Trying to hire and they are all "Drawing"

[Kays Supply]

My wife just came home from a shopping trip to the local mall. She was talking to a person that is trying to open a new store there. They have had a sign in the window for several days trying to hire help. They haven't had one person apply.

 

[Taylortractornut]

We finally hired a man thats a good worker we ve now been through 6 folks to get to lucky number 7. Hes a good carpenter and a good truck driver thats diven older trucks and can accept the Vocational Macks. He is also pretty easy going found thato ut to day whe nwe were servicing the compactor and and the 2 inch tank drain blew out and soaked him he just laughed. Hes a hard worker and is always busy.

 

[tglass]

We have been trying to hire another employee to work in the shop at our shipping facility and everyone we have approached so far, is Drawing a gumment check of some sort and can't work at a public job. They say it will mess up their check. Really a sad situation. Ken Sweet

Ken, this is something that makes me sick. People whom live off the government and probably belongs on the front porch part of the forum. but still needs to be brung up to everyone on this forum. People who live off the government and in reality, us who are paying there bills. See this type of thing every day, and as said before food stamps for people not needing, medical care because of legalities of being an unmarried mother when the father stays there every night? Alot of things need to be reviewed.

 

[sweettractors]

Ken, this is something that makes me sick. People whom live off the government and probably belongs on the front porch part of the forum. but still needs to be brung up to everyone on this forum. People who live off the government and in reality, us who are paying there bills. See this type of thing every day, and as said before food stamps for people not needing, medical care because of legalities of being an unmarried mother when the father stays there every night? Alot of things need to be reviewed.

I would like to know what it will take for the gumment to start the "review" process. I guess us suckers that work will continue to support the 50% that don,t. I believe that I could review and correct the whole darn mess in about 1 day! Ken Sweet

 

[2manyrocks]

Lots of the government don't want any review because if you started looking at them, you'd fire them. Some of these government jobs don't go to the most qualified people; they are awarded for political reasons and therein lies the whole problem. It's not about right. It's not about economics. It's not about efficiency. It's all about politics.

 

[Alan L.]

I do sympathize with your wifes condition. My Oldest Son was in a motorcycle vs car pulled out in front of him accident about 5 years ago and could have qualified for disability. He still has pain about 1/2 the time. When he is hurting, he does business on the laptop from the recliner or where ever he can get comfortable. On good days, he works on the farm and in his shop. I am proud that he is still a productive member of society.

Not all back problems are created equal and sitting at the computer is not necessarily "comfortable". Back in 1998 I had discitis in my lower back and sacrum. I have a desk job and missed 2 months of work. Trust me, even if I had been able to stand it, with the level of pain meds I was taking I wasn't up to it.

But.........if you can work and make money then any government disability should be cut.

 

[tommu56]

Lots of the government don't want any review because if you started looking at them, you'd fire them. Some of these government jobs don't go to the most qualified people; they are awarded for political reasons and therein lies the whole problem. It's not about right. It's not about economics. It's not about efficiency. It's all about politics.

