Posts Made By: Patrick Keafer

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

First of all, I'm not a Perot type.

Secondly Patrick, unlike you who seems to have as other RINOs do, Trump Derangement Syndrome, I look at his results. My guess is that you cannot stand the fact that he's operating conservatively and doing what the people elected him to, which was to lower tax rates, build the border wall as he is attempting to do, fix the trade deficits which were largely detrimental to our economy, create jobs, attack ISIS directly, and many other things.

Since you seem inept to define or provide evidence as to how he hasn't operated in Conservative fashion, I view your response as simply childish and pissed off like a 2 year old, having your continuous temper tantrum that your Hilary Clinton didn't win.

I can't help it if your stupidity clouds your ability to view Trump outside of your little anger bubble and recognize all the good things that he's done.

Sounds like a personal problem to me.  

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

Trump could still make some very liberal moves but a Bush didn't accomplish more conservative acts in his first two years. Ford? Nixon?  Not too long ago a politician was damaged goods if he had been divorced.

Originally Posted by David Cotterell

Richard, I'm not agreeing with your point that after Grade 12 they are suddenly full adults.  At that age they have negligible income or savings.  Their parents are the ones who bear the burden of the tuition fees.  Or else the young people take on crushing student loan debt which can follow them for half their working life...

And I did say academically qualified on purpose.  You try to suggest that I think everyone should be admitted because that's the 'liberal' stance..  That's not what I said.  If that is the 'liberal' stance then i disagree with it..  

How are the singing lessons going, by the way?

Dave

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Complete Horseshit IMO.  

Of course a high school education is adequate for MANY jobs in today's society.  Books have been written on the subject.  There are groups who are focused on just that, offering high school educated young adults jobs in all kinds of industries.  

This utter nonsense peddled by the University system, telling young people that they just won't be able to get by in today's society if they don't have a higher education is complete crap.  

I don't know who you've been talking to, but you must live in a closet or don't read anything.

The myth postulated by so many telling younger people that if you don't rack up hundreds of thousands in debt by going to College or you won't make it, is just SUCH a farce it isn't even worth talking about.  

Here's just one of virtually 100's of articles written on the subject.  

https://www.thestreet.com/slideshow/14521070/1/jobs-that-pay-over-55k-with-just-a-high-school-diploma.html

There was a guy on the radio about 3 weeks whom I heard, talking about how his company was trying to recruit high school kids to consider taking a job in his shop painting cars.  He said that he could offer nearly 6 figures for ambitious, young individuals with a lot of drive.  

Look at what happened up in South Dakota, with the pipeline workers.  They couldn't even find enough people to get working in the energy field.  There were farmers who were renting out their fields because they didn't have enough housing to support these workers. 

In that area, McDonalds, Burger King, and other fast food places were hiring in at $17 - $20 per hour.

In construction a laborer can do well..

This big lie that if one doesn't waste hundreds of thousands getting ANY type of degree is what has left our younger generation with debt out their collective asses. 

Are you telling me that a communications degree or a women's studies degree from University of Tennessee is worth spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on because if that degree isn't achieved, failure is the only option?

That's utterly LUDICROUS, and I wish more young people would avoid College and get out there working because in 4 years a lot of experience can be achieved. 

This move to send every young person to College is just stupid on its face IMO.  

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Patsy,
  
   If you're talking $55K as a starting position then that's certainly a living wage as you lefties like to call it.   Don't you think?   

We have this thing called "working your way up the ladder..."? 

Are you so obtuse that you don't understand that even in your industry, its called getting promoted through job experience, or do you think that everyone starts out as a CEO when they finish college?   

Just like in your job, you weren't always making 6 figures were you? 

Therefore the "construction laborer" isn't going to be a construction laborer his entire career. 

I mean to say, I realize that might be difficult for one like yourself to wrap your mind around, but most people have the brain power to understand that when a person enters the field of employment that they change their job title at least 7 times during the average career.

He or she will do something different perhaps, learn a trade like maybe framing, trim carpentry, cabinetmaking, roofing, concrete formsetter, concrete flatwork finisher, tilesetter, masonry, painter, carpet installer, and on and on. 

There are many smart guys who are auto mechanics, electricians, plumbers, 

So rather than arrogantly looking down your pencil nose at others who may not have the education that you imply you have and that everyone NEEDS in this day, otherwise they can't make it in this world, realize that they could probably run circles around you when it comes to troubleshooting that electrical circuit which makes your lights come on in your kitchen when you push that rocker switch on the wall.  

And for your information, I happen to be a master carpenter myself and I've owned my cabinetshop for nearly 35 years now.  

Now I'm taking into consideration the possibility that you might just be one of these types who looks down on others because they don't wear a suit or tie to work, so maybe you didn't mean to be so condescending towards construction laborers, as I took your smarmy little response to be.

And your smug statement above where you claim "most carpenters" don't make jack shit" just belies your ignorance and stupidity about the field of carpentry.  

One of my best friends, a man named Len taught me a GREAT deal about the field of carpentry. In fact he worked with me today, when I went to a gal's place of business, built and installed some shelving units for her hair salon.  He's 85 years old, owned his business for 54 years building custom homes, and he lives in a house that is 7800 square feet, the one he built with his bare hands in 1990, and is worth well over $1.2 Million dollars.  

My guess is that it would put your house to shame pal.  So next time before you make your condescending conclusions about others not making "jack shit", realize that you don't have the brains to build your own one.  

Then again, I guess if one is a pompous ass, and has never gotten his hands dirty in his life, because he went to college and sat behind a computer his entire life, one may just be too ignorant or perhaps arrogant to understand what is involved in the career of a blue collar worker.

Maybe that explains your uninformed response, or perhaps you didn't spend one second reading the article I linked because it laid out something like 20 jobs that pay fairly well without the need for a college education.  Whichever it is, I was happy to educate you on the facts of life in a blue collar worker's life. 

So next time your water heater goes out, you arrogant little twit, see if punching some lines of code into your little computer there fixes your shower temperature. 

Apparently a College Education does NOT instill common sense and logic into one's brain. LOL!     

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

A major embarrassment for Trump's alternate reality:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/14/politics/senate-vote-trump-national-emergency-declaration-resolution/index.html

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

This is the craziest thing I have heard in a long time.....and it isnt fake news either. A friend who lives out there is listening to it being discussed on talk radio as I post this.....

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/273483/dallas-county-da-wont-prosecute-if-you-steal-under-daniel-greenfield?fbclid=IwAR2A2blz12o1J1luRIfliLZ4N_3UDLz2chCtF9ucuhoWACd0iOjoe9s97HI#.XLo_zsBNjgo.facebook

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

For one thing, do what Trump has refused to do - cut social security and medicare. It is where the majority of our spending goes.

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Are you F'IN kidding Rod??  

Barack Obama literally TOLD OUR ENEMIES when and Where we were going to be removing troops, adding troops, where our Carriers and destroyers were going to be, when we were going to deploy, how many troops were going to be there, what time lunch was, when they were showering, and he simply ran the military like an open book for our enemies.

Now, you're actually CONCERNED?  

You've got to be joking. 

Get real.  LOL