[quote] Republicans live in this fantasy world where everyone can climb the ladder and become managers, engineers and doctors. Sorry, but that is statistically impossible.[/quote] You can get anywhere if you believe in yourself. Granted, they where a 1 of a million in the area they lived in, musical artists/or Professional sport players such as Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, Aaron Afflalo, J Cole and many more got out of the ghetto to a brighter future. What they all had in common is they never gave up, and had the determination to get out. They're are many opportunities at the moment to move along in life may it be our current welfare programs, Military, and Community college. But people have to resort to drugs or abuse programs that we have. Also working as a cashier at McDonald and/or at Walmart are not the place to start a career unless you wish to move up the chain, thus no need for raising the wages for such jobs. Now why our defense budget has increased we because we are in a generation of new upcoming technologies and international tensions. No other nation wishes to increase their own defense budget so we have to act as their own military, our we face the consequences of loosing vital assets to our economy and strategic assets.

Nothing but excuses. You ignored how it is statistically impossible for everyone to rise up the ladder and instead just repeated Republican Regressive party-rhetoric. See my other replies.

Considering my dads father was a poor pos, uneducated, drunk, and now my dad is a professor, surgeon, and runs his own company.

Who cares?

Ur entire post was complete and total bs. Do you know why outsourcing exists, the democrats precious unions.

Actually my post was completely accurate. You can't even spell and provided no sources. How old are you?

Lol I bet you blame all your life problems on rich people

The biggest lie Americans are subjected to is that Republicans aren't looking toward the betterment of a country. Minimum wage was never designed, nor should it ever be designed, to be enough to live on comfortably. The idea that working at a McDonalds alone will be enough to support you is a completely irrational idea. Minimum wage jobs are intended to be occupied by young Americans. People who want to see what it is like to work under someone, to take orders from a leader and follow through with an assignment for the benefit of a company as well as yourself. Some people choose to work their way up in that world and become managers, bettering themselves and thus earning more income. Others take the lessons learned on that small scale and apply them to future endeavors, growing to become things like engineers and doctors, or in more cases, contractors, foremen, small business owners, and an extremely long list of positions that offer more than enough to live on. Then there are the rest. Those who believe that the job they have as a cook in a fast food company should be enough to support them and allow them to have things like a car, an apartment, and provide health insurance. I'm not going to tell you that the lower income class is lazy as a whole, because that generalization is completely untrue. But the ones who do not strive to be better than where they are truly are lazy and there is no other way to phrase it. The working class is not to blame for the lack of wage increase, but rather the unions and these new laws that demand health care provided by non-private organizations. Unions tend to undermine the authority of the company that the union workers are involved with. They constantly demand higher wages, vacation time, different benefits, and other bonuses that the company is not ready to handle. When these demands aren't met, the unions act further in a way that will eventually damage the company and push the owner to lay off employees at the end of contract or in plenty of cases, close down shop entirely. On the other point, with the new health care demands, a company must provide health care for its employees, and I do believe that they should in most situations where the employee works full time minimum hours. However, there are companies who aren't ready to take on these contracts with health care providers and signing on with them would be detrimental to them as a whole, thus leading back to layoffs or again, closing down shop. If the health care industry was privatized entirely, no government involvement, they would be competing with each other, lowering the costs of health care and making it available to many more businesses as well as private investors (such as the average Joe who earns enough money for health care but can not receive it from his company). Instead, the government is providing health care with taxpayer money for those who can not afford it. Now it may sound like a good idea to have this low cost, government provided health care. It's helping people with basic human needs and making sure less people are subjected to illness that they can't afford to fix. I would suggest this is better solved by various charities. Straight forward donations to reputable organizations designed to aid those who can't afford care. The waiting lists are long for these treatments, yes, but that is an aspect of the idea that should be addressed and reformed. Having the government provide care only hinders the other working class citizens, the ones who do want to become better, from making it to the next level in their lives because of the rising taxation to provide said care. I've been asked the question before "But don't you want kids to get the care they need? They can't just go out and get jobs themselves." I do want them to receive care, but it should be provided by a charity and only as a last resort. It should be the goal of the parent to be able to provide for the child without needing to receive aid from a government agency. Beyond that point, if you can not afford to have a child, then don't have a child. Wait until you are financially stable enough to care for another human being. Anyone who knows what sex is should also know that children happen when sex happens. There lies another mistake of the American people (not as a whole, the group is small by comparison). There are many who choose to have sex and as a result, a child is born to a family who is not ready to take care of it. This new child demands time, which takes away time the parent could have spent working to better them self, which hinders the progress of the individual, thus keeping them in the same financial demographic as they have been in, demanding they resort to government aid. Finally I will touch on the outsourcing of jobs. This I will not defend as I do believe that America should be producing more jobs here in our own nation rather than shipping those jobs to other areas of the world. What I will not agree on is that Republicans are entirely to blame. Because of the new laws I have mentioned earlier as well as the tendency of liberals to halt industrial progress, the blame must rest on both party's shoulders. If we simply decided to drill for oil here in the U.S. it would create a plethora of new jobs. Better than jobs, it would create careers. Engineering, contracting, drilling, refinement, management, shipping, new insurance policies and firms, more gas stations, perhaps new auto-development facilities, and many more ideas. The possibilities of that one movement alone could benefit our country exponentially. Imagine all the other possibilities that must be out there which can create thousands of other jobs that are demanding enough to pay employees well above minimum wage. And I'll end with I do not support illegal immigrants. If you live here, register and pay taxes. That bit is purely opinion and i will not elaborate on it.

