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I really don’t get into tumblr politics that much and personally, I know nothing about Rick Santorum or any of the other candidates, but I agree with this.
Look, there isn’t income equality, but there is most certainly equality in the opportunities in life. Benjamin fucking Franklin was a poor ass white kid who had poor ass parents and poor as grandparents who had poor ass parents became a wealthy icon and PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
I don’t want someone who has got no fucking education to be making the same as me when I have a college degree and a job I worked for. This is why I am a republican. Stop going for Obama because you fucking think that sitting on your ass and letting to government pay for your shit that my family has been spending generations working their asses for is okay. Fuck.
Classic case of ignorance. I’m not even American.
EDIT: Yes there will always be income inequality. But the thing is, as a politician, as a government, you’re supposed to help people who fall through the cracks. “Equality in opportunities” is really funny to read. Tell me that someone from a middle-class family in a Ivy-League college has the same opportunities as someone who has to look after siblings, work, and attend community college at the same time. The former has privilege. Is inherent privilege a bad thing? No, but one would sound less like an “asshat” if they consider the boost they’ve had in life and have the according sensitivity to issues such as this.
In a government mostly run by democrats you are “supposed to help people who fall through the cracks”. What part of “This is why I’m a republican” did you not understand? Rick Santorum is not the only fucking person on this planet with this view. Most republican’s think this same way. Many republicans are against long term welfare and many people who “slip through the cracks” never come back up. Usually these people are democrats because republicans believe that you should work for what you have and what the government can do for you shouldn’t play a key role in your life.
College is the opportunity I was talking about fuck face. If you’re in college you have a chance of going somewhere. I’m not saying that a community college can offer the same programs but you’re still going to end up with a job to be able to support your family. I’m talking about the people who have no ambition to go to college at all or even drop out of high school. Do you really think they deserve the same benefits in life you do when you have a full time job and a family to support yet you aren’t on welfare?
And don’t get confused and think I am against welfare completely. If someone is physically incapable of working (and people over 500lbs don’t count because they did that to themselves) or new mothers on Wick, I am all for them getting temporary welfare because there are jobs out there that you can do in your own home or that don’t require a whole lot of energy.
Please go on with the grade-school insults.
‘Usually these people are democrats because republicans believe that you should work for what you have and what the government can do for you shouldn’t play a key role in your life.’ I belong to a country whose government works like this, with nearly zero welfare as compared to your country, and I can tell you, it’s a lot harder than you think to find a job in this shit economy.
Congrats on thinking as long as you have a college degree you can get somewhere. Not any more. You’re either just starting out in college or not in there yet. Because no, having a degree doesn’t rule you out from working a low-wage job.
You were making a huge assumption in your first reblog that people who don’t go to college do so because they don’t want to. Guess what, maybe they can’t due to financial or logistic problems. If you were talking about people who didn’t care about working and were just relying on welfare, then I agree, but not everyone is like that and lumping everyone who can’t get into college into one category is generalizing. Something you shouldn’t do if you’re a college student and writing papers, by the way.
I am all for welfare which gets people back on their feet. Though, with such politicians, I doubt they think that way. Why would someone who’s been brought up with privilege all their life care? Capitalism FTW, dontcha know~
[And thanks sorrylatenew; Benjamin Franklin was never a “president of the United States of America”. I learn something new too, not being American. 8)]
You want to talk about income inequality and how that affects your future? About slipping through the cracks and getting back up when your government fails completely to do that? You want to talk about inherent privilege and how far that gets you by default?
Get out of the United States. Go to a country like mine called the Philippines. Look at what true poverty is, look at what true desperation is. Look at what surviving is. Then maybe you’ll understand just how fucking lucky you are and be less insensitive towards people who have less and who are just trying to get by.
College is an opportunity to get back on your feet, but when you come out of it $100,000 in debt and no job waiting because the unemployment rate is so high and the economy is so bad by no fault of your own, then you’re fucked both ways. The biggest lie is that college is the ONLY way to get a job. It isn’t: there are technical and vocational schools too. In Germany and here we have vocational schools to teach technical knowledge and requirements so that people can get jobs. It’s worked very well in Germany. Admittedly, college is the most preferred way. You aren’t “better” than someone because you have a college degree, it just means you had and chose an option someone else either didn’t pick or didn’t have. You’re no better than anyone.
Besides, you’d be surprised: sometimes it’s those without the degree but with the life experiences that know most about life and how to get by. Life isn’t about that diploma, it’s about what you learn every single day and how you apply it as you go along.
Oh, and in the words of Sage Francis, Republicrat, Democran, one party system. Both parties sold out your people a long time ago.
^ exactly. I graduated with a degree that people consider to be quite versatile from one of the top universities in my country, with honours, third in my batch and all that. I started out with as shallow and moronic view about the world as OP (liebeimmerdu) had: Hot damn, I’m so fucking good, I’m a fucking genius, companies will surely fall in line to get me. Poverty is a choice and people who keep complaining should just suck it up and work harder, they can’t all be awesome with bright futures like me, but there are a shit tonne of opportunities out there if only they’d stop being lazy. Why should I give a shit if their families are dying from hunger? It’s their fault for producing more children than their capacity to feed them instead of WORKING. Stupid heads.
Well, guess what? I was fucking wrong. Because when your country is being run by people who think it’s okay to have half the overflowing population die from hunger than to control the population from growing out of proportion to begin with, that it’s okay to deprive people especially women of their reproductive health rights, that minorities are rightfully discriminated against, that corporations should be protected more than people, that their own selfish desires should be put above everyone else’s needs, then you’re just as totally fucked and in total deep shit.
And when you’re finally thrown into the “real world” and realise that that education you’ve ~worked your ass off~ to get, and keep using to brag about how much better you are than other people, actually can’t even guarantee you a decent-paying job that doesn’t make you feel like crap to do? It. Fucking. Sucks. Even if you feel like you’ve made all the right ~choices~. Especially if you’re a self-entitled smug little bitch who’s been too blinded by privilege to notice that there are bigger things than yourself out there.
This is when you also realise that things aren’t as simple as “[systematic] education is the key to success, and the poor are just a bunch of lazy asses”. You can beat your bone and bleed yourself dry with hard work all you want; if the existing system of greed and indifference in the government and among privileged people continues to prosper, well. Good luck.
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