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Originally Posted by kane
Nothing. I grew up in a small town in the 70's and 80's and knew a handful of people who lived off the system. I think there were the same number of deadbeats then as there are now. The difference is that now we have the internet and a 24 hour news cycle so more people are aware of it.
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I disagree with you on this one. Today more people are being left behind. some of them through no fault of their own. They were laid off and can't find work. Stats show this to be true.
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I have always said any job is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. If I were to hire someone to write a short story that I wanted to sell as an e-book I would pay some unknown person with no prior experience a hell of a lot less than I would pay Stephen King.
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So outsource it to the Philippines maybe? Or just have loads and loads of people on the poverty line so you can make more money. We need to compete, but there are prices to pay.
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There are plenty of people who don't have much in the way of education who break through the ceiling, but for most they never will. You aren't guaranteed anything, you get what you earn.
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Like me, my education is crap. I broke through the ceiling. Most won't, a lot will never get above a small wage. Westerners have to accept that.
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I subscribe to the belief that you can tell a lot about a country and its people by how they treat their sick, old and poor. I personally don't have a problem with the government helping people who need assistance with food and housing etc so long as those people appear to be making strides for digging themselves out of the problems they are in if possible. If these people are disabled, sick, elderly etc then I think having compassion for them and helping them is money well spent.
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Go tell that to the people in Detroit who used to work making cars. Maybe not the best example, but you'll understand.
However there are two sides to the coin. What does everyone on this board need more than anything else to make a living?
Where do most of them reside?
What is their average income?
Now. How is putting people out of work, cutting them out of the system going to add to your wealth?
Go study why the crash in 1929 had such devastating effects for the world and come back and tell us how just cutting the spending, shipping jobs overseas and putting more out of work on minimum wages is going to help anyone here.