Great Depression of 2016

[EweSheep]

I am sorry Ewesheep, but re enacting wars is like living nightmares over and over again. I would rather not.

For what it is worth, I was stationed at Pleiku Air Base in 1965. In November, the First Air Cavalry camped outside the base. They were protecting the II Corp headquarters of the South Viet Namese, Camp Holloway and not to mention the Cu Hanh air field. I took a lot of pictures of them. It was probably the last pictures taken of some of those soldiers. They went into Ia Drang valley where they met up with the Peoples' Republic of Viet Nam troops. It was the first major encounter with the North Viet Namese Army. It was a blood bath.

They were soldiers; I was a clerk.

My kids always promise to help me scan those slides. I would like to put them on FLIKR or Pinterest. The kids always promise, but then they don't.

One thing I do remember A LOT of the reenactors DON'T do is Vietnam War or Korean War. When asked why, they said it is too "fresh", many more veterans are out there so they just don't do it. Probably when WWII will be reenact a lot or have many living histories of both sides, good and bad. Don't tell me that the holocast don't exist...it's a shame many don't know about it. What the heck are the teachers "coddling" the students?!? Same for Vietnam War, and it bound to be a repeat for the present day Iraqi wars.

I surely HOPE your kids will get motivated to get the slides done. I love looking at pictures, even the death and gruesome pictures as well as the happy, love and smiling pictures. Including the camps. Make them do it soon! A lot of these records are mostly gone but the ones that did survive, are great history tools and be able to appreciate our boys and girls coming home. (We should have never treated them as such coming back....it is NOT their fault, they had orders, orders to be carried out or they will face conquences that they don't like or would affect their career or lives). I personally like to THANK YOU for your services, including the rest of you as well, for our country! I got a lot of Vietnam vets on my FB page and I always appreciate them!

 

[hemet dennis]

Just for those that like to always bash corporations.

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/06/150...-fails-miserably-walmarts-response-legendary/

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I am not anti-walmart but I cant believe that $12 an hour thing. The $8 an hour number is closer to what I have seen.

 

[cassie]

A good number of the people I personally know who are working at Wal Mart are also receiving food stamps. Even though they are working full time, or as close to full time as WalMart will let them, they simply cannot survive on what they earn.

 

[mrchicks]

Just two cents on the wages thing. Working fast food or as a checkout person is not a career. It's a stepping stone job. I did my stint at those kinds of jobs while learning to do something that paid better. I washed diapers in a nursing home for years while going to school part time to earn my degree. Should I have made $12 to $15 an hour to wash really big, really nasty diapers?

If unskilled labor makes the same as skilled labor, what incentive is there to improve your education and job skills? And then how high do the skilled labor rates rise? While Walmart is obviously very profitable, what about the small businesses? Paying higher wages = a small business charging higher prices, or not hiring employees.

 

[cassie]

In my part of the world, good jobs like you describe are few and far between. Several of the plants that employed large numbers of skilled workers closed their plants here and left the country. The companies are still in business and the goods are still being made, but they are being made in Mexico and elsewhere. Not in the USA. Nothing else has moved in to fill the void.

 

[mrchicks]

My "good job" was clerical skills. I learned to work in the office. Those skills did raise my pay by about $2 an hour. Not much of an increase, but a peek at improving my lifestyle. Many years and countless peanut butter and jelly sandwiches later, I own my business. Anything is possible if a person sets their sights high, and is willing to sacrifice to achieve their goals.

Will I pay a clerk $12- $15 an hour? No. If I did, I would have to raise my prices accordingly and would lose my customers. Then I would not have a business, therefore my employees would out of work also. (I'm the last person to get paid here, and I don't make $15 hour either.)

One of the reasons that jobs leave the US is the cost of employees here. It's not just the wages, it's everything else that you don't see on the surface. The employer pays wages, unemployment insurance, taxes on the employees wages, health insurance if offered, sick and vacation days, and all of their other overhead. Years ago Singer was the last company making sewing machines in the US. They held on as long as they could, but to pay the demanded higher wages would make their machine non competitive with the machines made in China. Singer left the US. It was that or close all together. The employees killed the golden goose.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

In my part of the world, good jobs like you describe are few and far between. Several of the plants that employed large numbers of skilled workers closed their plants here and left the country. The companies are still in business and the goods are still being made, but they are being made in Mexico and elsewhere. Not in the USA. Nothing else has moved in to fill the void.

That is the cost of free trade. We get to buy cheep stuff from 3ed world countries but we dont have any jobs anymore..

 

[hemet dennis]

I am not anti-walmart but I cant believe that $12 an hour thing. The $8 an hour number is closer to what I have seen.

And that's where you live, in a low cost of living state. In North Dakota they're paying over $15 an hour, because labor is hard to find. That is making N.D. a higher cost of living state.

You can judge what all WalMart does by what your WalMart does.

 

[hemet dennis]

In my part of the world, good jobs like you describe are few and far between. Several of the plants that employed large numbers of skilled workers closed their plants here and left the country. The companies are still in business and the goods are still being made, but they are being made in Mexico and elsewhere. Not in the USA. Nothing else has moved in to fill the void.

So do you blame the companies for moving to stay in business, or the people that bought the products made overseas and didn't care about jobs here ?