"P. Fritz" wrote in message
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"NOYB" wrote in message
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"HarryKrause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:
Why would you join the military if there was no chance to see
combat?

Because you can't find a decent job anywhere.

Then you're not looking. I just hired a 21 year old woman with
absolutely
no experience in the dental field at $12/hr. plus health insurance
and
pension plan. She's interested in training to become a dental
assistant,
but needs the money, so will do it as OTJ training rather than
attending
the
one-year formal program. $30,000/year is a helluva lot of money for
someone
with no skills. Expanded function certified dental assistants earn
$18-20/hr (or more). There are at least 5-10 ads running in the
local
paper
at any given time looking for assistants and/or hygienists.
Hygienists,
by
the way, earn $35-40/hour.

Every business owner I know has trouble finding employees. It
doesn't
matter what field of employment they're looking to fill. I just went
to
get
my haircut the other day and the wait was 2 hours because there was
only
1
lady working. All she did was bitch the entire time that nobody
wants
to
work.

The jobs are there.

Except in Michigan...(7% unemployment)..with our worthless democrat
govenor
who thinks she can tax her way to prosperity.







I visited with a potential customer this week....a manufacturer of large
injection molding machines, extruders, die cast machines and hydraulic
presses and are only on of 3 major US manufacturer of injection molding
and
hydraulic presses. They are expanding and hiring new employees (skilled
machinist) as they cannot keep up with demand for their equipment. It
seems
their customers (other manufacturing companies) are now buying more
equipment as they are seeing an increase in sales and demand for their
products.

The same has been reported with other manufacturing customers of
mine...expanding and hiring.

One has to have their head in the sand if they think that there are not
good
jobs out there or that the US economy is hurting.

I talk with other professional in my field all the time, buisness is
booming around the country........except in Michigan.......right now it
has
one of the worst economies in the country, with one of the highest
unemployment rates. It is localized due to the faltering auto companies,
high cost of labor due to the entrenched union mentality, high taxes,
high
social costs (the cesspool known as the City of Detroit), and a govenor
who
thinks she can tax her way to prosperity. We have been thinking of
uprooting our business and relocating elsewhere in the country.


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Last month the state legislature buried the Democratic Governor's top
legislative priority, a grandiose proposal to raise taxes on insurance
companies, banks and thousands of small businesses that private studies said
would have cost up to 20,000 jobs. Ms. Granholm's plan was widely
criticized, including in these columns in March and in an op-ed article on
the opposite page last Thursday by state legislator Rick Baxter, a
Republican, and Hillsdale College Professor Gary Wolfram.

Ms. Granholm was not pleased, going so far as to denounce the op-ed as
"treasonous for the state of Michigan." The authors' high crime? Exposing
Michigan as a high tax state and criticizing Ms. Granholm for wanting to
raise taxes. Her choice of words was no inadvertent slip of the tongue, by
the way--a Howard Dean-like temporary loss of sanity. The Governor has used
the "t" word repeatedly and has even suggested that Mr. Baxter "should be
removed from office."

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John H. wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:43:07 -0400, HarryKrause wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 19:37:10 -0400, HarryKrause wrote:

*JimH* wrote:
"HarryKrause" wrote in message
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Stories From the Front
by Cindy Sheehan

Lisa from Washington State writes:

My son in law in Iraq said they are being pressured round the clock to
re-enlist or face stop loss.
snip

Not true according to my friends who both have sons in the Marines,
including one presently stationed in Baghdad and one who is soon to go to
Iraq.

How valid is this story you cut and pasted off the internet Harry? Do you
really believe everything you read on the net? (I guess you do).
I have no reason to doubt the veracity of "Lisa" from Washington State.
I have no reason to believe anything you post.

PS, "Stop Loss" is not something that is at the discretion of the local company
commander. Individuals are not stop-lossed, units or military occupational
specialties may be.

No commander has the ability to 'stop loss' someone for not reenlisting.

One would not expect you to know better.



Doesn't mean an unsophisticated grunt at the front would know that.

You've never been there, Harry, so how do you know what they know? Those
'unsophisticated grunts' (as you call them), have a lot more intelligence and
'sophistication' than you give them credit for.

Stop putting down those whose shoes you don't fit, let alone have ever walked
in.

I love it! This is the typical response when there is no other. To say
that someone had to have been there to understand and know what goes on
is absurd. An analogy:
My wife just turned someone in to DFACS for child abuse. This child
came to school with welts on her legs, my wife asked what happened. The
child said her dad beat her with a belt. Well, DFACS gets there, and
they tell my wife that this isn't the first time for this girl. It's
bad enough that the cops are called. Now, using YOUR foolish analogy,
perhaps my wife shouldn't have called, because no matter what evidence
and facts, she wasn't there......

"P. Fritz" wrote in message
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"NOYB" wrote in message
hlink.net...

"HarryKrause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:
Why would you join the military if there was no chance to see combat?

Because you can't find a decent job anywhere.

