Are people lazy, don’t know how to help or scared of liability.

[lilranch2001]

I think a lot of it anymore is a lack of “community “

 

[2manyrocks]

Years ago, the local electric company did a lot of their own line clearing, but they seemed to have switched to an independent tree clearing contractor. The local water utility still does their own water line repairs, but I think even they hired an outside contractor to install new water lines. The gas utility also hired out the installation of their new gas lines.

 

[lilranch2001]

I think in many cases the unions price themselves out of the market

 

[5030]

The tire post reminds they did a collection about 20 years ago. There was about 4 tires dumped in a deep culvert not on my property but close. I climbed down in there and dug them out and turned them in. I don’t want to sound like a martyr but I’ve done a lot of bicycle riding lately and you notice a lot more things when you travel at 14 mph instead of 50 mph.

People today are generally pigs so long as they can get away with it and no one sees them I equate it to bad parenting and low moral values.

 

[lilranch2001]

5030, there you go generalizing again….

Possibly a percentage of the population maybe? But generally?!?!?!

 

[4570Man]

People today are generally pigs so long as they can get away with it and no one sees them I equate it to bad parenting and low moral values.

People have dumped trash on the sides of roads for as long as roads have existed. I don’t know where people get off on the idea of suggesting only a particular generation does it.

 

[5030]

I think in many cases the unions price themselves out of the market

What is about to happen with the UAW and the not so big 3 in September. Already happened with Yellow Freight (YRC). Companies can only bend so far and that is it.

The issue is, established unions (like the teamsters and the UAW) wrongly think they can dictate to companies. Don't play that way, at least now. Maybe in the past when companies were making substantial profits, they succumbed to union demands. That is all done now.

The UAW is about to learn a valuable lesson in corporate economics. Do I feel for them, hell no. I do feel for the rank and file getting a measly 500 per week sub pay. I have them (UAW workers all around me) and I suspect there will be a lot of 'good deals' come up as they have to shed material things they cannot pay for any longer. I don't know of a single autoworker that isn't tapped out and living paycheck to paycheck. That is all going to come to a crashing end I suspect. The auto manufacturers have an 'ace in the hole' so to speak and that is, they have already started to relocate to states with RTW laws and Mexico and that will increase exponentially as the impending strike drags on. Gonna be a long cold winter up here I suspect.

 

[lilranch2001]

People have dumped trash on the sides of roads for as long as roads have existed. I don’t know where people get off on the idea of suggesting only a particular generation does it.

I know, I live just outside of a small village and people think my road is a trash bin…. But I suspect it is only a small percentage of the total population

 

[5030]

5030, there you go generalizing again….

Possibly a percentage of the population maybe? But generally?!?!?!

Mostly in urban areas, not so much out here in flyover country. Chicago is a prime example of bad parenting for instance. Kids out here learn responsibility at a young age along with respect and how to handle firearms correctly as well. Not all but most. Out here, kids, if they can reach the foot pedals are driving big tractors as well as farm trucks all the time. Put an urban kid in that situation and they won't have a clue but would want to know where the cell phone was.

 

[5030]

People have dumped trash on the sides of roads for as long as roads have existed. I don’t know where people get off on the idea of suggesting only a particular generation does it.

From what I see (and have to pick up) it's getting worse. I will say that an old discarded bed spring makes a dandy drag.