Personally, I think Reagan screwed over many generations of Americans to come, unintentionally.
yeah that was me, and I’ve already told you what my solution was. eliminate social programs (like unemployment).
Social programs work, with the exception of Welfare and Social Security.
I got laid off last year on a friday, the following monday I had a job. I could have set down on unemployment and let the government take care of me, but I didn’t. it’s a matter of personal responsibility.
Glad to hear it. But let me give you an example:
My neighbor was laid off 3 months ago. He works in a highly specialized field, communication layout networking. There are a total of zero positions in that field available on the East Coast. After 3 months of not working, he is forced to move to Kansas City to get a job which pays 2/3 of his last one. Had the Government not provided him with Unemployment, he’d be a lot worse off, since he has two boys and a hefty bit of debt after buying his home 3 years ago.
ead your thread on nuclear energy- and commented on it as well. in short- if we had a more efficeint way to collect that energy I would say it was worth the risk. but right now I’d compare nuclear power to:
starting a bonfire in your back yard- then, after it has burned out, bringing the smoldering ashes into your home to heat it. we need to develope it far more before we depend on it.
There is no more efficient way of collecting energy than Nuclear. It is well developed, far more deaths have been caused by complications with petrolium in the last 10 years than in Nuclear Energy’s 50 year history.
and my mother in law doesn’t live with me. she still lives at her father’s house with my wife’s younger illegitimate half sister. she makes min. wage, pays no tax and got a refund check for almost five thousand. she claims this was thanks to earned income credit, I cried foul.
I am no accountant, but I do know big refund checks can come from Earned Income Credit. My father is getting a huge one come April, but that story is for another day.
no I, like you, own my own home and try to legitamately support my wife and kid. I don’t like working for 65% of what I make. I don’t like the Idea that if I was taxed on what I brought home I could qualify (almost) as low income. meanwhile those at the high end of low income, pick up enough benefits to move passed me in the social class spectrum. (does that make any sense). I don’t know whether I’m mad or insanely jealous or both.
Unlike me, you own a home and have a family. I’m 15 years old. But I can asssure you we’re all taxed, even I am. Made quite a bit of money last year, and quite a bit of it was taxed. Of course, its way below some of the numbers you’ve claimed were not taxed.
how can you not be mad? I assume since you own a home you pay taxes. do you think paying someone for a year to “look” for work is a good Idea. personally I think that once you realized you were going to starve to death you’d find a job real quick. and it wouldn’t take a year.
If you are looking for a higher quality job (and trust me, in my area, 50,000 / year isn’t enough to live on and own a home), it is to your disadvantage to get a lower tiered job. Most of my area who were laid off were at the management or above tier. Not easy in New Jersey/ NYC to find an open position in management, especially if your role is specialized.
Heres a good example. My father was forced to lay off 7 people a month ago. 2 were Warehouse workers, at like 40,000 dollars a year. 5 were office workers, two making six figures. Those office workers aren’t going to find jobs in their fields (Sales of certain metals), unless they move to Germany or my Father re-hires them when the economy gets better.
There is not a single career level job available in the area in that field. Unless they want to leave the country, completely reeducate themselves in a new career, or be forced to go into massive debt, they are stuck. This is the case with many many people.
The common misperception of an unemployed person is a drunk who spends the day watching Spongebob. That may often be the case in good economic times, but not today. Unemployment can make life livable. Its temporary.