It is easy to underestimate the peasantry, the little people. They appear well under control. All seems calm, unless one looks carefully. The means of control work smoothly: the legions, the church, the media, the secret police, the enforcers of political correctness. The serfs are cowed. Why worry about a distant peonage? Do we not have our castles? Let us dance and drink champagne.
And comes the guillotine.
I know three young women of exceptional intelligence and talent, all of them mature and disciplined. They cannot find jobs. It is not from lack of trying, far from it. One of them is married to a hard-working man in a highly technical field usually associated with wealth. He is paid a low hourly wage and forced to work on contract, meaning that he has neither benefits nor retirement. His employers know that if he leaves, they can easily find another to take his place. They have him where they want him.
Which may prove a mistake.
Yet this is become a pattern. In a country that prides itself on wealth and justice and boundless opportunity, none of these things actually exists except for our Bourbons. The rich in their palaces in Manhattan and Santa Clara prosper mightily, often by impoverishing the rest. It has happened many times in history. The results have been similar.
The guillotine was devised as a humanitarian measure to cut off a criminal’s head cleanly, the ax-wielding headsmen of the time being notorious for missed strokes and subsequent horror. When the meek and mild peasantry rose in 1789, proving to be less meek and mild than believed, the humanitarian aspects of the instrument were forgotten. The populace just wanted to see their betters bleed. They saw.
In the United States of today, clouds gather as the royalty toast each other with expensive wines. In numbers that a half century ago would have seemed impossible, the American young live with their parents, being unable to find jobs to support themselves. Waitressing in a good bar pays better in tips than a woman with a college degree can otherwise earn, assuming that she can earn anything at all. Employers having learned to hire them as individual contractors, they move into their thirties with no hope of a pension for their old age.
Desperation and hatred are close cousins.
Meanwhile, Jeffrey Bezos of Amazon makes spaceships and buys the Washington Post as a toy and the newspapers have reported that a Croesus of Wall Street has bought a Modigliani, it may have been, for $55 million dollars.
Marie didn’t actually say, “Let them eat cake,” but might well have. Instead they ate her. But it can’t happen here. Oh no.
The homeless in San Francisco are now described as “a plague.” There seem to be ever more of them. But not to worry. Never worry. The stock market remains exuberant. In nearby Silicon Valley, a man buys a new Lamborghini every year.
The Russians simply shot their royal family in a basement in Ekaterinburg. The Romanovs, or at least those Romanovs, were actually nice people, very much an Ozzie and Harriet family. Perhaps if you met Bezos, or Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates or Elon Musk, you would find them charming, even decnet. They probably give money to charity. So did Andrew Carnegie. The Romanovs just didn’t pay enough attention. Neither, perhaps, do newer Romanovs.
Unrest breeds surprises. Maybe Louis XVI thought, “It can never happen here.” Today the African population of America is openly insurgent, the middle class sinks, jobs continue leaving under the stewardship of the rich, the government either will not or cannot enforce its laws, the borders are open, half of the country seethes in fury at the other half, and the sale of guns is at record heights.
When people realize that they really have no country, only a collection of rapacious interests, history becomes…creative. In theory, Congress and the President have the well-being of the nation at heart and at least to some extent seek to effect the betterment of the whole. Really they are carrion birds picking the carcass clean and, perhaps, planning flight to the French Riviera.
Mussolini ended as an ornament in the Italian street, hanging upside down from a meat hook. He should have paid more attention.
A short walk from the Capitol in Washington, whole housing developments lie empty, their windows sometimes bricked up to keep the derelicts out. In abandoned houses turned shooting galleries, of which there are many, empty cans of Vienna sausages and old bottles of fortified wine lie among used needles and rags stained with things better not reflected upon. You can live for a surprising time on Vienna sausages, Night Train, and Ritz crackers. Many do. Their organs eventually fail.
No one sees these things, so they cannot be important. A forty-five minute walk away, in Colonial Village across Key Bridge in Virginia, I once bought an 835-square-foot condo for $140,000 and later sold it for $300,000. It is well that the economy flourishes. We live in a land of opportunity.
