Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
More than 75% of those collecting minimum wage are ADULTS.
So the Hell what? Seems to me they should be educating themselves to move up the ladder, eh? WHY do some of you insist upon the Government forcing the rest of us to pay for their poor life choices?
Some of it isn't "poor life choices" some of it is luck, most of it is the background you came from.....
I have a friend who's been a maid for 30 years...she keeps getting pushed out of her jobs by immigrants and having to start over. She has a two year degree but no one will hire her for it because she has tourette's syndrome. I object to you thinking she doesn't deserve a living wage just because she has a neurological problem which makes people not want to be around her. She has a sister who worked for the same company for 30 years and just got laid off. At the age of 50, she is starting over and yes, she's even looking at minimum wage jobs....
Just because you've been lucky doesn't mean everyone has...and some of us have worked darn hard for what we have we don't deserve to lose it because the government made mistakes and allowed our jobs to go overseas and those that remained to be taken by immigrants and then decided to take OUR tax money and bail out the already wealthy banks, putting our children and grandchild in debt.
BTW, my brother in law has a doctorate and HE lost his job.....my nephew graduated from MIT and worked for Intel and now has gone back to school to become a lawyer because he knew his job was going to be gone.....
Because of few of you have been lucky, doesn't mean that everyone else is lazy.....or uneducated.
Because we can't be reminded too many times that the main reason people are unemployed/underemployed is because they suffer from rare neurological disorders.
Is it at all possible that you could look at the big picture instead of falling back on a handful of anecdotal sob stories? The vast majority of poor people in this country are poor for one reason and one reason only: bad life choices. Don't believe me? Go ask any employee of your local welfare office. They'll tell you the same. Or look at reams and reams of data which will tell you how many of them - for example - don't have high school diplomas or never attended any sort of education after high school or have substance abuse issues or . . . I could go on, but you get the idea. You can't really think that one PhD (PhD in what, one wonders) who got fired or one woman with Tourette's (which doesn't require you to work as a crappy-ass maid, by the way) is representative of hundreds of millions of people.