Why does CA make headlines when TSHTF? Missouri offered this option over a year ago. Consider the extremes of wealth and poverty in CA and you will see why this will only penalize the less affluent. The Beverly Hillbillies, Santa Barbarians, and Carmel Squares will continue cooling their mansions to as low as they want (read: can afford--which translates to obscene amounts of $ to common people) all the while keeping their glass walls wide open to the beautiful vistas, swimming pools and landscaping. Why not initiate restrictions at the TOP of the food chain this time??? To paraphrase Diogenes, "Find me one honest consumer earning over $200,000 a year that will close off half (or 3/4) of zir estate and make a serious effort to NOT cool their burbs!"
Has either of you guys been dropped while a CS transfers you to another dept or back into the main que? I've always wondered what percentage of those drops are intentional. Perhaps they were in the process of transferring him. If so, to him, I'm sure it would certainly SEEM like he'd been hung up on.
My firstborn said that too when he was three (mid-60s). Our trash man was a likeable guy who always talked to my toddler. You know what I told my son? "Sure baby, just be the best trash man you can be."
I felt very disappointed to say the least.
Pity that we see certain "occupations" beneath us.
A friend of mine, nearly 70, tells the story of the oldest living worker in the U.S. When asked why he was so successful at his job his reply was "Do your job until you like it and then keep doing it."
Lost somewhere among generational lines, is the "work ethic". Or the need for one. No "real" work is done/needed anymore. The U.S. has become a service-oriented culture...pushing paper in offices all day and enjoying eateries, entertainment all night long. No tool-and-die makers, fewer production lines, fewer farmers growing food for increasing masses.
Imported slaves used to do the labor "legal" immigrants didn't want to do, now illegal immigrants do the labor the other two groups don't want to do. And we buy increasingly cheaply-made imported products from even more cheaply paid workers rather than spend more $ on the few U.S. industries remaining. (and I'm not in a Union!)
From the responses here I would guess there's not a 3% variation in occupations of the posters. It's no *one's* fault...no single reason...just the way the world is spinning. If you think the worker's future looks bleak in January 2006, just wait till we've squeezed the last drop of oil out of the earth, the polar caps have melted, and water resources are scarce. Applicable from a recent FastCompany article, unless we can successfully change our behavior [to a work ethic] we will allow ourselves to die.
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Why does CA make headlines when TSHTF? Missouri offered this option over a year ago. Consider the extremes of wealth and poverty in CA and you will see why this will only penalize the less affluent. The Beverly Hillbillies, Santa Barbarians, and Carmel Squares will continue cooling their mansions to as low as they want (read: can afford--which translates to obscene amounts of $ to common people) all the while keeping their glass walls wide open to the beautiful vistas, swimming pools and landscaping. Why not initiate restrictions at the TOP of the food chain this time??? To paraphrase Diogenes, "Find me one honest consumer earning over $200,000 a year that will close off half (or 3/4) of zir estate and make a serious effort to NOT cool their burbs!"
Has either of you guys been dropped while a CS transfers you to another dept or back into the main que? I've always wondered what percentage of those drops are intentional. Perhaps they were in the process of transferring him. If so, to him, I'm sure it would certainly SEEM like he'd been hung up on.
I felt very disappointed to say the least.
Pity that we see certain "occupations" beneath us.
A friend of mine, nearly 70, tells the story of the oldest living worker in the U.S. When asked why he was so successful at his job his reply was "Do your job until you like it and then keep doing it." Lost somewhere among generational lines, is the "work ethic". Or the need for one. No "real" work is done/needed anymore. The U.S. has become a service-oriented culture...pushing paper in offices all day and enjoying eateries, entertainment all night long. No tool-and-die makers, fewer production lines, fewer farmers growing food for increasing masses. Imported slaves used to do the labor "legal" immigrants didn't want to do, now illegal immigrants do the labor the other two groups don't want to do. And we buy increasingly cheaply-made imported products from even more cheaply paid workers rather than spend more $ on the few U.S. industries remaining. (and I'm not in a Union!) From the responses here I would guess there's not a 3% variation in occupations of the posters. It's no *one's* fault...no single reason...just the way the world is spinning. If you think the worker's future looks bleak in January 2006, just wait till we've squeezed the last drop of oil out of the earth, the polar caps have melted, and water resources are scarce. Applicable from a recent FastCompany article, unless we can successfully change our behavior [to a work ethic] we will allow ourselves to die.