In this best of all possible worlds the wealthy buy homes for $100 million and sleep secure in their beds, knowing that only half of the country would love to hang them from lamp posts. True, the rise of Donald Trump may disturb the elites a bit as they enrich themselves by sending more jobs abroad. But not to worry. Trump is only Mussolini by Disney and the fury his supporters feel toward New York and Washington will go away once we have Hillary in office. Fly-over land doesn’t really matter anyway.
Unless of course it does. In which case Uber should stock up on tumbrils.
As I’ve mentioned here and elsewhere, IMHO Trump can win if he emphasizes the change he intends to bring, including a day of reckoning for those who’ve lied us into economic ruin and needless, endless, war. Tell us you’ll hire Bill Black as AG and start prosecuting Banksters. Launch a truly independent criminal investigation into 9/11 (which was never done). And go further on the immigration topic; doesn’t it make sense to seal up the fucking borders so terrorists can’t get in if it makes sense to commit all these resources in the sandbox?
Oh, one more on my wish list; Trump needs to make it clear his DOJ will reopen the treasonous email case against Hillery and appoint a special prosecutor to examine that and the Clinton Foundation fraud and treason.
West
I agree. Why doesnt Trump just stand in front of cameras tomorrow and say exactly that. He would have his Reagan coalition of repubs on right and Bernie supporters on the left. It seems too easy but likely will not be done. Hard to figure sometimes. Almost like he wants to lose.
That is a policy that people can get behind. Is concrete and easy to explain.
“Hard to figure sometimes. Almost like he wants to lose.”
Bingo. That’s what I’ve been thinking.
I have said it before and I will say it again. There is something very fishy going on between Donald Trump and Bill Clinton. They have been friends for years. There was an article in the Washington Post, that wrote that Bill Clinton encouraged Donald Trump to take a more “active” role in the Republican Party.
And yes, a lot of people are pissed at the elites screwing them over. I know of people making lists…. at some point, it is going to get bloody.
General,
Have a look at photos of the men that fell under the influence of Charles Manson. You’ll notice that they do not look like hippies. As a matter of fact, they look like clean cut young men. Anyway, Charles Manson explained to his men that they were not “Hippies” but “Slippies” and that they were going to slip into and out of society unnoticed and unremarkable.
This is not the time to talk about lists and who has them. It is time, for once, to think like Charles Manson.
Like I just said elsewhere, I’m just waiting for the festivities to begin in earnest. I don’t know what the impetus will be or when but I’ll recognize it when I see it. I’d love to be a guillotine operator but I’m thinking a feet first ride through an industrial woodchipper with a slow feed rate (for dramatic effect) would be far more entertaining both for the spectators and the Elites. I’d call it the Elite-O-Matic with a shout-out to Gallagher! Bring your own visqueen cuz it might get messy!
I could even be the ax-man or the swordsman but with my own, special technique……starting at the feet and getting around to the neck eventually! The more they tip me the quicker I get there. No IOU’s! Gold, silver and platinum only!
I don’t know IS–I for one would be fascinated to see how long Hillary or Obama’s lips could continue to mouth out lies once the head is severed from the body. It takes the brain a bit of time to understand that it is no longer attached to its life-giving body, their mouths would still be running with BS even after they were dead–technically.
Fuck that, let the chipper pull her through slowly and never spend another second thinking about her again.
WELL PUT ! And great comments also !
Where do I sign up?
No need. NSA is keeping a list. All naughty, no nice and no reason to check it twice.
Darn nice of them to save me the trouble.
Yes. Very considerate people they are. We’re so lucky to have them.
Fred’s got some good points. The elites have been replacing American workers with foreign workers – some overseas, some brought here. What bothers me more, though, is their stranglehold on the mainstream media and – even worse – social media. Google is virtually synonymous with “search”. If you can’t find something by googling it, does it even exist? Milo was banned from Twitter for no reason. If Trump got kicked off Twitter and Facebook and the MSM refused to cover him, what could he do?
