Our electric went out again at the house so we decided to head to Murphy for Chinese buffet and to run some errands. The owners of this restaurant are from mainland China. As I waited in line to pay my bill, the young woman ahead of me asked for her takeout order and the amount of her bill. The wife of the owner said $59.33. The woman had cash in her hand and tried to count it but gave up. She gave the cash to the owner and asked her how much money it was. The owner immediately counted it and told her it was $59 and to forget the 33 cents.
When I say immediately, I mean the owner counted it in less than 5 seconds. I am fairly sure she received her education in Communist China. Two thoughts came to mind:
- The Chinese woman had a better education than the American.
- The American woman gets to vote.
They want us stupid, sterilized and dead.
David DeGerolamo
I just about don’t believe that, but you have no reason to lie.
Dana
It is true. I actually was kind in my article. The young woman spent about 30 seconds trying to count the money, apologized to the cashier and handed over the cash. I hope it was $59.
and for that reason, i do not have a problem with the occultists doing their vaxdemic.
Nooo won caan countt batter thenn mee.
Is that a Donald Trump quote?
My father (college educated, acounting) lost his job at 60 yo back in the early 90s; got a job at a convience store in Atlanta. He told this same story numerous times, male, female, White and Black. It is absolutely an aspect of today’s society.
That’s a damn shame, counting doesn’t even qualify as math.
I tip for good service and can calculate the tip in my head on a percentage of the bill. My wife always checks me with the calculator and is amazed that I do it to the cent quicker than she can type it in her phone. Same with measurements, too many years using a tape measure to build and not having a range finder to hunt.
Dana
I should add, he also said it was surprising the number of fancy cars (BMW, Mercedes etc) that would put $5 of gas in their car. He said they could not afford to fill it up, yet they had an expensive car.
Of course they want us dead, or sterilized. So many people today cannot make change, so it terrorizes us to think they can drive, operate machinery, own weapons, or even cook. But that is what they want. The dumbing down of America. Scary isn’t it.
started with the introduction of the NEA, dumbing downhill ever since.
WOW, I am hearing what you say about the youth of today. I went into a restaurant supply house inquiring about 5gal food grade pails. The young fellow I quarried, in return asked me what is a pail. He caught me completely off guard. I had to look him in the eyes to see if he was shinning me on, he wasn’t. He was completely serious. You can’t make this crap up. Our youth are grossly under educated.
Was at a McDonalds South of Mansfield and the two girls at the window where trying to figure out the change with a cell phone (looked like they where). 20 minutes in line to get the order.
The military is enriching itself off of many of these under-educated and uneducated persons. A draft is far preferable for the sake of these individuals. Why should someone who wasn’t taught about nutrition, mathematics, natural medicine, and other basic life skills be serving an organization that will typically only entrench their poverty, as many military occupational specialties often don’t carry over into the civilian world.
There are some huge holes in that logic. You should rework that concept, and oh yes, try to find the legality of a draft in the Constitution while you are at it.
The recruitment, enlistment and draft years have largely been based on zip codes, and the low-income zones therein, with more recent recruitment efforts primarily directed towards poor schools (essentially pointing out the need to redirectionalize any drafts, as pertains to skills and manpower). What criteria would you posit as relates to national recruitment, enlistment, and a draft?
“The Military Views Poor Kids as Fodder for Its Forever Wars”
“That recruiter’s presence at my school was the result of a particularly insidious piece of the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act, signed by George W. Bush, which required that all public schools grant military recruiters “the same access to secondary school students as is provided generally to post secondary educational institutions or to prospective employers.” That table was his equal access.”
“While the law handed the military a clean reach into American high schools, its recruitment efforts remained selective. Enlistment data paints a complicated portrait of the economic makeup of the military, but what we know about recruitment is more straightforward: The Pentagon views low-income kids as easy targets for its forever wars.”
