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So, you're coming down tonight????

Mmmmmmm!!!! Wine-tasting!!! Glad I'll be there!

Someone from PDOT can correct me if I am wrong, but one problem that has been on going with getting the east side approved is wetland issues, and folks who own farm land, who were not happy with the compensation being offered to them for R/W land. Last time I designed a commercial project over on that end, if I recall correctly, PDOT had several different variations in design. These designs also cost a lot of money, not just the actual building of the road. I do know that wetland issues were a big problem right at the part where it would leave 92 and head east. When dealing with wetland issues

Don't thank me...just keep eyes in the back of your head like I do!!

This seems trivial when I had the opportunity to chat with my dentist the other day. He talked to me about how many kids, only 15-17 yrs old, have rotted out teeth because the cola and junk food companies offer to build nice running tracks as long as the schools will host their vending machines. Obesity and massive tooth decay. Hmmmmm???? And this is commonly accepted in our culture today. Go figure.

You're right as rain. If people could open their minds and move beyond the wealth envy prospect, then perhaps, logic could take a front seat. I don't, nor have I ever envied the wealthy. Just the opposite- I abhor some of the anti-American logistic approaches they take to insure their CEO's have a nice bail out plan, after the rest of us have been screwed over for helping them get to where they got.

4-laning B.C. Pkwy. is essential, but only as far as Nebo Road. Most all traffic is thick until you get to that point. Widening it any further serves no valid purpose, and the fact that it merely wraps back around to hit Sailors Pkay should substantiate that notion. However, the proposed portion that will take Sailor's into Hwy 92 is a good idea, BUT ONLY if 92 southbound were also widened into D'ville, and the portion of Hwy 92 that hits 78 was redone to send the flow straight onto Fairburn Road bypassing the RR tracks. Otherwise, forget about that part. Yes, I did about 6 years of intens

I will give you the 80's. But with the advent of moving towards global trade, we laid our heads on the chop block by trying to compete with slave labor and notorious working conditioned countries. That was a Lose-Lose situation from the start and it unraveled everything we have since, deemed American.

That's not accurate. Most large scale companies in this country are handed down to their children. This being the way things have always been, shows that not everyone is afforded the same opportunity. I have some kin-folk who are very well off....guess who inherits their fortunes and business? Their kids, and unfortunately, the ones I have seen were spoiled cheezeless from the get-go. These are the ones who did not work for what they got. They simply lead spoon-fed, spoiled and greedy lives. You send this down through just 2 generations, and bang...the inheritors do not have their country at h

This was so good, I printed it and gave it to my kids to read. After doing so, another thought came to mind. We have always taught that having a good education was the path to riches. Upon reading this over a few times, I realize that this actually DISCOURAGES further education in this country. I mean for Pete's sake....technical cable pair engineering (the job I had for 5 months) paid about the same as any truck driver, or most other manual labor jobs. Once we have set our brightest people on a path, only to find that they could have saved all that tuition money, started work earlier and been

I will get off my ass and take said jobs, but you're damned right I WILL complain, simply because the dream we all once had is now gone. MADE IN AMERICA USED TO MEAN SOMETHING. Those days are over, and we all know the crap that people buy today is just that...crap.

While common sense would dictate that rich people are essential for produce jobs for the poor, people are missing a HUGE point in this. During the Reagan era, this was PERFECT, in every way. However, with the advent of NAFTA, and further global trading, those rich people sought to hire people from OTHER countries...not the USA. This eventually made the "trickle down effect" a moot point for poor people living right here. It became no longer necessary for rich people to hire those of us at home, when they could get things done cheaper, via slave labor and unregulated labor abroad. People need t

Gotchya!

