102, continuing the separate conversation on jobs: 

There are quotes from homeless in this article that cite some of the causes of unemployment, and yes it has a connection to uncontrolled immigration. I know of a guy locally who had some fairly decent work, building something for a government contractor (actually a fake city for soldiers to use for practice before going over to the middle east) and the entire crew was fired, but not before one of them overheard top dogs talking about how they could hire Mexicans cheaper. And lo and behold, they did. American guy is now homeless and on drugs.

A taste of discussions about confessional job application questions (note to anyone interested, some applications will ask for your whole history but if they intend to use a background search company, they can only go back seven years): 

http://www.askamanager.org/2015/06/employer-wouldnt-interview-me-unless-i-authorized-an-invasive-background-check-before-we-even-talked.html

http://www.snagajob.com/resources/ways-to-check-your-background/

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100507233626AAvyThU

http://www.snagajob.com/resources/felon-job-applications/

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Mass shooting: Howie, one problem with the "we can do better than this" type speeches by Obama for me has always been....WHAT specifically does he have in mind? He seems to just pass it off to the somebody else somewhere. Actually I have never been clear what "gun control" means when anybody says it. Some people talk like they think there are not at this time background checks at all. Yes, there are nearly everywhere. I finally read something that shed some light on it that we could start with. Apparently there is a loophole we could close. If your background check isn't back from the sheriff within 72 hours or so, you cannot be impeded from going ahead and picking up your gun. Maybe that wouldn't sit well with a person terrified of a stalker but might be a start:  to insist no matter how long you have to wait, it must be COMPLETE before gun is delivered. Or some kind of limit that doesn't reward foot-dragging on good folks' applications. We have to start getting specific of we'll keep going around in circles.




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