Then you're not looking. I just hired a 21 year old woman with
absolutely
no experience in the dental field at $12/hr. plus health insurance and
pension plan. She's interested in training to become a dental assistant,
but needs the money, so will do it as OTJ training rather than attending
the
one-year formal program. $30,000/year is a helluva lot of money for
someone
with no skills. Expanded function certified dental assistants earn
$18-20/hr (or more). There are at least 5-10 ads running in the local
paper
at any given time looking for assistants and/or hygienists. Hygienists,
by
the way, earn $35-40/hour.

Every business owner I know has trouble finding employees. It doesn't
matter what field of employment they're looking to fill. I just went to
get
my haircut the other day and the wait was 2 hours because there was only
1
lady working. All she did was bitch the entire time that nobody wants to
work.

The jobs are there.

Except in Michigan...(7% unemployment)..with our worthless democrat
govenor
who thinks she can tax her way to prosperity.

I'd like to see a breakdown of the unemployment rate in states with
Democratic governors vs. states with Republican governors.

"*JimH*" wrote in message
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One has to have their head in the sand if they think that there are not
good jobs out there or that the US economy is hurting.

The sand isn't the place where I figured Harry's head was in.

wrote in message
oups.com...

My wife just turned someone in to DFACS for child abuse.

But I thought a wife can't be compelled to testify against her husband?

"NOYB" wrote in message
hlink.net...

"*JimH*" wrote in message
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One has to have their head in the sand if they think that there are not
good jobs out there or that the US economy is hurting.

The sand isn't the place where I figured Harry's head was in.


A recent picture of harry

http://www.funnyjunk.com/p/0363-jpg.html

"P. Fritz" wrote in message
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"NOYB" wrote in message
hlink.net...

"*JimH*" wrote in message
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One has to have their head in the sand if they think that there are not
good jobs out there or that the US economy is hurting.

The sand isn't the place where I figured Harry's head was in.


A recent picture of harry

http://www.funnyjunk.com/p/0363-jpg.html

That was the pic that I had in mind when I wrote my response. By chance,
can you find one with another person's head up the same ass? Then my
gallery will be complete with a pic of Harry *and* Kevin.

On 14 Jul 2005 07:07:43 -0700, wrote:



John H. wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:43:07 -0400, HarryKrause wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 19:37:10 -0400, HarryKrause wrote:

*JimH* wrote:
"HarryKrause" wrote in message
...
Stories From the Front
by Cindy Sheehan

Lisa from Washington State writes:

My son in law in Iraq said they are being pressured round the clock to
re-enlist or face stop loss.
snip

Not true according to my friends who both have sons in the Marines,
including one presently stationed in Baghdad and one who is soon to go to
Iraq.

How valid is this story you cut and pasted off the internet Harry? Do you
really believe everything you read on the net? (I guess you do).
I have no reason to doubt the veracity of "Lisa" from Washington State.
I have no reason to believe anything you post.

PS, "Stop Loss" is not something that is at the discretion of the local company
commander. Individuals are not stop-lossed, units or military occupational
specialties may be.

No commander has the ability to 'stop loss' someone for not reenlisting.

One would not expect you to know better.



Doesn't mean an unsophisticated grunt at the front would know that.

You've never been there, Harry, so how do you know what they know? Those
'unsophisticated grunts' (as you call them), have a lot more intelligence and
'sophistication' than you give them credit for.

Stop putting down those whose shoes you don't fit, let alone have ever walked
in.

I love it! This is the typical response when there is no other. To say
that someone had to have been there to understand and know what goes on
is absurd. An analogy:
My wife just turned someone in to DFACS for child abuse. This child
came to school with welts on her legs, my wife asked what happened. The
child said her dad beat her with a belt. Well, DFACS gets there, and
they tell my wife that this isn't the first time for this girl. It's
bad enough that the cops are called. Now, using YOUR foolish analogy,
perhaps my wife shouldn't have called, because no matter what evidence
and facts, she wasn't there......

So how much trouble are you in now, Kevin?

--
John H.
On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:21:50 -0400, HarryKrause wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:21:08 -0400, HarryKrause wrote:

John H. wrote:



Harry Krause wrote:
You were a draftee, right?

Yup. I got my letter and went. No excuses, no running to Canada, no fake
injuries, and none of the other gimmicks to escape boot camp.
Some had more imagination.
Some were cowards. Pick your group.

You're entitled to say whatever you want to justify your military
participation in one of the dumbest foreign misadventures in this
nation's history. A huge number of young men, however, realized the war
against the Vietnamese was immoral and was only serving to prop up a
corrupt right-wing dictatorship. When you have Buddhist monks setting
themselves on fire to protest US actions in Da Nang and US support for
completely corrupt generals like Ky and Thieu, you should realize by
then, at least, that you're not on the side of the angels.

What did I say that was a 'justification'?

What I said implied that I wasn't cowardly. Do you understand?


It wasn't cowardly and it wasn't brave. It just was. You were drafted
and you showed up. BFD.

Guess I didn't have your imagination.

--
John H.
On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD

John H. wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:09:57 -0400, HarryKrause wrote:

NOYB wrote:
Why would you join the military if there was no chance to see combat?

Because you can't find a decent job anywhere.

This from one who tells Tom he has the highest respect for the military!

Harry, you're a card.

--
John H.

Learn to follow a thread, John. Need a hint?