My family [not surnamed Myers] made its living from the early 1800s running fabric mills in the northeast. A vast majority of the employees were immigrants hired off the docks in NY and moved up to one of several small towns in western NY state. When the Depression came, not a single employee was laid off, my…

They should get the minimum wage. If they also get tips for excellent service, then that is exactly what a tip should be for, not for subsistence.

Very true. Especially service industries like Wal-Mart and grocery stores.

Exactly my point, that restaurant workers should not be dependent upon tips for the majority of their income. While it is true that some servers can make excellent tips, most servers are not and pizza/fast food delivery drivers get screwed over because they are working for more or less gas money and $1 or $2 per…

I could have 10 years ago, but my health has taken a nose dive and my body could not handle the stresses of office, it can't handle the stresses of working a regular job =(

IF the stockholders would get their minds around the simple fact that the more they demand in profits, the less the employees can be paid; the less pay and benefits for the employees, the crappier morale and employee quality is; the crappier the employee morale and quality, the shittier customer experience is and the…

I am not going to bother reading all 91 posts that have accumulated so far, I will however restate what I told someone that was considering investing:

And you have to love an electrical system that can be replaced by a little brown box you hook up between the battery and the distributor cap, flip a switch and the engine starts! That was a lifesaver on our friends 75 scout when something went wonky in the ignition system! Though I still claim that my rigging a…

Exactly the same reason I loved my 1979 IH Scout 2 ... other than with the 345 it had stock that let me blow the doors off a porsche already traveling on 395south as I headed up the ramp to get to speed. Again, this one cost me something like $1000 used in 1989, cost $500 a year insurance and over the 16 years I owned…

My first car in 1977 was a 1959 Nash Metropolitan ... 2 years older than I was. I paid $250 for it and sold it for $500. Definitely not the sexy car that most youngsters wanted at that time [I seem to remember the chev/iac trans/aro was the in pseudo sportscar of the day.]

And you know what else was thoroughly trashed? The Yugo. In 1987 I was just digging myself out of a disasterous relationship with an abuser and the only job I could find paid minimum wage, so I needed every penny I could get, and that little cheap econobox beat the living hell out of walking in a city with effectively…

I was grocery shopping back in 1984 with my BF of the time at a store in Brighton NY, a fairly posh community with a sizable Jewish population. On a shelf in the kosher section was a section for bottles of smokey ham flavoring for adding to soups, stews and gravies .. @_@ When my Jewish BF asked the manager to please…

The whole thing is crap - they should pick one venue for summer and one for winter, build the facilities and permanently hold it there. One place for each instead of moving it around would save so much money, and not impoverish countries by forcing them to build elaborate 'world class' facilities. What they could do…

So you would rather your children learn to dread going to school because of being robbed versus a boring but safe environment where they can learn. Interesting. I think I would rather have my kids come out of school having actually *learned* something educational instead of having learned fear.

Sorry, the best years of my scholastic life were the ones I spent in a school with a dress code - no trying to figure out what to wear that wouldn't offend some damned gang or another, no clothing items that would get stolen because they were the newest most expensive sneaker or shirt with something offensive to…

You jones for *milk* chocolate. Dark chocolate has none. If you were just jonesing for theobroma cacao you could have dark chocolate and not worry about it. Your choice to go for the form that has milk in it. I may think shrooms sauteed in butter has just the most scrumptious smell, but I damned well am not going to…

Makes it hell for me, I have a severe allergy to mushrooms and have had someone feed me mushrooms hidden in spaghetti sauce to 'prove' I wasn't allergic to them. 2 epipens and an ambulance ride later they stopped being a friend. I will never assume that someone's allergy or sensitivity is fake, but when you claim that…

That is a nice looking rear light package. ANd I am definitely for amber turn signal either bulb or lens, I don't care which.

I have a feeling that they release the boko prisoners none of the girls would get released because they were all now married off and the property of their new husbands, and you can't remove them from their new 'families'.

I could have sworn it was up for sale about 15 years back for 32 million after being renovated, did it totally fall apart in the intervening years or what?