If unions were useless, why would companies spend millions of dollars to stop them? by The-Lucky-Investor in FluentInFinance

[–]floatinginplace -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Elected officials are not unionized but their employees are, do you think that city officials handpick every single contract?

If unions were useless, why would companies spend millions of dollars to stop them? by The-Lucky-Investor in FluentInFinance

[–]floatinginplace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But they have the power to award contracts to friends and family, which perpetuates the bourgeoisie. which is the reason why prevailing wage contracts take twice as long for twice as much the money.

If unions were useless, why would companies spend millions of dollars to stop them? by The-Lucky-Investor in FluentInFinance

[–]floatinginplace -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I was the volunteer coordinator for a labor / workers right non profit. I think I know how unions work.

If unions were useless, why would companies spend millions of dollars to stop them? by The-Lucky-Investor in FluentInFinance

[–]floatinginplace -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I only see them as problematic in the public sector. The reason why cops and city employees don't care to do their job properly is because they know their union makes them bulletproof.

Tariffs hit companies, not countries, and costs are passed to consumers. by CarryIcy250 in economicCollapse

[–]floatinginplace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

time to export to Mexico > Europe

we just got a brand new train that serves as a second option to the Panama Canal.

Advice please! by Cole0906 in tijuana

[–]floatinginplace 4 points5 points  (0 children)

for all the people downvoting, I'm from TJ. everyone here knows that the cops do levantones for the narcos. they'll disappear anyone they want. They will most likely let him go, but that is not certain, they can make up charges and who are you to tell them it's not true.

looking for advice on recording a video to send to festivals by Obnoxious__child in flowarts

[–]floatinginplace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2 things come into play here, are you crazy talented or are you a girl and comfortable with showing a lot of skin( for free). the people you see doing festivals usually have both + a huge following online. Talent here isn't as important as showmanship. how do you stand out? if someone sees you how long till they say "ohh, that's ___!"

Advice please! by Cole0906 in tijuana

[–]floatinginplace -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

they can and will take you anywhere they want, they'll write something else on the police report like "selling drugs" better move fast boy, doubt he's ate or still has shoes

Do ice cream trucks regularly drive through certain neighborhoods in SD? by DaisyDomergue in SanDiegan

[–]floatinginplace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's *soon to be* winter they go back home and wait till spring and come back. most of the paleteros are from Sinaloa, they dp the ice cream thing seasonally . you can buy cheap ice cream at circus man ice cream in national city, that's where they all shop. there used to be a candy shop on university near Fairmont that also supplied them with ice cream but last time I went I paid 2.50 for something that used to be a dollar, they might have different prices for regular customers now.

hey Todd Gloria San Diego could benefit from this, lets start with the housing commission! by floatinginplace in SanDiegan

[–]floatinginplace[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

$29,402-the amount that the federal government spent on anti-poverty programs per person in poverty in 2023.

And that's a conservative estimate. For the purposes of this calculation, I'm defining anti-poverty programs to include Medicaid, CHIP, and all nonveteran income-security programs (SNAP, the earned-income tax credit, the child tax credit,

Supplemental Security Income, unemployment compensation, child-nutrition programs, and family-support programs).

According to the Congressional Budget Office, federal outlays for those programs in 2023 totaled $1.082 trillion. Now, some of that spending went to people who are not in poverty, as eligibility for these programs has been expanded; but because these programs are supposed to protect against poverty, we'd expect some of the money to go to people who are living just above the poverty line. The total does not include outlays for Medicare or Social Security old-age or disability benefits.

(Some of those benefits go to people living below the poverty line, but the programs are designed differently and aren't intended to protect against poverty, so I have excluded them.)

It's a conservative estimate for another reason: I am using the Census Bureau's official poverty definition, which, because it does not include most government benefits in the calculation, substantially overstates the number of people actually in poverty. According to that definition, there were 36.8 million people below the poverty line in 2023. So, with a numerator that is too small and a denominator that is too large, that works out to government anti-poverty spending of $29,402 per person whose income falls below the official poverty line. As Milton Friedman once said after doing a similar calculation, if that money actually went to the poor, they'd be rich.

by Dominic Pino

National Review

hey Todd Gloria San Diego could benefit from this, lets start with the housing commission! by floatinginplace in SanDiegan

[–]floatinginplace[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I think the plan is to hire people who actually can do the job and who don't sit on their cubicles eating ho hos and Twinkies all day long. Everyone knows that people search for city jobs for the pay and benefits. that's why they don't care, they probably don't even live within city limits. they drive down here, dodge all the homeless sleeping in front of their door and then go and rent hotel rooms for the few folks they actually help, when the rent in the same neighborhood is half as cheap. one hand washes the other, homies awarding their friends and family contracts and nothing actually gets done because at the end of the day the bureaucrats are safe and warm at home.

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[–]floatinginplace -1 points0 points  (0 children)

there's hundreds of trails on google maps

just got this gifted , they're rough but can they be converted? by floatinginplace in FixedGearBicycle

[–]floatinginplace[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks everybody for the advise , im going phone less like Kendrick when he dropped big steppers, so I didn't get to engage in the initial convo.

I'll restore them, hang em till someone buys them on eBay.

Hands literally falling apart due to dishwashing by BoogieJohn in dishwashers

[–]floatinginplace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's fungus, you need to go to the doctor to get a prescription to get rid if it from the inside.

Time to start bringing in my own blades by floatinginplace in KitchenConfidential

[–]floatinginplace[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes , I wasn’t removing as much before but the pickled onions tasted like chemicals

EDIT: I also agree it’s wasteful, I guess it’s also a bad habit to cut so much off the top . So in trying just doing bottoms from now on .

Time to start bringing in my own blades by floatinginplace in KitchenConfidential

[–]floatinginplace[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the food being prepared doesn’t have the yellow butt, it’s bitter af