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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts) Thu Apr 5, 2012, 02:30 PM Apr 2012

"Food Stamp" Jobs Just Like I Thought [View all]

50% of the jobs created in the last six months were low paying. Welcome to the Reagan service sector economy that he crowed about in 1981. Good jobs now pay $10 or less. The GOP believes that those are good jobs. Now go down and apply for food stamps.

The anti union, anti labor and anti government regulation that workers keep voting for has brought this economy to the country. And the GOP plan to make it worse. You cannot blame Obama for this situation because he inherited 30 years of "tinkle down" economics. He was saddle by a generation of economists who only knew that theory.

What bothers me most is that everything that I believed about what the GOP was doing is coming true. There was not a thing hat I could have done except watch it happen. Each election cycle was torture.

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"Food Stamp" Jobs Just Like I Thought [View all] TheMastersNemesis Apr 2012 OP

A 35 year old guy I know just recently got a job SoCalDem Apr 2012 #1

Yeah. progressoid Apr 2012 #2

"customer service" at a bowling alley these days is SoCalDem Apr 2012 #5

A contractor once told me: Turbineguy Apr 2012 #12

Freudian Post O' The Decade!!! KamaAina Apr 2012 #3

Like the Judge Judy book title, 'Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining' freshwest Apr 2012 #4

Not Freudian at all - it's a meme, courtesy of Jim Hightower starroute Apr 2012 #10

those trumpeting the 'recovery' aren't the ones taking the crappy paying jobs. KG Apr 2012 #6

Hmmmmm.. girl gone mad Apr 2012 #14

Thats really effing sad. Iliyah Apr 2012 #7

My grandson is married with three children, manages a liquor store, gets food stamps, medical jwirr Apr 2012 #8

With that, I'll have a drink! Fuddnik Apr 2012 #9

Big Business doesn't have to pay a fair wage knowing that the taxpayers WCGreen Apr 2012 #11

That has always been true - as a mother on AFDC I could take lower wages in the 60s because I jwirr Apr 2012 #13

That's a key point that a lot of people miss & that the media or politicians never touch on. CrispyQ Apr 2012 #17

Is the argument, then, that the absence of these programs would result in higher wages? LiberalAndProud Apr 2012 #16

You could look at it that way... WCGreen Apr 2012 #19

I think of under-employment every time I see the unemployment numbers phantom power Apr 2012 #15

And that is the whole problem with work in the modern world. jwirr Apr 2012 #18

There was not a thing that I could have done except watch it happen ... NNN0LHI Apr 2012 #20