TeamsterGrrrl

$80k a year for an 84 hour week is nothing special, a UPS Teamster working 60 hours a week makes more. The lawsuit is under California law, which doesn't exempt truckers to the degree federal law does.

Being self employed means having to pay twice as much social security tax, as well as paying all of your health insurance and workers comp, and you get no unemployment insurance... Doesn't sound like a solution.

If your pension is worthless, it's not your union's fault- It's either a pre-ERISA pension or was underfunded because the company was able to use a loophole to claim it was overfunded and quit paying into it. Because my Teamster pension is well managed, there have been no benefit cuts even after the biggest employer went bankrupt.

David, you were working under prevailing wage law and thus got to freeload on union wages. If you were real union, you'd have a pension to enjoy instead of displaying your jealousy of union workers.

It's a simple matter of bargaining power... Walmart, Costco, and the big fleets get much lower prices on everything because they can buy in volume. A small retailer, one truck operator, or solitary worker has little bargaining power and has to accept whatever price the big companies offer.

You have two options: Stay non union and work 'til you die with starvation wages and no benefits. Or join a union and earn decent wages, benefits, health care, vacations, and retirement. Your choice...

OK, so lay out your facts... Or do I have to help you build your losing argument?

So in other words, you have no facts to back up your outrageous claim...

So you don't know?

OK, so what wholesale baker did I bankrupt?

Narrative for the next 4 years: Trump Lied!

Unless a competing small diesel vehicle becomes available, looks like I won't be taking the buyback.

Sorry, I fought for and earned my pension, not about to give it up. As for Medicare and Social Security, have yet to draw a cent. And why waste my time working for the low wages they're offering today? Better to let young folks have the jobs and volunteer my time instead.

Rowdy is (for once) correct- there's a case, Texas v. Johnson IIRC, that decided that flag burning is legal. That still don't make it right, and flag burning is one of the most disgusting forms of "speech" imaginable. Painting swasticas and "Trump" on houses of worship is pretty disgusting too.

Snowflakes aren't near as much a drag on the economy as the old "clinkers" that got a cushy job and a pension just because they were male, white, able bodied, and assumed to be straight. Bankrolled by those pensions and Social Security and kept alive by subsidized Medicare, they can lay around all day and accomplish nothing more than feeding themselves and bellyaching about everybody else...

As far as the Bronco name goes, just because Ford still has model names from the 60s trademarked doesn't mean they should use them... Look at what a flop the "500" was. I too fear we'll see only gas engines here, what with all the EPA hassles facing diesels. Won't be cheap either, I suspect pricing will be similar to similarly equipped Canyon/Colorados. I'm willing to spend $30k-40k for a diesel Ranger, but if gas is the only option I'll probably pass.

Then how do we comply with the legal requirement to provide absentee ballots?

Rowdy, you might want to remember that going to direct election instead of the obsolete Electoral College would turn election fraud into a much more challenging nationwide operation. With the Electoral College, election fraud would only need to occur in the 5 to 10 closely contested states. Also, you make the assumption that election fraud would occur at the polls. That's much too inefficient and has too high a risk of getting arrested... A real election fraudster pro would use the absentee ballot, allowing them to mass produce fake votes without having to go anywhere near the polls.

True, after you give them due process to prove they're not legal residents...

Doesn't work like that... The constitution guarantees them due process, so it usually takes months to decide if the get to stay or get a bus ride to the border.

Total U.S. jail capacity is a couple million, we have probably 11 million undocumented immigrants... Where we gonna put 'em?

You really want to pay to arrest, feed and house, and transport 11,000,000 people?

Here in Minnesota in the last few years we've twice done a hand recount of every ballot statewide, while we found a few mismarked ballots, we found zilch fraudulent voting.

Because even NYC has serious crime and can't waste their time and tax dollars on status offenses like immigration violations. I can't speak as much to NYC's situation, but I'm familiar with Minneapolis'- City of 400,000 in a county of 1,000,000+ with a 800 officer PD and the county jail has only 800 capacity. That means the jail routinely fills up and there's simply no space to hold undocumented immigrants 'til ICE gets around to picking them up. Never mind the fact that at night the police are very short staffed and tied down dealing with felonies. So you want to raise taxes to hire more police and bigger jails to hold these 11 million undocumented immigrants?