Quote:
Originally Posted by woj
Relentless, so what solution do you propose? those that work, should support those that don't, right?
|
No. Not exactly.
The definition of a week's work will change. Someone running their own business or trying to earn a lambo or wanting a mansion will open their own business and work 8 days a week just like many of us do now. That won't change. However, having people who work '9-5, 5 days per week' continue their 40 hour schedule will fail to make any sense soon. It already makes little sense. What you will eventually see is evolution to shift work, splits and shorter work weeks. People working 4 days or working 5 hour shifts instead of 8 hour days etc... And other people being hired to work the other hours in their place. From a societal standpoint it is better to have three people employed a total of 80 hours than to have two people employed a total of 80 hours and one sit home or out getting into trouble.
We need to shift our workforce back toward the notion of one parent working and one actually raising their children, rather than both working and their kids being warehoused. That requires a major change in the POV many Americans have about work and self-worth.
We originally created a slew of labor laws to stop children from working, prevent abusive labor practices and enforce a work week designed to create a minimum quality of life for the working poor. 40 hour work weeks, overtime pay, age requirements, safety standards, etc... However, it ALSO had the effect of limiting how much some people worked and 'created jobs' for many who otherwise would have been unemployed.
People who are incapable of being entrepreneurs don't need to own private airplanes, lambos, huge houses, summer homes, etc... but they do need to live better than our prison populations... and many currently do not. It is shameful that there are many people in this country actually starving or skipping meals for lack of money and lack of aptitude when we also are burning crops to keep prices high and producing more cheap food than paying customers can eat.
It all starts with a return to Nationalism and Patriotism. Screaming U-S-A-, U-S-A at a UFC event is not Nationalism. Saying 'support our troops' when you have no chance of being drafted and no idea why we are fighting a war is not Patriotism. Nationalism is making a serious effort to push our entire country forward, for the sake of the country not for what you get out of doing so. Patriotism is looking after your fellow Americans and doing what you can to help them reach their potential, without ragging on them for being less competent than you are or demanding things from them simply because they are more competent.
The poor are not ruining our country. Lazy people aren't ruining our country. Artists do not destroy our country. Obsolete employees whose jobs are no longer relevant don't wreck our country. Our country was badly damaged by some asshats who wanted to engage in wars of choice, left the 'free market' unregulated to the point where a handful of oligarchs severely damaged the world economy and pushed through nonsensical legal theories that allow things like Citizens United to become the law of the land. That is who is destroying our country. They aren't guys making 250K per year or even 1M per year... sadly they are exactly the people Mitt Romney has been working with over the years.... and Obama is funded by them as well. One exec at Goldman Sachs or Merill Lynch can do more damage in 10 minutes of high frequency stock trading than every poor person can do in an entire year. One idiot poor person can agree to a mortgage they can't afford... but one bank can create a program to lure in and sign up millions of those poor idiots. The scale of the damage is not equal.
In case you haven't figured it out, they use false dividing lines as distractions. Gay people Vs Straight people over gay marriage. The poor Vs the barely rich with meaningless 3% tax cuts. Angry militants Vs pacifists with false wars. One religion Vs whichever other religion. One race Vs whichever other race. As long as they can keep making the sheep think other sheep are the enemy, they can go on doing whatever they want and laughing their way to the bank. It is time to get off the retard-go-round and look into making SERIOUS changes to our systems if we actually want our country to prosper.
Real single payer healthcare aimed at efficiency is CHEAPER than what we had before or what Obamacare promises. A military that handles actual threats rather than cold war enemies who no longer exist is CHEAPER. Legalizing pot and gay marriage is the only logical outcome eventually... I'm not gay and I don't smoke pot... but I have a vested interest in not wasting so much time and money fighting either of those false battles, paying for prisons and riling up the LGBT community for no reason. An endless work week, no vacations and constant pressure makes sense if you are an entrepreneur trying to build a business - it makes 0 sense anymore if you are a dim wit looking to do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Income tax when you have money to buy something makes no sense compared to sales tax when you decide to spend that money. Capital gains rates lower than income rates serve 0 purpose. Nobody even discusses these fundamental problems. Instead they get caught up in whether Obama's wife wore a dress with sleeves or without sleeves. Rather than making fun of Romney's wife for owning an Olympic horse, we should have been focused on the fact that owning an Olympic horse included a larger tax break than most people get for having children.
We need to make serious changes if we want to fix serious problems.
