Come on J-mac....it's pretty obvious to anybody that those guys are doing some form of counter protests to the occupy crowd which is why the lady comes up and points out that you can't feed a family on the majority of those adds.
First, I don't think it was a counter protest, maybe a little bit of capturing the crazy hypocrisy of the 'no jobs' meme that the protesters have mashed in with their anti capitalist message to distract.
See, it isn't the fact that some of the jobs listed by themselves aren't enough to feed a family of four, but in tough times you do what you have to, and if that means taking two, or three jobs, you do it, at least if you have any self respect. I have.
But, there were just as many jobs on that table that she said 'won't do that' or 'won't work there'..... What about that?
The fact is, beyond partisan stunts like this (I can show you plenty of people going around making Tea Partiers look like idiots and racists) there are many more unemployed people than jobs in this country.
Is it a partisan stunt to allow idiots to bury themselves with their own words, and actions? But you probably are correct in that there are aspects of both sides that serve to discredit the other to the point of masquerading as something they are not. That has long been a tactic, straight out of Rules for Radicals. I've posted it before.
But there are more unemployed than jobs today, I know this all too well with my wife being unemployed currently and having no luck finding a job. But now, this is Obama's economy, he has owned it. It is only his supporters, and sycophants that continue to say that Obama is clear of today's jobs mess.
Maybe if we had low unemployment rates you could make the argument that people just don't want to work. The fact is most people are stuck with part time jobs so the number of unemployed and underemployed is huge in this country.
Again, I have no quarrel with what you say here, but what is Obama's administration doing about this? Creating 88.000 pages of new regulations, and running around yelling 'pass the bill' before anything was ever written, then when his own Leader of the Senate, Reid holds it up, still disingenuously blame republicans? What a crock!
You worked at a job and moved up the ranks. Cases like yours is what made this country great. The fact the new generation isn't experiencing that is a shame and you'd think you support them getting their opportunity.
I sure did, and still at it. But the reason behind it is work ethic. I grew up with wonderful parents where my father owned his own store, and worked up to 16 hrs a day to make that work, and taught me the life lessons that only a father can teach, rest his soul.
Today we have become a culture where the democrat invented, and protected welfare state has pounded the message that the Father is no longer needed, or wanted in the home, and that government will take care of you cradle to grave. And has bought the vote of minority communities with promises and distortion for decades.
The new generation isn't going to experience a chance for the mobility in income status by design I think. But I don't just blame liberals for this. This was a design perpetrated by progressives, Republican, and Democrat for decades, possibly to come to the very ends we are experiencing today.
But it doesn't have to be this way. This is being accelerated by forces in this country that want an end to America as it was founded, and had become.
j-mac