Would you buy an electric truck?

[Industrial Toys]

I have often wondered about the debt issue. So many countries owing so much money, but to who?

On the other side of the coin. If this reality really doesn't exist as we think it does, then money most certainly doesn't really exist either.

I HATE people getting something for nothing, and not having to work for it. On the other hand, I realize, that may say more about me than them.

It was never GOVERNMENTS job or mandate to take money from people that have it and give it to those that don't. If people of certain political pursuasian have such a strong belief in that, let them give THEIR money away!

 

[Gale Hawkins]

I have often wondered about the debt issue. So many countries owing so much money, but to who?

On the other side of the coin. If this reality really doesn't exist as we think it does, then money most certainly doesn't really exist either.

I HATE people getting something for nothing, and not having to work for it. On the other hand, I realize, that may say more about me than them.

It was never GOVERNMENTS job or mandate to take money from people that have it and give it to those that don't. If people of certain political pursuasian have such a strong belief in that, let them give THEIR money away!

I expect most here agree with you but we are only back seat drivers setting behind sound proof glass. Since Japan has the worse debt ratio of an industrial nation I like to follow that situation. China has a serious debt issue as well we're all in the same boat I guess. People will still figure out a way to own electric truck.

 

[Fuddy1952]

What gets me () is before the covid mess my wife and I ate at a nice restaurant and I left waitress a good tip. I was thinking she probably gets an hourly wage which I'm sure isn't much...but they were busy and she was waiting on lots of tables. I figured she was probably making at least $50-$60/ hour in tips, and mostly cash.
That evening wife and I buying groceries, and that same waitress ahead of us. Her bill was $150...and she uses food stamps!!! Beer/cigarettes aren't covered so she pays $30...the $120 paid by taxpayers.
Steam comes out my ears!
Were's our free groceries? Of course her cash tips go unreported.

 

[MickeyDBC]

What gets me () is before the covid mess my wife and I ate at a nice restaurant and I left waitress a good tip. I was thinking she probably gets an hourly wage which I'm sure isn't much...but they were busy and she was waiting on lots of tables. I figured she was probably making at least $50-$60/ hour in tips, and mostly cash.
That evening wife and I buying groceries, and that same waitress ahead of us. Her bill was $150...and she uses food stamps!!! Beer/cigarettes aren't covered so she pays $30...the $120 paid by taxpayers.
Steam comes out my ears!
Were's our free groceries? Of course her cash tips go unreported.

Do you think she still has a job? A lot of the food service people around here are out of work or working greatly reduced shifts.

 

[MickeyDBC]

I have an F350 diesel dually and am on the Tesla truck reserve list. Figure I will have a 150K miles on the Ford and will bump it down to just heavy use when the electric one comes in. I get tired of spending $400 to $600 a month on diesel.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Maybe it's shittty of me. I see the food donation bex in the grocery store and think, great, I feed them and they use their wellfare cheque for beer and cigarettes (or worse). A sucker is born every minute as they say.

Or, just encourage them to have more children, that like them will never work and I can support them too. Until they get annoyed that they don't drive BMWs and burn the town to the ground.

 

[MossRoad]

Maybe it's shittty of me. I see the food donation bex in the grocery store and think, great, I feed them and they use their wellfare cheque for beer and cigarettes (or worse). A sucker is born every minute as they say.

Or, just encourage them to have more children, that like them will never work and I can support them too. Until they get annoyed that they don't drive BMWs and burn the town to the ground.

Food in the donation box at a grocery store usually goes to a food bank. They do a pretty good job of making sure it gets to the people that need it. At least ours does.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Horror stories abound here. From variety store owners that show up in Mercedes cars to use the bank to stock their shelves, to people that throw turkeys and other unwanted stuff along the streets leadind away from the banks.

 

[MossRoad]

Horror stories abound here. From variety store owners that show up in Mercedes cars to use the bank to stock their shelves, to people that throw turkeys and other unwanted stuff along the streets leadind away from the banks.

Geeze, that's awful. The one my wife has me volunteering at provides services for other food banks in something like 9 counties. Mostly, wife and I pack food for kids. That's lunches for the weekend that they give kids on Fridays. They go through about 2200 of them a week just in our county.

Sometimes we work the food pantry side. There, you have to provide proof of income. You're allowed to come in once per month, and depending on if you're single or a family, you get a certain ticket. Then you go in with a shopping cart and you're allowed, say, X cans of veggies, X noodles, X bread, X soup, a couple meats, X fresh produce, and some snack cakes. All of it kind of depends on what has been donated that month. One time they had unlimited canned beans!

Food for kids stops during summer. Then we help with food for adults. They pack boxes with canned goods, powdered milk, juice, rice, beans, noodles, canned chicken and tuna. Those go to elderly people with limited income.

They also handle all the food the post office collects on those days when everyone leaves canned goods for the mailman to pick up. We sort those out for later packing and distribution.

Anyhow, I'm pretty comfortable with how our local food bank handles things. If I saw them wasting things, or just giving it out to anyone, I'd not be working there. The people that come to the pantry really do appear to be down on their luck, and are always quite polite and appreciative for the assistance. Many seem embarrassed to be there. I suppose I might, too.

 

[MossRoad]

This is a picture of the food bank. It's all those red buildings in the upper left corner. To keep it kinda tractor related.....

That brick building with the smokestack marked as Rose Brick & Materials is the old power plant building for the Oliver tractor factory.