Saturday, March 30, 2013

The U.S. govt and We the American taxpayers helped with TARP bailout GM, and now that company has the rude audacity to only sell the hot new Captiva small suv to "only fleet/govt bulk buyers" !!

Why is CNN and all the 3 major networks ignoring this story ?

How can Chevy and GM do this , so soon after We the People saved their sorry attitude of mediocrity jobs and overpaid managers incompetence!?


Shocking.
And bad publicity for Chevrolet,,, and GM !! The business-as-usual bastards.
They won't even talk on the 800# to you about the cars specs. GM's true colors are showing.  

All this Media and Politics talk of giving illegal Mexicans USA citizenship is baseless!! Where is the survey that says Mexicans want to give up their Mexican citizenship for only American Citizenship? It isn't there. Mexicans etc. just want better paying jobs than hellhole Mexico, and go home to build bigger houses for bigger families than we Americans can afford.

Do you see surveys of illegal immigrants and the real numbers , statistics, of how many are willing and do give up their southern nation citizenship for only American citizenship?

No, you do not.

That is why this whole amnesty business like back in Reagan's days is more about destroying the declining American middle class, not about helping ILLEGAL immigrants.

Republicans and also regressive Democrat Party just want to coddle and pamper the rich and super rich campaign donors, either super profitable corporations that get tax breaks to move USA jobs overseas or super rich individuals making over a $M/year.

Another distracting political circus, while the real issues get neglected,,, and the USA falls further and further behind the leading civilized and well managed countries of the world.  So sad. 

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

If you are filling out the Greyhound online application for employment, "best use Internet Explorer,,, and fill in all 4 vehicle types w/ yrs or zero",,, the HR lady in Texas said ,,,

Don't use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox,,, the application likes IE,,,

Otherwise, you will have your application rejected,,, and erased!!,,, like happened to me the last 2 days.

You would think,,, Greyhound would tell you that at the beginning of the application: "use IE,,, fill in all boxes, even with zeros,,,"

But nope.  Webmaster said "not my problem,,,"  HR first person said "keep trying,,,"  Yikes !  Hello, Corp. HQ !!

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Is Yelp 'dirty'? Why does Yelp's list of the "Highest Rated" auto body shops in San Jose keep changing ??

A company that had 42 reports, all 5 stars, was #1 and is not even listed now, when ,say, popular successful professional respectable Progressive does have a few less than 5 star reviews?

Is Yelp 'dirty' ?   Eh, Google?

Or just lousy at sorting,,,

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Ca, CHP will pull over CDL charter and tour bus drivers and give them $700 fines for just one minor DOT logbook graph mistake, accidental or intentional. But bring evidence of a signifigant SF company forcing charter bus drivers to maintain 2 DOT logs, one true with over 10hrs/day driving and over 14hrs/day working,,, and one false,,, and the Ca. CHP is not interested is corporate white collar crime.

It is really the Ca. State Legislature telling the Ca. CHP officers what to do.

But still , this is so unjust !!

I was recently physically hostile sexually attacked by a V.A. doctor MD in California. Filed a 'formal complaint'. Got a call from Admin. And the MD is still working at this V.A. hospital. Shocking.

So i contacted all the major veteran orgs.  No response.

Sad, that for me , male on male violence, is repeated they say 'thousands of times a month' for women by men in the U.S. military.

T-Mobile customer advice, using Samsung Galaxy S3

Don't wait to buy a spare battery on the web for $11 with free shipping, Amazon. I bought 3.

And a silicone rubber drop ins. case for $2.50.

My first SGS3 fried itself on the charger, in 3 months, and T-Mobile was very quick to grant free exchange. "How did it happen?"  I plugged it in , and the power insert melted enough to be loose,,, and the t-mobile charger fried too.  "No problem." ;)

I had the local store transfer all the data, but for the 5 different screen collections, which i did with both phones plugged in. The Capitola store at the Mall on 41st was a big help.  Tho i lost my song files somewhere,,, sim card,,, memory card,,, t-mobile app for old lousy interface HTC My Touch.

T-Mobile stores don't sell the good charging cord with the obvious top plug symbol. The new ones have a wider plug with less wiggle potential.  I have not been able to find a good cheap silicon rubber drop case either at any T-Mobile store.

