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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
That is a bit unfair because I care for people every day. I don't care for people coming into my life and telling me that I have to take my accomplishments and give them to others. I don't believe in wealth redistribution plans even though we already have that in the form of our tax system. It needs to be changed. I don't believe that we should make people who worked hard to get to a certain point and turn around and not give them an equal break to the asshole down the street who over mortgaged his life and bought into a home he never could have afforded. Nor do I think we should give people a break who sat on their ass screwing up their life while the rest of went to school and busted our assess. You make of life what it is and your failure to make the right choices are not my problem.
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The world has changed significantly over the past few of decades, and it gets worse every year. It used to be perfectly acceptable to do something with your life other than spend years in school, and you could still make a decent living. People who worked in construction or factories, etc. made a decent wage, why is it their their fault that we have allowed corporations to go offshore in order to increase their profits by using cheap labor, or that corporations and rich people have chosen to hire illegals instead of giving jobs to Americans, so they can have cheap labor? Not everyone is cut out to be a doctor or a lawyer, and the fucking people going to business school getting MBAs are a bunch of greedy morons who have crashed the entire world economy. Why do THEY deserve so much money, when teachers and cops and soldiers get crap pay? Why is OK that CEO pay has risen to almost 500x the amount of average workers, while salaries have been stagnant for their workers, and even gone down? Why is OK for profit to outweigh everything else?
As far as taxes go, our taxes pay for WalMart's employees healthcare, one of the richest, most successful corporations of all time. Our taxes pay for new stadiums owned by rich pricks who own sports teams, but we get nothing back from them, no benefit (yes, it may benefit the people in the city where they build them, but why is the rest of the country paying for that?). Our taxes pay for the R&D of most drugs, but pharmaceutical companies jack the prices up in to the stratoshpere and many people (whose taxes helped develop those drugs) cannot afford to buy them. IF you're going to be all pissed off about wealth redistribution, please, be angry at the right people. The rich have been stealing from the poor and middle class for decades now. It's time we got some equilibrium back.
It's disturbing to me how indifferent you are sometimes to the plight of people who are less fortunate than you are. What if something catastrophic happened to you, or someone in your family, and you lost your income and benefits (unlikely I know because you work in healthcare) and you were unable to support them? What if you lost your job, and your income, and you couldn't find another job, and you couldn't sell your house (assuming it's not paid for, which I know it probably is)? What the hell would you do?
I know you probably don't care, but I have 3 family members who are afraid of losing their jobs right now (one works for Chatham Steel, one works for Toyota, and one is a fireman). Yes, they are all educated. They all went to college. They have all had these jobs for many years. If something happens, and they lose their jobs, they will be in danger of losing their homes as well. Whose fault is that?
After the last bubble crash (the .coms), my cousin, who worked in IT and made a ton of money, lost her job. It took her over a year to find another one. Is that her fault? And a LOT of white collar jobs that require degrees are now also going byebye. If someone buys a house they can actually afford because they have a good job, and then a few years later they lose that job and can't find another one, because the economy crashed, why is that their fault? While it is true that a lot of people were living beyond their means, there are also a lot being hurt now who were not. Whose fault is that?