Sorry about the light posting. I've been quasi-busy for the past couple of days, and my efforts have been elsewhere.
The Pope is in a bind with medical issues. He's 88 years old, and having respiratory issues. Love him or loathe him, he is the Pope, and deserves our prayers. If I were a Cardinal in the Roman Catholic church, I'd have a bag packed and I'd be checking airline schedules to Rome. It seems that there might be a conclave in the immediate future.
Elon Musk and Co continue to cut government. Not with a finely hones scalpel, but with a chainsaw. I understand that federal employees will be getting an email asking them to detail what they accomplished last week. Falure to respond will be considered a resignation.
I don't want to hear any crying or whining about federal workers losing their jobs. It happens. More locally, we learned last week that the paper mill in Campti, LA is closing. That mill employs hundreds and for the past 50 years or so, it has been cranking out paper and issuing W2a to hundreds of workers. That's over now, or will be shortly. It happens in the public sector and in the private sector.
I had an old pipeline welder tell me once that every time he quit, was layed-off, or run-off a job, it was the best thing that ever happened to him. There was always something better around the corner. That is the right attitude. Losing a job sucks, but you stand back up, dust off your britches, and get on to the next thing.
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How many welders, fitters, heavy equipment operators, etc were laid off when Pres Biden shut down the Keystone Pipeline?
I'm a federal employee. The weak workers are freaked out about stuff like this (in my opinion rightfully so).
The solid workers who do most of what happens in our unit are calm and keep on going.
I find it very revealing.
Jonathan
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