first of all, the OP can get back to me when he's 45 and has had some actual EXPERIENCE in the working world...including supporting himself for a decade or two.

There is definitely a growing gap in this country between the very rich and the middle class with the middle class shrinking. That is not a good sign overall, for a developed nation's economy.

My opinion is that a large part of the problem is that the middle class by and large supports the government and the poor because we are over taxed. While corporations and the very wealthy pay less than their fair share via legal manuvering that they can afford. Everyone knows this happens but no one had the cajones to do anything about it.

This intentionally pits the middle class against the poor when actually we should be united in demanding that corporations and the wealthy (and ALL gove't employees) pay their fair share.

Eyeglasses required.

just a brief interruption to say: case in point

I've got plenty of experience.
It's called knowledge. You don't have to be ancient to know.
Knowledge makes up for experience.
That's all you need. Years mean absolutely nothing other than time.
By the time I'm 45 I'll be a Scrooge.

To rid the workplace of high paid slackers,one of the first things needing done is dump AA and make forced quotas for hiring separatist minorities.

Oh Yes... Let us give the government more money..

That will solve all our problems..

lol,, yeah, THATS gonna put a dent in the high paid slackers,,,lol

considering those 'minorities' make up such a large portion of the overpaid,,,,

I'm referring to the slackers.
The ones making the same bucks as everyone else yet instead of doing their job,they lean on the shovel or on the cell bsing.
If the employers fire em, AA helps them sue.

BTW
Our taxpayers dollars fund the racist AA.

This topic needs a broader view of the US job market. The big lie that government and others keep telling is that illegals take jobs that citizens don't want. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Years ago, illegals primarily picked farm products, then they entered the construction industry. At first they just took bottom of the barrel labor jobs. The one's usually taken by college and high school students in the summer and part time. (I had one of these jobs)

Then trades, particularly, masons, concrete finishers, etc., started using illegals. The roofers and yard maintenance companies followed. Not only did much of the part time and student age jobs disappear, the ability to learn a profession such as carpentry, plumbing, or masonry disappeared along with it. I recently went to a bridge construction project and not a single person at the site spoke English.

There are millions of jobs being performed by illegals that millions of citizens would like to have and most of them lead to upward mobility and higher pay.

The problem is that the political parties see illegals not as non-citizens who have invaded our country but as potential voters.

how does one fund a law? Exactly,,lol

anyhow, like I Said, getting rid of AA wouldn't make a DENT In those not doing their jobs,,,, and AA doesn't sue anyone,,lol

perhaps you mean the EEOC or the ACLU? and even they have a standard of PROOF To fulfill so that they cant just spend time and manpower to 'sue' those who have fired someone for slacking,,,

Look it up.
We, the taxpayers, pay AA to sue and discriminate against the rest of us.

don't have to look it up, grew up in an AA household as my mother was an EEOC investigator as a career,,lol'

and too many have opinions about AA Without having a clue what it even is , or when and how it is applied....

No chit?!!!??!!

So, AA is not using our tax dollars?

Key phrase, Federal Agency.

Federal agency charged with enforcing affirmative-action programs has agreed to improve its procedures in order to increase the number of women and members of minority groups in federally assisted construction projects in New York City.

yes, there are AGENCIES which oversee the LAWS

we don't fund the LAW, we fund the AGENCIES,,lol

Hairsplitting.



http://www.mises.org/daily/6604/The-State-Causes-the-Poverty-It-Later-Claims-to-Solve


Conclusion

The reigning paper money system is at the center of the growing income inequality and expanding poverty rates we find in many countries today. Nevertheless, states continue to grow in power in the name of taming the market system that has supposedly caused the impoverishment actually caused by the state and its allies.

If those who claim to speak for social justice do nothing to protest this, their silence can only have two possible reasons. They either don't understand how our monetary system functions, in which case, they should do their research and learn about it; or they do understand it and are cynically ignoring a major source of poverty because they may in fact be benefiting from the paper money system themselves.

no, correcting


we could say we 'fund' the constitution, instead of saying we pay public officials


but it would be incorrect,,,,,we pay PEOPLE whose job includes enforcing the constitution

And that's being polite...

Why would racist LBJ push AA?

Democratic votes.He got the idiots who fell for that separatist agenda, hook,line and sinker.

Oh Goody,let's obfuscate some more,maybe the Topic will go away meanwhile!

http://www.mises.org/daily/6604/The-State-Causes-the-Poverty-It-Later-Claims-to-Solve


Conclusion

The reigning paper money system is at the center of the growing income inequality and expanding poverty rates we find in many countries today. Nevertheless, states continue to grow in power in the name of taming the market system that has supposedly caused the impoverishment actually caused by the state and its allies.

If those who claim to speak for social justice do nothing to protest this, their silence can only have two possible reasons. They either don't understand how our monetary system functions, in which case, they should do their research and learn about it; or they do understand it and are cynically ignoring a major source of poverty because they may in fact be benefiting from the paper money system themselves.