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Machining makes the world go round
The Coeur d'Alene Press ^ | September 3, 2017 | Kaye Thornbrugh, North Idaho College

Posted on 09/03/2017 5:00:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: dragnet2
Unfortunately, Los Gatos has slowly become a Leftist crap hole. Didn't start out that way but the hippies started moving out here after the Summer of Love and never stopped.

Most everything in California is a leftist crap hole unless you move to the central valley.

41 posted on 09/05/2017 10:58:56 AM PDT by caltaxed (ui)
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To: caltaxed

I know that region well. It’s simple, for 40 years all the wrong people have been moving in and now it’s disgusting. They crashed the party.

Same with many other areas of the state. What’s interesting is they’re now totally pricing out most all the people who were born raised in CA for generations. They’re all being replaced by foreign nationals with big $$.

In fact foreign nationals with big $$ are the only thing propping up the entire RE market in CA.


42 posted on 09/05/2017 11:08:53 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
I stated well over $100K. I don't need to get into salaries but machinist wages are sufficient to purchase a home here. Technology allows one man to program and run several machines at a time. Each machine, although costly, can earn $100 to $125 per hour each. You can do the math, as the annual sales per machinist can be near or over $1 million if the machinist has has the talent to hold tolerance and keep the spindles turning.

They don't have machine shops in San Francisco, with Atlas Machine being the exception.

43 posted on 09/05/2017 11:18:57 AM PDT by caltaxed (ui)
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To: caltaxed

I was talking about San Francisco. You think your going to afford an average home of $1,500,000, while working at a machine shop?

Come on.


44 posted on 09/05/2017 11:33:01 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

Yes. You either have a reading comprehension problem or are just stubborn. I need to get back to machining parts.


45 posted on 09/05/2017 11:39:18 AM PDT by caltaxed (ui)
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You’re ridicules.

Why are you attempting to convince people you can work at a machine shop and still be able to afford the average 1.5 *million* dollar home in SF? That’s absurd.

What’s your motive here?


46 posted on 09/05/2017 11:42:09 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SamAdams76

I was a Nuclear Welder & Engineering Laboratory Technician in the Navy, retired as an MMCS. Took my VEAP and parlayed it into a mechanical engineering degree, and worked for a while as a welding engineer/metalurgist. Worked for GE for the last 20 years. I have an understanding and a respect for the trades that a majority of our junior engineers have yet to learn


47 posted on 09/07/2017 2:59:01 PM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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