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Despite all the propaganda about Texas as some sort of economic miracle the reality is quite different.
My goodness, from the article you linked to -
"Texas’s comparatively rapid rate of job creation. Over the last twenty-three years, the number of jobs has increased twice as fast in Texas as it has in the rest of the country. Many people might imagine that most of those new jobs pay low wages, but that turns out not to be true. To be sure, Texas has more minimum-wage jobs than any other state, and only Mississippi exceeds it with the most minimum-wage workers per capita.
But Fisher is talking here about new jobs, and according to the Dallas Fed, only 28 percent of the jobs created in or relocated to Texas since 2001 pay in the lowest quarter of the nation’s wage distribution. By comparison, jobs paying in the top half account for about 45 percent of the new jobs in Texas.
This means that Texas has been creating or attracting middle- and high-wage jobs at a far faster pace than the rest of the country taken as whole. For example, between 2001 and 2012, the number of Texas jobs in the upper-middle quarter of the nation’s wage distribution increased by 25.6 percent. This compares with a 4.1 percent decline in the number of such jobs outside of Texas. Though coming off a comparatively small base, Texas has also outperformed the rest of the country in its growth of high-paying jobs."
The rest of the article tries (and in my opinion fails) to smear Texas, but for the most part they spin things to achieve a negative effect. It's a poor article written with the object of tearing down Texas, but they don't do a very good job of it. Come to Texas, tell government where to stuff it.
Strategist
2014 Mar 15, 9:17am
The problem isn't a lack of jobs, anyone can find a job...as an unpaid intern or a volunteer. Oh, you want to be compensated for your labor? Think outside the box and sell oranges on the streetcorner. Need more? OK you greedy fuck try sending flyers to the C level execs of your favorite companies with a picture of yourself in a wedding dress and a very explicit offer. 9999 out of 10,000 will take out a restraining order on you but you only need one "interview" right?
That is right you only need one.
They say....fortune favors the brave.
Get positive, and get your job. There is a job for everyone, you only have to find it.
New Renter
2014 Mar 15, 9:50am
The problem isn't a lack of jobs, anyone can find a job...as an unpaid intern or a volunteer. Oh, you want to be compensated for your labor? Think outside the box and sell oranges on the streetcorner. Need more? OK you greedy fuck try sending flyers to the C level execs of your favorite companies with a picture of yourself in a wedding dress and a very explicit offer. 9999 out of 10,000 will take out a restraining order on you but you only need one "interview" right?
That is right you only need one.
They say....fortune favors the brave.
Get positive, and get your job. There is a job for everyone, you only have to find it.
This kind of vauge motivational speak bring to mind a drunken fan at a ball game screaming JUST HIT THE BALL!!! at the batter:
I mean come on! The ball is right there, just hit it out of the park already!
HydroCabron
2014 Mar 15, 10:05am
as various costs of living continue to rise as wages stagnate or fall
The one bright spot here is that stagnating/falling wages will soon put a stop to most cost-of-living related increases. If the demand isn't there, the costs will drop. It may not apply to food or fuel, but housing costs can only rise so far.
New Renter
2014 Mar 15, 1:22pm
OK you greedy fuck try sending flyers to the C level execs of your favorite companies with a picture of yourself in a wedding dress and a very explicit offer. 9999 out of 10,000 will take out a restraining order on you but you only need one "interview" right?
Gee, I wonder why you can't find the job you want with such a pleasant attitude......
Instead of complaining about a system that absolutely works, why don't you try it.... Oh, it's easier to bad mouth it then put in the effort....
Got it!!!
The lottery absolutely works too - look at all the millionaires it's created!
The problem with the lottery is the return on the investment is negative over the long term. If your system worked for everyone then there would be no need for companies to advertise positions or even for that matter do market research, just open the inbox and let the candidates with a million dollar ideas come to you.
Most managers I've known are too busy to perform any search themselves and farm the work off to HR - after all that is what they are there for. If an interesting candidate were to suddenly appear in their mailbox sure, it might pique the manager's interest. At that point the manager *might* go through he effort to look up the candidates linked in page, and look for common connections, contact those connections evaluate the feedback and contact the candidate with a request for proposal.
The problem with that scenario is it puts a significant demand on the managers limited time. Unless you have one hell of an idea (that you hope the company won't just steal from you) its just not going to happen unless you are VERY lucky.
(If you ARE that lucky you should just load up on lotto tickets.)
More likely though the manager would just forward the email to HR who would in turn either add the candidate to the large pile of unsolicited resumes or worse blacklist you because you tried to bypass them.
If you can demonstrate your system works better than trying to fill a known need of the company I'm all ears.
