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Philadelphia installs cameras to help prevent illegal dumping at former trash drop-off sites​

 
When there is no trash pickup, set the rule that people may NOT dump any more trash. And enforce it. Tear gas might be a good way to start, with some good old-fashioned police brutality and jail time for those who just don't get the message. The message is, "Stop producing trash, DAMNIT! Whatever you are doing that causes trash that you can't handle yourselves, STOP DOING IT NOW!"

I lived for years with a burn barrel and a trash can that might take a month or two to fill up. One can live without generating obscene amounts of trash for other people to deal with. I just did not buy a lot of food with insanely stupid packaging.

Having a family, I am really unhappy with the trash we produce, but in a special situation, I could force the family to cut back on garbage.
 
The National Guard could easily set up dumpsters and transfer areas. Say, in many parking lots for closed strip malls.

Set them up and tell the residents they have to carry it down to there. Put trash on the curb, get a citation. Arrest, second time.
 
...much of this is, just, that the people are ANIMALS. They don't know enough to simply pick up after themselves.

The decent people left long ago.
 
This rural part of Florida for the longest time, people just had burn pits in the back yard, occasionally taking glass and metal to the county dump. Food garbage went in the chicken or hog pen...we got county garbage pick up a few years after we moved in.
 
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Philadelphia installs cameras to help prevent illegal dumping at former trash drop-off sites​

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Seems that if the money used to purchase, install and monitor security cameras would instead be used to pay for trash removal, it would help fix the problem.


You live there, right? If so, why do your fellow Philadelphians put up with it?
 
Joe King said:
You live there, right? If so, why do your fellow Philadelphians put up with it?
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Grew up in Philly, have lived in the suburbs for many moons now.

I go into the city a lot. Was there on Thursday. Stopped in a bar in NE Philly. Where I was I saw no trash piles at all. Asked some peeps what they were doing. They said they didn't have a lot of trash and it was still fitting in their trash cans and they were waiting to put it out once the pickups resumed.

Different strokes for different folks. Not all neighborhoods are the same.

On a different note, I think trash men are as important as police, firemen, utility workers, etc. They should be paid accordingly. jm2c
 
Philadelphia trash strike over pending ratification of agreement, trash pick resumes today.
 
Disagree.

Anyone can throw trash. Training would take an hour.

Not everyone can be a cop. Training, properly, will take months - and some can never learn what's needed.

Firemen have to be structural engineers, fire-scientists, and fearless adventurers, all at once. Too much bravery, and you get a flashback - and wind up very dead. Not enough, and you're fit for Karen Bass's fire department. You have to be able to read the structure - when it's safe and when it's close not to being safe. You have to figure out how to draw out the fire. We, at my little resort town's DPW, lost a burning public building that way.

It was the municipal golf course's clubhouse. The fire was in a corner, and the first responders got a hole in the roof and were drawing the heat and fire up. A neighboring village arrived with their new aerial equipment, and had to try it out. Without consulting the officer in charge, they laid a heavy stream on the hole in the roof.

The fire went back down and then burned the century-old house, a former mansion, to the ground. This because the neighboring volunteers didn't know what they were doing.

So...no. Frankly, pay in free-market, is, basically, how easily you're replaced, or how badly you're needed. If having you is nice but not essential - like a street juggler - you won't make much. If you can be replaced immediately, you'll get paid minimum wage.

If your training is a year in apprenticeship with a utility company, you can expect, and demand, a wage commeasurate with the work you put into learning the trade.
 
Problem is, if you want a reliable crew, you have to pay...
 
Casey Jones said:
Anyone can throw trash. Training would take an hour.
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I agree with you about cops & firemen. I also agree with @Fatrat.

"Problem is, if you want a reliable crew, you have to pay..."

Take a look at the pics of trash. You want people to show up everyday and do a good job. Gotta pay good bucks and provide good bennies.

jm2c (which ain't worth shit lol)
 
Well, again, the wage is gonna be, the cost of replacement.

If you offer NOTHING (essentially) then nobody's gonna accept the job.

But if there's nothing else out there, and there ARE wages and a few bennies, that's what the garbagemen will get.

I have some experience with this. At my resort village DPW. Summer population was 20,000. Winter population was about 300. So, we didn't have trash crews - we had "workers." I was new on the payroll, and wasn't a HVAC or plumbing or heavy-equipment guy, so one day a week, I was on the back of the packer.

Yeah, we griped about our (minimum-wage) pay then, too. But only a lucky few left for other jobs (no one was hiring, 1977-79). And those that did got quickly replaced.
 
You can make $15 at McDonald's in a nice safe building, or $16 an hour on the back garbage truck in the freezing rain on icy roads...or 99 degree heat.
 
Fatrat said:
You can make $15 at McDonald's in a nice safe building, or $16 an hour on the back garbage truck in the freezing rain on icy roads...or 99 degree heat.
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I've done both.

Gimme the garbage truck. So long as it's residential, and not commercial kitchens...
 
Casey Jones said:
I've done both.

Gimme the garbage truck. So long as it's residential, and not commercial kitchens...
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Heck, I'd take the garbage truck for a buck less than McDonalds.

IMHO, $15/hr is waaaaay less than I'd want for any job dealing with the public.
 
Joe King said:
Heck, I'd take the garbage truck for a buck less than McDonalds.

IMHO, $15/hr is waaaaay less than I'd want for any job dealing with the public.
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That's true, today.

Wasn't always that way. But I had work in the back kitchen. Man, that is grueling during rush periods...

The trash truck was laid back, always. Even in summer, when they had a full-time crew, and I was assigned to the municipal golf course...the foreman worked with them. Summer crews were about 2/3 students with a summer job, so they would negotiate.

