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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Feb 28, 2017 - 08:06pm PT
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A lady friend hired a licensed Mexican-American contractor to remodel her basement....She liked my work ( ha, ha ) but thought she would get more bang for her buck by hiring the other guy who had 2 illegals working for him...They finished the remodel and shortly after some pipes burst flooding her basement and ruining the new remodel...LOL...She hired me to fix the damage.. " Bigger bang for the buck hispanic dude forgot to insulate some copper pipes resulting in a flooded basement.. Oh darn...Later on the same contractor had 2 of his illegals working off ladders...One ladder fell taking out the other undocumented worker...Both had to be airlifted to Reno...The contractor had payroll tax but no workers comp...Double darn...Tax payers covered the helicopter rides...Any idea what that cost the tax payers...? Then the builder sued the building department after lying about having workers comp... He won a large settlement from the building department...No bad deed goes unrewarded...
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Feb 28, 2017 - 08:15pm PT
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So who benefitted most?
The lawyers
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Feb 28, 2017 - 08:20pm PT
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Probably....
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Feb 28, 2017 - 08:32pm PT
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tgt is a dirty pollack.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Feb 28, 2017 - 08:38pm PT
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whl says dirty pollack is negative? I happen to celebrate dirty pollocks in my household. what have you got against pollacks anyway Joy?
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Feb 28, 2017 - 08:42pm PT
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"Truth". That's funny Jody. Given your rightward leanings and love of the mendatious Ted Cruz, you clearly don't know what that is.
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Feb 28, 2017 - 08:55pm PT
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I posted previously about friends here in the Yakima valley who own an orchard. They hire people to pick fruit. They take SS numbers, they submit them to the IRS. They do everything totally legally and they want to. SS numbers come back as invalid. They ask the employees for correct numbers. The numbers never match. What else should they do?" They really follow the law, are good people, are not trying to rip anyone off. Still, many of the people they employ during picking are illegal. What else can they do? They are SERIOUSLY trying to do this right. Some of you would fine these people $50k per illegal? WTF? They are trying to follow the law with no success. You would not believe the angst they feel about all this.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Feb 28, 2017 - 08:56pm PT
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Where do I sign up?
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Feb 28, 2017 - 08:59pm PT
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^^^^^ Yeah, sure, free dental. One of my cellar hands is loosing teeth. Where does he sign up?
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Feb 28, 2017 - 09:11pm PT
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If you lived on the border and spend a significant amount of time in places like Rosarito, you'd be struck by how many US retirees, living on a fixed income are taking advantage of living in budget friendly Mexico.
None the less, I don't hire undocumented workers ever. Those days are mostly gone for legit business owners. At the same time, there seems to be a deficit of young, serious, hard-working white guys coming up through the trades that are worth a sh#t and don't think you owe them something just for showing up on time.
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c wilmot
climber
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Feb 28, 2017 - 09:12pm PT
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Winemaker- they can run background checks. I used to have to go to the police to be fingerprinted in order to prove I was who I said I was when I was working for the gov. And I paid for it out of my own pocket...
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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The problem with that is that the documentation has changed so many times over the years that an employer cannot have a ghost of a chance of knowing whether they are authentic or not.
Every attempt to enhance the effectiveness of e-verify/i-9 has been fought tooth and nail by corporations and right as an "undue burden". Making it mandatory gets pushback from both right and left as a precursor to a national ID card (inevitable).
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Just how much free stuff do some folks get for riding around in an air conditioned car all day giving people sheeit? The stats are available.
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WBraun
climber
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Why did he get deactivated?
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dirtbag
climber
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Prolly for his "make America white again" comment, which I read as satire, but who knows?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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There are yuuuge numbers of people in the world with stories as sad or even sadder than what I presume to be yours Jody.
Some of them come to the United States "illegally". They don't get the free stuff you claim they do, but we know what some folks do get.
I'm sure you feel deep compassion for them, but I'll shut up when you do.
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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^^^ for RGB, what about CMYK?
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Pretty Funny/sad/ironic...Cosmic using Science to justify bigotry. good one...
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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"Member profile information for pyro is shown below. This member's account has been deactivated. "...
satire .. ?
“When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.
~Maya Angelou
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dirtbag
climber
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.. ?
“When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.
~Maya Angelou
I've read hundreds of his posts and had previously never seen anything racist from him. He frequently made smart ass, provocative comments, which is not a knock against him, btw, so I had assumed this was another.
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