well... I will have to disagree on this one.
Many of the hardest jobs (manual labor type jobs) and most of the most dangerous ones (policeman, fireman, ect) pay very little because they nearly always require little or no education.
The rich “worked hard” in school, so they wouldn’t have to work so hard later to earn a LOT more than those who choose not to work hard in school.
Yep. And it’s insulting to people who have those jobs. When someone who works hard on their feet all day hears someone like Rand Paul say that, it just reinforces the idea that “Republicans only care about the rich”.
Unskilled, not so much but those are the entry level jobs.
Cops, firefighters, EMS do well in the cities. Not so well in small towns or rural areas.
Allow me to make a point off of your post. I think both Paul and Sharpton miss the mark on the question of income inequality. Income is just another word for the value of one’s labor. It is a product like any other product in the marketplace. The law of supply and demand are the determining factor, plus the productivity of the individual worker, based on the revenue each produces for the owner. If one breaks his back at work but produces $60,000 for the owner, while someone else pushes a pencil but his work product makes the company $600.000, who is more valuable has nothing to do with hard work, sometimes intelligence trumps, no pun intended, hark work. In my own company, in certain areas I value intelligence over hard work, especially in areas that require a lot of problem solving.