here is what they would come up with

1. The federal government made at least $72 billion in improper payments in 2008.[1]
2. Washington spends $92 billion on corporate welfare (excluding TARP) versus $71 billion on homeland security.[2]
3. Washington spends $25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties.[3]
4. Government auditors spent the past five years examining all federal programs and found that 22 percent of them膨osting taxpayers a total of $123 billion annually貿ail to show any positive impact on the populations they serve.[4]
5. The Congressional Budget Office published a 釘udget Options series identifying more than $100 billion in potential spending cuts.[5]
6. Examples from multiple Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports of wasteful duplication include 342 economic development programs; 130 programs serving the disabled;130 programs serving at-risk youth; 90 early childhood development programs; 75 programs funding international education, cultural, and training exchange activities; and 72 safe water programs.[6]
7. Washington will spend $2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job.[7]
8. A GAO audit classified nearly half of all purchases on government credit cards as improper, fraudulent, or embezzled. Examples of taxpayer-funded purchases include gambling, mortgage payments, liquor, lingerie, iPods, Xboxes, jewelry, Internet dating services, and Hawaiian vacations. In one extraordinary example, the Postal Service spent $13,500 on one dinner at a Ruth痴 Chris Steakhouse, including 登ver 200 appetizers and over $3,000 of alcohol, including more than 40 bottles of wine costing more than $50 each and brand-name liquor such as Courvoisier, Belvedere and Johnny Walker Gold. The 81 guests consumed an average of $167 worth of food and drink apiece.[8]
9. Federal agencies are delinquent on nearly 20 percent of employee travel charge cards, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually.[9]
10. The Securities and Exchange Commission spent $3.9 millionrearranging desks and offices at its Washington, D.C., headquarters.[10]
11. The Pentagon recently spent $998,798 shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas and $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida.[11]
12. Over half of all farm subsidies go to commercial farms, which report average household incomes of $200,000.[12]
13. Health care fraud is estimated to cost taxpayers more than $60 billion annually.[13]
14. A GAO audit found that 95 Pentagon weapons systems suffered from a combined $295 billion in cost overruns.[14]
15. The refusal of many federal employees to fly coach costs taxpayers $146 million annually in flight upgrades.[15]
16. Washington will spend $126 million in 2009 to enhance the Kennedy family legacy in Massachusetts. Additionally, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) diverted $20 million from the 2010 defense budget to subsidize a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute.[16]
17. Federal investigators have launched more than 20 criminal fraud investigations related to the TARP financial bailout.[17]
18. Despite trillion-dollar deficits, last year痴 10,160 earmarks included $200,000 for a tattoo removal program in Mission Hills, California; $190,000 for the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; and $75,000 for the Totally Teen Zone in Albany, Georgia.[18]
19. The federal government owns more than 50,000 vacant homes.[19]
20. The Federal Communications Commission spent $350,000 to sponsor NASCAR driver David Gilliland.[20]
21. Members of Congress have spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars supplying their offices with popcorn machines, plasma televisions, DVD equipment, ionic air fresheners, camcorders, and signature machines朴lus $24,730 leasing a Lexus, $1,434 on a digital camera, and $84,000 on personalized calendars.[21]
22. More than $13 billion in Iraq aid has been classified as wasted or stolen. Another $7.8 billion cannot be accounted for.[22]
23. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top$2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, 敵irls Gone Wild videos, and at least one *** change operation.[23]
24. Auditors discovered that 900,000 of the 2.5 million recipients of emergency Katrina assistance provided false names, addresses, or Social Security numbers or submitted multiple applications.[24]
25. Congress recently gave Alaska Airlines $500,000 to paint a Chinook salmon on a Boeing 737.[25]
26. The Transportation Department will subsidize up to $2,000 per flight for direct flights between Washington, D.C., and the small hometown of Congressman Hal Rogers (R-KY)肪ut only on Monday mornings and Friday evenings, when lawmakers, staff, and lobbyists usually fly. Rogers is a member of the Appropriations Committee, which writes the Transportation Department痴 budget.[26]
27. Washington has spent $3 billion re-sanding beaches貌ven as this new sand washes back into the ocean.[27]
28. A Department of Agriculture report concedes that much of the$2.5 billion in 都timulus funding for broadband Internet will be wasted.[28]
29. The Defense Department wasted $100 million on unused flight tickets and never bothered to collect refunds even though the tickets were refundable.[29]
30. Washington spends $60,000 per hour shooting Air Force One photo-ops in front of national landmarks.[30]
31. Over one recent 18-month period, Air Force and Navy personnel used government-funded credit cards to charge at least$102,400 on admission to entertainment events, $48,250 on gambling, $69,300 on cruises, and $73,950 on exotic dance clubs and prostitutes.[31]
32. Members of Congress are set to pay themselves $90 million to increase their franked mailings for the 2010 election year.[32]
33. Congress has ignored efficiency recommendations from the Department of Health and Human Services that would save $9 billion annually.[33]
34. Taxpayers are funding paintings of high-ranking government officials at a cost of up to $50,000 apiece.[34]
35. The state of Washington sent $1 food stamp checks to 250,000 households in order to raise state caseload figures and trigger$43 million in additional federal funds.[35]
36. Suburban families are receiving large farm subsidies for the grass in their backyards穆ubsidies that many of these families never requested and do not want.[36]
37. Congress appropriated $20 million for 田ommemoration of success celebrations related to Iraq and Afghanistan.[37]
38. Homeland Security employee purchases include 63-inch plasma TVs, iPods, and $230 for a beer brewing kit.[38]
39. Two drafting errors in the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act resulted in a $2 billion taxpayer cost.[39]
40. North Ridgeville, Ohio, received $800,000 in 都timulus funds for a project that its mayor described as 殿 long way from the top priority.?a name="_ednref40" href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm2642.cfm#_edn40">[40]
41. The National Institutes of Health spends $1.3 million per month to rent a lab that it cannot use.[41]
42. Congress recently spent $2.4 billion on 10 new jets that the Pentagon insists it does not need and will not use.[42]
43. Lawmakers diverted $13 million from Hurricane Katrina relief spending to build a museum celebrating the Army Corps of Engineers釦he agency partially responsible for the failed levees that flooded New Orleans.[43]
44. Medicare officials recently mailed $50 million in erroneous refunds to 230,000 Medicare recipients.[44]
45. Audits showed $34 billion worth of Department of Homeland Security contracts contained significant waste, fraud, and abuse.[45]
46. Washington recently spent $1.8 million to help build a private golf course in Atlanta, Georgia.[46]
47. The Advanced Technology Program spends $150 millionannually subsidizing private businesses; 40 percent of this funding goes to Fortune 500 companies.[47]
48. Congressional investigators were able to receive $55,000 in federal student loan funding for a fictional college they created to test the Department of Education.[48]
49. The Conservation Reserve program pays farmers $2 billionannually not to farm their land.[49]
50. The Commerce Department has lost 1,137 computers since 2001, many containing Americans personal data.[50]

