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There are also jobs for which minimum wage does not apply. I think the going rate for table waiters here in Atlanta is $2.13/hr. They are expected to make up the difference by hustling for tips...giving good service, etc. A decent bartender makes $5.00/hr.
I tip rather heavily wherever I eat and drink because I know these people don't make shit compared to my salary...and they're just tryin' to make a livin'...put some bread on the table for those grubby little crumb snatchers crawlin' around the home place.
I feel a bit of guilt every time I treat myself to a new thousand dollar pistol...happened again just yesterday.
You can send your pistol to me to assuage your guilt.
Of course I have no use for a $1k pistol. But whatever.
How about a $2500 Python?
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Article> One of my clients recently reported getting a job at a fast-food restaurant. Since she's been unemployed and desperately looking for work for nearly a year, I was thrilled for her. She was very excited that she'll be making $7.50 an hour - a whole quarter more than minimum wage.
After she left my office, I got out a calculator. I've never worked for minimum wage, so I didn't know exactly how much -- or how little -- money that is.
Assuming 80 hours per pay period, my client will be bringing home around $462 every two weeks. That's with no health insurance or retirement contributions.
If I brought home $924 a month, would I even be able to survive? I decided to find out.
read more How do people survive on minimum wage?- MSN Money
Minimum wage jobs are best for kids beginning in the work force and they are the first step. They are also great for a person wanting a part time job or second job. If a person doesn't have an education, they may never rise above minimum wage. Most minimum wage workers who have families receive welfare and do okay. If one can have their rent, utilities and food subsidized, they often have more disposable income than people making $50,000 a year.
My aunt survived on a measley $800 a month social security check. She worked her entire adult life and paid more into SS than she ever got out of it. She was able to keep her good insurance because she had saved money over the years and had a nice retirement nest egg. In other words, she relied mainly on herself rather than fully depend on government to ensure her retirement.
Many of us began with minimum wage jobs and climbed from there. If a person with a big family is still working at a low paying job after many years, I have to ask what went wrong with the person's life that they can only get an unskilled job. If they dropped out of school or are a convicted felon, they have made choices that limited their opportunities and it's not really fair to expect the tax payers to pick up the slack. There are consequences to our actions and that alone can cause a person to make better decision, but when the government puts out the message that tax payers will subsidize them, where is the incentive for people to be personally responsible for their own future?
Of course, these days the good jobs are continuing to disappear, which makes it much harder to increase one's standard of living.
If companies have to pay more for minimum wage jobs, the number of jobs tend to decrease. Even Walmart is talking about not hiring any more greeters and doing away with those jobs. They were great jobs for seniors who wanted to suppliment their social security income.
Prices will rise if minimum wage is increased because the business needs to cover their additional expenses.
It's just best to keep your nose clean and go for the better job rather than rely on big giverment to come through for you.
Many businesses see "Food Stamps" as a "business subsidy". Without food stamps, they would have to cut back on their number of employees. 50% of those on food stamps are children. The majority of those on food stamps are white. The idea that people on food stamps are lazy and don't work is simply one more Republican lie they spew to hurt even their own people Go figure.
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Article> One of my clients recently reported getting a job at a fast-food restaurant. Since she's been unemployed and desperately looking for work for nearly a year, I was thrilled for her. She was very excited that she'll be making $7.50 an hour - a whole quarter more than minimum wage.
After she left my office, I got out a calculator. I've never worked for minimum wage, so I didn't know exactly how much -- or how little -- money that is.
Assuming 80 hours per pay period, my client will be bringing home around $462 every two weeks. That's with no health insurance or retirement contributions.
If I brought home $924 a month, would I even be able to survive? I decided to find out.
read more How do people survive on minimum wage?- MSN Money
Most people only Start out Making Minimum Wage. If you are still making Minimum Wage at the Same Job 10 Years later. Perhaps you are not a very good worker? Or not very Motivated to go out and find a better Job?
Minimum Wage Jobs are suppose to be Entry level Jobs, not a career.
I make over minimum wage but when I started my job I made minimum wage and was fucking glad to have it too.....You can all bitch about how small amount of money it is but it is a hell of a lot more then nothing you greedy idiot liberals. I got raises based on my performance the way it is suppose to be. I still dont make much money but I still am grateful cause it helps feed my family without being a welfare slave.
Seriously. you dont understand economics, how about you tell me why we dont jack it up to $100/hour?
Because it would ruin the economy.
I'm sorry you're an idiot and need to be told these things.
DING SING DING!!!!! Now WHY would it ruin the economy (knowing this will tell you why the min wage is a bad policy)
No lie. You can work for $5974 an hour if you want. You just fill out what you want to be paid when you get hired. Everyone knows that.WOW. You don't have to work for minimum wage.
Also get a second job if you cant make it on your first..
Amazing what WORK will do for one's soul...
I'm curious, have you ever had to work two minimum wage paying jobs? Have you ever had a minimum wage job?
Once again, you are either purposely misrepresenting the facts or don't know them.
2.2% of American workers are paid minimum wage.
You go from one extreme to another. Forcing an employer to pay an unsustainable pension plan and unrealistic hours only hurts the workers in the long run.
No one forces anyone to pay an unsustainable pension plan. We live in a free country where parties have wide latitude to make whatever contracts they like with one another. If a business signs a contract against their interest then it is their own fault. We call that personal responsibility in the land of the free.
America auto manufacturers failed because they insisted on pursuing a production and marketing model based around big ass gas guzzlers in the fact of increasing gasoline prices. To suggest this massive strategic failure was the fault of the factory worker and not the management is to absolve management of all responsibility for anything.
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IF it weren't for the unions our armature and chief would have been more than willing to let American auto industry perish.
AND? You think that would have been a GOOD thing if hundreds of thousands MORE lost their jobs? Fucks sake, whose side are you on? Its abundantly evident you WANT people to lose their jobs. We've known that about the right for a while now - any amount of suffering by American workers and their families is justified so long as it gets big government evil OBAMA out of office.
What I'm saying is that unions decimated America's auto industry.
Why is unemployment lower in right to work states?
No lie. You can work for $5974 an hour if you want. You just fill out what you want to be paid when you get hired. Everyone knows that.WOW. You don't have to work for minimum wage.
ok, raise thne min wage, what happens things cost more, so you're at the same purchasing power with min wage, yet now things cost more and then you get killed on trade, hence we dont get alot of good from Europe, cuz their shit is expensive!!!!!!
So in essence you raise what people make and you raise the prices. And it keeps going and going and going, hence inflation and then you cant trade with other countries efficiently
Everything cost more? How much more?ok, raise thne min wage, what happens things cost more,
WOW. You don't have to work for minimum wage.
No lie. You can work for $5974 an hour if you want.
They don't, they can't, I've been saying that for years, more than 75% of those working for minimum wage are adults and minimum wage currently has the lowest spending power in history. In the richest country in the world, the poorest worker should make a living wage.
WOW. You don't have to work for minimum wage.
No lie. You can work for $5974 an hour if you want.
That is Jamie Diamond money right there. $5794. an hour. And he only lost 3 billion for Chase.
I could do that for $5795 an hour. Just one dollar more and I could do him one better and lose 4 billion.
This is what you get when you have a society where the price is everything.
Like I have said 1000 times...we live in a country where the nations largest company is a retail giant whose company motto is "lowest possible price".
No lie. You can work for $5974 an hour if you want. You just fill out what you want to be paid when you get hired. Everyone knows that.WOW. You don't have to work for minimum wage.
Nope, you cant do that, but why should you be able to?
