tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967213034479291151.post3394196965469068885..comments2023-05-05T07:26:37.971-07:00Comments on Roadhouse Blog: Roadhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08398602327654883509noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967213034479291151.post-63357525291494467012009-02-11T14:49:00.000-08:002009-02-11T14:49:00.000-08:00"When YOU start worrying about the welfare of unde...<I>"When YOU start worrying about the welfare of underprivileged males, that's the day that I will be worried because HELL will truly have frozen over by then."</I> (Zack)<BR/><<BR/><<BR/>I like you Zack and I like your blog, but this posting, even if it were mostly tongue-in-cheek highlights what a nation of whiners we've become.<BR/><BR/>"Underprivileged?"<BR/><BR/>OK, the people in Appalachia may qualify - the poverty is deep and there's not much of a delivery system for social services there.<BR/><BR/>Amazingly enough, and I've been there a few times, the people there rarely whine and complain and compared to those folks our "urban poor" are living mighty large - lots of programs and a well developped delivery system for aid.<BR/><BR/>Until very recently, we haven't suffered from a "jobs shortage" in America, we've suffered from STRUCTURAL UNEMPLOYMENT.<BR/><BR/>There are lots of accounting jobs, teacher positions, teaching math and the hard-sciences, research and lab positions, but too few Americans educated in those fields to do them.<BR/><BR/>We have truck-driver and mining positions all over the West and too few Americans willing or able to fill them.<BR/><BR/>What we have, in effect, are too many Americans wthout the skills needed to do the jobs we have and many more unwilling to make the moves to the places where those jobs are...that's STRUCTURAL UNEMPLOYMENT.<BR/><BR/>There's a cure for that....CitiBank won't hire me as a Bank Manager or VP, despite my Finance degree or my MBA...well, Elko, Nevada don't look all that bad....I hear they're paying mine workers over $100K! And they'll train you if your willing to work.<BR/><BR/>I'd say, "See ya CitiBank...I'm heading to Elko."JMKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281344324964417974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967213034479291151.post-65315687702296113142009-02-03T19:22:00.000-08:002009-02-03T19:22:00.000-08:00... just so know... Obama did not mess up the oath...... just so know... Obama did not mess up the oath, whoever was saying it messed it up... now stop saying how bad obama is and just stand behind your president. Because it is your president and you bashing him is unpatriotic, something you seem to be against in your book .. hypocriteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967213034479291151.post-20903891794964170392009-01-31T19:28:00.000-08:002009-01-31T19:28:00.000-08:00If he wants to "manage expectations" he can start ...If he wants to "manage expectations" he can start by not talking down the economy further, and finish by leading on his plan for Americans to sacrifice by sacrificing his own inauguration party.<BR/><BR/>The "C" thing is just a simple "oversite"...like Geithner's tax evasion.Roadhousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398602327654883509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967213034479291151.post-50671565252635927382009-01-30T22:18:00.000-08:002009-01-30T22:18:00.000-08:00Embarrassment? Be easy.You speak of commercialism ...Embarrassment? <BR/><BR/>Be easy.<BR/><BR/>You speak of commercialism and revelry - but i would interpret BaraCk Obama's tone as managing expectations in this party atmosphere.<BR/><BR/>And why do you keep leaving out the C in this man's name?Kofi Bofahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06525557832900245785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967213034479291151.post-84953754834018043132009-01-27T20:32:00.000-08:002009-01-27T20:32:00.000-08:00"...find a bottle of Southern Comfort and hide in ..."...find a bottle of Southern Comfort and hide in the basement." That's what we'll all be doing for the next four years.Seane-Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02223095530241687589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967213034479291151.post-26133865852932746322009-01-23T19:59:00.000-08:002009-01-23T19:59:00.000-08:00Zack,It's friday Jan 23. Obama has been President...Zack,<BR/>It's friday Jan 23. Obama has been President less than a week and he has already thrown the terrorists a big fat juicy bone by closing Gitmo. He has already appointed a small army of clueless idiots and crooks with conflicted interests falling out of their collective asses to his administration. His "stimulus package" is laced with $600,000,000 slated to usher in universal health care...a beurocratic boondoggle that will actually DESTROY the quality and availability of health care. Just today he lifted the ban on federally funded abortions. That means that you and I are now paying to have women kill their babies.<BR/><BR/>"Let go of the past"? I'm sorry Zack, but history matters, as does a President's voting record. What you see as "courageous", I see as evidence that he has no idea what he's doing to this country...in his first week no less.<BR/><BR/>I don't limit myself to worrying only about the welfare of underprivileged MALES. I worry about the welfare of FEMALES as well. The most underprivileged, underprotected, and under-represented people I can think of are the unborn children that Obama sees as a burden worthy of destruction.<BR/><BR/>Beyond that, I'm about as underprivileged as a full-grown male can be, and I would just as soon have the government NOT worry about me. <BR/><BR/>The only thing Obama "needs" is for people like me to buy into the marketing and hype like the rest of you have. I think I'll pass.Roadhousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398602327654883509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967213034479291151.post-19356783654574234882009-01-22T19:55:00.000-08:002009-01-22T19:55:00.000-08:00Roadhouse,You're making me late to go see after my...Roadhouse,<BR/><BR/>You're making me late to go see after my grandpa. But I just had to write back to you on this one.<BR/><BR/>I think that you are being a little too skeptical about our new President. He is already doing some courageous stuff in his first 48 hours as president and there is more to come. <BR/><BR/>The best is yet to come. But he needs you to let go of the past. In fact, WE NEED YOU to let go of the past.<BR/><BR/>This country will be fine.<BR/>When YOU start worrying about the welfare of underprivileged males, that's the day that I will be worried because HELL will truly have frozen over by then.ZACKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15868391244595404406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967213034479291151.post-84071727459430418572009-01-21T09:31:00.000-08:002009-01-21T09:31:00.000-08:00Right on, as usual. That poem was the absolute wor...Right on, as usual. <BR/><BR/>That poem was the absolute worst and the reading of it, like it was some great profound insight into humanity, was even worse. And that "poet" supposedly has a PhD and has written a near-Pulitzer winning book? Dr. Seuss makes her look like kindergartner. <BR/><BR/>Then the prayer. That preacherman still thinks he's in the 1950's.<BR/><BR/>Bring a bottle of Seagram's 7 to go with the SoCo and I'll bring the cigars. It's gonna be a <I>loooong</I> (hopefully ONLY)4 years.Dan O.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17861748308004322104noreply@blogger.com