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CONSTRUCTION-TARD ALERT: Housing starts up 16.9%...Highest in 13 Years... WINNING !

 
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Yes yes it's great but who the fuck is going to work for $16/hr building houses?

The area I'm in the contractors could get contracted to build 25 houses in a year and maybe end up finding enough skilled workers to show up every day for $16/hr ($20 tops for experienced framers) in the dead of winter to build rich people their houses...to build maybe 5 houses LOL.

How many here would work for $16/hr BUILDING HOUSES with no benefits in the dead of winter while an angry construction boss breaths down your throat?
 Quoting: Lumberghini


Honestly I would take a construction job that pays 16$/ hr in a heartbeat.. Yet no construction companies are hiring.. honestly nobody is hiring.. I can barely get work through a temp agency.. hundreds of applications since November, as well as walking to sites and shaking hands and trying to get general labor.. I've passed out business cards to clean new construction homes... rent for apartments is 1500$/month average.. It's shit out there if you are looking for work..
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78300286



Besides this fake winning BS. Do you have any experience? Why don't you make them an offer they cannot refuse. If i was desperate , I would offer to work for min wage to start or work 1 day for free, to prove my worth. Obviously if you can't do this, then you probably not worth their time anyway.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76923886


no construction jobs are taking anyone on who has no experience

this is fact

even if you offer to work for free they don't want to train anyone

in fact any skilled labor job is basically impossible to get into with no experience

companies are not training anymore
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 42079668


Well first of all, I would start with picking a trade. Plumbing, Electrician etc.. grab a shovel and tell them you are ready to start digging trenches for them. Get your foot in the door, work hard and you will land a spot, so they will train you.

Before all that, clean and Ironed clothing, no tattoos, clean shaven etc.. I would also, go down to the local Union Hall and apply for an apprenticeship.
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Re: CONSTRUCTION-TARD ALERT: Housing starts up 16.9%...Highest in 13 Years... WINNING !
Don't worry.

The Democrats are working tirelessly to remove and defeat Donald Trump so they can fix this economy.

I heard one of them say that yesterday. Talk about delusional
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78355261


Dem Demtards!

I'm putting all my eggs in one basket!

:trumpeggs:
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Lol, good meme. I may save it to my desktop.
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Honestly I would take a construction job that pays 16$/ hr in a heartbeat.. Yet no construction companies are hiring.. honestly nobody is hiring.. I can barely get work through a temp agency.. hundreds of applications since November, as well as walking to sites and shaking hands and trying to get general labor.. I've passed out business cards to clean new construction homes... rent for apartments is 1500$/month average.. It's shit out there if you are looking for work..
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78300286



Besides this fake winning BS. Do you have any experience? Why don't you make them an offer they cannot refuse. If i was desperate , I would offer to work for min wage to start or work 1 day for free, to prove my worth. Obviously if you can't do this, then you probably not worth their time anyway.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76923886


no construction jobs are taking anyone on who has no experience

this is fact

even if you offer to work for free they don't want to train anyone

in fact any skilled labor job is basically impossible to get into with no experience

companies are not training anymore
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 42079668


Well first of all, I would start with picking a trade. Plumbing, Electrician etc.. grab a shovel and tell them you are ready to start digging trenches for them. Get your foot in the door, work hard and you will land a spot, so they will train you.

Before all that, clean and Ironed clothing, no tattoos, clean shaven etc.. I would also, go down to the local Union Hall and apply for an apprenticeship.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76923886


construction work is dead you're making the same wages that you made 20 years ago except for the cost of living is five times higher.

