While building an NFL stadium somehow they let the masonry contractor exclude supporting "green CMU Walls"This is a few years old now, but the over 100ft tall tower was being opened for a shutdown and a chimney effect dried out the wet pyrophorics, which heated up and weakened the tower. All this happened within a half an hour. No one was hurt, but a few people in the area were pretty shook up.
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And nobody picked up that support.
The south end of this stadium was wide open because they hadnt installed the big tv yet.
The north end had an external screen wall of glass panels and phenalic board.
Already set in place.
At 11:45 I had 250 emplyees working in the 100 level and another contractor had at least 90 more employees working at that level.
Everybody went to lunch at 12.
At about 12:15 the wind back pressured that green cmu wall and all 250 linear feet of it blew out and dropped from the 200 level to the 100 level.
It crushed the A588 risers like stomping on a beer can.
I was at the other end of the field talking to my counterpart from the GC about ******* safety.
And damn did we run like hell and stop and try to figure out what to do and then run some more.
I knew within ten minutes that all of my crew was good.
My foreman was a retired special forces guy who insisted on comms and check ins and emplyee id numbers.
I thought it was a bit overkill right up untill that ******* moment.
I was sure as hell wrong about that.
The other contractors did not have any safety system that allowed them to find employees after an incedent.
We had to dig through the mess and look for victims.
Our crew took the lead on that response because we had a system of in place that let us figure out if our team was still intact .
We didnt waste time searching for our own people.
You cant respond to any damn thing if you dont have a plan.
Ignoring it and pretending that it cant possibly happen to you is not a plan.
That is just lazyness.
And lack of understanding.
And not giving a **** because of burnout.
Or maybe because back in the day it was acceptable for a few to die or get maimed.
That is still the plan.
And not everyone is ass deep in debt because they got a degree in peotry.
People are also ass deep in debt from trade schools.
It is the interest on the debt.
They cant possibly pay it down.
The reason you old farts should care about this, aside from this ****** up vindictive notion that somehow kids going to college is a horriffic thing.
What the ****? Really. What the **** goes on in your mind.
If you are such a big badass brave ****** how are you so damn weak and whiny.
Student loan debt is not only a massive drain on the economy but it also is destrying the very social fabric of our society.
Pretty easy. People who are ass deep in debt spend a lot of mony trying to service that debt.
That money does not go back in to the economy.
Default on debt drags the economy down further
People deep in debt cant buy houses.
That means construction goes to ****.
And they wont buy anything from home depot
Which means construction workers loose their jobs.
They cant buy a car.
So the auto plants disappear.
They cant put down roots in a community and become a long term stable part of that community because they have to live with their bags packed.
Young people deep in debt also do not put money into investments.
Guess who else needs those market investments?
You do. All of your retirement and 401k and all else is floating in the market.
Lets not forget about younger people needing to float social security and medicare.
I moved pianos and firesafes and dug ditches and went fishing on a **** death boat in Alaska to pay of my student loans and I lost some friends up their.
I am happy as **** that maybe some young person doesnt have to die to give rich ******* more money.
That 10 grand is not going to doctors and lawyers.
Though Im sure they will find a way to take advantage of that.
That 10 grand debt relief is life changieng for someone 30 grand in debt.
Which is just nothing chump change these days.
A guy who goes to trade school can easily be 30 grand in debt.
This also helps people who had pell grants.
You have to be piss poor to get a pell grant.
The only damn way I could to college was from a pell grant start.
Even now a pell is only about 2600 hundred bucks.
Ask me all about my ramen noodle hot dog recipes.
It is not an easy path for a poor person to get a degree.
It pretty well sucks.
But if you cut people off from the chance dont be ******* surprised if they resent being cut off.
Student debt reduction had to be done.
Our economy and gdp and markets can not expand and we can not fund the government and certainly not social security if an entire generation is funding bank debt.
That is fiscal insanity.
The average american is deep in credit card debt.
But they are also probably paying a mortgage and a car loan and buying things at home depot and all of the other crap we all do.
We are the financial fuel for those businesses.
Thus the world goes around.
Somebody ass deep in student loan debt is not a part of that revolving market.
They spend such a high percentage of income on debt service that very little is left to pass on to the local economy.
And very little left for personal spending.
And that lowers tax income and business revenue and etc..
Every generation of old farts decides that the kids are ruining the world.
Granpa thought Elvis was gonna be the end of democracy.
When you start thinking that way.
When you ******* give up and decide to spend the rest of your life being an *******?
Dig a hole and tip right the **** in.
You are done.
You are a rotten old cabbage