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FortWayne says

You can always get a government job, brain isn't required, and you'll get the kinds of perks and retirement benefits that are not available for most in the private sector... courtesy the hard working taxpayers.

If that were true, unemployment would always be at 0%. There are a limited number of slots available, and a lot of people go for them because it's easy.

egads101 says

Quigley says

Just go on welfare and your entire life becomes a vacation! It's wonderful!

right wing douche bags always say this; they prefer to believe the meme that welfare is some easy way to live without working, instead of actually spending some time researching the subject.

You know that single mothers not getting support for their kids are the number one demographic on welfare?

Who am I kidding, right wing douche bags never know anything, they just pop off opinions and refuse to ever turn their brains on.

When my wife got laid off, we figured it was the perfect time to have a kid. We got $600 bucks a week from unemployment for two years. Whenever she got pregnant, she planned to quit anyway. Instead, we got a bunch of free money.

jdeppe says

If you know how to play this game, you can find the loopholes:

1. K-12Teachers have 185 days off/year; University professors have more.

2. Many nurses work 3 twelve hour shifts/week; per diem nurses set their own days and hours.

3. Seasonal employment in Alaska is good if you can land a Davis Bacon job (~$40/hr)

I love how people think just because you aren't in your place of work that you are off. I suggest you go give teaching a try. My most recent school year, from September to June, I might have gotten a total of 10 days where I didn't work. And most of that was due to the fact that I was without power due to Hurricane Sandy.

lostand confused says

Many midwest states have very high property taxes-the majority of which goes to
the school district. In some places it exceeds 3% -making it very unaffordable
for long time residents, the disabled and folks on a fixed income.

And most, if not all, have exemptions for those things too. Turning 65 has a lot of perks, or more so than the day before when you were 64.

theoakman says

I suggest you go give teaching a try.

Teaching is one of the worst/hardest professions there is. It's basically just baby-sitting the children of deadbeat parents. There's little time left to teach the few kids with parents who actually give a shit. And the pay is lousy relative to the level of responsibility.

I would never want to become a teacher. Never never never.

FortWayne says

You can always get a government job, brain isn't required, and you'll get the kinds of perks and retirement benefits that are not available for most in the private sector... courtesy the hard working taxpayers.

This is such off the charts retarded propaganda.

The truth: IF you took 100 random government jobs. They would be jobs like, clerk, secretary, DMV person, teacher, cop, fireman, mail man, social worker, security guard, custodian, administrator, web developer,programmer etc.

Most of these are very real jobs, not that much different than in the private sector. Yes some of them have some benefits that FW is envious of. Some of them have contracts, which guarantee them certain benefits in exchange for committing to very demanding or somewhat dangerous jobs, starting at low pay, with contractual increases over time etc., and part of the salary paid in the form of contributions to pensions. The employees usually contribute a significant percentage of their salaries to these pension funds as well.

There's a lot of BS propaganda about all of this, and the union factor.

There are problems in some cases. Cities or states that haven't managed their finances well, and so on.

But jeez. So much stupidity concentrated in one person. How is that possible ?

people have never in all of history worked as much as Americans do today.

Americans barely spend time in their houses anymore. It's !@#$ing ridiculous. In case you feel bad, just watch some of the rich people on TV enjoying their lives, it's almost as good as the real thing.

MershedPerturders says

people have never in all of history worked as much as Americans do today

We also probably consume more than any other nation in history. But not sure if the pain of work justifies the joy of consumption.