intedomine said:
- i just wanna see people who work their arses off in more physically and demanding jobs getting the best pay. (ie. if i had my way, every nurse/teacher/road worker/cleaner would be getting paid a million bucks a year. Just makes sense...
intedomine said:Equalitarian/Capitalist Reformer/Socialist/Green/Anti-Conservative/anti-nepotism/anti-pointless technology/irrational Left-wing lunatic...
- i just wanna see people who work their arses off in more physically and demanding jobs getting the best pay. (ie. if i had my way, every nurse/teacher/road worker/cleaner would be getting paid a million bucks a year. Just makes sense...
- I don't believe that how much money a child's parents just so happen to have should be what determines the quality of education and breadth of opportunities a child is offered.
Angela Harlem said:
This is a view I can agree with you on. Was just saying yesterday as we drove around an industrial estate after 6pm, that it was the workers like them which keep the world spinning. I have no idea what kind of work they all did, it was manufacturing and other labour specific industry, but there they were - working. No flash cars for them, no bullshit which goes with white collar careers, simpler but harder work and work lifestyle. We cant all follow what dreams we have. Not everyone can become a doctor or a IT specialist, despite probably having more than enough intelligence. Yet thankfully so many people do the shittiest jobs that no one else wants to do. As for who's happier, that is unanswerable - it depends on a multitude of variables. In short, are we grateful to the people who work in the bedding factories assembling beds? Are we grateful to the garbos? The council gardeners? The hospital cleaners? The shorthand cook in the cafe you buy your coffee from? The staff who come in during the still of night and vacuum the office you work in? Chances are we dont spare a thought. The work they do is not acknowledged until it is done/not done, and not really monetarily matching of the worth it really has.
Angela Harlem said:
This is a view I can agree with you on. Was just saying yesterday as we drove around an industrial estate after 6pm, that it was the workers like them which keep the world spinning. I have no idea what kind of work they all did, it was manufacturing and other labour specific industry, but there they were - working. No flash cars for them, no bullshit which goes with white collar careers, simpler but harder work and work lifestyle. We cant all follow what dreams we have. Not everyone can become a doctor or a IT specialist, despite probably having more than enough intelligence. Yet thankfully so many people do the shittiest jobs that no one else wants to do. As for who's happier, that is unanswerable - it depends on a multitude of variables. In short, are we grateful to the people who work in the bedding factories assembling beds? Are we grateful to the garbos? The council gardeners? The hospital cleaners? The shorthand cook in the cafe you buy your coffee from? The staff who come in during the still of night and vacuum the office you work in? Chances are we dont spare a thought. The work they do is not acknowledged until it is done/not done, and not really monetarily matching of the worth it really has.
financeguy said:Independent conservative, though I also agree with some elements of green politics.
Indeed, I see no contradiction whatsoever between conservatism and conservationism.
I will write a more detailed post at a later date outlining what I see as the crisis in conservatism, and my recommended prescription for fixing it.
http://www.repamerica.org/ConservativeQuotes.html