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If everyone got a wage they could live on why would school dropouts and those who don't half try even care to get an education? Where would the incentive come from? It's life and people must make choices as to what kind of life they want and do what's necessary to have it. And to bring up another touchy subject, illegals are stealing our low-paying jobs which should be offered to Americans first. The less job applicants there are, the less jobs there are to go around.
Old people are lazy moochers? Um, didn't they work all their lives and pay into SS and medicare? Maybe they should work till they're 100? What a hateful statement to make! Love to see what this person will say when they reach retirement age, can't work anymore and have health issues.
Oh be sure these will turn it down in protest. These have high principals.
You gotta love how we treat old people, shove them in a nursing home so the just above minimum wage worker can take care of them, feed them, change their clothes, wheel them around all day and then we get mad when one of these low wage workers abuse an older family member.
Other countries support and cherish seniors, we give them early bird dinners 2:00 - 5:00 at restaurants with 1/2 off so we don't have to look at their faces while we eat, lol.
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Oh be sure these will turn it down in protest. These have high principals.
LOL We just ran into an ole boss of hubbies not to long ago. The man was 92 years old, still out on the right-of-way. Yep... he was such a lazy old person.... Just where do these young folks get these ideas???
LOL We just ran into an ole boss of hubbies not to long ago. The man was 92 years old, still out on the right-of-way. Yep... he was such a lazy old person.... Just where do these young folks get these ideas???
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Try posting something coherent please.
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Magnolia2014 says..." I worry that I will be supporting the early retirement of so-called hardworking old people instead of my future."
I merely made the statement that a man that my husband used to work for is still out on the construction right-of-way working. The man is 92-years-old. He is hardly lazy or "so-called hardworking".
He didn't retire early. (I find that amazing!)
And I merely ask where these people get the idea that every person over the age of 50 are useless.
If everyone got a wage they could live on why would school dropouts and those who don't half try even care to get an education? Where would the incentive come from? It's life and people must make choices as to what kind of life they want and do what's necessary to have it. And to bring up another touchy subject, illegals are stealing our low-paying jobs which should be offered to Americans first. The less job applicants there are, the less jobs there are to go around.
You know what's a better fraud? Why don't you take their loan and buy the house at $800K. You can turn around and sell it for a million. Give back 800K and you pocket 200K for doing nothing.
You don't even need to front a penny. Now, that's a beautiful "fraud," also known as business.
I like the one where you rent a house for $N and then you rent out three bedrooms for $1/2N each.
You live in the house for free and pocket $1/2N every month.
You forgot to mention the ever-popular "newspaper route", nevertheless, mission fully accomplished.
These days you need a car for a newspaper route. When U was a kid I had a walking newspaper route and a bicycle newspaper route but those days are long gone. By 1980 I had a car newspaper route.
The government does already subsidize low income earners, especially earners who have children. Don't they get free day care, public school, and after school care (in the form of an after school program until 6 pm) when most parents get off work?
Don't minimum low income workers get an EIC credit, in other words getting an extra tax refund for being low income earners?
How about housing, don't low income earners qualify for cheaper rent where the government subsidizes their rent for them?
So when the minimum wage goes up to a whopping $15 an hour as the state of CA wants to increase it, that means it would increase to about $2400 a month. After taxes, you are looking at about $2,000. Now in CA that's still not a livable wage, when the average 1 bedroom apartments rents for 800-$1,200 a month.
Childless miniimum wage full time worker gets NO EITC and it is difficult for them to get rent subsidies.
Average 1BR in California rents for $800-$1,200 a month? Highly doubtful.
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Just where do these young folks get these ideas???
