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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let them eat cake, right?

That went real well.[/quote]

This is a classic blunder of the “burn it all down” and “eat the rich” stance.

You think you’re fighting for a noble cause and so you treat “the rich” as a ruling class like Marie Antoinette of France when in reality they are workers in a free land in a government that is OF the people, by the people, and for the people...not some monarchy or dictatorial nation. 
The “system” that you think you are fighting actually created opportunity for anyone who want to set high goals and work to achieve them. And yes I do mean anyone. This is why the race wars that the left is attempting to ignite to champion this Marxist movement in the US will eventually fail—even if it destroys our country in the process. There are so many immigrants who came from nothing and built a good life *starting* at minimum wage jobs and refusing to stop bettering their skills, education and lives along the way because America provides that opportunity to those who want it and commit to working for it. 
If you keep pretending the US is pre-revolutionary France instead of a country with freedom of opportunity by the people and for the people, then you will eventually chase all the wealthy and educated people who have worked from nothing to create and sustain that opportunity out of the country and will be left with ruin. See Russian revolution. See French post-Revolution era.
It will be a very long, depressing road and in the end you’ll be speaking Chinese and working for far less than the current minimum wage you disdain with no way out.[/quote]

I think you need to talk to people who are down in poverty and see if they agree with you.  Because if you believe this and they do not, then don't be suprized if they fight against you.[/quote]

Yes but we do know from research how to help future generations to avoid living in poverty even if we change nothing about the wages or the system.
We just aren’t teaching students the things they neeed to know to improve their future conditions. And that is, to live above the poverty line in the US, you must do only these three things:
1. Graduate high school
2. Do not start a family until you are married (or have a two-parent commitment to raising family in one household—for those who object to the “marriage” label)
3. Get a job. ANY job. Even a minimum wage job under those 2 previous conditions will keep today’s high school students out of poverty as adults.[/quote]

boy are you naive.  somebody has to clean toilets.  If everybody does these things, then the bottom of the people who do these things will have to clean toilets.  And do you really think people who work 40 hours per week cleaning toilets should never have a family?  If you told me that, and I was a toilet cleaner, I'd rebel.[/quote]

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