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But since you're dealing with Chase, a bank that was too big to fail during the financial crisis, there's likely nothing to worry about. Chase isn't going to be allowed to go under.
Your right. Not every person is going to Regis or Bronx Science or Horace Mann. Sorry, That's America. But what one person can do is attend class and get legal employment. Let's say your not a great student, with a hs diploma that should be able to open the door to civil service. Become a Fireman, Cop, Corrections, or a sanitation worker. These jobs I listed after 5 years of employment make over 100k annually. Now is this person moving into UES or a brownstone in Brooklyn heights? NO. But it's a pathway into middle class and maybe your kids will make the next leap. I was watching Anthony Bourdain the other night on my return flight from PR. he was Seattle. Anyhow he was driving a 100k car that was powered by electricity. Anyhow some hipster pulls up to him and says nice F' en car for family of 1%ers. WTF it's like people who actually become successful have to be ashamed because they make money???
So true. I've never understood the hood mentality (or the red neck mentality, if it's called that). In America, the path to a better life isn't hard: graduate high school, get a post high school education, then get a job. No one is saying you have to go to Horace Mann then Harvard and become a doctor or lawyer but get a freaking HS diploma, go to vocational school, and you should be able to find a decent paying job that will give you a comfortable life in Queens, the BX or non-trendy BK. I think a lot of immigrants, especially ones from Africa and Asia, get this concept. Their parents come here and work as cab drivers but their kids end up with jobs that put them solidly in the middle or even upper middle class spectrum.
So true. I've never understood the hood mentality (or the red neck mentality, if it's called that). In America, the path to a better life isn't hard: graduate high school, get a post high school education, then get a job. No one is saying you have to go to Horace Mann then Harvard and become a doctor or lawyer but get a freaking HS diploma, go to vocational school, and you should be able to find a decent paying job that will give you a comfortable life in Queens, the BX or non-trendy BK. I think a lot of immigrants, especially ones from Africa and Asia, get this concept. Their parents come here and work as cab drivers but their kids end up with jobs that put them solidly in the middle or even upper middle class spectrum.
Well, among the underclass you had people on generational welfare, concentrated in projects where its possible for everyone you know or hang out with to be on welfare. So everyone reinforces everyone's decline to the bottom.
people will never possibly understand everything.
that's why you just gotta let people be who they
want to be and don't worry about it. you can't
change everybody.
Well, among the underclass you had people on generational welfare, concentrated in projects where its possible for everyone you know or hang out with to be on welfare. So everyone reinforces everyone's decline to the bottom.
This is not the problem of the taxpayer. begin to cut off benefits and their attitudes will suddenly change drastically.
people will never possibly understand everything.
that's why you just gotta let people be who they
want to be and don't worry about it. you can't
change everybody.
We don't have to let them be what they want to be on our dime though. I've read enough of your posts now to see that you have a defeatist attitude when it comes to taxes. It does not have to be the way it is in NYC and NYS. If you look at other municipalities and states, there are places that manage their tax dollars far better, and still offer some semblance of help to the poor.
We on the other hand have a system in place that encourages people to remain poor and pass the lifestyle onto their offspring. This needs to change. We don't need to let them "be who they want to be" when we're paying for it.
ANyone with a million bucks in a Chase savings account is either up to no good, or knows something we don't know, or needs to take their fiscal advisor out behind the barn and shoot them like a dog.
if it was someone like Bloomberg, a million is pocket change.
I personally know people who sneeze out 100 grand like some of us spend an equivalent of $100
^ obama as done more to keep the rich richer
so what are you really trying to say?
Rich people install presidents. The job of the President is to make sure the rich stay rich...That's the contract. If you don't agree to that contract you don't become President...need I explain the way of the world too you?
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