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Post by The Resister on Jul 30, 2022 4:14:29 GMT
I read a meme that was posted on another board by someone else. The last time I responded to someone on that bedwetting, liberal joke of a site they banned me. They banned me when I said a poster was factually wrong and pointed her toward the facts. It was respectful, but it didn't fit well with the narrative of the people in San Francisco (which is where that board's owners operate out of.) Anyway, the individual posted a meme that I ' liked" and then explained why I would have to respond here. This is how it goes: " We're churning out a generation of poorly educated people with no skill, no ambition, no guidance, and no realistic expectations of what it means to go to work." Mike Rowe RESPONSE: On this board, in the Strategy forum, I had identified a problem with children that leads to mass shootings: resisters.freeforums.net/thread/9/dramatically-reduce-mass-shootingsThose are the most extreme conditions that lead to not only mass shooters, but drug abusers, welfarites, and worse. The situation I'm seeing is one where the schools are programming young children. For example, in today's news there was a story about a dispute between parents and school officials. A school adopted a policy to refuse to tell the parents when a child came to school claiming to be a gender other than what they were born. If your child is a seven year old male thinking he's a girl, the school officials are prohibited from telling the parent of this emotional / psychological (?) issue. Okay, I confess to being a little hypocritical here. Several years I took my brother to a psychologist. The psychologist asked me what was wrong. I said, " my brother thinks he's a chicken" to which the psychologist replied "And how long has this been going on?" I said " about three years." " Wait", the psychologist says. "Your brother has been thinking he's a chicken for the last THREE years and you waited and NOW you bring him to me. Why?" To that I replied, "We needed the eggs." Okay, back to reality. Between the schools brainwashing the kids; between the Internet, silly laws, divorce, single parent homes, and a government that worries more about whether they can make children self identify as something they're not, we're in the midst of a generation of children that are out of touch with reality. They have no training in ethics, morals, values, sacrifice, work, and critical thinking skills. They are freaking ZOMBIES. Some parents think there are children that are going to set the world on fire because they're popular with the " in" crowd, but most of the graduating seniors would struggle to change a flat tire, balance their own checkbook, or figure out how to get their own apartment. Employers want kids that can solve problems and use critical thinking skills. Instead they are begging people to take jobs and the only thing the potential employee really wants to know is the starting salary, benefits, and days off. We can choose to complain about this OR we can address it. I'm posting this to let the intended party know, we're ready here to address the issue. Let's send him the link and see if he would like to have a genuine conversation that may lead to a potential solution for the community. |
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Post by professorx on Jul 30, 2022 16:38:05 GMT
It should be taught that when minimum wage laws are imposed the business sector merely raises prices to try and offset the impact on business. If the business cannot make a profit it moves out of the area or it shuts down. Sometimes business does try to work its employees for less than they can live on. Then the people resort to socialism as the magic formula that will even things up. Socialism fails. We are currently in this situation where America cannot produce qualified workers. If you have interviewed a hundred or so people for jobs you would understand what has happened over the last two generations. There are reasons that the people entering the workforce and those who have been in it for a decade or so are subpar employees. Right now socialism looks good and the majority of the younger and inexperienced people are siding with the democrats.
Massive regulations and unnecessary laws have killed the American entrepreneur. Tax breaks to business are sometimes given but imo they should be earned. Depending upon how much an employer pays their employees, the benefits, employer assistance and the opportunities to those who are locked out of the workforce are or rather should be the things that determine the tax break that an employer should be entitled to. Additionally The Resister advocated for giving tax breaks to employers who bring jobs back to America, hire an all American workforce and promote from within in order to deal with the immigration situation. Those are things that can be done.
Getting today's youth squared away should be a priority for all of us. We should be well aware of the policies of the public schools even if we don't have children in school. The average citizen should be monitoring how society is preparing the youth of today for the world of the future.
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Post by The Resister on Sept 11, 2023 2:49:01 GMT
I have been watching some stuff unfold on other boards. People wail and complain about the service they get from restaurants (especially fast food) and other retail stores. The trades take a beating too as they charge more than surgeons for their limited knowledge and rip people off. Well, here is where we can say what needs to be said regardless of what snowflake gets their knickers in a twist. Here's the truth and if you disagree, post it:
1) America operates as a free enterprise country. Anybody that thinks we are a capitalist, socialist, democracy, or other kind of country are out of touch with reality. We are a hodge podge of Republican and Democrat laws and legal decisions where one cancels out the other, but we still maintain the advantage of being able to control some portion of our destinies IF we understand the game
2) When we go to restaurants and retail stores and get shitty service we should do more than complain on social media. We should take the problems to the supervisors, management, corporate offices and be willing to have boycotts depending upon the severity of the issue. And, to make sure we balance things out, we need to step up to the plate and make ourselves accountable
3) Parents send their children out into the workforce knowing full well that their child is incapable of interacting with other people due to parenting issues. Parents allowed the schools to drug their children and make drug addicts out of them. They left parenting to the school, television, Internet and the malls. Outside of working a cell phone and texting, the average youth in this country is clueless. Does your child know how to change a flat tire? Can they sew a button on their clothes? Cook a meal? What skillsets have parents imparted on their children?
The most of these skillsets comes when their child gets their first job. People learning work skills in fast food, retail, etc. should be taught as children and before going to work that the customer is always right. You have to learn how to take a lot of B.S. from people even when you are clearly right. As an employee your check is dependent on customer satisfaction. If you do not meet their expectations, the customer will go elsewhere. Without the customer there is no profit and, consequently, no job to be had. Do you know what we teach instead?
The customer was rude, crude, called the employee a name or in some way offended the employee. That's life. Get over it. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. If you spend your life on the cellphone; if you can specialize in making contact with customers and avoid answering their questions or making eye contact when they want or need your help, you are whizzing on your own wages
4) For employers, they worry too much about the bottom line - the profit. The Hell with the employees. They want profits. They want to force people to take a drug test and a background check only to hire people at wages that are not enough to live on
5) Consumers don't make a Hell of a lot of sense either. They complain about the rising costs of goods and services, but attempt to justify the major companies charging hundreds of dollars for, essentially, handyman work that doesn't require a Harvard degree or a decade of experience to do. A guy comes over and changes out a light socket at a cost of hundreds of dollars, yet we remain silent when the grocer, restaurant and department store pay wages that would insult a third world laborer.
I'm not an economist, but there is something wrong in America. The CIA hires Ivy league college graduates for a salary under $37 an hour. Offer that to the high school graduate that does plumbing, electrical, carpentry, auto mechanic work or some other skilled trade (that takes 6 to 18 months of training) and that person... along with many in the general public will think you are two french fries short of a Happy Meal. It's time for THIS conversation. So, let's talk. That is the theme of the week. Don't just access and read these topics. Discuss them.
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