You won’t believe how little $8.25 an hour buys

[Meathead]

He claimed socialists love poverty, this literally makes no sense.

Of course it makes sense, it is their raison d'etre after all. Where would they be without it?

 

[Freewill]

Here's an idea: get some education and training so you're not stuck at the bottom!
Gee, that wasnt hard.

Fuck off rabbi, your posts are a crock of senseless bullshit. You do realize people need to work these jobs to afford education and a rising cost of living? You do realize poverty is hard to get out of, considering education costs keep going up while wages are stagnant, same with the cost of living, as mentioned. People have children, parents to take care of.. Then again, the right wing hates those in poverty.

I post the obvious answer and it's someone else's fault.
Wages have stagnated under Obama and the socialist regime. Workforce participation is down because its easier to get on SSI and unemployment than to find a job. This is what socialism leads to.
You want more than 8/hr? Go earn it.

Wages have been stagnant for decades, quit your idiotic bullshit and attempts to blame one man for everything. LOL. Yes, because private sector growth under Obama is a great sign of socialism. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

Wages for those who acquire new skills and/or education are NOT stagnant.
If one wants to earn more, they have to work for it.

Jesus christ, wages are stagnant for the middle/lower class, but for the top, it's all ok, so I guess fuck everyone but the rich? You're an idiot. People work 60 hours a week to barely get by, are they not working hard enough?

All we need do is import some more IT workers and keep the border open and that will certainly help the middle/lower class.

 

[M14 Shooter]

You won t believe how little 8.25 an hour buys Oxfam America First Person Blog

I believe it. It buys very little. So, don't work for minimum wage.

Oh yes, because their are obviously an infinite number of jobs available for your definition of what's not poverty.

Why do you need an infinite number of jobs? Go find one job that pays better than poverty wages. Let everyone else worry about their own jobs.

I care for other people, sorry if you don't. People will always have to be at the bottom, in fact, billions will never be able to escape, it's common sense to help them, in america, and worldwide.

No... it's your version of morality.
Who are you to force people to confirm to your version of morality?

 

[M14 Shooter]

Here's an idea: get some education and training so you're not stuck at the bottom!
Gee, that wasnt hard.

Fuck off rabbi, your posts are a crock of senseless bullshit. You do realize people need to work these jobs to afford education and a rising cost of living? You do realize poverty is hard to get out of, considering education costs keep going up while wages are stagnant, same with the cost of living, as mentioned. People have children, parents to take care of.. Then again, the right wing hates those in poverty.

I post the obvious answer and it's someone else's fault.
Wages have stagnated under Obama and the socialist regime. Workforce participation is down because its easier to get on SSI and unemployment than to find a job. This is what socialism leads to.
You want more than 8/hr? Go earn it.

Wages have been stagnant for decades, quit your idiotic bullshit and attempts to blame one man for everything. LOL. Yes, because private sector growth under Obama is a great sign of socialism. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

Wages for those who acquire new skills and/or education are NOT stagnant.
If one wants to earn more, they have to work for it.

Jesus christ, wages are stagnant for the middle/lower class, but for the top, it's all ok, so I guess fuck everyone but the rich? You're an idiot. People work 60 hours a week to barely get by, are they not working hard enough?

Want to get ahead?
Acquire a skill that someone will pay more for.

 

[paulitician]

Oh boy, stay tuned for the greedy angry white Republican dude response. Something along the lines... "Too bad for you. I got mine. Go fuck yourself." Angry greedy white Republican guy would like to see American Workers make the shittiest wages possible. Real compassionate appealing platform they've created for the GOP. A real winner.

Seriously, it's deplorable how white Republican dudes treat American Workers. One could even call it Un-American. How do they possibly think they can win the White House back with such a greedy hateful approach towards fellow Americans? They're delusional.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Oh boy, stay tuned for the greedy angry white Republican dude response. Something along the lines. "Too bad for you. I got mine. Go fuck yourself.' Angry greedy white Republican guy would like to see American Workers make the shittiest wages possible. Real compassionate appealing platform they've created for the GOP. A real winner.

Seriously, it's deplorable how white Republican dudes treat American Workers. One could even call it Un-American. How do they possibly think they can win the White House back with such a greedy hateful approach towards fellow Americans? They're delusional.

