumption they can be a net benefit.
Which is why every place that's done it the economy has slowed to a crawl, and/or went into deep recession. Nope, no hurting there.
Don't forget to factor in the reduced cost of dealing with the emissions and associated pollution either, e.g. healthcare, environmental disasters and cleaning.
Because you're only shifting one form of dirty to another, and think that it's cleaner. Useful tip: It's more expensive environmentally to dig up the materials to make those Li-ON battery packs then it is to go digging up shale or tar oil.
Norway is an interesting example. Most new cars are electric. Charging infrastructure is extensive. Yet it didn't bankrupt them or make cars massively more expensive or anything like that. In fact Norway is consistently rated as one of the best places in the world to live in terms of quality of life.
And in Ontario, the cost is estimated to be somewhere around $700M-1.4B for those charging stations. That's 4 new hospitals(desperately needed), or 300-400 MRI and CT machines(desperately needed), expanded operating theaters for 150-200 hospitals(desperately needed), expanded cancer centers for 300 hospitals. Because waiting 78 days for a MRI/CT, 6mo for a bypass, or 1.5 years for eye surgery, and upwards of 7mo depending on where you live to start cancer treatment is a really great choice right now. Priorities huh?
That depends on whether you get a cost of living raise or not. The economy is not a zero sum game.
Well there, COLA is only guaranteed in places where you have contracts with an employer. That means union shops, that means generally factories, and manufacturing. But this is Ontario, where the Liberal Party of Ontario's decisions have been against factories, manufacturing, and jobs that create a middle class. So where are you going to get that money from?
Let's look at that state of Ontario(the most populous province in Canada), where the liberals actions to offset high heating, high electricity, high rent, high insurance, was to simply boost the minimum wage to $15/hr. Gee, what happened? Well 60k jobs disappeared(Canada lost 88k jobs in total, that 60k was from Ontario alone). Wow and almost all of them were minimum wage jobs! Now the person who was making ~$28/hr between two PT-jobs now only has one, and is only making half that wage or so. Gee let's look a head a bit shall we? Oh look at that again, another 40-70k jobs lost by the current indicators. Boy getting pretty tight for work in that service economy.
Why are there so many food bank drives going on these days you might ask? No clue right? Why are all those charities that help people out begging for money? No clue huh? Gee how come all those low-income services to help people cover medications, electricity, rental, and so on begging for money? It's almost like a trend! How come the wait time for low-income housing in Ontario is now 5-8 years? Man just think how lucky those people are waiting to get into low income housing, providing they don't freeze to death. Or in the case of families have their kids taken away because they can't afford "food and heating."
That's better than me paying money out of my pocket to support theocratic dictatorships and Healthcare for the poisons released by gas when I don't even use a car.
Yeah because the US is a net exporter of oil and gasoline and has been for a few years now. Even at that, about 1/3 of the oil the US buys comes directly from Canada.
And then 90 million flee back because Trump's AMERICA is that hostile.
Don't let the stupid hurt you kid, until you've actually lived in a hostile country.
Hurting an economy is better then killing civilization.
Not everything is about economy, some problems are worth hurting the economy for in order to fix a foundation.
Which is why environmentalists are lining up for nuclear power right? Right? Oh, I guess not. Looks like they're just brushing off their inner malthus and waiting for everyone else to die for their perfect society.
Now I couldn't find any reference about $9.00/L Canada prices, so I am going to place that under fake news to scare us Hard Working Americans about those dangerous LiBeRaLs. Or it was a passing phrase in a brain storming idea taken out of context.
Your jumping off point is right there. Now go finish reading the linked articles about how they'd really like the cabon tax to be $350-900/tonne. By the way, if you want to see all about those "dangerous LiBeRaLs" why not look at Ontario, which has a population of 1/3 the state of California and equal debt. Energy prices so high that 600k people are in arrears, 60k people have been cut off. And the largest electricity provider in the province(Ontario Hydro) only has 1.35m customers. Those "dangerous LiBeRaLs" ideas are sure doing a bang up job if you live here. It's been pretty close to a non-stop decade of food banks begging for anything and everything since 2008 because things are well...really that bad here.
... So a carbon tax, will not cause people to leave the US in droves (Because where will they go, the US is behind most other countries in terms of environmental regulation, other countries will be worse) but will change their habits, towards better usage of the expensive fuel, or switch to a less expensive fuel source.