[quote]If the health care industry was privatized entirely, no government involvement, they would be competing with each other, lowering the costs of health care and making it available to many more businesses as well as private investors (such as the average Joe who earns enough money for health care but can not receive it from his company).[/quote]We had that system for decades. Guess what? The costs of healthcare were still unaffordable. You've fallen for the Republican myth that if we simply reduce regulations, everything will magically work out fine. We tried that system and it didn't work. Either we privatize the healthcare industry with EXTREMELY strict regulations or we move to public healthcare like the rest if the world has. I'm not an unreasonable person. Privatized markets create wealth, but while our military provides safety and security for American citizens, healthcare provides life and longevity for American citizens. I don't think people should be discriminated against based on their incomes.[quote]I do want them to receive care, but it should be provided by a charity and only as a last resort. It should be the goal of the parent to be able to provide for the child without needing to receive aid from a government agency.[/quote]The reason so many people qualify for government aid is because 99% of all new income goes to the top 1%. If we didn't live in a trickle-down economic nightmare, CEOs and shareholders paid their workers decent wages & hired full-time instead of part-time, then less people would qualify for government aid. The rest of your comment was pure opinion. I'm not interested in opinion.

The system worked fine in my book for decades. My family didn't worry about health care costs because their private insurance had a reasonable deductible and played competitively for our business. The problem is not privatized health care providers, its profit margin based health institutions. Hospitals are profit agencies and have been for quite some time which is the cause of the high prices. Thankfully, Obama did make at least one move in the right direction and is moving to remove profit base from hospitals and similar institutions. The second half of your reply leads me to believe you didn't read mine with the intent of understanding. CEO's can't hire full time employees for the simple jobs that wouldn't provide, and shouldn't provide, health care anyways. They qualify because they've dug themselves in deep with mistakes and don't know any other way out. That is not to say that government aid is unnecessary. There are plenty of situations where government aid for a short period is all a person or family needs to get back on track. The issue is when citizens qualify, receive, and keep receiving instead of pursuing new forms of income or employment in a way that will provide for them better. My reply had my opinion in it, yes. But most of the items i talked about are based on historical fact. Liberals have led folks like you to believe that these methods they're trying, even though they've failed in other governments in history, are going to work This time. That is the true myth. I can provide some sources for you later when I'm not playing Destiny. Or, like you told someone else who replied to your post, you can simply google any of this information.

I don't even need to reply with a long comment. There will [b]ALWAYS[/b] be more labor positions than manager positions. You live in this fairytale land where you think everybody can rise up the ladder. It is statistically impossible. Statistically impossible. I'll repeat that: [u][b]STATISTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE[/b][/u]. Keep drinking the Republican cool-aid and ignoring actual facts.

So you didn't look up anything. See I read all the links you posted that worked and gave your idea a chance. You're just a closed minded fool who believes what he hears and refuses to acknowledge any other ideas. It seems I've wasted my time here. Enjoy your bliss.

I briefly looked up various time periods of healthcare in this country, but I can't really spend a lot of time researching it today. My schedule is booked this week, but I will do more research when I have time, unless you have a good link that proves a privatized healthcare system [i]with no regulations[/i] was ever affordable in U.S. history. Don't mistake me for a party-drone, I promise I will do more research when I have the chance.

The -blam!-ing irony.

Can you please be specific for once? You know? Using facts, statistics and citations? Not just posting the same old vague comments that never actually go into any detail on whatever it is you're talking about?

>complains about jobs being outsourced Liberals kill jobs for the environment, also complaining about debt Kek.

[quote]>complains about jobs being outsourced Liberals kill jobs for the environment[/quote]Sorry, I guess I care more about the health of all living beings and the health of our atmosphere than I do about the economy. There is such thing as [i]priorities[/i].[quote]also complaining about debt Kek.[/quote]Of course. The Reaganomic Tax Plan of 1981 set into motion a disaster course that allowed our income disparity to increase for decades later. I don't blame Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr., or Obama because no matter who was president, our national debt would have increased anyway.