“This kind of capitalization on inequity isn’t new. During draft years, wealthy families were able to shield their sons from the consequences of endless wars—the president included. But even after the draft ended in 1973, the military focused its recruiting efforts on the middle and lower classes, as well as those with service history in their families. The Seattle Times reported in 2005 that “nearly half” of new recruits came “from lower-middle-class to poor households, according to new Pentagon data based on ZIP codes and census estimates of mean household income.” The same data showed that nearly two-thirds of Army recruits in 2004 “came from counties in which median household income is below the U.S. median.”
“There is always enough money for more weapons and jails, and never enough for education and the poor,” he said. “Instead of this money going to healthcare and education for our citizens who so desperately need it, it goes toward padding the pockets of Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and the list goes on and on.”
“So as this country staggers toward another potential front in its forever wars, it’s clear that the warnings about predatory recruitment first staked out 15 years ago bear repeating. Because this is the true face of the modern draft: not a list of names and a lottery, but an economic system that creates generational precarity and offers little but a narrow, violent, and deadly way out.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/156131/military-views-poor-kids-fodder-forever-wars
So what? it is illegal and unconstitutional to draft individuals, I don’t care what zip code. ( Article 1 Section 8 US Constitution, 4th and 13th amendments). The military is not an expanded childcare unit it has a serious purpose not best served by slaves. Recruitment should be limited to whoever wants to go and can qualify. Maybe if we returned to our constitutional roots and had viable state militia’s to call out there would be no recruitment problems. What a concept.
Let me guess. That customer that could not count her money was probably high and wearing either her pajamas or a moo-moo to cover her 250+ lb. frame.
She did not appear to be intoxicated or high. While overweight, I would guess 5′-5″ and 190 lbs. Regular clothes for a young woman.
10-4. Sadly, just dumb as a box of rocks.
race?
Caucasian
muumuu
Finally.
You’re more than a little late to the party, but so be it.
You never seemed to get before why our numbers are so few and why we have no chance. This is part of it.
I know, I know: “I’ll go down fighting ….” To defend those twits that WE CREATED.
To all of those saying that this is not true, I assure you that it is. You’ve had your head buried in the sand. My wife works at a major manufacturing corporation just outside Asheville. They have a mandatory re-education class for all hourly new hires. The class covers many things, chief among them is how to tell time, how to count, how to do fractions and percentages, and how to read common traffic signs.
Further to your insights, I know of a roofing contractor in Toronto that hires a lot of students over the summer. He has had to include some remedial training for his new hires each year… things like how to use a hammer, the difference between left- and right-hand threads, how wrenches work, how to use a screwdriver, and why it is not okay to use the dumpster full of recently-stripped shingles as a convenient landing site from three stories up…
Too many liberal arts degrees, not enough trades and actual work experience.
Some years ago, when I was in college, I was told by a headhunter for a large company in Washington DC specializing in soil nailing that, as a Canadian, I had a significant advantage over my American competitors owing to the fact that I was literate. I challenged him to repeat this; he did.
That was in 2006. Has anything improved since? I would say, not a lot.
I was hoping things might turn, but…
wow
I have a master’s degree in American History, was a bookworm all my life, grew up in the 70s and 80s and I knew all of those things your contractor class teaches. Must have been because my brain was formed before the internet. I have been a high school teacher for 27 years and I can tell you my kids are actually pretty smart but they have little awareness of any cultural or political reality. Haven’t seen any of the classic movies I mention, don’t know who Mitch McConnell is or Chuck Schumer.
But they all DO agree on one thing: they hate Joe Biden with a passion.
Sir,
This quote from David Brin haunts me still:
‘Who will take responsibility for these foolish children?’
These answers are going to become more difficult, as will our choices.
Asheville, NC?
I believe it.
No, it’s not particular to Asheville. It’s everywhere. The company’s sister facilities outside Greenville, SC and outside Nashville, TN encounter the same thing and require the same re-education class.
wow to the nth degree.
I taught school at a military academy in NC. I had middle school students who asked me what the round thing was on the wall with the numbers on it. No lie. They didn’t recognize it as a clock. Digital they understood. I’ll say it again, public education is NOT education. It’s indoctrination.
