Said to contact Consumer Affairs, which i sent email to with order #, but they never got back to me.
Called national help, which gave me a case number and said they would contact me in 24hrs, but never did.
Plus i ordered forever stamps, 2-3 day priority mail it says, but took 2 weeks (well, they did say they were forever stamps).
And i am just outside the capital of my state.
Plus other mails items have been arriving around 2 weeks late.
Our government “safety net” has become sufficiently generous as to provide an acceptable alternative to not working at all for a growing number of people.
It's not the only factor, but I am convinced it is a major contributor, and too little discussed. At a minimum, we should have mandatory drug testing for people applying for welfare benefits. I suspect that if we tested the professional underclass, we would find that drug (and alcohol) dependency is the norm.
What to do about it is a tougher question, but the authorities currently refuse to even identify the problem. At the same time, millions of people who are systematically demotivating, and often incapacitating, themselves are being indoctrinated to believe that their problems are all society's fault.
Technology marches on. Touchscreen fingerprinting at the immigration counter at Dulles surprised me a bit last year, but I was glad to see it. When it gets cheap enough, it will appear at ATM's, and eventually we can deploy the technology at polling places to address in-person vote fraud. (The dems, of course, will argue that minorities disproportionately lack fingers and thumbs.) Down the road, it would be nice to have a quick, cheap, non-invasive field test that screened for alcohol and other drugs. If you don't test clean and sober, you shouldn't vote. Alternatively, if you are on welfare, you shouldn't vote. I'd settle for either rule.
It is a fact that the quality of the labor pool is pretty bad. Seen it at *multiple* companies, over and over. The most significant qualification a potential employee has now is showing up every day on time. That what it takes to make the grade.
People would be surprised to learn how many get hired and don’t even show up the first day. Or if they do, manage to make it on time. And stupid? Dear God, the level of education I see would have embarrassed an 8th grader in the 60s. At least me when I was in the 8th grade.
Plus, never ending unemployment benefits have helped create a permanent “on the dole” underclass that is largely content to be there.
Some still take pride in their work,but in some cases,it is getting difficult to do this. Case in point: the place where I worked paid lip service to the employees,but did little to make it possible to earn a decent wage. I was well past retirement age,so finally decided enough was enough. My wages(not counting Soc.Sec.)would not pay the bills & this was in a skilled trade.