With the unguarded borders,DACA amnesty and tons of scholarship money for everybody but YT you're pretty much screwed especially when the minorities can all undercut your labor because they're all on welfare.
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Honestly I would take a construction job that pays 16$/ hr in a heartbeat.. Yet no construction companies are hiring.. honestly nobody is hiring.. I can barely get work through a temp agency.. hundreds of applications since November, as well as walking to sites and shaking hands and trying to get general labor.. I've passed out business cards to clean new construction homes... rent for apartments is 1500$/month average.. It's shit out there if you are looking for work..
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78300286



Besides this fake winning BS. Do you have any experience? Why don't you make them an offer they cannot refuse. If i was desperate , I would offer to work for min wage to start or work 1 day for free, to prove my worth. Obviously if you can't do this, then you probably not worth their time anyway.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76923886


no construction jobs are taking anyone on who has no experience

this is fact

even if you offer to work for free they don't want to train anyone

in fact any skilled labor job is basically impossible to get into with no experience

companies are not training anymore
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 42079668


Well first of all, I would start with picking a trade. Plumbing, Electrician etc.. grab a shovel and tell them you are ready to start digging trenches for them. Get your foot in the door, work hard and you will land a spot, so they will train you.

Before all that, clean and Ironed clothing, no tattoos, clean shaven etc.. I would also, go down to the local Union Hall and apply for an apprenticeship.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76923886


it doesn't work like that anymore

construction companies don't want in-experienced workers, that's it

you walk down to the construction site and tell them you'll start digging, they will tell you to get lost

you are out of touch with todays job market

every job posting for plumber, electrician etc all want you to have years of verifiable experience before they will talk to you

companies only want to poach good workers from other companies

they are not interested in training
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Besides this fake winning BS. Do you have any experience? Why don't you make them an offer they cannot refuse. If i was desperate , I would offer to work for min wage to start or work 1 day for free, to prove my worth. Obviously if you can't do this, then you probably not worth their time anyway.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76923886


no construction jobs are taking anyone on who has no experience

this is fact

even if you offer to work for free they don't want to train anyone

in fact any skilled labor job is basically impossible to get into with no experience

companies are not training anymore
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 42079668


Well first of all, I would start with picking a trade. Plumbing, Electrician etc.. grab a shovel and tell them you are ready to start digging trenches for them. Get your foot in the door, work hard and you will land a spot, so they will train you.

Before all that, clean and Ironed clothing, no tattoos, clean shaven etc.. I would also, go down to the local Union Hall and apply for an apprenticeship.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76923886


it doesn't work like that anymore

construction companies don't want in-experienced workers, that's it

you walk down to the construction site and tell them you'll start digging, they will tell you to get lost

you are out of touch with todays job market

every job posting for plumber, electrician etc all want you to have years of verifiable experience before they will talk to you

companies only want to poach good workers from other companies

they are not interested in training
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 42079668


Same in trucking but the wages don't keep up with inflation.

The blue collar worker hasn't had a raise in over 50 years when added inflation is taken into account.
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Re: CONSTRUCTION-TARD ALERT: Housing starts up 16.9%...Highest in 13 Years... WINNING !
need more housing for Interdimensional Beings.

I hope these bitches don't sink my resale value.


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Besides this fake winning BS. Do you have any experience? Why don't you make them an offer they cannot refuse. If i was desperate , I would offer to work for min wage to start or work 1 day for free, to prove my worth. Obviously if you can't do this, then you probably not worth their time anyway.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76923886


no construction jobs are taking anyone on who has no experience

this is fact

even if you offer to work for free they don't want to train anyone

in fact any skilled labor job is basically impossible to get into with no experience

companies are not training anymore
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 42079668


Well first of all, I would start with picking a trade. Plumbing, Electrician etc.. grab a shovel and tell them you are ready to start digging trenches for them. Get your foot in the door, work hard and you will land a spot, so they will train you.

Before all that, clean and Ironed clothing, no tattoos, clean shaven etc.. I would also, go down to the local Union Hall and apply for an apprenticeship.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76923886


construction work is dead you're making the same wages that you made 20 years ago except for the cost of living is five times higher.

