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Old 10-07-2011, 09:30 PM   #78
iEatClams
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For anyone that didnt grow up in a poor family. It is extremely hard to do what many of you more fortunate individuals want the poor to do.

Lets see, you want the poor, to go rack up large student loans and get "non-Arts" degrees, to compete in the job market where if you are lucky to land a job, you will get paid peanuts, so corporations can make record profits and again, benefit the 1%???

In the US, there are many students with computer science and business degrees or other "non-Artss" degrees with mounting student debt, that graduate to find very few jobs in the field that they study, and they end taking construction jobs or "barista jobs". Now you are working a job with shiet pay and you have huge debt. You're doing this why others are calling you LAZY. Can you see why these people are frustrated???

Hell, even here in Vancouver, many students are going through recruitment and cant find jobs in their fields.

Not to mention the social issues like, how the poor dont have educated parents to teach them skills that the rich teach their kids, in addition to the hookups that their parents can offer them. Its much more difficult for poor kids to compete against the more fortunate kids that have parents that are VPs or Partners or Directors at some of these corporations. Again, there are some that do make it into the decent paying jobs, but it is a much more difficult path.

I'm just using the student example since majority of RS is younger.
I know many people that worked in the corporate finance industry who got laid off in 2008, and cant find similar jobs here in Vancouver, they have kids that go to school here and thus makes moving difficult. Hence finding another lower paying job.

Back to being poor, when you are poor, you dont have the support groups that can help you get out of this shietty social class. Many corporations, wealthy individuals and lobbyists wish to Reduce taxes (to increase their profits!) and reduce social spending. Spending on education, school programs and social programs that supports you and help you to become a productive member of society.

Also when you are poor, you dont hang out with guys golfing at the country club, you are susceptible to gangs and such. You join gangs, commit crimes, and go to jail. Where lobbyists want you to have a longer sentence for petty crime, even though it costs taxpayers $$millions to house these inviduals in the prison, and who are they paying??? Corporations. Corporations profit from people going to jail. But no, they don't want to spend more on social programs that keep kids from trouble after school or other prevention programs.

When you are poor, frustrated and unemployed, you have nothing to lose, so I can see why many people are protesting.

corporations have a right to make a profit, but not a right to fuck the average person up the ass. It boggles my mind that former Monsanto execs or Bank execs that fck up the system become the people that regulate it. The majority of political contributions come from large conglomerates.
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