Providing for loved ones is good, yes, but to look past just how badly citizens are being taken advantage of right now -especially- is ridiculous. There's a time to be an optimist and a time to be a realist and frankly, optimism needs to sit down in the corner and shut the fuck up for awhile. It's realities time to shine...
Providing for loved ones is good, yes, but to look past just how badly citizens are being taken advantage of right now -especially- is ridiculous.
The thing is the younger generations do not understand this because they are brought right into the thick of things. I've been at my job for a couple of decades. The pay has increased well, but the job itself has at least quadruple the work and responsibilities it had 20 yrs ago. (the pay hasn't quadrupled by any means, but company profits quadrupled and exec's bonuses as well). They're not willing to increase the labor force...just pile it on the ones already there.
There is labor involved and I see the ones getting out/retiring are in some ways crippled. Bad backs. knees, hips, hearts, etc... and retirement turns into nursing medical issues with much reduced enjoyment in life.
I loved the job when I started and saw it as a career to build on. Promise after promise came that its gonna get better. Instead work was just piled on and we were told to just get through this short time period and it will be worth it. Instead you are corralled into a job that pays well, but breaks your spirit.
There's food on the table and the good Lord has blessed our household so no deep regrets. Its just that it shouldn't be this way.
So your argument is because other people around the world are fucked over even worse than people here, we're supposed to be grateful while watching our country, our rights, and our freedoms being railroaded into oblivion day by day and smile while saying "thank ya massa, anything else massa"?
We paid our dues and worked based on promises. Then we were double crossed. I would be fine had there never been an implied contract but there was. "You pay into the system and you will have..." Fill in the blanks. We were lied to by those seeking power. We paid with our labor and now others will reap.
There was a point where a man only worked a handful of hours a week and the rest was spent on himself or his family and humanity still moved forward. Enjoy your slave life, I'm done working for other peoples gain and I refuse to let my children do it.
Providing for loved ones is good, yes, but to look past just how badly citizens are being taken advantage of right now -especially- is ridiculous. There's a time to be an optimist and a time to be a realist and frankly, optimism needs to sit down in the corner and shut the fuck up for awhile. It's realities time to shine...
The thing is the younger generations do not understand this because they are brought right into the thick of things. I've been at my job for a couple of decades. The pay has increased well, but the job itself has at least quadruple the work and responsibilities it had 20 yrs ago. (the pay hasn't quadrupled by any means, but company profits quadrupled and exec's bonuses as well). They're not willing to increase the labor force...just pile it on the ones already there.
There is labor involved and I see the ones getting out/retiring are in some ways crippled. Bad backs. knees, hips, hearts, etc... and retirement turns into nursing medical issues with much reduced enjoyment in life.
I loved the job when I started and saw it as a career to build on. Promise after promise came that its gonna get better. Instead work was just piled on and we were told to just get through this short time period and it will be worth it. Instead you are corralled into a job that pays well, but breaks your spirit.
There's food on the table and the good Lord has blessed our household so no deep regrets. Its just that it shouldn't be this way.
I'm sure all the other people of the world who walk across the border will be more than glad to take that job that you look down on.
Our hell is heaven to a whole lot of people who don't have the luxury or time to complain.
So your argument is because other people around the world are fucked over even worse than people here, we're supposed to be grateful while watching our country, our rights, and our freedoms being railroaded into oblivion day by day and smile while saying "thank ya massa, anything else massa"?
We paid our dues and worked based on promises. Then we were double crossed. I would be fine had there never been an implied contract but there was. "You pay into the system and you will have..." Fill in the blanks. We were lied to by those seeking power. We paid with our labor and now others will reap.
There was a point where a man only worked a handful of hours a week and the rest was spent on himself or his family and humanity still moved forward. Enjoy your slave life, I'm done working for other peoples gain and I refuse to let my children do it.