With the unguarded borders,DACA amnesty and tons of scholarship money for everybody but YT you're pretty much screwed especially when the minorities can all undercut your labor because they're all on welfare.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76025615


I wouldn't say dead, if you can tolerate countless hours of low IQ illegal aliens. I don't wish that on anyone. I know 2 "white" guys, that having a painting/drywall business, they do the work themselves and never hire illegals and are constantly busy. You can generalize anything, but there are always exceptions.

In my area, if you are a "white" guy, you will most likely get laughed off the jobsite, if you come looking for general labor work. Just be smart in what you are looking for, first they will just suspect you are on drugs or some serious loser.
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Re: CONSTRUCTION-TARD ALERT: Housing starts up 16.9%...Highest in 13 Years... WINNING !
Hey OP, did you know that the volume of empty houses and retail establishments is at an all time high?

Did you know the 1% are using these properties as money laundering and tax schemes?

Not winning.

[link to www.revealnews.org (secure)]


America’s cities are being bought up, bit by bit, by anonymous shell companies using piles of cash. Modest single-family homes, owned for generations by families, now are held by corporate vehicles with names that appear to be little more than jumbles of letters and punctuation – such as SC-TUSCA LLC, CNS1975 LLC – registered to law offices and post office boxes miles away. New glittering towers filled with owned but empty condos look down over our cities, as residents below struggle to find any available housing.

All-cash transactions have come to account for a quarter of all residential real estate purchases, “totaling hundreds of billions of dollars nationwide,” the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network – the financial crimes unit of the federal Treasury Department, also known as FinCEN – noted in a 2017 news release. Thanks to the Bank Secrecy Act, a 1970 anti-money-laundering law, the agency is able to learn who owns many of these properties. In high-cost cities such as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Miami, it’s flagged over 30% of cash purchases as suspicious transactions. But FinCEN also cites this bill to hide this information from the public, leaving the American people increasingly in the dark about who owns their cities.

For journalists, it requires undertaking a tremendous investigative effort to find the real owner of even one property, let alone millions.

“It reminds me of Moldova after the fall of the Soviet Union: oligarchs running wild, stashing their gains in buildings,” James Wright, an attorney and former Treasury Department bank examiner, told me. He now helps foreign governments combat money laundering. “Back then, you’d walk down the street, and people would say, ‘That building is a washing machine.’ Everyone knew it. Today, America is not that different.”

 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75866826


Hey, AC 826,

Did you know that those of us in construction got KILLED
in the Obama years?

Did you know that Construction represents a whopping 13%
of the US Economy?

This rise in construction damn sure is WINNING!!!

trump-wng1
 Quoting: Trained Noticer


they are building houses no one can buy

these houses will sit empty

just like the thousands of new cars that sit in lots for years and no one can afford
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 42079668


Maybe if you live in Detroit or somewhere similar, although
I doubt that is where the building is going on.

Contractors and developers aren't retards. We contract or
spec depending on the market, but we don't build to create
empty inventory. ( We're not building Teslas)

All the houses around here sell before they are finished.

Sorry you live in a bad area.

bf9

Last Edited by Trained Noticer on 01/17/2020 01:09 PM
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Besides this fake winning BS. Do you have any experience? Why don't you make them an offer they cannot refuse. If i was desperate , I would offer to work for min wage to start or work 1 day for free, to prove my worth. Obviously if you can't do this, then you probably not worth their time anyway.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76923886


no construction jobs are taking anyone on who has no experience

this is fact

even if you offer to work for free they don't want to train anyone

in fact any skilled labor job is basically impossible to get into with no experience

companies are not training anymore
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 42079668


Well first of all, I would start with picking a trade. Plumbing, Electrician etc.. grab a shovel and tell them you are ready to start digging trenches for them. Get your foot in the door, work hard and you will land a spot, so they will train you.

