11 Feb 2018, 10:33 pm
11 Feb 2018, 10:36 pm
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Fast food workers and those who are stocking shelves at the local gas station are for those needing a part time job while gaining a valuable skill, those in between jobs, or a second job to clean up debts... Really, if someone is depending on those for a living well into their adult life. They need to take a good hard look at their life and make some changes.
Yeah ... maybe they should stop choosing to be too poor to afford post-secondary education.
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11 Feb 2018, 10:37 pm
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11 Feb 2018, 10:40 pm
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auntblabby wrote:
even sh***y healthcare is better than NONE AT ALL. of course the middle class here in amuuuurica doesn't want the working class to have even sh***y healthcare. we are disposable useless eaters in their eyes, the middle class consider us to be "lazy degenerates." so many smugly arrogant self-righteous bourgeoisie with their cushy high-paying jobs that fell into their laps because they knew the right people in the social networking whirl. the people who were born on third base and thought they hit a triple.
Those upper middle class types will be singing a different tune when they start sliding down the socio-economic ladder.
they are oblivious to this truth, they are all either arrogantly denying it can happen to them, or they are whistling past the graveyard. none of them understands that all their worldly goods and high station in life can be taken from them. "glory is fleeting."
11 Feb 2018, 10:41 pm
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Yeah ... maybe they should stop choosing to be too poor to afford post-secondary education.
It's free for the low income and the poor though various grants. Every college and technical school has a department full of staff to help people attain these grants and loans. If they are working, then their employer may have a reimbursement program. I know McDonald's and Wal-Mart both have a program in place.
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11 Feb 2018, 10:42 pm
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SH90 wrote:
Fast food workers and those who are stocking shelves at the local gas station are for those needing a part time job while gaining a valuable skill, those in between jobs, or a second job to clean up debts... Really, if someone is depending on those for a living well into their adult life. They need to take a good hard look at their life and make some changes.
Yeah ... maybe they should stop choosing to be too poor to afford post-secondary education.
Maybe, just maybe, business owners should actually pay their workers a living wage, and operate their places of business to actually employ people rather than looking at it as a get rich quick scheme.
11 Feb 2018, 10:47 pm
Kraichgauer wrote:
Maybe, just maybe, business owners should actually pay their workers a living wage, and operate their places of business to actually employ people rather than looking at it as a get rich quick scheme.
Enjoy it, spend it wisely! Seriously, you are paid what you are worth in the market. When you are young and unskilled, income is low. You want more money, you learn a skill or two and get paid more for those skills. Want or need more money? Master those skills and earn more money. Burger flippers shouldn't complain they aren't making enough, they should make their self more valuable. Take action to improve their self rather then sit around complaining. It's much more effective and quicker. More importantly, live within your means.
11 Feb 2018, 10:48 pm
auntblabby wrote:
whatever. we all can't be your preferred cognitive elites. somebody has to bring up the rear, and it might as well be us "degenerates" as you like to call us.
Most of those people can not afford health insurance. If their mcjob employer offers a health insurance plan, they have to pay about 300 dollars a month (for one person) for 10 thosand dollar deductible insurance. You can only afford it because you were able to swing a subsidy.
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11 Feb 2018, 10:56 pm
SH90 wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Maybe, just maybe, business owners should actually pay their workers a living wage, and operate their places of business to actually employ people rather than looking at it as a get rich quick scheme.
Enjoy it, spend it wisely! Seriously, you are paid what you are worth in the market. When you are young and unskilled, income is low. You want more money, you learn a skill or two and get paid more for those skills. Want or need more money? Master those skills and earn more money. Burger flippers shouldn't complain they aren't making enough, they should make their self more valuable. Take action to improve their self rather then sit around complaining. It's much more effective and quicker. More importantly, live within your means.
Actually "buger flippers" are the ones with unaffordable healthcare plans, unless they're working at some small independently owned burger shop. Most high volume low income low skilled jobs are offered by mega corporations like McDonald's or WalMart. And those employees are the ones with the $300 per month $10,000 deductible health insurance plans. And because of that healthcare dot gov won't give them a better deal.
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11 Feb 2018, 10:58 pm
SH90 wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Maybe, just maybe, business owners should actually pay their workers a living wage, and operate their places of business to actually employ people rather than looking at it as a get rich quick scheme.
Enjoy it, spend it wisely! Seriously, you are paid what you are worth in the market. When you are young and unskilled, income is low. You want more money, you learn a skill or two and get paid more for those skills. Want or need more money? Master those skills and earn more money. Burger flippers shouldn't complain they aren't making enough, they should make their self more valuable. Take action to improve their self rather then sit around complaining. It's much more effective and quicker. More importantly, live within your means.
What conservatives and business owners are forgetting is, the more buying power workers have - even burger flippers - the more products they can buy, thus spurring on the economy even more so. It's an investment. But no one's ever accused American business of long term planning.
11 Feb 2018, 11:06 pm
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