Comments by "roachtoasties" (@roachtoasties) on "CBS Evening News" channel.

  1. Anybody else who got a job by outright lying about their education would be shown the door (government or private sector). The only exception is if you run for congress.
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  2. Things still got more complicated now (2021). But one thing Jamie Gold, wherever she is, won't have a problem now is with all those cables. USB everything now or WiFi.
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  3. I have a serious question: I've come to the logical conclusion that my name, SSN, DOB, etc., has been stolen many times. Yours have too. Dozens, maybe hundreds of times. How many times does the same information need to be stolen? It's an attention grabber in the news when this happens, but the horse has already left the barn, and keeps leaving that barn. I do have my credit reports frozen, and only unfreeze them when applying for credit. That only helps with a tiny part of the problem. The scam emails, texts, phone calls, hacking, etc., has got out of hand. I don't believe anything I'm contacted about anymore.
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  4. There are plenty of scam and fake products also sold on Amazon. I've ended up keeping some of this garbage because of the hoops it takes to jump through to return it.
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  5. There's also a problem in some communities where house after house is now an AirBnB. This creates an artificial shortage. Instead of these places for people in the community to live in, they're occupied by out-of-towners partying for a few days.
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  6. When he ordered stuff, didn't he check the final amount before hitting the submit button? If the cost was close to the price of a car, I would think he would go back to check.
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  7. I'm enrolled in TSA PreCheck/Global Entry. That's good enough for me. In observing Clear, I don't see much of an advantage. You need PreCheck anyway. Depending on how busy the screening area is, Clear might even take you longer to get to the same spot. Anyway, I always get to the airport early. If Clear saves 2 minutes for $180 a year, that is no value to me.
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  8. The restaurants are begging for help. Anyone in the corporate offices who's laid off can start a career burger flipping, but I doubt they'll be many going that route.
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  9. 401k plans should have never been a replacement for traditional pensions, but Wall Street and big business convinced our brain dead politicians to modify the U.S. pension system. The result is we now have generations of new "retirees" who now are looking at an "active retirement" of collecting bottles and cans, along with some dumpster diving.
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  10. I have a ton of old VHS tapes: Purchased movies, ones I've recorded, various screeners, and so on, piled in a closet. I do have some VHS tapes players too, including a couple still unopened in the box, because they got so cheap. The things is, I haven't looked at these tapes in years and years, and many never. With VHS tapes, they do degrade, especially ones you recorded yourself. Another problem. It may be nostalgic, but I'm unsure how long that will last.
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  11. With three or four jobs, you won't even need a house. You'll just be going from job to job all day.
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  12. I never knew there was such a thing as a potato factory (3:45). I'm a city folk, not a farm folk, but I think it's called a potato processing plant.
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  13. The reporter was mentioning the 8% increase you get per year for delaying Social Security benefits, but what's the point CBS? First, inflation is 8% so that negates it. On top of that, you're not collecting any Social Security for that year. If you would have got $1,500 per month, that's $18,000 for the year. It will take a long time to make that up, and then, inflation still is creeping up. There's no guarantee you'll be in the same health in future years. Just collect the money now if you're retired, and don't work at your construction job until your over 70, to get the maximum benefit. You'll wear yourself out, and might drop dead at 71. Besides, what are you going to do without your Social Security benefit if you need it but are waiting? Live on the streets? If you really don't need it, still collect it, but save it. I get tired of all these so called "experts" that tell you to delay it. It's nonsense. Social Security just does an actuary type of adjustment. They're not paying you more in the end.
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  14. With half of the population with no retirement savings, how can we keep on saying that going to 401K/IRA route was better than pensions? Businesses push this to save a lot of money that they probably gave to executives, while everyone else gets to enjoy an "active retirement" of collecting bottles and cans, along with some dumpster diving. After 40+ years of this, isn't it beyond the time to figure this out again?
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  15. It's just corporate. If anyone wants to start burger flipping, they can start tomorrow.
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  16. My question too, along with the humidity. Summer is almost here. I remember many years ago leaving a record in my car on a hot day. When I came back it was nearly in the shape of a taco shell.
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  17. This sucks. Take out a billion dollar loan, top brass then pay themselves almost half of that, then close up a place. Capitalism. :/
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  18. He hauled that book around wherever he went. He would have been devastated if something happened to it. I would have just brought blank pages with me to assemble when I got home, with the book staying in a secure, fire safe, place.
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  19. So it was just an "incredible coincidence" that Trump came outside to walk across the street to pose with a bible, minutes after the protesters were forced out? Come on. I didn't just fall off the turnip truck.
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  20. It's long past the time for the U.S. Mint to stop stamping out pennies and redirect that effort to the nickels, dimes and quarters. Even nickels are nearly worthless. It takes at least 20 of those to buy a cheap candy bar. If you're walking down the street and see a nickel, will you bend over and pick it up? What's happening is people get change, stick it in their pockets, then we they get home empty their pockets but never use that change again. It sits in drawers, jars, and even is thrown out.
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  21. I would be more concerned about the heat, humidity, and the like, destroying the tapes. I doubt there will be much stealing. There's boxes around my neighborhood where people can add and borrow books. Nobody takes the books.
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  22. How do you even move it? It sure looks like a large, old home. They'll need to move it in sections and who knows if it will fall apart. The foundation is probably cement. You can't move that. With the home not visible from the street what will the public lose if it's torn down? The tour buses just drive by, saying her home is somewhere behind that wall, but the tourists can't even see it. I remember the original Taco Bell being moved. That's quite small. For this home, it will be complicated.
