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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Greeting salutations. Welcome, my friends to the Thursday edition of
The Power Hour. I'm Chuck Douglas. You know who you are.
We take it from there my number eight two one
nine eight eighty six eight two one DOUBLEUTV in or
eight hundred and six to ten WUTV and if you're
inclined to use that, we get one hour together, which
means I talk really fast and you you must listen
even faster. On my mind tonight, I know. See I'm
(00:29):
one of those I'm becoming one of those people that
complains about even good stuff. And I know, I know
what it's core. It is supposed to be a good thing. Okay,
I understand that. However, this latest announcement from the Ohio
Department of Job and Family Services regarding the job Fair,
(00:55):
I forget what it is. I think it's next Thursday.
You know what it is. That it's it's specifically April thirtieth. Yeah,
it is specifically for the twenty seven and younger crowd,
the jen Zeers. That's yeah. Okay. I have a problem
(01:25):
with this. I'm sorry, but I do. Why would you
do a job fair, a state sponsored job fair for
a specific group, especially the younger groups starting out their careers,
you know, probably working for a lower wage than somebody
(01:46):
who's been at it for twenty five years. What about
the older folks out there that are let go. I
have just a friend from high school. Just on her
Facebook yesterday I saw she posted she was let go
from her position after eighteen years. Why why would we?
I don't recall a forty and over job fare from
(02:09):
the state or a fifty it over and our life
spans you know, sixty five is not the end of
the road anymore. I think it's is at sixty seven
before you can get Social Security or fully vested social Security,
And they were talking about making that seventy two, I believe,
so we are living longer. We're not. You know, everybody
(02:30):
doesn't retire at sixty five and call it quits. So
if you're fifty and you know you need a new job,
you got fired, you got laid off, you just got
sick of your boss, whatever. It seems to me that
that that is a segment of the population that could
(02:50):
use some super service as well. So while I don't say, well,
you know, forget about those kids, I just think it's
an odd choice for a government entity in this age
of inclusion, where everybody matters. You can't differentiate between males
(03:13):
and females or whatever. Everybody matters that they would have
a segmented job fair like this, And I've been hearing
it in news stories all day long, and it's just
it's just bugging me. Are you I mean, you're Zach,
You're over twenty seven, so barely just just yeah, barely.
(03:35):
But I mean, am I am i? Am I just
becoming a grubby old man? Or am I making some sense?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
No, it doesn't make any sense. What you did say, though,
is that maybe people who are younger work at a
lower wage, and they can be honing in on that
because some people with experience or certain degrees might demand
a higher wage, and maybe some companies don't like that.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
It it depends that could be. I mean, you know,
you get to a certain stage of life. It's you know,
we're not working for twelve bucks an hour, right, right,
That's that's what you're going to be told. I've done
this for years, I'm good at it. I want a job,
but I need to be paid a commensurate with my
ability and my experience and my performance. That used to
(04:19):
be just such a common, common state of mind for people.
Now it's either we want to give stuff away or whatever.
A couple of days ago, I was I was, I
was upset too about the I don't know if you
saw the story in the Columbus Dispatch regarding the City
(04:39):
of Columbus Franklin County residents and a universal basic income
and they picked that was it two hundred people or
one hundred people, I can't remember which, but in Franklin
County who they were giving five hundred dollars a month
to for a year. And the champ in this news
(05:01):
story of this project was County commissioner former Columbus City
council member Kevin Boyce. And the example of the one
of the people participating is a mother. I think they
think she's single mother. If I'm not mistaken, she is
a county employee. And again maybe the intent is good,
(05:27):
but much like this job fair, my question was, if
she's a county employee, why not just raise her pay
to what she seems to require to live. Why not
just give her a five hundred dollars a month pay raise.
