To gauge opinion and attitudes.

If you work 8 hours a day 5 days a week how much should you earn?

Juxtapose that with 4 hours a day 5 days a week and report the findings please

I really do enjoy when someone is chosen as the target by someone that has one on their back. I laugh and I laugh and I laugh.

I could say many things but it really is to amusing to actually share and I just don’t do that shit.

I do do this

Dude you have issues.

You have Putin as your avatar, tell me again how much you hate communists and Muslims

Oh and thank you for unfriending me because I* know your gonna do it Mr Patriot

I have issues huh? As a matter a fact I do, plenty, and your little remarks aren’t going to change that, so shut the fuck up, enjoy the ride or bail, your choice? And no, I’m not going to unfriend you, I’m going to torture you with more of my bullshit…enjoy!

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2 Load your gun show us how little your dick is. I am a Marine what are you other than a waste of pixels?

It was a great thought then I forgot what it was.

But anyway I have this

When Lisa Norris was a kid in Cookeville, Tennessee, her father worked at Acme Boots, and that plant and her childhood were intertwined. One of her earliest memories is of wandering around the factory among bins of leather, breathing in the smell of the well-​oiled wood floors. Then the boot plant went to Mexico and her dad landed at Wrangler, which makes jeans, and then Red Kap, which makes workwear, and rarely ever again did he stay at a job for more than eighteen months. Each time, the plant would downsize or shutter, the jobs would cross the border, and he’d have to start all over again.

During the current recovery, productivity growth hasn’t even resulted in increased hiring; rather, it has occurred in concert with massive layoffs and record long-​term unemployment. “U.S. employers cut jobs pitilessly” during the recession, noted a typical story from the Associated Press. “Yet after shrinking payrolls, many companies found they could produce just as much with fewer workers.” The result has been a recovery marked by increased productivity and record corporate profits, but with catastrophically low employment growth. Yet economists and pundits continue to chew over our “jobless recovery” as if it were an anomaly.

For something so vital to the future of the US economy, there’s disturbingly little data collected about plant closings and offshoring, let alone analysis of what goes into these decisions. Corporate annual reports and SEC filings are silent about the logic behind closings. Philips’s 2010 SEC filings, for example, reveal nothing about why the firm offshored the Sparta plant, or the many other North American plants it has shuttered, beyond a brief reference to “initiatives to structurally reduce our overall cost structure” and “transferring technologies to low-​cost countries.” WARN notices, required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act from firms before they make mass layoffs, only contain numbers of jobs lost, not the thinking behind them, and are arduous to examine because they’re filed state by state. Until the 2013 sequester, the Bureau of Labor Statistics compiled them but only published aggregate data that lumped offshoring in with temporary layoffs. As the SEC does not require firms to break down their employee numbers by nation, multinationals, like Philips, increasingly provide only global or regional numbers in their public filings. American multinationals are required to report their total employees here and abroad to the Commerce Department each year, but the aggregate data made publicly available provides only a rough hint as to the scale of offshoring-​and, again, nothing whatsoever about the thinking behind it. A 2010 NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey found that more Americans-​86 percent-​blamed offshoring for the struggling economy than any other cause. And yet the Department of Labor tracks offshoring numbers only to the extent that laid-​off workers petition for “trade-​affected” status, which entitles them to training grants. Since few nonunion workers know to do this, the DOL numbers are definitely an undercount. Yet in 2010, the most recent data available, such petitions represented 287,000 offshored jobs, the equivalent of a thousand factories like the one in Sparta.

Of course I would have to have one to hate it wouldn’t I?

Beyond all that I laughed at a dude today. He makes a grand a week and complains he is broke. Hey man, his old lady does have big, oh never mind you get the point. Get it? The point?

They really pale compared to the other issues I have in my my life.

I’ve seen it before. Someone that you think cares, someone that you think is on your side waits for you to turn your back. I refuse to mention names because there is a silent plane flying above my head.

Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode To Billie Joe”

In August 1967, Lyndon Johnson announced that he was sending 45,000 more troops to Vietnam. Black power advocate Stokely Carmichael called for violent revolution in the streets. Beatles manager Brian Epstein died from an overdose of sleeping pills. But around water coolers, the hot topic was what Billie Joe McAllister and his girlfriend threw off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

The mystery created by Bobbie Gentry in her debut single “Ode To Billie Joe” cast a spell over the entire country.

I found this in my inbox today and I do actually realize that it is not current but found it fascinating so I thought I would share.

“Everybody has a different guess about what was thrown off the bridge-flowers, a ring, even a baby. Anyone who hears the song can think what they want, but the real message of the song, if there must be a message, revolves around the nonchalant way the family talks about the suicide. They sit there eating their peas and apple pie and talking, without even realizing that Billie Joe’s girlfriend is sitting at the table, a member of the family.”

Nobody needed to hear it