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  23.  Robert Blackford  I doubt "most," but 98.6% if them took the opportunity to ax them the second they could.
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  24. I'm not trying to throw cold water on this, but jobs like this are stepping-stones, not careers. The guy seems intelligent, so it's hard to understand why he's been delivering pizza for 31 years. Financially, he has limited himself. That's easy to say, as just look at the car he was driving. Getting a new car after 31 years is not what I call a windfall. I'm thinking, if he liked the pizza business so much, he should have gone into management or owning a pizza store. Anyway, if he's happy in life delivering pizza, I'll leave it at that.
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  25. I don't know about this. There must have been times he went to school sick, got other students sick, who then needed to miss school and who knows what else, because he had to go to school sick.
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  26. I haven't been there in a long time, but I've stayed there a few times. You used to get some good rooms for a decent price. Now everything in Vegas is overpriced. The "new" Vegas might be more modern and larger, but it's basically the same, but without cheap buffets and other various bargains. You got to pay up your nose for everything. I've moved on.
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  27. In many countries adult children, parents, grandparents live together. In the U.S. it's much less for a variety of reasons, but we're running out of space and resources to keep this up indefinitely. It's time to rethink how we define a household.
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  28. That whole house, that is quite large, looks like it blew up all at once. Was the whole house full of gas and then it all ignited? There's huge fireball. I don't know if a water heater alone can cause that.
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  29. I'm heading to Best Buy right now for a new laptop. Should I look for ones with 4 mb memory (0:27) or will that be overkill? :)
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  30. Nah. You're just wasting money. You can't possibly need that much memory. Get something with less and use the money you saved to send to me. ;)
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  31.  @MegaLokopo  Yep, but if you don't have pre-check, you'll be funneled into the regular screening line after Clear. You'll need to take off your shoes and do all the other things non-precheck passengers must do.
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  32. It's been decades, but the politicians who are in bed with the corporations, shouldn't have shoved literally everyone into 401k savings plans, without some additional employer sponsored pension. The way investments in the stock market is, and how savings and investing has so many variables, it just leaves so many with only peanuts to live on when they retire.
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  33. "Paging Dr. Now"
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  34. This is an old video, but one thing that's not explained is when he was laid off after 29 years, one year shy of a full pension, what is the difference in his pension if he did work one more year? There are vesting requirements with pensions. It's not like if he worked 29 years he gets no pension and 30 years he gets a full pension. He must have got some pension, although slightly reduced. If this did happen, pension laws have to be written to prevent this. Although pensions like this are now not as common, they do exist. If a company can get rid of someone in the 29th year, 11th month, and tell them you're no longer needed, and by the way, your 30 year full pension is now worth zero, that's totally not right.
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  35. With Amazon YOU CANNOT SCHEDULE DELIVERIES WHEN SOMEONE IS AT HOME, as you recommend being the safest method. They come when they want. Sometimes they deliver packages the day, or days, after they're supposed to come. Sometimes they even come on an early day. That suggestion isn't going to work.
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  36. Are you sure he's not pulling our legs and can see? He's handling that diner better than any sighted person I've experienced at one.
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  37. Yes, there are "work spouses." I've gotten teased about that myself. I remember years ago both of us had to go to a meeting at another facility to meet with a few people we never met. One person in the meeting mentioned "What's up with you two. You're fighting like husband and wife." That still makes me laugh, and we still fight.
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  38. I never noticed. Passengers and employees will be getting an extra cardiovascular workout until they're replaced.
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  39.  @crissd8283  Things just don't happen that quick in the White House. Any trip by the President, whether just outside, or miles away, takes planning, involves the Secret Service, etc. Unless the White House was on fire and he had to get out quick, a photo-op to walk outside with his staff and family, takes planning.
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  40. The K-Mart near me got torn down a long time ago. It's an apartment building.
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  41.  @normanspurgeon5324  I don't see the point. Anyway, if he wants to deliver pizza forever, that's his decision, but I wouldn't advise it from what I already stated. Maybe if his friends cared more about him than getting their pizzas, they should have also given him funds to use for vocational training.
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  42. Also, it looks like the windows were blown out in the restaurant and he is the only one who died.
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  43. I'm not a Vegas defender, but they've calculated that in. Vegas is more than gambling. It's a ton of attractions. Of course you now have to pay through the roof for everything, as the resorts can't depend on gambling subsidizing the rest. No more cheap buffets or free parking, but in the future there may be pay toilets. I wouldn't put it past them.
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  44. I'm going to guess someone brought him to the gate and someone else will be meeting him at the destination gate when he arrives. That leaves him for hours in a helpless situation. If I was involved in planning for this passenger to go from point A to point B and nobody else would go with him, I would pay out of my own pocket to escort him.
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  45. He never got his jet.
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  46. Why stop at four days. I say go further. A one day work week! A well rested employee is an efficient employee.
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  47. Amazon now offers some sort of code option you can buy from them to open and close your garage door, but I don't use it. Letting them open my front door I wouldn't even consider. With a P..O. Box: Only the U.S. Postal Service can deliver to it. Unless Amazon ships something that the post office is involved, that won't work. Your Amazon driver can't deliver to a P.O. Box.
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  48.  @commonsense504  I guess that's what they mean by "cutting people." They're now the ground meat. I wonder if they charge extra for that?
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