Ramblings/Musings

Faulty Infrastructure

Gee, the government is whining about where the money for improving/maintaining our infrastructure is going to come from. Well, if those fatcat, bigwigs in D.C. hadn’t allowed the corporations to take all our jobs overseas to countries like China & India, I, & thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people would have decent, non poverty level jobs in which we could own houses and pay a goodly amount of taxes. I despite good skills and 260 undergraduate credits, am barely able to eke out an existence barely above homeless, let alone help out monetarily with things like this. We, me too, are to blame for having allowed this to happen by electing greedy, self serving, special interest motivated pork barrel losers.

7/29/07 Our country is a great country, but we need to be watchful & willing to stand up for each other's rights. Universal healthcare for all would be a good thing for our country too. Maybe someday I'l transfer all this to my Blog... 6/07 The government of the United States has become a totalitarian, self serving monster. About 25% of the people here work for some level of government and you ain't met fat cat til you see these bureaucrats in action... It sickens me. they create nothing, do as little as possible and f--k everybody else.[ Freud or Jung has a little dissertation on the psychology of bureaucrats, check it out.] Don't be fooled there is no liberty here. They allow immigrants from all other countries but white european[they'd assimilate too easily]. They are diluting the populace by trying to inundate us w/ people who have nothing in common w/ people who live here. Like all these Hindis and somalians etc. are going to say anything to make the gov. mad. It's ridiculous alot of these newbies are fresh off the boat and they got $50000+ jobs already. People of the world know this: something stinks over here, you best watch out, there is little I can do...

12/06: It's been a tough road for me lately... I suffered a stroke in August of '05 but I'm still here. People have told me I chose that I'm not sure how. So, I've really been studying all sorts of spiritual beliefs in an effort to learn how to manifest the good things in life and find that while trying to walk this out all the Haves have put up numerous obstacles in my way, for instance, I live in Minnesota and the Mn Workforce Center is not on a bus line[those freaky disabled people can't bug you if they can't make the walk], the waiting list for disabled housing is 7+ years [maybe we won't have to build more if the cripples just die], I wish I'd never went back to work[ I'm making $12,000 a year and that seems to make me not eligible for any help, like I'm really pimping out in that amount]. I had called Social Security in June they said I was eligible for full disability & then the next time I called them they said they couldn't guarantee I'd receive disability, and I'm so worried about having to live in the street [disabled housing I guess]if I quit my job, I can't do whats right for myself but I guess I CHOSE this. Not the Rosecrucian utopia the founding fathers envisioned.

12/01:When I was a young man the principal of my school told me when I was an adult; I could make my own decisions & not have to follow the rules. When I became a man I discovered that, in addition to my responsibility to family, friends & myself, I was beholden to the whims of certain people, some already long dead, who feel they must take a good chunk of my $$$, as well as tell me what I can put in my body, what I can keep on my land, how I must think [politically correct, of course] etc. etc. I guess all of my views are extremely conservative. I know that the Founding fathers of this great country gave us the right to bear arms, it being a free societys right to alter or abolish their government as they see fit. This fact seems to be avoided by modern politicians who seem intent on controlling us. Ironically, Lisa Simpson just told everybody that the Second Amendment is no longer valid in the modern world. Wrong, Lisa. Now militias do push legality in the fact that they contributed to the escalation of the Civil War. Private armies are as great of a threat to liberty as any state run apparatus. Nonetheless a democracy is founded on the premise that the constituents are both educated & responsible, & with that the responsibility of controlling guns falls on the shoulders of @ American. We all need to teach our children the power of guns,drugs & sex. Bottom line we wouldnt need guns if there were fewer people so intent on ramrodding us into thinking like them.

  A well regulated militia being necessary for a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. -2nd amendment

To destroy a people you must first sever their roots.-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Polarbears are my totem, and I want them to survive.

 What Right to Work Means: The U.S. right to work legal principle is sometimes confused with that of employment at will or it simply doesn't mean what some think it does. For example, it doesn't mean that all U.S. citizens are entitled to work if they wish. While that's generally true, it's not what right to work means in legalese. In legalese, right to work more specifically means that otherwise-qualified employees are entitled to work at unionized workplaces, without joining the associated unions or paying regular union dues. But right to work (nonunion) employees might have to pay unions for the portion of dues spent representing them, such as pursuing grievances on their behalf. Right to work employees who are part of a "bargaining unit" have the right to union representation, that is equal to those in the same bargaining unit who've joined the union. A bargaining unit is a group of employees who have similar work duties, share a workplace, and presumably have similar interests when it comes to pay, hours and other working conditions. In other words, under the right to work principle, workers don't have to join unions or pay regular union dues to land or keep jobs. They may also cancel union membership at any time, without losing their jobs. But they are still entitled to fair and equal union representation while working in bargaining units of unionized workplaces. However, they might have to pay unions for the cost of such representation.

 Employment at Will: As are many employees only after the fact, you might be surprised to learn in advance that U.S. employers may legally fire you for just about any reason, no reason or even an unfair reason. That's partially because there are relatively few labor laws that protect workers from wrongful termination and none that generally protect from workplace "unfairness" per se. But it's more so because most states consider employment to be "at will" in legal jargon. In plain English, the Employment At-Will Doctrine means that employment is presumed to be voluntary and indefinite for both employees and employers. As an at-will employee under the doctrine, you may quit your job whenever and for whatever reason you want, usually without consequence. In turn, at-will employers may terminate you whenever and for whatever reason they want, usually without consequence. Either party may end the relationship without prior notice, but neither party may breach contracts. Employers cannot violate state or Federal laws, and generally cannot rightfully terminate employees who refuse to do something that is contrary to public policy and sound morality, such as breaking the law. But with these few exceptions aside, it's pretty much open season on employees year round.