CURRENT EVENTS - April 27-30

As someone who's watched this in construction for fifty years, the blue collar jobs are the first that are lost to automation. There's no way they are going to bring back a viable society that focusing on building blue collar jobs.
 
dcphx said:
While maybe difficult to envision for the type of people who mostly frequent this board (primarily college educated white-collar professions) ...yes that is what a good share of blue-collar workers wants. Some people just want a job where they are given a task that they can grind away at until the day is done.

I think there was some discussion here about a recent poll that showed "only" 20% of Americans wanted more manufacturing jobs. That 20% represents tens of millions of workers who that would be glad to have a factory job but do not have one or the prospect to get one. Maybe they are unemployed or underemployed in other types of jobs that they hate. Upward mobility is relative. For someone whose skillset is primarily suited to a blue-collar position, that factory job may give the opportunity for generational upward mobility. Maybe they'll advance to a supervisory position with more pay and the next generation of that factory worker will be a white-collar worker. My father started as blue-collar worker who advanced to a plant manager based on innate leadership skills and died a multi-millionaire.

Working a blue-collar position is an honest day's work and should provide a level of pay that allows a person to not just marginally survive but to have a family and a reasonable home in the modern US.
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My grandparents were all blue collar/laborers. All four did blue collar and physical labor jobs their entire working lives. None of them wanted that for their own kids. But I get that is not everyone’s outlook.
 
nycfan said:
My grandparents were all blue collar/laborers. All four did blue collar and physical labor jobs their entire working lives. None of them wanted that for their own kids. But I get that is not everyone’s outlook.
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My father grew up in eastern NC and went to law school, where he roomed with someone from Winston Salem. Whenever one would complain about the studying, the other would remind them "It beats dragging tobacco sticks/dodging lint in a mill."
 
Lets not forget the Blue Collar factory jobs in places like North Carolina really sucked . Gastonia Mills -gimme a break Now when Durham was all about tobacco getting a job there was a pretty damn good job for a Black women with a HS degree in 1965 Of course they were printing money then
 
Ramrouser said:
Trump is moving at breakneck speed while breaking things. He's trying to accomplish as much as he can in two years - taking on issues that no other politician in my lifetime has been willing to take on. Trump is NOT governing to be popular with poll tested policies. So, given this and given our current political environment some slippage is expected.

Plus, most of the media polls are crap and designed to fit the media's 100 day narrative. You really trust these polls that have NEVER been able to accurately gage Trump's support? Rasmussen still has him at 47+/-.

Finally, even the crap media polls show him beating Dems 37% to 30% in head to head as to whom the public prefers on major issues.
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It's the economy stupid.
 

Trump Threatens Chicago School Funding Over Black Student Success Plan​

The Education Department’s civil rights office is investigating whether the program, which helps Black students do better academically, is racially discriminatory.

🎁 🔗 —> Trump Threatens Chicago School Funding Over Black Student Success Plan

“… The investigation, overseen by the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights, is based on a complaint from Parents Defending Education, a conservative, Virginia-based group that claims that the Chicago program, the Black Student Success Plan, amounted to racial discrimination. According to the complaint, the school district was “failing students of all races and ethnicities, which makes this racially segregated program all the more egregious.”…”
 
As reluctant as I am to give the Administration credit, saving 119 million American lives is quite an accomplishment. We’ve complained a lot on this board over the past 100 days, but imagine how much worse it would have been if more than a third of the country had died during that period.

 
1moretimeagain said:
As reluctant as I am to give the Administration credit, saving 119 million American lives is quite an accomplishment. We’ve complained a lot on this board over the past 100 days, but imagine how much worse it would have been if more than a third of the country had died during that period.

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119 million American lives saved in only 100 days.

Jesus could never.
 
1moretimeagain said:
As reluctant as I am to give the Administration credit, saving 119 million American lives is quite an accomplishment. We’ve complained a lot on this board over the past 100 days, but imagine how much worse it would have been if more than a third of the country had died during that period.

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22 million fentanyl laced pills.
119 million lives saved.
5.4 people saved per pill seized.
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This is sort of a weird story — they establish that (1) a GOP member of Congress from Greenville NC fired off a letter questioning why a NY hospital ran a Super Bowl ad, (2) a week later the same Congressman reversed course after he admits he had a conversation with the CEO of the hospital and lavished praise on the same hospital and (3) in between, Flight Aware data shows that a private plane of a GOP megadonor and benefactor of that same hospital landed in Greenville for two hours while the Congressman was in Greenville.

It is easy to draw an inference that the GOP megadonor personally went to change the Confressman’s mind. But the reporter’s trail stops short of any further proof supporting that — the story does not confirm who was on that plane, whether the Congressman met with the person on that plane or why the plane made a pit stop in Greenville, and says that as of now there is no record the megadonor has made any donations to the Congressman.
 
UPS on Tuesday announced it is planning to cut 20,000 jobs this year, part of a cost-cutting effort that's linked to the delivery giant's decision to deliver fewer packages from Amazon, its biggest customer.

The shipping company, which operates in over 200 countries, currently has around 490,000 employees. The layoffs will impact slightly over 4% of its workforce. This follows an announcement from UPS last year that it would cut 12,000 positions.

The move is part of the company's plan to consolidate UPS's facilities and workforce. Along with the job cuts, the company announced it will also close 73 of its buildings by the end of June 2025 and said that it may target additional buildings for closure.
 
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