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I'll choose the Thailand door. About 70% of its people live in rural areas. About 30% live on less than $1 income per day.If the U.S. were to eliminate all wage and labor and environmental protection laws, we too could compete in the global marketplace and create tons of new $1 a day jobs.
Who has benefited from cheap global labor more so than the U.S. people?
So you say you are willing to take a job which pays $1 a day?
State and local governments' were hiring back then too.
yes, governments always hire when economies improve and they have excess cash to expand services.
Thats how it works and why the stimulus bill to fund these jobs was such a joke. Anyone with 1/2 a brain knew it was a matter of time before the jobs would be lost.
yes, governments always hire when economies improve and they have excess cash to expand services.
Thats how it works and why the stimulus bill to fund these jobs was such a joke. Anyone with 1/2 a brain knew it was a matter of time before the jobs would be lost.
You do realize that Bush we were in a bubble right? Congress went on a massive Keynesian spending spree, people and investors bought more homes than they could afford, and the bankers we using the banks as casinos.
Where does government get the wealth from to "juice it?" Does government decide which new technologies, and which private companies should be juiced with free taxpayer subsides and which should not? Or by "juicing it" do you mean government squeezes select businesses like juice from a beet, until they are bled dry?
Government income comes from taxes and investments.
You raise a good point about lobbying. I would be very surprised if most European nations are anywhere near as compromised by lobbies, pacs and and super pacs, the way they are in the U.S. I do know that it would be unimaginable for these nations to make it illegal for their government to negotiate prices of prescription medications ( nod to my own one trick pony ).
The average Joe in most European nations has less housing, less car, less stuff and less debt than his U.S. counterpart. This is the price of socialism. This does not mean, average European Joe enjoys life less. He tends not to worry about the cost of healthcare or education and trusts there is a reasonable safety net if he stumbles. He also tends to drink more beer.
You do realize that Bush we were in a bubble right? Congress went on a massive Keynesian spending spree, people and investors bought more homes than they could afford, and the bankers we using the banks as casinos.
I didnt support the Bush $250B a year deficits either, but if you claim thats a "massive spending" spree, then what do you think of Obamas which are 4x as large?
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Your argument doesnt even make sense. How does government "by definition" perpetuate poverty ?
How does one leave poverty, by receiving welfare?
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And a Job without a decent pay would mean you are still in poverty, so what line doesnt make sense either.
Please provide me with a list of towns with a high number of citizens employed, living in poverty.
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I didnt support the Bush $250B a year deficits either, but if you claim thats a "massive spending" spree, then what do you think of Obamas which are 4x as large?
How does one leave poverty, by receiving welfare?
Please provide me with a list of towns with a high number of citizens employed, living in poverty.
Provide you with a list of towns ? i dont know any research group that has done specific towns but you can have this, plenty of other articles and studies like it.
There are indeed people with jobs who are poor, but you already knew that so what was the point of this arbitrary task ???
And again, your welfare argument makes no sense. People do not stay on welfare their entire lives. Are you claiming someone on it will continue to stay in poverty, and if so why ?
You are making a causation/correlation argument with nothing to back up your claim that it is even happening much less that one causes the other.
Yes, thats what happens when government gets in bed with big business..
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There are indeed people with jobs who are poor, but you already knew that so what was the point of this arbitrary task ???.
Of course there are, and there are people living on welfare who are poor, but you already knew that as well.
in fact in order to continue to receive welfare, one must CONTINUE TO BE POOR, hence poverty is perpetuated..
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And again, your welfare argument makes no sense. People do not stay on welfare their entire lives. Are you claiming someone on it will continue to stay in poverty, and if so why ?
Do you think welfare offers enough money for people to not be poor? What are you smoking?
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You are making a causation/correlation argument with nothing to back up your claim that it is even happening much less that one causes the other.
Welfare goes to the poor. How do you not know that?
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