Bums and leeches on society are.....well....bums and leeches on society! Always have been...always will be.
Democratic politicians make such a huge deal about the minimum wage not because of the poor or trying to help somebody. Minimum wage clauses are built (probably) in every union contract. When the minimum wage goes up, the union wage scale goes up too. Haven’t you noticed that every time there’s a minimum wage boost that there’s also a jump in real inflation? Wages go up, more money is chasing the same amount of goods, and goods become relatively scarcer; the price goes up.
Milton Friedman called the minimum wage a “monument to the power of superficial thinking.”
“I believe the creators of the welfare state had good intentions”
No they didn’t.
Congressman Jack Brooks let my old man in on the little secret, LBJ’s Great Society was never intended to get anyone out of poverty.
Southern blacks were moving off their small farms and moving to the cities, mainly in the north.
This movement left a shortage of farm labor for the larger farms.
They thought it was a way to keep cheap farm labor. They could collect a govt check and work for farmers off the books.
That was after VP Johnson led the coup that killed President Kennedy. Johnson got religion after Kennedy was brutally murdered. The end apparently justified the means.
When I first came on there was a post about John Stossel and I was pretty negative about him. Another Freeper told me to listen to him & give him a chance.
I did & I was amazed at how I never liked him. I agree w/ everything I have heard him say! He also has a great sense of humor! Where I teach I see the single women having children and not marrying because they would lose all their gov’t goodies. It’s such common sense to cut off the gravy train and I bet births would go down; it just seems logical.
Next year one of my special needs kids will be a girl whose mother has 10!!!!!!!!!!! other children. She does not show up to meetings for her daughter & I can only assume that the others are probably very deprived......................only in America.............
Anyway, I think John Stossel rocks and I love that he’s not afraid to say what he thinks. I’m a big fan now.
And then they buy stuff at Wal-Mart, which purchases from countries that use slave labor.
83 percent of Americans want OTHER PEOPLE to pay.
As Judge Judy said, “Dumb is forever.”
Millions of the disabled ARE NOT DISABLED...
I know many of them.. disabled permits for parking IS A SCAM(mostly)...
Puh-leeze—Government’s central planners couldn’t run a lemonade stand for profit.
God bless Walter Williams. He’s such a breath of fresh air in the stale race-baiting world we live in.
Another example is in the University system. Blacks get into top colleges with grades and SAT scores well below whites and asians. As a result, however, they can't cut it against the rest of the student body when there, and many drop out. If there were no preferences, they would go to colleges where the other students were comparable in ability to themselves, and do fine.
People are just damn ignorant of how the world works. That’s okay, reality will kick their collective a&&&& at some point.
When the so-called ‘libertarian’ Stossel has the balls to stand up for the life and liberty of the unborn, I’ll listen. Until then, he’s a confused idiot.