maybe america was one of the best countries to live in right after WWII, but certainly not these days. its way behind the times!
I seem to remember that the U.S. yanked (pun intended) most of the rest of the world back into stability after two world wars. How many have paid their reparations?
no one job is quite enough for everyone. i dont think anyone should have to work more than 40 hours and i also think we should be working less since its been 75 years since the work week was legally lowered.
and even more civilians would have ultimately died had Truman not made the decision to drop the bombs. Hirohito vowed to fight til the bitter end. It was the devastation he observed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki which made him suddenly change his tune.
s ‘n giggles.ok i can definitely pull up some quotes on the atomic bomb...but not now.and even more civilians would have ultimately died had Truman not made the decision to drop the bombs. Hirohito vowed to fight til the bitter end. It was the devastation he observed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki which made him suddenly change his tune.
Far more Japanese civilians were killed in previous conventional B-29 firebombing raids than from the two atomic bombs combined.
There’s no doubt it was a terrible thing to have happen - but I believe that it was a terrible thing that had to happen. After all, it wasn’t us who who rained devastation on their naval fleet as most of their sailors were asleep early one Sunday morning just for
The point I’m making though, would it have been okay if those civilians had been killed with conventional bombs instead?
ty thing you did at Pearl that day”It's funny you say that. After I left UPS, I applied with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. After a year I got the job, and was super excited to start. They offered me High Desert State Prison in Susanville. I took it and was glad I did. I have been in the Department now for 3 years and it's crazy how much money I make along with the benefits. When I left UPS I was making $20 an hour. I'm making $35 now and it will keep going up till I am topped out after 7 years. My health insurance is only $300 a month with a family of 4. I don't pay for vision or dental either. It's free. And also there is no more lifting packages and walking into every building in downtown Sacramento hoping I can find parking in an alleyway. I only work 8 hours a day and can swap with my partners for extra days off. Also I get 1 sick day a month and 13 hours of vacation a month. It's crazy how good California is to it's law enforcement officers. But our Union is unbeatable. They keep negotiating better packages. I won't ever look back at UPS.
Further evidence of why California is in such bad financial shape.
And I agree, to a point. I'm going to retire at 55 with a 2.5 retirement pension. I'm 39 now so hopefully I'll see it in full. The stress is a lot different than any other job as far as mental stress. Some days you have an easy day, and some days you get held over for a fight on the yard. Which, hey at overtime being time an a half makes a nice amount of money. But you can't leave the prison walls when you're in there. No cell phones either. And you're dealing with convicted felons all day long. So we get paid what we are worth and that is no question.
The job pays what it does to attract and keep employees. It's a high stress job and turnover has always been an issue for the Dept. Of Corrections.
True, but when I was with UPS the turnover rate was higher. The retirements are killing the CDCR right now. I haven't seen 1 officer quit since I have been an officer. And I am at my second prison now after transferring closer to home. Walkoffs happen, but the majority of staff walked off are not officers. Believe me when I say that most officers aren't going to give up after all the testing, the Academy and the pay and benefits that come. The officers know how mentally straining it can be but if you can handle 8 hours of being a leader then it's not so bad.
Japan inflicted terrible loss of life on China and all through the eastern Pacific. As Route 66 said dropping the bomb was a necessary evil. And while you may be sympathetic to the Soviet Union the reason we installed dictators was to stop the spread of communism. The Russians and Chinese were determined to see the whole world communist. We fought fire with fire. And it wasn't just a matter of competing economic systems as the governments of communist countries believed it was their right to control the lives of their citizens. The angle you take suggests you are sympathetic to those ideas because you're always critical of the U.S.. It's a shame that most Eastern Europeans and citizens of the former Soviet Union see communism as a disastrously failed system but there are those on the far Left in this country that still toy with the idea, thinking they can get it right.
The press has attacked Trump relentlessly, yet his criticism of them is seen as an attack on the institution? Try other countries, including Russia, where journalists are often murdered. And not once in awhile, but often. As for socialism, if it works, fine. But too often it has failed due to overreach. Communism on the other hand is a failed system that hopefully will go extinct worldwide soon.
The Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 was passed into law by Congress on 10/23/95, requiring that the U.S. embassy be moved to Jerusalem no later than 5/31/99. Trump was the first President with enough balls to actually carry it out.
It sure is, just ask Fedex management.
He was, and is, getting scrutinized like no president in recent history, most of it nonsense. You're saying he has to take it lying down, that to be critical of the ridiculousness is threatening democracy. That's silly. Name one outlet that has been intimidated into backing down? A much greater threat to democracy is a press seeking to bring down a duly elected president for no other reason than they disagree with his policies. They are objectively dishonest in their support of one political party over another and it's their job to be objective.
