wildgift

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by wildgift 14y ago
I'm a CA Dem, but wish that the CA GOP would get its act together so there would be a credible threat to this voodoo economics. Right now, the CA GOP is in such a sorry state that many people seeking office switch to Dem to even have a shot
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by wildgift 14y ago
We need either a smarter mix of politicians (not likely), or some bureaucrats that have to review the financial effects and report their findings on all changes to compensation. Then we would need a smarter press corps. That is more do-ab
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by wildgift 14y ago
You don't get it because your premise that all schools are crappy is incorrect. There are good schools, and there are crappy ones, at least by their scores. The big spending happens on the poorest student populations, and the results aren
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by wildgift 14y ago
Maybe the situation is different in Canada. I've been there only a couple times, and it seemed cleaner and wealthier. I'm in an area of L.A. where a lot of families cram into 1 bedroom apartments.
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by wildgift 14y ago
The poor by definition make less than average - and right now they make a lot less than average. A median income earner at around 50k per year makes over three times what a minimum wage worker earning around 15k per year makes. These folks
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by wildgift 14y ago
I didn't. I was doing my own calling and networking, and came across a regular job, and took it. I was sick of managing clients and finding new ones.
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by wildgift 14y ago
There are drinkers of all classes, but I think people who have more money drink more alcohol, and more people drink at all. That's been my experience. Just to verify, I did a search on the topic, and research bears it out. http://www.esq
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by wildgift 14y ago
thehodge is on a crazy schedule. (I'm working a regular job, doing foolish hours and harming my health too :/) My personal optimal schedule is 4 hours in the morning, 90 minute break, 2-3 more hours in the afternoon. Then take care of bu
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by wildgift 14y ago
That is cult-like.
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by wildgift 14y ago
Watch out. You might be at risk for workaholism.
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by wildgift 14y ago
Since wealth won't make the rich happier, but poverty seems to make the poor suffer in very concrete ways (like lacking medical insurance), it would make sense for the poor to be paid better, and the wealthy to have smaller paychecks.
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by wildgift 14y ago
Josh, I also apologize for the rage. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
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by wildgift 14y ago
You're deploying a really fucked up stereotype of poor people being heavy drinkers and alcoholics. It's like saying let's go to the ghetto and participate in the culture by doing something self-destructive and negative. That kind of slumm
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by wildgift 14y ago
I find that white people complain the most about racial categorizations... but also talk about racial categorizations the most. And who made up the categories, and laws that discriminated based on categories, and who still holds the power t
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by wildgift 14y ago
yes. metro pcs, virgin mobile, and boost mobile have no-contract $40 a month unlimited and $50 android phones. also, people do have internet and computers. it's around $15 or $20 a month, and you can usually share with a neighbor via wifi
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by wildgift 14y ago
I don't think that's a fair characterization. Most of the teetotalers and very light drinkers I've met in my life are or were working class or poor people. I think middle class people drink more than poor people. If you go to a party wit
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by wildgift 14y ago
Saving is usually motivated by having a need to save money. If you have some goals, you'll save for them. Sometimes, you need role models who show you how to save. I was fortunate and had one parent who was a great saver, and later in li
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by wildgift 14y ago
It also proved that we could accurately launch a rocket that could also be used to blow the USSR to smithereens.
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by wildgift 14y ago
It's easier to sell things to people with spending money than to sell things to people without spending money.
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by wildgift 14y ago
70% chance angersock is a white male.
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by wildgift 14y ago
he or she should stick it out. a machinist is a good job, especially if you can do the trad and the cnc.
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by wildgift 14y ago
I'm a middle class guy but for whatever reasons for the past 20 years or so I've lived largely in poorer communities. It's not some charity thing either. I just like to save money. And this dude is right, drug dealers don't make much mon
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by wildgift 14y ago
It was going OK until he said to get a 40 and drink it on the curb. Fuck you, whatever the fuck your name was.
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by wildgift 14y ago
I agree about this - the fact is, there's a gradient of disability, and a gradient of employability, and a gradient on the ability of people to participate in the market. Having benefits pulled out doesn't work, particularly health insuranc
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by wildgift 14y ago
My sympathies. I know someone with a some similar mental health issue on SSI. It's tough out there. (And they have relied heavily on basically working at home online to have a little extra money. It's tough right now due to the recessio
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by wildgift 14y ago
They can continue to bloat. Eventually, they will cause so much debt that the wealthy will have no choice but to pay for it.
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by wildgift 14y ago
Or pay them to do something useful, but not profitable in the market. For example, childcare. Or taking care of old people. These are totally useful jobs, but babies and retirees don't have money. The adults supporting them no longer hav
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by wildgift 14y ago
I know I'm repeating here, but have you met the people living on the street? They aren't starving, thanks to charity, but they aren't that employable. A lot of them lack limbs, or have serious mental health problems that are probably exac
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by wildgift 14y ago
This is so true. I don't presently have a goal to rise at my current job, so I don't dress the part. If I did want to advance, I'd have to spend around $2,000 on more formal attire, and probably $1,000 on gifts and other kinds of spending
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by wildgift 14y ago
I just heard the show on TAL, and while it was interesting, some aspects grated, particularly the one about learning disabilities. That part of the show is going to end up as a proxy for all kinds of mental disabilities, making it sound li

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