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The 'Quiet Catastrophe' Of Men Choosing To Not Seek Work
Investors Business Daily ^ | 10/06/2016 | GEORGE F. WILL

Posted on 10/06/2016 4:00:53 AM PDT by expat_panama

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To: HLPhat

Shaming men into getting married won’t work. That was one of the first thing the women tried, and it failed.


61 posted on 10/06/2016 6:04:29 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Bryanw92
You think you fixed it. But what is the advantage to working your life away to pay for a house full of luxuries for a woman and children? They claim that a single man doesn’t live as long as a married man. But how many young men today have a shot at having a 50 year wedding anniversary? Better to live for 70 years than to be a slave for 72.

This is a contributing factor to guys in the "inner city" finding it more attractive to be in a drug gang than work a regular job. There are guys who would rather only live til 40, but have that 40 years be full of excitement, sex, and living high, than live to 70 at a crap job, and die without a pretty girl ever having interest in you.

62 posted on 10/06/2016 6:04:47 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: 9YearLurker

You are describing the “John Galt” syndrome. I find it extremely interesting that so many of our problems were first identified, described, and their logical end state happened in fictional works, including SiFi, in the late 1950s and early 1960’s.


63 posted on 10/06/2016 6:05:10 AM PDT by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: Bryanw92

>>If you spend your life raising kids, they will go to college and be taught to hate everything you ever taught them.

Is that what your mommy taught you?

Excuses like those are like a certain part of anatomy; everybody has one and they all stink the same.

Meanwhile, like many other men, I didn’t grow up to hate my male role models - or the wives they provided for.

YMMV.

Boo hoo (NOT) for you and your fellow whining/neutered poodles when Natural Selection removes you from the gene pool.

64 posted on 10/06/2016 6:07:35 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Boogieman

>>Shaming men into getting married won’t work.

The proliferation of Roman Catholicism demonstrates otherwise.


65 posted on 10/06/2016 6:08:33 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: expat_panama

This is rubbish. The current unemployment rate is 4.9%
I mean, they wouldn’t lie to us, right? 8-|


66 posted on 10/06/2016 6:09:41 AM PDT by citizen (Sanctuary cities: Illegals move in for free stuff, residents move out b/c they can't pay the taxes.)
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To: expat_panama

I would like to see George Will do a honest days work. Maybe putting 40 lb bags of bird seed on pallets. It would probably kill him.


67 posted on 10/06/2016 6:09:45 AM PDT by Leep (Just say no to half dead hillary and wrong lane kaine!)
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To: Bryanw92
I agree. It’s too easy to be comfortably poor in the USA. Get some skills and do work under the table and you can live like a king and still be “poor”.

Those numerous stories of people buying steak and lobster with their EBT cards? I would bet that a number of them are women working "off the books" as housekeepers for wealthy families. Do the shopping for your employer, pay for it with EBT, and your employer gives you cash. Meanwhile, you get most of the food for yourself at "food pantries".

68 posted on 10/06/2016 6:12:24 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: HLPhat

Touting conservative principles is fine and dandy as long as it doesn’t negatively impact YOUR life.

If you think any political philosophy is going to convince men to be wage slaves for women that hate them, separate them from their children, and vilify them, you’re sadly mistaken.


69 posted on 10/06/2016 6:12:32 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: kearnyirish2
One silver lining to all this is that I’ve been able to slow down at work to a woman’s pace; it is like working a part-time job after the years I spent busting my hump working unpaid overtime...

That sounds nice, but I bet you still have to go to the office kitchen to make the ladies sammiches.

70 posted on 10/06/2016 6:16:19 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Just one of a basket of deplorables.)
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To: 9YearLurker
And then there are those who “retire” for nearly regular pay by the time they are 50.

Or as I call them, "lucky bastards."

71 posted on 10/06/2016 6:17:45 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Just one of a basket of deplorables.)
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To: Xenodamus

“I am sorry you have had a bad relationship or three.”

Dismissing a significant social development involving tens of millions of men as due to “bad relationships” is supremely silly. Men will tell you why they’ve changed their behavior, if you just bother to ask them.


72 posted on 10/06/2016 6:21:23 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: HLPhat

Roman Catholicism ain’t doing too well in American lately either, buddy.


73 posted on 10/06/2016 6:23:23 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

>>Touting conservative principles is fine and dandy as long as it doesn’t negatively impact YOUR life.

Having a little trouble compehending that whole "LIVES, FORTUNES, AND SACRED HONOR" concept are ya?

 

74 posted on 10/06/2016 6:25:03 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: HLPhat

Having a little trouble sticking to things relevant to the current discussion?


75 posted on 10/06/2016 6:31:58 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: expat_panama

Hey, I want to join them.
I have a little place in Florida. Tiny little condo. Old, but paid for.
I want move there, apply for every benefit and entitlement I can, quit working.
I’d join the local historical society, friends of the library, friends of the park. I’d attend every beach or park clean up, work at the Library, and the museum, ride my bike, paddle my kayak and re-learn to fish.
If you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em.


76 posted on 10/06/2016 6:32:43 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Boogieman

The growth in disability has not been driven by retirement or veterans. The growth in beneficiaries has been quietly orchestrated by this administration and exacerbated by the fact that SSDI is an automatic ticket to Medicare. SSDI is not means-tested and that equates to some people making more on disability than they ever made working.

Many people want to work; many people are significantly disabled and often don’t get the medical care they need, but a significant percentage of recipients view it as a way to make easy money. All it takes is a lack of pride and integrity. In my experience, that is the textbook definition of a Democrat voter.


77 posted on 10/06/2016 6:33:10 AM PDT by antidisestablishment ( We few, we happy few, we basket of deplorables)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

Talk to some people familiar with the ‘sexual trauma’ scam that young ladies who served in the military can work through the VA; it’s good for at least 30% disability and preference to many federal & state jobs.


78 posted on 10/06/2016 6:36:37 AM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

Because he really doesn’t disagree with what a few more Kagan type USSC members will do to America.


79 posted on 10/06/2016 6:37:47 AM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: Boogieman; Xenodamus
>>Dismissing a significant social development involving...

...multiple generations of increasingly FAILING (useful idiot) male role models - manufactured through a deliberate process:

"According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.
 
It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.
 
The first stage being "demoralization".
 
It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism.
 
Most of the activity of the department [KGB] was to compile huge amount / volume of information, on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion.  Publisher, editors, journalists, uh actors, educationalists, professors of political science.  Members of parliament, representatives of business circles. "
--KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov
--Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2095202/posts
 
Uhuh. Conservatism means trying to conserve what the process of demoralization was intended to destroy when generations of neutered male poodles were strategically herded aboard the same whining, hedonistic, self-destructive, "progressive" jackwagon.

80 posted on 10/06/2016 6:38:58 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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