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Bad life decisions lead to bad life consequences random thoughts Send a noteboard - 28/06/2017 05:44:58 PM

Paying people who make bad life decisions more well not stop them from making those bad decisions and suffer those bad outcomes. I was born in poverty and come from a family with a deep history of poverty. My grandfather was orphaned as child and raised basically as an indentured servant on a south Texas ranch. He never set foot inside a school but he worked hard his entire life, not just taking the easy but dead end jobs and raised a family. They were poor but his kids did better than he did and grandchildren even better.

Not all of them succeeded but the ones who not only worked hard but made good decisions did well. That is the only answer I have seen to poverty. If your forty and working at fast food 99 times out of a 100 poor life choices are to blame. You don't keep people from making poor choices by telling then their problems are someone else's fault.

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Case study of the damage liberalism can do - $15 Min Wage - 27/06/2017 01:54:54 AM 1449 Views
Seattle is a poor choice for a case study - 27/06/2017 05:31:18 AM 815 Views
Well, sure, but many of those non-entry level jobs are being held by baby boomers. - 27/06/2017 06:09:40 AM 799 Views
That's at least in part because the minimum wage makes automation more cost-effective - 27/06/2017 11:04:28 AM 703 Views
That is an incredibly silly argument. - 27/06/2017 08:56:09 PM 785 Views
If you assume wages can't go lower... - 29/06/2017 04:52:33 AM 801 Views
Many? - 27/06/2017 12:30:39 PM 788 Views
Amen. - 27/06/2017 07:21:47 PM 760 Views
Yes, many. My office is full of them. - 27/06/2017 08:59:55 PM 714 Views
So is life. - 27/06/2017 09:29:01 PM 743 Views
Re: So is life. - 27/06/2017 09:49:21 PM 720 Views
My father worked two jobs his entire working life. - 27/06/2017 09:56:56 PM 748 Views
We have a 40 hour work week for a reason. - 27/06/2017 10:17:15 PM 787 Views
That's a piss-poor analogy - 27/06/2017 10:23:04 PM 737 Views
How is that really relevant, then? - 27/06/2017 11:03:34 PM 700 Views
I am really enjoying this new-fangled "like" feature we have now. *NM* - 28/06/2017 12:13:42 AM 545 Views
*NM* - 28/06/2017 12:25:45 AM 405 Views
Personal choice - 28/06/2017 12:20:47 AM 814 Views
Re: Personal choice - 28/06/2017 12:32:31 AM 763 Views
In theory I agree with your ideas about a living wage, however - 28/06/2017 12:16:56 PM 767 Views
Very good questions - 28/06/2017 03:01:02 PM 753 Views
FULLY AUTOMATED LUXURY SPACE COMMUNISM. - 28/06/2017 07:49:59 PM 868 Views
damn *NM* - 27/06/2017 09:29:01 PM 478 Views
Just retire already, you luddite! *NM* - 27/06/2017 09:45:46 PM 486 Views
I wish. - 27/06/2017 09:48:02 PM 775 Views
Bad life decisions lead to bad life consequences - 28/06/2017 05:44:58 PM 728 Views
You also shouldn't respond to it by letting them die. - 28/06/2017 07:53:10 PM 744 Views
But this same arguement can be flipped by.... - 28/06/2017 10:34:25 PM 808 Views
I feel like you're making my arguments for me here. - 28/06/2017 10:51:38 PM 839 Views
an apt comparison - 28/06/2017 11:09:25 PM 703 Views
So everyone who "can't" - 29/06/2017 09:49:41 AM 736 Views
ummm - 29/06/2017 02:06:54 PM 666 Views
I know. And I disagree with you. - 29/06/2017 04:58:45 PM 783 Views
Health care and minimum wage are different discussions - 29/06/2017 05:14:07 PM 756 Views
I think nossy and I are ok with letting lazy people get by... - 29/06/2017 08:11:36 PM 746 Views
Si - 29/06/2017 09:08:03 PM 755 Views
Who said that? - 29/06/2017 09:47:32 PM 820 Views
Who said what? - 29/06/2017 10:32:12 PM 697 Views
There is a huge difference.... - 29/06/2017 05:10:05 PM 760 Views
Why does McDonalds keep coming up in this? - 29/06/2017 06:53:46 AM 890 Views
Nicely said. Or written. *NM* - 29/06/2017 09:30:06 AM 448 Views
All right, so what society without minimum wage do you point to as a model? *NM* - 29/06/2017 09:39:12 AM 475 Views
How about "all the ones we had before the 20th century"? - 29/06/2017 10:47:30 PM 868 Views
The ones where hunger and scarcity were widespread? - 29/06/2017 11:04:02 PM 721 Views
So just to put this out there... - 29/06/2017 11:12:47 PM 710 Views
Re: So just to put this out there... - 30/06/2017 01:34:03 AM 693 Views
Yes, and me being SUCH a fan of urbanization... - 30/06/2017 03:39:51 PM 899 Views
I for one am entirely unsuprised. Common sense result. *NM* - 27/06/2017 06:23:01 AM 504 Views
Seems like a methodology to identify struggling operations more than one to evaluate... - 27/06/2017 10:25:30 AM 731 Views
But the traffic is the WORST. - 28/06/2017 12:47:13 AM 831 Views
You are a Husky? TIL clover is one of the Huskies. - 28/06/2017 02:26:46 AM 679 Views
Re: But the traffic is the WORST. - 28/06/2017 10:38:54 AM 724 Views
Just to nitpick, Switzerland isn't exactly homogeneous. - 28/06/2017 10:28:01 PM 777 Views

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