How do mentors treat retirees

I like to flog mine, 0600 sharp. And then we go to work. As long as the ELD will let us... If not, I will flog you again, just because.

 

In my state, we need a couple thousand nurses to fill ordinary positions state wide and they pay very very very good.

Unfortunatley you have about 10,000 or more students trying to get a degree in college sufficient to score one of these positions. Then they must confront and pass the state board of nursing. My spouse has a 4 year and is a honor graduate. But it's worthless. roughly 32000 dollars out the window, paid back to uncle sam. In addition to about 12000 for my own schooling towards a two year in IT which I threw away once I realized the extent to what Arkansas has done in 2004 time period to bring in overseas workers to do my exact job in our datacenter in little rock and others. So.. 46000 spun, spent and ultimately WASTED. All of it paid back to uncle sam. So we are free from any garnishments, seizures and so forth so on etc.

College had become a operation designed to drive 18 year olds deeper into debt, constantly promising all sorts of ... rewards that speak to a gratification of primial instinct rather than a specific education in a chosen trade. As a much older adult with a extreme laser focused goal and just the necessary classes, I constantly declined non essential classes and was told it will extend my schooling years. I told them that I had a life time of schooling and will continue at my own pace, no college is going to tell me what I want to learn or not. I am not a compass less 18 year old with no direction or ambition.

I watched my college buy up entire streets, blocks of homes, raze the same and then raise up large multistory buildings to go from a 1000 soul campus to something capable of holding 5000 souls at a time, hopefully all of them indebited to the eyeballs to student loans for which some will never be able to repay with very limited work openings in Arkansas. Never mind the huge University in little rock that educates 50000 more souls a hour away, all of whom are doing the same thing.

At one time vocational trades, and shop trades as well as non college degree work is the foundation of our country. But all of that was swept away before my lying eyes since the 70's no longer can I take my boots to a leather worker shop and have them rebuilt for a nother few years in a couple dollars. I have to throw them away and go to a big box and buy a pair that might last 6 months.

And you wonder why I source boots from the civilian side of the military production with the labeling etc to match. And the people that built my two pairs of trucking boots in Maryland are long gone. Those would not be replacable in my life time. Maybe I hope to find a replacement somewhere in the west and order it. But it's going to be pricey.

Social Security is well and good since the mid 60's however, there are too many people aging into the system and too few workers paying a percentage. All congress needs to do is raise the payroll percentage deducted to support social security forever. Those workers will get their money back and then some. The problem I think dated to Carter, Reagen years when the SS money office in Parkersburg WVa was emptied of cash to support congress's deficit spending in return for IOU notes. Parkersburg for years have been emptying those IOU notes. At the current burn rate those IOU's are all gone. Thus all SS benefits potentially will be cut 24% mandatory across the board.

I don't know about you, but as a Disability person, I have been doing everything I can to make ready for that 24% cut in the benefits. If I managed to live a few more years regular ss will kick in anyhow. So much for that. I don't expect to see it.

What I am doing is getting the hell out of debt and positioned so that when the SS system fails, I have a fighting chance. The problem will be massive as there are people in my building who probably will not be able to live and must die without any income at all on air alone.