As far as the young women who can’t find jobs, maybe they should take that job serving drinks. Too many people think they’re too good for some jobs. Take a job first, worry about a “career” later.
Thanks for that last paragraph, Iska. My 31 yr old daughter is a stunning beauty and very smart, yet she’s serving drinks in an Irish pub and earning more than she could at any “straight” job. So long as she’s happy, I’m happy.
The Anglo Saxon / Jewish elites plan to use some blacks and some Mexicans as their soldiers against the white population in the coming civil war. White liberals probably won’t have the stomach for killing but the others will .
Hopefully Hispanics won’t take the bait.Who knows for sure.
Fred is making predictions again,
or is this one a wish list?
IS may have finger on a pulse! And “the people” are too quiet,
appearing acquiescent…but there will be a pent up energy
burst at some point.
And West, you rock! Going after Terrorists in “the sandbox”
while insisting on open borders is actually insane. Thanks
for noting the hypocrisy. That fact alone will maybe drive the
people insane. Then gov can try and take their guns away.
They will have to look under the pile of shite they have buried
way too many people under. That may be the last straw.
“In this best of all possible worlds the wealthy buy homes for $100 million and sleep secure in their beds, knowing that only half of the country would love to hang them from lamp posts.”
I’m not sure they DO know. They are so involved with themselves and their schemes I’m not sure they have a clue.
But the article is right about employers screwing people over in ever more creative ways. I’ll give you my example. After losing my job in 2009 (first time ever) I went back to school and got my paralegal certificate. Paid with my own money, no loans thank God. I STILL don’t have a good job. Right now I get $12 hour as a real estate brokers assistant, no benefits, no bonuses. Before the layoff I made $43,000 with full benefits. ReMax, the self proclaimed world leader in real estate, can’t afford to make REAL employees out of the assistants so they pawned us off onto the brokers as solely THEIR employees. Obviously so they don’t have to pay benefits. I could take it if I could at LEAST get 30 hours a week but I can’t even get that. I called the state hotline to see what I could get for health care; I’m so low income they told me to apply for Medicaid. I’m going to. Fuck it, I’m tired of trying to be the honorable one in a corrupt system. With a little luck that’ll bring the whole damn thing a little closer to collapse.
Become a real estate agent / realtor. You go through the test, which is not expensive, while working as an assistant. Remax, or a good company like Keller Williams will let you hang your license with them for roughly $200 a month while providing you with tons of training. Downside, you won’t get your first closing check for roughly 6 months from training start. Read http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/millionaire-real-estate-agent-gary-keller/1100026226?ean=9780071444040&st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Core+Shopping+Books_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP305&k_clickid=3×305. It can be done if you have the drive. Also, if you’re good, business is still good during a crash.
There is no right to jobs or pensions or social security or Medicare. This author seems to suggest there is. He wants to sheet responsibility to others, and avoid the need for personal responsibility to acquire or pay for these things. Those are all things individuals must acquire on their own. Expecting someone to provide them for you is bullshit.
I have always objected to the idea that we need more jobs. No. We need people to go to work. People do not need jobs to survive – they can simply go to work: clean houses and cars, do handyman work, wash windows, paint, haul, dig, sweep. By going to work, people create jobs. Jobs are not waiting there to be thrust upon you.
As do so many others, this fellow bleats about how business owners send jobs overseas. Well, why does he not start a business, hire someone, and keep the job local? No sir – that is someone else’s responsibility. He has always worked for others, save for being a freelancer, but that creates no jobs. But it does show some gumption.
People talk a good game. Fred needs to get out there and do something. Put all his assets on the line, mortgage his house, and risk it all.
Only then will his bullshit comments about “sending jobs overseas to enrich themselves” be of consequence.
I grew a business, risked everything I owned, and hired a lot of folks who risked nothing. Do you really think I, the one who took all the risk, stress, and pain, should watch my wealth dwindle in order to keep hiring locals when I can send work overseas? And that I should lose what I worked my entire life for, in order to save local jobs, even though the local population, by their actions of buying the cheapest overseas-made shit possible, have forced me into doing just that? The locals fuck me by buying foreign shit, then abuse me for offshoring jobs. You cannot make this stupidity up.
