Democrats Want Change

[Benton]

(07-16-2017, 08:35 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: Is it just me or is the basis for the Democratic party just to ***** about everything just to ***** and to play the victim card where everything is the rich people's fault?  They play the victim card to no end.  It's also weird that lawyers, who are mostly wealthy, typically tend to be Democrats, but I guess they're just caught-up in "fighting for rights."

They want change in EVERYTHING, but not everything needs change and most things don't work the way they want them to work.  

Democrats want everything to be equal, which I agree everyone should have equal OPPORTUNITIES, but the Democratic party seems to just want everyone to have equal lives without having to work for it.

My old man grew up dirt-poor with no money and an alcoholic father, but worked his ass off, went to college on academic scholarship, built his way up, and made an awesome life for my family and I, so I know it can be done.

Am I wrong in this thinking?

Just out of curiosity, where did you come up with the idea most lawyers are democrats?

I'm not disputing, I've never seen any numbers. Personally, I just assumed most were republican. Overwhelming majority of elected attorneys I know (or those who have ran for office) were Republicans. 

(07-16-2017, 11:04 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Maybe if the entire country went back to a 1 worker family model, the economy would go back to where 1 person working could support a family? Lol

Time to put a lot men and women back in the kitchen, making sandwiches.

But that's seriously a perfect example of why simply raising the minimum wage to $15/hr isn't an actual solution. Before women entered the workforce in mass, a family could live off of one person's salary. Then two people started working and it was good for a little, until two people working became the norm, then it adjusted to the fact that two people working was required to support a family (obviously excepting if you have a particularly good job).

Wage disparity is the biggest issue nobody is talking about. In the 1940s if both spouses were earning close to the same amount (as they are now), they would be very well off. Now, we've shifted what our workforce looks like and two people may not even be able to pay their bills off minimum wage.