Haaahahahahahha...what a demented fairy tale world you guys live in where all CEO's are heartless, greedy bastards while all welfare recipients are heart of gold heroes who have been held down by the system, not their own choices or lack of a work ethic. People are people. Some are rich and jerks, some are poor and good and vice versa. I don't want the gov't to impinge on eithers rights as long as they are held accountable for their actions. Welfare is our money, we should be allowed to have expectations on how it is spent. You, like I, probably want less military spending and a ton more accountability in contractor pay. Why not expect that from all of our expenditures? Especially ones that aren't effective.
Msutt, thanks for your answer. From now on assume that I think that all of your questions are stupid and refuse to answer on those grounds. Tolerant and open minded my ass......
How about we play a game of the ol' VS. forum favorite "show me where"? Today's challenge is show me where I said "every" single CEO is a heartless, greedy bastard.
You'll lose, be ause I never said it. I never said it because I don't think that way. Do I think the number of greedy, heartless CEOs sadly outnumbers the number of CEOs who actually give a damn about their fellow man (particularly the ones who have helped make them as successful as they are)? Absolutely. Do I think the percentage of CEOs who intentionally set out to exploit their workers is higher than the percentage of people on welfare just being lazy and taking of the system? Yep, definitely. There's a lot of CEOs who do a fantastic job of taking care of their workers and paying them a decent wage, not because they're forced to, but because they have some god damn empathy.
See, the difference between you and me is that while I look down on those CEOs who exploit their workers and wish they didn't exist, I accept that they exist and there's not much I, or we as a society, can do about it. I've come to terms with it and just understand that's the way things are, people will exploit. You, on the other hand, feel that because some people exploit a system of welfare we should eliminate it for everyone. Someone falls between the cracks and falls behind?
'em, that's their own fault because we have some small percentage of people who take advantage of the welfare system.
Since you didn't want to play the previous game of "whose on public assistance?" I'll go ahead and volunteer that I'm on public assistance now. Not because I'm lazy, not because I haven't been trying to find full time employment for the last year, but because the company I've worked for for the last 7 years decides that I'm not worthy of healthcare benefits because I don't have enough average hours per week. I left full time employment at Target because it became increasingly clear to me that they'd rather have their full management positions filled by fresh out of college grads than the people who actually worked their way up and learned the business. Why do they do that, you ask? So they can get away with paying both the supervisors and managers less wages.
After spending my first year of law school not working, as per American Bar Association rules, I started back at Target part time. Part time because I was already in class 15-20 hours a week, another 20 hours a week in various internships, and 20 hours a week at Target (not to mention the reading and studying hours to fit in there). Yep, I'm a real lazy guy like that, only putting in 60+ hours a week while I was in school. Now that I've graduated I'm stuck without health insurance because I can't get enough hours at work to qualify for benefits (a task which became even more difficult at Target after they got rid of part time benefits). I've submitted hundreds of applications for work as an attorney at this point and I'm still not employed because I had the unfortunate position of my dream job being one of the toughest job markets around. As a fun aside, after 7 years with Target, holding many different positions including being an effective manager of security for a store (in responsibilities if not title and compensation), I make exactly $.30 more per hour than when I started. There were times I made more, but never more than $14 an hour.
So yeah, I'm on Medicare now because I have no other option for healthcare and I made the stupid decision to get appendicitis a few months ago. I know, stupid me, right? By the way, I also had student loans to pay for school, so thanks for letting me mooch off of society on that one too.