The foreman would say, this is the route today. You finish it early, and you can all go swimming, and on the clock. You can't punch out early, but that's just appearances.

So they'd run like hell, and beat feet to the Stockton dump, and back to the village, and go take a dive in the lake. When it's 95 out, and 90-percent humid, that's appreciated.

They couldn't use the public beach, though - not in their working clothes. They'd have to dive off the boat-ramp pier. But, where else can you go dunk yourself for an hour, while getting paid?
 
Well, hopefully, we will run out of "Bad guys" sooner or later...
 

Philadelphia's DC 33 ratifies new contract after tentative agreement. What's next?​

Philadelphia's AFSCME District Council 33 ratified its new contract with the city, approving the deal that ended an eight-day strike.

The 2025-2028 contract tentative agreement ratification count was held on Monday before the DC 33 executive board.

District Council 33 shared the news about the ratification count in a social media post, stating that a total of 2,375 votes were counted, with 1,535 votes in favor of ratification and 838 votes against. Two of the votes were voided.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/p...ement-whats-next/ar-AA1J0ThV?ocid=socialshare
 
**Disclaimer: This guy uses strong language and seems to be displeased with certain behaviors by black peeps.

 
searcher said:
**Disclaimer: This guy uses strong language and seems to be displeased with certain behaviors by black peeps.

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I agree, at least with what I heard in the first 15 seconds.

But...hey, his potty-mouth shows, he is PART OF THE PROBLEM.

He ILLUSTRATES the problem. Just as those hood-rats can't control themselves in the street, anywhere there's anything nice...he can dress up, call himself "Revrund" and pretend to be a man of God, but all he can do is throw the epithets and slurs that I can be fired for, evicted for, criminally-prosecuted for.

He doesn't see the irony. Nor would I expect him to.

Because, he's part of the problem.
 
Casey Jones said:
He doesn't see the irony. Nor would I expect him to.
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Laugh time:

He has a church in Harlem that he is supposedly going to be evicted from for not paying city bills. He's been fighting that for several years. At present he's running for mayor of NYC. Now I don't think he'll win but ya never know.

The House That Hate Built Avoids Foreclosure - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

A New York State Supreme Court Judge has issued a restraining order on a public auction as the Ali Forney Center lawyers up, hoping to turn homophobic church into a drop-in center for homeless LGBT youth.
nonprofitquarterly.org

 
I think he's pretty much his own boss, so can say it how he sees it.

He's the one that has for years, called Obama Mac Daddy. lol
 

Armed robbers target bar hoppers in ritzy blue city neighborhood: ‘Held the gun to my head​

Police in Chicago, Illinois, are urging residents to be cautious after a slew of violent robberies targeting mainly drunk individuals in the city's River North neighborhood.

According to FOX 32, at least four incidents have taken place between June 16 and July 6, with one to three African American males beating and robbing people.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...e-gun-to-my-head/ar-AA1JReSW?ocid=socialshare
 
Fatrat said:
Cowardly cops...
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They work for their paymasters.

When they're paid by, and answer to, the CENTRAL government...they WILL act like the Stasi or KGB or Gestapo.

When they're paid by, and answer to, your local mayor or county legislature, or in the case of most sheriffs, the voters directly...you have what America had always had, until recently. Police enforcing laws, not persecuting certain unfashionable racial groups.
 
Eventually this social rot and chaos hits close to us all.

Twenty years ago, on a site called Capitol Hill Coffeehouse, I was a weekly columnist. I wrote one piece, about 2005, called "Marketing In The Land of Plenty." Maybe you can find it on the Wayback Machine.

I was writing of a wonderful new mega-food store that had opened up in my neighborhood...the same neighborhood of Cleveland I had grown up in. And how much it was an improvement over the grocers of my childhood. Comparing it to what kind of shortages, hardships, and chaos that Clintonism would bring us - as the Hillarites were getting ready for the Long March.

Of course time kept moving, as it does. I now live at the other end of the continent. And that wonderful store...perhaps you remember the news bits a few months back, about a four-year-old child in suburban Cleveland getting stabbed to death in a shopping cart by an illegal invader while the child's mother was shopping?

THAT EXACT SAME STORE.

Meantime, I'm living in another resort area now - "A River Runs Through It" - and while it's still picturesque, we now have hard times close by, too. ONE MILE from my apartment, illegals, using fentanyl, burned down a restaurant...it had stood empty for half a year, its business had disappeared for the New Normal food prices but also because it isn't quite so safe as it once was.

Soon...very-soon...it'll be house-to-house. I'm getting some training this fall - "Practical Carry Skills."


LATE EDIT: It's off-topic, but I was curious if my little screed still existed anywhere. It did. It was sort of Peggy-Noonan pedestrian; free associating as I got off work at midnight, hit the Giant Eagle on my way home to write whatever I could add to the slow meltdown of what used to be America.

It was gonna get bad - this I knew, but I never imagined, as I trundled my new shopping cart through the meat and frozen foods, that that very supermarket would be the scene of an outrageous murder of a child - caused by exactly those Clintonoids and Marxists I so loathed and feared. That my wealthy suburban enclave would become a suburban ghetto, and pawn of social engineering.

 
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34 Years As A Cop In Philly WORST Neighborhoods | Life In Kensington​

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Today we interview one of the most interesting people we've ever had on this channel. I speak to longtime Philly police officer William "Bill" Hunter. Hunter is from the Badlands, one of the worst neighborhoods in Philly and eventually became a cop there in the 1990's. Throughout his career, he's worked plainclothes, SWAT, high level wiretaps, drug investigations and more. We also talked about life in Kensington, one of the biggest open air drug markets in America.

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