And why does this surprise you? I'd expect a lot of people to avoid doctors, now that abandonment of the Hippocratic oath a couple decades back, the upside-down HIPAA and ObummerDoesn'tCare have essentially eiminated all medical privacy.
GE and Siemens have busily been facilitating doctors' private files being digitized and shipped to Indian and Washington DC, even over individual patients' (and US software professionals') objections.
They grill allergy sufferers at the pharmacies for their Socialist Insecurity Numbers and other personal private info for what was a staple of OTC treatment, while handing out abortifaciants anonymously to the under-aged.
We heard just this morning that HHS had shipped personal private medical records of some 20 million people to the IRS, totally without the victims' permission.
The over-crowded areas are greatly dependent on the not-so-over-crowded areas to provide food and fuel, filter and gather the fresh water, provide psychological relief from the noise, smell, and press of people. But the middle class, with their half-acre to 20 acre plots of land are to be disparaged and taxed and over-regulated. How dare they enjoy any scrap of privacy or liberty after all.
In the 1970s and 1980s employers expected to invest in 2-12 weeks of training for new-hires. They didn't demand that unemployed people invest $4K in third pary training which may or may not match the niche desires of the employers.
For STEM fields, for instance, they did not suffer from hyper-credentialism. If you know your stuff, they didn't ask about university degrees, certificates, etc. I'm talking NASA, Dept. of Energy, Chrysler, aircraft manufacturers. (Today, as soon as they learn you're a US citizen, the "recruiters" hang up.)
They were also willing to fly in US citizens from across the state and across the country for interviews, then pay most of the costs and help make the arrangments for relocation of the new-hires.
In 1940 and 1941 they turned tens of thousands of farm laborers at a time into precision machinists within a couple months (though a few without the minimal knack were drummed out).
Looking back at the BLS stats, 20-40 years ago I might have thought $30/hour was a bit extravagant for most such jobs. But with all the government over-taxing, over-spending, and quantitative easing, i.e. inflation, since then, $30/hour would be below the median and not enough to make house payments in some parts of the USA.
We've got millions of unemployed and under-employed people with IQs over 130 and multiple graduate degrees in computer science and/or engineering and/or law. We have unemployed heavy equipment operators, construction laborers, carpenters, biophysicists, script-writers, tool and die makers...
We have a total job dearth of about 31 million (based on monthly BLS employment/population ratios over the last year compared with historical data; we'll see what the latest numbers look like on Friday).
Many people are now unemployed for years, a fair number for a decade or more, but don't have the funds to pay for specific classes ($3K-$10K), transportation to bop around to "networking events" or interviews or to relocate themselves.
Some study on-line docs, use university and public libraries in cities/towns where they have not been locked down (but public libraries usually do not have the latest because it would be too expensive for them to keep up with the latest editions of these more expensive kinds of books and DVDs and such which are obsolete within 18 months). A lucky few live close enough with others in their field to walk to professional/trade gatherings to discuss and hear presentations on the latest, or have tools and materials with which to practice in the basement or garage.
Some have ethical qualms about accepting government hand-outs and loan guarantees (and the attendant privacy violation).
Or replacing 7 over-paid council people with 14, each paid a tenth of currrent levels, with districts such that the people in their neighborhood would... gasp... actually know and live near them. And then they could fire nearly all of the code-nazis.
D'uh. Send people out from the county office to pick them up at the most recalcitrant precincts and drag their rears -- along with the ballots, equipment, etc. -- back to the county office, and sign in. No smoking or fisticuffs allowed in gov't vehicles. blah blah blah.
Designated precinct officials who don't sign in don't get paid, and get fined a nominal sum (e.g. $75-$100, like a parking ticket) for not properly guarding/securing the ballots, etc.
Then recruit new polling place officials. A few examples, with their names and polling places in the paper, should suffice.
It's kind of like that Democrat elections official in St. Lucie county FL with the 4 hour waiting times to vote. I doubt she'll be making the same mistakes again.
There are several areas of dispute surrounding immigration and related matters.
The US government has failed... refused, really, to run proper background investigations on visa applicants. There are informal agreements (not treaties) to allow visits from/through certain other countries into the USA without applying for a visa or any other vetting at all.
What is/was the ideal level of immigration? Is the USA already over-populated or over-crowded (on average or in specific locations)? How many student and exchange and guest-work and business-meeting and tourist visas are reasonable now? Are 50K per year enough? Are 2 million too many? People disagree and get the impression their lines of reasoning are being ignored for possibly nefarious purposes, to benefit specific vested interests.
What kinds of standards should there be? None at all? "If they got here, they've got the kind of drive we want." What intelligence or academic aptitude or achievement standards should there be, if any? Or should certain numbers within each range be admitted?
What health standards should there be? Vaccinations? Etc.
Should they (aside from a few refugees) have to bring with them some minimal amount of means to support themselves, or to employ a certain number of US citizens from the beginning?