If the county is doing this and she's a county employee,
(05:48):
just raise her pay or since the county administer's property taxes,
she was having trouble making her mortgage payment, how about
just lowering her property taxes a month. That's six thousand
dollars a year. If she's paying three thousand dollars in
property taxes, you could give her a two year zero
tax tax abatement to help her get her stuff together.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
If she's already working. I don't I understand if you're
like the general idea I think originally behind universal basic income,
would you take people in a tough situation and then
you they have something to start out with, and then
they can achieve their dreams or whatever. I don't know,
but it gives them a baseline of something. I'm not
saying I agree with it or don't agree with it.
(06:34):
But if somebody is already working a government job but
just not making enough money, yeah, what is she doing?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
What was her job? I don't know. Daya said she
was a county employee. But she goes to the food
pantry three days a week to get groceries for her family.
And it's having trouble paying the bills and making the
mortgage payment and buying groceries and everything, and I'm just saying, Okay,
of course I feel for somebody like that, But but
five hundred dollars a month for a year, what are
you actually doing for her? For that same amount of money,
(07:08):
that mortgage payment she's having could be substantially reduced for
two years by just eliminating her property taxes. Right. You
remember Andrew Yang, Yes, that was his that was his
hole platform. Yep. You notice how quickly he disappeared.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, he didn't have much else other than.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
That, because giving stuff away to somebody means somebody else
is paying for it, correct, And America was not ready
to jump on that anyway. If you think I'm just
a grumpy old man, feel free to tell me. I
don't mind. Seriously, I'm easy like that.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Not you.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I don't want to hear that from you. A two
one nine eight eighty six my number eight two one
WTV And let's go to the Legacy Retirement Group dot
com phone lines and John, you're on six ten WTV
in high Hey, Jack, just.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Calling it about the uh schooling or doing for the
gen z's. I don't understand why it's that generation, because
if you take a look, the majority of people working
at the fast food restaurants and so forth are up
in their fifties, sixties and seventies.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Well that depends if I get if I get my
fast food and it's hot and prepared correctly. Yeah, that's
there in their fifties, sixties and seventies, right.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
But just because of gen Z's doesn't make them special.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, it's I don't get it either. I don't get
and see, at the same time, while we're saying, well,
we need to help them get jobs, they're going to
make less money, then we're being told, well, they're making
less money, But then we also want to forgive their
student loans so they don't have to pay those back.
And it's just I mean, this is what happens when
government becomes nanny and tries to live your life for
(08:45):
you and you know, bring the groceries home and keep
your lights on. And so we're we are losing our
great pioneer spirit. We're losing that ability, that mindset to
go out and you know, go west young man, as
they say, and make things happen in our life. Were
waiting for other people to make them happen.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
For us, Yes, we are. And the problem is even
getting those jobs for the gen Zers. If you look
at what it costs to live today, it's not going
to be enough for them to move out for mom
and dad.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Right and well, and again that say nanny state, John.
Remember you are a complete adult depending on at eighteen
legally unless you want to, you know, be a boy
when you're you're actually a girl. Then you're apparently an
adult when you're like fourteen, so you can make that decision.
But when it comes to providing your own health insurance,
(09:35):
you're not an adult until you're twenty six. Come on,
which is it going to be?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Well?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Correct? And that's what I'm saying. It just a smoke screen.
I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
More feel good stuff to make it look like somebody's
doing something is what it comes down to. That's that's
really all it is. And again I think it's wrong
for them to be age selective. Why not just do
a you know, a series of job fairs for people
of all ages, especially since it looks like that three
(10:09):
thousand dollars or three thousand job Intel thing ain't happening
anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It would make sense, like Friday twenty seven and under Saturday,
we have jobs for thirty five to fifty Sunday we
have blah blah blah blah blah. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I mean you were That's fine.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
It could be the same companies, but they just have
different jobs or different kind of prerecresits of what they're
looking for.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I don't know two one nine eighty six A two
one WTV. And what do I have here?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
On?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Is this? An entire county is calling me?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yes, it's Megs County.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Tim, Oh, it's Megs County. Tim. I thought it was
all of Megs County because I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Tim represents all of Megs County.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Can't believe they were coherent enough to all dial the
phone at the same time. Tim, what's going on.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
In coherent?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Well, you know, Megsty have a bit of a reputation.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Just a slight hey two things. You know, I was
talking to you and Mark the other day about you
stuffing me. I couldn't remember the restaurant then, because you know,
I was a little bit under the influence. But today
it's Woodies. Do you remember Woodies up there on Sankus Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Not on Sankus. No, I remember the Woodies out there
in the Marysville area. At thirty three and what was
it thirty three and oh not every road.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah, well, anyway, you were going to come up for
a Cleveland Browns football game and you didn't make it.
