Beth Day

[Beth Day @beachcomber816]

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[Beth Day @beachcomber816]

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[Beth Day @beachcomber816]

@IvankaNews_ Agree that Zelenskyy needs to have skin in game, but the President and Vice President should NOT have responded to trash talk and remained dignified

[@amuse @amuse]

UKRAINE: Zelensky informs the EU that his refusal to work with the US to end the war will require them to pay $250 billion to keep the war going.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Not much has changed

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Federal worker: It’s very hard to focus on your job “when you’re getting threatened and harassed” by an email asking what you did last week.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

🚨NEW: Elon Musk Breaks Down What's Happening at the Treasury 💰

ELON MUSK: "The main computer payment system is called PAM (Payment Automation Manager). It's responsible for $5T a year, roughly $1B an hour. When we came we saw the payments had no payment categorization code and no description. Untraceable blank checks. This is the kind of thing that if a public company did it, the company would be delisted and the executive team would be thrown in prison -- but this is normal at the Government.

We recommended the Treasury and the Federal Reserve to make payment categorization codes mandatory and there needs to be an explanation, ANY explanation, above nothing. That's a radical change to the system that is being implemented now.

This could save roughly $100B a year."

JOE ROGAN: "Where was that money going?"

ELON MUSK: "This is where you get into the grey boundary between waste and fraud. If money is sent to a person or org from the Government and you didn't deserve it, but the Government sent it, is that waste or fraud? A lot of payments got approved but then that payment officer retired, or left, or died, and the payments just kept going. Like you forgot about your gym membership, but your gym membership costs $20B a year.

That's happening at scale in the government. It's totally insane."

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

“CPAC? Really, Mike? Since you’re now officially out of the closet, are you still going to insist that you’re not a Republican stooge? I’m guessing you will. Go ahead, prove me wrong.”
Carol Blevins

Hi Carol
The only way I can prove you wrong is by ignoring you, which is tempting, since there’s no hope in trying to change the mind of a person who doesn’t like me but follows me anyway. On the other hand, it’s entirely possible that other people on this page who share your disappointment - but not your lack of manners – might be curious to know why I accepted an invitation to speak at the largest gathering of conservatives in the country. So, I’ll answer your question with them in mind, and do so by sharing an open letter I wrote to Barack Obama sixteen years ago, shortly after I launched mikeroweWORKS. You can read it here/ https://t.co/CTjJav0KDL

That letter was posted in 2009, when the country was entering a recession and lots of people were unemployed. In an effort to get America back to work, President Obama pledged to create three million “shovel ready” jobs as part of his Highway Infrastructure Act. In my letter to him, I wished the new President every success, but shared my concern that many of the business owners I had met on Dirty Jobs were already struggling to fill thousands of “shovel ready” positions. According to the BLS, even with twelve million people out of work, 2.3 million of these "shovel ready" positions remained open, many in manufacturing and the skilled trades.

Despite the mainstream assumption that more jobs would automatically lead to less unemployment, it seemed pretty clear that the skills gap was not a consequence of too few jobs, but rather, a consequence of too little enthusiasm for the jobs that already existed. In other words, along with the skills gap, there was also a “will gap.” It seemed to me that “creating” more shovel ready jobs would be a tough sell to a country that was not all that excited about picking up a shovel. That’s when I started to incorporate recruiting messages into every episode of Dirty Jobs. And that’s why I offered to help the Obama administration make a more persuasive case for the new “shovel ready” opportunities they hoped to create, by partnering with mikeroweWORKS.

To be honest, I didn’t really expect President Obama to respond to a guy who had become famous for crawling through sewers, but it never hurts to ask – especially when you’re trying to raise awareness about an issue that impacts every American. And so, I wasn’t discouraged when my offer was ignored. In fact, over the last sixteen years, I’ve made similar offers to other presidents, and other elected officials. I’ve met with several governors, partnered with several likeminded state-run initiatives, and spoken to Congress, twice, about the importance a national campaign to reinvigorate the trades. Unfortunately, the “will gap” is still with us. Today, 7.2 million able-bodied men are not only unemployed, they’re not even looking for work. And still, according to the BLS, we now have 7.6 million open jobs - most of which do NOT require a four-year degree.