Yes, we were strangers in a strange land, invited in by the vizier and the pharoah, after an extended and artificially stressful application process. We were not barbarian invaders or visa over-stayers. (Then again, the Torah uses a word -- ger, just the equivalent of the letters g and r -- which does not clearly distinguish between invaders, foreign visitors, licensed international traders and shepherds, and peaceable applicants for conversion/citizenship.)
I must compliment the writer and editors on the slick wording of the question.
What would you do if an armed person entered your business?
I'd say, "How may I help you, today?"
your home?
"Hello.", or "Hello, Fred. I'll be just a second and then we can head down to the range.", or "Let me see your hands.", depending on the circumstances.
your school?
"Hello, the office is the second door on the right.", would be the most often appropriate.
What would you do if a burglar broke into your home, business, or school?
If they were firing at (i.e. initiating force against) an innocent, Bang!... otherwise, "Halt!", and then depending on the reaction, possibly Bang!, but after that depends on circumstances, whether anyone else is present and whether they could help control and detain the burglar, whether you have cable-ties or duct-tape, whether there's a telephone and it's working, whether you have a working vehicle present, etc.
You have to sort out the possible details of various potential situations ahead of time. Only then can you rapidly act and adapt based on the other's behavior.
Usually, merely letting an attacker or potential attacker know that you're prepared to defend yourself suffices to stop them. You have to avoid being the initiator of force (or fraud), but, at the same time, you have to avoid allowing a malefactor to "get the drop on you". What is required to accomplish that last depends on your personal knowledge of your own limitations, strengths and weaknesses.
Con artists, wolves in sheep's clothing, corrupt government officials and functionaries present more difficult and complex issues. Their whole modus operandi is to get you to let down your guard and then slip through your points of weakness, and many of them have gotten extremely adept at it.
Black males don’t go to the doctor
And why does this surprise you? I'd expect a lot of people to avoid doctors, now that abandonment of the Hippocratic oath a couple decades back, the upside-down HIPAA and ObummerDoesn'tCare have essentially eiminated all medical privacy.
GE and Siemens have busily been facilitating doctors' private files being digitized and shipped to Indian and Washington DC, even over individual patients' (and US software professionals') objections.
They grill allergy sufferers at the pharmacies for their Socialist Insecurity Numbers and other personal private info for what was a staple of OTC treatment, while handing out abortifaciants anonymously to the under-aged.
We heard just this morning that HHS had shipped personal private medical records of some 20 million people to the IRS, totally without the victims' permission.
May 17, 2013 at 1:15 p.m. permalink suggest removal
STEM GEMS
But what will they do for a living once they reach 35?
April 22, 2013 at 2:42 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Report: Job sprawl persists in Youngstown-Warren area
"sprawl" == not over-crowded
The over-crowded areas are greatly dependent on the not-so-over-crowded areas to provide food and fuel, filter and gather the fresh water, provide psychological relief from the noise, smell, and press of people. But the middle class, with their half-acre to 20 acre plots of land are to be disparaged and taxed and over-regulated. How dare they enjoy any scrap of privacy or liberty after all.
April 22, 2013 at 1:02 p.m. permalink suggest removal
179 workers to lose their jobs when GE plant closes in 2014
I find the choice given odd. Why not move to LEDs instead of those risky, too-hot (hence inefficient and wasteful) halogen lights?
Well, unless they wanted to maneuver the unionists into rejecting the deal.
April 8, 2013 at 12:57 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Valley faces worker shortage amid glut of new jobs
I see no evidence here of "worker shortage".
In the 1970s and 1980s employers expected to invest in 2-12 weeks of training for new-hires. They didn't demand that unemployed people invest $4K in third pary training which may or may not match the niche desires of the employers.
For STEM fields, for instance, they did not suffer from hyper-credentialism. If you know your stuff, they didn't ask about university degrees, certificates, etc. I'm talking NASA, Dept. of Energy, Chrysler, aircraft manufacturers. (Today, as soon as they learn you're a US citizen, the "recruiters" hang up.)
They were also willing to fly in US citizens from across the state and across the country for interviews, then pay most of the costs and help make the arrangments for relocation of the new-hires.
In 1940 and 1941 they turned tens of thousands of farm laborers at a time into precision machinists within a couple months (though a few without the minimal knack were drummed out).
Looking back at the BLS stats, 20-40 years ago I might have thought $30/hour was a bit extravagant for most such jobs. But with all the government over-taxing, over-spending, and quantitative easing, i.e. inflation, since then, $30/hour would be below the median and not enough to make house payments in some parts of the USA.
We've got millions of unemployed and under-employed people with IQs over 130 and multiple graduate degrees in computer science and/or engineering and/or law. We have unemployed heavy equipment operators, construction laborers, carpenters, biophysicists, script-writers, tool and die makers...
We have a total job dearth of about 31 million (based on monthly BLS employment/population ratios over the last year compared with historical data; we'll see what the latest numbers look like on Friday).
