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Ned Depew
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Date Posted: 13:18:16 07/14/05 Thu
In reply to:
Gene
's message, "Re: the Foh POT OF GOLD and JOBS..." on 16:04:46 07/13/05 Wed
They're all around you Gene. All you have to do is ask. And try to get the facts - Oh, but I forgot, you aren't interested in facts!
I'll give you a few examples: experienced workers, foremen and shift managers at Kaz or L&B make between $12-25/hr with good benefits. Management employees make considerably more.
Competent contruction workers - working as independent contractors running their own businesses and providing their own benefits - make upwards of $35-40/hr. Just ask them. Laborers and low-skilled construction workers are making more than $15/hr. Try to find someone to work in this capacity for less...
The retail sales jobs on Warren Street pay better than Wal-Mart, and long-term employees are almost all covered by benefits. Chefs at the Red Dot, Swoon, Ca' Mea, and Wonderbar make a decent wage. The Hospital and nursing homes have a variety of jobs from the the unskilled at less than $8/hr (but with some benefits) through semi-skilled and skilled technicians who can make $15-50/hr (with full benefits), to Nurses, who can make more than $40K/year (benefits added) and of course the doctors - more than forty of them - for whom the sky's the limit.
The Reigister-Star continues to pay slave wages, but they seem to be getting away with it - mostly by hiring people from Greene County where the wage scale is lower. If you wanted a job, Gene, and you had some skills, you wouldn't have any trouble finding one that paid a decent wage and provided average benefits in Col Cty at this time.
The employment and economic picture is currently good - but no thanks to our current political "leaders."
The political systemn is not a mess. Instead of taking our good fortune and using it to prepare for more difficult times that may come, our current administration is spending money as fast as it can, spending down our surplus, borrowing to pay for its spending spree (money that the taxpayers of the future will have to pay back with interest!), giving away some of the City's most valuable assets in sweetheart, back-room deals that cost the City taxpayers millions of dollars.That is why they need to be exposed and replaced.
I want to "change the political players and put down what they have done" because what they have done has been very bad for the City's current residents, and very bad for it's futre, and good for no one but thmeselves.
They had nothing to do with the revitalization of the City - in fact, the Scalera Administrations opposed it and have done everything in their power to obstuct and hamper it from the get-go - most recently the selective over-assessment of Warren Street properties. They had a sweet little deal where they could manipulate HUD funds and other grants to the City, they had a passive, poorly-informed citizenry, and they liked it that way.
They'd be happy to see Hudson return to the days of boarded-up store fronts and Gellert/Kravitz slums. They were fine with that and turned it to their own advantage. They are selfish, greedy autocrats who are used to running the City to benefit themselves and their cronies. That's no way for a democratic government to run, and it needs to be stopped.
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