Jobs for the homeless

Japan, the only country to ever endure nuclear bombings, built a few nuclear reactors. One right on the coast. On a fault line as all of Japan is an earthquake zone.

Tragic events damaged the reactor releasing a lot of radiation. Some radiation has reached the United States through ocean currents and sea life.

As Conservatives are always looking for the good news, let's spin the good news.

Jobs for the homeless!

This has been in the news before but Reuters and Yahoo news have a special report at this link.

Japan is using "people willing to accept minimum wage for one of the most undesirable jobs in the industrialized world: working on the $35 billion, taxpayer-funded effort to clean up radioactive fallout across an area of northern Japan larger than Hong Kong."

What's minimum wages for a glow in the dark job?

Hard to say exactly. "The cost of commuting, extra pay (such as working on holidays, at night, overtime, etc.) and temporary pays (bonus, tips, etc.) must be paid exclusively and cannot be used to calculate towards the minimum wage." The wage is between $8.40 to $10.90.

So, mimimum wage workers get paid for their commute, holidays, night shifts, overtime, and possibly bonuses.

Not bad for glowing in the dark.

Luckily, Japan has national healthcare available. And healthcare costs per capita are less than half of those in the USA.

"Patients are free to select physicians or facilities of their choice and cannot be denied coverage. Hospitals, by law, must be run as non-profit and be managed by physicians. For-profit corporations are not allowed to own or operate hospitals. Clinics must be owned and operated by physicians."

Wow!

We could use some alternatives to fossil fuels. Let's not build any nuclear plants on the San Adreas fault line.

We should immediately change our health care system to lower costs and put doctors back in charge.

That is the earth rattling change we need.

Guns in school

A few years ago, the Gwinnett County school system expelled a female student for carrying an unloaded gun to school. I remember very few details but my children were in the Gwinnett system at the time.

The word on the street said the young lady didn't want to attend school any more. So, she carried a small caliber semi-auto hand gun to school in her back page. It might have been a .25 or .22 bullet. She whipped it out in front of a teacher knowing the zero tolerance policy on guns.

Wow!

Now in little ol' Hall County, we have law enforcement making random checks at all the schools. I hope the increased presence has some positive effect. Maybe the parents feel better. I would. Maybe someone thinks it will stop another senseless gun worshiping murderer from killing kids.

Maybe.

Despite all the attention being given school security, we're still seeing students carrying guns to school in a back pack Then, killing the innocent before a resource officer or other law enforcement can intervene.

I might need some help here. Any one remember a school shooting being stopped by law enforcement? Don't most of these gun worshiping killers kill themselves?

So we've gone from don't carry a gun to school or you get expelled to the new policy. Carry a gun to school and get shot.

As if that makes sense. Even the most mindless killer expects to get shot, die, or spend life in prison.

Still doesn't stop them.

So my beloved Gainesville School System is arming resource officers with M4 rifles. Story from Access North Georgia.

The cost is somewhere around $3,000.

Wanna bet there's no trauma kit in the school? Nothing more than band aids in the nurse's office? Wanna bet she buys them without being reimbursed?

I'll go further. Wanna bet there's a movement among conservatives to do away with school nurses?

We have money for M4 rifles and biometic gun safes. We don't pay school nurses competitive wages. We don't stock the clinics with band aids. We won't extend Medicaid with a 100% federal subsidy.

Guns or butter has become guns or brains.