Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski
Clam whisperer
No but it's been on a downhill slide ever since then. Face it, it's just not an issue with the younger generations.
Wowsers.
Ever asked one of the younger generation about that?
Somehow I doubt it.
No but it's been on a downhill slide ever since then. Face it, it's just not an issue with the younger generations.
Why are you telling me adults can't read so it's not their fault they're on welfare then?
You said that. You and no one else.You guys are basically saying we should support these people indefinitely because they had shitty upbringings.
Uh, I guess I'm not a part of my own generation?
And neither is sarcasmo with his experiences?
Downhill? Yes.No but it's been on a downhill slide ever since then. Face it, it's just not an issue with the younger generations.
Hey, look at those people drowning! I'm sure they'll figure out howw to swim before it's too late.
Why do you keep making these oversimplified arguments?So if we offer reading classes instead of handouts it'll fix everything?
You said that. You and no one else.
People need to get on their own two feet, but if you have an unending cycle of parents who cannot support themselves, they will have children that cannot support themselves, those children will eventually have children that cannot support themselves.
You have to break the cycle somewhere, somehow, that does not mean you substitute that cycle for one where the Govt takes care of them
The rest of our "less fortunate" need some tough love, cut them off and they'll work or starve, give everyone the option to work 4 hours a day cleaning ditches or something for a check instead of just handing them money.
You basically just described my post you laughed at on the first page of this thread.
What exactly do we disagree on here?
Without the inherent prejudice, yesYou basically just described my post you laughed at on the first page of this thread.
Can we dispense with the myth that it's easier for minorities and the poor to succeed now than it used to be. Can we also dispense with the myth that it doesn;t matter where you start out in life. If you're born poor in the USA (and here too) you are almost certainly going to die poor.
"Family origins matter more in the United States in determining where one ends up in life compared to other wealthy democratic countries. This is a recent development. Studies of social mobility as far back as the 1950s and 1960s showed that rates of movement in the United States were generally comparable to other developed countries. This finding itself challenged the longstanding image of America as exceptionally open, but it is a far cry from today, when the United States rates at or near the bottom in comparative studies of social mobility.
To take just two examples, a study by Jo Blanden and colleagues at the London School of Economics found that a father's income was a better predictor of a son's income in the United States than in seven other countries, including Germany, Canada, and the United Kingdom. And a review article by Miles Corak at the University of Ottawa, based on 50 studies of nine countries, found the United States tied with the United Kingdom as having the least social mobility, trailing not only Norway and Denmark but France, Germany, and Canada."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerom...quality-and-the-american-dream_b_1933238.html
I think you're arguing for the end of countless social programs here. Clearly you think they're a waste of time and money.
Huh?I think you're arguing for the end of countless social programs here. Clearly you think they're a waste of time and money.