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You cant be happy if you or your family is starving or freezing.
Immorally huh? Do you mean immoral as in exploiting the poor for your profit?
What's true is that some people don't have vision, or ambition, and allow their lives to drift. They will always be with us, and there is little anyone can do about it. In a free country you get to live your life your own way and we should not be condemned unless we behave immorally or illegally. I have poor people working for ma at this very moment, but they are certainly not unhappy. Quite the opposite in fact.
You don't have to be rich or poor to be happy but some people have allowed envy to take over their lives, and unhappiness inevitably follows.
In a free country you get to live your life your own way and we should not be condemned unless we behave immorally or illegally.
Sure...and what's the conservative answer to your statement? Let them make 5 dollars an hour and try and survive on that?
It is easier to blame the poor for being poor than it is to see how our spending habits and selfishness contribute toward it. A lot of people love being pissed about entitlements, but they feel they are entitled to cheap labor and they feel they are entitled to exploit the poor and desperate for their gains.
A free man can only be "exploited" if he allows himself to be such.
You cant be happy if you or your family is starving or freezing.
Immorally huh? Do you mean immoral as in exploiting the poor for your profit?
No, let them get the training they need, take responsibility for themselves, and develop a work ethic.
I advocate no federal income based assistance for any able bodied adult. Unlike the federal gov't, that depends on borrowing over $3 billion per day, states would (could?) not be nearly so generous (foolish?) as to simply support those that can (will?) not support themselves. Working to support oneself (and any dependents) should not be simply an "option" for any non-disabled person. Since the introduction of the federal "great society" social programs of the 1960's the out of wedlock birthrate has soared such that now 30% of white, 50% of hispanic and 70% of black children are now born out of wedlock. This may be great for getting demorat votes, but hurts the nation as a whole. We, as a nation, cannot continue to support 46 million people with federal income "assistance" until "things get better".
Quite right.
I'm against anyone being exploited. I suppose you are too.
Things can never get better with half the country working and the other half reliant on the government. And, with an aging population and ever-increasing debt, that situation isn't going to improve any time soon.
When you are hungry or cold, or your kids or family are, you will allow yourself to be.
The lazy, degenerate pieces of ****s who only live to abuse the welfare system have always been there, always will be. As we are continuing to see unemployment rise, underemployment rise, those who have given up rise we have to ask why and where are they coming from? They are not coming from a healthy economy. These are trained, hard working people with a great work ethic who don't have the opportunity to make a decent wage. All the training in the world, the world's greatest work ethic in the history of Earth will do you no good if there aren't any oppontunities to use it.
The lazy, degenerate pieces of ****s who only live to abuse the welfare system have always been there, always will be. As we are continuing to see unemployment rise, underemployment rise, those who have given up rise we have to ask why and where are they coming from? They are not coming from a healthy economy. These are trained, hard working people with a great work ethic who don't have the opportunity to make a decent wage. All the training in the world, the world's greatest work ethic in the history of Earth will do you no good if there aren't any oppontunities to use it.
And how do we rectify that?
And how do we rectify that?
I am thinking that not doing away with the time limits on eligibility would be a good start...
Don't speak about things you have no clue about...I was there....Bankrupt, lost the house, cars, every thing, and have lived a pretty rough life since the wife and I got married 25 years ago...But, I never blamed others that had more for my problems, instead I found out what I could do to learn a skill, and get to it making money. I take runs when no one else will, and I don't turn down any extra my company offers...As a result, I make a pretty good living now, and have pulled ourselves up on our own, without EVER taking a dime in welfare. How many out there that constantly whine about 'greed, the rich, or inequity' can say the same?
Yeah? And why are we told then that the economy is recovering? It is such BS!
A good start would be to make a HS education and a steady employment history into a prerequisite for ANY public assistance.
What a failure progressive policy is....
Just remember who to blame when this all collapses....
I don't think you can. It's too late. The American electorate demonstrated in the last election that they were not serious about debt or the future and opted to go deeper in debt and continue the drift.
Unless the American people act together to get things done, and look to the past as to why they enjoyed such success, then there is little chance of a turnaround.
We already know who to blame, the Republicans. Their economic policies have been the ruin of the middle class and the nations economic growth. Now they are blocking all measures to reduce unemployment which is the cause of the "food stamp boom".
When I was out of work I started a small business. There are many opportunities around where other people can do the same. Just look around and imagine.
Didn't Clinton and Gingrich once initiate something like that?
Those 'poor' are actually getting better off every because they have foreign investment. It is the locals who generally exploit the poor, not the multinationals.
All these people in third world countries would much rather work for Volvo, Nike, GE, etc. then in one of the sweat shops in their neighborhoods where conditions are really primitive.
After WW!! Europe was devastated and then communism took over and also made life miserable for much of the world. During that period, until the turn of the last century, the US was No. 1.
Now with the collapse of communism, and more free enterprise, Europe's recovery etc, there is far more competition then there used to be. Just being American and expecting success because of a circumstance of birth no longer applies. Americans, like everyone else, have to compete , educate themselves and work hard, something they once did better than anyone else anywhere.
Rather than erecting barriers they can, like everyone else, educate themselves, work harder, and meet the competition head on. This doesn't seem to be a satisfactory idea to many who would prefer shortcuts, but that has always been the only way.
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