Originally Posted by tony286

You dont seem to understand wages have been flat for a long time. The middle class is shrinking this is a real problem for lots of reasons and one of them is they are porn buyers. For the person who wants to do their job and go home to their family there is a race to the bottom on their wages and now to get that shitty job you need a four year degree and so if they are smart enough for that now you got a the payment of a small mortgage while they want to start you at $10 an hr.
The american dream was my grandfather, an immigrant for italy with a 5 th grade education. He could work hard pressing women's coats and make enough to buy a home at 40 yrs old and raise 4 children. He didnt want to be king of the world he wanted to be able to take care of his family .He was paid a good wage to do that. All the people who once would do those jobs have no where to go. So they go to fast food, super markets because we really have almost no manufacturing sector anymore. You are very smart and you take that gift granted. Not everyone is blessed with those tools so we let those people be the working poor and we have to support them. Basically subsidizing a companies expenses. You call people leeches but a company making billions of dollars a year paying so little that their people are eligible for types of gov help isnt a leech to you?