pennstater

On 1/28/2023 at 1:10 PM, L8RG8R said:

Yes, I am willing and prepared for it. We have worked hard and have been smart with our income. 

The average teacher salary in PA is over $56k per year.  Sounds very fair to me.   
Society can’t afford more. We are already heavily burdened financially. You can’t keep pushing salaries up while the cost of goods naturally rises as well without an eventual breaking point.  
It’s basic economics. 

17 hours ago, L8RG8R said:

I’m not a teacher but I feel all of them, including in this area deserve to be paid and respected more. People talk about teachers in this area like they’re second class citizens. If you consider the price of daycare in our area ($25 a day on the low end) and on average teachers have 20 students per class, then the starting teacher salary should be approximately $90k per year. Do the math. Not to mention, every teacher has a minimum of a bachelors degree. Most daycares do not require a degree to watch children. So be happy the school taxes are as low as they are right now. 

Are you prepared to pay out then?   It’s your wallet where the money will come from.  The cost of everything would rise as well to keep in line.  It’s basic economics.  Look at the costs now due in part to jobs like McDonald’s entry level jobs starting at 12 an hour.  In the end the the raise was pointless.  Most jobs now start at 10 plus an hour.  The average household is paying 7-8 thousand dollars more a year than we did a couple years ago.  You can’t keep jacking up wages without this effect. 

Biden has been the worst president that America ever had. It’s not even an opinion anymore.  

On 1/24/2023 at 12:19 PM, Illiterate said:

Not too many years ago, I was looking at backup power for my home.  Local power was notorious for going out for multiple days multiple times per year.  Of course, solar was considered.  To offset some of the cost, I considered the posibility of using solar to run my furnance, circulating pumps, and well.  Solar couldnt could not do that at a reasonable cost.  Ended up with a stand alone generator.  The interesting part of all this, which amused the solar guy to no end, was the fact I was attempting to run a keystoker coal furnace using solar.  Using green for not green, or how to be green and not green at the same time.

In terms of alarmists, they do serve a purpose.  If you look at images of Pittsburgh in the late 40s, or traveled to coal towns bathed in black coal dust, or saw massive pipes dumping raw sewage into rivers, or had a favorite fishing stream ruined by acid mine drainage, you do realize the massive environmental damage man can cause.  Unfortunately, most people shrug their shoulders and ignore it.  Usually takes a small group of alarmists to create change.

On the other hand, the non-alarmists ( for lack of a better term) are typically NIMBYs.  They complain about windmills ruining their back porch view, yet will also complain if someone strip mines their favorite hill top of if drilling rigs pop up like weeds.  And no one wants to drive behind the vehicle spewing all sorts on noxious black smoke and fumes.

Now, I am not pro-this or anti-that type of person.  I dont think we are going to melt all the ice caps in 2 years.  But, if you think dumping all this crap into the air, water, and land is not having any effect, your are as nuts as the alarmists.  Somewhere, there is an acceptable compromise.  People shouting at other from the far ends of the spectrum solves nothing.

It’s about personal responsibility. If you care about the environment (I do. I’m a Christian and believe in taking care of Gods earth he bestowed to us), then take care of it yourself.  Don’t waste food. (Don’t over eat either). Dont make so much trash. Don’t buy new every time something new comes out.  Conserve energy.  Turn heat down. Buy efficient vehicle.  Etc.  

I’m against global warming because every nut I know of or see is a hypocrite because they are the biggest users on the planet. Take the global summit for example.  EVERY one of them jetted in for it.  Every one is wealthy and owns multiple mansions. Etc. global warming is a joke and they made it the joke that it is. 

The dumbest folk on earth are climate alarmists.   And they are obviously the most hypocritical.    

I’m pretty confident our voting process is legit.  All the “proof” of voter fraud is nonsense imo.  It’s conjecture and hearsay and nothing more.  If true, it will come to light.  So far, it’s just far right clowns saying it. Well duh!  That should tell you something. 
I agree in some ways that voting is rather useless anymore because all the clowns running are the same anyway on both sides.  We’re damned either way.  I mean Trump still has support.  He’s an elite egomaniac. That doesn’t represent me.  

Yes. Both parties are in shambles.  It’s embarrassing.  Too many far righties and lefties.   

16 hours ago, Tiramisu said:

A real eye-opener

 

 

It’s a joke. It’s a Pelosi love fest story.  Of course it’s on hbo. Their documentaries are all left leaning love stories while demonizing the right.  Hbo is far left leaning so it’s not surprising.  It shouldn’t count as a documentary. It was directed by a Pelosi.  Drivel.   
As we all know she and Biden are all that is wrong with DC. Old career rich entitled politicians. Term limits. 

BUILD BACK BETTER!  ITS WORKING GREAT!!!

I know I’m very pleased that I’m paying between 7 and 8 thousand dollars a year more since Biden took over, due to the great economy!  
 
No more mean tweets. Clearly that was worth $8,000!  

