Bullypulpit
Senior Member
Originally posted by dmp
Tough Luck...people tend to be 'disadvantaged' by their own making anyway.
(shrug)
I don't remember meeting a person who through NO fault of their own was 'poor'. There ARE jobs. There IS work.
Yeah, but when many jobs don't even pay a living wage and provide no healthcare benefits, you're better off going on the dole.
So, how do we resolve the problem?
1. A public education system geared towards teaching our children to think and reason effectively rather than the memorize-regurgitate-forget system we have now.
2. Increased public financing of higher education in the form of expanded Pell Grants, low/no interest student loans, and tough educational standards.
3. Single payor healthcare, which would eliminate the mountains of paperwork required for each payor now...Thus healthcare providers could reduce costs and spend more time with actual patient care.
4. Reinstating "certificates of need" before permitting the expansion/ building of hospials. Unused beds and unused capacity are some of the biggest costs in healthcare.
5. A realistic minimum wage indexed to inflation.
There are solutions, but our Congress (the best money can buy) doesn't seem interested in doing the right thing...Only the politically expedient thing.