Many people are now unemployed for years, a fair number for a decade or more, but don't have the funds to pay for specific classes ($3K-$10K), transportation to bop around to "networking events" or interviews or to relocate themselves.
Some study on-line docs, use university and public libraries in cities/towns where they have not been locked down (but public libraries usually do not have the latest because it would be too expensive for them to keep up with the latest editions of these more expensive kinds of books and DVDs and such which are obsolete within 18 months). A lucky few live close enough with others in their field to walk to professional/trade gatherings to discuss and hear presentations on the latest, or have tools and materials with which to practice in the basement or garage.
Some have ethical qualms about accepting government hand-outs and loan guarantees (and the attendant privacy violation).
April 4, 2013 at 10:24 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Children of immigrants with legal status can get license
I couldn't let your deceptive headline go without at least politely pointing it out.
March 6, 2013 at 10:57 a.m. permalink suggest removal
The new position in traffic engineering has a starting salary of $21,324
Or replacing 7 over-paid council people with 14, each paid a tenth of currrent levels, with districts such that the people in their neighborhood would... gasp... actually know and live near them. And then they could fire nearly all of the code-nazis.
March 5, 2013 at 12:26 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Poll workers’ failure to comply with rule irks Trumbull County elections director
D'uh. Send people out from the county office to pick them up at the most recalcitrant precincts and drag their rears -- along with the ballots, equipment, etc. -- back to the county office, and sign in. No smoking or fisticuffs allowed in gov't vehicles. blah blah blah.
Designated precinct officials who don't sign in don't get paid, and get fined a nominal sum (e.g. $75-$100, like a parking ticket) for not properly guarding/securing the ballots, etc.
Then recruit new polling place officials. A few examples, with their names and polling places in the paper, should suffice.
It's kind of like that Democrat elections official in St. Lucie county FL with the 4 hour waiting times to vote. I doubt she'll be making the same mistakes again.
March 5, 2013 at 12:21 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Immigration, welcoming strangers theme for World Day of Prayer
There are several areas of dispute surrounding immigration and related matters.
The US government has failed... refused, really, to run proper background investigations on visa applicants. There are informal agreements (not treaties) to allow visits from/through certain other countries into the USA without applying for a visa or any other vetting at all.
What is/was the ideal level of immigration? Is the USA already over-populated or over-crowded (on average or in specific locations)? How many student and exchange and guest-work and business-meeting and tourist visas are reasonable now? Are 50K per year enough? Are 2 million too many? People disagree and get the impression their lines of reasoning are being ignored for possibly nefarious purposes, to benefit specific vested interests.
What kinds of standards should there be? None at all? "If they got here, they've got the kind of drive we want." What intelligence or academic aptitude or achievement standards should there be, if any? Or should certain numbers within each range be admitted?
What health standards should there be? Vaccinations? Etc.
Should they (aside from a few refugees) have to bring with them some minimal amount of means to support themselves, or to employ a certain number of US citizens from the beginning?
Yes, we were strangers in a strange land, invited in by the vizier and the pharoah, after an extended and artificially stressful application process. We were not barbarian invaders or visa over-stayers. (Then again, the Torah uses a word -- ger, just the equivalent of the letters g and r -- which does not clearly distinguish between invaders, foreign visitors, licensed international traders and shepherds, and peaceable applicants for conversion/citizenship.)
March 4, 2013 at 3 p.m. permalink suggest removal
What would you do if an armed intruder came to your school?
I must compliment the writer and editors on the slick wording of the question.
What would you do if an armed person entered your business?
I'd say, "How may I help you, today?"
your home?
"Hello.", or "Hello, Fred. I'll be just a second and then we can head down to the range.", or "Let me see your hands.", depending on the circumstances.
your school?
"Hello, the office is the second door on the right.", would be the most often appropriate.
What would you do if a burglar broke into your home, business, or school?
If they were firing at (i.e. initiating force against) an innocent, Bang!...
otherwise, "Halt!", and then depending on the reaction, possibly Bang!, but after that depends on circumstances, whether anyone else is present and whether they could help control and detain the burglar, whether you have cable-ties or duct-tape, whether there's a telephone and it's working, whether you have a working vehicle present, etc.
You have to sort out the possible details of various potential situations ahead of time. Only then can you rapidly act and adapt based on the other's behavior.
Usually, merely letting an attacker or potential attacker know that you're prepared to defend yourself suffices to stop them. You have to avoid being the initiator of force (or fraud), but, at the same time, you have to avoid allowing a malefactor to "get the drop on you". What is required to accomplish that last depends on your personal knowledge of your own limitations, strengths and weaknesses.
Con artists, wolves in sheep's clothing, corrupt government officials and functionaries present more difficult and complex issues. Their whole modus operandi is to get you to let down your guard and then slip through your points of weakness, and many of them have gotten extremely adept at it.
Each situation has significant differences.
March 1, 2013 at 1:22 p.m. permalink suggest removal