15 minutes ago, weirdcritter said:

The brain may not be totally mature at 18. But it is mature enough to make most decisions. Frankly a lot of people don't show many signs of mature thinking when they are 75. 

This Murat guy, whose opinion means to me personally, never heard of him, what does he matter?

And for some reason your diatribes do matter?   This guy knows more about it than you from experience.

20 minutes ago, fedup said:

From your article. It says it all. Once again a liberal is trying to change the definition of something to make it what they want to believe. 

 

"“We’re trying to change the understanding of gender,” says psychiatrist Murat Altinay, MD. “That’s one of my big goals. The main question I’m asking is, ‘Where is the gender?’"

 

 

age 25

 

Brain Maturity Extends Well Beyond Teen Years Under most laws, young people are recognized as adults at age 18. But emerging science about brain development suggests that most people don't reach full maturity until the age 25.Oct 10, 2011

For 10,000 years of human written history this wasn’t a debate. It’s obvious. Facts don’t lie. Biology and reality don’t lie.  Facts trump feelings.  But…as you know Fed, we have become more stupid.  Only liberalism would complicate the most basics of basics.  Give up with this dude. You’ll only go in circles and waste your time.  You can’t reason with a liberal.  

5 hours ago, weirdcritter said:

I could call you a suitable name but if I did I may get banned. So no.

Typical. I figured as much.  You proved my post correct.   thank you. 

1 hour ago, fedup said:

OK Critter, there is 3 of the hundreds of articles covering Liberal run cities and their crime rates. I could do this til the cows come home but there is no use.  No mater how much proof I or anyone else gives you you will not admit that Liberalism is the major cause of crime in this country. 

It just HAS to be something ELSE, correct??????

Lori Lightfoot is the queen of law and order. 

Did you notice that the last article did all it could do to avoid using the words Liberal or Liberalism?  I wonder why. 

It is amazing that leftism denies stats and facts.  They blame blame blame and never face the truth.  ALL crime ridden cities are run by democrats.  They blame the gun for it even though they are outlawed in most of their cities.  It’s senseless. 

20 minutes ago, fedup said:

I want to see a time when the damned liberals ain't controlling or trying to control every aspect of my life. 

Agreed.  People can believe what they want. Just done expect everyone around them to accept or agree with it. Just like not everyone accepts or agrees with what I believe. Stop pushing everything you believe and calling others some kind of hater if you disagree.
Let’s stop being an offended society and forcing everyone to accept the societal norms that change every year or so.  We’ve become an offended,  entitled society…..which is interesting because the ones that name call other as being entitled are the most entitled of all.  The ones that cry “I’m offended” the most are the ones offending the most.  
There’s a word for that. Hypocrisy. I’m sure someone’s offended at that.  
Oh well.  Call me a name and move on. 
 

3 hours ago, fedup said:

Do you know the difference between a liberal adult and a non-liberal adult?

Liberal adult=oxyMORON. 

20 hours ago, Basset3 said:

WOKE will go by way of the hula hoop, the leisure suit and Kmart.

I’m afraid it’s here to stay.  As the young that support and push this nonsense grow into adulthood, more and more will accept and think it’s good. We have already become an offended society. Sticks and stones no longer applies.  Be offended and cancel is the new norm brought to you by social media.  

Wokeness is the result of grownups allowing children to dictate and set the tone.  And when I say children I mean teenagers to twenty somethings.  Many or most young adults are entitled and spoiled. They are the selfish results of social media from their youth onward. We are reaping the results from that from 10-15 years ago. 
Sadly some adults on the left have embraced the nonsense as well. 

3 hours ago, fedup said:

BUT BUT BUTT  there is no money to be made in what you are doing. There is no way you can control others with it. You can't sell that thought process for votes.

It's just useless to those who wishes to control our lives .

Liberals 

Yup. That’s it. 
Control and money. 
If the libbies really cared for the environment then the LAST thing you’d want is big governments controlling it. 
 

1 hour ago, Lizard said:

That's funny because I'm not a nut but I do ride my bike to work and keep the house at 65 degrees.

Thats good.  

Its kinda my point.  Im not a green freak or global alarmist nut.

BUT Im a conservative so I naturally "conserve".

We keep our heat around 67 at night, make little garbage, NEVER have extra lights on,  and respect the earth as God commanded.  

You can do all that without forcing an agenda that only costs the taxpayer.

Yup.  As we all know…. It’s ALWAYS about the money. “Global warming” is a money and power industry. And an industry of control which is why the lefty politicians push it so.  
 

As I’ve said for 20 years….if you truly believe it; your solution would be personal responsibility…….you doing something about it.  NOT telling me or the government to do something about it.  I’ve yet to meet a warming nut do a thing about it……like give up their car for a bike.  Or give up their smart phone.  Or keep their house at under 68 degrees. And on and on.  It’s actually the opposite.  They are the worst offenders. 
HYPOCRITES. 

If we know anything; its that the biggest cryers about the environment are the biggest offenders in damaging it.

I CHALLENGE ANYONE TO PROVE ME WRONG....