Here’s a quick answer to your inept random thinking; why do you think your strawmen are legitimate questions?
But better yet, why do you think Government is not the reason people are dis-incentivized to work and how do you arrive at such erroneous conclusions? How do food stamps, healthcare subsidies, housing subsidies and welfare incentives to go out and find work and be independent? What studies show that these are incentives to find work?
Valuing a hard work ethic is not a “right winger” position; it is an AMERICAN value; one that is steadily being eroded by leftist Progressive Liberal idealism. I am quite certain there are plenty of “left wingers” who believe in the hard work ethic as well.
I find that when simple minded fools obtain statistical data, they tend to misread them.
Here’s an article with a few facts about the myth of the of the stagnating middle class and wages:
The myth of a stagnant middle class
A favorite "progressive" trope is that America's middle class has stagnated economically since the 1970s. One version of this claim, made by Robert Reich, President Clinton's labor secretary, is typical: "After three decades of flat wages during which almost all the gains of growth have gone to the very top," he wrote in 2010, "the middle class no longer has the buying power to keep the economy going."
This trope is spectacularly wrong.
http://www.aei.org/article/economics/the-myth-of-a-stagnant-middle-class
The Myth of Stagnant Wages
It's a core message found in almost every Democratic presidential stump speech.
"Corporate profits and CEO pay are hitting new highs, while wages for hard-working Americans are stagnant." —Hillary Clinton, February 2007
"For too long, they've told us we can't do anything about disappearing jobs and stagnant wages."—Barack Obama, June 2007
"I talked earlier about some of the adverse effects of globalization—stagnant wages and rising inequality." —John Edwards, August 2007
That's the rhetoric used to discredit the six-year economic expansion. But this line of argument is nothing new. According to left-of-center economists, middle-class wages—and thus our standard of living—have been stagnant for some three decades. In other words, the entire 30-year economic experiment of low taxes, free trade, and less regulation begun by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan has been a complete and utter failure.
Perhaps. But before you consider some data I have compiled (as well as a couple of interviews), consider this: If the standard of living of the average American really had not improved for more than three decades, wouldn't there have been a tremendous political backlash by now? Wouldn't the Democratic Party have fully mutated into a full-scale social democratic party—nationalized healthcare, a return to superhigh tax rates—rather than moving right over the past three decades? Would centrist or right-wing candidates (Reagan I, Reagan II, Bush I, Clinton II, Bush I, Bush II) have won six of the past seven elections? I think not. Anyway, here are the real numbers:
http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/capital-commerce/2007/09/20/the-myth-of-stagnant-wages
Read; become informed instead of a left wing parrot of false DNC talking points.
This is a fascinating, but false supposition; I always thought that the threat of starvation was a great incentive to go out and find work. Perhaps the problem with today’s generation comes from the fact that Obama’s leftist agenda is killing jobs in this country? Does that ever occur to you?
Obama, after nearly five years has overseen the worst recovery on record; a recovery that entails low paying jobs mostly with part time work.
On top of that, the mountain of debt and deficits Obama has recklessly engaged in are the highest in the history of the Presidency. Perhaps that too is an incentive not to work; after all, who do you think is going to have to pay for all that debt?
But there is your fallacy; it is not an incentive problem. It is a JOBS problem. Jobs are disappearing faster than they are being created. I say fix the JOBS problem by severely cutting down the size and scope of Government, creating a PART time legislature instead of full time political career legislature and supplanting the current abomination of a tax code that DIS-incentivizes investment and job creation with a Fair Tax that will incentivize job creation.
Here's a clue for you, what do all these statements have in common:
"Corporate profits and CEO pay are hitting new highs, while wages for hard-working Americans are stagnant." —Hillary Clinton, February 2007
"For too long, they've told us we can't do anything about disappearing jobs and stagnant wages."—Barack Obama, June 2007
"I talked earlier about some of the adverse effects of globalization—stagnant wages and rising inequality." —John Edwards, August 2007
They are all lies uttered by Democrat Liberals who need Americans to feel dependent on them for their economic outcomes. Without the "dependency" mentality of the American voter furthered by lies, distortions and Marxist class envy rhetoric, politicians like these become irrelevant. And one thing you can be certain of when it comes to Liberal politicians; their jobs are much more important than the welfare of the American people.
