Wow Mike, break your Enter key again? Wall of words posts don't get read.
Your ideology is stuck in the 1980s ... of mainland China.
I've worked in the tech sector for years and still do a bit of part time
contract work. I know lots of well educated, well experienced people
who cannot find work because they are considered TOO OLD! Yet the
dummies who lucked out and have WAY TOO MUCH MONEY prefer to either 1)
hire young kids with only theoretical college knowledge or 2) scream
there are not enough H1B Visas so they can hire cheap labor from abroad
who most also have theoretical knowledge. It's no wonder these tech
companies come and go as they produce crap products.
The simple reality is there are too few jobs. And there are too few
jobs because there is less that needs to be done. The solution is one
you hate but being implemented in other countries and was even pushed by
non-other than the Nixon administration in the early 1970s: a
guaranteed basic income.
But it won't happen in Amerika. Instead things will get more and more
out of whack until the people have had enough and burn the place to the
ground so we can start over again.
On 10/24/2015 07:56 AM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
Victim mentality! It's not my fault, it's somebody else's fault! It's
the systems fault! But never mine! The 4-5% unemployment you refer to
is supposed to account for those in between jobs,those that have quit
or been fired or returning to school or job training to increase their
skills to get a better job. We have 20-30 million people that
illegally immigrated to take jobs, undercutting themselves and
citizens thus driving down wages that could be paid to citizens,
causing more dependence on social programs. But hey, they're cheap
labor, they'd make great victims to vote for our party and they pay SS
at their jobs that they can't receive(unless they vote for our party
to remedy) thus bailing out the decline of SS contributions.< If you
live in the United States, are able bodied and relatively sound mind
and you are poor, more than likely, it is your own fault, due to poor
choices you have made in life. Maybe you dropped out of school too
early, got pregnant, joined a gang, got involved in drugs, had a
generally shitty attitude or appearance that no employer wants to put
up with, went to jail or prison for criminal activity, thus nobody
wants to hire. Maybe your just fucking lazy, spoiled, never learned
personal responsibility and don't feel you could take care of
yourself. Maybe you dropped out of society so you could seek
*enlightenment*or thought reading palms and being an astrologer would
pay the bills. <Nobody is suggesting that there be no welfare
programs. Shit happens and sometimes people need a hand out for a
*short* time to get their act together. Unfortunately, there are
people that will never have the ability to take care of themselves or
have completely lost that ability but remedies for them are minimal
because Shaneeka is flat on her back pumping out little future
criminals at everybody else's expense or can't seem to make! it out of
rehab. If you're poor in America, it sure is most likely your fault.<
I'm all for ending any kind of corporate welfare. But at the same
time, their taxes need to be kept reasonable enough that they would
want to keep their profits here for reinvestment and expansion(more
jobs). They provide the jobs that pay income taxes as well as other
taxes. Cut the throat of the goose that lays the golden egg and all
you're left with is a dead goose. I could care less if a person is
100% greedy or altruistic, it's his/her life, just play by the rules.
Don't try justifying your own greed and covetousness by telling me
theirs is unhealthy and yours is *purely* altruistic, thus good and
righteous. They pay taxes, create and provide jobs for millions of
families that make their lives livable, if not abundant. They do a
hell of a lot more for society than the whiners and complainers that
can't seem to do jack- shit for themselves.
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*From:* "olliesed...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Friday, October 23, 2015 11:16 PM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Planets support Hillary!
Again, the welfare recipients are the victims of capitalism. Economic
models of capitalism always predict less than 100% employment. I
recall the "ideal" is around 95%, so for that unemployed 5%, they need
some form of assistance. Given the radical difference in access to
education and services between the wealthy and the poor, it is nearly
impossible to rise out of poverty, no matter what, so this may span
generations.
Again, it is not the fault of the poor, but rather the blindly greedy,
who see only exploitable numbers when they look at a population. You
sound as if you have bought into the social fiction that people want
to be poor. They do not, even with the paltry amounts that welfare pays.
