It would be stupid for people to not try. Fail. Then fail harder.
Raise your hand if you have been homeless, and lived in a car. I have, 1980. I did not give up. And never filed for unemployment. And never blamed anybody, nor whined.
I put my mind to it, and clawed my way up from homeless to making artificial hearts today.
Was I lucky? lo f*in lol! He!! no! I was homeless because I was too stupid to try. People in the service industry get paid what they are worth, or their job goes away. Don't knock service industry jobs, but don't espect a 4-BR house, either. Your choice to do it for a living.
In Michigan, in the dead of winter, snow, cold, etc., I rode my bike to my job at McDonalds. I had no money for gas, for the car I barely owned. In McDonald's uniform. Did I whine about service jobs? He!! no. I was glad to have a job.
The whining of people here about visas, and unfair, and blah, blah, blah, makes me lose respect for Americans. What a bunch of whiners. What a bunch of pansies. My gift to you is to wish upon you that you somehow end up living in your car, so that you can start over and appreciate the opportunity you have. You need to re-calibrate your life, and appreciate the opportunities life here offers.
Freeper #39.
You might be happy to walk through snow to get to your McDonalds job. I don't work at a McDonalds and am lucky to have 2 jobs and I'm not having to live in a car and I do have a pretty nice home.
Two people aren't what matters ---- just watch Jerry Springer someday --- both the guests and the audience ---- you'll realize that there are people who can't finish college, can't find make a whole bunch of choices --- look at the bell curve and the average IQ of 100 ---- for everyone with an IQ of 120, there is someone with an IQ of 80, for everyone with an IQ of 130, there is someone with an IQ of 70. They need jobs or they all end up being supported by the rest of us --- and with all their free time living on welfare, they will tend to out-reproduce the over 100 IQ types.
I've never been homeless ---- but I don't think the issue is even homelessness ---- most of our welfare populations aren't homeless at all. I do consider it lucky that I am in the population that can have choices and jobs --- more than I even need ---- if we head into a two-tiered society like they have in all the third world countries --- some of us could hope to make it to the elites and live nicely enough --- for a while --- but what about the masses? What happens when we're a country like Mexico and facing a Revolution? There might not be a place for us to flee like they have now. We shouldn't be so eager to give up the country our Founding Fathers had in mind.