American workers compete in the global labor market, which ultimately lowers wages for everyone, especially the unskilled.

 

[paulitician]

Sadly, this is greedy white Republican dude. The ultimate representation. R.I.P. Cecil

 

[bripat9643]

I care for other people

With other other people's money.

Oh lord.. The world produces more then enough food to feed everyone, distribution is a failure, so much is wasted for profit, the first world capitalists mercilessly exploit the third world.. There's a reason capitalists lose money when workers don't work, they don't produce value. Oh god "Other people's money." I'll never get tired of this. Y'know what? If someone lives in luxury while children suffer, I see nothing wrong with "taking their money."

Thanks for admitting that you're a thug. Of course, we already know that. Socialism is just a rationalization for stealing.

 

[bripat9643]

There are whiners and bleeding hearts, and then there are those that work hard, learn and make a better life for themselves and their families. These groups are largely mutually exclusive.

Which needs to be supported?

Billions live in poverty, many working 60+ hours a week to barely scrape by. Whiners?

I had little doubt that you were in the latter group. My hat's off to the billions who worked their asses off and made a better life for themselves instead of whining about it. That would be you and that woman who wrote the article about her daughter having to work 30 hours a week.

The horror! The horror!

How many people live on less then $10 a day? How many live in third world countries? How many people desperately want to get education but can't afford it or have access? The article talked about how hard it is to live on low wages, and shows how hard it is to move up when earning so little.

And your solution is?

His solution is to loot the rich, of course.

 

[bripat9643]

There are whiners and bleeding hearts, and then there are those that work hard, learn and make a better life for themselves and their families. These groups are largely mutually exclusive.

Which needs to be supported?

Billions live in poverty, many working 60+ hours a week to barely scrape by. Whiners?

Maybe this liberal can teach you something......

Bono Capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid The Beacon

Like I'd give a fuck what Bono says, capitalism doesn't bring people out of poverty, aid programs, technology, governments.. If you want to follow your line of thought, then Mao Zedong did an amazing job at improving people's lives.

Bring them out of poverty? We've spent trillions of dollars in the last 70 years to lift people out of poverty. The ranks of the poor are not dwindling.

Yeah, you seem to forget the recent crisis.
Welfare programs shown to reduce poverty in America Money The Guardian
Idiot, try again.

The Guardian? You might just as well have quoted the Daily Worker. Welfare entrenches poverty. It pays teenage girls to have illegitimate children. That isn't how you reduce poverty.

 

[bripat9643]

There are 330 million people in America... so your math is off by a few orders of magnitude. No, billions are not in poverty.

Wasn't just talking about America, genius. Unless only the poor in America are whiners, in which case, the usual right wing hatred of the poor.

Who gives A fuck what goes on outside our borders?....Do you expect us to take care of the problems of the entire world?.....Well, you first. Get busy, you've got a lot of work to do

Fuck borders, there's nothing wrong with caring about other human beings.

Where's your care for the people you want to rob in order to pay for your "caring"?

Rob? Are you fucking kidding me? I don't see you bitching about the trillions "robbed" when america destabilized and fucked the entire middle east, nor did the rich, they loved it, but god forbid that a tiny portion of peoples taxes goes to help feed children in africa instead of bombing the middle east.

How did America "destabilize" the Middle East? It's not like it was ever stable to begin with. If anyone destabilized it, Obama is the culprit. He's the one who undermined the regimes in Libya, Egypt and Syria.

 

[bripat9643]

People that are making low wages should think of the consequences they face if they decide to make babies.
Tell ya what... YOU take care of them.

I rest my case.

You had better rest your case. You don't have one.

You've essentially confirmed you can care less about the children of those in poverty, and believe anyone who doesn't fit where you want on the socio-economic ladder needs to die.

And I stated this where?

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People that are making low wages should think of the consequences they face if they decide to make babies.
Tell ya what... YOU take care of them.
"
You're essentially saying: Fuck em, no one should help them. I'm sure you love fetuses though.

You're admitting that you don't want to take care of them.

 

[bedowin62]

LIKE I SAID; $8.25 buys you a gallon of phony left-wing crocodile tears

 

[bripat9643]

You had better rest your case. You don't have one.

You've essentially confirmed you can care less about the children of those in poverty, and believe anyone who doesn't fit where you want on the socio-economic ladder needs to die.

