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I've read this a couple times ... and you are correct about the roads. The part about the cops, fire, and school goes over my head. I am too old to actually find out about her SS.
I guess what I'm getting at is ... what's your point? Mine was (to quote KJV) "When I was a child, I thought like a child. When I became a man, I thought like a man".
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my child thinks more like an adult, she will be taking over the business when she turns 18 and pretty much runs it now, she just cannot own it yet.
Why can't right-wingers understand that their days are over, millenials will take over decades and want to become like those Nordic/Western European, Australian/New Zealand labor and government type system where the government provides life/social saferty net and security, free/very low cost education at all levels, mandatory paid days off from work, universal healthcare, and free from debt! Invest the money on our people, not foreigners and nonsense spending on military, wars, etc.! Millenials are sick and tired of having huge student loan debts while some may not find jobs because it's crappy low wages with some even no benefits, high cost of living, competition and expensive homes/rents, expensive daycares, etc. making life for non-rich people difficult. We pay already high taxes but barely get anything back from them unlike in Europe!!!! Capitalism will eventually die out hopefully...
Cut foreign & military aid, invest on us!!
Capitalism seems to fostering quite well China and Russia...
When are millennials going to grow up? America owes much to capitalism, too bad it has abandoned it.
You've got it in reverse. The OP had a point and you had a typical Cold War Republican reaction. It is you who haven't moved on. The major corporations have changed in nature. They are no longer American but multinational. We, the middle class are a cost to be contained not a market that should be nurtured with good paying jobs. If you've been paying attention over the last 25 years, engineering jobs have moved to India, programming jobs have moved to India, manufacturing jobs have moved to India, Malaysia, and China. Now the powers that be are using Indians to learn accounting jobs over here to train Indians over there. When the multinationals can't move a job to Asia they help elect a Congress and President who will boost the amount of foreign labor here. That's called the H-1b visa.
I'm not talking out of my ass here. With an advanced degree, I was out of work after Y2K. I had two years to learn about reality. With many of the boomers retiring, there should be jobs for even those foolish enough to get liberal arts degrees. But that's not true.
You are woefully uninformed, it's been the GOP that opposed to the religious conservatives for getting into the social issues.
As to your typical, idiotic, democrat party talking point about "hating gays," it was only a couple years ago that both Barack and Hilary were opposed to gay marriage, how convenient that you forget that.
Even the media has forgotten this.......yeah right...
How convenient for Hillary in 2016!
Funny, not once in my entire post did I mention 'free', I guess reading/comprehension aren't a given on this site.
I'm pretty sure you did..
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such as 6 months paid maternity leave,
6 weeks paid time off,
free university for my kids.
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However, I don't think expecting something from my taxes is asking too much, it's a shame Repubs are so happy with a life of misery. Cut the military welfare, already.
You already get things from your taxes, the very same things you support, roads, bridges, welfare, handouts, wetc
You already get things from your taxes, the very same things you support, roads, bridges, welfare, handouts, wetc
Nope, I sure didn't. If a person WORKS 40 hours a week, part of the compensation "should" be appropriate, such as vacation time, sick time, as well as maternity leave. What passes as vacation time/sick time/maternity leave in the states is a complete joke. So I approve of the way it's done in Europe, Sweden, etc., and you obviously do not, that's our disagreement. I'm certainly not trying to reinvent the wheel here, but I don't for the life of me understand why people wouldn't demand a better life for themselves and those around them.
Nope, I sure didn't. If a person WORKS 40 hours a week, part of the compensation "should" be appropriate, such as vacation time, sick time, as well as maternity leave. What passes as vacation time/sick time/maternity leave in the states is a complete joke. So I approve of the way it's done in Europe, Sweden, etc., and you obviously do not, that's our disagreement. I'm certainly not trying to reinvent the wheel here, but I don't for the life of me understand why people wouldn't demand a better life for themselves and those around them.
So part of their compensation should be FREE STUFF.
While you argue you didnt make such a claim, you CLEARLY did..
I as a small business owner, would be bankrupt under your proposals, so while you for the life dont understand why you can have your FREE ****, I for one wonder why you think I should pay you for work you ARENT DOING..
I'm just glad that all four of my millennial children are employed, two own their own houses, three have college degrees while the youngest is an Electrician Apprentice and none of them are whiners.
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