If you work 39 hrs a week (full-time) here you get 20 days annual leave and 9 national holidays (Xmas Day, New Years, St. Patrick's Day, etc) all paid.
When do plan to retire!? Whete you going to go? If you work 39 hrs a week (full-time) here you get 20 days annual leave and 9 national holidays (Xmas Day, New Years, St. Patrick's Day, etc) all paid.
I don't get that, I'm self employed but that's the law for anyone employed. I'll never retire, I hope to drop dead drunk after a days work.
Here self employed is sometimes an euphemism for unemployed but scrounging for work. Do people in Ireland retire from collecting benefits?
I’ve just read through this thread. I am curious - are you homeless? If so, how did you end up there? If not, then why do you think that you aren’t homeless? In this country, anyone that wants to work will get a job, in my opinion. There is plenty of jobs for people that want to better themselves. That’s just the way it is here in the United States. I could go get another job tomorrow and the next day. I also understand that there’s people that may not be able to work in that kind of stinks but for anybody that is able, there is absolutely work and pay. J
Where do you come up with such lies? Poverty levels in America start around 15k a year. In most other countries, its under 20$. How dishonest....... Poverty in America is luxury in almost all other countries.
I agree. They may not pay enough to support a family, but the jobs are there. Somebody will pay you to perform a task. Collecting cans is gainful labor. It is up to the individual to better themselves. Get up of their ass and get it in their head they're gonna do something. Learning a trade (or more than one trade) negates the whole minimum wage argument. Minimum wage is for people who are learning to show up on time, tuck their shirt in, handle responsibilities and learn what's expected of them. At some point you should start thinking beyond that. You want more? Start looking for ways to make yourself worth more. Stop expecting others to pay you more than you're worth to them simply because your cost of living is more than you're worth to them. You want more, prove yourself to be worth more. The problem is everybody has been trained to expect a participation trophy. Nobody wins.
I barely scraped by, by the skin of my teeth to get a high skool edumacation... lol I had to go to summer skool my senior year because I kept getting thrown out for smoking weed lol But ya know WHAT?? I was raised with a most excellent work ethic. We worked our asses off as kids at my house. We didn’t have any money but dammit we WORKED. The year I got out of high school (1983) my buddy said to me “hey, I’m working with some flat commercial roofers and we’re making $4. an hour. Minimum wage at the time was $2.85. Cigarettes were $.50c a pack. $4.00 an hour worked for me. I was living with my older brother in a third-floor tumble down apartment and paying my share of rent, utilities and food. I kept my head in my work, I drove beater cars and busted my ass on the roof. I became the very best that I could be - extremely hard working, reliable and learned my trade. Fast forward 35 years later - It’s been a goddamn tough road but I’ve raised 3 beautiful daughters, one who just graduated from on College with a BS in Nursing - Deans List each year. My middle daughter is going to be a sophomore in college for Social Work. My youngest is going to be a junior in high school. I’m now working for one of the biggest national commercial roofing companies out there as a foreman first, a Project Manager and then call it whatever you want bu I run all of the crews and of course all my projects start to finish. I’m not rich by any vague stretch of the word but because of very long ass (friggin exhausting hours and doing whatever we have to do we’re proud of our accomplishments. Our home in Maine on 32 acres on a dead end road is fucking bought and paid for. I busted my ass and still do - getting up at 3am daily to be a responsible hard working member of this society we call the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I don’t want to hear any bullshit about poverty because unless you’re mentally handicapped there’s no reason to be impoverished in this country unless you simply don’t want to get up early and work hard all day. I’m sitting on my porch right now - that I built, looking at my horse barn that I built with local rough cut timber with my own hands - on my 32 acres bought and paid for with my sweat. I love being an AMERICAN.
I’ll be mad if you don’t Ed. I get that there are unavoidable circumstances occasionally. Sometimes folks get hurt. Sometimes mental illness is a real thing. Sometimes families just need help. THAT is what our welfare system is for and I have zero issue with it - and am glad to be a contributing taxpayer. But more often than not. The system is totally and completely taken advantage of. I don’t know how many times I’ve been at the supermarket getting my $60.00 to $80.00 of groceries - being as careful as I can to pick what’s on sale or even if I’m treating us to a nice steak I’m still limited as to how much I can get - food is pretty damn expensive. It’s not even a rare thing to see folks at the cash register with overladen carts - and sometimes multiple carts! - paying for hundreds and hundreds of dollars of food with food stamps. Friggin REALLY?? I stand there watching this shit getting pissed off and mad while these folks head out to their nice cars in their expensive clothes. I know it isnt everybody but it’s enough to piss me TF off. It’s happened to me enough personally to know that the system is a used and abused system. J
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I don't think he's confusing criticism with hate; I think it's obviously you're overly generalizing and pushing a narrative to play partisan politics; failing to realizing the timeline would indicate this is the America under Obama and has transpired to Trump. I also believe you live in a fantasy some people are gonna be poor. I would rather be poor in America than any other country in the world. I may be poor, but at least i have the freedoms that most other countries don't have. I think you do make some valid points we do need to work on both side of aisle. I don't understand what Guns has to do with the economy? On the merits of 'Civil Unrest" that's not true; Socialist nations like in Europe have more unrest that the United States. I have missed flights out of Paris, because the entire country is striking; No Rer trains operating which isn't practical.
America is 20th highest GDP per capita, above most European nations, above Canada. The "poverty" people experience in America is still hugely wealthy by world standards today. You're telling me you'd rather be poor in 2.7k per capita Nepal than 60k America. The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency Get. Some. Perspective. You. Are. Spoiled. As. Fuck!