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Old 06-01-2017, 07:04 AM
 
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Not so good for burger flippers and for low-wage workers generally.

Those jobs aren't meant to be careers. They are for kids in school to make some cash, or kids in college to help pay for their tuition.


If you stick with a burger flipping job for 20 years and you are still flipping burgers and not in management, that is no one else fault.
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Old 06-01-2017, 07:05 AM
 
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"Now what?

You have a college degree and NOW want someone else to "fix" what YOU chose as a major and can't do any better then minimum wage.

What I chose to major in served its purpose perfectly - it got me into law school, but I couldn't afford to actually GO to law school. How do I "fix" the "can't afford law school" problem?
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Old 06-01-2017, 07:06 AM
 
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Those jobs aren't meant to be careers. They are for kids in school to make some cash, or kids in college to help pay for their tuition.


If you stick with a burger flipping job for 20 years and you are still flipping burgers and not in management, that is no one else fault.

Someone should tell employers that. Census data say that as of 2012, 48.5 percent of all minimum wage workers were 25 or older.
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Old 06-01-2017, 07:08 AM
 
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What I chose to major in served its purpose perfectly - it got me into law school, but I couldn't afford to actually GO to law school. How do I "fix" the "can't afford law school" problem?

I want a 39' Cigarette Top Gun with twin 700's , and there is no way I can afford that. How do I "fix" the "can't afford a Cigarette" problem ?


If I lost my job permanently and had to change careers I'd have to go back an get a degree. I can't afford to be off of work, go to school and keep my house so who is going to help me with that ? Not anyone but myself.
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Old 06-01-2017, 07:09 AM
 
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Someone should tell employers that. Census data say that as of 2012, 48.5 percent of all minimum wage workers were 25 or older.
And I'm sure in many of those cases, it was their choice.
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Old 06-01-2017, 07:12 AM
 
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*takes out federally-backed student loans*
"I didn't need any help from the federal government to get where I am today"
Good catch!
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Old 06-01-2017, 07:25 AM
 
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Your scenario definitely plays out in places with progressive land use policies.

Homeowners have vested financial and lifestyle interests in minimizing the proximate supply of neighbors of economic means inferior to their own. In this regard, conservative and liberal homeowners are similar and on this issue they tend to agree.

The difference between conservatives and progressives on zoning and land use policies generally is in their attitudes toward development and developers. Liberals tend to consider developers evil and development a bad thing, conservatives are more favorably inclined.

Progressive governance = homeowners prevail over developers, landlords, and the poor.

Conservative governance = homeowners, developers, and landlords compete in more balanced competition for power, allowing the poor to benefit by having more housing options.

If power becomes unbalanced - if developers and/or landlords become more powerful than homeowners desire, homeowners vote progressive in order to rein in the developers and landlords. I've seen this personally. I lived in a Republican town that started electing Democrats when they thought there was "too much" local development.
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Old 06-01-2017, 07:28 AM
 
Location: Austin TX
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What I chose to major in served its purpose perfectly - it got me into law school, but I couldn't afford to actually GO to law school. How do I "fix" the "can't afford law school" problem?

Take a paralegal course and go into that field. With the amount of time you spend here whinging endlessly in post after post about your situation I'm sure you would excel in the data entry field as well.

The forum has run out of empathy for you because the years tick by and you are standing still, repeating the same excuses you gave last year and the year before that and the year before that. Get off your duff and make a freakin' plan already.
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Old 06-01-2017, 07:30 AM
 
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And I'm sure in many of those cases, it was their choice.

Then employers disagree with you. Employers have decided that those jobs should be a career.
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Old 06-01-2017, 07:34 AM
 
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Trumps "budget" is political theater. The GOP Congress already wiped their heinie's with it and tossed it in the bin. ANY conversation about it is pissing in the wind.

If Trump stops Tweeting long enough to generate a budget that can actually pass, even his supporters would be shocked!
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