Productivity gains, technology and International trade have done mere to kill those good paying "unskilled" jobs than anything else IMO. (the safe ones are the ones that can not be outsourced, then is anti-Union legislation.
Off-shoring, slave wages abroad & the quarterly profits game is just as responsible thanks to our patriotic 'Merican corporate leaders.
I hate to be cynical here, but: http://www.nj.com/starledger/pdf/friday.pdf http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2012/12/cory_bookers_week_on_food_stam.html An unmarried, unemployed 24-year-old mother of three, living in subsidized low-income housing, complains that $668 in monthly food stamps plus free groceries from the local food pantry is not enough. She doesn't mention welfare or WIC. Apparently, delaying having children until she was educated, established and partnered was not an option. Would she have availed herself of birth control, even were it free?
Obviously getting rid of all social programs to let people starve if they become part of the reserve army of the unemployed necessary for capitalism to work, fostering our winner-take-all casino economy and handing over all political and economic power to our corporate elites is the answer, isn't that right ceezmad
So your oversimplified assumption is that I think everyone should get Obama's gifts? Or are you saying that we need to provide better funding for education, birth control, daycare, public housing so cases like the one mentioned do not happen so often?
That is all I am saying! we can now agree and move on. Free abortions for the poor is a good start, that is some spending I can get behind.