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Hard work is pointless, young poor reckon
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Posted on 11/27/2012 12:51:57 PM PST by Olog-hai
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posted on
11/27/2012 12:52:07 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Atlas went on disability.
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posted on
11/27/2012 12:55:55 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Olog-hai
Coming to a country near you...
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
11/27/2012 12:56:59 PM PST
by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
11/27/2012 12:58:54 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Olog-hai
If your stomach isn’t growling, and you’re dry and warm, have a TV, probably a car, etc, all at someone else’s expense...
really, what does hard work get you?
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:00:35 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Olog-hai
How would they know if they’ve never tried it?
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:01:00 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment,a Matter of Fact,Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: Olog-hai
For most of them, they are probably right. No matter how hard you work, how do you start from scratch in a state that takes so much in taxes, imposes all sort of stifling regulations, and undercuts ambition by making dependency so easy? This is our future btw.
To: Olog-hai
It’s already here too
welfare has become too comfy
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:15:27 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Olog-hai
said individuals could not get anywhere by trying alone, and that a person's parental background played a far larger role than personal effort in where they ended up It is the amount of one's ability, skills,and knowledge that one chooses to acquire by one's own personal effort, in addition to hard work and who your parents are that determine where one ends up in a free society.
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:17:54 PM PST
by
mjp
((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
To: GeronL
You can also forget about self-esteem.
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:21:07 PM PST
by
crosshairs
(Hurricane Barry is 1000 times more destructive than Hurricane Sandy.)
To: Olog-hai
“A third of poorer Germans” = Turks.
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:29:45 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Working is for suckers.)
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:30:16 PM PST
by
onyx
(FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
To: Uncle Miltie
Believe it or not, the article throws this out there, and pins the attitude displayed more onto natives:
Parents from Turkish backgrounds were generally more ambitious for their kids, with 70 percent of those with children under twelve wanting their offspring to move up socially, compared with 42 percent of all parents.
The study in question compared Swedish and German poor youth, generally. But media bias can of course not be discounted, nor is the difference between Christian and Muslim Turks expounded on (if significant).
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:34:18 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
11/27/2012 1:37:19 PM PST
by
Graewoulf
((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
To: Olog-hai
The logical conclusion to thinking that the wealthy are “winners in life’s lottery” who got what they have through inheritance, connections, rigged insider deals, etc.
To: Olog-hai
The year I started college, Vassar went co-ed.
I seriously thought about going. I figured they couldn’t all be playing on the same team, and the odds would certainly have been in my favor.
Sadly, I got a mostly marketable degree and had to work for a living. I must be “rich” now in spite of my poor undergraduate decision making, since my taxes are going up next year and Obie said that would only happen to “the rich”.
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posted on
11/27/2012 2:03:52 PM PST
by
chrisser
(Starve the Monkeys!)
To: Olog-hai
UK "lost generation" Graduates without a future are the new shock. Debt-burdened and scrambling for any barista job, many will never have the career they were told a degree would bring. The knock-on effect down the food chain means those with degrees displace others for that prized job tipping out coffee grounds at the espresso machine.
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posted on
11/27/2012 2:13:11 PM PST
by
Berlin_Freeper
(There goes the dominoes...)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Your post is describing a “perfect storm” situation for creating the most massive government employment program ever conceived by mankind.
To: Olog-hai
Socialism and communism always fail because they’re backwards on THE LAW OF EFFECT. THE LAW OF EFFECT basically says that you generally receive more of the behavior you reward and less of the behavior you punish. If you punish hard-workers by taxing them and taking more of the money they’ve earned, then you will have less hard work. If you reward people (with tax money taken from hard workers) for doing nothing, then you will have more people doing nothing. It’s just not that hard to understand. The Democrats understand this. The problem is, they don’t care. They are out to enrich themselves, not have a better country.
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posted on
11/27/2012 2:29:06 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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