Posted on 05/24/2014 11:38:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“You liberals ... YOU are responsible for making things worse in this country.. .”
My wife asked me why I no longer speak to the libs in my neighborhood. What I told her I would say to them pretty much matches what your wrote above.
I HATE THE OSHA JERKS!!! I had to deal with them. (Wasn’t my personal company at the time but one that I worked for.)
There operating procedure is that you MUST be doing something wrong and you MUST be fined for it and lying about it. They sent greenhorn idiot inspectors who knw absolutely nothing about the product or the methods of manufacturing the parts that came out of out factory. They didn’t find anything. They got a two day tour, took notes asked questions, said nothing was wrong, then went about for their review meeting behind closed doors.
Weeks later a book, it must have been 200 pages, of violations and fines showed up. Stuff they never even looked at that were proven to be incorrect. It went so far as to say the polarity in some wall sockets were wrong and needed to be fixed. WHAT!!! Polarity wrong on the wall sockets when NO ONE tested a wall socket. There were some perfunctory stupid ones like missing striped tape on safety bollards just to make it seem like they paid attention.
I can only imagine how bad the EPA is.
It’s getting to where you have to do everything yourself. Fortunately, on the Internet there are now instructions — and parts — for practically everything repairable.
“I can only imagine how bad the EPA is.”
My experience with OSHA is that they’ll give you a warning and you’ll have time to fix it. But I’m certain this has a lot to do with who does the inspection, what their agenda is and whether they think your company has the money to make them look bad. (My company at the time was in the Fortune 500. Although the managers acted like frightened little girls, the attorneys are sharks.)
The EPA can order you to shut your doors right this minute. They never did that to us as we were armed for bear with every spec sheet for every chemical. By the time I dealt with them we’d converted most of the processes to water based products.
But one day there was a pressure surge in the water lines and the fire suppression sprinkler system leaked a couple of coin-sized rusty water drops. The company pulled the panic cord. Guys wearing PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) cordoned off the area. They used approved procedures and packaged the cleaning material for hazardous pickup. I stood and watched, amazed. They did the same when an older woman had an unexpected period with a few drops of leakage. She was so embarrassed that she found another job and quit. (If she’d called me I’d have gone out with a paper towel and rubbed them out and never said a word. But they’d all had blood borne pathogens training.)
We were all trained in CPR, but then told we couldn’t touch anybody’s lips with our lips or we’d be fired. Fired for saving somebody’s life...
An employee fainted from a known problem. Two of his buddies took him home. They were both written up as the standard procedure is to call 911. (He’s have quit too.)
“American corporations have completely sold out.”
IMO, it’s a two-way street. American consumers have sold out.
American consumers want cheap stuff. China’s providing cheap stuff that American consumers are buying. There go American jobs.
We can thank the American consumer as much as anyone.
Great link! Thanks.
Wondering how much more of this Obama-style “economic recovery” we can handle?
Craigslist. Qualified people are begging for work on there. I use it for almost everything.
I am in the process of having granite put in our kitchen for less than half what the local store wants.
We had our trees trimmed and a huge one taken out for less than half-——cash.
Our air conditioner broke and a guy came right out and fixed it. Less than half.
Craigslist.
“Craigslist. Qualified people are begging for work on there.”
Here’s the problem. The government does not want you paying cash. They have passed laws making you responsible if somebody you’ve hired is injured or killed. If that happens you are well and truly scr*wed.
Companies are required to have insurance. The cost of that insurance (and unemployment comp and license fees (taxes)...etc.) are included in the cost of the job they’re doing for you. That’s why it’s so expensive.
There are a lot....repeat a lot....of contractors who are licensed and bonded advertising on Craigslist.
You post like your cited regulations problems can’t be fixed. Congress can change all that. Elections matter. Both parties have exported the country’s economy across the ocean. Wall Street overpowers Main Street. Money talks, politicians listen [it’s called free speech]. Bush - Obama, as Mrs Clinton says what’s difference does it make. The country needs another Perot who rightly heard the economy sucking sound a long time ago. He gets my vote.
It’s restore MADE IN USA or we continue to sink with war costs, depleted contributions to SS, and borrowing from China. Green jobs and tax cuts are just election boob bait for the bubbas.
“You post like your cited regulations problems can’t be fixed. “
Thomas Lippmann, in “Public Opinion, said, essentially, “A reformer goes to Congress intent on changing x. He is quickly buried by the special interests intent on protecting x and never heard from again.” The problems are so many and so varied I simply don’t see a way to end them. The EPA, for example, essentially writes its own extra-legal laws. They, along with a half dozen organizations we know and probably thirty more we don’t each write a law that is one more straw (or bail) on the camel’s back. It would take a massive change to reverse this, far more than we see with a mere change in party control. As you point out, they’re both in on this.
An alcoholic will remain one until he wakes up drowning in his own vomit and decides he’s going to change. But, essentially, we’ll have to hit rock bottom before you’ll see any will to change. And, it’s not enough to take away, modify or change a few regulations. We have to get rid of the mechanism...all the alphabet agencies. They have been captured by special interest agendas and will not stop what they’re doing even of they lose some ground.
If it comes to that, probably it will be too late. Gated communities will have no barrier. Veterans in the streets, will be met by military force. Money and the wealthy will leave for other lands. In the words of Yeats 'Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;'
No one but the wealthy will have enough 'speech' to compete. Hopefully, in the absence of political eunuchs, a corporate leader will arise and challenge superfluous regulations in the courts. Although the present court leans toward 'money rules', it may be the only hope.
I really hope you are wrong.
-PJ
the best way I can see to support our local economies is to buy locally grown food AMAP...honey, milk, bread,eggs, meat etc even if you have to buy diretly from the farmer....
we can also support local resturants.....and local stage theatre productions....we can support our HS and local college sport teams....they are all AMerican.....
as for products, until we get realistic American companies producing again, we are stuck with buying and bartering at the local level....you can buy almost anything and save lots of money on craigslist...
the liberals know that govt workers everywhere are still with jobs, making good money, having the best in health care, and have fat obscene defined pensions that can never be touched....as long as they continue to grow their govt cronies, it doesn’t matter if the rest of us eat dog chow....
#7 is the scariest one. The welfare society can’t survive for long when life becomes a hammock for whole generations of families
Cut taxes and regulations
$4.00 gas and diesel.
$10 grocery store T-bone.
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