There has almost never been "small government"

I love the argument that came forth, not a whole lot of EIB tears, but it was fair.

I got myself out of poverty in my 20s by working for cash, below minimum wage, selling products without a business licence, lying on my insurance to get affordable premiums and then building a house on land without a permit for cash..

cash, employment, a car a house and no debt by circumventing big government every step of the way.
Big government absolutely never assisted me, it was a major hindrance.

Now imagine how much more quickly you'd have gotten out of poverty if your employers actually paid above minimum wage.

A minimum wage earner telling others how to live their life….

Employers WERE paying above minimum wage...to people with 5+ years experience, to temporary staff for busy seasons, to staff they hired for 2-3 hours a day and to the few staff they already had because nobody would leave because options outside of it were almost non-existent.

When your area has 70% unemployment for young adults and teens and every job has 300 applicants and a small company has to pay out 60-70-$80 a day for each staff + rent + bills + taxes + losses + their own income, things tend to suck.

Luckily I got a job on day 1 when I offered to circumvent all that.

OK. Now imagine that they paid YOU the same amount as well. How much faster would you have gotten out of poverty then?

I wouldn't because they wouldn't have hired me like nobody hired me or anyone I knew for years on years, and I'd still be where I was back then, like most of the people I grew up with.
Millions of kids out there get stuck in their poverty with the whole 'need experience for work but need work for experience' trap because liberal policies make poor unskilled inexperienced kids a liability most companies aren't going to take on for $100 a day
Black kids know this the most because they usually come from the worst areas/homes and the policies right outside it have the highest cost and stipulations. thats why you get poverty cycles, even when the kids try. its sad.

But they did and what if they paid you properly. Wouldn't that have been faster? Just, mathematically?

Those aren't liberal policies, unless you mean economic, as in neo-liberal capitalism, in which free market forces guide rather than state implemented policies.

Ironically, this approach has been embraced by Conservatives, and not only also by Republicans, but to the extent of giving tax breaks and subsidizing companies to (also ironically) help them along with laissez-faire economic policies. Reagan was big on laissez-faire, and his supply-side economics, also known as Reaganomics, is something you can thank for the stratification and stagnation in terms of progress you said you find yourself and others mired in.

I call for small govt and I've never benefited from LARGE government. In act, govt here in Taxifornia has hindered me at every step when it comes to starting and running a small business.

Consider yourself proven wrong and hopefully your mind changed.

Why not move to Floriduh? Get some slaves and teach them the trade...😏

Question: why isn't your business located and operating out of Oklahoma?

LOL

Flagged and reported for mocking.

How well did that go for you?

An "lol" in full caps is even meaner.
You should be ashamed.

LOLOLOL ! ! !

Don’t care. I figure if I report anything even borderline on all of you, eventually you’ll get tired of being banned and block me. Until then, I am flagging and reporting everything.

Didn't work, did it?

Why?

That's right, why.