ScottL wrote:Corporations run Washington (both sides, but we're discussing conservatives right now).
If corporations have undue influence it is the consequence of allowing our nation's governance to become so corrupt.
I believe some if not a large part of this is due to the passage of the 26th and 24th amendments, and to some extent the 19th amendment. Each one of these Amendments changed the character of the people being sent to Washington towards the worse.
ScottL wrote:
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for eternity. Stick a man in the desert and expect him to fish, good luck.
Restrict access to the pier, and only allow him to catch fish of a certain size (minimum wage) and he will surely starve but for the fish you give him. Minimum wage KILLS jobs for people with no skills.
ScottL wrote:
The unemployed populace outnumbers the available jobs, so "Get a Job" is kind of not an option. Conservatives say let him make himself a job...with what education or funding exactly? At least give the man a chance.
Unh unh unh! (Wagging my finger) You can't violate the laws of economics. They are like the laws of physics. If you decree that no one may have a job unless it pays "X" , then all work that is worth less than "X" will not occur.
Liberals want to chop off the bottom steps of the economic ladder and then complain that no one can climb for some reason!
ScottL wrote:
As for not wanting to pay for other's problems (children...etc.) fund SOCIAL programs to educate the populace on birth control and other valuable lessons.
We funded Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty" to the tune of a trillion dollars. Know what we got for it? MORE POVERTY! People found out that they could live for free off a welfare check and flipped millions of people from useful citizens to helpless dependency.
And if you think our government is going to "educate" them into not having children for a bigger check, then you simply do not comprehend the social dynamics at work.
ScottL wrote:
Do it for a few generations and I'm sure it will stick. It's a hell of a lot cheaper than the current method, but of course you'd have to get conservatives to clear sex education which rarely if ever happens.
Absurd. Sex education will cure nothing. People must be taught (by life, not government) that they must behave responsibly or they will suffer the consequences of their foolishness. Lyndon Johnson allowed people to be foolish because the GOVERNMENT payed the costs of child rearing and providing housing and food in substitution of the absent (unnecessary) fathers.
As someone who ought to comprehend the concept of "
negative feedback" for complex
control systems, you ought to see the need for it in social systems as well.
‘What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.’
— Lord Melbourne —