2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Slams Clinton for Having Supported Slashing of America's Safety Net [View all]bread_and_roses
(6,335 posts)The minimum wage in this country is a joke - that's why we have the "Fight for $15." And ordinary workers ARE overtaxed, while our Corporate Overlords scam the system and make out -literally - like the viscious vampire profiteers they are.
However, I do not think you have a good understanding of either the "welfare" system as it exists today, as it existed pre-"reform" or what the actual effects of that "reform" were. It was a bad system - I would never claim otherwise - but bad as it was, it had better provisions than after "reform" - which savagely impacted the very poor, and mothers and children worst of all.
And let me ask you - if we had every able-bodies person in this country trained and job-ready, is there a job they can live on waiting for them? If you are working for minimum wage, you know the answer is no. In fact, there probably isn't a job at all for all of us, never mind one at an actual living wage. So why blame those who happened to still be standing when the music stopped and the chairs were all taken.
Your situation is wrong and unjust. So is that of those who have the terrible misfortune of having to depend on the savage system Clinton unleashed on them.
We need to fight for better for everyone - not blame and punish the unlucky.