…and the disaster of the “stimulus.”
The Empire State Building was erected in less than two years. It’s now been a decade since 911 and the site hasn’t been completed. It’s a wonder anything gets done any more. And I found this particularly interesting:
I was among the last group of engineers and surveyors laid off from my company in June and have only found one temporary job since then, with almost all the companies in my area (Nashville) treading water or downsizing since then. (In my job search, I’ve been told more than once that people are not planning on adding staff until after next year’s election.)
There’s a lot of that going around, I’ll bet. And if the election goes the wrong way, staff may not be added then, either.
Too man Brahmins exacting tribute along the way, unless you’re building a
mosqueIslamic cultural center there, in which case they’re all tooterrorisedsensitive to being called a “racist.”Although I’m not in the work force, most all the adults I know are. Mrs D S is too. She’s a gub’ment employee, since the dot com bubble anyway. And she says she’s seeing more people jump OUT of state jobs at greater rates than she ever saw in private industry.
Other folks we know are looking to get IN at state or federal level.
It’s the most schizophrenic jobs thing I’ve ever seen. It makes almost less sense than stocks and precious metals going up and down together, instead of in reverse proportions.
Here’s what I’ve found, again, I can’t hire anyone for the concession business even at $10 or $12 an hour cash. I sure wish I could have been that choosy back when I was out of jobs years ago. I delivered pizzas, threw a paper route and hung dry wall, all at the same time to make ends meet.
Of course, I never got 99 weeks of unemployment ever, either.
Same here: Our family business is desperately in need of workers. We have a deal with the local homeless shelter in which they send job-seekers our way, but recently the number of such seekers has dwindled to zero. We recently offered jobs to five homeless people in the shelter, men and women, and were turned down because our jobs involve “too much work for not enough money”.
I mean, WTF?
Two thoughts on this. First, when they built Hoover (Boulder) Dam, the funding that had been approved a couple of years earlier was no longer available. So, that is when they added electricity generation to the project, got private funding, and used the electric income to pay off the loans – which they did by the 80s. Greatest public works project of its day, done entirely without tax dollars. This was told to my group by the tour guide at the dam – they never taught this at school.
Second thought is, of course, The Pentagon. It took longer to replace the two wings damaged in 9/11 then it did to build the whole damn building in the 40s. Probably cost more, too.