It's Day 298 of the Pelosi Revolution and...

Hey dipshit, I don't recall Bush dismantling the welfare reform act. So what's your point? It still ain't working.

 

"Work is discouraged; dependence encouraged."

Trope, from 1979.
Go water yourself.

 

Maybe the term working poor wouldn't be needed if we weren't taxed to death by a bunch of self-serving idiots who couldn't balance the budget of a lemonade stand nor could they run it efficiently.

And I know a guy who drives a cab and has for the past 13 years and he has somewhere in the neighborhood of $1 million in investments and another $500,000 in real estate and business ventures. In three more years he will be 40 and he will not work another day in his life. He has two kids and a wife to support and he does so as well as anyone I know that works a so-called "high paying job" and I've never heard him whine because he isn't making the money of the doctors and lawyers in this country.

I'd be willing to bet there are a whole lotta people out there doing a whole lotta whining about what they don't have instead of finding a way to go get it.

 

It is not rocket science -- he works his ass off, usually six and before he was married even seven days per week. Some days he keeps the cab the for 24 hours.

And he saved and invested every dime he was able to. He didn't do that most American of thing -- spend and blow money on bullshit.

As Ving Rhames character in Baby Boy would say... he knows the difference between guns and butter and he's a man with guns......

 

I'm willing to bet the entire story is bullshit.

 

As we say, that story doesn't pass the smell test.

 

Well bullshit is the one subject I will agree you are a resident expert on.....

But its true, there are at least a few people in this country who have figured out how to breathe and thrive without holding their hand out and waiting for the next government program to come along and feed them.

And if you work hard and save and invest and are disciplined and you don't get married until you are in your 30's it ain't that tough to build wealth.

Of course, in your world, building wealth is evil and exploitive and unfair.....

 

With the work ethic the left creates, building wealth is not only evil, exploitive adn unfair, it's pretty much impossible.

My dad spent the grat majority of his life not making big money, but he and my mom saved and invested what they could and are now very comfortable in retirement. But then the people most lefties know don't have that kind of discipline. It's why they're lefties: behave irresponsibly, damn the consequences, then expect the government to bail you out.

 

However, there's always a boom market in low-rent ignorance.
Read a fucking book.

 

Yeah, imagine how much money your parents would have had they been able to privately invest all the money they wasted -- actually were FORCED INTO wasting --- in the government goodie fund known as social security.

I cannot for the life of me understand how anyone in their right mind could really believe the government is better at planning your retirement with your money than you are.....

 

And yet "spending and blowing money" on goods and services is what keeps him - and his neighbors - employed providing those goods and services. Where would your friend be if we all decided to walk, rather than "blow money" on a cab ride? There's a whole ecology of commerce here that your "radical libertarianism" ignores.

 

Yeah, that's right because nobody uses a cab for business purposes.

Of course -- and here is yet another example -- in the sick world of liberalism, cab riding is a considered a luxury item and a status signal since welfare mothers can't afford to take them. If you are riding in a cab you are part of the elite and you must be a greedy bastard. It is not fair.......

And further even if cab riding is a luxury--- there is nothing wrong with making money off of the excess spending of dumbasses and cabbies couldn't make money sitting on their couches watching movies. They still have to get off their asses and go work hard and hustle, which is not too much to ask of any healthy individual.....