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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

I don't believe any of those 'jobs saved/created' numbers. I look around and 
see hundreds lining up for minimum wage jobs at a restaurant that won't even 
open until November. I wonder how we (as a country, not us personally) set 
our priorities. We are funding two useless wars  and giving financial aid 
all over the world while our debt goes up and up and people are losing jobs 
and homes. And no matter what 'they' say, I don't see things getting better. 
What are our leaders thinking? If they want to waste money, why not give it 
to Americans who will use it to pay their mortgage or buy a refrigerator?

Lynn Wigglesworth
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Irony and Frustration


> Warning, I'm getting wound up...
>
> Lynda wrote:
> > We've had quite a few roads done around here.  Some have some type of
> >  sign on them.  They have saved jobs, sort of.  They were b.s. jobs
> > to begin with that should never have been funded!
>
> I don't understand how anyone can know for sure whether or not a job has
> been created or saved.  There are probably a dozen or so large
> companies that bid on road work...if it is a big project, there are
> about 3 names you see...  Nine companies may have gone out of business
> because the big projects go to the biggest and most sound companies.  So
> of the theoretical 3, one gets the job.  How do we know that the company
> was in trouble and facing layoffs?  If they were in that bad of shape,
> they probably would not have won the bid.  If road work needs to be
> done, an existing company is hired, not a new company.  The guy that
> drives the asphalt truck,,,he's not new either...I don't get how
> projects create jobs.  Even with the signs, they will contract a sign
> shop or use prisoners.  Is any position that is involved with any kind
> of government project a job 'saved'?  How do we know the job was in
> danger of being 'lost'?
>
> > And, yes, it is a gazillion dollars cause once the feds put in money
> > then Davis-Bacon is in force and D-B is NOT based on local wages! D-B
> > is based on union dreams!
>
> And unions...like those jokers were ever in danger of losing their cush
> jobs without compensation?
>
>
>
> > So, the project was finished a couple of months ago.  Now the local
> > city council has said that the city has to lay off policemen and
> > firemen because they don't have any money.
>
> Well, I read that MARTA(Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority) will be
> buying drug and bomb dogs and hiring over 200 security officers to fight
> terrorism.  This is laughable because the folks over at the sheriff's
> office can't retire because they are already several hundred positions
> shy of being able to cover the jail and all the SO duties.  The jail
> apparently has a new wing that can't be used because there are not
> enough deputies to staff it, meanwhile, there are 3 prisoners in cells
> meant for 2...meanwhile over at the Fire Department, stations are closed
> and others are browned out....Sheer madness.
>
> Bev
> --
> Sleep well tonight, for somewhere in the ocean's depths, MY son is
> protecting your freedom on the USS Key West, currently deployed
> somewhere in the Pacific and/or Indian Ocean.  Go Navy!
> EarthNSky Farm, NW Georgia, USA
>
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