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Well look at that. People love Barack Obama, and he didn't even need a national tragedy to accomplish it.

You're the one that brought it up. Twice.

I just made 4 of Varrus's posts go Unrated :D

Also, didn't Varrus once say he wanted to see Chicago blown up by terrorists?

I don't think he ever landed a fighter.

I make 25K annually and I don't smoke.

Sucks to be you smokers!

Get your filthy ******* cancer sticks away from me and the air I breathe, or quit and give yourself a tax cut. Either way I win, and I don't pay any more taxes.

Do you know what "Major Combat Operations" means?

The very next sentence:



Farther down in the same speech:




You have to work really hard to get "all our soldiers will be home soon" out of this speech. Everything else is rhetoric. He clearly said that we are not done yet. Stop being a victim of an advertising slogan.

It's amazing that there are such a lot of people who seem to think that the total pool of people who "can work but choose not to" is a really large one.

And you know what? Nation states WOULD NOT FUNCTION without a small but real class of permanently unemployed people? Know why?

When Australia got down to 5% unemployment recently, before the global financial crisis, the Government quietly but publicly panicked. It warned that if there were no unemployed people, then businesses would stop being able to function. McDonald's employees could get $100 an hour wages... more... anything they liked... if there simply weren't any alternative people, and any more people to hire. Basically inflation goes through the stratosphere, and the whole country goes down the toilet if you DON'T HAVE MORE WORKERS THAN THERE ARE JOBS AVAILABLE FOR. It's a simple but real supply and demand thing.

If there are more workers than there are jobs available for, are you going to blame THEM for having no work? If they have no family who can afford to keep them, are you going to force them into crime to keep themselves alive? Charity doesn't cover them all, you know. Or do you expect them to lay down and die, against all screaming instinct? Do you expect them to start a business when they can't get the smallest of loans in their circumstance?

Not every person is suitable or acceptable to an employer for every open job position. And I'm not talking about not being acceptable because you are a druggie, thieving low-life scumbag.

People hire people who have qualifications for the job, who look like themselves and other people in the same business, who are from similar socio-economic/common interest strata to themselves and other people in the same business, who are good looking, who are taller than average, who are younger rather than older in most cases, who ALREADY have several years experience in the industry.

When employers get so unconsciously or consciously picky, what happens to the people who are willing to work, but are plainer, shorter, have a normal but different fashion sense, and haven't had a job before in that industry? They can fall off the end of the hiring list every time, until employers start getting suspicious because they've never had a job. Wonderfully competent and diligent older workers who get laid off in a recession or business belt-tightening can go decades looking for another position, because business likes to hire youth over experience.

Since capitalism will come to a grinding halt without a pool of long term or permanently unemployed people, since our economy demands a pool of more workers than there are jobs, then capitalism and the economy can damn well pay for them. Just enough to live on. Just enough to house, feed, clothe, transport, healthcare and moderately entertain these people who don't have jobs just so that everyone else doesn't have to pay $200 for a hamburger. Just enough to live on with a bit of dignity. And so they don't have to turn to crime.

It's because he knows fuck all and tries to pass it off as if he knows all.

Yep, have a cookie.

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