Truck driving can pay very well, most local drivers get weekends off. Not fancy, but a way up. Drive for someone, couch serf, buy your own truck. But right now it's dry - Biden economy.

Have you seen the OTR load boards the brokers paying 1.10 a mile that is criminal and unsafe. On top of working for free /taking a loss .

Owner operator

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And then what ? The societal issues have almost reached a critical mass point. Can't lock everyone up without paying 10's -100's millions of dollars to house them. Them being poor homeless / mentally ill / small time criminals to be released in months or a 1 yr to be dangers to society again. There is no rehabilitation no pathways to being productive citizens…
If they can't get work to that makes enough to afford a place to live what are we spending $$$ for ?
Ohhh that's right the incentives to lock the up to be involuntary slaves in private prisons… the bad karma continues to build

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Whats up with this language? Is there such a thing as a "voluntary slave"? And calling a criminal sent to prison a slave is an afront to actual slaves. Prisoners are criminals who had their day in court, legal representation, Constitutional rights, etc.

Yes, we spend the money to put criminals in jail. Sucks to be us but that's better than the alternative. Especially since we see the recidivism rates under the current system and since we know it isn't just petty criminals who are being related into society.

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To the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as a voluntary slave. I wrote Jen Psaki, volunteering to be her slave, and received a form letter in reply, basically saying "thanks, but no thanks". So, no.

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Jen Psaki? Can I add her to the Big C I don't want to be right list?

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Truck driving can pay very well, most local drivers get weekends off. Not fancy, but a way up. Drive for someone, couch serf, buy your own truck. But right now it's dry - Biden economy.

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One Saturday morning coffee friend drove trucks for years and now runs his own truck brokerage company. He's done well despite a slew of self induced life challenges. He's swamped with the amount of dump truck requests.

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Big C said:

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tequila4kapp said:

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going4roses said:

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And then what ? The societal issues have almost reached a critical mass point. Can't lock everyone up without paying 10's -100's millions of dollars to house them. Them being poor homeless / mentally ill / small time criminals to be released in months or a 1 yr to be dangers to society again. There is no rehabilitation no pathways to being productive citizens…
If they can't get work to that makes enough to afford a place to live what are we spending $$$ for ?
Ohhh that's right the incentives to lock the up to be involuntary slaves in private prisons… the bad karma continues to build

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Whats up with this language? Is there such a thing as a "voluntary slave"? And calling a criminal sent to prison a slave is an afront to actual slaves. Prisoners are criminals who had their day in court, legal representation, Constitutional rights, etc.

Yes, we spend the money to put criminals in jail. Sucks to be us but that's better than the alternative. Especially since we see the recidivism rates under the current system and since we know it isn't just petty criminals who are being related into society.

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To the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as a voluntary slave. I wrote Jen Psaki, volunteering to be her slave, and received a form letter in reply, basically saying "thanks, but no thanks". So, no.

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Jen Psaki? Can I add her to the Big C I don't want to be right list?

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bearister is a couple steps ahead of you (and me)

Big C said:

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82gradDLSdad said:

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Big C said:

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tequila4kapp said:

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going4roses said:

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And then what ? The societal issues have almost reached a critical mass point. Can't lock everyone up without paying 10's -100's millions of dollars to house them. Them being poor homeless / mentally ill / small time criminals to be released in months or a 1 yr to be dangers to society again. There is no rehabilitation no pathways to being productive citizens…
If they can't get work to that makes enough to afford a place to live what are we spending $$$ for ?
Ohhh that's right the incentives to lock the up to be involuntary slaves in private prisons… the bad karma continues to build

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Whats up with this language? Is there such a thing as a "voluntary slave"? And calling a criminal sent to prison a slave is an afront to actual slaves. Prisoners are criminals who had their day in court, legal representation, Constitutional rights, etc.

Yes, we spend the money to put criminals in jail. Sucks to be us but that's better than the alternative. Especially since we see the recidivism rates under the current system and since we know it isn't just petty criminals who are being related into society.

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To the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as a voluntary slave. I wrote Jen Psaki, volunteering to be her slave, and received a form letter in reply, basically saying "thanks, but no thanks". So, no.

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Jen Psaki? Can I add her to the Big C I don't want to be right list?

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bearister is a couple steps ahead of you (and me)

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He certainly has your permission to add her to your list.

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Big C said:

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82gradDLSdad said:

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Big C said:

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tequila4kapp said:

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going4roses said:

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And then what ? The societal issues have almost reached a critical mass point. Can't lock everyone up without paying 10's -100's millions of dollars to house them. Them being poor homeless / mentally ill / small time criminals to be released in months or a 1 yr to be dangers to society again. There is no rehabilitation no pathways to being productive citizens…
If they can't get work to that makes enough to afford a place to live what are we spending $$$ for ?
Ohhh that's right the incentives to lock the up to be involuntary slaves in private prisons… the bad karma continues to build

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Whats up with this language? Is there such a thing as a "voluntary slave"? And calling a criminal sent to prison a slave is an afront to actual slaves. Prisoners are criminals who had their day in court, legal representation, Constitutional rights, etc.

Yes, we spend the money to put criminals in jail. Sucks to be us but that's better than the alternative. Especially since we see the recidivism rates under the current system and since we know it isn't just petty criminals who are being related into society.

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To the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as a voluntary slave. I wrote Jen Psaki, volunteering to be her slave, and received a form letter in reply, basically saying "thanks, but no thanks". So, no.

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Jen Psaki? Can I add her to the Big C I don't want to be right list?

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bearister is a couple steps ahead of you (and me)

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He certainly has your permission to add her to your list.

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So Price's support was 53% in her 2022 election and it collapsed to just 34%.

Interestingly enough, the voters who turned against her were those who lived in the poorest areas of the county, and mostly populated by blacks and latino's.

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So Price's support was 53% in her 2022 election and it collapsed to just 34%.

Interestingly enough, the voters who turned against her were those who lived in the poorest areas of the county, and mostly populated by blacks and latino's.

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The solid one third that will back anybody - on each side.

If memory serves only about 30% of the electorate turned out for the election that installed her. She got tossed in a General Election with much higher voter turnout, especially from East county which buried her.

She left the county with some substantial pending liabilities: two race discrimination cases filed by Asian employees of her office and likely a defamation and malicious prosecution case by Butch Ford, a top prosecutor and political rival in the office, that she filed criminal charges against that were later tossed by the AG (after Madame DA and her office were recused from handling the prosecution). She is the gift that will keep giving.

*My personal favorite moment of her short reign was in January, 2023, when at an anti police rally in downtown Oakland she announced from the stage (when referring to the Deputy DAs), "I'm going to fire all the mother f@ucks." What she had not been advised of at that time was that the Deputy DAs had feared in the run up to the election that they would all get fired without cause if she won and replaced by former public defenders whose only mission would be to burn the office to the ground. They protected themselves by joining the Teamsters Union. She was never able to fire even one prosecutor that became a Teamster.

My 2nd favorite moment was when she tried to have Sturdy Golden Bear, Emilie Raguso (Berkeley Scanner), physically removed from a press conference because of her truthful reporting about Madame DA. Her flunkies had to remind her it was a First Amendment violation to remove Ms. Raguso.

A lot of experienced DAs transferred to the City. But they still have soft-on-crime judges.