Hello Lee,
On Mon 2012-Nov-12 21:27, Lee Lofaso (2:203/2) wrote to Richard Webb:
RW>YEah I know, but ...
LL> But what? Asians have to eat, too.
YEah I know, it's kinda habit forming.
As for but what ... but don't come across to me as some kind of great job
creator and bringer of prosperity when it's all done with lies and bs.
RW>> Hmmm, KB toy was a thriving popular destination at many
RW>> shopping malls across the country. IT went Toes up under
RW>> the guidance of MItt Romney.
RW>> Yep, job creators, maybe for minimum wage drones, or more
RW>> like they created an opportunity to do a job on the
RW>> taxpayers.
LL>> Bob K. hates for me to bring this up, but in many cases folks are
LL>> much better off not working at all. By working, those very same
LL>> folks deny themselves government benefits they would otherwise be
LL>> entitled to. I call them "the working poor." They earn too much to
LL>> qualify for govermnet benefits, but do not earn enough to pay for
LL>> those same things on the open market (food, rent, health care,
LL>> prescription drugs, etc.).
RW>WE make more of them all the time as they go to work at
RW>Walmart. ,yup> I know people who must work "under the
RW>table" so as to keep those life saving benefits, because if
RW>they didn't have them they couldn't pay for the medications
RW>that keep them alive.
LL> We have a system that is broken, needing to be fixed. But nobody
LL> (politicians) wants to fix the system as that would upset the status
LL> quo. Better to leave things as they are rather than take a chance
LL> of getting booted out of office.
Yeup, lost a good bench tech in the last year, I couldnt'
afford to under the table him as far under as he needed me
to go, and if I didn't he waas that close to the line of
losing his government stipend, and more importantly, the
medical that would go along with it. But then, if I pay him totally under the
table i hurt somebody else, and myself.
Whatever, a skilled craftsman finds it more cost effective
to idle his hands and not use his skills because working for me, and at least
one oother enterprise would cost him. HE
wants to work, likes his work. Oh well.
RW>> I get real tired of listening to these people piss moan and
RW>> whine about some guy getting food stamps when they look the
RW>> other way at billions of largess bestowed upon crooks on
RW>> Wall Street.
LL>> Lots of everyday folks invest in Wall Street. Most of them
LL>> indirectly, and not with a lot a cash to worry about. So please. Do
LL>> realize not everyone is a crook. :)
RW>Right, but the crooks are the guys who take those average
RW>folks for the big ride, but I think you knew that's waht I
RW>meant.
LL> Yeah. But sometimes folks can take my words too literally,
LL> thinking I am being serious. Many people are dependent on 401(k)
LL> plans, and other retirement plans, thinking their retirement is
LL> safely tucked away. However, lots of folks found out the hard way
LL> that such retirement plans are not as solid as they once seemed...
Right, because the managers bought into the snake oil.
PEnsion funds and the like lost too.
RW>> As for the great occupy movement, it was anotehr bad joke.
LL>> The occupy wall street movement has transformed itself into being
LL>> the occupy sandy movement.
RW>
LL> I was making a serious comment. And you think I was joking?
I figured you might be, but they'll probably be as effective at that as they
were at occupying Wall Street .
Regards,
Richard
... Love is being owned by a rottweiler!
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