Chase,
Are you saying we don’t have “ Safty Nets “ in place now ?
Of course you should have the right to fight for higher wages ! But you must also offer your employer a service and if you price your service too high you may price yourself out of a job.
Supply and demand determine Wages ! Nothing else !
However, if their are more jobs than workers, wages rise ! The converse is also true !
There are all types of Social Programs , unfortunately they must be paid for ! As I stated above
How many and how much can any nation spend on such programs ?
Who pays and how do they get funded ?
SOCIAL is just what it states = Socialism !
A lot of the so called Social Programs were sold to the American People as something not rally social !
Like Social Security. We were forced to pay into a “ Pension “ fund. The Money we paid in was supposed
To be placed into “lock Box “ and not used for anything else ! We had to trust our government !
We paid with dollars backed by Gold ! Real solid money !
The Government Actuaries, never expected people to live much older than 62 at that time! And they were correct for a number of years.
People died and never collected a dime because their money was not really theirs, it was locked away ,
We went off the gold standard, inflation made our money whatever the government wanted it to be.
Then the lock box was broken and the government spent the money !
At retirement people are now paid with inflated dollars and are taxed on their retiement funds.
The ponzi scheme is now funded by taxing the young to pay back the Old !
To add insult to injury, Social Security is now consider an “ Entitlement “ !
Here is another point on Socialized Medicine. I know how it works because I lived in Germany,
Paid into that system, and have relatives that still live under that system.
History lesson:
After WW11 , Germany lost some many people in WWll that there were very few middle age to older men
Alive, their War losses were horrendous! The USA poured in billions of dollars to help rebuild and to defend
Germany.
The rebuilding created jobs, jobs, jobs, which resulted in FULL employment !
Everyone one worked , everyone paid in, few people took out ! Utopia !
Germans stopped having large families , today the population is aging, Refugees have flooded
Into the country and are adding a Burden upon the Social Programs.
The cost for the programs are rising and a middle class working German is paying in about 40%
Tax rate. On top of that their is a VAT tax of about 18 %. Social programs grow and get costly !
The waits for major medical procedures are getting longer and longer.
While the systems is still working , it is also deteriorating and many people who could afford it are now paying For supplemental insurance !
Socialized Medicine declines as more and more people use it, and fewer and fewer people are
Available to,pay into the system!
The best solution is lower taxes, a growing economy, full employment, employer based health care, large 401 Ks, and yes safty nets for the sick and disabled !