Faldaguy wrote: ↑Thu Nov 04, 2021 5:57 am
Unfair, unjust and inequitable--is an unified equal opportunity criminal -- it hurts weather you are lower or middle income/class -- and just plain wrong and morally corrupt regardless of how many labeled "ends" it may come out.
Here's the way I see it, I myself, and many people in my orbit are working around the clock for weeks, sometimes months at a time with no day off, all the while prices continue to rise, shelves continue to go bare.
It's somewhat ironic that under conservative leadership I was able to wear skirts more often because I actually had a day off every so often... here lately, not so much.
My only crime? Not having under age children. Jenn and I made the decision when we were younger, we couldn't afford children back then, so we never had any. Now that we're older, we don't want any.
Now I feel like we are penalized for a life decision that I personally feel was a responsible one.
Tell me, why should I be expected to help feed and clothe children that I didn't bring into the world? I realize it's not the kids fault and I'm not saying I want to see them go without, but I dislike this paradigm where we as a society seem to reward adults who have children they can't afford all the while penalize those who choose to remain child free.
Also, as I've stated before, you're not talking to a former child of silver spoons and riches here... I was a child of poverty, raised in old run down trailers, often times not even having a bedroom other than using my grandmother's sofa for years at a time, having clothing given to me from charity, etc.
Mind you this was before the child tax credits, and for whatever reason dad never got food stamps for me. I know he worked long hours grinding sausage at the plant where he worked.
Anyway, the values I learned from this were many. Mainly I learned the virtue of
earning an honest dollar, and to never expect a hand out.
Meanwhile I see children today (and yes I actually know a few specifically) that expect the world to cater their every need. They are spoiled rotten with no moral guidance, no appreciation for an honest days work. They are spoiled little brats that cuss their parents out, constantly bounce from one to another (their parents are divorced), cuss their teachers out (when they even bother to show up), and are just generally vile.
The only consequence they'll likely see in life is eventually they'll hit the big time and get themselves incarcerated, that is unless certain politicians decriminalize everything...
You see Falda, this political "let's feel sorry for the poor people" doesn't work on me because unlike many, I am a child of poverty, and many in my family are still in poverty, so I have the actually real world experience here. I've walked that walk, I know the truth of the matter. Nobody felt sorry for me growing up and I don't think I turned out too bad.
crfriend wrote: ↑Thu Nov 04, 2021 10:22 am
There's no wealth left to be siphoned from the lower classes any longer -- only what little is left of the upper-middle class, which still has a little
Oh I'm a part of that lower middle class (some may say upper poor class) and I can tell you that my money is still being siphoned.
So is my time... I hardly ever have time off of work anymore.