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If you have to mortgage your house or become indebted otherwise to pay for your children's or your own education -- then it is an unjustified but needed debt ...
If you have to mortgage your house or become indebted otherwise to pay for your children's or your own medical expenses from a unforeseen illness -- then it is an unjustified but needed debt ...
If you have to mortgage your house or become indebted otherwise to pay for a consumer product you cannot afford -- then the debt is a burden you place on yourself -- don't whine about the new car you bought or the new bla ... bla ... bla ... manage your own finances to suit your income. Buying consumer goods is a voluntary decision on your part.
I would like to see Bernie influence the political debate to more equitable public tax supported higher education, more importantly higher quality and relevant education, available to all that are qualified to study toward useful careers today -- that should be a right and I would be willing to pay a reasonable tax to these ends.
I would like to see Bernie influence the political debate to a more equitable public tax supported universal healthcare at a minimal level -- you should be able to buy private insurance if you want top-flight service but private insurance should not be a need to access preventive care basic hospitalization for some urgent needed life saving or critical medical care -- that should be a right and I would be willing to pay a reasonable tax to these ends.
As far as the $15/hr minimum wage -- if you are an educated, trained, or experienced worker you are, or should be, getting that wage, or better now. However, if you are a worker like the garden department cashier that miss-rang a close-out item that the sign said was 75% off as 50% off and unable to do the math in her head to my question what is 75% of a regular price of $6.99 then you cannot convince me that she is worth $15/hr -- I could solve that problem by 4th grade!
I had a problem this week with my ISP modem. It took 5 days to resolve and I spoke with 15 foreign call center ISP customer support lame-brains and 3 USA based call center ISP customer support lame-brains. After 4 service calls and one lineman dispatched ... ... at the end of all of those attempts was: The new modem they installed *(later found with defective firmware by me) -- "it has wireless but the Ethernet won't work but that's OK you have internet the router and network is your problem! bye -- ass-hats. Finally, yesterday [Saturday], they sent a 5th technician and I told him just replace the modem again and don't waste your, and my time. Guess what? Boom! All my networking fired up fine. This Tech knew how to assign my static IPs from a list the first Tech made to the ISP supplied entry point Motorola modem/router MADE IN THAILAND -- all done in 20 minutes -- because he agreed with my diagnosis of the issue and didn't chant the ATT mantra.
Point of the story is: people that can't think problems out and reason with logic are not worth $15/hr + benefits = $26/hr? We need low skilled workers for many tasks but if they do not have the education, or logical power of reasoning, they simply are not with over $40K a year with benefits. BTW, every call I made was answered by a not so bright AI programmed device ... The writing is on the wall -- read it!
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