It is the era of the parasite.
The joker that makes the rational, irrational is called a central bank. When you can grow money on trees why make sound decisions?
The attitude permeates our government and society. And it will continue to be fed by a printing press.
Until the music stops.
...and then History happens. We have no guarantees. I notice in these trains of thought a petulant "I did what's right and now I DESERVE!!!" That is not biblically or even basically correct. Thankfulness for each day is the only way to avoid the kind of bitterness this line of reasoning encourages.
Also, it's just better to live life as a productive person. Many curses are laid on lazy people and moochers and thieves. They get away with nothing. Don't be dragged into self pity!
It is the truth and it has to be stopped.I have no sympathy for you if you were too stupid to keep yourself from having 6 kids by the time you were 22 it is not my problem to feed,clothe,and house you and your family.People have to realize that what was promised in the lat century was a myth we just can’t keep.There is a bottom to the barrel and we are pretty much there.
“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion—when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed. - Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged 1957
“In the wake of the Great Recession, we’ve shifted from a culture of celebrating and encouraging those who are productive and hardworking, to a culture where handouts, bailouts, freebies and entitlements dominate.Kinda sums up the lot of us, huh?
You start to wonder, Why am I paying the freight for those who have been reckless and irresponsible, whether it’s on Wall Street or in Washington or anywhere else in the community?
I think we’re becoming a very different nation."
The “moocher culture” is KILLING America.....KILLING it.
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Hell, I’ve been beat up by FREEPERS for opining that unless someone had some sort of work history over the last 6 months, they wouldn’t be hired, and rightly so in most cases. Those that want to work will find something even if it’s only some day jobs to supplement themselves. I also got beat on for “demeaning” a guy and his father for hiring them to do my lawn and for other work. I was asked if I gave them minumum wage to rub it in - actually paid $15/hr for unskilled labor and paid $75 to do the lawn which takes me less than 2 hours by myself.
Welfare is small potatoes. The author of this piece is a coward to focus on it. The elephants in the room is Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The solutions are simple but unpopular - reduce benefits, raise taxes to pay for said benefits or a combo of the the two. That's it.
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Well I don’t see anything changing any time soon.
So you dumb racists pay your taxes - the moochers need the money. :)
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You bet, millions of government employees and their government unions demanding high wages, life time lottery style retirement pensions, life time top shelf medical benefits.....
And now the country is bankrupt and broke....
Maybe Ms Mackey does a good thing by helping start the conversation but she falls way short in indentifying the whole sliding problem. I’ve been watching it develop for the last half century when people began moving off the farm at a much higher rate. In my high school graduating class (1960) only 5 of 100 kids lived in town. At our recent 50 year reunion only 5 of the same 100 still live/work a farm.
To me, it started in the late 60’s when it got easier for people to make a living with a very limited skill set. Never mind the beginnings of the welfare state by LBJ, that’s a big factor, but specialization in the work place, unionization rules demanding simple jobs, and a whole range of related developments made it possible for people to make a good living with a limited knowledge base and skill set.
We saw the progression of job titles such as administrative assistant, human resources specialist, account executive, financial advisor, security analyst and on and on and on. Many, if not all, larger companies gradually took the basic military model of defining jobs in very simple terms to minimize training and “getting up to speed” time. But now when a company goes titsup these people are useless to anyone else. One can see that every time a news guy interviews the folks in an unemployment line. It turns out these formerly well-paying jobs aren’t really worth much in an economy going global on roller skates. A whole lot of folks who thot they were valuable now find out “not so much”.
Way too many people thot they’d grabbed the gold ring when they got that first good job. Don’t have to keep learning skills. Don’t have to do any more homework. Don’t have to read anymore of those books—just too HARD! The boss should pay me if he wants me to study on my own time-—how many times have I heard that -—going back to the mid 60’s. ( and by the way: they’ve gotten fatter) It doesn’t take me long to convince my own employees that they have to keep learning. At first they tend to resist but then the light comes on. Most of the people who’ve worked for me over the last three decades now have their own businesses-—they learned how to do research, they learned skills they never dreamed of, They learned how to root out and recognize opportunity, and when they thot they had a base made a run for it. Many still feed my company work as subs and I’ve not yet seen one fail. AND-—no one who’s ever worked for me is now unemployed.
There only 12 million of us left in this country, USA, that actually manufacture something. The rest are overhead, non-production, service, riding in instead of pulling the wagon. If you find yourself in a tough spot take a look in the mirror and see if you are pulling, riding, or just sitting on the curb clapping at the parade.
