Finding employees for manufacturing positions is all but impossible. No young kid wants to be an apprentice these days.Well, unless I can see the facts, its BS.
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Finding employees for manufacturing positions is all but impossible. No young kid wants to be an apprentice these days.Well, unless I can see the facts, its BS.
This trip showed a whole new picture of Portland. Homeless camps (or as the libs refer to them: Unhoused persons neighborhoods!), grafitti everywhere, trash is everywhere, not just around the homeless camps, tents on the sidewalks, cars with 4 flat tires that people are living in, stores boarded up where the windows have been smashed out, etc. We went to a restaurant with one of the sets of friends for breakfast and had a tweaker out on the sidewalk in front of our table. Our friends just kept saying "Don't look at her or she'll come in and ask what we were looking at".
A lot of that is from the riots. They still happen just not on the public media like they were. And they are coordinated and happen every so often.
You get the picture and it ain't a pretty one. The cops come in and clean out a homeless camp but those people only move to another location. It's kinda like straightening the deck chairs on the Titanic as it was sinking.
The cops really don't do too much. But the city has a division that will move them out. Once gone, they come back and do a clean up of the camp. Then when the camp is moved again, they move back to where they were. There is streets where the camps are told to move to and they trash up the area. Move onto peoples property and try to force the home owners out of their own homes. Law enforcement does nothing. And when the camp is moved again, they leave trash on private property. The city then cites the home owners for the trash and vehicles left. And the city is the ones telling them to move there.
Oregon is full of crooked laws and people on every level. City, county and state levels there is so much corruption and crookedness going on. Being a "sanctuary" city was the first step.
What a total shit show Portland is. Nobody is picking up garbage and litter from the streets and camps. It just keeps accumulating and I couldn't help but think what this city is going to look like in 5 years with 5 years more garbage on the streets.
It will all get cleaned up. Camp to camp and block to block. But at the tax payers expense. There is so many law suits going on right now, it's crazy.
Is Portland dying?
I say no, it's not. It can't die when the city is paying the campers to live there. Giving them the now legal drugs. Hell, why pay for your herrion, when the city will give it to you for free. And it's not just portland. We see it all the way out here. Had one come and knock on dads door the other day wanting to strip the metal off his buildings. He was told to leave the property and he came to our house next door to dad and wanted the bags of cans on our back deck. He had to be scoping out the property to see them. The deck faces a 60 acre Christmas tree farm.
What say you?
Same with construction. My buddy is always hiring and there’s a YUGE shortage of labor in my market.Finding employees for manufacturing positions is all but impossible. No young kid wants to be an apprentice these days.
Yes I have and that is what at least 20% I have talk to want.Have you ever talked to anyone who is homeless? A lot of them WANT to be on the street. Not all, but a lot.
In Indy the news did a story on the homeless standing at stoplights on the cement median. They filmed them walking away at the end of the day to their new cars and followed them home to their houses. I don’t remember the amount they figured out they made a year…. But it was substantialGood luck finding a bulldozer operator anywhere. Friend of mine is high up at caterpillar, says contractors can't find them anywhere. And the darn dozers pretty much run themselves now compared to 20-30 years ago.
I used to visit a homeless wheelchair bound couple many many years ago. I initially felt sorry for them for having to beg on the street. Once they told me how much they made an average day begging, plus all the disability benefits they were receiving, I no longer felt sorry for them, at the time they made more money than I did.
You know - many of these cities have limited the authority of the building owners; some cannot even evict deadbeats and are stuck carrying them indefinitely. Consequently, in the more "progressive" cities the building owners are not renting unless they qualify with an excellent credit report and up to 6 month of deposit. The simple fact is the local governments have doomed those responsible lower income renters.I would agree on all three cities and add So cal into the mix. I travel for work to all three and over the last eight years it is astonishing how the camps keep growing... along with our homeless camps here in Utah.
I feel bad for those that just have fallen on hard times and just can't find their way back into affordable housing. A 2 bedroom apartment in SLC is going for around 1,500 to 2,000 per month now with gas and food prices at a high. The ones that want to be back in the system and good citizens have it real hard. I know a hand full of people in SLC that live in there car and have good jobs but can't afford housing.
Now for all the ones that just want to live off the system and can't find there way off the needle or pipe I really have no empathy.
It is sad that they all have families that they could go to but most likely burned every bridge they have and really have no hope.
Good luck finding a bulldozer operator anywhere. Friend of mine is high up at caterpillar, says contractors can't find them anywhere. And the darn dozers pretty much run themselves now compared to 20-30 years ago.
I used to visit a homeless wheelchair bound couple many many years ago. I initially felt sorry for them for having to beg on the street. Once they told me how much they made an average day begging, plus all the disability benefits they were receiving, I no longer felt sorry for them, at the time they made more money than I did.
I've told my wife and kids, should something happen I don't want to be a veggie or spend my life slumped in a wheelchair drooling on myself. If the situation allows them the choice I want them to let me go....but I also said 'don't jump the gun'John, bless you and April for caring for your dad. We're doing the same thing with my MIL who is 106 and in a long term care facility. I would NEVER want to live that long after seeing here in the condition she's in.
Just take me out back and shoot my dumb ass. But not yet!
Finding employees for manufacturing positions is all but impossible. No young kid wants to be an apprentice these days.
John, bless you and April for caring for your dad. We're doing the same thing with my MIL who is 106 and in a long term care facility. I would NEVER want to live that long after seeing here in the condition she's in.
Just take me out back and shoot my dumb ass. But not yet!