It’s pointillist. Easily worth $5M when it comes time to do a bond deal with infrastructure as collateral.
Tony
October 16, 2015 11:39 am
In actuality the work was probably contracted out to a private firm. And we wonder why other countries are eating our lunch.
Tucci78
October 16, 2015 11:48 am
Nah. This is the street in Chicago where the cops take drunken aldermen for their sobriety tests.
TE
October 16, 2015 12:11 pm
It, apparently, takes 12-15 people to smooth out the cement in one access driveway.
A couple years ago the city repaved our road. Those with cement driveways had the opportunity to “buy” the concrete work to reattach to the new road. The rest of us with asphalt and gravel drives didn’t pay to have the asphalt haphazardly dumped at the end of our drives.
Walking back and forth to the bus stop, I watched this unionized debacle for days.
Literally ONE guy was smoothing the newly poured concrete. Only one, never more.
There was never less than a dozen guys standing around while that ONE man did the work. One of the guys walked away from the group to smoke, he was a few feet away from me so I asked him what was so complicated and special about cement that it required the mass of humanity.
Oh, yeah. We can’t do work like that – touching the roads – without a union safety specialist, two city inspectors (one from the roads department, one from building/inspections), two of the guys are from the cement contractor and by law have to be there, plus we have two extra workers “in case.” I don’t know who/why the rest of them are here. I’m here because my boss, city councilman, wants a step by step report on the work.
I still can’t wrap my mind around how any thinking person thinks this is acceptable. Quality government is one of the greatest myths, and oxymorons, ever visited upon the productive.
@Admin, the pic of the hole diggers is EXACTLY what was happening. Except they were smoothing cement, not digging holes.
Apparently using long-handled tools is quite complex and dangerous.
No wonder so few people do their own yardwork or maintenance. No access to the brain trust that is OBVIOUSLY required to do the manual labor.
David
October 16, 2015 5:36 pm
And if you suggest that we could find some savings in government spending the Left accuses you of trying to turn the USA into Somalia.
Kill Bill
October 16, 2015 6:14 pm
Union companies drove me mad. If i got a work order to replace, say, some nutplates that hold on some access panel on the aircraft, I could not install that panel until some other union worker primed the area which I repaired….then I found out the union financed the company to buy said company.
It’s pointillist. Easily worth $5M when it comes time to do a bond deal with infrastructure as collateral.
In actuality the work was probably contracted out to a private firm. And we wonder why other countries are eating our lunch.
Nah. This is the street in Chicago where the cops take drunken aldermen for their sobriety tests.
It, apparently, takes 12-15 people to smooth out the cement in one access driveway.
A couple years ago the city repaved our road. Those with cement driveways had the opportunity to “buy” the concrete work to reattach to the new road. The rest of us with asphalt and gravel drives didn’t pay to have the asphalt haphazardly dumped at the end of our drives.
Walking back and forth to the bus stop, I watched this unionized debacle for days.
Literally ONE guy was smoothing the newly poured concrete. Only one, never more.
There was never less than a dozen guys standing around while that ONE man did the work. One of the guys walked away from the group to smoke, he was a few feet away from me so I asked him what was so complicated and special about cement that it required the mass of humanity.
Oh, yeah. We can’t do work like that – touching the roads – without a union safety specialist, two city inspectors (one from the roads department, one from building/inspections), two of the guys are from the cement contractor and by law have to be there, plus we have two extra workers “in case.” I don’t know who/why the rest of them are here. I’m here because my boss, city councilman, wants a step by step report on the work.
I still can’t wrap my mind around how any thinking person thinks this is acceptable. Quality government is one of the greatest myths, and oxymorons, ever visited upon the productive.
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@Admin, the pic of the hole diggers is EXACTLY what was happening. Except they were smoothing cement, not digging holes.
Apparently using long-handled tools is quite complex and dangerous.
No wonder so few people do their own yardwork or maintenance. No access to the brain trust that is OBVIOUSLY required to do the manual labor.
And if you suggest that we could find some savings in government spending the Left accuses you of trying to turn the USA into Somalia.
Union companies drove me mad. If i got a work order to replace, say, some nutplates that hold on some access panel on the aircraft, I could not install that panel until some other union worker primed the area which I repaired….then I found out the union financed the company to buy said company.
It was a private scheme….go figger.