Got on Value plan instead of usual to save $20/month.

Wish we could unlock phones like in Australia where you can use any phone sold down there on any of many services, all services, without having to buy a new phone for each different service provider.  The USA is not ahead in many good things any more and we need to look at other countries like Canada doing it much better, for the benefit of the common good, what govt is for.


USA Today newspaper article today by Jonah Goldberg "Greatest Generation Most Entitled" is another only see the glacier above the waterline, half blind radical right eye only conservative Republican pr-bs we have been hearing for decades !!

What the USA can not afford is waiting for the lie that the super rich millionaires and super profitable large corporations paying little or lower rate or no taxes are making more jobs!

What Congress has know for decades since the 1970s is that we can no longer expect a healthy economy if the rich corporations are allowed to steal and lie about it while taking most of our pensions and retirement plans, ala United, IBM, GE, etc.  It is well documented in the book i am now reading by Ellen E. Schultz "Retirement Heist".  How in any conscience could any Congress-person since the 1970s silently allow such massive fraud and theft in the $Bs or $Ts now , just to make the super-rich corporations and executive individuals richer while hurting the vast majority of the American taxpayers and voters and legal citizens?!  Shame, for shame !!

 The top 2% or 10% or even 20% being lower percentage taxed does not make a stable robust competitive safe economy.

But that is the unreasonable shouted minority-party arch conservative Republican platform now. The losers.  Sore losers, ready to crash the economy and the Nation.

What we can not afford is the 50-80$B in annual tax breaks to the oil industry, that has no pump price competition and rather owns oil producing states like Alaska and California, and probably soon the Dakotas.

What we can not and have not for decades been able to afford is a too complex and too unfair national tax code.  When will Congress ever get the strong spine again to tackle such tough national problems?

What we can no longer afford is $Ms in farm subsidies to already Millionaire farmers!

What we can no longer afford is a runaway and secretly extravagant military budget.

What we can no longer afford are these huge over-charging for medical care policies, resulting in very excessive profits for the medical insurance and pharmaceutical industries.

What we can no longer afford is double dipping in retirement by fraudulent civil servants being allowed to claim disability pension in addition to regular pension, when they hardly worked an good value efficient day in their entire public employee careers and are not truly on the job injured, but just old.

What we can not afford is all the OMB waste well documented every year.

What we can not afford as a Nation is the obstructionist and terrorist conservatives as a minority bent on destroying the USA if they can't be voted into power and majority ever again.

What we can not afford is to believe their half blind, right eye only view of things American. Those weak lies won't fly anymore. Amen!

Ca. EDD/Employment Development Department is so UNJUST that they let you appeal RULINGS before an Administrative Law Judge, but if you win, EDD just REVERSES THE JUDGES DECISION IN THEIR FAVOR !! What is the point of this 'judge" charade ?!

Do not move to California.

And if you are already here, under a Democrat Governor and Democrat 'super majority' in the State Legislature, beware of this unjust mean sloppy careless illogical arrogant unjust Agency !!

The recent State audit says they don't answer their phones.  Also their website is not reliable if you want to open a unemployment file. 

And the office at 2450 South Bascom, San Jose, Ca. that says "EDD Office" on the front door, really is not a EDD staffed office , but a 'work force' bunch of bad advice ("you don't have to file right away, you can file up to 18 months.") incompetents. Beware !!  Such public fraud and deception.

The EDD will cut you benefits during a year of this 'great recession' with still very high true unemployment "because you have not worked enough this year" !!  Hell, you are unemployed and looking for work, what do they expect that everyone can find a job in California during this 'great recession' ?!
So cruel by this once great , once proud State.

Since many people, maybe 20-30%, don't even apply for Unemployment Insurance , after waiting the first dead week, why is this agency so tight and slow, sometimes 2 months or more late with checks that are maximum of $425/wk, risking people being kicked out of apartments and onto the street?! Isn't it bad enough that so many of us are out of work because of Wall Street 'to big to fail' bankers, fraudulent but unprosecuted mortgage lenders, and lying unprosecuted rating companies ?!

When will California start to improve after the recent low of the terrible Enron  deregulation disaster that bankrupted the state and finally exposed the massive corruption and hypocrisy of State government in Sacramento, where pledging public office for the public good has been long forgotten?