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Hydra

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20. +1000

Reply to fasttense (Reply #16)

Thu Sep 26, 2013, 12:01 PM

Sep 2013

Also, they don't WANT to make more jobs. They love this "competitive" environment where they can pay less, demand more and say no strings on their side.

IMO, I don't know what our obsession with having everyone work is anyway. Our planet can't handle unlimited growth, and having a throwaway society is in whose best interest? We're more productive than ever with less people...but still we demand everyone slave away?

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Why The Poor Don't Work, According To The Poor{image warning} [View all] xchrom Sep 2013 OP

Home or Family reasons treestar Sep 2013 #1

My guess is that the job doesn't pay enough to cover child care expenses. CTyankee Sep 2013 #2

Good point. treestar Sep 2013 #4

Exactly. Same goes for elder care. You can't pay someone $14.00 an hour to go and work for the same. adirondacker Sep 2013 #5

yup gopiscrap Sep 2013 #8

on affordable childcare in Europe: recently, in Germany, many moms have to stay home BelgianMadCow Sep 2013 #13

I was thinking about day care centers ("creches") in France when I was posting... CTyankee Sep 2013 #19

Childcare or not... canuckledragger Sep 2013 #15

Yet they're the first to jump down a woman's throat Warpy Sep 2013 #3

Which is exactly what right wingers think women should be doing. treestar Sep 2013 #6

I don't see why woman would vote republican gopiscrap Sep 2013 #9

I fit into that catagory most of my adult life until I started getting social security. My oldest jwirr Sep 2013 #12

They certainly can treestar Sep 2013 #17

Good job Hydra Sep 2013 #18

You will be okay and in the end you will not regret it. I know my worth even if the rethugs do not. jwirr Sep 2013 #21

I don't regret it Hydra Sep 2013 #22

So long as "cannot find work" is a nonzero number... lumberjack_jeff Sep 2013 #14

Why is there an image warning? nt sammytko Sep 2013 #7

sothat people who don't have fast connections don't open the thread. xchrom Sep 2013 #10

Look at that dip in retirees around the 2008 recession bomb. AtheistCrusader Sep 2013 #11

Many of those reasons overlap. fasttense Sep 2013 #16

+1000 Hydra Sep 2013 #20