Re: SOTU Address:
There's no effort on my part to insult Conservatives. You guys do that all by yourselves. Your very comment in protecting the earnings of business owners while overlooking the plight of the working poor is evidence enough of how off-base and out of touch many of you on the Right truly are. Your every defense against raising taxes is all about how to get people from unemployment to employment. But you never discuss "how" to prepare the workforce of the future nor what to do to ease the economic burden on those who are struggling financially until they are able to find full, meaningful employment. In the minds of most Republicans, those who are unemployed are truly on their own.
Once again, you open with a backhanded swipe at people.
Of course, it's to be expected from the type of people who defecate on police cars.
I said NOTHING about "protecting the earnings of business owners," but you just blindly assume that I do.
Obviously you don't understand that the average profit on a dollar to a retailer is about 1.5 cents, with labor usually being his highest cost.
If he has to pay MORE for labor, he'll either do without it, or pass any price increase onto the CONSUMER, so the increased wage gets eaten up in the increased costs for goods and services at the same time the total number of employed drops.
It's not my JOB to help "the working poor."
Nor is it the governments.
It's the working poor's job TO HELP THEMSELVES, and many, many of them climb out of poverty by their own resources and hard work, as I did.
Now, some people hate poverty, and go to schools to find good paying jobs doing something they enjoy.
Some people don't mind not making a lot of money, because they love the arts, and would rather do something they enjoy....
In America, if there's TRULY something you want to do, with hard work and sacrifice, you can usually find a way to go do it....