Overheard conversation!!!!

[smstonypoint]

The Davis/Bacon Act was the biggest boondoggle I've seen. Nothing against great wages for a superior job but when forced to pay Davis/Bacon for shoddy, half-azzed work really irritated me. 8 schools built, all D/B and they are crap! When Gov't is involved prices quadruple.

That legislation has a sordid racist history -- Mandated Wages and Discrimination - Walter E. Williams.

Steve

 

[Doofy]

Steve, good read. I've always believed that good work deserved good pay. No matter the color or gender. Really can't see where this country has progressed a heck of a lot.

 

[RSKY]

Walter Williams is great.

 

[Doofy]

Sad, sad...this country now gives good pay for no work. Sick and tired of my tax dollars funding the welfare state! My folks taught me that if I wanted to eat, I needed to work!

I also feel the same way about "Country Club" prisons. Bring back hard labor and chain-gangs and get this country cleaned up and back on track. Infrastructure in sad shape... Fix it! You have a captive audience.

 

[4570Man]

Sad, sad...this country now gives good pay for no work. Sick and tired of my tax dollars funding the welfare state! My folks taught me that if I wanted to eat, I needed to work!

I also feel the same way about "Country Club" prisons. Bring back hard labor and chain-gangs and get this country cleaned up and back on track. Infrastructure in sad shape... Fix it! You have a captive audience.

There’s enough churches and individuals that are willing to help there’s no need for government handouts in any form. Since that’s not going away there should be a year cap for government assistance and your right to vote taken away while you’re on government assistance.

 

[Doofy]

There’s enough churches and individuals that are willing to help there’s no need for government handouts in any form. Since that’s not going away there should be a year cap for government assistance and your right to vote taken away while you’re on government assistance.

Well, it needs more teeth than their right to vote. Dollars to donuts the majority of them don't vote now. I see absolutely no way to motivate them that would possibly make any difference. I guess we could make them sit in on the windbags in Congress and maybe the utter boredom would motivate them.

 

[4570Man]

Well, it needs more teeth than their right to vote. Dollars to donuts the majority of them don't vote now. I see absolutely no way to motivate them that would possibly make any difference. I guess we could make them sit in on the windbags in Congress and maybe the utter boredom would motivate them.

The loss of right to vote was to keep out the politician who promises the most hand outs. A year cap should motivate them. After that you can get a job or eat grass and live under a bridge.

 

[Doofy]

The loss of right to vote was to keep out the politician who promises the most hand outs. A year cap should motivate them. After that you can get a job or eat grass and live under a bridge.

Ah-so! I gotcha! That does make sense.

 

[/pine]

...and your right to vote taken away while youæ±*e on government assistance...

I like this concept but I would go a step further...
Every penny spent by the gov. comes from people that actually pay income tax...I think that if a person does not actually pay income tax they should not be able to vote for the people/positions that are responsible for spending those tax monies...

 

[Doofy]

I like this concept but I would go a step further...
Every penny spent by the gov. comes from people that actually pay income tax...I think that if a person does not actually pay income tax they should not be able to vote for the people/positions that are responsible for spending those tax monies...

Well, that certainly makes sense.