But there's no big deal you didn't do it first,
like I was. Really the real reason why I called
was I wanted to talk about the job there. Uh,
and my point is is, is this not the generation
(11:55):
it's getting into more trouble than any of the other
generations before?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I almost followed you say that one more time.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Isn't just the generation that's getting in more trouble legally
than any generation before it? You know, hot rotting cars,
fill cars.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Well it is, it's it's much better known. And uh,
you know, we we hear it. I think to some degree,
my gut tells me yes, But I also have to
be realistic. These days, there's a camera everywhere, there's a
social media. We had bad kids in the past two
but it's much easier to find out about them now
(12:39):
than it used to be.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Oh maybe true, But I like Zach's idea that the
companies hold different days for different age groups with different
sets of skills.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, yeah, why not. I mean, there are some things
that are limited, but if you're you know, general office
work or something like that. There ought to be quite
a few jobs out there that need to be filled,
at least I would think. It's not like this business. No,
you're not going to find you know, a whole bunch
of opens and radio.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
But well, if you're a machine operator or you know,
some kind of a press operator, a forklift operator, and
you've got you know, ten, fifteen, twenty years experience of that,
and your company has laid you all they ought to,
you know, give a break to some of these people. Anyway,
(13:32):
That's all I got. Let you know, I'm listening to you.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I appreciate it. Tim, Thanks for being out there, and
thanks for the call.
Greeting salutations. Welcome, my friends to the Thursday edition of
The Power Hour. I'm Chuck Douglas. You know who you are.
We take it from there my number eight two one
nine eight eighty six eight two one DOUBLEUTV in or
eight hundred and six to ten WUTV and if you're
inclined to use that, we get one hour together, which
means I talk really fast and you you must listen
even faster. On my mind tonight, I know. See I'm
(00:29):
one of those I'm becoming one of those people that
complains about even good stuff. And I know, I know
what it's core. It is supposed to be a good thing. Okay,
I understand that. However, this latest announcement from the Ohio
Department of Job and Family Services regarding the job Fair,
(00:55):
I forget what it is. I think it's next Thursday.
You know what it is. That it's it's specifically April thirtieth. Yeah,
it is specifically for the twenty seven and younger crowd,
the jen Zeers. That's yeah. Okay. I have a problem
(01:25):
with this. I'm sorry, but I do. Why would you
do a job fair, a state sponsored job fair for
a specific group, especially the younger groups starting out their careers,
you know, probably working for a lower wage than somebody
(01:46):
who's been at it for twenty five years. What about
the older folks out there that are let go. I
have just a friend from high school. Just on her
Facebook yesterday I saw she posted she was let go
from her position after eighteen years. Why why would we?
I don't recall a forty and over job fare from
(02:09):
the state or a fifty it over and our life
spans you know, sixty five is not the end of
the road anymore. I think it's is at sixty seven
before you can get Social Security or fully vested social Security,
And they were talking about making that seventy two, I believe,
so we are living longer. We're not. You know, everybody
(02:30):
doesn't retire at sixty five and call it quits. So
if you're fifty and you know you need a new job,
you got fired, you got laid off, you just got
sick of your boss, whatever. It seems to me that
that that is a segment of the population that could
(02:50):
use some super service as well. So while I don't say, well,
you know, forget about those kids, I just think it's
an odd choice for a government entity in this age
of inclusion, where everybody matters. You can't differentiate between males
(03:13):
and females or whatever. Everybody matters that they would have
a segmented job fair like this, And I've been hearing
it in news stories all day long, and it's just
it's just bugging me. Are you I mean, you're Zach,
You're over twenty seven, so barely just just yeah, barely.
