One in Eight Americans Now Receives Food Stamps

You have to understand that "lower the taxes" is the only consistent idea the Republican Party has left. If he were to propose that problems could be possibly be solved by any other method, he would essentially be declaring himself apostate.

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People like Ms. Bermudez clearly already know how to fish.

The problem is that there aren't any fucking fish. It's delusional to assume that access to fishing holes and to fishing equipment is somehow equal across the board.

And if you think people need "motivation" to find methods other than food stamps to sustain themselves, you have some interesting ideas about how fun it is to try to live on stamps. It's not fun. It's demeaning. Nobody CHOOSES to live on gov't assistance because they're just too damned lazy; even the shittiest gas station job will usually provide a better standard of living.

Well, I shouldn't say "nobody", but to take a handful of welfare queens and use them to demonize the entire program is repulsive.

"Motivation" is all very nice, but people can't find work simply by wishing real hard and clapping their hands. The jobs have to exist.

And what, exactly, about lowering taxes causes jobs to materialize? Someone explain this to me. Okay, in theory, if the business owner is taxed less he can afford to hire more employees. But why would he? Demonstrably he can run his business with the staff he has now; why should he use his new windfall to hire more? Out of the goodness of his heart?

Oh, but Pang! If taxes are lowered, people will have more to spend! Our theoretical small business owner will therefore have more business! He will be forced to hire more employees by the sheer force of consumer demand!

Anyone who has ever worked a retail position during the holidays knows that customer density and staff density have no relationship in the mind of hiring managers.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Just so I understand, your argument is that people shouldn't be able to get an education because then you wouldn't feel special.

Why should you care if a college degree is devalued? It's all these nebulous trades and skills that really make people succeed in life, right?

Tell you what, we'll both get an education and THEN you can become a plumber's apprentice and I won't. Then you'll still have the edge over plebes like me.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

They only cost so much because of artificial scarcity

People are buying up degrees in bulk on the cheap in foreign markets, forcing the value of the few remaining degrees into the stratosphere

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