A Drugged Society is a pacified one ...

[dogtag]

Kinda like Bread and Circuses, except there's neither.
Just drugs, drugs and more drugs.
Half the country is out of it's mind from either mind-altering
paraphernalia or pain killers, magic mushrooms or God knows
what else.
So, who's running the store ? Who cares as long as you can
get a fix whenever you need it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ales-2018.html

[S.A. Boggs]

Gateway drug, every addict I worked with started with this stuff.
Sam

[blackhawknj]

I'm waiting for the first bus or train crash, the first major multi-vehicle crackup-and the driver tests positive. And how much of this tax revenue will go to support users with the lung cancer and emphysema caused by smoking-or claim disability that makes them unable to hold a job.

[Roadkingtrax]

Haha...

[barretcreek]

From a friend.

So, they are intravenous drug abusers who landed in prison and now out taxpayer dollars to fund another "constitutional mandate?"

Minnesota Inmates Suing For Rights To $100,000 Hepatitis C Drug.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune (1/1, Montemayor) reports a group of five prison inmates in Minnesota who are infected with hepatitis C “are seeking class-action status for a lawsuit that would require the Minnesota Department of Corrections to offer a class of groundbreaking, but extremely expensive, new drugs.” The “direct acting antiviral” (DAA) drugs, which “have a 95 percent cure rate,” can cost between $26,400 to $100,000 per patient. The prisoners’ attorneys “argue that...potential costs associated with treating the more than 1,000 potentially infected inmates is outweighed by the constitutional violation of not doing so.”

My reply.

Rule .380, one unit applied to the base of the neck.

These liberal assholes, but I repeat myself, refuse to understand when they get the breakdown in the social construct which they are working so hard to achieve one of the things which will occur, early on, is the prisons will be emptied of these parasites. Very economically.
20~25% of Federal prisoners are illegal aliens from ? and their native lands play pretend we don’t know them? Ha. Same with all these freaks of nature who claim they can’t figure out if they’re a boy, girl or hamster.

[togor]

Weed and booze and video games and junk food keep people in their seats and not out in the streets protesting. You think that bothers the fortune 500? Guess again.

Any good paying job that can be automated attracts capital to do that. The next big prize? Truck drivers, whose net income since the 80's has gone down since unions got busted.

Nobody here complains about how jobs disappear until after their gone and some think tank figures out a way to blame the Democrats. Then everyone joins the chorus.

Meanwhile Trump's USDA retracts Obama era rules to give small poultry and livestock producers a better position in the market against the big buyers. Not a peep about that, 'cause, well, you know...socialism.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/12/14/570889309/the-usda-rolled-back-protections-for-small-farmers-now-theyre-suing

[S.A. Boggs]

Weed and booze and video games and junk food keep people in their seats and not out in the streets protesting. You think that bothers the fortune 500? Guess again.

Any good paying job that can be automated attracts capital to do that. The next big prize? Truck drivers, whose net income since the 80's has gone down since unions got busted.

Nobody here complains about how jobs disappear until after their gone and some think tank figures out a way to blame the Democrats. Then everyone joins the chorus.

Meanwhile Trump's USDA retracts Obama era rules to give small poultry and livestock producers a better position in the market against the big buyers. Not a peep about that, 'cause, well, you know...socialism.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt...w-theyre-suing

I would like another verifiable news source other then NPR, do you have one?
Sam

[blackhawknj]

Weed and booze keep employers from hiring people. Unions busted themselves. PATCO thought it could defy the law, the Teamsters record of corruption and exploiting their members is well known.

[togor]

I would like another verifiable news source other then NPR, do you have one?
Sam

How damn lazy can one guy be? A hyperlink in the NPR article to the home page of the organization that filed the suit.

http://competitivemarkets.com/farm-group-challenges-trump-administrations-unlawful-rollback-of-rules-protecting-farmers-ranchers-from-abuses-by-big-agriculture/

You make my point for me.

[togor]

Weed and booze keep employers from hiring people. Unions busted themselves. PATCO thought it could defy the law, the Teamsters record of corruption and exploiting their members is well known.

I'm no big fan of unions for personal reasons, but I can admit they did some real good for this country. When the hard core socialists (read: Communists) tried to bring Sam Gompers into their fold, he was having none of it. Supposedly Trump won because he was going to get better wages for working people (ask Steve Bannon), but in fairness to unions, they've been trying to do this for a long time. Trump is no fan of the working man, his construction-worker bluster notwithstanding.

In any case, the tech beast has targeted truck drivers with a vengeance. Maybe it's for the best. The job sucks more than ever now.

[S.A. Boggs]

How damn lazy can one guy be? A hyperlink in the NPR article to the home page of the organization that filed the suit.

http://competitivemarkets.com/farm-group-challenges-trump-administrations-unlawful-rollback-of-rules-protecting-farmers-ranchers-from-abuses-by-big-agriculture/

You make my point for me.

Ditto!
Sam

[S.A. Boggs]

I'm no big fan of unions for personal reasons, but I can admit they did some real good for this country. When the hard core socialists (read: Communists) tried to bring Sam Gompers into their fold, he was having none of it. Supposedly Trump won because he was going to get better wages for working people (ask Steve Bannon), but in fairness to unions, they've been trying to do this for a long time. Trump is no fan of the working man, his construction-worker bluster notwithstanding.

In any case, the tech beast has targeted truck drivers with a vengeance. Maybe it's for the best. The job sucks more than ever now.

So you are an authority on truck drivers now? With your brilliance in all things it fascinates me to no end. Now how do I compare to your "expertise" My Dad was a Teamster Detroit Local 299 [Jimmy Hoffa's home port in the 1960's], got my drivers license and then upgraded to chauffeur, my nephew own his own concern taking after his grandfather, my late brother followed Dad as well. Ever climb over a "dog house" to get to the sleeper? Know what a "lot lizard" is, where is "O" town? How do you drive the 5th wheel? Ever do a reefer or a low boy? Climb into a tractor or use either? What other expertise that you can dazzle us with.
Sam

[Major Tom]

When I worked for CNH most of the semi truck drivers were Mexican loonies. They would 'loose' part of their load during the trip and walk around the plant trying to sell weed.

[Allen]

So you are an authority on truck drivers now? With your brilliance in all things it fascinates me to no end. Now how do I compare to your "expertise" What other expertise that you can dazzle us with.

The ignore list is like an odorless bug spray. Why are you wasting your time on these kids who hack this forum?

[togor]

So you are an authority on truck drivers now? With your brilliance in all things it fascinates me to no end. Now how do I compare to your "expertise" My Dad was a Teamster Detroit Local 299 [Jimmy Hoffa's home port in the 1960's], got my drivers license and then upgraded to chauffeur, my nephew own his own concern taking after his grandfather, my late brother followed Dad as well. Ever climb over a "dog house" to get to the sleeper? Know what a "lot lizard" is, where is "O" town? How do you drive the 5th wheel? Ever do a reefer or a low boy? Climb into a tractor or use either? What other expertise that you can dazzle us with.
Sam

What's your point? That capital isn't flowing into driverless tech in the trucking industry? That long haul truckers especially aren't put in a tough squeeze? The job is very tough on the body. And yet for all of that, these jobs will be missed when they are gone. Looks like another case of if you don't like the message, attack the messenger, this time with a trivia contest.

Right now in this country the pressure on wages is still downward. Meanwhile in Sweden....

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/b...fine.html?_r=1