Mercnbeth
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Agreed, and those days will not return. Especially since now, most people are resting on their asses awaiting for entitlements funded by those trying, against the tide, to succeed under present conditions set up, and being expanded, to encumber their efforts.
Do you really believe this? Most people are resting on their asses waiting for entitlements?
Only you and a few others are working, striving, against the tide, etc.?
Yes regarding the entitlement seekers - No I, and a few others, are not the only ones striving against the tide.
Figuratively and literally people are sitting on their asses waiting for entitlements. You mistake that representation as blaming them for doing so. I don't only not blame them, I think they are wise in taking that position. It makes no sense for a man/woman who is trying to raise a child to seek employment which would result in them losing their existing meager entitlement benefits required to feed, house, and clothe themselves and their child. That's how the programs are set up. It's better to sit on your ass waiting for the next entitlement be granted to you. Not working, you get food, housing, child care assistance; you wouldn't get that working for me - counseling you, I'd recommend sitting on your ass.
The insidious nature of entitlements is that they insure a market and create a 'class' of people who then become grass roots support for the bigger beneficiaries - special interests and industries. Not one entitlement program benefits the individual, who can use it to benefit themselves, as much as it benefits some PAC paying corporation. Sure there are exceptions used for 'posters' from each side of the debate; however subsidized corporate farms are a LOT better off than any food subsidized single parent. Yet, every one of those subsidized parents would vote to maintain, if not increase, the status quo and increase those subsidizes versus cutting them off. The idea of having to be 'self reliant' is so feared and people have been trained to avoid it for so long, that the possibly to do so is avoided at all cost. The resulting win for special interests and their integration to the current US system is why sitting on your ass makes much more sense than working outside the system and improving your life.
The current trend is that those entitlements will be expanded. The fools are those choosing to "strive against the tide".
I think the majority of people are striving against the tide. Considering that using 30 Million people are uninsured by the largest number represented it still represents a minority would be one current example. I also don't believe that all those unemployed aren't looking and desire work, however there is a minority who celebrated the extension of benefits to 99 weeks to defer seeking employment for 98. I don't think the majority of young men and woman want to be considered as a 'child' until 26; yet many applauded it. I wonder when military service, the drinking age, and the age of consent, will be similarly adjusted under the new Federally mandated extension of childhood under the Health Care Law?
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ORIGINAL: kittinSol
Merc belongs to the victimized class, A major difference between us kittin; even after 9/11 I NEVER wanted to be, or considered myself, a "victim" of anything. Your posts and rationalized projected blame are indications that you feel you are a victim of everything - it gives you an excuse for whatever it is you seek and don't acquire. Reality is you, and I, are in the exact conditions we deserve - good or bad. Another distinction is I see work and effort as a means to an ends - not government intervention, entitlement, or assistance.
However, I appreciate that if I were I brought up in a generation where you didn't have to strive to be the best and work for a reward, and was given a 'trophy' just because I participated; I expect I too would be sitting on my ass - waiting for someone else to bring me my next trophy. I also know, like most of the generation who got those 'participation' awards - I wouldn't see any value in them, or try to be the best with an expectation to be awarded accordingly. Never more so than now when the 'reward' you end up with by playing/working hard and sacrificing to succeed; results in paying out more to give more 'trophies' to those who just show up.
I don't blame you for having your perspective - I feel sorry for you.
< Message edited by Mercnbeth -- 3/30/2010 10:33:55 AM >
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