Further, too many of those you assume are so dependent are already working. This is well known by now. Hence a firestorm over upping the minimum wage.
The firestorm about the minimum wage is not related to the dependency issue. The firestorm about the minimum wage is about the best way to handle those wages and the benefits/drawbacks to increasing it.
Further, not everyone is capable of being productive. Most of those receiving our social safety net frayed bits are elderly, disabled, and children.
And those aren't the people we're talking about.
Further, I question the amount of "opportunity" present in the system. All the money went to the top, yet I never hear you bitch about corporate welfare.
You mustn't be listening much to me in those areas, then. I'm generally opposed to all welfare.
What's more telling is how you think about and see your fellow man - in such an awful fashion. It's what makes me feel so sorry for you, as I've said before.
You have not demonstrated enough knowledge about my feelings about my fellow man to say this.
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Date: 2014-06-22 08:58 pm (UTC)I think it's overstated by some, but it is real.
Further, too many of those you assume are so dependent are already working. This is well known by now. Hence a firestorm over upping the minimum wage.
The firestorm about the minimum wage is not related to the dependency issue. The firestorm about the minimum wage is about the best way to handle those wages and the benefits/drawbacks to increasing it.
Further, not everyone is capable of being productive. Most of those receiving our social safety net frayed bits are elderly, disabled, and children.
And those aren't the people we're talking about.
Further, I question the amount of "opportunity" present in the system. All the money went to the top, yet I never hear you bitch about corporate welfare.
You mustn't be listening much to me in those areas, then. I'm generally opposed to all welfare.
What's more telling is how you think about and see your fellow man - in such an awful fashion. It's what makes me feel so sorry for you, as I've said before.
You have not demonstrated enough knowledge about my feelings about my fellow man to say this.