"General Public" and a strike. HELP!!!

Obviously, it worked very well for you. Especialy since you took the time to spin my comments, and take MY comments out of context.

Then make it a personal attack.

YOU and people like you. Are the problem. Use the issues of other people who are less fortunate to make themselves appear to be a caring person.

Polititions do this all the time. But, it's really all about.......

Me Me Me Me Me

My mother raised 3 kids ALONE working in a factory all day. Welfare and Food Stamps were NEVER an option. There were no hand outs, even from close family.

So for you to hold up a single mother of 3 as an example to me and others. Is a mute point.

Until you open your own home up to them. You've done LESS than I have for a struggling family.

But if it makes you feel good to give them a few dollars worth of groceries. By all means do it.

Oh....and go ahead and take off work. Hell, that's how we all get things done around here, when things are tough.

 

you see I would strike, IF the big IF they had a solid leader, solid plan, and solid solution to the problem!!!!!

How in the world do they expect anything to change, if they don't even have a solution to the problem?

 

You are correct with that assesment.

Incorrect in the snipped part...that was a generalization of the enitre picture...not just your snapshot.

My mother was audited by the IRS, and had to prove she had 3 kids. Because they said she did not make enough money to support a family of 4.

I walked to school, along with my sisters. The buses did not pick up in town when I was young. Elementary was about a mile, Middle school about 2 miles. And high school about 3 miles.

My mother either walked or caught a ride from a friend, to work. Our first car cost $125, need I say junk?

I can't tell you how many times my mother (and myself) went to work with a 100+ fever. Because we could not afford a doctor, or the meds. Let alone taking off work to see a doctor.

Sacrifice was what this country was built on. And you are correct. Today's generation does not know what yesterdays generation had to do in order to survive.

Nor do they care.

 

There in lies the rub...

Change is needed BUT at what cost? Solutions are needed but are the real problems being addressed or simply political agendas?

Do we follow blindly behind people willing to bring the whole country down to get attention? ( Reminds me sometimes of my children falling on the floor and thrashing their fists and screaming to get attention.)

I will not fall into the I am a better person than you so do what I say garbage... I do what I do, when I do it, (and make as much effort as possible to make sure NO ONE knows who did it,) that is the way I was taught real people who "really care", act.

The discussion here is of a "truckers strike" over high fuel prices.

The beginning of finding a solution is in identifying the causes of a problem and identifying the possible efforts that will change the causes resulting in relief.

It is popular to blame the tree huggers because they stop drilling to preserve ecologies.. But the problem is not the result of low supplies..

It is popular to blame the greedy oil companies because they have monstrous profits expressed in dollars, but they are now so BIG that their budgets are bigger than the USA national budget. If a fair profit on investment is 1 percent, they are poor performers because their profit is less than .001 percent.

It is popular to blame the speculators on the commodities markets, ( they do after all represent almost half the current price.)

It is popular to blame the government for adding to the strategic reserve.. ( did you know BTW that oil pumped into the reserve not being subject to the commodities pricing is still 42 dollars a barrel... the real price of oil?)

It is popular to blame the consumers of motor fuel even though motor fuel is 30 percent of what petroleum is used for and in fact motor fuel demand has shrunk by 15 percent this year from last years levels.

It is popular to call for a strike, to claim that a strike represents "taking OUR country back" even though no one has ever explained how a strike will accomplish anything other than anarchy and riots when the supplies are PERCEIVED to run low.

Take the example of the much ballyhooed "rice rationing" of the last few days.. Thanks to the massive coverage by the popular news channels Americans were somehow convinced that there was a world wide rice shortage and it was now here in the USA.

The price of rice on the MERC shot straight up so of course some citizens went to the stores and bought rice.. Only after Mondays trading session on the merc did anyone admit the truth about the rice shortage, that it was only one commercial brand of rice in one small region due to a lack of truck deliveries...LOL

So who will be hurt by a strike? If it lasts long enough to start riots and anarchy every citizen will be hurt when more and more government intervention occurs, civil liberties will be diminished, and the rich will trade their futures contracts franticly making wind fall profits to offset their losses...

UNLESS of course you intend to bring down the government like those strikers in ITALY did....

Then all bets are off as the crowd assumes control... we don't have revolving governments via vote of no confidence after all here, our elections are scheduled events not ad hoc.

It might be like the French revolution, or like the Bolshevik one... but it won't be like the American one I can assure you..

Just my opinion.

 

I've seen too many oppurtunist on this issue already. Even listened to some of them speak. Most were nothing more than grease monkeys in suits trying to take advantage/control of a situation they did not even understand.

I'm seeing things on the street and highway, I never thought I would see in MY country. And, it's making me very #### nervous.

While the answers I have gotten for what I've seen have all been related to Department of Homeland Security. I fail to see the need for 50 cal turrent mounted weapons in rural America.

I fail to see the need for Military style "police issued" weapons that have a fire rate in excess of 1500 rounds per minute, in rural America.

I fail to see the Police Department needing, 4 Armoured Personel Carriers, in a town with only 3300 people.

Call me paranoid or crazy...But I DO NOT like what I am seeing.
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Hey "Out of the mist" Seems you really don"t know much about truckers,don"t drive one,don"t own one,but stiil you want to B---- about our "Courtesy,Courage,Sincerity,Self control,and most of all our HONOR & LOYALTY.Maybe you and gearjammer should start hunting the tree huggers you blame for the countrys troubles and leave us hard working truckers alone.

 

Exactly what I have been thinking! It also reminds me of children throwing the screaming, kicking, crying fits on the floor of a store becaus ethey can't get their candy bar.

I was not around for the baby Boomers generation, or anything before that, however I have been taught very valuable things, that todays generation can't seem to grasp.

1. WORK for what you want!

2. You don't get to the top of the ladder, without taking all the other lower steps. (many people expect to get to the top without working your way up)

3. SCARIFCES are golden, if you can't afford something then scarfice something else to buy it, or figure out a way to make more money to pay for it. .........

4. Many wise men have told me this before.

PICK ONLY 2

1. Price
2. Quailty (Clean showered, clean trucks, uniformed, etc.)
3. Service (On time delivery, no load claims, etc..)

I also recently attended some seminars at MATS this year and I heard something.

The biggest mistake o/o's make is "what does this load pay?"

WE provide a service, we should tell them what we want to haul that load.

He also said, what would you do if a Plumber came to your house and asked you how much you wanted to pay him to fix your broken pipe?

We provide a SERVICE (just like brokers, plumbers, carpenters, etc.) and we MUST tell them what WE want to haul that load.