No? So tell me something, how long do you think people will hang out when they're making $450/week(that's $15/30h aka min.wage) but a loaf of bread is $6? Cause you obviously don't live in Canada, and have no idea how far or long distribution lines are. Now remember, your monthly appt. rental is around $1k/mo. You're also unable to afford a car, or insurance. You also now live in a city of 30k people. You're paying another $300/mo for supplemental health insurance. Now don't forget your electricity(inc. water heater costs), and maybe internet(if you're lucky $70).
Now if we can actually weather threw a self proposed recession in order to get our foundations fixed, we may be able to grow a much stronger economy on top of it.
Yes which is why you're lining up to go after China, India, and so on. Where Canada contributes less then 1% of the global carbon count. Brilliant!
The problem is that trades can go for years without any work, have huge barriers to entry, and you can make millions overnight in software. Why risk life and limb every day, spending half the day driving to jobs for free, when you can sit in an air conditioned office with free coffee watching your options go up?
Really, it hasn't been like that for nearly 30 years at this point. Even when the housing bubble popped, electricians, and plumbers were in a glut situation, most simply went out and expanded their available skills and were back to work very quickly. The reality is, those 'office jobs' you're talking about are also finite, ask anyone who's in IT and had their job outsourced to India for example. That one's been going on hard for the last 15 years hasn't it.
If by working better, you mean crashing economies? I guess. Which is why so many countries have bailed on the idea. But then you have the retards like the environment minister up here in Canada that wants to make gas $9/L(that's $33.75/gal for Americans) with the cost being 85% from a carbon tax. Just think of 30m people fleeing to the US once that happens, because it would happen.
I will be graduating this fall, anyone need a jack of all trades aircraft avionics technician/pilot, entry level Mechanical Engineer with skills in basic programing/automation, 3D design/printing, computer network admin, basic welding, automotive repair, wood working, photography, etc, etc?
Can't offer you a job, but I can point you in 3 directions. Aircraft mechanic for civilian airlines, everything you've got now including previous mil background will get you in the door quick. Pick up your welding cert and toss in heavy plate/boiler, and work for a railway. This coupled with ME/programming/automation/admin will get you a cushy job at a railway depot where automation of trains and car coupling is becoming the norm. 3rd is picking up your electrician cert, then getting industrial cert and pick a nice office building or manufacturing plant and enjoy 20 years and get a pension while you're still at it.
Our tool and die vendor queue times are running 8-10 months now. This means they want you to give them a purchase order commitment and they won't even think about starting work for ~9 months.
No that means there's such a shortage of skilled machinists that unless it's a high-priority replacement, you get in line like everyone else. Useful tip: The wait time for industrial transformers used in heavy industry is around 1.5 years. The big transformers that you see at a step down station is 2-4 years. Machinists have been a high demand trade for years, along with welders with navsea, boiler and plate(high pressure), medical gas and aerospace. Problem is you've got two generations of kids that were told they didn't need to go into trades, an education system that told them they didn't need to go into trades. An elitist establishment in education that looked down on blue collar workers, attacked trades, and pushed that your only path forward was through university. And then, you've got the various government bodies that were stacked full of those elitists saying you don't need to go into trades, that office jobs are for everyone.
Yeah, so great. Now you've got 22-35 year old 'kids' who are making min. wage(at part-time) at starbucks or a fastfood joint, saddled with 100k+ debt, and even more stupidity from various governments and government bodies saying that "service industries are the wave of the future!"
Sounds like you've got a chance for a good father's day project. You can buy everything from an imager, to the developer chemicals, to photo paper pretty cheaply these days. If you want to try a run, pick up one of those junior chemistry kits that they sell. Nearly all of them contain the chemicals for basic 3-bath process of colour film.
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Wolfe transferred no classified material and is not even accused of doing so.
That's exactly what he's accused of. You can read the indictment yourself at any time.
Well when Politco, NYT, Washington Post, CBS, NBC, and ABC and several other publications all went out of their way to cheer on the Obama administration repeatedly. Even going as far as to send them stories prior to publication to make sure they weren't damaging, I'm sure that Fox News going after Obama is simply fair. What you didn't hear about that? Let me fill you in, it was called journolist.
What gets far more interesting in this story, is that this person was engaged(read fucking her sources) with multiple high security individuals dating back to college. To put it bluntly, she was a literal presstitute and now we're going to see exactly what happened. Especially since it's come to light that Wolfe transferred to her directly classified material and she apparently retained it(by her own words on social media of all places - absolute fucking genius on that one) in order to dish it out to further her career. This might not be a similar case to Obama snooping on AP, Fox and several independent journalists phones.
So what does that mean when Obama did the same thing? That he's a petty tyrant that is lashing out? I guess so. Good thing he was the one to put this framework into place and abuse the fuck out of it isn't it.
