Do you think we have no chance in fixing the Broken Govt.?

[chrish]

Salaries should be based on the market PERIOD. If you are not happy with your job or pay, START YOUR OWN BUSINESS. If you are having kids while working minimum wage jobs, that's YOUR FAULT. Just because you can't control your procreation activity doesn't mean tax payers OR ANYONE ELSE should subsidize your bad decisions. Wal mart should pay what their employees are worth, nothing more. Get so tired of this "deserve" crap.

You had me at hello!

[Jaguar]

You end up with a person working two part time jobs at minimum wage and no benefits. At minimum wage with two children you're below the poverty line. So what happens? The government ends up paying welfare and food stamps which subsidizes Wal-Mart who should be paying a living wage to begin with.

If you are trying to raise a family on a minimum wage job, you suck as a financial planner and a parent.

Started at minimum wage myself when I was 18, didn't take long to move up the chain. School, professional training, experiance, and drive helped along the way. Didn't start a family until I was 26 and well established, I always thought it was the least I could do as a man - to not allow my children to grow up in poverty.

There were setbacks along the way, but nothing hard work and determination couldn't handle.

[Bawanna]

No truer words than these. ^^^ I waited even longer. I wanted to be established and I wanted to get everything I wanted before marriage after which the challenge would be to keep it all. I've done ok.

[garyb]

Me too...but as they say "stuff happens" and sometimes we are using an ancillary brain instead of our thinking and planning brain. It's not always in the plan folks . Love and the pleasures that go with it are a powerful blindness. Some folks need help to get them on their feet. All jobs are not created equal. The work ethic of today sucks because we have an enabling society. The young generations are learning that they will be subsidized for doing nothing, rather than work hard, get a good education that you can apply in your work, work smart, plan wisely....but work damn it. The government teaches them, we'll let the tax payers take care of you and the debt ceiling rise if necessary. That's not how to run a home, business or country.

[getsome]

The OP asked, Do you think we have no chance in fixing a broken Government....I say that we can....Listen to what Canadian Gordon Sinclar thinks about America and you tell me if you still think we are doomed.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ_okAgAUGE

[AIRret]

Great youtube. But that speech was from 1973 and uploaded in 2007. Unfortunately, I don't recognize that country anymore!
Now, we have Obammer and I HATE what is happening to the America I love!

[Powrstroke6.0]

I'm sorry, but we are all screwed.

[getsome]

After thinking about it a while I will agree the USA is in serious trouble...The world no longer respects or fears America and it's all due to that imposter lying Socialist Muslim POS they have voted into office, I say they not we because there's still some of us right thinking people around that had the forsight and knowledge and understood what he was going to do to our once great Country and we voted the right way....

I am so sad to see the division he is causing and the financial devastation he is leaving for our children to bear in their future if there is one....I have never hated a President before but I can't stand to look at or listen to anything he has to say....The man is a self serving lying tyrant who will gladly destroy America to get his way

If the 2014 elections go bad for Republican Conservatives and the Libocrats take back the House then I'm afraid we are going to be in a flat spin death spiral the Country can't pull out of and if in 2016 Hillary gets elected then it's over for sure...

I will leave the Gordon Sinclar link up because it's a feel good story about how America use to be in the mid 70's but since then I'm afraid too many have consumed too much poison kool aid and have killed the golden goose....

[garyb]

This says it all: