[TheRealThing]

The way I see it is we have taught and been taught that we are too good and entitles to a better job than "flipping burgers". IMO this kind of job is a huge stepping stone to learning how the world works. Sure it's no a great job and the pay sucks, but it's a starting point. Since the beginning as far as I know you have to start at the bottom and work your way up the corporate ladder. You don't start on the top.

So when you graduate from college you shouldn't expect to make 6 figures a year with an arts degree. Or even a business degree. If we as a country could learn that in or see to make a name for ourselves we have to work for it, the works would be a better place.

When I was getting ready to turn 16 I applied at McD's. The result? I soon learned how great it was to be able to buy a few things I wanted, on my own. Clothes and eventually a car. Then believe it or not I financed my own college education, working right there at good old McDonalds. (that was before federal aid) Working never hurt anybody, It is usually, on the contrary, a character building prerequisite to a self sufficient life style. On the other hand, if one starts off his life dodging work, sitting around killing zombies, on a diet of Mt Dew and twinkies, he will likely never rise up out of the ranks of those whose only identifying credential is their hard luck story and manage to accomplish nothing more than becoming a life long, cradle to grave, entitlement statistic. And as has been mentioned in another thread, the liberals will stay huddled in a circle singing Kum bah ya and crying, because of the plight of the poor.