Decency, Trump and Obama.

[Benton]

(03-14-2017, 04:03 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I missed this earlier. This is all fine and dandy, but in the real world there aren't enough positions to make this reasoning work. Not everyone can move up into a better position, and we need people at the bottom rungs. This whole premise has the same fault as the one that has caused an overabundance of college educated people not using their degrees. If we aren't going to have every person be able to work a full-time job and make a living wage, then there needs to be an adequate social net in place to support them.

The issue becomes what's livable.


I read an article a few years ago about how "poor" the top (I think it was top 10%) of earners think they are. Basically, it was a lot of folks with Mike Brown Syndrome — millions of dollars in the bank, significant recurring income, and yet they feel like they don't have enough money. On the other end of the spectrum, you've got guys who think they're set for life if they can get a job making more than $14 an hour with insurance. And a lot of businesses — maybe the bulk — are supported by spending from those somewhere in between.