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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (678399)	10/11/2012 12:56:43 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577592

If you went to college, you could go into management or a profession and expect a lifetime of good earnings and a comfy pension. If you got a factory job, it was for life, and unions bargained for ever-higher wages and benefits. That's not the America we live in anymore. Government has grown bigger. But big business doesn't generate jobs; most are created by small businesses and startups. Unions have shrunk, and most union members are public employees. Meanwhile, public policies have remained in place. Every year, government transfers increasing amounts from working-age taxpayers to the elderly through Social Security and Medicare. ObamaCare amplifies this by requiring young workers to buy expensive insurance far beyond their needs