Trueisms

[Ronkh]

[JHL88]

Amen!!

[Oldfordisbetter]

That just made my day thank you

[Ronkh]

Kinda puts a different spin on things

[MooreImpressive]

its true, the Welfare, Disability, Food Stamps, Housing and Utility Assistance in most countries is completely corrupt. Still hails in comparison to the Billions of dollars that large corporations steal, cover up, and lie about owing each year. its not even close.

[Ronkh]

its true, the Welfare, Disability, Food Stamps, Housing and Utility Assistance in most countries is completely corrupt. Still hails in comparison to the Billions of dollars that large corporations steal, cover up, and lie about owing each year. its not even close.

elaborate please

[MooreImpressive]

Seriously?

[Ronkh]

Seriously?

yep

[MooreImpressive]

Google.com

[Ronkh]

its true, the Welfare, Disability, Food Stamps, Housing and Utility Assistance in most countries is completely corrupt. Still hails in comparison to the Billions of dollars that large corporations steal, cover up, and lie about owing each year. its not even close.

elaborate please

Seriously?

yep

Google.com

A non answer? Or can`t answer with specifics...?

[Bunky]

The corporate welfare for defense industry is a model of waste in the name of a good cause and jobs.

The real problem is that politics slows or prevents reforms of all these programs (corporate and people welfare). I think this is intentional so each side can keep their base motivated. Most voting motivations is the statement --- "I am not going to let xxxx take away yyyy".

[Setec Astronomy]

C`mon Ron, you`re not seriously trying to suggest that large corporations don`t do their share of milking the system? Shall we start with the Cayman Islands addresses, the fact that companies like GE, Verizon, Boeing (frequently) don`t pay any corporate income taxes, etc.?

The Sorry State of Corporate Taxes | Citizens for Tax Justice

(I`m no follower or fan of that site, I just googled "large corporations that pay no income tax"; but I originally found out about this situation here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/bu...5tax.html?_r=0)

[Swanicyouth]

C`mon Ron, you`re not seriously trying to suggest that large corporations don`t do their share of milking the system?

Who cares? At least corporations provide jobs and bring products to market.

What are we going to do with all these useless eaters???

[Bunky]

Who cares? At least corporations provide jobs and bring products to market.

The majority of the jobs are not created in the USA. Manufacturing in another country may not be by itself wrong but the huge exodus of jobs as corporate profits have soared (all the trickle down working somewhere else) has left us with a workforce, many without needed skills, without decent paying jobs.

We do need entitlement reform but the benefits of the improving economy have not reach all yet to reduce the impact on social programs (welfare, food stamps).

[Swanicyouth]

The majority of the jobs are not created in the USA. Manufacturing in another country may not be by itself wrong but the huge exodus of jobs as corporate profits have soared (all the trickle down working somewhere else) has left us with a workforce, many without needed skills, without decent paying jobs.

We do need entitlement reform but the benefits of the improving economy have not reach all yet to reduce the impact on social programs (welfare, food stamps).

This country manufactured "stuff" before all these entitlements started. If half the people in this country weren`t receiving some type of "entitlement" (love that term), there would be more competition for jobs - and costs of labor would probably go down. In fact, you could probably actually make something in this country.

The problem IMHO isn`t an economic one - it`s a mentality problem. There are huge clumps of cities in America where nobody works. There are government programs for medical care, food, and housing. The government is there to see nobody goes without. Well, maybe if people are in fear of "going without" they would get a damn job.

IMHO the only way to fix it is to cut them off. The labor force would increase, new workers would have earned dollars to spend and pay more taxes - and the economy would be stimulated. New jobs would be created.

How did this all work 100 years ago before all these BS entitlement programs??? Those who worked ate - those that didn`t - didn`t. It was pretty simple. America manufactured all types of goods. Now we make nothing and a large portion of our population sits at home each day waiting for a government check.