No, they don't deserve 30 dollars an hour, but enough to pay the bills, rent, and put food on the table. Otherwise, those jobs just shouldn't exist and people need burgers and corporations can manage by paying labour what they deserve.

What passes between me and VC is just that too. It is none of your business and I think VC is testament to my ability to say sorry after crossing the line. You on the other hand never do so. You cannot get much more nasty than to say one 'has no redeemable qualities' and have a repeated variation of that time and time again. Now I don't have a whole lot of time for dead soldiers in Iraq, I make no bones about that. They shouldn't have been there. That is how I feel about wars based on lies, I think VC now admits Iraq was a mistake too. To say one one has no redeemable qualities for the relatively benign life choices that I make is a bit extreme. You try to paint me with the same rhetoric as would be used with a serial killer or something, when all I am is a member of this online community. This is my home as much as yours, so please don't paint me with the same kind of rhetoric as the kind of war criminal revealed by Wikileaks.

To constantly attack my work in thread after thread when it has nothing to do with the threads at hand is extremely weak too. As I say, I have worked bloody hard to get an education and do what I do. I don't like it to be sniffed at. Me being an educator has nothing to do with being a private man with strong political views. You have them too, should all people with political views join the government assistance crowd? Should we just quit and become a hippy and an isolationist following our respective unemployed paths? I'm good at what I do, and maybe you are good at whatever you do, but we still have those tangents that are not part of the mainstream. That's who we are.

In response to you, I do become extremely harsh myself and I know that. I know I can be exasperating, but you are another side of the same coin. It's annoying because I don't particularly want to be at constant odds with you, but you keep jumping into threads like the Syria one and seemingly for no other reason than an attempt to annoy me. It escalates and then we are at war again. It's like the Middle East.