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Have you heard of a workers ability to anticipate the future? save for the rainy day?

Many spend their entire lives doing just that:

Budgeting for the mortgage, only to have property taxes exceed their budgets.
Budgeting for their children's tuition only to have it inflated beyond reach.
Budgeting for their share of insurance, only to have 'their share' increased year after year.
Budgeting soundly and rationally for everything, only to lose a job and be unable to meet that budget.
Or if they withdraw from their retirement in an emergency it is taxed.

Most can't both pay inflated expenses and save enough to live on for 6 months to a year when they lose a job, or both jobs, not on the average wages they are paid by average employers.

They could retrain, but to what? Finance, IT, call centers, Mfg, textiles, lumber, assembly, all moving offshore.

Their current job, and their next job, has left the country. That is the difference between this economy and those which preceeded it. A difference you persist in ignoring because to address it requires recognizing how little the individual worker can do about it except vote and continue to look.

Perhaps, if you do read a book, you'll learn what you advocate is PATERNALISTIC state. As I said, if you are a socialist, at least say so to yourself. In every post you are screaming at the top of your lungs that you are a socialist and you know nothing about how your own country works.

And now the ad hominems start against me. You have failed to provide one shred of fact to support your complaints against why this thread was posted and who posted it, and so you resort to another straw man about my economic and political views.

You could not support your statistics for unemployment, nor post any news reports to support your claim that Willie Green or Arcadia selectively ignores good employment/employer news.

And so you crawl into that last refuge of the bankrupt argument, the ad-hominem attack. As other posters have pointed out, when you lose the argument you accuse the winner of being a socialist, and in your limited myopic intellect, think that you are fooling someone.