ramonsterns
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herpaderp said:
Too bad it's not the government funding this.
I was referring to one of the earlier posts, Mr. NotReading.
herpaderp said:
Too bad it's not the government funding this.
Guest said:
TomSEA
on August 7, 2011
5:09 PM "Comcast rolls out $10 Internet access for low-income families.."
Let's just keep empowering low-income families to remain that way with every handout imaginable. What's the matter, low-income families can't walk to the library and use the free Internet there?
^^^Really stupid thing to say. I lost a good chunk of respect for Techspot as a whole after reading that.
Cranky seriously, do you have a life? Are you so afraid to go outside you sit all day in front of your PC monitoring comments? Here's an idea if your area is so bad... MOVE... and please disconnect your internet forever.
You've checked the nutritional values for flour, cooking oil and noodles ?If they limited food stamps to only basic food like porridge.[ ].. like flour, cooking oil noodles simple stuff.
That sounds like hard labour* .Question: What hourly rate would you deem commensurate with breaking rocks in Arizona during summer ?Perhaps even setup mandatory government jobs for them, like splitting rocks...
Maybe give them bright orange jumpsuits so that they are visible to passing drivers?picking up trash on the roads.
Even more basic than flour, flour (noodles), oats and oil ?Require them to work X amount of hours a week to help pay for there care. Those physically able of course. If they don't show up there food should be even more basic. That would make them want to get a real job and stop mooching off the government.
Right, exchange a soft touch ultra liberal, for a oxycodone addled sociopath. That indeed would be American knee jerk politic's "finest hour". Although if Rush campaigned on a "final solution" to government handouts, I might be persuaded to vote for himThe other problem is something like this smacks of socialism...which would be bound to agitate at least half the population, and sweep Glenn Beck into the White House (Rush Limbaugh as VP?)
Well, at least that would be different than it is now, but I doubt it would be worse. The cattle over here have already eaten themselves into states of needing major overhauls. The litany of diseases brought on morbid obesity are rampant. Many of them are too fat to go to the doctor, (or claim they are), so at home medical care is provided. Therefore, the health care system is already ruined, but when it is spun as "an economic uptick in the service sector, it's greeted as, "good news". As the greater of two evils, I'm gonna say, "sitting on your fat a** smoking reefer, and stuffing your face with potato chips, is worse for all concerned. That's the individual, the taxpayers, and the health care system, in case in failed to clarify that point until now.I have a suspicion that people who are forced to live at a subsistance level might end up becoming a more sizeable burdon on the health system. Of course if the employment opportunities are numerous then the outcome
So, signs like this aren't an aberration then? More a nationwide indicator?Well, at least that would be different than it is now, but I doubt it would be worse. The cattle over here have already eaten themselves into states of needing major overhauls.
Dire indeed. Somewhat different to what takes place here....Small towns with one major employer (primary produce-meat/fruit etc, secondary market- fleece, further processed produce -canned/frozen). Major employer relocates or goes under due to being undercut by imports (or exports banned by protectionist economies i.e. U.S.). Wholesale unemployment, town economy dies (shades of U.S. coal and steel mills I presume). Small country with limited opportunities (esp. for the actual production of goods -farming/harvesting/food process/building/construction). Choices: Sell up and move to another country (Hello Aussie neighbour), or if unable to do so, retraining for a sector that hopefully can provide work (Huge percentage of population have tertiary education. Country now has enough doctors and nurses to qualify as a major export -doesn't help with balance of payment figures).The litany of diseases brought on morbid obesity are rampant. Many of them are too fat to go to the doctor, (or claim they are), so at home medical care is provided. Therefore, the health care system is already ruined, but when it is spun as "an economic uptick in the service sector, it's greeted as, "good news". As the greater of two evils, I'm gonna say, "sitting on your fat a** smoking reefer, and stuffing your face with potato chips, is worse for all concerned. That's the individual, the taxpayers, and the health care system, in case in failed to clarify that point until now.
Don't think of it as economic collapse, think of it as an opportunity to pare off the excess lard under a new and rigorous overlord.Don't be silly you! The job opportunities are all in China. Americans spend their way to prosperity by kicking back and printing more money. Haven't you read, seen, or heard the news?
You would actually have to attend a school to find out how bad it is. Truancy is also a huge problem Add student safety, as it can mitigate a child's desire to attend.And as far as leaving poverty goes, family circumstances are only half the story: the institutions laughably called schools are the other half.