Fred is like so many others – look for someone else to blame, when he has accomplished fuck-all himself.
The entire system is fucked up. But Fred is denying any personal responsibility, and offers no solutions.
What a load of shit.
llpoh,
Maybe you read a different article than I.
I agree with most everything you said, but I don’t see where Fred is advocating ‘free shit’.
How are people who were offered pensions free shitters? How are folks who paid into various .gov benefit plans, expecting a return, free shitters?
Don’t EVEN try to tell me that you’ve NEVER bought foreign-made tools/equipment for your biz.
And finally, I don’t see any solutions listed in your rantings, either.
Lighten up, Francis.
Acetinker – perhaps I read a bit much into his post. Maybe not, though. He is obviously implying employers should keep jobs local and offer pensions. Short throw from there to the other things.
I never said those being offered pensions are free shitters. But companies will struggle to offer them – most do not anymore – and folks should expect to cover that cost themselves.
Re paid into govt benefit plans: that is ignorant. First, the money is gone. Second, the amount folks withdraw is vastly more than what they pay in. That defines free shitter – getting more than they pay in. The “I paid in, so I deserve it!” argument is bullshit. Yes, they paid in $1, but that does not entitle them to $10. Especially as the money was spent. So sorry.
Re buying overseas – I have diligently tried to avoid it, always. Sometimes it is unavoidable. It has become unavoidable largely because of the idiots that buy cheap overseas shit. It means that local suppliers go out of business or offshore. And the circle grows.
Re solutions – I thought I was pretty clear on what individuals can do – go to work, take responsibility. Not that that will change the big picture – but it will change their personal picture significantly.
Llpoh,
You are right on ALL accounts! Thank you for taking the time to post.
Wrong.
My products are made by hand here in the USA with parts specifically sourced right here in the USA. I only use foreign vendors when I have no other option. The secret is to make a product that is so good that people will pay for the extra labor costs. China will always make things “cheaper” so I compete by making things “better”.
Nickel – that is the best plan. And it gives best prospect of long term survival.
That said, unfortunately China is about through collecting the low hanging fruit. They have begun collecting the high fruit too – high quality low volume stuff is being sourced there now, too. China makes some very high quality goods. Do not be mislead on that, and keep vigilant.
Greetings,
China is the McDonald’s of manufacturing. China, just like McDonald’s, can offer up some upscale items on its menu but it is still McDonald’s and locked into a certain price point.
Unlike McDonald’s, a meal at a fine restaurant is an edible work of art. My products, too, are functional works of art. China skipped a few steps and went right into industrial scale manufacturing with regards to the products I make. They haven’t the history of nor the time to be bothered with anything I do.
Nickel – you may be right re your products.
You are mistaken re China. They are now fully capable of doing high quality niche work.
Greetings,
Yes, they may be able to make niche products but are locked into a certain price-point because they do not have the history behind them. The Chinese are smart in that they acquire legacy companies and then move production to China.
Take guitars for example. The Chinese are certainly capable of making guitars just as good if not better than Gibson or Fender. I know this because I’ve seen their work at NAMM and the other trade shows. But, China doesn’t have a history of making such things so it is difficult for them to get top dollar for their products. A “heritage” manufacturer in the US will always get more cash because of the history behind the product.
If the US were smart, it would attempt to focus on our heritage as a powerhouse manufacturer before everyone that remembers how great we once were is dead.
I agree Llpoh
I live in a part of Canada where jobs are supposedly hard to find but have always been able to find one if I looked and wasnt fussy. I went to university, Graduated, yet there were times when perfect job was like the chocolate cake sitting behind glass at bakery. Just out of reach.
I worked in a tire plant once, in curing, cooking tires. Ten bucks an hour. Hot and shitty work. People would ask why are you here? Guy like you should be doing something else. I would tell them I got tired of eating “promise sandwiches covered in hopium”
Have a fairly decent job right now but still have a good memory about being poor. Eating pasta in a house with no heat can do that to a fella.
