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Clarence Thomas went through the same shit
We were on this yesterday. 1.x billion appropriated and spent on up and up from what was found.
Early 30's Anon here, I have several friends with college degrees still struggling to find a job in their field, and these aren't worthless degrees. Several have went back to school to kick the student loan can down the road. We're talking not being able to find work paying much better than $10-12 an hour. I feel for them.
After my service I grabbed associates in two trades, did oil and gas for a while, moved to pipeline, and now do commercial and industrial concrete - huge projects that require some travel. Brand new guys that know nothing about the trade that come in as laborers are making $20 an hour, yet some of my friends wont forget about their degree and grab a hard hat.
Our machine operators are making 25-35/hr and have an awesome setup (closed cabs, heat/ac, basically play a video game all day), but you have to work up to being trusted to run expensive machinery. I started off at $12 and as I demonstrated the ability to fix equipment, weld, frame, finish and even operate machinery I made my way up to $28.50 in just two years, I was making $25 on the pipeline when I left.
My buddy is a commercial electrician pulling down about $50 an hour with a company paid truck and fuel, company tools.
These kids need to wise up and forget their degrees. America is building again, and the wages have went up several dollars since POTUS got into office, at least in this Anons area.
Cutting steel with a diamond blade is less than ideal, it overheats and quickly becomes dangerous.
lol you're the one suggesting to use the diamond blade to cut steel and a hammer to bust through concrete. The diamond blade is make for concrete, not steel.
I've only posted about 20 times in the last few breads about how you are wrong. It will work, but it isn't going to be this quick chop and go that you make it sound like.
There is money in the trades right now.
I bet you are a lot like we are, too. Can't find enough people to stick around and do shit work for a while to earn the bigger bucks, not that starting at $20 isn't a fair shake for how much you actually end up standing around on any given day.
Some of the walls we do are the Redi-Rock and when a new guy comes on he's like "oh this is awesome, machines do all the work" and he makes great pay for doing hardly shit.
Do a Keystone wall where it makes more sense to carry block and mother fuckers drop like flies.
My take, that is a round about way of saying that H1B will not be an option, become a citizen or GFYS
They voted for the $50b but only appropriated 1.4b. That means the other 48.6b wasn't allocated or spent.
Not arguing that. I argue how feasible that is in the more remote areas of the border that are currently open. Then, on top of that, Marine Sensor Platoons jobs just became that much easier.
Layered security.