whose to say what's reasonable?  

 

True, not everyone can be a business owner.  At the same time, everyone can develop a marketable skill set and that skill set should grow over time leading to an increasing wage.  for example, does the person at the drive through window have to eventually stop getting my order wrong before  we double their mandatory salary?  The great thing about this country is with the abundance of resources you don't have to become an astronaut to be able to feed cloth and house you your spouse and your offspring.  

 

And don't talk to me about affording schooling.  Think about it, we are talking to each other through a means of information that allows us access to almost every piece of information ever learned by man... like ever... no really, i mean EVER!  Think about it.  If you took a smart phone and sent it through time to medieval times and they could still access the modern internet and all this information how many men would kings sacrifice for access?  Jim lovel flew blind around the moon with a slide rule, neil armstrong landed with a computer barely more powerful than a t-83 graphing calculator.  Education is an individual choice, not a function of government spending.  And as the nation that has spent more money than any nation in the history of all mankind on education at what point do we start asking for a return on that INVESTMENT?

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