Incorrect. Impeachment does not have any prerequisites.
Incorrect. Impeachment requires a felony, misdemeanor, or high crimes.
With none of that, you have nothing. Clinton was impeached for lying. Nixon for evidence tampering. And ONLY the house can determine that level if at all.
That would be an improvement over the current situation. You seem to misunderstand people's grievances about the current president.
Get out of your social and political bubble, and go find the people who spent a decade suffering under Obama's shit policies and regulations. You'll find they're quite happy vs the big metropolitan city folk. Just like those of us in Ontario, that suffered under the 'big city' pandering by the Liberal Party, to Toronto and the GTA. Guess what? They no longer exist as a official political party.
Much as the current president is finding out, things in government are easier said than done. Should the need arise, he too could be impeached.
Yes, it's far more difficult to get things done when both sides are playing for the same team isn't it. That same team? Well it doesn't appear to be the average person in the US. But you seem to be quite happy to get in the way of it as well.
Tax cuts. This is what I consider his biggest achievement. Unfortunately it's only good if you are rich, for everyone else it's a shocker.
You mean it's good for everyone who doesn't live in a big city, or in specific coastal areas. Where the state was using tax-offsets via federal taxes to lower what they were actually charging people. Suddenly, when those places got to pay their fair share, their taxes went up. While everyone in flyover country as democrats like to say, went down.
Employment. I give him credit for maintaining Obama's hard work to turn around the sinking ship, however there are two caveats. Job growth is slightly less than it was under Obama, so even though it's good it's not as good, and it's a lot easier to maintain short term momentum when you're already headed in that direction.
Here's the problem. The regulations Obama put into place, hurt wages a lot. It discentivized employers to hire new people or increasing the rate of pay. With things like the ACA, forced mandates and so on, that further pushed employers to cut back, or even lay people off. Which is why when the regulations dropped off wages started spiking upwards(something they haven't done since ~2002). Remember Obama's words that low GDP growth was the new normal? Why did it spike just after Trump was elected. Why have we seen a double GDP rate(not real GDP), but flat GDP go up when regulations were removed. Especially when the GDP is now being revised upwards towards 4%. Don't confuse the two either. One is a measurement without inflation, the other with.
You mean the guy who was trying to break into his own house, and when the cop asked him for ID. The guy became belligerent. Yes, very racist. It's not like police ask for ID all the time when they give the person the benefit of the doubt, to see if they were the person in question. And then Obama jumping into the entire thing, and flaming the "well maybe he was a racist." Nope, no race-baiting there. How about "his son trayvon" who had a long history of petty crime, and was well on his way to being yet another banger? Nope that wasn't race-baiting at all. Especially when the media got on board and called the guy who shot him white(because it fit the narrative). Remember, the progressives set the standard on what racism is on that. They attacked McCain, Bush, and several other people and used hispanic as race. You don't get to play one-off with this. Same rules for both sides hypocrite.
How about his race baiting statement in front of the UN with regards to Ferguson. He was a race baiting piece of shit, and no different then any other. The fact that you immediately jump to the "people who were his critics were the real race-baiters" simply shows that you, yourself have a serious racism issue.
In general they don't suffer the same thing. In contrast, we can already see the impact of poor work ethics from those younger kids, compared to even a generation ago. When you hand someone everything, and they never struggle, put into positions that make them grow, you end up with people who are "fine with the status quo" and are unwilling to strive for more.
~25 years ago when I was in high school, the school didn't shut down unless there were two things going on: Severe weather(severe snowfall 10+cm, blizzard, tornado, fog with visibility under 10m), or the bus was broken. Even then, they expected kids who didn't take the bus to show up to class. Just this last winter(in december), there were multiple cases where we got 1cm of wet snow on the ground, that will melt in 2hrs when the sun comes up. All of the schools in the area were shut down. That's in an area of Canada were +30cm snowfalls overnight are common. By all means, explain how this benefits anyone and doesn't foster a mentality of "well that's a reason to blow it off..."
There are always better ones. Be the change you want to see, otherwise you're only making your own misery. That's why over here in Ontario, one of the longest standing political parties(liberals at 150 years old) just officially became a non-party(less then 8 seats) in the new provincial government. The collapse is akin to the Progressive Conservatives of the 1990's not existing as an official party.
The newest trend is to throw all that data out because it's not accurate enough. This is then followed up by using very selective samples in very small time frames, 20-30 year windows and extrapolating them over a very long time frame.
