Re: Oil industry
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Richard II</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Sorry, but I for one am sick of this "fair share" attitude about taxes. If an engineer starts an engineering firm, works hard, and makes 5 million/year and if he has a savy tax lawyer and is taxed at 15%, that is still 750,000/year! I doubt that he would have utilized government sponsored programs more than the average person. This idea that a person is cheating the government is absurd. It seems to me that the people that are paying less than 50K/yr need to pay their "fair share" </div></div>
And if he is taxed at 30% he lays off 1/2 his employees so he can afford to pay the other 1/2. Why can't the stupid fucks realize that? It takes profit to grow your business and hire new employees.
I have literally handed 3 people jobs in the oil industry and they either quit in short order or didn't take the job. These jobs start at 60K-120K.
"It's too cold!" or "There's too much training!" or "I can't handle working 12 hr days!"
Most of the folks who whine about the price of oil and gas don't know shit.
Instead of bitching, take our local community college Process Technology course and you are nearly guaranteed a high paying job. The oil companies hire straight out of that pool. They also give millions of $$ to the University of Alaska to train talent they hope to hire in the future.
The company I work for gave 50 million $$ to add on to a local hospital, built an enclosed ice rink "for the children", gives 10's of thousands annually to the Boys and Girls Club, pays it's employees to set up huge tents for social events, and people still bitch about them.
Silly spoiled people. WTF?
Talk to your government about the cost of oil. Shell dropped 4 BILLION $$ of PROFIT in Alaska on leases, permitting and such in order to put more oil in the pipeline which in turn would help lower prices. The FEDS shut'em down.
Now if you earned 4 Billion $$ and invested it in paperwork and leases on say your ultimate personal playboy mansion and the feds stopped you before you broke ground, how would you feel? Probably throw up your hands and quit.
If the companies in AK did that, literally tens of thousands of people would lose their jobs.
It amazes me that any oil company would want to play ball up here, the political and real costs are unimaginable.
In our neck of the woods, if you can pass a piss test, you can get a job in the oilfield. Few choose to pass it. IMO, if you don't work (in my AO)and make decent wages and pay your own way, it's because you're a lazy dope smokin' fuck who lives off the sweat of hard workin' folk.
RANT OFF!!