The Hand That Rocks the Cradle?
Obama doesn’t seem to get it at all.
“standup comedian Bridget Christie finished her act with a plea for all laydeez to stop waxing, spraying, deodorising, strimming and surgically trimming their – well, let’s call it “that part of ourselves historically judged to be the seat of all our femininity and womanly powers” – and instead celebrate our individuality by thinking of those parts as “unique, special – like snowflakes”
And this was the “uplifting” part?
In short:
‘Life’s hard. It’s even harder when you’re stupid.’
— John Wayne
Not that everyone who is poor is stupid, but if you make a very poor decision and compound it with even more poor decisions, pretty soon you’re going to become codependent on those that enable those poor decisions.
Good questions.
‘Inequality has become a challenge to us as moral beings’
No, it hasn't. What lefties refuse to understand is that "income inequality" is a product of a system with great economic mobility and high economic opportunity.
From what I can tell the author is an idiot who thinks poor people are morons.
for many people, they do not qualify for jobs that exist.
why don’t they qualify?
for many, the reasons stretch back to high school when they were too busy getting stoned to absorb the basic education. due to that negligence, they failed to get into college... which led them on a path to where they are today.
couple that with a victim based mentality, and you have someone that is fundamentally unable to pull themselves out of the depths to push for higher education or at least a better career.. especially after they start committing crimes
“like snowflakes. Made of gammon”
Okeyyyyy dokeyyy
I've been in and out of poverty a couple of times in my life.
The part I can't figure is why someone without two nickels to rub together doesn't struggle with every waking moment to change that status, even though such people need to overcome Democrats, liberal Republicans and non-affiliated liberals with every step.
I think part of it is that they’re not good shoppers. They pay too much for everything when it’s not that hard to establish a shopping route(s) that makes it possible to not pay full price for almost anythink.
I think many conservatives understand all too well how people fall into poverty.
The difference between us and liberals is that we, as conservatives, believe fundamentally that we have free will to exercise in conducting our affairs and can contribute to deepening or alleviating to a degree poverty we might find ourselves in.
Liberals believe that your choices and actions have no impact on your status, and that you have no choices to make that can affect your poverty level in a positive way. They believe that government can do that for you, what they believe you can never do yourself.
She’s very snide toward anyone who “doesn’t understand”, blowing them off as so rich as to be irretrievably disconnected. She falls to address that such poverty, too often, is precisely the result of doing those behaviors she expends so much text excusing.
Doesn’t matter why a bad choice was made, it’s still a bad choice.
The simple explanation is that the underclass who work hard, scrimp, get an education and don’t engage in self-destructive behavior lift themselves out of the underclass.
Those who remain are those who do the opposite.
Consider your average household pet. A border collie for example. Now that border collie would probably be much happier living out of doors, herding cattle on a ranch or pulling a sled in harness. However, if we keep that border collie indoors and provide it with all its basic needs, it eventually becomes lazy and content to lie about the house all day, waiting for mealtime and snacktime.
Well that's what we do for our "poor" people. We send them a check every month and pay for their housing and medical care. All their needs are taken care of. So they become content to sit in front of the television all day, munching on potato chips that they bought with their food stamps.
Granted, it's not a luxurious existence to live on the dole. But it can be adapted to. Especially when you can sleep late every morning and never have to worry about going to work or where your next meal is going to come from.
I have thought about this. It seems to me that poverty is enhanced by bad government that destroys the individuals will and makes them dependent. If people had the hope that they had a chance of succeeding, they would improve thier lives. Unfortunately, we have a growing downtrodden element of society that believes that the only chance they have is bigger government handouts.
people fall into poverty by electing leftists
Sorry, Lucy. I have been there and done that. I slept in my car when I had no place else. I went hungry two days every week for two years because I didn’t have enough money for tuition, gas, insurance, AND food.
Getting out and up can be done. You just have to WANT to do it.
Sell that horsesh*t to someone else.
I’m being taxed in to poverty.
I know exactly how. Sin and evil in this world. Christ told.us the poor would always be among us. Some people are poor in wealth, others in spirit.
The author, like all good leftists, believes that weak character is the product of poverty but conservatives know that the reverse is the case.