Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

[LatinaAlumna]

Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

Actually, he is. I know him personally. I don't have to stick up for him, he can do that himself. But this argument isn't over what the topic covers, this is a pissing contest because you two disagree with each other.

Relax. It's the internet. But you made me laugh, so it's okay.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Otherwise, solo attorneys can do pretty well.

Sometimes. I know some who aren't.

Originally Posted by Kevin

Choice nonetheless.

The premise I'm arguing against is that no one is culpable for their own demise in this economy.

Then you're arguing against a premise no one has advanced (we've all agreed that some people are quite cuplable and some people are somewhat culpable) by arguing the other extreme: that everyone is cuplable for their own demise in this economy, that unemployment simply means they're not trying hard enough. The premise I'm arguing against is that it is always that black-and-white, as cut-and-dry or simple as you make it out to be, that everyone could just find a job if they tried harder or made the right choices. Complicated problems just don't have simple answers like that. To quote H.L. Mencken, "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."

Are some people's situations worse than others? No doubt. But I've seen damn near homeless folks scrape together the cash they needed for representation while still paying the bills. If a multi-time felon, semi-literate individual can make it, so can these apparently educated folks. They don't get my sympathy because no matter how bad they think they have it, I've seen people climb out of deeper holes.

From your persective it's a deeper hole. Any chance your perspective is incomplete?

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

From your persective it's a deeper hole. Any chance your perspective is incomplete?

Want to trade places with a multiple-time felon with no home who has an addiction it'd be really easy to return to?

I sure as hell don't.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Want to trade places with a multiple-time felon with no home who has an addiction it'd be really easy to return to?

I sure as hell don't.

I don't either, never suggested I would.

But then, they're plenty of people I wouldn't want to trade places with. You know a lot about this particular former felon and that gives you an insight into how deep his hole was and how easy it would be to fall back into it. I get that. But I also get that neither you nor I know as much about plenty of other people. That's why I'm hesitant to assume that his hole is "deeper" than the holes other people have that I know nothing about.