So you're saying Trump is trying to build the wrong wall. ;)
Considering the influx of '2nd party' illegals from the US in to Canada, it's very possible. That's only because the US has spent the last decade and change sitting on it's ass and not really deporting people, and whenever the idea comes up the first response from progressives is to screech "racist" luckily, that's lost it's effective power.
Hope you know that we've been building LNG stations on the east coast of Canada and the US for the last decade with the entire purpose of being able to sell NG via tanker to Europe. Your politicians are simply idiots, vote for better politicians.
Carbon taxes don't have to harm the economy as a whole, and especially not individuals. If they are used to fund development of cheaper, clean forms of energy and consumption they can be a net benefit.
Which is why every place that's done it the economy has slowed to a crawl, and/or went into deep recession. Nope, no hurting there.
Don't forget to factor in the reduced cost of dealing with the emissions and associated pollution either, e.g. healthcare, environmental disasters and cleaning.
Because you're only shifting one form of dirty to another, and think that it's cleaner. Useful tip: It's more expensive environmentally to dig up the materials to make those Li-ON battery packs then it is to go digging up shale or tar oil.
Norway is an interesting example. Most new cars are electric. Charging infrastructure is extensive. Yet it didn't bankrupt them or make cars massively more expensive or anything like that. In fact Norway is consistently rated as one of the best places in the world to live in terms of quality of life.
And in Ontario, the cost is estimated to be somewhere around $700M-1.4B for those charging stations. That's 4 new hospitals(desperately needed), or 300-400 MRI and CT machines(desperately needed), expanded operating theaters for 150-200 hospitals(desperately needed), expanded cancer centers for 300 hospitals. Because waiting 78 days for a MRI/CT, 6mo for a bypass, or 1.5 years for eye surgery, and upwards of 7mo depending on where you live to start cancer treatment is a really great choice right now. Priorities huh?
That depends on whether you get a cost of living raise or not. The economy is not a zero sum game.
Well there, COLA is only guaranteed in places where you have contracts with an employer. That means union shops, that means generally factories, and manufacturing. But this is Ontario, where the Liberal Party of Ontario's decisions have been against factories, manufacturing, and jobs that create a middle class. So where are you going to get that money from?
Let's look at that state of Ontario(the most populous province in Canada), where the liberals actions to offset high heating, high electricity, high rent, high insurance, was to simply boost the minimum wage to $15/hr. Gee, what happened? Well 60k jobs disappeared(Canada lost 88k jobs in total, that 60k was from Ontario alone). Wow and almost all of them were minimum wage jobs! Now the person who was making ~$28/hr between two PT-jobs now only has one, and is only making half that wage or so. Gee let's look a head a bit shall we? Oh look at that again, another 40-70k jobs lost by the current indicators. Boy getting pretty tight for work in that service economy.
Why are there so many food bank drives going on these days you might ask? No clue right? Why are all those charities that help people out begging for money? No clue huh? Gee how come all those low-income services to help people cover medications, electricity, rental, and so on begging for money? It's almost like a trend! How come the wait time for low-income housing in Ontario is now 5-8 years? Man just think how lucky those people are waiting to get into low income housing, providing they don't freeze to death. Or in the case of families have their kids taken away because they can't afford "food and heating."
Rock on! Welcome to Ontario.
Is this true, or something you heard or made up? Citation, please.
Just the fact and remember it was the Ontario Liberals who wanted to ban natural gas for heating and force everyone onto electricity.
That's better than me paying money out of my pocket to support theocratic dictatorships and Healthcare for the poisons released by gas when I don't even use a car.
Yeah because the US is a net exporter of oil and gasoline and has been for a few years now. Even at that, about 1/3 of the oil the US buys comes directly from Canada.
And then 90 million flee back because Trump's AMERICA is that hostile.
Don't let the stupid hurt you kid, until you've actually lived in a hostile country.
Well you're talking about from BC, which might give you 3m from the mainland. And just think, the gas price is only $1.70/l($6.35/gal).
Hurting an economy is better then killing civilization.
Not everything is about economy, some problems are worth hurting the economy for in order to fix a foundation.
Which is why environmentalists are lining up for nuclear power right? Right? Oh, I guess not. Looks like they're just brushing off their inner malthus and waiting for everyone else to die for their perfect society.
Now I couldn't find any reference about $9.00/L Canada prices, so I am going to place that under fake news to scare us Hard Working Americans about those dangerous LiBeRaLs. Or it was a passing phrase in a brain storming idea taken out of context.
