**** Elections thread *****

[JimmyS1985]

I prefer to call it: ruthless pragmatism.

All I see here is a perfectly able adult man who thinks that the world owes him a living. Sorry, but that pisses me off like nothing else. It's literally everything that's wrong with america.

If he wants a world where the government provides everything and people are shepherded through life, then he should move to Europe.

I left the work force because my hard work wasn't resulting in me breaking from low income. Your solution is "get a different job". I held, I don't know 8 jobs? I've held lots of jobs.

I think the best paying one was at a car wash I held briefly for 2 weeks before getting fired back in 2003, $15 an hour with tips included.

Believe me, I went around, and got lots of different jobs. Most jobs I got fired from or came close to it, and even the jobs I held long term, persistently left me poverty stricken at the end of the day.

I was low income not due to a lack of hard work, but in spite of it. And a lot of Americans are in the same boat as me, 51% of US workers make $30,000 or less per year, and 38% of US workers make $20,000 or less per year. I was always in that $20,000 or less marker, and more often than not, $10,000 or less.

I go to my autism support group, and believe I'm odd man out, in that I'm one of the only people there who ISN'T on disability.

I may get a job again, seems that if I really buckled down and studied poker hard, at least there's still some potential here to make gains.

If I want Social Security Disability, I'm going to have to apply and prove that I can't hold a job anyways, so that's probably what will happen.

If Jason Chaffetz can get the cost of a year of health insurance down to the cost of a new iPhone, I'll gladly buy my own health insurance. At least that's what I hope he was implying when he said "Poor people are going to have to make choices, healthcare, or that new iPhone they want". Right now insurance on the market costs about 23 iPhones a year, so if he can get it's costs down to 1 iPhone per year, I'll gladly sign up for that.

My mom's basically a Capitalist, not in a major way, but that's where a lot of the family's income and wealth comes from besides their pensions. I see her make more money in the click of a mouse, than I could 6 months of working at my average job, and I won't like, it's like, why the f should I work, if making butt loads of money is that simple for her?