Rising number of overdoses amid dim job prospects for Millenials

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  1. james M

    james M Banned

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    more importantly it is caused by the liberal economy and lib social policies that include the war on our families schools and religion.
     
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    OldManOnFire Well-Known Member

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    Your comments are meaningless since they lack data and facts and accuracy but filled with fiction...
     
  3. JakeStarkey

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    Jame M, your lack of empirical data merely highlights emptiness of your posts.
     
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    so you would say our families, schools, and religion are health and thriving like never before??? See why we have to conclude that liberalism is based in pure ignorance?
     
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    Why is it sir that you can't defend capitalism with facts, stats, empirical data, etc? Your sweeping statements mean nothing without evidence.
     
  6. OldManOnFire

    OldManOnFire Well-Known Member

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    Once again...your entire diatribe is nonsensical with extreme bias and stereotyping and fiction...
     
  7. JakeStarkey

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    Many of us who have known James M (Baiamonte) for years have asked for facts and figures to support his claims. Not once has he ever done so.
     
  8. OldManOnFire

    OldManOnFire Well-Known Member

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    They are belligerent and righteous with extreme positions and 100% diatribe...tantamount to talking to a brick wall...
     
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    What changed is hollowing out our economy to a service sector which has always had low wage, non living wage jobs. This is the result of globalism, a scheme to max out the profits at the top, by finding slave labor overseas and mexico and then being a parasite on our market. Not rocket science, but people want to make this a dem or repub thing, when both parties bowed to the elites to change our economic model from the one which the founders put into place, and which created the largest middle class in history once upon a time. By as FDR said, business being acceptable of a reasonable profit instead of maxing it out by getting over on labor. Then there is the damage done by robotics, removing labor, jobs, and robots do not consume consumer goods.

    We are headed for an implosion due to slave labor, AI and robotics. And future reality is just being ignored, as our elites are drunken on mazimization of profits by slave labor, AI and robotics. FDR saved capitalism, but it cannot be saved at this point. So the future looks dangerous. And capitalism will implode, leaving only socialism to take its place...or revolution. For you cannot remove human labor and still have consumers. LOL Ain't rocket science. But it seems even more difficult than rocket science for most people to understand. Yet the simplicity of it is astounding.
     
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    You are clueless. My son in law had to go out of the construction business during the housing boom because he would not break the law and hire illegal mexicans. So, his competitors did, and with half of his labor cost they could bid really low. So, get out of town Jack, for illegals do not just pick fruit. Many are construction workers, loads of them. See, when you actually live in the world affected, unlike you, there is understanding from seeing what happens with illegals. What in the hell do you do for a living? Not construction, that is for sure. You need to get out more, instead of reading the words of others who tell you this tripe you post. They are liars and you just repeat these lies.
     
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    Your personal attacks are truly meaningless. Try reading this; http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-construction-trump/

    Regarding myself...well...I'm a farmer and I hire farm workers all the time so I actually live in the real world. In my reality, there are no white-bread Americans willing to do this work. So we actually have zero choice, other than going out of business, but to hire those who are willing to work and these are immigrants, green cards, non-citizens, etc. As with all wages, it is not me who decides how much I pay. If I want reliable and skilled workers I must pay whatever the labor force demands. Today this is $20 to $25/hour depending on skills. Even with this we have an extreme shortage of labor! You pretend to live in the real world but if you opened your eyes, took off your political blinders, you will see just about every business today has a help wanted sign posted! Why is this? It's because Americans have decided they simply are not going to do certain types of work. Even if I paid $100/hour, the typical fat and lazy American won't last past lunch on the first day of work! So logic dictates that these labor shortages will be filled by others who are willing to do the work...and this is why we have immigrants, green cards, and non-citizens. BTW; I hire companies to do construction for us and I'm guessing the labor is typically 50% white and 50% immigrant...with the immigrants doing the crapiest work...because the white boys don't want to do that work...like roofing and asphalt and digging.
     
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    exactly, thanks to liberal unions taxes budget deficits and 30 million illegals to take the jobs that are left and bid down wages.
     
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    here's some econ 101 for you. Cheap labor means lower prices not more profits at top. If one manufacturer gets lower costs by moving to China and does not pass on savings to customers another competitor will and the original competitor will go bankrupt. Now do you understand?
     
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    more econ 101 for you: tools and robots have been replacing billions of workers for centuries. This means higher wages not lower wages because tools and robots make workers more efficient and productive. Who earns more a guy digging with a spoon or a guy digging with a bulldozer? Now do you understand?
     
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    more economics 101 for you: tools and robots have been in use for 1000 years. USA has most tools and robots in world but employment is still 96%. What does that teach you?
     
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    Liberals treasonously love illegals. They are Hispanic or Latin nationalists more than White nationalists. It's not that they love hispanic people so much rather that they have found supporting illegals is a good source of votes. It's truly a subversion of our democracy.
     
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    absurd of course, unless they enjoy starving to death? Cut off the welfare and let wages rise to market level. Then there will be no poverty, unemployment, or entitlement attitudes in America. Do you understand?
     
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    And they complain even louder if it was something they were getting for free. H3ll, they complain because they aren't getting MORE, for free.
    Are drugs so cheap that the unemployed can afford enough of them to overdose? Perhaps the price of any drug someone could overdose on should be raised to cover the costs related to taking care of those who do so? Another 'sin' tax like that on alcohol, tobacco, etc.
     
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    1) most drug overdose deaths are accidental
    2) heroin is biggest but illegal so you have no control over price
    3) Oxycodone is cheap but needed by lots of folk in chronic pain

    Solution is to let Republicans reintroduce folks to a new world of religion and work.
     
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    According to the labor department there were 6.5 Million unfilled jobs at the end of June. Perhaps some millenials feel those jobs are beneath them with their degrees in gender studies.
     
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    No, it can't 'inflict anyone'. You have to set kids up to fail this spectacularly. It takes considerable dedication on the part of the parents.
     
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    Bunk. I just had extensive work done on my house and the workers were nearly all white citizens.
     
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    Sorry buddy but there are no boundaries when it comes to substance abuse...
     
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    Wow...your single so-called experience is representative of everything...
     
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    yup. just like yours. such hypocrisy.
     

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