You don't want to be PC? Fine. Marriage isn't stable. It fails half the time. Having kids is idiotic too if you're struggling to stay out of poverty. They're either neglected or expensive as hell. If you care about the poor having a better life, consider how pitiful the minimum wage is. Not this expecting 18 year old kids fresh out of high school to marry just so they can get by.
If it's their only way to survive because repubs refuse to raise minimum wage it's in fact instructing them. It's the "facts of life" because that's how the lobbyists have instructed the politicians to make it.
Yeah because their employer cut hours or there's nothing hiring full time, so they take what they can get. Even office jobs are going remote desktop. 40 hour work weeks will disappear for the majority soon anyway i predict, as labor becomes more and more obsolete. It's archaic and a new model is needed.
And 14 trumps 2. I guess super-polygamy will soon be in vogue
I did extremely well in HS and can tell you i learned far more outside school. Perhaps some entry level employers care about that diploma, but the joke's on them. Don't pretend graduating magically turns some 70 IQ teenager into a highly employable savant. Even college grads are finding this out.
Depends on the situation. You know how many applications are filled out for ghetto jobs saying "don't hire me" just so they stay on unemployment benefits? I've seen it plenty. It can become not worth the constant struggle. Try living out in rural area needing to drive 30 miles to $8/hr job. That's 2.5hr of work just for gas. So they should move right. But they're 18 and can't afford a place. Bummer. Nothing like a married couple living with parents till age 23 just so the mcdonald's ceo can eek out a bit more profit.
Lol capitalism totally failed. Look up 2008 bank and auto bailouts. That's socialism to the max. Everyone except the bankers and vulture capitalists are living with the consequences, especially the young, so spare me the lecture.
What other culture allowed such a vast amount and proportion of the wealth to go to 1% of the population? This isn't 1890s europe. You haven't offered a viable solution either. 22% of *kids* live in poverty. This "let them marry or starve" mentality, well, if you were super rich, sooner or later the poor will come for you.
No guarantees are made-welcome to the world. This does not change that successful behavior leads to success, and perhaps even more elucidating to the left is that failure leads to more fail. If half of marriages fail (based on multiple factors, none particularly relevant atm) that does not change the fact that a child born to a single parent household is likely doomed to a life of diminished outcomes. Nothing you say changes this.
Raising the minimum wage increases unemployment amongst the very demographic its purported to help. Making people comfortable in whats intended to be a START, and a STEPPING STONE is not helping anyone. When you subsidize mediocrity you get more of it.
Most people dont earn minimum wage because they quickly move up. This is a fact. The whole "employer cut hours" excuse is just that-however the biggest expense in most business is labor-what do you think raising the minimum wage and fail like the ACA does to labor costs? I realize you may not have taken even a basic econ class but I have faith in you.
I never said 18 year olds should get married, I was saying if ANYONE has a kid raised in a single parent home they will suffer. Thats not the same thing-and in fact 18 year old are expected to be poor-its a start. One might even conclude that having a kid when you are poor and KNOW it will lead to great disadvantages in life perhaps its a good idea not to have a kid. Of course, welfare created incentives to do just this-we call them welfare babies-and that behavior is being passed from one single parent to the next generation of single parent.
Congrats-14 does trump 2, but I dont know that 14 is legal. I actually think it should be. Graduating from high school being a necessity is not analogous to "learning more outside of school". That said our ****ty public education system (more govt fail) gives us a steady stream of people who cant read or give back exact change, or even mail a letter but MAN do they hate republicans. People with an IQ of 70 can be functioning members of society-but paying them to sit on the couch, or 14 bucks an hour to flip burgers is going to insure more of just that.
As for your "ghetto applicants" you are making my point-we are creating incentives for failure.
A McDonalds CEO is not wealthy at the expense of his/her employees-wealth creation does not work like that. Its not a pie. Heres where that econ class would be helpful.
Capitalism is the best system EVER devised to deliver the poor from poverty PERIOD. Why do you think people float here on tires? Try real hard.
Bailouts, etc are ANYTHING BUT capitalism. Do you understand what a free market is? Failing models NEED to be allowed to fail in order to be replaced by a more sustainable model. Again-basic econ-in fact the removal of failed business models is the most important part of a free market. Or else its just trumping up fail, marxist style.
1%. :roll: What do you think the wealth distribution is in China or Venezuela? Look it up, and come back an apologize for making such an ignorant statement.
Who the hell said "let them marry or starve"? This will be interesting. Who's coming for me? Is that supposed to be a threat? Is it time for the occupy movement to kick it up a notch?