DukeNukeEm

A university study that shows the university degrees they sell aren't really getting people anywhere? I'm not holding my breath for that data to every be collected and correlated to the real problem.

I dont think anyone stops to make sure he's OK when there's such a crucial play on the field. Its not like you have time to think about the whole situation, that s*** happened in less than a second.

Another burden working Americans are expected to bear on behalf of "your feelings" or "the greater good" or some other cliched bulls***.

And if you couldn't man up and deal with that, or at least use it to motivate yourself to find something better in the meantime.... well that would've made you kind of a wussie, wouldn't it? Its always fun with this starts to come full circle.

There is not a shortage of those types of jobs. Nor will there be.

Or a second (or third) job. Even though you could survive on $25k/year pretty easily. Let me guess though, single mom's cant do that? People get tired? Health and stress costs? What excuses are you going to come up with here?

Nah only people who are demanding exorbitant wages and accommodations are allowed to b**** the media about how their needs aren't being fulfilled

If she cant support herself being temporarily unemployed, or is sucking off government teat, then yea she should go be a Sandwich Artist until she gets her architect dream job. Nothing is beneath any of us, gotta do what you gotta do.

I went out to Williston ND in September and interviewed with Halliburton for a job that would've been essentially $50/hour type pay. They are desperate for people, and if I were unemployed I would've taken the job they offered me in a heartbeat.

I made it to "Companies that want better workers need to pay more". That's just not how it works, at every job I've ever had you start out with a relatively low wage then prove yourself to be worth a higher wage. When you see a job for $11/hour dont look at that, think about how you can make it $16/hour within a couple years. I'd also rather make $12/hour working 60 hours/week than $15/hour working 40 hours a week.

It describes a vast amount of the mid-early 20's unemployed.

I do.

I'm guessing Cubs fans hate this, right?

At what point do poor people be put at fault for being poor in your eyes? What do they have to do? Can it ever be their fault? (I know I'm parroting shack, but you are dodging this question)

And that's the responsibility of the rest of us? That's our cross to bear? Hell no. I would never give poor people a dime of my money because for the one that actually spends on his/her's cost of living/some form of betterment there's 99 lined up at the liquor store or crack dealer.

I'm 23. I'm a college dropout. I dont have a tradeskill other than general handiness and a good knowledge of preventive automobile maintenance from working for Jiffy Lube in HS. I'm going to make $60k in 2013, up from $40k in 2012. It was as simple as me thinking to myself "Hey, I really dont like being poor", and just taking whatever extra jobs I could get. It was that f***ing simple. I really dont care how many W-2's I get. I barely even care what the wage is. I just know that if I work 60+ hours a week (summers are much busier, winters are a bit slower) and DIY everything I reasonably can I will not only support myself but also be putting lots of money away. Now I'm not poor anymore, this year I'm going to be writing a check to the government (not receiving one), I'm starting to think about buying some dirt cheap foreclosure acreage out West (I'm a little intimidated now but I actually can make good faith research and move towards that goal), I get a little out of hand at the bar once a while and I dont wake up the next morning wondering how I'll make it another month. I created that for myself. If other people cant then they are losers. It is that simple, I dont need data or some apologist academic agreeing with me to prove it.

I meant outraged.

Dont mock your God like that. Much like religion's God, he can be become very wrathful. Seriously though, you found one thing to enrage you and then ran with it. Usually it elicits an actual response not this "lol so terrible look at them and laugh with me father government haha lolol".

You're just cherrypicking because my argument made you uncomfortable. I know you dont actually believe the industrialized slaughter of 50 million people in a 6 year span is preferable to one girl being date-raped. But you are proving my point for me. Addicted to outrage, the truth hurts so you run behind your state-deity hoping to be shielded.

I'm not minimizing rape, you're just maximizing it. You missed the point. Let people have some ability to decide their own fate and what happens to them personally. If you're scared of bridges, make an effort to never go over them unless you absolutely have to. Seems like a stupid idea though doesn't it? I mean the chances of you getting killed in a bridge collapse are pretty damn low. But hey, so are your chances of getting shot at a movie theater and nobody seems to call disproportionate responses to preventing that from happening crazy.

... and the saddest part: If you actually try to put s*** in perspective you're suddenly an advocate of whatever bad thing it was that tried to put into perspective.

Yes it does. As BigSqwerts video showed the dont just all of a sudden ignore entire amendments, they do so incrementally. Little bits at a time. The 2A has already suffered through the 1934 NFA, the 1986 expansion of the NFA and the 94 ban (which thankfully expired). Guns have already been regulated, that's old news.... its just very clear now that lawmakers are on a march to ban all of them. They cant do it all at once, but if they ease into like they did with the 4A, 7A and the 1A eventually they'll have gotten rid of it.

Skipping the fact that you think the government has nothing to gain by ripping up the Constitution and dissolving the republic.... and that our cities, which have the toughest gun laws, are flooded with guns anyways... As a country, were addicted to outrage and sensitive to everything that happens to us (even s*** we do to ourselves). Kid get bullied, we act like its a war-crime. Girl gets date-raped, move over World War 2 and the Black Death there's a new Greatest Tragedy in the History of Mankind. A CEO of a company donates to organizations that dont fit a pro-gay agenda, were at DEFCON 0 THE MISSILES ARE IN THE AIR. Look, all of that s*** is bad. From hating the gays to kids getting bullied, I'm not saying this should be happening and that we should encourage it. However that doesn't mean we have to mobilize ourselves every couple weeks and demand the government come swooping in to fix all of our problems. That's not the right move. Because every time we do that the government winds up doing something, maybe it isn't as dramatic as a law but its always something; a new (or expanded) bureaucracy, a new executive order, a change in policy from the executive, hidden amendments to benign spending bills... it all comes around. None of it actually makes us safer, or does anything to stop any of the bad s*** that happens, but that's not the point. The government really is God to people, we come to them humbly begging their favor and even if they dont deliver we keep trying. That's like the definition of blind faith. Meanwhile we keep have our rights limited, the government's power expands and grows (mostly with no function other than to just expand and grow), lawmakers pass more useless laws and the establishment sits comfortably on their throne. Bad things happen. 20 kids are going to die sometimes in tragic fashion, that's not a new human phenomenon (though rabid media exposure is), doesn't mean we need to ban guns. A bridge is going to collapse in Minneapolis that kills a few people, doesn't mean we need to greenlight billions in pork spending. Terrorists are going to attack us and people are going to die every once and while, doesn't mean we should wage two unwinnable wars for a decade. s*** happens, and government is almost never going to be able to stop that. Worry about what you can control, and that's your actions and your attitudes... because when we stop trusting ourselves to do the right thing government and its pals are right there waiting to take all they can from us in exchange for instilling a false sense of security.

That's because I have nothing to gain by running every facet of your life under the boot of totalitarianism. Our military establishment and government might stand to gain a little more from that, however.

I'm not the one who wants to close the thread because I disagree with it. I never call for any of the liberal toons and their barrage of condescending posts and threads to be put in the gutter.