Another point I think a lot of people miss is this- people like me, who toss their field aside and do something different. With every passing year, we become less and less competent and what we used to do. When building (if, it resumes) then guys like me will be on the bottom of the food chain, since engineering is not as much like riding a bike. It takes an every day habit of knowing how, and how to keep up with ever changing codes in development requirements. In fact, the ONLY young people I know who are taking civil engineering right now, are planning to use it in the military, since it's a

Building mansions would only provide about 1-2% of us with a job which would last only 3 months, at best. It was mass home building and commercial properties that kept us all working. So, we still have that 98-99% still out of work with no hope in sight. A single mansion only requires ONE architect and ONE P.E., whereas, a single SUBDIVISION requires a lot more...infrastructure and so forth. Of course, none of this is happening.

Thank you for clarifying that. But, in all fairness to many of my former cohorts, a lot of them didn't have any, or as many things to fall back on as I did. My heart goes out to those people, mostly. I spent plenty of my life doing my own mechanic work, playing professionally on the piano, rebuilding computers, etc. Sometimes to the detriment of my main engineering job (playing gigs would often conflict with my work schedule). The ones I know do not, nor have they ever depended on the gooberment to bail them out. It's just been heart wrenching to see them lose their homes, move in with their e

Here's a tidbit- construction workers CANNOT go back to work until projects are designed. That's where my field of expertise comes in, and let me tell ya...my phone aint ringing at all with contracts for designing projects to build. We were the first to get laid off. Ergo, we would have to be the first to get called back in if building were to start back up. Construction workers can't do squat without the construction plans being drafted.

While I firmly believe in people helping themselves, I have found my own self in a crisis I never thought I ever would. Regardless of how you construe your meaning of the term "victim", my definition includes hordes of them who were swept away with the housing industry implosion. They studied very hard in school and college, as did I. We paid hundreds of thousand of dollars into the federal government through taxes over our 30 year careers, only to watch them go down in flames. That left thousand, if not millions of us at the age of over 40, who have killed ourselves trying to find employment.

My statement of proof still stands.....I think most people in the know can understand you have none. Nothing personal....just a fact. One only needs to check out the bills that are received by the U.S. to understand this. We (US) are, and have been for a long time, been operating on credit. Credit that sucks, and we barely make the min. payment. And here, of late....we are being called out to make that balloon payment. Just check around. It's all there. The bad part is that WE (THE U.S.) cannot make that final payment. The disturbing part is this....how does a sole super-power make its payment

And your proof is?????????? Just because you may be receiving it (no assumptions either way), does not mean it's all jim-dandy in the account of the feds.

In the words of a legend of pcom, "can someone tell me what the heck is going on here???". Actually, I have enjoyed reading (wading) through this thread...up to a point. Therein, after which, I decided to just post this and move on...with one exception. Let me just say this: I (very often) "probe" my kids about subjects like science and history. I ask them questions that I knew the answers to when I their age or younger. More often than not, they either don't have an answer, or have no desire to answer the question. Not answering is indicative of them not knowing. So, I ask

S.S. is broke and has been for a number of years. The money is sends out to recipients since then is borrowed money from other countries, namely and foremost, China. Our country currently can not even make the interest payment on these debts. Why would anyone (armed with this knowledge) even want to flinch at S.S. as a protective blanket, when it is anything else? If you want protection for your family and you are over 40, then LIFE INSURANCE is the way to go. At least you know it's privately owned outside the government sector, and the chances of you surviving much longer than the retired

Well to whom it may concern....we are having our annual bon fire tonight, so yall please don't call the popo on us.

If this country would legalize pot, then I doubt this subject would even be here to begin with. I have two close friends who have to go to pain management, in order to just function and be able to do anything. They get tested all the time...but the only thing they are looking for is pot. People could abuse many harder drugs, only they know that it only takes a day or two to test negative. If you smoke a tater, then you're ousted from the program. I think people should stand back a ways and look at the big picture- which is smoke and mirrors. Btw, both of my friends are STILL having the myr

Maybe I forgot how lay-away works....I thought that layaway was putting up money for the store to hold items for you and you only got them if you paid the balance??? And if you didn't, I thought they got to keep all or some of the money...?? (I have never used lay-away, but the wife has a couple of times). So someone clue me in. I was thinking law away was good for the retailer.