Before all that, clean and Ironed clothing, no tattoos, clean shaven etc.. I would also, go down to the local Union Hall and apply for an apprenticeship.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76923886


it doesn't work like that anymore

construction companies don't want in-experienced workers, that's it

you walk down to the construction site and tell them you'll start digging, they will tell you to get lost

you are out of touch with todays job market

every job posting for plumber, electrician etc all want you to have years of verifiable experience before they will talk to you

companies only want to poach good workers from other companies

they are not interested in training
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 42079668


Well the Electricians/ plumbers might need to have verified Apprentice with the State. So there might be some legalities, that you are missing. That depends on each state, but besides that, these things can be worked out.

I say enough talk, somebody who doesn't have a job, would you please go out today and start knocking on doors, construction offices, your local Union hall and tell us what you find. If you go to a job site, ask them where you can apply for a job, don't go asking for work, like some drug addict.

Maybe look for a 1 man Mom and Pop Shop, they can always use help from time to time. Its just about getting your foot in the door. Tell them you can work part time flexible, there is no pressure on them.

Honestly Ive had my own business for over 20 years and before that, I have never really applied for any job. I can only base my opinion on people coming to me, looking for a job.
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So it's a bubble and that's winning?

Trump pushing zero interest rates is winning?

Man the tards are really satanic flipping good upside down to excuses a traitor.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76025615


Yeah wait till April and see if there's a monthly budget surplus. They REALLY like to jump on that.
I've gotten a lot of red for telling the truth and being right. Just sayin'
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Nature gonna be destroyed for houses for yuppies. The human race stinks.
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Nature gonna be destroyed for houses for yuppies. The human race stinks.
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Ah, you are one of those "eliminate the humans" tards.
You go first, bud.

bf97
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retail saile up in huge numbers as well
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Re: CONSTRUCTION-TARD ALERT: Housing starts up 16.9%...Highest in 13 Years... WINNING !
..." Construction of new homes surged in December to the highest
level in 13 years, capping a year in which falling mortgage
rates and a strong labor market helped lift the prospects of
the housing industry.

The Commerce Department reported Friday that builders started
construction on 1.61 million homes at a seasonally adjusted
annual rate in December, up 16.9% from the November pace of
home building."...

[link to apnews.com (secure)]

:TRUMPWINNING:
 Quoting: Trained Noticer


stupid clown. look around you- empty business storefronts whereever you turn. UNEMPLOYMENT UP
RENTS up
national debt nearing 24 TRILLION
wtfu
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68370177


Are you posting from canadia or michigan?
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Re: CONSTRUCTION-TARD ALERT: Housing starts up 16.9%...Highest in 13 Years... WINNING !
..." Construction of new homes surged in December to the highest
level in 13 years, capping a year in which falling mortgage
rates and a strong labor market helped lift the prospects of
the housing industry.

The Commerce Department reported Friday that builders started
construction on 1.61 million homes at a seasonally adjusted
annual rate in December, up 16.9% from the November pace of
home building."...

[link to apnews.com (secure)]

: TRUMPWINNING:
 Quoting: Trained Noticer


stupid clown. look around you- empty business storefronts whereever you turn. UNEMPLOYMENT UP
RENTS up
national debt nearing 24 TRILLION
wtfu
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68370177


Are you posting from canadia or michigan?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13455469

bfthis1
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Re: CONSTRUCTION-TARD ALERT: Housing starts up 16.9%...Highest in 13 Years... WINNING !
..." Construction of new homes surged in December to the highest
level in 13 years, capping a year in which falling mortgage
rates and a strong labor market helped lift the prospects of
the housing industry.

The Commerce Department reported Friday that builders started
construction on 1.61 million homes at a seasonally adjusted
annual rate in December, up 16.9% from the November pace of
home building."...

[link to apnews.com (secure)]

:TRUMPWINNING:
 Quoting: Trained Noticer


stupid clown. look around you- empty business storefronts whereever you turn. UNEMPLOYMENT UP
RENTS up
national debt nearing 24 TRILLION
wtfu
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68370177


Really? I see bone of this

Where do you live in the projects? Lol

Stupid dumb ass liberal

Oh, wait

You probably live in a state who is governed by democrats?

