On 25 Sep 2005 07:13:30 -0700, wrote:


Bert Robbins wrote:
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Chuckie is spewing the typical brain dead liebral class warfare crap.
The vast majority of people do not stay in one income bracket throughout
their lives.

Sounds a bit like "let them eat cake."

No, it sounds like let's teach them to bake their own cake so that they can
feed themselves.

You are right about that. The middle class is going the way of the
passenger pigeon. Yes, yes, a few of the former middle class are moving
into the ranks of the privileged-(something to cheer about in the right
wing) but most of the people leaving the middle class are worse off now
than they were a decade ago.

Then we need to do more to teach them how to work hard and earn more money
so that they can move up the ladder rather than sliding down the ladder
under the weight of good intentions.


Sounds very noble, but that flies in the face of a long-proven reality.
The privileged class has a specific interest in maintaining or even
increasing the number of poor and desperate people in this country
while at the same time decreasing any public infrastructure or funding
to relieve some of the hardships suffered by the poor. It's called
labor force. We want lotsof people who will work as cheaply as
possible. In fact, when our own poor people ask for a minimum wage job
the privileged class declares minimum wage "too much" to pay and seeks
out a foreign labor force even more poor, more desperate, and more
willing to work for a handful of rice a day.


It's tough to demand that somebody pull themselves up by the bootstraps
when they don't even have any boots, let alone a pair with straps.

Hey Chuck!

I can get a whole pot full of people jobs driving school buses for over $15/hr.

http://www.fcps.edu/DHR/applicants/busdriver.htm

If they have two years of college, they could be a full time substitute teacher
for about $13/hr.

Of course, they must be able to read and write.

When kids see mom and dad doing just fine on welfare, there's not much incentive
to learn to read and write.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."