Why don't Walmart workers just find another job?

[ForgoTheConsequence]

Why not just borrow 25 grand from your parents?

Why don't homeless people just buy a house?

Why don't people without health insurance just buy insurance?



When did this mindset infiltrate the "progressive" movement? I've seen a lot of disdain for poor and working people in this board lately and I don't get where it's coming from.

[Bluzmann57]

1. You must be looking at some different threads than I have

I haven't seen any of what you are talking about.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

2. Look at almost any thread about retail workers.

And there is bound to be at least 1 or 2 ......or 5.

[Warpy]

3. Posters like that are either very young or very fortunate

and often a combination of those two things. They honestly don't know how the world works.

Or they're trying to be sarcastic and needed the smilie.

[arcane1]

4. Or very clueless n/t

[madinmaryland]

5. If big guvmint would just get out of the way of the "invisible hand" of great amurikan business...

owners could create millions of jobs paying $5.00/hour so that the working poor and unemployed would have so many jobs to apply for.

[Tikki]

6. reagan...

Greed is Good…God..Gop.

My favorite is a lady I volunteered with declared that she couldn't find any powdered eggs for
a recipe because all the welfare people had them.
I suggested that she take some fresh eggs over to all the welfare people and trade.

She huffed...


Tikki

[bluestate10]

7. Dude. Your computer sounds mis-calibrated. Sounds like you come to DU but end up

on the Free Republic. I haven't seen ANYONE, including the hated DLC types or the nearly as hated Moderates like me write any of the stuff that you just wrote.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

9. There were two threads this morning mocking people sticking up for retail workers.

And this....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4102378


Maybe I'm just seeing the negative.

[bettyellen]

10. you came across one bad egg.

I give that one another six months at best.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

11. Maybe.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024104973

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024104232


But mocking people who are concerned for workers seems to be a recent trend.

[bettyellen]

13. that was a silly copycat of a thread saying no one should post today. ironic, huh?

[penultimate]

8. Is that common?

The closest thing I've seen to that is the insurance issue, but that's a bit different now with the ACA. The ACA, in theory, should make it cheaper for the previously uninsured to finally get insurance thanks to subsidies. I think most progressives realized that in the past it was basically impossible for someone making $8/hr to afford an individual insurance plan that costs $160/mo...

I don't think I've seen any progressives suggest that people just find other jobs, get loans or buy a house though. I think most progressives are fully aware of what that involves. I'm pretty sure more conservatives are aware too, but they just don't care.

[Kingofalldems]

12. We have republicans posting here.

Trying to teach us all about Ayn Rand and stuff.