I feel for KaD because I have been there. Likely you have been too Llpoh! But if people want more money then they either have to hop on bus and go where the work is. Or like you say, start a business and employ themselves and lots of others in high paying jobs. That is hard. Much easier to not try.
“I have always objected to the idea that we need more jobs. No. We need people to go to work. People do not need jobs to survive – they can simply go to work: clean houses and cars, do handyman work, wash windows, paint, haul, dig, sweep. By going to work, people create jobs. Jobs are not waiting there to be thrust upon you.”
This x100.
What you miss Llpoh is that there are very few of you. Your particular approach to life, the fact that you could be stripped bare, scourged and dropped on a street corner in some random American city and within a month have enough money to operate a small business is a rare quality that most people look at as if it were an algebraic equation. They simply do not see the world in that way- there are always going to be “companies” that will have “jobs” where they will earn a “salary” and “benefits” and after showing up for a set number of years they can “retire” and enjoy the next 20-30 years living off their “pension”- Fred is one of those guys. Very funny writer, great power of observation, not a whole lot of ambition or long term planning skills and he’s the top of the heap, IQ wise. What do you think the rest are going to be like after having been dumbed-down for two generations, fed a diet of processed sugar and pharmaceuticals and told every step of the way that there’s going to be a trophy just for showing up?
Rough seas ahead.
How is getting what I paid for considered Free Shit any more than. say, getting your money back from the bank where you deposited it is?
Anon – if you are referring to SS, people get far more than they ever paid in. The difference is free shit. Same goes with medicare. Plus, the money is gone. The bank spent it. Oops.
KaD – why should benefits be the responsibility of the employer? Why should an employer not try to minimize their costs.
You talk about getting a paralegal certificate. That was your decision, and you are pissed your decision did not lead to a good job. So what are YOU going to do about it? What is your plan?
You were on $43k plus benefits – so your cost to an employer all up would have been $60k or more. What skills did you have? The fact that you went and studied paralegal suggests you may have been modestly skilled. And your current skills are not marketable. And $60k cost for modest skills is not sustainable in a global market, not in the long-run.
7 years ago, you lost your good job, and got your paralegal. That did not work out as hoped. You have a lot of time on your hands. I advise you get to work. Lots of work out there if you are prepared to do it.,
The wealthy elite in this country have overplayed their hand in this poker game and they are soon to be called to settle . I don’t know who what when or where but if it starts the way I believe KATY BAR THE DOOR . This is going big bad and ugly real fast wealthy elite in all sections of our country will be hiding in the safe room or bunker and will eventually be burned out . This cannot end well . It is just a matter of time . I believe times up any minute now !
Sorry Lloph, but the average wage-earner has had enough of Bootstrap Economics. They know they are being colluded against in multiple ways and another rah-rah pep talk isn’t going to work anymore. Fred is right, there are going to be some astonished people amongst the upper-crust when the peasants revolt.
Vodka – the peasants are not going to revolt. Greece – no revolt. Spain – no revolt. Etc. The peasants will not wake up soon enough to revolt. By the time they wake up, it will be too late. They will be too busy trying to survive to revolt. They may squeal a bit, but that is about it.
The entire house of cards will collapse. The “elite”, whoever the hell they are, will be long gone by then.
Llpoh-
“the peasants are not going to revolt. Greece – no revolt. Spain – no revolt. Etc.”
That isn’t true at all unless your definition of “revolt” doesn’t include “civil unrest”. Just Google “Spain civil unrest” or “Greece civil unrest” and you’ll find out otherwise.
History clearly demonstrates that all revolts begin with civil unrest and over time escalate into full scale rebellion. It’s only a question of how much time it takes before the former morphs into the latter. That doesn’t mean that civil unrest always escalates into full scale rebellion. As there is always the chance that positive changes are made to avoid insurrection. History also bears out that reality as well.
