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If you're working for someone for 20yrs and you don't have a clue how to move on once that ends yes you're an idiot, or a drunk. H*ll civilian truck drivers in Iraq make 70k a year, mostly untaxed. So ***** that bum who worked a job that has been replaced by a more efficient machine; he should have planned ahead. Instead you'd have him literally steal money from me because i'm successful and he caught a tough break.
Thats the kind of attitude that is killing this country. Some people are born to be stock brokers, some are born to be carpenters. Everyone that doesn't train for 3 different jobs instead of becoming better at the one they are doing is an idiot? Do I think that a lathe operator should make as much as the CEO? No, but I think we can have an economy that makes room for both. Instead of rewarding the CEO with tax incentives for finding ways of sending the lathe operators job to china for $.03 an hour because he doesn't have to provide basic safety, fair hours, or human rights for the chinese worker.
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No, but I do think everyone the US has the oppurtunity to better their situation. Of course this means sacrifice which i've learned the majority of americans despise.
Here again you are wrong, EVERYONE CANNOT BE ON TOP. An economy cannot function like that. Someone needs to change the lightbulbs in the traffic lights, someone needs to plow the roads in the winter, someone needs to answer calls to 911. Everyone needs to have a function to fill in order to make a society. You cannot have 5,000 Insurance brokers and 5,000,000 beggers.
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Not at all but again should someone who does make 6 figures be charged with the care of those who don't? And yes if you've been at a job for 20yrs and you're not making 6 figures, unless you're an educator, you're a complete moran.
This is stupid. Again I'm not saying we should have 5,000 Insurance brokers and 5,000,000 on welfare. This again stems from your infantile view that everyone not in the upper class sits around collecting welfare all week. A society needs to ensure that it has enough jobs so that everyone willing to perform them can meet a baseline standard of living.
The people that buy your insurance are the people that do not have sufficient assets to cover their liability i.e. people that work for a living. The very wealthy do not purchase your insurance. They don't need it.
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So if someone fails to succeed it's my responsibility to care for them the rest of their lifes, and their childrens to?
No, but that is a nice strawman you have there. It is societies job as a whole to ensure that everyone willing to work can have an acceptable standard of living.