AllieBaba
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Enough to provide a roof over their heads, transportation to and from work, health care, clothes, and utilities with a little extra to go out once in awhile.
Anyone that thinks otherwise, doesn't understand the "American Way". Everyone is equal, regardless of education, background, race, etc. EVERYONE. They aren't less than you because they are standing on their feet doing their job all day. In fact, they probably are BETTER than you since they work so hard to put food on the table while all you can do is complain that they shouldn't be paid enough to live on because they don't have the kind of job you do.
I don't understand these people that look down on other working people. I was taught that anyone that worked for a living deserved our respect be he a janitor, or the President of the USA, they deserve EQUAL respect. Hmmm....then again....
When did schools start teaching our kids that the way to success is increased minimum wages?
The insistence on "minimum wages" is one of the primary reasons that people making $8.40 now can't make it on what people making $1.65 an hour made it on when I was a kid.
Minimum wage standards are a joke and always have been. All that happens when you increase the minimum wage is that you pay more for whatever is made in America. It increases unemployment, and it increases inflation.
the last 3 times there was an increase in the minimum wage, there was no net job losses, no increase in inflation or unemployment.
Even when it does increase inflation..it spreads it out over everyone so yeah, they pay a little more for a hamburger, but so does the middleclass and the wealthy...it's spread out so overall, they do get a net increase.
You made a minimum wage and your minimum wage had a higher spending power than today's minimum wage and you would deny that to today's workers that are trying to better themselves.
Ok, now you're officially full of shit.
If workers want to better themselves, they work their way UP out of minimum wage, entry level jobs, which have NEVER been adequate to support a family.
That's the way it works. You don't go into McDonald's expecting to make enough to raise your four children and pay for a nice car and a hefty savings. You go into McDonald's hoping to get a little spending money (if you're a kid) or to scrape by until you can get a BETTER job, that pays more money....so that eventually you have a job which can provide you with the lifestyle you would like.
I've been working for years..and I have just reached the place where I am not struggling (well compared to some, I still am struggling, but this is nothing...) and can actually pay my own way, with a little to spare. The one thing I know for certain is to get that higher standard of living, you have to #1, identify it as something YOU want to achieve, and #2, WORK FOR IT. That means suffering in go-nowhere awful jobs until you can make the next step.
That's the way it works.
We don't start paying through the nose for those crappy jobs...that's just idiotic. You start somewhere, and the bottom is the bottom. It's the most unpleasant place to be...but many, many people are glad to be there and understand it's a temporary fix....