Originally Posted by reno96teg
growing up, my parents busted their asses to keep food on the table for my brother, sister, and i; and later, to put all three of us through college.
Thats great, and my fam would have done that if we could. But it seems like it's different in major metropolitan areas. Theres no freaking jobs, unless you can travel out to the burbs, the burbs that don't allow public transportation to go through them because they don't want the "inner city" populus in their city. I've been looking for full time employment for the past 7 years and haven't found it yet. All I can find is part-time manual labor jobs. For the past five years, I've worked at least two part time jobs, all while going to school fulltime (except for 1.5 years when I didnt have the money to do so). Someday, when I make six figs, and yes, I will make six figs, I will be willing to pay a higher percentage of my paycheck to go to social programs aimed at helping the lower and lower-middle class. On the local level (city and county) I always vote liberal because they have the best understaning of what happens in the inner city and what should be done to improve the situation. I'm voting Kerry because he understands this more than Bush does.