Hookabelly
Well-Known Member
Yes I do agree. I think our system is flawed certainly but I'm not sure ballooning our deficit for the way these programs are run is the answer. Your point about sending productions overseas is one of the flaws. Americans won't buy American b/c it's too expensive. We'd rather be lazy and instantly gratified buying cheap, disposable products rather than support our own economy paying a bit more for goods and services. Oversimplified, I'm sure, but these kinds of things I part ways with conservatives on.What about the working welfare? Why is it ok for companies to subsidies a non livable wage with tax payers dollars?I know not all people have positive skill sets. I'm guessing those old vets that were walmart greeters didn't deserve a livable wage? What about the military families on welfare? There's alot. I get what you are saying and don't totally disagree. I think that as our economy has shifted productions to overseas to rely on cheaper labor (prison labor) there are less opportunites for people in this country. Manufacturing doesn't necassarily require great job skills and used to offer a decent wage. Where I'm from the medical industry is huge where as the manufacturing jobs have almost all but disappeared. It's a sad reality.
Agreed on that point Buck. I just used the image, not support necessarily the site it's on. I was trying to make the point that we (our economy) just can't continue to support programs in the same way it has in the past. We just keep printing more $?? I am for social programs, yes. But I just think they can be run more efficiently. That's all I was saying w/ the picture. I don't blame either party, or mindset. I believe each is extremely greedy in their own way.tracing that image back to google shows it to be a sweetheart of the intellectually devoid well of moronic conservatives and racist crybabies at 'the free republic' and other such similar sites. i especially like all the subtle race-baity references to food stamps and "obamaphones" and "yes you can!", that type of shit really worked well for newt when he was courting the southern evangelical conservative types to try and overtake mitt's lead with moderate repubs.
what that cute but moronic little caricature does not illustrate is that most of those people on the cart eating food actually do work and pay taxes, but their wages are so low that they can not make ends meet.
the fact that most of those people work is especially ironic considering the views of those over at the free republic, who view a livable wage as an affront to the freedoms of those majestic job creators. they love to crow about the "dignity of work", but it's tough to take them seriously when their worldview includes a 40 hour a week worker standing in a food stamp line, a line whose existence they then complain about.
but then again, i guess it's easier to think that hundreds of millions of americans are just lazy rather than realizing that there may be something inherently imbalanced in the system.