I wondered what was taking so long at the drive through.
You are right. What rich white kid in the suburbs doesn't sit around watching TV, playing video games, and fantasizing about being a baller or a rapper, instead of becoming a teacher?
When you guys are ready to talk solutions (and actually listen), please advise. Until then, rest assured that racists like Michelle Obama are shouldering your share of the load.
Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.
almost like i hand picked it
This is a class issue. Most people living in poverty in this country are white.
But seriously, why can't we fix this? Why isn't finishing the achievable goal of high school a precondition for eligibility for long-term unemployment?
Because humanitarians like you screw around all day on a message board?
Just tell kids to go to school, but this year, really mean it. Problem solved.
Who's going to guarantee kids a job after this precondition is met? A private company? Who's going to enforce it? Bigger government? Where do the people who don't finish school go? Ohio?
That's a statistic, which no one is arguing with btw, not a solution or a plan.
The speaker is talking about a real problem. No one is saying otherwise. But you have lept upon this little trick a comedian pulled on his show thinking it proves some kind of point you are making.
Yes, it is a real problem.
No, your solution would not fix it, or fix anything, because it is a non-solution. It was dreamed up in the mind of a fiction writer and has been exalted as some kind of work of genius by people who resent the poor.
It would save you money, presumably, on your taxes - and it would relieve your anxiety about poor people, but it wouldn't make American kids stop playing video games and jump up and become lawyers (like we need more fucking lawyers) or engineers.
What would make them jump up and become earners of a good wage and have long careers would be...jobs with good wages and long careers. :noidea:
When you guys are ready to talk solutions (and actually listen), please advise. Until then, rest assured that racists like Michelle Obama are shouldering your share of the load.
Bill Maher knew that his panelists were far more interested in scoring political points than actually solving problems. He was 100% right.
The purpose of this thread was all about solutions. See below.