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Post by throttle on Jul 18, 2024 18:22:30 GMT -5
Too many ways to survive without working ,thanks to the Dems. Also a lot more jobs available in various call centers dealing with medical billing, internet ,phone service ,TV contracts etc. Sitting in an air conditioned building with a desk and nametag can make you feel like a banker. Yet more people in red states live in single wides and rely on the government for survival, Not according to this SNAP data. www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/food-stamp-benefits-by-stateFood stamps/SNAP usage is a pretty good measure of poverty and government dependence, and the highest rate of SNAP recipients is in blue New Mexico and in DC. Also CA, NY and IL are all higher than TX, FL, TN, SC, KY, MO and AR. The pattern isn't clear cut because while WV, LA and OK are full of poor people, so are MA and PA apparently, neck and neck with AL, GA and NC. SNAP usage is generally lower in red states, with the part of the country that's lowest in SNAP recipients being all the deep red states from MT, ID, WY, down to UT, over to KS, NE and up to the Dakotas. And if you compare IN and OH to IL, Obama's state is clearly the 3rd world shithole of the midwest. The myth of red states being full of poor, illiterate hillbillies is broken.
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Post by resinhead on Jul 18, 2024 18:25:19 GMT -5
That’s gonna hurt
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Jul 18, 2024 18:40:31 GMT -5
Granted it's been a few years Illinois was an absolute awesome state. I loved it there. And Wisconsin was pretty nice. Indiana on the other hand was an absolute shithole. It lives up to its reputation as "the Mississippi of the Midwest. Shitty red states like South Carolina, Mississippi, and my beloved Alabama have the lowest wages and highest rates of poverty. I've been around the country a bit. My brother lives in that "3rd world shithole" Illinois. The wages there are far better and their groceries are a hell of a lot cheaper. Especially in the dairy aisle. My dad spent a great deal of time working there because the wages were good and the taxes were low. I don't know about now because every wher is jacked up. But when I was up there you could get a heck of a lot more house that was built a lot better for the less money than around here. I don't know who is buying the houseing around here but the math ain't mathing. The price of realestate is way higher than. The average wages.
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Post by garycoleco on Jul 18, 2024 19:02:42 GMT -5
Hire everyone because the color of their skin or who's bed they sleep in has been a disaster
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Jul 18, 2024 19:19:07 GMT -5
Hire everyone because the color of their skin or who's bed they sleep in has been a disaster That last part was been going on since the dawn of time. Who you know and who you blow. Kinfolk and suckasses
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Post by luapnor on Jul 18, 2024 19:37:11 GMT -5
Granted it's been a few years Illinois was an absolute awesome state. I loved it there. And Wisconsin was pretty nice. Indiana on the other hand was an absolute shithole. It lives up to its reputation as "the Mississippi of the Midwest. Shitty red states like South Carolina, Mississippi, and my beloved Alabama have the lowest wages and highest rates of poverty. I've been around the country a bit. My brother lives in that "3rd world shithole" Illinois. The wages there are far better and their groceries are a hell of a lot cheaper. Especially in the dairy aisle. My dad spent a great deal of time working there because the wages were good and the taxes were low. I don't know about now because every wher is jacked up. But when I was up there you could get a heck of a lot more house that was built a lot better for the less money than around here. I don't know who is buying the houseing around here but the math ain't mathing. The price of realestate is way higher than. The average wages. No-one moves to Illinois to get those good wages....wonder why.
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Jul 18, 2024 20:34:49 GMT -5
Granted it's been a few years Illinois was an absolute awesome state. I loved it there. And Wisconsin was pretty nice. Indiana on the other hand was an absolute shithole. It lives up to its reputation as "the Mississippi of the Midwest. Shitty red states like South Carolina, Mississippi, and my beloved Alabama have the lowest wages and highest rates of poverty. I've been around the country a bit. My brother lives in that "3rd world shithole" Illinois. The wages there are far better and their groceries are a hell of a lot cheaper. Especially in the dairy aisle. My dad spent a great deal of time working there because the wages were good and the taxes were low. I don't know about now because every wher is jacked up. But when I was up there you could get a heck of a lot more house that was built a lot better for the less money than around here. I don't know who is buying the houseing around here but the math ain't mathing. The price of realestate is way higher than. The average wages. No-one moves to Illinois to get those good wages....wonder why. If I didn't know anybody that did I would agree with you. My parents seriously considered moving there permanently. And a few of our friends did. My brother moved there so 🤷♂️
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Jul 18, 2024 20:44:49 GMT -5
Outside of Chicago Illinois is not that bad
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Jul 18, 2024 21:11:01 GMT -5
I enjoyed visiting Chicago. I want to take.my kids back and the museums. I however would not want to live there. My brother is outside Peoria. There were many many other areas of the state I'd have no qualms about living in
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Post by Captj on Jul 19, 2024 6:05:06 GMT -5
Chicago's a great city to visit. Like any other large city it has positives as well as the negatives. Some people posting here have nothing but negatives relating to anything and everything. The definition of haters. Go fishing, you'll feel better.
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Post by meateater on Jul 19, 2024 10:25:26 GMT -5
Chicago's a great city to visit. Like any other large city it has positives as well as the negatives. Some people posting here have nothing but negatives relating to anything and everything. The definition of haters. Go fishing, you'll feel better. ok, just tell me what im allowed to keep. im a white guy with a rod and reel not a illegal with a castnet so the rules are totally different.
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Post by johngalt on Jul 19, 2024 10:36:21 GMT -5
We can retain them, it is just getting decent folks to come thru the doors. Yep it's tough. Anyone in the construction or manual labor field knows how hard it is to find good workers. From what I've seen in 30+yrs in buisness is Americans are getting soft. Hispanics are working circles around the younger guys. Ever been in a DR Horton home? Their contractors may not have a problem with not having enough labor but the quality and construction leaves a lot to be desired. 🤔
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Post by jsd on Jul 19, 2024 14:45:44 GMT -5
Yep it's tough. Anyone in the construction or manual labor field knows how hard it is to find good workers. From what I've seen in 30+yrs in buisness is Americans are getting soft. Hispanics are working circles around the younger guys. Ever been in a DR Horton home? Their contractors may not have a problem with not having enough labor but the quality and construction leaves a lot to be desired. 🤔 Ive done alot for Dr Horton, Pulte, Beatty Const.Trac homes haven't been worth a flip for along time. They build em like apartments now days.
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Post by luapnor on Jul 21, 2024 8:43:27 GMT -5
Outside of Chicago Illinois is not that bad If it wasnt for chicago and democrat politics(raxes) illinois would be an awesome state.
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Post by walkerdog on Jul 21, 2024 11:17:34 GMT -5
But we didn't work as hard as our parents and they didn't work as hard as their parents. My mother picked tobacco at 16. My dad did hard manual labor all his life. Most of us don't want to do the work our parents did to make it easier on us and your kids and the next generation won't work as hard as you do. My dad used to say the same thing 60 years ago. "Kids these days got it easy. They don't know hard work". Even construction ( which is hard work) is easier with electric tools and heavy equipment than it was when a hammer and shovel was high tech. Every generation has it easier than the previous. I don’t disagree that jobs typically get less physically demanding as technology advances. The issue isn’t so much about how physical the labor is that someone is engaged in, but rather how engaged they are in their labor.
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