Quote:I'm sorry but your idea is flawed on so many levels I just don't even know where to start or if your serious. 

 

Assuming your serious here's the problems with taking CEO income and "redistributing" his income to lower income workers. 1st of all there's nothing wrong with offering low wage low skill employment so penalizing an individual for offering remedial jobs and that's what walmart is a remedial job even in management only incentives them to eliminate the remedial jobs. You already are seeing a move towards the "self-check out" future. 

 

that's what you've seen with the ACA, the law says anyone working more than 30 hours in a company of 50 employees or more will either be given coverage or the company penalized, so the companies said ok if we can't get under 50 employees we will hire double the employees and put them all at 29 hours.

 

Once again shuffling money around so it distributed more evenly accomplishes nothing, it produces nothing. 

 

As for Israel I'm a firm supporter of Israel. I believe they are perfectly within their rights to defend themselves, however we can not spend money we do not have. There is nothing noble or honorable about compromising our future to ensure the future of another nation. If Israel wants the United States to be around in 20 year's they'll understand right now we have to fix our mess at home. 

 

Do you realize in today's society that more and more people are working TWO jobs and are still living below the poverty line with a college education that have to rely on welfare, public housing, financial aid? The gap between Middle and lower class is shrinking to a point where there is poverty-low class-high class.

 

Im going to assume you are looking at a bubble of me just simply talking about "redistribution". When my response is more complex than that.

 

My point is you cant  moan about welfare and wanting to eliminate/reduce it without improving pay to employees. Simple as that. Doesnt matter what type of job it is.  

 

On that note are you willing to even address corporate welfare and the MILLIONS of tax breaks Fortune 500 companies have received while some of their very own employees are on government assistance?

 

The Health care system was a screw up BEFORE and will be screwed up during and even after the existence of the ACA. Employers were handing out sub standard benefits and health care before the ACA went into effect. 

 

Again as for Isreal, what makes you think we are compromising our future to protect theirs? The goal of Hamas is to spread the power of Islam and they will start by "wiping Israel off the map". That rhetoric also applies to the U.S. as well. So believe it or not, both U.S. and Israel's futures are tied into each other's hand. 

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