(03:35):
But I mean, am I am i? Am I just
becoming a grubby old man? Or am I making some sense?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
No, it doesn't make any sense. What you did say, though,
is that maybe people who are younger work at a
lower wage, and they can be honing in on that
because some people with experience or certain degrees might demand
a higher wage, and maybe some companies don't like that.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
It it depends that could be. I mean, you know,
you get to a certain stage of life. It's you know,
we're not working for twelve bucks an hour, right, right,
That's that's what you're going to be told. I've done
this for years, I'm good at it. I want a job,
but I need to be paid a commensurate with my
ability and my experience and my performance. That used to
(04:19):
be just such a common, common state of mind for people.
Now it's either we want to give stuff away or whatever.
A couple of days ago, I was I was, I
was upset too about the I don't know if you
saw the story in the Columbus Dispatch regarding the City
(04:39):
of Columbus Franklin County residents and a universal basic income
and they picked that was it two hundred people or
one hundred people, I can't remember which, but in Franklin
County who they were giving five hundred dollars a month
to for a year. And the champ in this news
(05:01):
story of this project was County commissioner former Columbus City
council member Kevin Boyce. And the example of the one
of the people participating is a mother. I think they
think she's single mother. If I'm not mistaken, she is
a county employee. And again maybe the intent is good,
(05:27):
but much like this job fair, my question was, if
she's a county employee, why not just raise her pay
to what she seems to require to live. Why not
just give her a five hundred dollars a month pay raise.
If the county is doing this and she's a county employee,
(05:48):
just raise her pay or since the county administer's property taxes,
she was having trouble making her mortgage payment, how about
just lowering her property taxes a month. That's six thousand
dollars a year. If she's paying three thousand dollars in
property taxes, you could give her a two year zero
tax tax abatement to help her get her stuff together.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
If she's already working. I don't I understand if you're
like the general idea I think originally behind universal basic income,
would you take people in a tough situation and then
you they have something to start out with, and then
they can achieve their dreams or whatever. I don't know,
but it gives them a baseline of something. I'm not
saying I agree with it or don't agree with it.
(06:34):
But if somebody is already working a government job but
just not making enough money, yeah, what is she doing?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
What was her job? I don't know. Daya said she
was a county employee. But she goes to the food
pantry three days a week to get groceries for her family.
And it's having trouble paying the bills and making the
mortgage payment and buying groceries and everything, and I'm just saying, Okay,
of course I feel for somebody like that, But but
five hundred dollars a month for a year, what are
you actually doing for her? For that same amount of money,
(07:08):
that mortgage payment she's having could be substantially reduced for
two years by just eliminating her property taxes. Right. You
remember Andrew Yang, Yes, that was his that was his
hole platform. Yep. You notice how quickly he disappeared.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, he didn't have much else other than.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
That, because giving stuff away to somebody means somebody else
is paying for it, correct, And America was not ready
to jump on that anyway. If you think I'm just
a grumpy old man, feel free to tell me. I
don't mind. Seriously, I'm easy like that.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Not you.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I don't want to hear that from you. A two
one nine eight eighty six my number eight two one
WTV And let's go to the Legacy Retirement Group dot
com phone lines and John, you're on six ten WTV
in high Hey, Jack, just.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Calling it about the uh schooling or doing for the
gen z's. I don't understand why it's that generation, because
if you take a look, the majority of people working
at the fast food restaurants and so forth are up
in their fifties, sixties and seventies.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Well that depends if I get if I get my
fast food and it's hot and prepared correctly. Yeah, that's
there in their fifties, sixties and seventies, right.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
But just because of gen Z's doesn't make them special.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, it's I don't get it either. I don't get
and see, at the same time, while we're saying, well,
we need to help them get jobs, they're going to
make less money, then we're being told, well, they're making
less money, But then we also want to forgive their
student loans so they don't have to pay those back.