In part, I think the “will gap” is a consequence of stigmas, stereotypes, myths and misperceptions that dissuade millions of people from considering a career in the trades. I think it’s critical to debunk those misperceptions with real-world examples, and mikeroweWORKS does that every day. But there’s nothing we can do about the underlying math, which is exacerbating the problem exponentially. Consider: for every five skilled workers who retire this year, two will replace them. It’s been that way for over a decade, and the arithmetic is clearly not sustainable. In fact, every big company in the country that relies on skilled labor – including those responsible for our national defense – is in desperate need of skilled labor, and competing with each other to get it. And now, President Trump wants to create more skilled jobs by bringing manufacturing back to America.

As with President Obama, I wish President Trump every success. I want our country to be less reliant on China, and less dependent on foreign workers. But my questions today are no different than they were sixteen years ago – if the President succeeds with his objective, where will the skilled workers come from? As of last February, there were 600 hundred thousand open jobs in the manufacturing sector. If we can’t fill the jobs that already exist, how will we fill the jobs the president wishes to create? How will we persuade the next generation to give the skilled trades an honest look?

At mikeroweWORKS, the answer is simple. We award work ethic scholarships to people who qualify, and then, after they begin their career of choice, we share their stories as widely as possible. Stories like Johnny Goodson’s, a former musician who found a rewarding career repairing heavy equipment. Johnny is one of 2,200 people we’ve assisted to date, who found a new and rewarding life in the skilled trades. Its stories like his that need to be shared far and wide, so please help me do so.

As for my party affiliation, it’s hardly a secret. I’m a registered Independent, and have been for some time. It’s true that I hold some conservative opinions, but those opinions haven't kept me from addressing dozens of liberal organizations over the years, or from appearing on countless liberal outlets to talk about this issue. Nor do my political opinions keep me from encouraging you, Carol, or any other liberal leaning person you might know, to apply for a work ethic scholarship from https://t.co/ju76O0XWgC. This month, we have $2.5 million dollars set aside to help train the next generation of skilled workers. I wish we had ten times the amount, because as of today, we have ten times the number of applicants we did a year ago.

Anyway, that’s why I went to CPAC. To let them know that we’re moving the needle, and to invite them to help us move it further still. The stakes are very high. In my view, closing the skills gap is now a matter of national security, and something ambitious needs to be done to reinvigorate the trades. We're doing what we can at mikeroweWORKS, and I welcome all the help I can get.

[Sadie @Sadie_NC]

He needs to teach our children about the history of the Republican and Democrat parties.

[George @BehizyTweets]

HOLY MOLY!!! Magatte Wade dropped a nuke on Jamie Raskin at the House Judiciary hearing when he went off-topic to attack Elon Musk.

"As an entrepreneur, my time is valuable. I came here because I thought we were going to talk about the regulatory state and why it matters. So you need to make up your mind on that."

"My continent, Africa, is the poorest region in the world today because it happens to be the most over-regulated region in the world. So, if you don't see the value of over-regulated... wait until this country becomes like most African countries." - @magattew

Magatte NAILED IT.

[Beth Day @beachcomber816]

@ShawnRyan762 You are NOT righteous in anything you have done. You do not represent what might remotely help the citizens of America.

[Beth Day @beachcomber816]

@DerrickEvans4WV I give permission as an American taxpayer for the President and his team to get to the bottom of what my tax dollars are being used for. I addition I’m happy to file a freedom of information act request!

[Beth Day @beachcomber816]

@bennyjohnson Let’s funnel all that money to teacher pay increases and funding for student tutoring

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wise words

[The Disrespected Trucker @DisrespectedThe]

I hope every Democrat supporter sees this so they see how bad they're being played.

[John Basham @JohnBasham]

BREAKING: Dallas County Texas Tell Election Workers To ILLEGALY LIE ON REGISTRATION & USE A CHURCH ADDRESS TO REGISTER HOMELESS PEOPLE TO VOTE!
Video Was Recorded August 24th During Election Training By Dallas County Elections Dept.
Source-@realJoeHoft

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

This college student says he's voting for Kamala. I ask him a very basic question: "What has she done as Vice President of the United States that would give you confidence that she'll do a good job as President?"

No one can answer this very simple question. WATCH

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

Good morning, friends.
Just a reminder that the Biden/Harris Administration only gave a measly $700 dollars to Maui Fire Victims…
While they give Billions to the never ending Ukraine War and spend YOUR tax dollars flying and busing and hoteling illegal border crossers to Vote D.

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

There's been an inversion now where the Republican Party has become the party of the common man, of working people, of the middle class, and the Democratic Party has become the party of Wall Street, the Military Industrial Complex, Big Pharma, BigAg, Big Tech, the Big Banking Systems and all of what @realDonaldTrump calls the Deep State. @TuckerCarlson @VivekGRamaswamy