Bigsby
2014 Mar 15, 1:33pm
Bigsby, if you want your comment to stick you will have to present some facts rebutting the obvious photoshop. Bring an expert who isn't sold out to the NWO.
Oh right, so asking where the sun is in the photo, whether you know the location of trees around them, and what the back of your hand looks like warrants a deletion. Is that right? And 'frenzied' response? What part of that was frenzied? Others might think you are trying to hide the obvious and mislead casual readers. And are you an expert on photoshopping? You are the one making the outlandish claims. You are the one who needs actual evidence. Try and produce some rather than simply spouting your baseless assertions.
And you still haven't commented on the other photos.
Bigsby
2014 Mar 15, 1:37pm
And you still haven't commented on the other photos.
The other photos show a guy older than the photo where he is holding his picture with the child. The guy in that picture is younger. And sure enough if one photo was photoshopped and he didn't even try to explain it, makes the whole thing fake.
The photo you like to peddle was clearly done professionally and very likely touched up. And yes, the guy in the picture is younger than the ones I posted up. That might have something to do with it being taken when the child was a baby. And what do you mean 'he didn't try to explain it?' It's only you conspiracy nuts who think it was photoshopped.
Bigsby
2014 Mar 15, 1:42pm
That might have something to do with it being taken when the child was a baby.
He wasn't a baby. We already have his name in a yearbook and he is years older. And even if he was a baby, as you say, the guy could not age that much in 3-4 years. It is too much.
Ever had a bad photo taken? How old do you think he looks in the photos I posted up? And why on earth are you comparing a touched up studio photo to what he actually looks like? You really are desperate.
Bigsby
2014 Mar 15, 1:57pm
Notice in the part of the picture you didn't bother with, idiot Bigsby. Here you can see that the hand of the child is unnatural, level at the top. See it moron:
http://mediahoaxes.tumblr.com/post/60101563165/sandy-hook-fake-victim-jesse-lewis-this-is-a
In other words, it has been cut into the picture, in a sloppy way. No one has a hand with a ruler straight top to it.
http://www.msnbc.com/martin-bashir/neil-heslin-father-slain-6-year-old-test
Complete nonsense. Just look at the back of your hand. That part of it is very straight relatively speaking. And no, the hand isn't ruler straight in the picture, so what exactly is your point? It simply shows the sort of poor image quality that is all too common with many digital photos - this one looks like a selfie, so was no doubt shot with a cameraphone. Not exactly a Nikon D800.
New Renter
2014 Mar 15, 1:57pm
It's worked for 6 different people I know.... Unfortunately, with your negative and defeatist attitude, it won't be you benefiting from it....
And how many people have blown countless hours trying the method and gotten nowhere? Do you keep track of them too? Or just the success stories?
Faith healing works wonders. Just ask Jesus and he will cure your cancer.
Oh, you still have cancer? Well its your own damn fault, you didn't pray hard enough.
Bigsby
2014 Mar 15, 2:24pm
Complete nonsense. Just look at the back of your hand. That part of it is very straight relatively speaking.
Not from that angle, dopy.
Don't be daft. Put your hand in the position of the photo and look at it. It looks straight. Seriously, this is desperate even by your standards.
Bigsby
2014 Mar 15, 2:39pm
It's not ruler straight in the photo. That's YOUR claim. And I'm looking at my middle aged hand, and it's extremely straight. Do you have a banana for a hand or are you simply lying about what you are seeing?
This is one of those threads that wandered off into the woods, never to return to topic raised by the OP.
Bigsby
2014 Mar 15, 7:34pm
And the above is an ELA: http://fotoforensics.com/tutorial-ela.php
The kid's hand is photoshopped.
The pixelation of edges (such as the hand) is very common in photos from relatively low quality cameras, such as camera phones (even plenty of good cameras). That has nothing to do with what you just linked to - what you actually link to shows there is nothing wrong with the hand.
And what exactly is your point? You could have a completely photoshopped background and that wouldn't prove your point. Your argument is that the boy and father have been photoshopped together from separate images. What about the rest of the photo - the large section where their faces touch, etc. etc.?
smaulgld
2014 Mar 16, 1:05am
What a silly survey! They want to buy homes!
300 million people in the US want to be millionaires.
Seems to be a trend by lazy people who won't start a new thread, they just hyjack an existing thread....
What the heck was the question again?
Especially if airlines are not regulated and monitored. Anyone thinks Malaysian airlines maintain their planes? I doubt they do much.
Of course they don't, only Americans are smart enough to actually maintain a 500 million dollar aircraft. The rest of the world, which is illiterate and lives in mud shacks, just crashes theirs and buys new ones.
Shaman
2014 Mar 16, 1:41am
I think CiC has the right idea, in general, but the email thing wouldn't work. Instead, find out where a manager/exec spends his time out of work and try to make an acquaintance. After all, when it comes to getting a job, it's usually more about who you know than what you know.
