I sort of made that mistake but I only took 10k in loans. Still ended up effing up my credit when the teaching field bottomed out in Texas and I was stuck working as a security guard for 2 years, looking for a teaching gig.
Pretty much. Learn a trade, you can do okay. Not well off, but you can avoid the trap that some dummy with a four year degree in modern art gets.
Didn't say they shouldn't have a car. But they shouldn't have one if they can't afford it. I've been hired off phone interviews. Besides, do you really think McDonalds gives two shits about your address?
So you think things that would help create a booming economy would make it worse for you. Well your life must just be hell.
I suppose you would like for guys like me and CRock to carve out a portion of what we have accumulated and turn it over so some who haven't managed to get by can live a little easier. Yeah I am going to try to have my way about that type disposition.
China had a booming economy. Also what you're essentially proposing is lowering the quality of life of the poor in service of corporations profits, how does that help actual people? If Walmart makes another Trillion dollars, congrats to the Waltons I guess, God knows they deserve a break.
Why the animosity for Wal-Mart? Just because they are a successful company and have a low cost work force they aren't enemies of the land. The idea of business is to optimize profits for Owners and expand to bigger and better things. No one forces anyone to work for them.
Those places are no cheaper than most of Texas and how are people supposed to save up to move to these cheaper places?
Try Missouri, Iowa or any of the other middle America states. My guess is you haven't ventured out into many smaller cities if you think that's true. All of those smaller cities by the way, have Walmart's.
Because at a certain point you are expected to take care of your employees. Was-Mart is just a stand in it could be any mega corp that depends on tax dollars to bridge the gap between what they pay their employees and their employee's absolute minimum viable income.
And then what?
You keep saying they depend on tax dollars but I am not seeing that. How can you make that statement? Help me to understand because whether some of the employees utilize welfare relief is not an accurate depiction of the point you are trying to make.
My reasoning is that if there were no food stamps then those workers could not and would not work for whatever company. They would end up moving in with relatives or just end up homeless.
Buy that standard you might as well throw in McDonald's and thousands of other retailers. The fact would remain however, that none of these businesses are actually subsidized by this methodology. Your example is a personal conclusion but it isn't factually correct. Whether a low income worker for any business is also drawing some kind of government subsidy doesn't define that the employer is getting a direct benefit. They are only getting the benefit of the employees service not their windfall.
I am not sure what that has to do with what I said.
You said I wanted to tax you and give the money to poor people. That's not me, that's the people (like Bernie Sanders) who are going to get voted in because the Republican Party has fallen on its face so hard since Reagan.
I didn't mean you specifically wanted to tax me rather there is a mindset in this country that would like to and I was responding that my position differed. Here's where I am. The constitution says that all are ENTITLED to life liberty and the PURSUIT of happiness. The consternation comes when folks try to determine who should be responsible to fulfill the pursuit. There is no entitlement guarantee to happiness only the right to pursue It. That's pretty much where I am on the subject at hand whether it be college educations ,jobs, etc. I have no predetermined political party stance but I am swayed to the philosophy that says each is first responsible for themselves. Subsequent acts of responsibility to others comes from my faith not from governmental mandates.
You are right it is. It is still my position.
but the employee service is contingent on the government assistance. Which is to say they are getting that service THANKS to government assistance.
