tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post3308288450564317507..comments2024-03-28T23:57:50.103-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: We're being harvested. There's no other word for it.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-32703393001789610602022-05-26T08:02:28.335-05:002022-05-26T08:02:28.335-05:00This essay reminds me of when I worked as a "...This essay reminds me of when I worked as a "General Services Analyst" at Dupont's head office in Mississauga. It made me ponder the two and a half years I spent there and what I actually did. It was almost nothing.<br /><br />Then I quit and went back to driving a cab. And I was actually doing something. Until the cocksuckers at City Hall "fixed" that business. After that, we spent most of our time with our thumbs up our asses.Hans Wienholdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04326000731161999926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-79217309579983060812022-05-25T22:42:10.278-05:002022-05-25T22:42:10.278-05:00Unknown, the difference is you choose to work for ...Unknown, the difference is you choose to work for your family. How much choice do we have, assuming we even knew what we were doing, when it comes to the "tribe" in Washington DC and the centers of power that we work for now?<br /><br />I am a high school teacher and a Harley mechanic. Honestly don't want to be a full time mechanic because I've done it before and I found it boring in the long run. That being said, even the conservative district in which I live is all about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the other day we had training in Gender Identity by someone who lists on her (I assume) website that she starts every training by acknowledging that we live on stolen land. I am about ready to go back to my other life. <br /><br />Not to mention learning to grow edible plants which is also not one of my skills.heresolonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00461382067580153600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-44074007447185329572022-05-25T19:23:33.017-05:002022-05-25T19:23:33.017-05:00This is what Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged is...This is what Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged is about. A very worthwile, but long read. ---kencoyoteken48https://www.blogger.com/profile/06182514695395380561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-30127115994351056662022-05-25T13:24:14.963-05:002022-05-25T13:24:14.963-05:00Thanks for the link Peter! I always worry that my ...Thanks for the link Peter! I always worry that my longer posts turn people off from reading the whole thing so I appreciate itArthur Sidohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03848508095612688493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-54994491379697546052022-05-25T13:21:35.322-05:002022-05-25T13:21:35.322-05:00I've always worked as a producer. Most of my ...I've always worked as a producer. Most of my adult life was owner of companies with employees. My first real business at age 19 was supplying wood I cut, split, and delivered. I could not control overhead. The business went kerplop.<br /><br />My next two were in the construction industry. One was insurance casualty repair, the first in my area. The other, residential remodeling, with the infrequent tenant improvement job.<br /><br />I did six yrs of commercial fishing while also returning to college.<br /><br />The woman I married worked in local government all her career. We fought like cat and dog over small business owner Vs government drone. Yes, I mean 'versus' in every sense of the word. To her, regulation is as necessary as the guy who actually provides a service or material. Obviously I rejected that perspective. <br /><br />Many times I went to the SBA for advice. They feature a cadre of volunteers with business acumen. Sounds great, except those volunteers occupied a significant time of our meetings checking the boxes made mandatory by the gov program. Surely orhers have had success with the SBA. The main lesson to me was to avoid gov. assistance at all costs.<br /><br />Then there is my bank and the ever changing policies concerning a vendor (me) handed down from on high (gov.) I won't say further because after 15 yrs of selling off my businesses this subject is still quite distasteful.<br /><br />It looks like I am complaining and/or blaming others for a lack of success. I admit to the former and deny the latter. I will say a greater success eluded me and when I have wondered why, it is because business is hobbled by government. To say it is 'government' is inaccurate. It is the collection of misfits, each an individual, who act in union which is more precise.<br /><br />Government may look nice on paper. It may look as it is needed. But it is those individuals in government given wide latitude in how to conduct their affairs. Never forget, your business is their affairs.<br /><br />Example: I had an entire project red tagged (Stop Work) for three days and 12 employees standing around, plus an irate project owner all because a government inspector did not know the building code. The phone calls flew furiously back and forth. My in-person visits to the B&P Dept, all to no avail. How curious that of an entire Dept, there is only one guy who I must speak with. Also, that one guy is too often unavailable.<br /><br />The stalemate ended when I literally drove around looking for that schmuck. His coup de grace as when he began asking me personal questions about my wife. She worked in the same building as he although 2 floors up. Other than his lust of flesh, they had no need for contact.<br /><br />It is the government employees who deserve the hot anger of The People.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15452530649659364201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-31106830965425225642022-05-25T13:13:43.664-05:002022-05-25T13:13:43.664-05:00The moment we joined in family and tribe we starte...The moment we joined in family and tribe we started working for someone other than just ourselves.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13415697091156333601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-68982279952400521042022-05-25T12:24:08.992-05:002022-05-25T12:24:08.992-05:00I found it a great relief and very rewarding to go...I found it a great relief and very rewarding to go from being a talker to a doer, a maker. I took to it so well that I am a maker in my off time, too, having made a wood shop out of my 3 car garage and making things as simple as wooden bowls or wooden fencing. There is a sense of fulfillment in being a doer, in making things that the dependent class will never have. <br /> While this is a minor point compared to the sweeping social impact of the divide between talkers and doers, I feel it to be an undervalued one: part of the mental health crisis today, IMO, is related to people crying out for fulfillment in their daily lives, men especially. We NEED to be productive, if for nothing else than to stave off discontent. <br /> Paul, Dammit!https://www.blogger.com/profile/02264872375942355609noreply@blogger.com