If you meet Mr. Exec on the golf range, in the bar, at a specialty group, or best of all: at church, you'll instantly bypass all the spam filters, and raise your chances of being hired.
With my current job, I didn't know anyone in the LA area when I moved here, and had only three years experience doing my job, but I did make one connection. My union BA was friendly and helpful, and agreed to introduce me around to some managers and foremen so I could make connections. That was all it took, and the next job that opened up was mine.
It's really all about who you know.
Gotta break out of that box and get social.
Bigsby
2014 Mar 16, 1:42am
Hey, it is for the experts to prove. Clearly the child's hand is photoshopped. If you hold your fingers in the same position as Jesse Lewis you will have a rounded hand, not a straight line.
You say that and then follow it immediately with an assertion that it is fake. Go figure. And no, if you hold your hand up, that part of the hand clearly doesn't look rounded. Clench your fist and tell me what that part looks like. Bend your fingers. Pose it as best you can like the 5/6 year-old (because of course their hands are exactly like those of an adult....). You do all that and what does that part of the hand look like? And don't lie. Mine looks very straight, most especially at certain angles.
As far as the other contention you make, the experts would have to take the original picture and test it.
And yet what do you do? Oh yes, you state as fact that it is a fake. Just the hand mind, despite the fact that the whole thing needs to have been photoshopped for your argument to make any sense.
FortWayne
2014 Mar 16, 1:50am
Of course they don't, only Americans are smart enough to actually maintain a 500 million dollar aircraft. The rest of the world, which is illiterate and lives in mud shacks, just crashes theirs and buys new ones.
They are not stupid. They buy old planes and insure them. Plane falls, people die, they don't care... they collect insurance.
That kind of practice is illegal in US, but the rest of the world... "free market".
New Renter
2014 Mar 16, 2:08am
I think CiC has the right idea, in general, but the email thing wouldn't work. Instead, find out where a manager/exec spends his time out of work and try to make an acquaintance. After all, when it comes to getting a job, it's usually more about who you know than what you know.
If you meet Mr. Exec on the golf range, in the bar, at a specialty group, or best of all: at church, you'll instantly bypass all the spam filters, and raise your chances of being hired.
With my current job, I didn't know anyone in the LA area when I moved here, and had only three years experience doing my job, but I did make one connection. My union BA was friendly and helpful, and agreed to introduce me around to some managers and foremen so I could make connections. That was all it took, and the next job that opened up was mine.
It's really all about who you know.
Gotta break out of that box and get social.
THAT I can agree with.
They are not stupid. They buy old planes and insure them. Plane falls, people die, they don't care... they collect insurance.
That kind of practice is illegal in US, but the rest of the world... "free market".
That's why the fleet age of the 7 major airlines in the US is 14 years old and the fleet age of the 3 major airlines in Malaysia is 6 years old. Good thing you never let logic or facts interfere with you thinking.
Get the govt out of my shit! Abolish the FAA!
Well said> The free market will always work the best. Why are people against freedom?
New Renter
2014 Mar 16, 2:27am
That's why the fleet age of the 7 major airlines in the US is 14 years old and the fleet age of the 3 major airlines in Malaysia is 6 years old. Good thing you never let logic or facts interfere with you thinking.
Perhaps FW was thinking of another Asian airline.
Bigsby
2014 Mar 16, 2:29am
Implosion or explosion?
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/c...ition_waves.mpg
Try a link that works.
HydroCabron
2014 Mar 16, 3:15am
The fourth-dimension real estate market has peaked.
Yanni Zionists from the fourth dimension are facing a banking crisis as property loans go bad - and land is not in short supply there because there's a whole extra coordinate worth of properties.
A price crash would threaten the Yanni banksters plans for ceding control of the fourth dimension to Israel, so foreign cash buyers - Asian, of course - are being flown in to boost demand.
Duh!
Well said> The free market will always work the best. Why are people against freedom?
yeah! And the we need to abolish the Fire Departments too! That shit is socialism!
I was thinking of the police actually. Criminals are entrepreneurs too. Think of all the tax dollars if we legalized crime and taxed it. Let freedom ring.
New Renter
2014 Mar 16, 3:22am
Well said> The free market will always work the best. Why are people against freedom?
yeah! And the we need to abolish the Fire Departments too! That shit is socialism!
Not abolish, just regress.