50 Examples of Government Waste govtslaves.info

tom

 

[dcyrilc]

here is what they would come up with

1. The federal government ....
   [*]Suburban families are receiving large farm subsidies for the grass in their backyards穆ubsidies that many of these families never requested and do not want.[36]....

50 Examples of Government Waste govtslaves.info

tom

I'd love to have it, but can't qualify. Farm doesn't bring in enough income.:confused2:

 

[redneckford]

I would like to know what it will take for the gumment to start the "review" process. I guess us suckers that work will continue to support the 50% that don,t. I believe that I could review and correct the whole darn mess in about 1 day! Ken Sweet

why not just do like those folks from way down south and live 20 or 30 to a house and send most of your $10 per hour pay check back home---$500 rent divided by 20 makes it easy---who needs a standard of living ----in the old days three generation of familys lived in the same house at the same time---all that government support was done by the family----IT IS A FAMILY PROBLEM NOT A GOVERNMENT PROBLEM!!!!----send pea seed not food stamps----grandpa can hoe the garden while i watch tv---the commercials or great! ----it could be worse for grandpa---he could be living in his own home getting a social security check

 

[ultrarunner]

Any idea what is needed to get corporate welfare?

I know it is relatively straight-forward to start a corporation... what I don't know is where to find the Corporate Welfare Office?

Looking around there are many signs of Government excess.

In front of work the utility under-grounding project on on city street has been going on for more than 10 years... the street is torn-up then closed only to be torn-up again.

None of the original city engineers, Mayor or City Council that started with the project 10 years ago are still with the city... yet the project seems to have a life of it's own.