And I stated this where?

"
People that are making low wages should think of the consequences they face if they decide to make babies.
Tell ya what... YOU take care of them.
"
You're essentially saying: Fuck em, no one should help them. I'm sure you love fetuses though.

No..YOU said that.....What is expected of all of us is to make the proper choices. Failing that, to not place the burden of bad choices on others.
God gave us the ability to reason....and to choose.
No one else should be punished because another made a bad choice.
But you want to use the threat of government sanctions to compel others to compensate those who make bad choices.
Notice the focus on choices.
TO clarify, this does not apply to those who are incapable whether by physical or mental disability of helping themselves. We as a society have a moral obligation to care for those people.
If one is able, they have a moral obligation to care for themselves.
Now go ahead and spew more emotional rants.
You're wasting keystrokes.

God gave us the ability to reason? Sorry, which god?
I agree, no one should be punished, poverty isn't a "bad choice" for the majority of people, people fall in, move up, get stuck in a cycle.. You can imagine which 2 are more frequent then the other... Threat of government? Oh, god forbid taxes are raised by 2%.

You already admitted everyone in this country has enough to eat, so why should we raise taxes at all?

 

[bripat9643]

Y'know what? If someone lives in luxury while children suffer, I see nothing wrong with "taking their money."

Why not use your own money, since you care about the children so much?

Yes, because I have disposable income.. I wish.

So, you want everyone else to willfully live in poverty, just because someone else is in poverty....but you aren't willing to do the same thing yourself. Four legs good, two legs better, I see....

Socialist sees nobility in poverty.

Yeah, which is why the evil socialists in venezuela/cuba/etc have reduced extreme poverty.

ROFL! Yeah, they reduced it so much that there's no food to buy in the stores.

Great solution!

 

[bripat9643]

Why not use your own money, since you care about the children so much?

Yes, because I have disposable income.. I wish.

So, you want everyone else to willfully live in poverty, just because someone else is in poverty....but you aren't willing to do the same thing yourself. Four legs good, two legs better, I see....

No, I really don't, it's ridiculous you'd throw that hilarious statement out. Taxation on the rich in america to help those in need doesn't make rich people into poor people, it never has, even when we had the highest rates. Grow up.

But you're not talking about taxing the rich to pay for social safety nets. You said it yourself: You would rob the comfortable to provide for everyone less comfortable.

Oh please, I was referring to taxation, if you call that robbing, so be it.

How is it different from robbery?

 

[paulitician]

Angry greedy white Republican guy is no friend to American Workers. And that will likely sink the GOP. No American Worker can believe Republicans care about them. It is what it is.

 

[bripat9643]

Angry greedy white Republican guy is no friend to American Workers. And that will likely sink the GOP. No American Worker can believe Republicans care about them. It is what it is.

"Friend to American Workers" is a euphemism meaning "loot the rich."

How do Old rich white Democrats help the American worker by importing millions of illegal aliens from Mexico and millions of tech workers from India willing to work for peanuts? Nothing has harmed the American worker more than this flood of immigrants for third world countries.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Oh boy, stay tuned for the greedy angry white Republican dude response. Something along the lines... "Too bad for you. I got mine. Go fuck yourself." Angry greedy white Republican guy would like to see American Workers make the shittiest wages possible. Real compassionate appealing platform they've created for the GOP. A real winner.

Seriously, it's deplorable how white Republican dudes treat American Workers. One could even call it Un-American. How do they possibly think they can win the White House back with such a greedy hateful approach towards fellow Americans? They're delusional.

No...It's "oh you're demanding more money?....Ok, what have you done to earn it?....Nothing? You have two choices. One , seize on this moment as an opportunity to show me what you can do to deserve a raise. Two, seek other employment".
Now, if in your tiny mind that translates to "go fuck yourself" ,so be it.
Your populist( liberal) nonsense gets you no mileage here.
I bust my ass to earn what I have, My opposition is to whiners like you who demand money from ME to feed your schemes.
Tell ya what....Write a check

 

[thereisnospoon]

Angry greedy white Republican guy is no friend to American Workers. And that will likely sink the GOP. No American Worker can believe Republicans care about them. It is what it is.

Don't give us that "American worker" shit. That "labor is my God" crap is all out of gas