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The same people who are demanding open immigration and free citizenship and healthcare for everyone, raising corporate and business taxes over 50%, forcing many of our companies to go overseas are now complaining they cannot get any work? Well, I still think its extreme, because if they got money for expensive drugs and can feed an expensive drug habit, they may have money to also educate themselves and develop some hirable skill.Seems like the focus should be on why so many black men are in jail, why there is so much black on black crime, drug use etc. Higher level societal issues rather than focusing on rare situations like Jacob Blake. Unfortunately cell phone cameras aren't capturing that 10,000 foot view.
The way globalization and automation are going, I don't have high hopes for training many of these people so they can get jobs.
It reminds me of a Kurt Vonnegut book from the 1950s called Player Piano.
Society had reached a level of automation where a large segment was not needed to work, and was NEVER going to be needed to work. Predictions I'm reading now are that the current economic trends are different and the economy is unlikely to grow enough to employ those being displaced. ( in "new" fields)
This leads to segments of the population being on permanent government income. How you keep people in such a state from spiraling into drug abuse would be a big challenge --- apparently they did it on Star Trek
It sounds like an excuse.. If they seriously think there is no work available, maybe we can toss out all these illegals I see who work a good number of the lower pay job in our societies and replace it with these supposedly disenfranchised people who have no means to work a job. It sounds a little simpler than Star Trek to me... Maybe we should stop over-regulating our businesses, constantly raising taxes and mismanaging our budgets. A country that has so much money to play with is always somehow deeply in debt. It seems like the ANti-Gunner states are the worst in this respect.. Look at California, they cannot balance a budget despite having the highest GDP and highest taxes in the country. They also have millions of illegal aliens in their state and their taxes actually pay for many benefits , including health care for these illegal residents.
I find it ironic same people who want everyone to live on welfare want every person around the globe to have free citizenship and strain our social and economic system even more. The truth is that many Americans don't want to work.. They want free stuff and government handouts. Politicians want a vote..
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