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This is going to end up in a forwarded chain email somewhere.

The horror!

It's a mix of American Exceptionalism and not understanding that a country which has the best specialists money can buy means nothing if the people can't afford it.

Replace Obama and Pelosi with Bush and Reagan and your post makes sense.

Are you joking?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs0Jji27OX8

To put it succinctly, "If society needs a job to be worked, then the person who works it should be able to live comfortably." Otherwise you're dooming a segment of society to a low-quality life for simply being unlucky enough to work a particular job.

Only one of these is correct. Can you guess which one? Hint: What is our current unemployment rate?

Companies are making profits. They just don't want to give their workers more than they have to.

Picking these two because I find these to be the most egregious, and the most ignorant. You don't think workplaces would provide unsafe work environments for their workers, and that workers should be allowed to work in unsafe, low pay environments "if they want to"? You have studied the early...

Or ban outside funding and give candidates a pool of publicly funded money to run their campaign on, giving every candidate a more equal playing field against each other.

Unless your job is working in a factory setting where you're producing something of immediate value which can be averaged in some $ output per hour, it's not so clear cut to determine what the "marginal production" of a worker is. Middle class and lower class salaries have been stagnant for...

This, like much of what you've posted, is a devaluation of labor. You're pegging the cost of a workers compensation on what they can be made to work the lowest for, which easily ends up with labor being taken advantage of. The problem is when the majority of employers do the same practices...

I bolded the important part for you.

"You can always quit" isn't a good answer to this. It may be the case that quitting your low-wage job which just gets you by means that you can't pay rent. You can't afford to quit. Or other jobs in the same field provide the same low wages. You're a wage slave with no recourse other than...

The cheapest state school where I live is $10,000 a year + books and other expenses. You're basing an opinion on outdated perceptions of how much college can cost, even when you're doing it on the cheap.

Laptops are often needed in today's college environment. In fact none of the items you've listed are that expensive. You can even get an iPhone for cheap nowadays. Laptops for as cheap as a few hundred.

How much was your yearly tuition?

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The labor market in this country has been taken advantage of, salaries haven't increased with productivity, and benefits continue to be slashed. Just because a business can take advantage of economic conditions to pay a worker very little for their labor doesn't make it a right decision. People...