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2012-04-19, 02:15 PM | [Ignore Me] #1 | |||
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I'm still hazy on what "more than they're worth" means. Is there a cap to how much a data analyst can be paid? If so, can you enlighten me? I'd be interested to know if there is an illegally high amount of money I could be paid. Gives me some idea as to my limitations. As for your own personal experience: good for you. You were making wages near poverty level and happy. That's fine. But you don't get to tell other people that it's good for them because it's good for you. |
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2012-04-19, 02:31 PM | [Ignore Me] #2 | |||
It's so funny how some people talk in the US. I saw , where someone from his show talked to people in Mississippi -- an apparently very poor but also very conservative state -- and there were guys missing teeth and living in a heap of garbage talking about how they don't want health care to be affordable and how good it was back in the day when nobody had anything and they were proud of it. The quote at the end there really summed up this line of thinking: "We would rather go broke and die hungry than give up our moral beliefs. I'm going to stand up for what I believe in even if I go broke doing it." How noble. Except that what he believes in is apparently the right for him to die hungry and go broke. Getting paid a living wage for your work and being able to rest easy knowing you won't go broke if you get hurt or sick isn't some kind of insidious Commu-Nazi Socialist Muslim ideology that requires you to say you love Allah and hate freedom. Only in America is what amounts to the basic expectations of citizens seen as a dastardly plot to destroy their moral belief in dying young and in pain because they're poor and can't afford health care. |
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2012-04-19, 04:18 PM | [Ignore Me] #4 | ||
Republicans have only 12% less of the <$100,000 income than Democrats. Democrats don't have the poor vote in any major sense. If they did, they'd never lose an election, as quite a large portion of the population is poor. But as the poor, toothless Mississippians who live in filth said, they'll keep voting Republican even though it doesn't do anything to benefit them because by God they have morals and they stand for something and maybe one day, who knows, maybe voting Republican will do something for them. And who'll be laughing then?
There'll always be poor, stupid people who'll vote Republican no matter what because they've been sold some bullshit about how Democrats are girls and even if your political part doesn't give a fuck about doing anything for you, you're a *** if you complain. So if you acknowledge that there are problems with America and vote Democrat because you don't think "more money for rich people" sounds like a good party line, that means you're a lesbian. Ad hominem responses earn you an automatic douchebag stamp. I don't care what your opinion of Bill Maher is. Last edited by Warborn; 2012-04-19 at 04:22 PM. |
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2012-04-19, 02:38 PM | [Ignore Me] #5 | ||
Second Lieutenant
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I've said it before and I'll say it again here: the Republican party, and conservative movement in general, has to be commended for accomplishing what people in power have been trying to figure out for all of human history: how the rich can get the poor to support them.
And as it turns out, it's rather simple. First, play to their fears. Tell them that their fears, no matter how irrational or couched in ignorance, are real, and that they will fight tirelessly to protect them from those fears. "All we have to fear is fear itself"... ah, how far we've come. Second, invent new ones. Make sure those fears are of the people who would help the poor and marginalized. Your opponents, essentially. Third, support the economic policies of the rich to garner support and political power. Repeat as necessary. The conservatives have always had the money, and liberals, the poor. Only at some point, through some incredibly crafty and, frankly, genius theater, the right managed to grab the poor too. Not by making them less poor. By keeping them poor, and scared of the bogeyman, and telling them only they have the anti-bogeyman ointment. you have to applaud it, as you die a little inside. |
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2012-04-19, 06:46 PM | [Ignore Me] #8 | ||
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Have a look at some teachers salaries.
http://www.familytaxpayers.org/salary.php Just type in a common name such as "smith" They certainly are not making nothing. Remember these people get boo-co vaca, health insurance, a pension at 55 with 60% pay until death plus SocSec. Remember they pay almost nothing into their pension, health insurance etc...they are funded by tax payer monies. Also once they've taught for 2 years they get tenure and can NEVER be fired. Here's the best part, they get summers off! They are free to make additional income or loaf around and drink margaritas. Trust me, my friends are teachers, their tans are perfect. My mother in is a high school guidance consular make 120k a year! I know that for a fact and its correctly reported here so these are actual salaries. Edit: Bill Mahar is a douchebag Last edited by HalfManHalfGod; 2012-04-19 at 06:56 PM. |
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