Night Strike wrote:b.k. barunt wrote:Night Strike wrote:Maybe if she would spend her time applying instead of protesting, she might get a job.
Hey nightstrike, next time you go to one of your Bible studies you might want to check this one out - just fer shits'n giggles i mean . . .
Psalm 82:3-5
Honibaz
There's a difference between looking out for the "poor and weak" and calling out the lazy.
Not when people assume a person without a job is simply lazy because they don't have one.
I mean, I find it odd the unemployment rate is rising, are we blaming that on people getting lazier, and not wanting to stay at their jobs which are being moved overseas after 15 or 20 years of hard work and commitment.
Perhaps those 30000, to 40000 blocks of employs are just hoping to survive off of the massive unemployment insurance they have been paying premiums into for their entire lives, which pays not nearly enough typically to survive on for very long, and they are all just getting lazy and not working hard to insure their jobs go away.
It is very funny to watch people who literally got to where they are because of the organized labor and labor laws, which created an environment for normal people to actually succeed, condemn the very act that is nearly universally responsible for any success they have now.
Had labor laws, and unions not been formed, those with the power to hire and fire and pay indiscriminantly, would, and to some degree still do, keeping every persons ability to earn a decent wage down. Instead however, the jobs were just moved to countries where such laws could be ignored, and often with our tax money supporting such moves.
The reason our country became such a success, was because many jobs were created. An environment was made to allow people to actually make a living without having to kill themselves doing so. We have all benefited from that bubble, and unfortunately have forgotten what created it in the first place, and spent all the profits from that labor. Now, we have borrowed from other countries, cut the taxes on those with the most, and given taxes to the very people who simply do not need it, creating an environment in which there is not enough work, when if things were done differently, there is no reason to believe there would not be.
The problem now of course, is the US doesnt have much to offer the rest of the world. We dont have the technology anymore. We dont have the factories anymore. We dont have the trained workforce to even create products for other countries. We are surviving on our past exports and its fairly clear our surpluses have run out, and its not likely the world will need much from us in the future.
Sure, we'll have the best movies, and kids that can play halo, but when push comes to shove, we wont have much to sell them to try to repay our debt, because the money and means to make it have been fleeced, and a very small percentage of the population has benefited from that. Unfortunately, most laughing and sneering at those without jobs now understand that not many are immune from such things. No doubt many that did the same thing years ago, are now unemployed themselves, and have similarly found that they simply are just not needed, because there is nothing being made, or manufactured, to require managing in the first place.
We have evolved into cannibals fighting off the scraps that are left from what was manufactured years ago, all while the other countries are working hard improving manufacturing to capacities we will not ever be able to catch up to.
It very much is not a right of the people to have jobs. Jobs instead need to be available for people so they can take care of themselves, and help contribute to society. This applies globally as well. There is plenty to do. Plenty that want to do it. The problem is we created a system in which the resources for enabling an environment for people to actually contribute, are in the hands of the smallest percentage of the population, and in their undying greed, do everything to keep it there, even as the result means people starving and dying. And these people are not lazy. They would be happy to work, as most are. As most of the recently unemployed were happy working for their entire lives were. Its just a matter of management of the resources to as not to benefit only the ultra-rich of the world, and creating an environment where a more fair percentage is available for those without such resources.
In this country, those with no resources, have but one measure of power to exert influence, and that is their vote. So its easy for an employed person to say there is no inherent right for a job. But as many have found out, and many more will find out, having access to a job is the only way to support a family, and provide for their children, who very much do have a right to eat and have a place to sleep, on a very real and basic level. If a job is the only way one can provide such things for their children, than it does become a right de-facto, since the alternative is watching their children die.
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