And it's just I mean, this is what happens when
government becomes nanny and tries to live your life for
(08:45):
you and you know, bring the groceries home and keep
your lights on. And so we're we are losing our
great pioneer spirit. We're losing that ability, that mindset to
go out and you know, go west young man, as
they say, and make things happen in our life. Were
waiting for other people to make them happen.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
For us, Yes, we are. And the problem is even
getting those jobs for the gen Zers. If you look
at what it costs to live today, it's not going
to be enough for them to move out for mom
and dad.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Right and well, and again that say nanny state, John.
Remember you are a complete adult depending on at eighteen
legally unless you want to, you know, be a boy
when you're you're actually a girl. Then you're apparently an
adult when you're like fourteen, so you can make that decision.
But when it comes to providing your own health insurance,
(09:35):
you're not an adult until you're twenty six. Come on,
which is it going to be?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Well?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Correct? And that's what I'm saying. It just a smoke screen.
I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
More feel good stuff to make it look like somebody's
doing something is what it comes down to. That's that's
really all it is. And again I think it's wrong
for them to be age selective. Why not just do
a you know, a series of job fairs for people
of all ages, especially since it looks like that three
(10:09):
thousand dollars or three thousand job Intel thing ain't happening
anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It would make sense, like Friday twenty seven and under Saturday,
we have jobs for thirty five to fifty Sunday we
have blah blah blah blah blah. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I mean you were That's fine.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
It could be the same companies, but they just have
different jobs or different kind of prerecresits of what they're
looking for.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I don't know two one nine eighty six A two
one WTV. And what do I have here?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
On?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Is this? An entire county is calling me?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yes, it's Megs County.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Tim, Oh, it's Megs County. Tim. I thought it was
all of Megs County because I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Tim represents all of Megs County.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Can't believe they were coherent enough to all dial the
phone at the same time. Tim, what's going on.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
In coherent?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Well, you know, Megsty have a bit of a reputation.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Just a slight hey two things. You know, I was
talking to you and Mark the other day about you
stuffing me. I couldn't remember the restaurant then, because you know,
I was a little bit under the influence. But today
it's Woodies. Do you remember Woodies up there on Sankus Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Not on Sankus. No, I remember the Woodies out there
in the Marysville area. At thirty three and what was
it thirty three and oh not every road.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah, well, anyway, you were going to come up for
a Cleveland Browns football game and you didn't make it.
But there's no big deal you didn't do it first,
like I was. Really the real reason why I called
was I wanted to talk about the job there. Uh,
and my point is is, is this not the generation
(11:55):
it's getting into more trouble than any of the other
generations before?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I almost followed you say that one more time.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Isn't just the generation that's getting in more trouble legally
than any generation before it? You know, hot rotting cars,
fill cars.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Well it is, it's it's much better known. And uh,
you know, we we hear it. I think to some degree,
my gut tells me yes, But I also have to
be realistic. These days, there's a camera everywhere, there's a
social media. We had bad kids in the past two
but it's much easier to find out about them now
(12:39):
than it used to be.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Oh maybe true, But I like Zach's idea that the
companies hold different days for different age groups with different
sets of skills.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, yeah, why not. I mean, there are some things
that are limited, but if you're you know, general office
work or something like that. There ought to be quite
a few jobs out there that need to be filled,
at least I would think. It's not like this business. No,
you're not going to find you know, a whole bunch
of opens and radio.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
But well, if you're a machine operator or you know,
some kind of a press operator, a forklift operator, and
you've got you know, ten, fifteen, twenty years experience of that,
and your company has laid you all they ought to,
you know, give a break to some of these people. Anyway,
(13:32):
That's all I got. Let you know, I'm listening to you.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I appreciate it. Tim, Thanks for being out there, and
thanks for the call.
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