04-26-2019, 06:37 AM
(04-24-2019, 07:44 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(04-24-2019, 02:05 PM)David Horn Wrote: You might be advised to do a little reading. No one discounted the value of work; certainly not LBJ or MLK -- FDR least of all. I would like to know where that came from. I can say one thing about "the welfare state" you seem so adamant to trash. That little idea came directly from the GOP, believe it or not, and the reason was a typical GOP reason: cost cutting. LBJ's Job Corps was intended to be a job for anyone who needed and couldn't find one. The GOP said that was too expensive (for reference: the Job Corps as it currently exists generates $2 of benefit for every $1 spent), so, at their insistence, the cost was cut by converting a lot of it into cash welfare, which the GOP immediately started hating too. Now it's the Earned Income Tax Credit that's in their sights, which is funny because its a GOP program.
I ignored the rest as nonsense.
Hopefully, you won't be around when America votes to cut bait with the liberals and the bulk of their socialist programs and social policies these days. I assume the 2 to 1 folks are a group of well educated and well paid professionals (physicists, engineers, lawyers, accountants, chemists and such) who work for various departments of the federal government like some friends of mine do now and a brother who worked for the Air Force with the Space Shuttle Program in the past. Am I correct about them? If so, I did a little reading and figured this out myself.
Job Corps doesn't provide jobs, as originally intended. It's primarily a career training program with career counseling. I don't see it preparing graduate degreed professionals.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.