Re: Supreme Court backs Hobby Lobby in contraceptive mandate challenge
Do you think with the brain God gave you or simply the heart? Where does personal responsibility rest in your world? People have no problem buying the things they want but when it comes to the things they need it is someone else's responsibility to buy those.
Those so called poor people in this country still have color TV's, cell phones, pagers, air conditioning, many have computers and now can live off the taxpayers for 2 years with unemployment benefits. Quite frankly I am getting sick and tired of the entitlement mentality you and others exert here and total lack of understanding of personal responsibility. You don't seem to get it, business is not in business to employ you or anyone else nor to provide you with whatever wage you need to live on. You like me when I started out need to adjust your living expenses to the wages you are paid and not demand more simply because you want something else to buy.
You don't seem to have any problem with someone else paying for that which you think you need. Pretty simple, you don't want to buy your contraceptives, don't have sex or live with the consequences if you choose to have sex.
You always broad brush everything, any idea how many people actually make the federal minimum wage and who those people are? Don't you think you should find out before spouting your opinions?
You give yourself away a bit when you refer to a broad class of people as the "
so called" poor. Are they not 'really' poor unless they're living in a cardboard house, bathing in the river, and have kids with swollen bellies from starvation and malnutrition like you see in the REALLY poor countries? Give me a break.
And I don't know what you expect from the so-called poor. It's not like we have an economy with lots of good paying jobs that no one will fill. These people you're all but spitting on will line up by the thousands for every decent job that opens up. Read the news about a plant opening - is there a shortage of people willing to work for a decent wage?
Here's the first story where I could get numbers - 30,000 apply for 2,000 jobs. Those jobs just don't exist, we lost about 5 million of them last decades, and replaced them with crap service jobs with low pay.
So I'm just not sure what you expect. That we adopt the expectations of the third world for the ACTUAL poor and anyone who isn't living at the brink of subsistence has it lucky?
BTW, as to the consequences, we ALL live with the consequences. 1.2 million abortions, lots of dysfunctional parents raising troubled kids that are multiples more likely to get into trouble, etc. But, keep scolding people, I'm sure that will work out eventually.
And if you want to make a point about minimum wage, I'll listen, but I hope you're not going to just quote those at the very bottom because that's a pretty incomplete picture of the labor situation. I know we've got approaching 50 million poor enough to qualify for food stamps, so that's a fairly good indication of the number of Americans barely getting by, and with real unemployment topping out over 10%, it's not like you can tell them all to just GET A JOB! and that would work because the jobs do not exist.
