The Cure is not "Mo' Jobs"

[RedSilk]

I think Scanner's posts are definitely very thought inducing.

What I find funny is when people in the middle class criticize poor people, "why don't they just stay in school", "why don't they try to find jobs", "they're just too lazy", etc.

There are also problems in the middle class but they don't see it themselves. Middle class workers are easily replaced, they are reliant on someone elses business, they don't save or invest very much. They also can't dig themselves out of the middle class hole just like poor people can't.

Tax cuts are certainly not the answer. As scanner said, businesses will not hire more people because of tax cuts. "Give tax cuts to job creators" is simply a proganda and poor/middle class people are actually buying into it.

[Scanner]

Redsilk,

What that is another discussion too - even our government has said education is the answer. But we all kind of know too that we can't operate a society entirely of PhD's. We need janitors and jailors too.

So. . .what are transitional type of jobs? (fast food)
What jobs "deserve" to be middle class? (construction, healthcare)
Who do we reward at the top of our society? (athletes, CEO's)

I don't wish any ill upon the Oprah Winfrey's and Bill Gates of the world - they have contributed. But neither should we pander to them.

The funny thing is, I don't think they want to be pandered to, when you talk to these people, and yet, a political movement exists to do exactly that because they are "job creators."