fair minimum wage

[UnconTROLLed]

Sorry but not everyone lives in a perfect lily white world where there is opportunity galore outside their doorstep. I'm all for working hard to better oneself. But the opportunities just aren't there for a large portion of the country. Just imagine at what this country could be if everyone had access to a world class education and/ or training. Minimum wage jobs such as Wal-Mart and McDonald's is the new slavery. You just can't grasp that concept. There is a need for Wal-Mart because of corporations like Wal-Mart. Where do you think its workers shop?

People are generally terrible consumers and fall right in line with the gimmicks these corporations are marketing.

Of course socialists have been calling wage workers "wage slavery" for centuries, and they of course are (unfortunately) correct.

Who has time to prepare meals for families when you're working 100-200 hours a week combined? Hence "fast food", food for working families who don't have time to cook for their families between working two and three jobs.

On a brighter note, I bet Wal-Mart profited at least 10 or 15 billion last year...

 

[MAKAVELI]

On a brighter note, I bet Wal-Mart profited at least 10 or 15 billion last year...

All the while, its employees are on public assistance programs. In essence Wal-Mart's profit is tied to these programs.

 

[UnconTROLLed]

All the while, its employees are on public assistance programs. In essence Wal-Mart's profit is tied to these programs.

I thought this was a good read, seems to mesh well with the topic at hand.

http://aattp.org/guess-which-charity-greedy-walmart-heirs-give-almost-none-of-their-own-money-to/

 

[MAKAVELI]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...inimum-wage-see-faster-job-growth-report-says

 

[moreluck]

(thanks Eric)

Minimum wage

Well said....

For those fast food employees striking for $15 an hour, let's do some math. At $15 an hour Johnny Fry-Boy would make $31,200 annually. An E1 (Private) in the military makes $18,378. An E5 (Sergeant) (Petty Officer 2nd Class) with 8 years of service only makes $35,067 annually. So you're telling me, Sally McBurgerflipper, that you deserve as much as those kids getting shot at, deploying for months in hostile environments, and putting their collective asses on the line every day protecting your unskilled butt!? Here's the deal, Baconator, you are working in a job designed for a kid in high school who is learning how to work and earning enough for gas, and hanging out with their equally goofy high school pals. If you have chosen this as your life long profession, you have failed.

If you don't want minimum wage, don't have minimum skills.
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[realbrown1]

(thanks Eric)

Minimum wage

Well said....

For those fast food employees striking for $15 an hour, let's do some math. At $15 an hour Johnny Fry-Boy would make $31,200 annually. An E1 (Private) in the military makes $18,378. An E5 (Sergeant) (Petty Officer 2nd Class) with 8 years of service only makes $35,067 annually. So you're telling me, Sally McBurgerflipper, that you deserve as much as those kids getting shot at, deploying for months in hostile environments, and putting their collective asses on the line every day protecting your unskilled butt!? Here's the deal, Baconator, you are working in a job designed for a kid in high school who is learning how to work and earning enough for gas, and hanging out with their equally goofy high school pals. If you have chosen this as your life long profession, you have failed.

If you don't want minimum wage, don't have minimum skills.
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What you just posted is not exactly true.
In addition to their base salary, they also get either free housing or a housing allowance. They also a meal card so that they can eat for free 3 meals a day at the chow hall.
How much does those 2 benefits that military personnel get, raise their total compensation?
They also get a yearly uniform allowance.
My point is, as a country, we should reward work, not de-value it.

 

[The Other Side]

What you just posted is not exactly true.
In addition to their base salary, they also get either free housing or a housing allowance. They also a meal card so that they can eat for free 3 meals a day at the chow hall.
How much does those 2 benefits that military personnel get, raise their total compensation?
They also get a yearly uniform allowance.
My point is, as a country, we should reward work, not de-value it.

IF this country rewarded hard work, it wouldnt move work to other countries. What the corporations of this country want is HARD work for less pay. No benefits, NO pensions. NO investment in employee futures.

A revolving door of employees, its the cheaper way to do business.

TOS.

 

[Babagounj]

Socialist Party Demanding $20 Minimum Wage Insists It Should Not Be Subject To $20 Minimum Wage

The socialist party in Seattle that wants to raise the federal minimum wage to $20 per hour but advertised a job last week for an experienced web developer paying just $13 per hour is now defending itself.

Doug Barnes, the Freedom Socialist Party’s national secretary, claimed that the collectivist political organization shouldn’t be subject to its own wage demands because it is a nonprofit that receives revenue from leftist contributors.

“We’re practicing what we’re preaching in terms of continuing to fight for the minimum wage,” Barnes told the HuffPo. “But we can’t pay a lot more than $13.”

http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/20/s...-it-should-not-be-subject-to-20-minimum-wage/

 

[The Other Side]

JOHN OLIVER explains the minimum wage in the best possible way. BY DESTROYING FOX NEWS..

TOS.

 

[moreluck]