Maybe! I don't believe that people who are successful should be treated less fairly than people who aren't. 50% in tax is too much for anyone to pay. Regardless of their situation. My point is that the taxation system is unfair, with a tinge of people are stupid. Also that it should be easy to see which people are lazy and which people are genuinely disabled or trying to get work. People with injuries and disabilities have medical records, people who are genuinely trying to get work will have records of interviews, and probably be more active in trying to get help. Lazy people are lazy.
If it means further away from me? Sure. I don't really know anything about America's taxation or economy. Or anything about it beyond that lots of people don't like their president. I haven't made my mind up yet. He seems pretty stupid, but it's not like I could do the job.
My parents are just as guilty of tall poppy syndrome as anybody else. So no, they don't tell me so. It's basically because I've lived in Midland my whole life and I can see the people who live here. And it's made me cynical and bitter. And the fact that there aren't more professionals, but it's so easy to get good jobs. Even if you don't like the education system, it's easy to get an apprenticeship. Hell, you can be earning $100k/year on the mines driving trucks in two years if you only try. And there are other jobs there that are easy to get. There are few people who have a good excuse for being unemployed. Criminal records aren't a good excuse unless they were wrongly tried. Sure, we need people who don't try as hard to do the lame jobs and be check out chicks. But that doesn't mean I have to like them.
Disorder. I don't care that I was sick.. the point is that I come from the same family who are in a working-class bracket, and I've managed to get into a tertiary institution. He was given special attention by my parents, his tutors, and the school. They did everything they could to keep him there. And the point is that when he got what he wanted he screwed that up too, because he doesn't care enough about respecting authority and the rules. He lost his apprenticeship because he wouldn't wash or cut his hair - he was working in a bakery - and he swore so loudly and frequently that the customers in the front could hear. These are ridiculously easy things to fix. He didn't, because he's not mature enough to realise that he was in the wrong. Point - he shouldn't be out of school, because he's still a boy. And regardless of his education disorder, it was his decisions to steal from families in a caravan park on boxing day. I really hope he gets convicted for it. Becuase it's disgusting. He is not sorry. Since a criminal record will impede his already low employability, why should he get government hand outs? I don't see the justice. Sure, perhaps it's not something he should be punished his whole life for, but he certainly shouldn't get free money for it. I was just using him as an example because I'm disgusted by him. Seriously. I have no more patience, and no more tolerance. I used to be able to put up with a lot, but now I just can't be bothered.
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Re: A Goverments Eye;
Date: 2008-01-10 04:20 am (UTC)If it means further away from me? Sure. I don't really know anything about America's taxation or economy. Or anything about it beyond that lots of people don't like their president. I haven't made my mind up yet. He seems pretty stupid, but it's not like I could do the job.
My parents are just as guilty of tall poppy syndrome as anybody else. So no, they don't tell me so. It's basically because I've lived in Midland my whole life and I can see the people who live here. And it's made me cynical and bitter. And the fact that there aren't more professionals, but it's so easy to get good jobs. Even if you don't like the education system, it's easy to get an apprenticeship. Hell, you can be earning $100k/year on the mines driving trucks in two years if you only try. And there are other jobs there that are easy to get. There are few people who have a good excuse for being unemployed. Criminal records aren't a good excuse unless they were wrongly tried. Sure, we need people who don't try as hard to do the lame jobs and be check out chicks. But that doesn't mean I have to like them.
Disorder.
I don't care that I was sick.. the point is that I come from the same family who are in a working-class bracket, and I've managed to get into a tertiary institution. He was given special attention by my parents, his tutors, and the school. They did everything they could to keep him there. And the point is that when he got what he wanted he screwed that up too, because he doesn't care enough about respecting authority and the rules. He lost his apprenticeship because he wouldn't wash or cut his hair - he was working in a bakery - and he swore so loudly and frequently that the customers in the front could hear. These are ridiculously easy things to fix. He didn't, because he's not mature enough to realise that he was in the wrong. Point - he shouldn't be out of school, because he's still a boy.
And regardless of his education disorder, it was his decisions to steal from families in a caravan park on boxing day. I really hope he gets convicted for it. Becuase it's disgusting. He is not sorry. Since a criminal record will impede his already low employability, why should he get government hand outs? I don't see the justice. Sure, perhaps it's not something he should be punished his whole life for, but he certainly shouldn't get free money for it.
I was just using him as an example because I'm disgusted by him. Seriously. I have no more patience, and no more tolerance. I used to be able to put up with a lot, but now I just can't be bothered.