How do you feel about the fast food strike in the USA?

[Maynard_Tool]

SSJGohan3972 said:
I worked starting at the age of 16, first washing airplanes at the local regional airport ($6 an hour, hours under planes in 100+ degree heat) then as a dish washer ($7 an hour after school until midnight every day of the week, one time I did 2 full months without a single day off) to save up so that I could go to college. In college I worked at GeekSquad/BestBuy (started at $10 ended at about $13) until I graduated and started looking for a job it took me over a year to find a decent job in my field but I worked hard and eventually found a job with a local school system in Technology Support (salary job but it works out to about $17 an hour) and then after two years I got a promotion into the position I make now.

I look around and realize I didn't have anything anyone else doesn't have, I worked my way up from nothing (and plan to continue to work my way up) but I also didn't live beyond my means, when I was in school I didn't own a flat screen TV and my car was used, I still had a flip phone until like 2008 and thank god the Wii was only $250.

Today I still have to be frugal with my money, I still rent because I'm not quite stable enough to purchase a home yet, I still shop at the discount groccery store or Walmart and I still don't buy every little thing I would like because I have financial goals (I have an iPhone 4 for instance with no plans to upgrade until it stops working).

I think the main problem here and in society as a whole is they expect things to be handed to them, that they should be able to get a job straight out of high school with no experience and no skills and be able to buy fancy phones and computers and cars and whatnot is ridiculous. My parents are no rich but they are also no poor (I'd say slightly upper middle class) but they didn't give me a thing, I worked and continue to work for it despite the disadvantage I have (an actual one instead of self-imposed ones a lot of people claim)

A great example is my sister, she grew up in the exact same household as me, with the exact same advantages as me with two key differences 1) she does not have the health problems I have and 2) she has a much better personality (people skills, etc.) plus she's quite attractive physically (objectively I am secure in saying this, I'm her brother but I'm not blind). Yet she never finished school, is always in some sort of legal and/or financial struggle, is now married to quite a savory character and has three children they can't afford. They get food stamps and some other government assistance and they are always complaining about how they shouldn't have to work as hard as they do to get by.

They have a flat screen TV, they both have smart phones and a laptop and satellite TV and internet and their oldest (4 year old) has a kindle fire.

It's late I'm rambling so I'll sum up:

People should live within their means, if they want more they need to work to increase their means not be given things for nothing. End of story.

Thaaaaaank you. This, is what I was talking about.@bolded, thats the American Life. Spend more than you have/earn. Not saying every american, but thats the overall lifestyle.