Tell us what state you live

Then we can tell you why you see these things lol
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Re: CONSTRUCTION-TARD ALERT: Housing starts up 16.9%...Highest in 13 Years... WINNING !
..." Construction of new homes surged in December to the highest
level in 13 years, capping a year in which falling mortgage
rates and a strong labor market helped lift the prospects of
the housing industry.

The Commerce Department reported Friday that builders started
construction on 1.61 million homes at a seasonally adjusted
annual rate in December, up 16.9% from the November pace of
home building."...

[link to apnews.com (secure)]

:TRUMPWINNING:
 Quoting: Trained Noticer


stupid clown. look around you- empty business storefronts whereever you turn. UNEMPLOYMENT UP
RENTS up
national debt nearing 24 TRILLION
wtfu
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68370177


Damm, in my town, state, I see new buildings being built, I see houses going up every where, I see hiring jobs daily, I see people driving me cars, I dont see any of this shit you say
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Re: CONSTRUCTION-TARD ALERT: Housing starts up 16.9%...Highest in 13 Years... WINNING !
..." Construction of new homes surged in December to the highest
level in 13 years, capping a year in which falling mortgage
rates and a strong labor market helped lift the prospects of
the housing industry.

The Commerce Department reported Friday that builders started
construction on 1.61 million homes at a seasonally adjusted
annual rate in December, up 16.9% from the November pace of
home building."...

[link to apnews.com (secure)]

:TRUMPWINNING:
 Quoting: Trained Noticer


stupid clown. look around you- empty business storefronts whereever you turn. UNEMPLOYMENT UP
RENTS up
national debt nearing 24 TRILLION
wtfu
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68370177


Damm, in my town, state, I see new buildings being built, I see houses going up every where, I see hiring jobs daily, I see people driving me cars, I dont see any of this shit you say
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76720150


All funded by debt and those jobs are paycheck to paycheck being performed by people that are living off of welfare.

If the economy is strong then why is Trump asking for 0% interest rates and the FED is still doing quantitative easing calling it a repo market now.

China is dumping treasury so the FED is buying them this is a house of cards getting ready to crumble.

If you're too dumb to see that then you're too stupid to be voting.
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So it's a bubble and that's winning?

Trump pushing zero interest rates is winning?

Man the tards are really satanic flipping good upside down to excuses a traitor.
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Liberal or conservative, leftwing or rightwing, I'll admit that's not a good approach when it comes to one aspect of the President's philosophy.

Overly low interest rates are the flip side of the negative impact of overly high interest rates.

.
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Of course, you guys know the President has virtually Zero
influence on what the Private Money Cabal called the Federal
Reserve does about interest rates.

His policies are taking advantage of the Fed's manipulations,
and I think the Fed's are surprised and a bit frustrated.

They planned a big carsh by now.

:magacat:
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hesright
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Hey OP, did you know that the volume of empty houses and retail establishments is at an all time high?

Did you know the 1% are using these properties as money laundering and tax schemes?

Not winning.

[link to www.revealnews.org (secure)]


America’s cities are being bought up, bit by bit, by anonymous shell companies using piles of cash. Modest single-family homes, owned for generations by families, now are held by corporate vehicles with names that appear to be little more than jumbles of letters and punctuation – such as SC-TUSCA LLC, CNS1975 LLC – registered to law offices and post office boxes miles away. New glittering towers filled with owned but empty condos look down over our cities, as residents below struggle to find any available housing.

All-cash transactions have come to account for a quarter of all residential real estate purchases, “totaling hundreds of billions of dollars nationwide,” the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network – the financial crimes unit of the federal Treasury Department, also known as FinCEN – noted in a 2017 news release. Thanks to the Bank Secrecy Act, a 1970 anti-money-laundering law, the agency is able to learn who owns many of these properties. In high-cost cities such as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Miami, it’s flagged over 30% of cash purchases as suspicious transactions. But FinCEN also cites this bill to hide this information from the public, leaving the American people increasingly in the dark about who owns their cities.