The first Roman fire brigade of which we have any substantial history was created by Marcus Licinius Crassus. Marcus Licinius Crassus was born into a wealthy Roman family around the year 115 BC, and acquired an enormous fortune through (in the words of Plutarch) "fire and rapine." One of his most lucrative schemes took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department. Crassus filled this void by creating his own brigade—500 men strong—which rushed to burning buildings at the first cry of alarm. Upon arriving at the scene, however, the fire fighters did nothing while their employer bargained over the price of their services with the distressed property owner. If Crassus could not negotiate a satisfactory price, his men simply let the structure burn to the ground, after which he offered to purchase it for a fraction of its value.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_firefighting
Now THAT's free market!
New Renter
2014 Mar 16, 3:25am
APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says
First thing I thought of when I heard about 370 is if I need to go to KL for any reason and could snag a mean discount on Malaysia Airlines due to the publicity.
Let us know when you do - I pity the hijackers who try to take over your flight!
Hijacker satay anyone?
Bigsby
2014 Mar 16, 3:50am
Implosion or explosion?
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/c...ition_waves.mpg
Try a link that works.
That didn't work either you idiot Bigsby. The domain looks like it is for sale.
Edit, it is not for sale, as the other links work, but it is a page that appears to have been removed, Bigsby.
Eh? I didn't post the link up you plum. And why did you delete my response to the photo you just posted up and the'professors' non-rebuttal link?
Ceffer
2014 Mar 16, 3:52am
The fourth-dimension real estate market has peaked.
The Yanni Zionists must have been buying pasts when they thought they were buying futures.
That's what happens when you fuck with wormholes.
Only a cosmic fart can eject the plane back into our space time dimension.
Bigsby
2014 Mar 16, 3:53am
The article states that is would take massive amounts of explosive to collapse the buildings therefore it would be impossible for explosives to be the cause of the buildings destruction. It was office fires that caused the buildings to collapse
So massive amounts of fire were needed? That is logic from hell from that site, Prof. There isn't enough fire in the world to take those buildings down.
If you didn't have a link to your old man's conspiracy nut blog, I'd swear you were a child.
HydroCabron
2014 Mar 16, 3:58am
APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says
fleet age of the 3 major airlines in Malaysia is 6 years old.
As long as you don't vanish, the Malaysia Airlines business class is a bargain. Just don't eat for a week before your trip. They feed you every 2 hours and the food is great.
First thing I thought of when I heard about 370 is if I need to go to KL for any reason and could snag a mean discount on Malaysia Airlines due to the publicity.
I do this kind of bargain hunting. First thing I did after 9-11 was look into cheap flights - it was heaven, both for price and personal space. Then I bought a house.
Tried to book a vacation in Japan after Fukushima, but my vacation hours were tapped out.
Basically, look for anything connected to the human inability to sensibly evaluate risk: earthquakes, nuclear accidents, terrorist attacks, and any other scare which Hollywood has made cheesy blockbusters about.
My missed Tokyo vacation was the dumbest mistake I have made. It was worth quitting my job to do it.
The world is full of people who wouldn't live within 200 miles of a nuclear waste dump but will drive 70 mph on an undivided highway. Arbitraging against such idiocy is a no-brainer.
Strategist
2014 Mar 16, 5:25am
If you don't gamble you will never win.
The house always wins.
Buying a home should not be a gamble, but the house wants their cut.
Not buying a house when you can afford and want one is also a gamble.
Odds are against you if you don't buy.
If you are scared, just buy with 3.5% FHA down and let Obama take the risk. If the market tanks and you regret your purchase, just walk away. If prices continue to climb, take out a HELOC to cash in (and keep) your profit. If the market later falters you keep your HELOC money as profit and hand the keys back to the bank, if you like. Use the banks money to gamble and the government to insure the risk. Do it just like Wall Street, just in small scale. If you don't gamble you will never win. Never pay off a mortgage. Always cash-out to the max. Keep all the money in your own pocket. Only feed the absolute minimum to the bank. Interest-only mortgage if possible.
Loans have interest payment, and have to be serviced. If the house costs 5x income (with minimal down a suggested), a 4.5% interest rate and 2.5% for property tax+insurance+water bill mean 35% voluntary income tax on top of whatever taxes are already due. Not saying it's necessarily a bad deal, but these are the numbers even without talking about capital risks.
Strategist
2014 Mar 16, 6:00am
Not buying a house when you can afford and want one is also a gamble.
Odds are against you if you don't buy.
Anything is a risk; cash, stocks, real estate, bonds, FX. All you can do is try to diversify and hedge yourself as well as possible.
True, anything is a risk. But you have to take risks to survive.
A large number of babies die at child birth. Did not stop anyone alive from taking that chance.
Strategist
2014 Mar 16, 6:04am
Not buying a house when you can afford and want one is also a gamble.
There's more than just affordability in the decision to buy.....
Odds are against you if you don't buy.
Really????
Really.
I purchased my first house in OC in 1986. I still have it, and it's worth 4 times as much.
Prices always go up. Always.
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