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Soloprotocol
LUXUS
alldaylong
reply to post by LUXUS
I see you didn't mention the rich who get their accountants to find ways for these people to avoid paying their fair share of taxation.
The rich abuse the system just as much as the poor do.
Please don't lecture us on "it's all the fault of the poor"
edit on 25-2-2014 by alldaylong because: (no reason given)
What I find funny is people on welfare who dont work complaining about tax...they dont pay any do they?edit on 25-2-2014 by LUXUS because: (no reason given)
Eh, yeah they do...on everything they buy.
alldaylong
reply to post by LUXUS
I see you didn't mention the rich who get their accountants to find ways for these people to avoid paying their fair share of taxation.
The rich abuse the system just as much as the poor do.
Please don't lecture us on "it's all the fault of the poor"
edit on 25-2-2014 by alldaylong because: (no reason given)
If you work harder and longer you should get a reward.
LUXUS
reply to post by rickymouse
Unfortunately your idea would not work in many cases, they would turn up the first day to their new job late, deliberately walk around with a discussing attitude which would cause the boss to sack them then they return to playing the victim card. I know these people very well, my sister is a doctor and they come into her all the time asking for a letter to excuse them from work on medical grounds.
buster2010
reply to post by rickymouse
If you work harder and longer you should get a reward.
What about people who didn't work for their wealth? A majority of the people that cry about the poor inherited their money. People that actually earned their wealth like Gates and Buffett actually complain because governments aren't doing enough to help the poor.
buster2010
reply to post by rickymouse
If you work harder and longer you should get a reward.
What about people who didn't work for their wealth? A majority of the people that cry about the poor inherited their money. People that actually earned their wealth like Gates and Buffett actually complain because governments aren't doing enough to help the poor.
Soloprotocol
LUXUS
reply to post by rickymouse
Unf my sister is a doctor and they come into her all the time asking for a letter to excuse them from work on medical grounds.
And who else are they supposed to go too for a sick line...The Ice cream Van..?
Put another way my students are fretting about the welfare dependency of the poor, but the failed to recognize that they are dependent on welfare. I, too, am dependent on welfare. Let me introduce myself. I’m Ananya Roy, a professor at the University of California Berkeley, but I live in public housing. My career affords me a home in the rolling California hills with the view of the Golden Gate bridge and still I live in public housing. The public housing I live in is not the American stereotype of dilapidated towers, concentrations of poverty, neighborhoods devastated by violence. But my home is public housing because the tax deduction I enjoy on my mortgage is a more a substantial handout than any money spent by the U.S. government on what has come to be stereotyped and vilified as public housing. And there are millions of other families who enjoy the same benefits. Here is just one statistic to make this point. In 1999 as the American century came to a close the U.S. government spent $24 billion on public housing and rental subsidies for the poor. But in that same year it spend $72 billion in home ownership subsidies for the middle classes and the wealthy. Subsidies that are never considered to be welfare and there is no stigma attached to this dependency. In fact, it is seen as an entitlement. Why is this so? History matters.
UnBreakable
My solution (the best I could come up with, I know it has holes), is to have 'welfare only (read food stamps) only grocery stores. To save tax payer monies that are supporting this issue, for the money to go farther, these stores would only sell inexpensive, non-name brand items only and no junk food. One of the hidden but obvious costs are medical. It is a known fact that most food purchased via foodstamps are processed, sugary, and fattening. Cutting down on obesity and diabetes would also cut the costs associated with the welfare system. These foodstamp only stores would offer healthier alternatives only.
alldaylong
reply to post by LUXUS
I see you didn't mention the rich who get their accountants to find ways for these people to avoid paying their fair share of taxation.
The rich abuse the system just as much as the poor do.
Please don't lecture us on "it's all the fault of the poor"
edit on 25-2-2014 by alldaylong because: (no reason given)
Wrabbit2000
reply to post by LUXUS
I think we've come to live in a society today where wealth is seen as evidence of guilt of some kind... Work ethic is a silly notion from a bygone era (and best left there, to many people's thinking) and actually working hard is for chumps and suckers.
buster2010
alldaylong
reply to post by LUXUS
I see you didn't mention the rich who get their accountants to find ways for these people to avoid paying their fair share of taxation.
The rich abuse the system just as much as the poor do.
Please don't lecture us on "it's all the fault of the poor"
edit on 25-2-2014 by alldaylong because: (no reason given)
True. Not to mention the companies they own getting tax breaks and the government having to give their employees aid because these wealthy whiners refuse to pay them a livable wage. And then they want to cry about people getting welfare.
BritofTexas
The workers at Walmart were not having a food drive for their colleagues because hard work is for "chumps and suckers".
"The Walton family, which owns Wal-Mart, controls a fortune equal to the wealth of the bottom 42 percent of Americans combined."
According to Forbes, as of May 2013 the international retailer had $469 billion in sales and 2.2 million employees, including 1.3 million in the United States. The corporation has been criticized for low wages; and in December 2012, PolitiFact National rated as Mostly True a claim that more Walmart employees are on Medicaid and food stamps than other companies.