For journalists, it requires undertaking a tremendous investigative effort to find the real owner of even one property, let alone millions.

“It reminds me of Moldova after the fall of the Soviet Union: oligarchs running wild, stashing their gains in buildings,” James Wright, an attorney and former Treasury Department bank examiner, told me. He now helps foreign governments combat money laundering. “Back then, you’d walk down the street, and people would say, ‘That building is a washing machine.’ Everyone knew it. Today, America is not that different.”

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Thats because of you democrats and your purchases on AMAZON, you cut your own throats and are too stupid to realize it.
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..." Construction of new homes surged in December to the highest
level in 13 years, capping a year in which falling mortgage
rates and a strong labor market helped lift the prospects of
the housing industry.

The Commerce Department reported Friday that builders started
construction on 1.61 million homes at a seasonally adjusted
annual rate in December, up 16.9% from the November pace of
home building."...

[link to apnews.com (secure)]

:TRUMPWINNING:
 Quoting: Trained Noticer


stupid clown. look around you- empty business storefronts whereever you turn. UNEMPLOYMENT UP
RENTS up
national debt nearing 24 TRILLION
wtfu
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68370177


unemployment up..

crazy

you fucking tard
I live on a bordertown near Detroit . All is see when I go there are help wanted signs ... everywhere
Machine shops with signs on their front lawns .. as far as your retarded eyes can see..

Denialtard

pick
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Re: CONSTRUCTION-TARD ALERT: Housing starts up 16.9%...Highest in 13 Years... WINNING !
Well can ya’ll maybe start building housing my generation can actually afford and not a bunch of massive housing for the 55+ communities.

Contrary to popular belief I do not want to live with my parents forever.

Even shitty trailers are like $1200 a month PLUS lot fee AND utilities now.

I only make $1500 a month and my boyfriend is a seasonal worker BECAUSE of working in construction/electrical/pipe work

I wouldn’t mind living in one as long as they are clean but the affordable ones are NOT. And are in dangerous areas.

I only want a little starter home you guys had back in like the 60’s...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78306782


In the 60’s, you could walk into nearly any factory in America and start working tomorrow at a wage that would support a family.
That was before Soviet-funded “Environmentalism”.
Before the “New Deal”
Before uncontrolled illegal immigration.
Before thousands and thousands of factories were out forced to China.

The Democrats destroyed your future, before you were even born.For money and power.
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Re: CONSTRUCTION-TARD ALERT: Housing starts up 16.9%...Highest in 13 Years... WINNING !
..." Construction of new homes surged in December to the highest
level in 13 years, capping a year in which falling mortgage
rates and a strong labor market helped lift the prospects of
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The Commerce Department reported Friday that builders started
construction on 1.61 million homes at a seasonally adjusted
annual rate in December, up 16.9% from the November pace of
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 Quoting: Trained Noticer


stupid clown. look around you- empty business storefronts whereever you turn. UNEMPLOYMENT UP
RENTS up
national debt nearing 24 TRILLION
wtfu
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68370177


unemployment up..

crazy

you fucking tard
I live on a bordertown near Detroit . All is see when I go there are help wanted signs ... everywhere
Machine shops with signs on their front lawns .. as far as your retarded eyes can see..

Denialtard

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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23766352


just because there's a sign-up doesn't mean that you're going to get a job that actually pays the bills their signs up all over here saying hiring you go there with your qualifications you'll never hear nothing back.

some places are hiring just so that they can limit the overtime that the other employees get.

if the economy is so great why is Trump pushing for 0% interest rates why is the Fed buying treasuries why is China dumping treasuries and why is the Fed continuing quantitative easing AKA money printing aka the repo market these things don't indicate a strong economy.





GLP