I have watched my parents get older, more feeble, and finally die. It’s been two months since Mom passed, and Dad died 19 years ago. Time makes it easier, but it still is a difficult part of growing up that you don’t spend much time thinking about when you are young.
From a guy named Jimmy:
What do you think? Does he really believe that? If the left did, they wouldn’t act the way that they do.
The CEO of Chase Bank is finally seeing what I have been warning my readers about for over a decade. The US debt is unsustainable and will cause a worldwide financial collapse.
During the Obama administration, the FAA moved to diversity as a criteria for hiring, passing over graduates of FAA-approved university air traffic control programs.
Making sure there are enough blacks, fags, and trannies is more important than flight safety.
From Peter, China and Russia produce most of the world’s nitrocellulose, which is used to make gunpowder. Since the remaining countries are using it all to supply Ukraine and Israel, there won’t be much left for US civilian use.
As I have been telling you for a few years:
Hawaii residents still think that they are entitled to payment from the mainland. There are a large number of ‘native’ people who believe that Hawaii was some sort of peaceful paradise until Europeans arrived, and they think secession will return them to the ‘good old days.’ Of course that is false, and is simply another variation on the myth of the “noble savage.”
In reality, most Hawaiians are rather racially biased against white people, who they refer to as Haole (pronounced “howly”) and blame them for all of Hawaii’s perceived problems. They demand that whites pay them, because reasons, thinking that white people giving them money will solve their problems.
From the posts about plumbers charging $1500 for small jobs. I am NOT saying that the plumber doesn’t have the right to ask for that price. It’s his business, after all. It’s just that all businesses are in competition. Plumber A is in competition with Plumber B, etc. The other half of that is that all businesses that offer some sort of labor are in competition with people who would do it themselves. Restaurants, plumbers, even gunsmiths. There is a limit to what you can charge for services before people say that it isn’t worth paying someone to do it. The customer then either does without, or they do it themselves.
For me, it’s math. I look at what it would cost me to do the job, then how long it will cost. Then I compare what the service business is asking for the job. Take lawn maintenance. I could mow my own lawn, but here in Florida that means about three hours per week to mow, edge, weed eat, and blow down the sidewalks in the summer, plus another three hours a month in winter. Then there is the cost of supplies, maintenance and fuel. So call it an average of two hours per week plus about $15 a month in supplies. My lawn guy charges me $85 a month. That means the guy is doing 8 hours of work for $60, so it costs me $7.50 an hour to get my lawn mowed. I don’t mow my lawn, even though I could.
I look at it as a pure financial transaction. Let’s say (to make the math easy) that you make $50 an hour at your job. It actually would be more beneficial to pay someone to do a job than it would to do it yourself, if the job was costing you less money than you would make in the time it took to do it yourself.
Now suppose that he increased his rate to $200 a month. I might start mowing my own lawn at that point. The plumbing job is the same. The plumber was charging me $1500 parts and labor to do a job that I could do myself for a total cost of $300 in parts and tools and four hours of my time. After materials and tools, I could do it myself and save $300 an hour. That’s far more than I make, so if it’s within my capabilities, it’s worth it to simply do it myself.
There is some risk that I will not do as good a job as the pro, but at what point does the juice become not worth the squeeze? We all need to develop these skills. When TSHTF, they will be worthwhile skills to have, and now is a good time to learn.
What poignant, insightful words. I for one am glad that I got to hear them, as this is a quote that I will remember for the rest of my life. It’s no wonder that he received more votes than any other Presidential candidate in history.
OK, so I couldn’t resist the play on words. Still, 20 US cities paid more than $80 million in “settlements“ to BLM and Antifa.
Democrats are bankrolling rioters with our tax dollars so they can continue to riot. That’s why we continue to see the same people all over the country rioting for the latest causes. They’re employees — not activists. It’s an industry and we’re all paying for it.
This funding will be used to cause even more mayhem in the coming election year.