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[quote=walterwhite]
i think some pay in between get the cheapest hs kid you can find for 10 bucks an hour and 200k is probably good for beach lifeguards. it’s gotta be difficult. you want people who are dependable and professional. it’s probably a net gain for society, like highways, to have a system of lifeguards.[/quote]

Funny, at all the public pools I’ve ever been to during the summer months, all the lifeguards were some HS kid that probably didn’t get paid much.

Of course, they were always expert and very strong swimmers because they were on the swim team and or played water polo and all had water rescue, CPR and first aid qualifications.

But don’t let that get in the way of your story.

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[quote=walterwhite]
i think some pay in between get the cheapest hs kid you can find for 10 bucks an hour and 200k is probably good for beach lifeguards. it’s gotta be difficult. you want people who are dependable and professional. it’s probably a net gain for society, like highways, to have a system of lifeguards.[/quote]

Funny, at all the public pools I’ve ever been to during the summer months, all the lifeguards were some HS kid that probably didn’t get paid much.

Of course, they were always expert and very strong swimmers because they were on the swim team and or played water polo and all had water rescue, CPR and first aid qualifications.

But don’t let that get in the way of your story.

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[quote=walterwhite]
i think some pay in between get the cheapest hs kid you can find for 10 bucks an hour and 200k is probably good for beach lifeguards. it’s gotta be difficult. you want people who are dependable and professional. it’s probably a net gain for society, like highways, to have a system of lifeguards.[/quote]

Funny, at all the public pools I’ve ever been to during the summer months, all the lifeguards were some HS kid that probably didn’t get paid much.

Of course, they were always expert and very strong swimmers because they were on the swim team and or played water polo and all had water rescue, CPR and first aid qualifications.

But don’t let that get in the way of your story.

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[quote=walterwhite]
i think some pay in between get the cheapest hs kid you can find for 10 bucks an hour and 200k is probably good for beach lifeguards. it’s gotta be difficult. you want people who are dependable and professional. it’s probably a net gain for society, like highways, to have a system of lifeguards.[/quote]

Funny, at all the public pools I’ve ever been to during the summer months, all the lifeguards were some HS kid that probably didn’t get paid much.

Of course, they were always expert and very strong swimmers because they were on the swim team and or played water polo and all had water rescue, CPR and first aid qualifications.

But don’t let that get in the way of your story.

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[quote=CA renter]
Name one entity with no ties to public money. Whether they are personally employed by the govt, of if they are employed by “private” govt contractors, of if they are employed by a private company that sells to any govt entity or govt employee, or if they use the public infrastructure (roadways, energy, sea lanes guarded by the military, legal infrastructure, social infrastructure, etc.), I’ve never met a single person who didn’t rely in some way on the government.[/quote]

Funny, only one thing you mention there actually has any merit: military protection of sea lanes. Historically, the railroads were built and run by capitalists not the government. Energy generation and distribution was built by capitalists not the government.

It wasn’t until FDR that major infrastructure projects were done by the government…and many of those could not be done today because of the overbearing weight of union labor.

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[quote=CA renter]
Name one entity with no ties to public money. Whether they are personally employed by the govt, of if they are employed by “private” govt contractors, of if they are employed by a private company that sells to any govt entity or govt employee, or if they use the public infrastructure (roadways, energy, sea lanes guarded by the military, legal infrastructure, social infrastructure, etc.), I’ve never met a single person who didn’t rely in some way on the government.[/quote]

Funny, only one thing you mention there actually has any merit: military protection of sea lanes. Historically, the railroads were built and run by capitalists not the government. Energy generation and distribution was built by capitalists not the government.

It wasn’t until FDR that major infrastructure projects were done by the government…and many of those could not be done today because of the overbearing weight of union labor.

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[quote=CA renter]
Name one entity with no ties to public money. Whether they are personally employed by the govt, of if they are employed by “private” govt contractors, of if they are employed by a private company that sells to any govt entity or govt employee, or if they use the public infrastructure (roadways, energy, sea lanes guarded by the military, legal infrastructure, social infrastructure, etc.), I’ve never met a single person who didn’t rely in some way on the government.[/quote]

Funny, only one thing you mention there actually has any merit: military protection of sea lanes. Historically, the railroads were built and run by capitalists not the government. Energy generation and distribution was built by capitalists not the government.

It wasn’t until FDR that major infrastructure projects were done by the government…and many of those could not be done today because of the overbearing weight of union labor.

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[quote=CA renter]
Name one entity with no ties to public money. Whether they are personally employed by the govt, of if they are employed by “private” govt contractors, of if they are employed by a private company that sells to any govt entity or govt employee, or if they use the public infrastructure (roadways, energy, sea lanes guarded by the military, legal infrastructure, social infrastructure, etc.), I’ve never met a single person who didn’t rely in some way on the government.[/quote]

Funny, only one thing you mention there actually has any merit: military protection of sea lanes. Historically, the railroads were built and run by capitalists not the government. Energy generation and distribution was built by capitalists not the government.

It wasn’t until FDR that major infrastructure projects were done by the government…and many of those could not be done today because of the overbearing weight of union labor.

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[quote=CA renter]
Name one entity with no ties to public money. Whether they are personally employed by the govt, of if they are employed by “private” govt contractors, of if they are employed by a private company that sells to any govt entity or govt employee, or if they use the public infrastructure (roadways, energy, sea lanes guarded by the military, legal infrastructure, social infrastructure, etc.), I’ve never met a single person who didn’t rely in some way on the government.[/quote]

Funny, only one thing you mention there actually has any merit: military protection of sea lanes. Historically, the railroads were built and run by capitalists not the government. Energy generation and distribution was built by capitalists not the government.

It wasn’t until FDR that major infrastructure projects were done by the government…and many of those could not be done today because of the overbearing weight of union labor.

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[quote=captcha]I am just glad that an attack was prevented when TSA at SF airport made me take the shoes off my 5 month old son. He kicks ass and with the shoes on he can be lethal.[/quote]

It was very refreshing to fly out of the UK recently and NOT have to take off my friggin shoes.

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[quote=captcha]I am just glad that an attack was prevented when TSA at SF airport made me take the shoes off my 5 month old son. He kicks ass and with the shoes on he can be lethal.[/quote]

It was very refreshing to fly out of the UK recently and NOT have to take off my friggin shoes.

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[quote=captcha]I am just glad that an attack was prevented when TSA at SF airport made me take the shoes off my 5 month old son. He kicks ass and with the shoes on he can be lethal.[/quote]

It was very refreshing to fly out of the UK recently and NOT have to take off my friggin shoes.

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[quote=captcha]I am just glad that an attack was prevented when TSA at SF airport made me take the shoes off my 5 month old son. He kicks ass and with the shoes on he can be lethal.[/quote]

It was very refreshing to fly out of the UK recently and NOT have to take off my friggin shoes.

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[quote=captcha]I am just glad that an attack was prevented when TSA at SF airport made me take the shoes off my 5 month old son. He kicks ass and with the shoes on he can be lethal.[/quote]

It was very refreshing to fly out of the UK recently and NOT have to take off my friggin shoes.

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One of the guys on our android team is at the developer conference. Next year I may just have to go in order to get some schwag. The ticket is a business write off for me anyways.

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