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Laura Perrins: Working class men turn their backs on work
The Conservative Woman ^ | 22nd August 2016 | Laura Perrins

Posted on 08/25/2016 5:04:25 PM PDT by annalex

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To: dsrtsage

Working class is a stupid term, like fixed income. My income has always been fixed all my life.


21 posted on 08/25/2016 5:37:27 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Hillary is Satan's spiritual advisor.)
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To: annalex

In my office a lot of men are retiring, and I’m one of them.

I’m 65, and I’m retiring this year. There are a couple who are a year or two younger, and a couple in their late fifties. We’re all getting out, because it’s not worth it to continue.


22 posted on 08/25/2016 5:40:22 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Bitches be trippin’


23 posted on 08/25/2016 5:41:39 PM PDT by 38special (For real, y'all.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Woman bitch judge, bitch lawyers destroyed me in family court. They didnt even pretend to be neutral. My reputation was destroyed over it..im just now bouncing back a little


24 posted on 08/25/2016 5:41:44 PM PDT by ground_fog
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To: ground_fog

If you have never watched Divorce Corp. watch it.

The other law firm most likely donated more to that judge than yours did.


25 posted on 08/25/2016 6:00:32 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: annalex

Just out of curiosity I’d love to see a racial and ethnic breakdown of those numbers....


26 posted on 08/25/2016 6:03:11 PM PDT by Kozak (ALLAH AKBAR = HEIL HITLER)
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To: annalex
"Many in this class of men are no longer working, and it is not for the lack of jobs."

Hilarious!!

27 posted on 08/25/2016 6:06:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: annalex
Frankly, I would love to give up.

No matter how much I do, it's never enough, and none of my effort goes towards anything I might want, and no one cares about that.

Unfortunately giving up is not in my nature. Like most suckers, I somehow still believe it could get better if I just try a little harder.
28 posted on 08/25/2016 6:14:49 PM PDT by JamesP81
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To: dsrtsage

I hear you. I have a job that can only be described as “highly skilled” for which you need a ridiculous amount of education. And I still work plenty of 10 or 12 hour days.


29 posted on 08/25/2016 6:19:37 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: annalex

I am not buying this, especially the length of time it is supposed to have been going on.


30 posted on 08/25/2016 6:27:28 PM PDT by odawg
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To: annalex

Good. The people that make things happen finally saying FU.


31 posted on 08/25/2016 6:30:18 PM PDT by cp124 (Dollar Store economy.)
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To: annalex

There is also the demonstrated case of illegal immigrants working for less than natives (by not having to be paid or pay SSDI and other taxes), displacing native born workers.
This has hit blacks hardest, but certainly affects low skill whites, too.


32 posted on 08/25/2016 6:39:06 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: annalex

As others have pointed out before, ‘working men’ work for a reason. That reason used to be Family. That is a Wife and children that are ‘his’. A working man will work himself to death for his family.

Along come the ‘feminists who would and did rob him of his dignity and his family by saying he was ‘stupid’, not needed except for as a sperm donor and then to add insult to the injury... All he was needed was to provide money to his ex-wife and the court system as they teamed up to destroy him financially and in the eyes of his children as a dead-beat.

The children of divorce saw what happened to their dads and the boys who grew up to be men decided that they didn’t want to participate in such a farce. Enter in the working men who won’t, are they lazy or are they smart to reduce their footprint to a level that will not attract the attention of the feminist woman who is looking for her ‘sugar-daddy’ for life and for her children?

My bet is on smart, men I will admit are inherently lazy. We will work our butts off to come up with a better, ‘easier’, way of doing something so that we can have more time to ‘relax’, fish, hunt, etc. Or yes... play computer games.

So congratulations go out to the feminists of the 60’s and 70’s. You did it, you changed the way America works and looks at work. I hope you are happy with what you’ve accomplished.


33 posted on 08/25/2016 6:40:13 PM PDT by The Working Man
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To: annalex

outside of a few locations or specialized skill areas,
there are almost NO jobs in Obama’s Transformed Amerika

(by design...he’s been destroying our jobs for his entire 7.5 years)

MANY people (men included) are not working because they can’t get work, period. For these millions and millions of Amerikans, unemployment is NOT VOLUNTARY and the article is therefore mostly BS


34 posted on 08/25/2016 6:42:23 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: annalex

ps: blaming the victims of Obama’s job-destruction-derby

does not help fix the problem

Vote for Mr. Trump!


35 posted on 08/25/2016 6:43:21 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: annalex

This phenomenon has caught the attention of the White House


Start to worry, a fix is on the way....................


36 posted on 08/25/2016 6:44:57 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

>>Work is for suckers

It really is. The American Dream is dead for most Americans. They are in a weird “consume to survive” mode and a lot of unencumbered men do not want the family, picket fence, and lots of bills. There’s no working up the ladder because companies airdrop women and minorities in to fill every position with a desk.

X-Box, good internet, and hanging with friends is a pretty good life. Piling children on your back is not a recipe for a good life these days.

And the funniest part is that their lifestyle gets the girls as long as the guy doesn’t get too fat because feminism and the media tell the women that being a semen receptacle is empowering.


37 posted on 08/25/2016 6:46:06 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: annalex

spirit crushing job


Right there are the key words. How do you change that?


38 posted on 08/25/2016 6:47:35 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: annalex

If you are out of work more than a year, you aren’t counted as “unemployed”. So the unemployment figures are phony.

You are assumed to be no longer looking for work, because a statistician has declared it so.

And now they are asking, what has changed that so many people are “no longer looking for work”. As if its a mystery.


39 posted on 08/25/2016 7:04:33 PM PDT by marron
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To: Uncle Miltie

That is what is happening.


40 posted on 08/25/2016 7:09:40 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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