tommyGunZ said:
Great post, wish would stop putting me down and just defend your position but you actually do a great job of defending mine. The reason it is the exception and not the rule is because we have allowed that to happen. People still all but kill themselves to get into this country so they can attend our Universities. We make it easy for people to get into college these days. If you don't earn great grades and get a scholarship, we allow community colleges and they only require a GED to start enrolling.
I had to go back to school in my 30s, my parents were poor from West Virginia, my mother become a teacher and went back to school at Nova Southeastern. My father did not complete college until he was in his late 30s and had a career in banking. They could have easily lived of the federal government like some of their family did back in West Virginia and Ohio, but they wanted a better life. If a person has a desire to succeed and is willing to work, America is still a pretty fair place for folks to pull themselves out of poverty. The bigger problem is there is no incentive these days for those people to want to join the middle class or working class I would rather refer to it. After the taxes and expenses a lot of people who work everyday and work hard are not that much better off than those who are handed everything by the government. Wages have stayed stagnant for about 20-30 years for most Americans.
But let's get back to Swedish Fish.
Bull####. You need to take the SNAP challenge and then see if you still feel that way.
What is bullspit? The notion that families of 4 with $50,000 a year household income are not that much better off than those under the poverty line? That's more than twice the allotted money and these families barely have two nickels to rub together, where is the disconnect exactly?
Please tell me TG you are not going to turn this into splitting up the working class into little factions, that's the big problem. I do not differ much between the family making $50k and the family making $150k, the ones making more simply have nicer cars, little bigger house, but they have the same day to day bullspit everyone else has.
You might have missed a few of my posts over the past couple years but people who start taking gripes with other people who make $25k more a year and are still in the same class, that's exactly what they want in Washington. Turn the guy making $100k against the guy making $50k, that's the problem in this country but it really isn't. The problem is the majority(the working class) of folks fall in the $25k-$250k a year and they fight amongst themselves when they should band together and take on the Company that is making $250 Million, not $250 thousand...they must have a good time in Congress, Senate, and White House laughing at how stupid we are in this country.
To allow the people we elected in office to make rules that largely do not help any of us but thousands of rules and laws in place to help the rich and money making greedy companies...we have gotta be pretty stupid in this country.
OK TG, where do you want to start here?