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Originally posted by ManInAsia
But I have also read many sincere posts from posters here who are in deep difficulties, their bad luck, to live in a society that doesn't give a crap about people when they are down and out, old and sick. You need to think a little about that.
Originally posted by ManInAsia
It could be you someday. I really mean it.
Originally posted by ManInAsia
When people haven't had the good luck to come from a better off family and didn't get a chance to get an education it's hard to get a high income.
Originally posted by ManInAsia
These people are working people, the backbone of America and before they were just getting by doing the crappy jobs. With inflation and credit problems their +5% quickly changes to -10% income/spending but they cannot get any real govt. support. I can tell in this regard America absolutely sucks compared to other industrialised countries.
Originally posted by ManInAsia
I hate to think of people around my father's age struggling in such a rich country. That would make me very angry if I was an American and I saw that. It's crazy people have to join the military in America to get a third level education when in most EU countries it's basically free.
Originally posted by ManInAsia
I think you are ignoring a lot of things here. You are not old, you are not chronically sick. These limit your chances very severely to increase your income. Also your parents did not seem to be sick.
Originally posted by ManInAsia
You work hard and give yourself a clap on the back but you are no patriot because a patriot would care about his own people, no matter the better or worse off, the strong or the weak.
Originally posted by ManInAsia
Welfare seems to be a bad and loaded word in America, and yet the American govt. gives MASSIVE amounts of welfare every year in the form of tax credits for millionaires and big corporation and massive budgets for military supplies, rebuilding foreign countries through single supplier contracts and tax rebates for oil companies. I just don't get it, perhaps you do? You think it's a better idea to structure your society like that, why?
Originally posted by ManInAsia
You proudly claim that neither you nor your family ever claimed govt. handouts and yet you pay tax. Why not claim a handout when you need it if you pay tax, after all it was your money right? Or are you so brainwashed to think that money was supposed to be (or better off) put to the uses above?