Local governments have a couple of things they do. One of them is they work to drive up property values. Everyone in town likes it when they value of their homes go up. Police, parks stuff like that all help with property values.
Nowadays America is all about maximizing shareholder value. We just do not want to spend the money of children.
Shagnasty:
Good for you. Do you make above minimum wage all things considered? That is what we are talking about. I wish everyone used their personal gifts to do whatever they can do.
For me, that means lots of sleep and family time. I work to live and not the other way around. That is a common middle-class attitude and one of the reasons that I am not that ambitious but a very good professional. I have plenty of money but I just use it to make my life easier in some ways. I have no interest in working my ass off until I die.
I just got through bitching my daughter out because she made a ‘C’ in one of
There are vanishingly few people that make near minimum wage and work a sustained 80 hour work week. That is a myth perpetuated by liberals but it is completely false. I worked a 77 hour work week once in high school unloading trucks and stocking shelves and it almost killed me even in peak physical condition. I also worked three jobs while in college and only one of them payed minimum wage - administrative assistant, research assistant and wedding caterer. The latter paid the bills and the first two were for experience. As Shodan has repeatedly pointed out (correctly), most chronically poor people don’t work much if at all. The idea of a single mother that works 80 hours a week has about as much basis in reality as BigFoot.
Can I toss this in also about working 3 jobs?
I did this back in college on occasion and I would notice I actually had more take home pay since they took out fewer taxes.
Shagnasty:
Every word of yours is just baiting for something no one in this thread said. I can’t speak for the person that wrote it but I personally know white trash families (their term) that have the same mentality. Intergenerational poverty is something they excel at and have no intent on changing. School is for suckers and the goal is to drop out as soon as they legally can. If there was an Olympic event in dysfunction households, they would win it all. I don’t know how you can help someone like that except for the somewhat rare cases of a child that wants to make it out.
For a good example of this, watch the movie, The Wild Whites of West Virginia. Yes. one messed up clan.