healthmyths
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What we don't have is a wage where low skilled workers can support a family without government assistanceYou have the freedom to move to those countries you adore and pay your 40% in taxes for your “free” healthcare, you have the freedom to improve your own quality of life, you have the freedom to stand there with your hand out begging for free shit and we have the freedom to tell you to pay for your own children. See how this all works...you have plenty of options.
But I don’t stand with my hand out.
I work.
“Do you think that working hard should be rewarded, or is that not enough anymore?”
I was told that the college degree was the key to the good life. I was sold a bill of goods.
“But I don’t stand with my hand out. I work.”
Can you fully fund yourself and your family?
Lots of people work...what does that mean? Many don’t have children if they’ll need other people’s money to raise them. It’s what classy people with dignity do.
“Do you think that working hard should be rewarded, or is that not enough anymore?”
Your reward for your labor is your pay. Do you think people who work hard deserve more than their pay affords them?
“I was told that the college degree was the key to the good life. I was sold a bill of goods.”
You weren’t “SOLD” anything...you “BOUGHT” something.
Demographics and statistics prove that to be correct...did you think your bank account would suddenly start growing the day you were issued that degree? Weird that I have to tell you this....that degree is your vehicle but you must drive the vehicle.
I think people who have the ambition to work should be paid a living wage. Otherwise, what incentive is there to work?
“A living wage”
Haha...I love that one. A living wage for you and your family of four is quite different than a living wage for a single person....You agree right?
So how is a “living wage” to be set...based on what dynamics?
Could you be self funded on a $15 per hour wage with a family of four?
The answers are simple, sensible and logical...they just aren’t what you want to hear.
Get educated, be ambitious, carefully choose a career path that fits your desired lifestyle and only have children you yourself can afford. TA-DA!
Again, this isn’t really building rockets....all classy good quality Americans with self respect and dignity practice these very basic principles.
We used to before we embraced supply side
NO actually you have NO idea of what a "living" wage is!
In the late 40s, 50s and 60s my dad made at most $500.00.
So how do you say we all had 3 meals per day, I was able to go to college, my mom didn't work and the only source of monthly paycheck my Dad?
A) We mowed lawns in the summer B) shoveled snow in the winter C) had 4 neighbor gardens as most people did and we shared potatoes, etc. with them.
One of our lawns was for our dentist and we worked off dental bills by mowing the lawns.
Were we worse off? We definitely could be considered at "poverty level" BUT my Dad would NEVER consider welfare payments (if they existed during that time!).
We were independent and the better off for that.
So please identify the period of time when "living wage" was not possible because there is ALWAYS a living wage if you want to work at it!
How many of those people you feel sorry for lower living wage have "free cell phone, free rent... watch TV or on the internet?
More than there are that don't!