Many otherwise competent public school teachers are timid creatures who will not push back on administrators for fear of losing their career and pension. I’ve seen it first-hand. The rest have been trained at colleges that serve as Leftist indoctrination camps.
Solution? Home school.
Christ. No wonder I mostly do self-service checkout.
Curious….Murphy, NC?
Yes
Please don’t die… you’ll end up voting Democrat. LOL
I deal with 4473’s Day in Day out…
Lemme tell ya bout Illiterate sob’s.
It’s stunning.
PLEASE READ the Form.
18.a. Ethnicity Hispanic or Latino , Not Hispanic or Latino , 18.b. IS NOT the answer to 18.a.
21.l.2. If you are such an alien do you fall within any of the exceptions stated in the instructions? (U.S. citizens/nationals leave 21.l.2. blank)
IT ISN’T NO… for 99.99% of our customers anyway.
Yet…everyday I have to point this out and have them cross it out and initial the correction.
And when you gotta bring along another person to Read or Fillin a 4473 for ya…
Yeah, We Are Doomed.
The world has moved on.
Gone computerized and digital, high tech!
Going cashless.
Sad thing is, how many old timers are going along with it? Clueless at the direction they have been drawn? At least many of the young do have an excuse.
Many commenting here. Do you use cash? How about those who still attend church? Cash, check, or credit “for tax purposes?)
How much forgiveness is in this world? How many prayers?
After the last couple weeks, i have to ask, who are ‘you’ (everyone) following? Everyone has followers. Who are you following, and why?
And again. How much forgiveness is in this world? How many prayers? Who should we be praying for and who should we be forgiving according to the Word of Mashiak (Christ.)? Not what someone else told you.
Oh yeh my daughter pushing 250 lbs She counts very well. And yes she has always had weight problems. Perhaps some of you fine folks would help me send up prayers for her and people like her? As i try to forgive people their trespasses etc. each day. And what the hell does it matter what color they are? sin comes in all shapes, colors, and sizes!
Were doomed, but perhaps we are way past a severe knock down.
However , I’m sure that the American woman was fully educated in the use of prefered pronouns , CRT and social justice .
It is as difficult and dangerous to try to liberate a people that wishes to live in slavery as it is to try to enslave a people that wishes to live in freedom. Machiavelli.
Finished | The Tactical Hermit As DRenegade stated we are in dire straits.
Tom,
It’s over with after this debauchery of an election (what a joke) of total fraud by the communist democrats with their dominion voting slot machines. Every demon-rat and republic-rat must suffer at the hands of the ones they hate so much, and I believe we are now at the precipice of civil war, what actually sparks it is beyond me. you see, when the people fully awake and find out their votes don’t matter at all and it’s the ones who count the votes, then all bets are off for this demonic party running our nation along with the judges who protect them in the courts, as well as the federal Leos who are their special police force who guard them, then only then will the people rise up and take back by ARMED force what was stolen from them. You see we have the law on our side, and we have the right under those laws to extinguish these vermin under the heels of our boots and we are going to have to do this very soon or they will come for our families and rape, pillage and murder them with impunity.
People are just lazy, when they should have been paying attention in class they were taking selfies of their azz
I agree. Me and my wife were born in the late 50s and are from California and met at UCLA in the late 70s. We had our sons in 85 and 87. The schools we had there were good..
I was moved by my business to Northern VA in 96 and we found our sons schools were poor. Both me and my wife fought the teachers, the admin, and the school board but got nowhere. We ended up tutoring our sons through all classes to teach them right.
When they each graduated in the early 2000s they both wanted to go to different Trade Schools and they did. If was good choices as they make around 6 figures, have houses, cars, and good bank accounts. They both do not have issues with them not being able to not count by themselves.
Overall the plan has been to dumb down America, move business out of America, and try to remove all weapons as the Elites keep control. This is getting worse as Biden is President.