I'm right in the middle of an extremely busy streak for me. After a trip to New Jersey, we made a trip to Kristin's grandmother right near New Jersey a week or two later. Last monday I drove down to North Reading (near Boston) for 5 days of training. Thursday I head to Carlisle PA for the GM Nationals show. I get back on Sunday night, and on Monday morning I head back to Boston for 5 more days of training. I get back from that on a Friday, and Saturday we head back to Kristin's grandmother's house for the day.
I'm getting dizzy just thinking about it. :-/
Monday, June 18, 2007
Saturday, June 9, 2007
My solution to the Welfare Crisis
Welfare is a joke, especially in Massachusetts. It's a perfect example of why I hate the liberal mentality. Liberals think it's everybody's responsibility take care of everybody, including fat lazy slobs who are completely content to keep taking the handouts and have no intention of doing anything to earn an honest buck.
So who pays for this? The rest of us who actually have enough ambition and ethics to work for a living.
So what's the answer? Very simple. You treat welfare as a job. First of all, before anybody gets a check, they need to be screened so that the 1% who actually have a legitimate disability of some sort can be exempt. For the rest, we do the following:
For starters, your welfare check is based on your education level, just like real life. I don't care how many skinny dirtbag kids you have thanks to those conjugal visits you've had with your deadbeat husband. If you have a college education, you get more money than a high school education than a dropout dirtbag. Speaking of whom, since dropout dirtbags won't get much money, the least we can do is offer free GED education classes for them as a motivator to help them better themselves. For those with a high school education (or their brand new shiny GED), a discounted college education at an inexpensive state school or community college will be offered at a discount.
Now, here's the real beauty of this idea. Everybody who is not pursuing an education gets put into a job pool (much like a giant temp agency), and is sub-contracted out to whatever type of places need cheap labor. Right now there is a tremendous amount of cheap labor available to people, but because it's not enough for most people to survive comfortably on, they generally get filled by those who are willing to work mostly for nothing, including a lot of illegal immigrants. To hell with that. Let the welfare people work these jobs. Take whatever you would have payed that person in welfare, and instead pay that to the employer to subsidize his low paying job, in turn allowing him to pay a higher wage (one that's higher than the welfare person would get for sitting on his fat ass watching Rosie preach her liberal garbage all day) to the worker. It's a win-win. We get these fat lazy welfare cases out there actually earning a living for a change, and we feed that welfare money back into local businesses instead of directly to the slobs who don't deserve it. This gets that other 99% into the workforce and on their way to earning a legit living, and maybe even having the skills and opportunities to move on to higher paying non subsidized jobs in the future.
Now I just need to get a politician to agree with me.
So who pays for this? The rest of us who actually have enough ambition and ethics to work for a living.
So what's the answer? Very simple. You treat welfare as a job. First of all, before anybody gets a check, they need to be screened so that the 1% who actually have a legitimate disability of some sort can be exempt. For the rest, we do the following:
For starters, your welfare check is based on your education level, just like real life. I don't care how many skinny dirtbag kids you have thanks to those conjugal visits you've had with your deadbeat husband. If you have a college education, you get more money than a high school education than a dropout dirtbag. Speaking of whom, since dropout dirtbags won't get much money, the least we can do is offer free GED education classes for them as a motivator to help them better themselves. For those with a high school education (or their brand new shiny GED), a discounted college education at an inexpensive state school or community college will be offered at a discount.
Now, here's the real beauty of this idea. Everybody who is not pursuing an education gets put into a job pool (much like a giant temp agency), and is sub-contracted out to whatever type of places need cheap labor. Right now there is a tremendous amount of cheap labor available to people, but because it's not enough for most people to survive comfortably on, they generally get filled by those who are willing to work mostly for nothing, including a lot of illegal immigrants. To hell with that. Let the welfare people work these jobs. Take whatever you would have payed that person in welfare, and instead pay that to the employer to subsidize his low paying job, in turn allowing him to pay a higher wage (one that's higher than the welfare person would get for sitting on his fat ass watching Rosie preach her liberal garbage all day) to the worker. It's a win-win. We get these fat lazy welfare cases out there actually earning a living for a change, and we feed that welfare money back into local businesses instead of directly to the slobs who don't deserve it. This gets that other 99% into the workforce and on their way to earning a legit living, and maybe even having the skills and opportunities to move on to higher paying non subsidized jobs in the future.
Now I just need to get a politician to agree with me.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Garbage Plates explained
I talk about garbage plates constantly. It's because I miss them. Weekly I would get a 'plate at Nick's when I was in school, and now I'm lucky if I get one a year. For those who have heard me talk about them, I'm finally posting pics.
First a little refresher course.
A garbage plate is a meal that Nick Tahau's in Rochester makes. For my example, we'll consider the ever-popular cheeseburger plate with everything. It consists of a paper plate (or styrofoam container if you get it to go) on which the server dumps a couple scoops of mac salad and home fries, followed by two cheeseburgers, two big scoops of hot sauce (in Rochester, "hot" sauce isn't tobasco or red-hot, it's hot-dog sauce, which is similar to sloppy joe sauce without ketchup), a couple scoops of onions, a slathering of mustard, and finally two stale pieces of bread. Back when I was in school, such a cullinary masterpiece would set you back $5.25 plus beverage. The beverage of choice is a large soda, which comes in a special Nick's cup with bendy straw. Upon taking ownership of your plate, it is necessary to drown it in ketchup and red-hot. Shown in the pic below are three plates along with the necessary fixin's.
In the next pic, we have my personal garbage plate, which is a ham & egg plate without mustard instead of the traditional cheeseburger garbage plate with everything. For anybody who's seen me take my egg yokes and put them on top of my home fries when eating breakfast, you now know why. It's my pathetic need for a garbage-plate fix.
And finally, we have the last picture. This is my plate with the first layer of ketchup and red-hot. More is applied as the plate is consumed. Generally 3 guys will go through 1/2 bottle of ketchup and 1/2 to 3/4 of a bottle of red hot when eating a plate.
Enjoy!!!!
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