Ray From Cleveland
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You can't blame Walmart for the ever expanding social programs these Democrats promote. The programs are the problem, not Walmart. Why can't you come to that understanding?
And let me tell you, I've worked plenty of minimum wage jobs in my life. Why don't I work minimum wage jobs now? Because it's that minimum wage that drove me to better myself. Now had some government power came along and forced my previous employers to pay me more money than I was worth, why would I have tried to do better? I would have stayed where I was at for God knows how many years.
And if every single Walmart closed tomorrow, you would still have minimum wage jobs. You would still have people making sure they make less to stay on government programs. You would still have those government programs. You'd solve nothing.
All the programs that I know of require you to be very poor. Our stagnant wages make it clear there aren't a lot of opportunities out there anymore. While CEO's and execs get more and more increases, wages are stagnant for everyone else. Health and retirement benefits are going down too. End welfare tomorrow and our economy would go into a depression. Pay everyone on welfare enough to get off and the economy will soar.
Don't you understand? They don't want to get off of welfare. They are quite content being there. That's why they take low wage jobs and only work part-time. Increase their wages and they will only work less hours.
Want to get people out of Walmart? Let them take one of the thousands of jobs in my field of work. They are begging people to come in. Or the construction industry. They too are short handed in labor. I don't know of one truck driver that's on welfare.
End welfare tomorrow and more people would go to work instead. Nobody is going to starve because government quit supporting them. When you get hungry enough, you'll work.
Nobody wants to be on welfare. They get there because they can't find a good job. Nobody wants to be poor.
Ah yes the truck driver thing again. Where wages are going down and there are lots of safety concerns. That is you answer to our job problem? You can't be serious.
There is no place for them to go to work. Why don't you get that? Wages are stagnant. There are not great jobs out there waiting.
So are you saying it's better to be on welfare or working an actual job like truck driving? You know there are no advancements on social programs, don't you? You know you can't get experience with social programs, don't you? You do know that regardless of what the going rate is, driving pays much better than Walmart or social programs, don't you? You do know that if you ever decide to work again in your life, employers look down on applicants that have been slacking off the last couple of years, don't you? The longer you slack, the harder it is to get a job, and most any employer will have much more respect for you if you were working at a lower wage than not working at all.
I'm telling you truck driving isn't the answer to our job problem. Even with high demand wages are going down. Safety is also a big issue. On top of that there is training many will have to pay for.
So what? I did it so why can't other people?
I just get so sick of reading that there aren't any jobs when there are thousands. Or that Walmart has people by the ying-yang because there are no other jobs available. So trucking doesn't pay $70,000 a year. So what? It still pays a decent wage and even good wages once you get experience.
I know companies that are looking for drivers that pay well over $23.00 per hour plus plenty of overtime. I know a former coworker of mine that has one of those jobs at Fed Ex and has been making great money and benefits since he left our company years ago.
The problem with you people on the left is that you expect those floor sweeping jobs that pay $60,000 a year to come back because of employer guilt. Get over it! There're gone! It's a part of our history now! It's never going to happen again. Monkey jobs will never pay what they used to. And the more excuses you make for these people, the less likely they will ever make anything of themselves.
The best thing we can do for these people is cut off all government benefits. When you get hungry enough, you'll work and be actively looking to make better money and try much harder like we used to do in the good ole days.
Such wimps we have become, it's embarrassing.