07-06-2007, 09:32 AM
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Machiavelli Incarnate
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: chapmanville, wv
Posts: 5,781
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Originally Posted by 21yroldmillionaire
As far as the credit report. Pay your bills and don’t live above your means. If you aren’t happy with what you can afford then get another job. I’ve felt the hit on credit reports before. I tried to get a home loan a few years ago. I was denied because I had never owed anyone any money. I went and rented a TV for the next year, credit climbed.
You know you seem to have a rather narrow view of immigration. Most Americans have no problem with legal immigrants.
Whoa… maybe in some other part of the nation. I am from Georgia. I went home on leave back in November and went to a local burger king. I had to order my meal in Spanish because the illegal working there couldn’t speak any English. I have a problem with that.
When it comes to social mobility, I don’t think it’s that bad in America. My dad was born into a very poor family and he was poor up until I was a teenager, maybe 17. Now my grandfather is upper middle class, my father is wealthy and I am getting there. All three of us changed social classes. From living in a single wide trailer, to a camper, to a house. It can be done, but it’s not easy. The only thing keeping people from progressing is that they don’t want to work for it. It’s to easy to be poor and take a hand out. Stop feeding out derelicts and our poor and they will progress. Its harder to slack off when you are hungry.
You are where you are by the decisions that you have made. Our credit system may suck, but it works.
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That would be my point...in fact I have stated such on numerous occasions...the only thing holding the majority of lower middle class and the poor back are in fact the various and sundry "social programs" that were put into place to have the appearance of helping....they were deemed "THE GREAT SOCIETY PROGRAMS"....In fact the only thing they seemed to have accomplished is to "hold" a certain demography of peoples at bay and thus locking them into the lower rung of one of the "social classifications created by Labeling and Defining this certain demography of the population "POOR" or the "WORKING POOR".....they are locked into a certain lifestyle by the benefits provided by the government...as the qualifications of such programs are narrow and limited....these peoples must ensure they remain within these stated guidelines for qualifications to ensure continued support of future benefits....these benefits are like holding a pork chop out in front of a starving person and at the last second pulling it back and giving him a piece of bologna....substance but not quality....and the starving person makes the perception that bologna is better than starving...especially sense he does not have to work for the bologna....in fact if he did refuse the government handout of bologna....and sought support in the private sector....at the "entry level" due to his/her qualifications...they would have to give up "perks" of remaining on the human services rolls......health care at 100% coverage...day care....housing...utilities paid for...phone services offered to certain pre qualified people.....these perks can not be matched by private industry...in fact taking an entry level position would probably be a step down on the social rung....and this is why there is a feeling of hopelessness...these funds and helps are handed out...free......with no requests from the government for recompense at all.....so the majority of those receiving this support have found "loopholes" in the system to take advantage of the system....such as the health care provided....they use this system to supplement their income...as there is no copay....they seek less than honest medical treatments and thus go into the drug dealing industry...a crime. Some resort to professional thieving for supplement....a crime..all due to the time on hand and the lack of education and the will to change....and who do all these people vote for....why of course...the people they perceive as holding the purse strings to their way of life. BD
Last edited by bluedog; 07-06-2007 at 09:37 AM.
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