* Once a gay Asian cashier at Starbucks once visibly panicked when I paid for a $2 coffee with 8 quarters.
* There have been a few times when I have been at a fast food restaurant or supermarket where the cashier has punched in the wrong bill to make change from (say $50 instead of $5) and now has to figure it out herself and they just can’t do it, especially not in their head. They get out a piece of paper and start writing it out and even then they can’t get it. It’s both sad and funny. This has never happened to me with an Asian cashier.
* I read somewhere that there was an Italian food contest somewhere, and a Japanese chef won it – he learned his trade in Italy, but only to move back to Japan to open an Italian restaurant there. I’d bet he can now teach other Japanese cooks on how to cook Italian.
You might argue that cooking Italian (Ghanaian, whatever) is not exactly rocket science (although in the case of haute cuisine it might be closer to that), but even if it was rocket science – well, rocket science itself could be copied by other countries, couldn’t it?
* You could easily cut half the Federal workers and contractors in the greater Washington DC region and no one would notice. Get rid of the 11,000 EPA workers for a start. Get rid of the Federal Department of Education which is really just a glorified jobs program for every affirmative action leech under the sun starting with women, blacks, gays, lesbians…….with (angry) Samoans and Aleutian Islanders bringing up the rear.
Get rid of affirmative action hiring hall—Department of Labor
Get rid of affirmative action hiring hall—Department of Health and Human Services
Get rid of affirmative action hiring hall—Department of Housing and Urban Development
There are 3000+ county governments, 50 State governments and one Federale Gov’t. So you have to be specific about what government and what agencies can be pruned back or eliminated
