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Min wage not a big player in the delimma
Low skills not low education btw is the issue plus
Off shoring and 20 million illegals looking for work is the issue
Of course you can. Apprenticeship training, self training etc. I taught myself computers. Never ever had a formal class, I hold an A+, and MCP, MCSE, CNA, and CNE. I challenged each and every set of tests, after paying for them myself. The A+ was the hard one actually, I had been laid off, and was working several part time jobs to keep afloat, so the cost of the tests were a little more difficult to scrounge up the rest, taken while employed, I would save up and pay for the tests. Some require more than a couple of tests, so it took a while to get them all completed. Not much call for a Novel 3.1 CNA or CNE these days though.
The bottom line however, is I taught myself.
Congratulations. I'm really really smart at some things, but I have zero aptitude for computers, science or math. Tell me how I'm supposed to become a whizbang genius computer geek, founder of some Internet empire, or anything else that you conservatives constantly rant about? Or anyone else in this world who has no aptitude for the few current fields that pay well?
Really, the one-size-fits-all "solutions" you conservatives peddle don't address half the problem. But I expect you know that and really only repeat these platitudes to hide your real reason. Selfishness.
How can someone be independent of government and pay taxes????
Independent in the sense of being not dependent on government programs. Taxation is not the same thing, taxation is a way to pay into a society to keep it functioning.
Independent in the sense of being not dependent on government programs. Taxation is not the same thing, taxation is a way to pay into a society to keep it functioning.
Our definition of what it means to "keep functioning" though has changed over time.
We now need more money to support that change.
Wrong. You don't understand the mentality of those folks. They see making more money as getting LESS!
"If I make more money, my food stamps will be less."
"If I make more money, my section 8 housing voucher won't be good any more, because I won't be eligible.".
"If I make more money, my child support will be reduced, my kids won't get free lunch, and I can't have any more free bus passes, I might even get kicked off of Medicaid!" Gasp!!!!
They just can't process that you will never make $20 an hour if you won't give up making $8 an hour for $10.
Reagan had the brilliant idea that welfare recipients should lose a dollar of welfare for every dollar they earned.
Then conservatives were outraged that welfare recipients weren't flocking to dead-end low-wage jobs.
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