With that being said, I do agree with your contention that it is always up to each individual person to better themselves and to seek gainful employment or create their own gainful employment (I.E.- start a business).
But regardless of anyone’s social status afforded to them by how much wealth they have or have not accumulated, there are really only two types of people in the world. Those who have decided to focus on service to self and those who have decided to focus on service to others.
The people who have made the service to self choice will all eventually find out that it eventually leads to a dead end where they can no longer progress any further. Whereas for the people that have chosen service to others, there is no dead end. The good news is that we all have a “choice”.
This is borne out by the fact that some of the happiest and finest human beings I have ever known were janitors and housekeepers and some of the most unhappy and miserable human beings I’ve ever known were extremely wealthy.
Matthew chapter 6 sums all that up quite clearly.
Genaro – the article and posters are talking about killing the elite/full on revolution. Greece and Spain jumped up and down once or twice then went back to their siestas.
I suspect there will be a lot of chimp outs, but other than that, and the odd bleating, nothing will happen.
Even in Venezuela – so far nada to speak of.
Article refers to guillotines. Thought it was appropos
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-20/sale-worlds-first-1-billion-dollar-house
Went to my leftie book club yesterday and listened to the anti-Trump rhetoric once again. While none of them are happy with or proud of Clinton it’s all about the “lessor of two evils”.
The ones who were in the NYC area at some point all mention how horrible Trump treated his own employees.
When I mentioned that Bill Clinton fucked over an entire nation of employees by signing NAFTA and WTO and asked which was the lessor evil – screwing ones’ own employees or screwing an entire nation of employees the looks were priceless.
But, but but … “think of the supreme court … “ – you mean the one where corporations are people too?
I kept pointing out to them that while they are NOT Trumps audience they are apparently either unwilling or unable to understand that huge swaths of Americans were thrown under the bus decades ago and Trump’s message is resonating with them.
When I asked how many illegal aliens were competing for their jobs there was silence.
They are good women with families and children and comfortable lives who do not want to imagine a Fourth Turning – they are not interested in understanding the cyclical nature of societies and cultures.
But there were a few that smiled and agreed and I could tell they appreciated the talking points.
I’m not convinced that Trump isn’t a ringer of sorts and IMO the entire “selection” process is a joke of epic proportion but perhaps this selection cycle is waking a few folks up. They were horrified at how Bernie Sanders was treated and how Debbie Wasserman Schultz betrayed the party – but most can’t/won’t take the next obvious step – understanding that the whole damn thing is rigged.
** As for revolts and such – as long as corporate media can keep any “civil unrest” under wraps – propaganda’s “sin of omission” – the people won’t get any ideas.
When Corporate media decides to show stupid, mindless Americans rioting in the streets by people other than inner-city blacks .. well then … perhaps the party is on!
When I looked across my book club yesterday I was made aware that for the most part their reality is defined by corporations – some more liberal, others more conservative – but never-the-less we are a nation emotionally, psychologically and perhaps even spiritually defined by corporations.
I don’t see how this can end well.
Reading Llpoh…..IMO, it is very different when your country’s major corporations along with your government’s acquiescence (due to financial payoffs from those same corporations) sent the heart of your industry outside your borders for cheap labor.
To add salt to the wound, our former companies gave away their technology (patents/copyrights) in order to manufacture in a turd-world country.
No argument – the UN is the most corrupt organization in the world. Where do all the Gov’t representatives meet – at the UN. And what has the UN been pushing for a long time (besides gun control since the 1950’s) – Social Justice. In order to raise the standard of living of the poorer countries in the world, the UN says you have to reduce the standard of living in the developed countries. Do you still wonder why multiple plans exist to achieve that goal: Globalization, Global Warming, and Immigration. Do try to understand a little about Agenda 21 (might be Agenda 30 now) even though it is written in legalese.
Much more to say on this but since no one will read it, I will stop.
One last item – I do recognize that one has to adapt to the current surroundings regardless of right vs wrong, morality, etc.
