All Discussions Tagged 'jobs' - TBD2024-03-29T11:49:19Zhttps://teebeedee.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=jobs&feed=yes&xn_auth=noMUSINGS WHILE ON THE ROADtag:teebeedee.ning.com,2010-06-17:1991841:Topic:9902542010-06-17T04:13:49.568ZCWO3ROBBIEhttps://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/CWO3ROBBIE
<p>I travel around a lot. I drive a 32 ft Class A RV towing a jeep Liberty. Since i don't have a navigator, I depend on a GPS device. It has a female voice that tells me where to go. Since I've been married twice and had a few girl friends, I have been told where to go many times. But, with the GPS lady I don't have to do what she says.</p>
<p>However, since I do need to hear what she says (I call her Nellie) I have found that I can't have the radio on or listen to books on CD. This means that…</p>
<p>I travel around a lot. I drive a 32 ft Class A RV towing a jeep Liberty. Since i don't have a navigator, I depend on a GPS device. It has a female voice that tells me where to go. Since I've been married twice and had a few girl friends, I have been told where to go many times. But, with the GPS lady I don't have to do what she says.</p>
<p>However, since I do need to hear what she says (I call her Nellie) I have found that I can't have the radio on or listen to books on CD. This means that I often go for long periods with no distactions. So, I think.</p>
<p>Today while driving through Alabama on US Highway 80 instead of the Interstate. I observed that there was a lot of road construction.</p>
<p>There was also a number of signs proclaiming that this roadwork was being funded by the Federal Government as part of the "Put Our Country Back to Work Program". that is a paraphrase but means the same as what the signs said.</p>
<p>I thought "wait a moment, both the President and the current President have said that this country is in trouble because we are addicted to oil". </p>
<p>What uses the most oil?</p>
<p>The cars and trucks on the highways.</p>
<p>The trucks probably consume more than the cars, but they are moving the stuff we need around the country. </p>
<p>I have read that the cost of moving goods by rail is a very small fraction of the cost of moving goods by truck.</p>
<p>I think most of the difference in cost is the difference in amount of fuel required to move goods.</p>
<p>So, If we want to get over our addiction to Oil and also put people to work, why isn't the Government funding the building of railroads?</p>
<p>I had many more thoughts about this subject, but I would like to hear what the rest of you think.</p> Whats so hot about living 'Up North"?tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2010-04-12:1991841:Topic:9211482010-04-12T04:02:42.050ZMother Sanity (JackieRodzinski)https://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/JackieRodzinskiMotherSanity
<div><div>Really, folks.... The weather is either hot as hell or cold as hell. Pure Hell. Many</div>
<div> people are losing their jobs, homes, life savings. The competition just to get in the</div>
<div> elevator makes running for President look like fun. The GW Bridge, The Holland Tunnel,</div>
<div> etc cost $8 bucks to get across. (Lake Ponchetrain causeway is $3, a much, much longer</div>
<div> ride....)</div>
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<div> Most everyone, will say they trust others little, if at…</div>
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<div><div>Really, folks.... The weather is either hot as hell or cold as hell. Pure Hell. Many</div>
<div> people are losing their jobs, homes, life savings. The competition just to get in the</div>
<div> elevator makes running for President look like fun. The GW Bridge, The Holland Tunnel,</div>
<div> etc cost $8 bucks to get across. (Lake Ponchetrain causeway is $3, a much, much longer</div>
<div> ride....)</div>
<div><br/></div>
<div> Most everyone, will say they trust others little, if at all. Oh, we make a show of</div>
<div> it, but with people peering in your garage and complaining to the point that the</div>
<div> teenagers are peeing in their cars....The cynicism, the cynicism, the cynicism cynicism</div>
<div> cynicism cynicism, can be overwhelming.</div>
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<div>Ever drive in NJ or CT? It's easier to drive in Pakistan. Every time I turn around</div>
<div>there's a new law or a new camera enforcing that law. Why, why, do we live here? The</div>
<div>cancer rate in NY, NJ, the quacks that call themselves MD's....? Aw, the hell with all</div>
<div>of it.</div>
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<div>The friendliness of Southerners is so moving. The housing is cheaper. And if you cant</div>
<div>find a job in the hurricane ravaged gulf area, well, we call that D-I-S-A-B-I-L-T-Y. Its</div>
<div>a joy to think it might be possible to let your guard down, even for a disillusioned</div>
<div>moment. (Well, men change there minds all over the world....)</div>
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<div>The traffic? I remember traveling 1.5 hours each way to work, in 90 mph hour traffic,</div>
<div>bumper to bumper, twice a day, every day. (The Meritt Pkway). I remember sitting on the</div>
<div>same road for 6 hours in a snow storm....and the BASTARD I worked for....</div>
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<div>Ok, Tom has a job and he makes 6 figures. But he hates it! And the cost of living, the</div>
<div>property taxes ($8000-9000/yr, here) are hardly worth the corrupt school administrations</div>
<div>they keep in BMW's.</div>
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<div>The leaves change color. Good. You can download that off the internet. LaGuardia Airport</div>
<div>is sheer terror to fly in/out...god only knows how long it'll take to drive to JFK</div>
<div>(traffic) and Newark, well, that place holds a special place in the heart of all New</div>
<div>Yorkers.</div>
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<div>Ok..no hurricanes, real ones anyway, but Noreasters that cause the damage other people</div>
<div> get 'aid' for. Then theres the snow storms, which are particularily delightful, esp</div>
<div> those heavy, slushy 12-24 inch ones that freeze over for the next two months.</div>
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<div>Whats my best guess? Why do we do it? My guess: ignorance, speculation and HOPE. Lots</div>
<div>and lots of HOPE.</div>
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<div>Mother (losing her) Sanity</div>
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