Your jumping off point is right there. Now go finish reading the linked articles about how they'd really like the cabon tax to be $350-900/tonne. By the way, if you want to see all about those "dangerous LiBeRaLs" why not look at Ontario, which has a population of 1/3 the state of California and equal debt. Energy prices so high that 600k people are in arrears, 60k people have been cut off. And the largest electricity provider in the province(Ontario Hydro) only has 1.35m customers. Those "dangerous LiBeRaLs" ideas are sure doing a bang up job if you live here. It's been pretty close to a non-stop decade of food banks begging for anything and everything since 2008 because things are well...really that bad here.
... So a carbon tax, will not cause people to leave the US in droves (Because where will they go, the US is behind most other countries in terms of environmental regulation, other countries will be worse) but will change their habits, towards better usage of the expensive fuel, or switch to a less expensive fuel source.
No? So tell me something, how long do you think people will hang out when they're making $450/week(that's $15/30h aka min.wage) but a loaf of bread is $6? Cause you obviously don't live in Canada, and have no idea how far or long distribution lines are. Now remember, your monthly appt. rental is around $1k/mo. You're also unable to afford a car, or insurance. You also now live in a city of 30k people. You're paying another $300/mo for supplemental health insurance. Now don't forget your electricity(inc. water heater costs), and maybe internet(if you're lucky $70).
Now if we can actually weather threw a self proposed recession in order to get our foundations fixed, we may be able to grow a much stronger economy on top of it.
Yes which is why you're lining up to go after China, India, and so on. Where Canada contributes less then 1% of the global carbon count. Brilliant!
The problem is that trades can go for years without any work, have huge barriers to entry, and you can make millions overnight in software. Why risk life and limb every day, spending half the day driving to jobs for free, when you can sit in an air conditioned office with free coffee watching your options go up?
Really, it hasn't been like that for nearly 30 years at this point. Even when the housing bubble popped, electricians, and plumbers were in a glut situation, most simply went out and expanded their available skills and were back to work very quickly. The reality is, those 'office jobs' you're talking about are also finite, ask anyone who's in IT and had their job outsourced to India for example. That one's been going on hard for the last 15 years hasn't it.
If by working better, you mean crashing economies? I guess. Which is why so many countries have bailed on the idea. But then you have the retards like the environment minister up here in Canada that wants to make gas $9/L(that's $33.75/gal for Americans) with the cost being 85% from a carbon tax. Just think of 30m people fleeing to the US once that happens, because it would happen.
I will be graduating this fall, anyone need a jack of all trades aircraft avionics technician/pilot, entry level Mechanical Engineer with skills in basic programing/automation, 3D design/printing, computer network admin, basic welding, automotive repair, wood working, photography, etc, etc?
Can't offer you a job, but I can point you in 3 directions. Aircraft mechanic for civilian airlines, everything you've got now including previous mil background will get you in the door quick. Pick up your welding cert and toss in heavy plate/boiler, and work for a railway. This coupled with ME/programming/automation/admin will get you a cushy job at a railway depot where automation of trains and car coupling is becoming the norm. 3rd is picking up your electrician cert, then getting industrial cert and pick a nice office building or manufacturing plant and enjoy 20 years and get a pension while you're still at it.
Our tool and die vendor queue times are running 8-10 months now. This means they want you to give them a purchase order commitment and they won't even think about starting work for ~9 months.
No that means there's such a shortage of skilled machinists that unless it's a high-priority replacement, you get in line like everyone else. Useful tip: The wait time for industrial transformers used in heavy industry is around 1.5 years. The big transformers that you see at a step down station is 2-4 years. Machinists have been a high demand trade for years, along with welders with navsea, boiler and plate(high pressure), medical gas and aerospace. Problem is you've got two generations of kids that were told they didn't need to go into trades, an education system that told them they didn't need to go into trades. An elitist establishment in education that looked down on blue collar workers, attacked trades, and pushed that your only path forward was through university. And then, you've got the various government bodies that were stacked full of those elitists saying you don't need to go into trades, that office jobs are for everyone.
Yeah, so great. Now you've got 22-35 year old 'kids' who are making min. wage(at part-time) at starbucks or a fastfood joint, saddled with 100k+ debt, and even more stupidity from various governments and government bodies saying that "service industries are the wave of the future!"
Aren't they busy making CoC's that penalize people for just wanting to code, and ignoring identity politics?
Sounds like you've got a chance for a good father's day project. You can buy everything from an imager, to the developer chemicals, to photo paper pretty cheaply these days. If you want to try a run, pick up one of those junior chemistry kits that they sell. Nearly all of them contain the chemicals for basic 3-bath process of colour film.
Question becomes "is it cheaper to build a new box" or "invest in the equipment to polish a lens" it's usually cheaper for the first.
This isn't tech, it's entertainment.