I read it, kokoda. I’d read some more when you get around to writing more of it.
kokoda said:
“Reading Llpoh…..IMO, it is very different when your country’s major corporations along with your government’s acquiescence (due to financial payoffs from those same corporations) sent the heart of your industry outside your borders for cheap labor.”
I think the point is to quit thinking in terms of “your job” or “your industry” and just go get “A” job. I agree.
Part of the problem with higher education, even if it is a quality and affordable education, is that people adopt a mindset that whatever they went to school for is the ONLY thing they can do.
In that way I’m glad I never went to college because I have never had any qualms about taking on a job (many jobs actually) that I had never done before. If an employer was willing to teach me, then I was willing to give it a go. I’ve stocked shelves, shined shoes, driven forklifts in a warehouse, trained handicapped people to do simple jobs, worked as an auto mechanic/service station attendant, cleaned a butcher shop, worked as a janitor, worked as a construction laborer, became a journeyman concrete mason, worked as a contract stocker, grown/processed and polished three-five semiconductors and done a dozen other jobs. I always managed to make a step up in pay each time, learn a new skill and enjoy myself at the same time.
There’s nothing I can’t do if given the opportunity. Funny thing is, I don’t think I’ve EVER met a millenial or college grad who had the same attitude. Just go get a fucking job! Do it to the best of your ability at all times. Don’t burn any bridges. Keep an eye out for better opportunities along the way. In my working life I only ever had one employer who got pissed because I moved on to a better job. Every other employer seemed genuinely happy that I was trying to better myself and told me that if things didn’t work out that I would be welcome to come back.
I guess it stems from my upbringing. My parents always encouraged and supported me in anything I wanted to do and not just verbally. They got involved! My brothers have the same attitude.
Edit: Wanted to add that you should make the other employees fear you. Not through intimidation or shenanigans………just be willing to do your job and their job quicker and more efficiently than they will. You boss will notice and the boss is the ONLY one you need to impress. My brother is currently doing some maintenance side work in a hospital on a trial basis. The regular maintenance crew is upset because according to them, “he is making them look bad.” My brother just laughs and tells ’em that “THEY are the ones purposely sitting around and dragging their feet instead of working at a steady pace like he does and that THEY are making THEMSELVES look bad.”
IS – I am with you.
I could make a living with a squeegee and a bucket. A lawnmower. A pickup. A broom. A shovel. A paintbrush. A bicycle. A trailer. A handcart.
And folks posting here have computers! The greatest tool EVER created, yet they cannot work.
I have picked fruit, sold coffee roadside during winter, cleaned toilets, packed groceries, mowed lawns, bussed tables, stocked shelves, packed parts, loaded tires, laid asphalt, sold fruit along side of roads, landscaped, written resumes, installed computers, painted houses, dug ditches, pumped shit out of septic tanks, bashed concrete, tended bar, prepped food, washed dishes, polished cars, been an engineer and a financial analyst, and run businesses big and small, local and international.
Need money? Get to work. Squeegee and bucket is good place to start. If the local popo let you, dress nicely, stand on the corner and clean windscreens for spare change. Otherwise door to door offering to clean windows and wash cars.
Stencil house numbers on curbs for a few bucks. Can of yellow paint and a stencil set.
Think of all the opportunities! But no, people gotta sit and sait for a “job”. Plenty of jobs and work out there. Just got to hustle.
It really just comes down to attitude.
I had to look up the word tumbril. I think both Fred (the elites will eventually pay in some way) and llpoh (stop whining about what others have and get to work) are both valid points.
The Romanov’s were killed by Rothschild funded Bolsheviks, not the People. Mixing and matching myths about revolution’s, uprisings and overthrown establishment to make valid points concerning the suffering and consequent break points of the masses is difficult. Most people who are working for their next meal will keep working if the meal shows up; no matter how thread bare the lifestyle. Spontaneous revolution or uprisings are few and far between. The US will explode in chaos when it suits the powers that be.
When TPTB implement their Final Solution, does anyone think the FSA will become industrious enough to even make a garden to feed themselves? Or the Elite are able to do anything for themselves? Anthropologist a thousand years from now will find a lot of human skulls and bones piled up in rural areas that show signs of roasting over an open fire; Long Pork will become like Buffalo was to the Plains Indians.
