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Keep the fucking poor poor and have the rich pay more and more in taxes to support those people. Instead of allowing them to feel self respect by making enough to live and feed their families on.
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If someone is working at Taco Bell as a cashier for their career, is that man going to have any REAL self-respect, or respect of others regardless if they make $5 or $9 an hour?
No. The American Dream is that every American CAN reach their goal. It never said everyone does. People do poorly in school, people drop out of school, these people should know that if you work in a minimum wage job your whole life your lifestyle is going to be minimum.
Everyone HAS a chance in America. If your parents are dead broke you still get a free education. If you can not afford college there are PLENY to ways around the problem. I know, my parents have barely spent a dime on me (because they cant afford to), so I got scholarships, I take out loans.
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You're right countries like Germany, Sweden, and others that PAY workers decent wages and have far less personal debt and national debt and higher standards of living and better educational systems are far less superior to our country where people are far deep in debt and the division of classes is worse here than in the last 100 years and we want to make it even worse.
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Those countries also have economies that'd cause an uproar if it happened here. Their jobs are getting outsourced to the point that their unemployment levels are close to what they were during much of the depression (15% is the average at the moment I think).