Rather than do away with welfare for the poor, let's begin by
eliminating welfare for the rich. Much is made by these folks about
the amount of taxes they pay relative to the rest of the country.
However, the amount they pay, relative to their wealth, is a pittance,
and they should all be deeply ashamed of themselves. There is no
benefit to the class war they have started and it will end badly for
them - not in terms of some grand revolution, but simply their
increasingly bad karma.
Read the news carefully regarding the greediest members of our
society, and you find that despite enormous wealth, many of their
lives are stressful, unhealthy, and short. Money cannot buy happiness,
only comfy distractions.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote :
So, I guess that you would agree that welfare/ public assistance
should not be a *lifestyle*, from one generation to another, but
temporary.
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*From:* "olliesedwuz@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Friday, October 23, 2015 12:28 AM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Planets support Hillary!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote :
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote :
If something is worth having, it's worth working for. That would
include economic equality and opportunity. Should a high school drop
out have the same economic opportunities that someone with a PHD has?
Should a person with no more ability to flip a burger earn as much as
a brain surgeon? It could happen, but they better have something to
offer that is in high demand. I can honestly say that I've earned
everything I've got. Had I been more ambitious,I could have had more
than I have now. I'm not complaining.
You are assuming that hard work equals reward commensurate with effort
exerted. Not so. It would be so simple if that were the case. Many,
many people literally work their asses off and have no home, very
little food to eat and live in rags. The world does not work like how
you think it works. There is inequality with regard to race, gender
and class that takes its toll on millions of people. I have known a
number of well-heeled individuals who like to recline back in their
easy chairs, glance around at their paneled, ornate living rooms while
sipping 25 year old tawny port and smugly assert that if everyone was
just willing to work hard they could enjoy the advantages that they
enjoy. Bullshit.
Knocked that one out of the park. It doesn't take any esteemed values,
such as compassion and equality, to make a lot of money. No one is
saying give it back, but own up to what got you there. In these
times, due to the leverage of tech, money buys more influence than it
ever has. Unfortunately, many use that as an excuse to become ever
richer, c! onsequences be damned. The rich DO get richer and the poor
get poorer.
This crap about people wanting to lie around on welfare, vs. having
productive and meaningful jobs is propaganda put out by those who have
already shipped many of the middle class jobs outside the US. Blame
the victim.
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*From:* "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 21, 2015 7:57 PM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Planets support Hillary!
Capitalism promotes greed and inequality. Socialism provides equality
and equal opportunity. How's that inequality workin' out for ya?
On 10/21/2015 05:44 PM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@...
<mailto:mdixon.6569@...> [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Capitalism creates wealth, socialism just redistributes it.
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*From:* "Bhairitu noozguru@... <mailto:noozguru@...>
[FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 21, 2015 7:37 PM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Planets support Hillary!
The problem with capitalism is that sooner or later you
run out of other people's money too. Then everybody is
broke. What's your point?
On 10/21/2015 05:00 PM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@...
<mailto:mdixon.6569@...> [FairfieldLife] wrote:
The problem with socialism is, that sooner or later, you
run out of other people's money.
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*From:* "Bhairitu noozguru@... <mailto:noozguru@...>
[FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 21, 2015 5:07 PM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Planets support Hillary!
What's happening is that the dems are freaked by the
traction Bernie Sanders is getting. He's also popular
with millennials who could swing the vote. I also have
a theory Sanders is the reason Trump jumped into the
race. So it could be an election of democratic
socialism vs corporatism. Thing is, the US needs some
socialism to balance things. All corporatists care about
is making lots and lots of money and the public be damned.
I've listened to Sanders on Thom Hartmann's show for
years and he is a very reasonable person so it won't be
the new Soviet Union by a any means. Hillary is too
"status quo" with lots of skeletons in her closet.
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