“When TPTB implement their Final Solution, does anyone think the FSA will become industrious enough to even make a garden to feed themselves?”
No but quite a few will die while trying to raid the gardens of those who were industrious enough.
How long before a human corpse becomes decent fertilizer assuming they weren’t embalmed?
“lessor of two evils”
Olga, that was either intentionally or inadvertently one of the funniest malapropisms ever.
Having a variety of skill sets is like having a vein of gold running through your property. All you have to do is spend some time to extract the value you require.
Solid skills are going to be the diplomas of the future.
HSF – great comment. People do not get skills waiting for jobs to be thrust on them. Those come from getting up and working.
In the 1960′s Americans (overwhelmingly white) were coming off the euphoric rise in living standards that came from 1) being the only country standing after WW2 and 2) the release of massive pent-up demand that followed War Socialism and rationing.
Americans were besotted with self-satisfaction, which fueled the manic embrace of “Guns and Butter for EVERYONE!” in the Civil Rights Act and Immigration Act of that period. America was like the useless offspring of a highly capable industrialist: no notion of from where prosperity came, and a self-destructive sense of entitlement combined with a leftist’s embrace that prosperity magically appears and is unlimited…so it should be handed to any and all.
For 50 years the USA has pursued a “have our cake and eat it too” approach entirely funded by borrowing and the perception that borrowing actually creates wealth. This is the logical path of a fully fiat monetary regime.
Allan borrows from Bill (Bill owns the bank, so what Bill loans out is not represented by prior production, it just is an accounting fiction.). Allan spends the loan proceeds to buy Carl’s junk, and Carl deposits the money in Bill’s bank. Bill makes money charging Allan interest on “wealth” that Bill created by pressing some keys on a keyboard. The systematic effect is that while the loan exists, all pre-existing money is debased by that amount, but when the loan is paid off the “moneyness” of the loan disappears.
This went off track, however, in 1980 when the capital value of debt began to rise (as rates fell.) This meant that the more Allan borrowed and squandered, and the more Bill loaned out:
1. The richer everyone who held the IOU’s felt.
2. The more Carl’s could arise to satisfy all that excess “demand from nowhere.”
3. The richer everyone felt, the more they bid up the prices of everything.
So here we are, in 2016, on the shore of an OCEAN of bonds (IOU’s), with interest rates near zero, reflecting a level of complacency never recorded in history, with every week carrying another illustration that people are collectively INSANE and getting more so (WW-T, the normalizing of one insanity after another, and the elevation of people who can’t even feed themselves to the status of demigods to whom resources should flow unimpeded.)
You think think this is like the 60′s?
Oh, PLEASE hang around and be patient. Do not mistake the last 50 years of increasingly bizarre collectivism as an indication that this is either normal or sustainable.
For 50 years people in the West have collectively discarded the wisdom of the past while embracing a Jonestown level of self-destruction at which an objective observer can only be left astonished.
In the 1960′s people were at the early edge of embracing the notion that resources are unlimited. Today we’re surely experiencing the final, peak-level delusions of that folly, and when sentiment turns and people re-interpret the data that surround us, the term that will apply is “phase change.” What is today by all appearances liquid will be rock solid in no time.
Resources are not unlimited.
What to do now, when the “import job-seekers” and “export jobs” trends have reached predictable dimensions?
“Mutually Assured Destruction” (if you rock our boat we will burn the entire economy down) only works if both sides have something to lose. Increasingly, the American People don’t have enough to lose. This is the message of the Trump Phenomenon. Sooner or later, the monetary madness that built the last 50 years will end.
Then will the S.H.T.F. (as parasites from Wall Street to BLM and everything in between discover that in a restricted-resources environment, people’s tolerance for parasitism is likely to be zero.)
Just wondering how many bankers and monopolists got shortened in 1787 or 1918; seems like whenever revolution does come, it misses the prime targets. Same as it ever was.