Income Inequality is a result of Individual Effort/Choices

[ScienceRocks]

Yes, the choices of people at the top to pay themselves bloated salaries, and leave the scraps for the unwashed.

Seriously, the defensiveness of conservatives on the issue of the minimum wage is telling. I the Democrats are onto something there. Conservative opposition to modest increases in the minimum wage should be used like a cudgel against the skulls of vulnerable GOPers.

You make a good point...We also have to consider that businesses will raise prices on products once we raise minimum wage. So the buying power does go down...

Education and finding the right system of education is really the answer.

 

[Rozman]

If a Corporation wants to pay an exectutive a high salary and bonuses tied to performance
that's between the Board of Directors and ultimately the shareholders.

Not Obama and the Libs here.

 

[Rozman]

If you guys are pissed that the CEO of company XYZ makes too much money.
Don't support that company.Your choice.

 

[ScienceRocks]

If a Corporation wants to pay an exectutive a high salary and bonuses tied to performance
that's between the Board of Directors and ultimately the shareholders.

Not Obama and the Libs here.

So the workers that are the drivers behind that profit deserve scraps???

 

[Rozman]

If a Corporation wants to pay an exectutive a high salary and bonuses tied to performance
that's between the Board of Directors and ultimately the shareholders.

Not Obama and the Libs here.

So the workers that are the drivers behind that profit deserve scraps???

Workers deserve what the job pays....
They don't like the salary offered they are free to negotiate or just say.. no thanks.
Someone working as a receptionist is not worth $100k a year.

Correction....they are if that's what the employer is willing to pay ... lol

 

[The T]

If you guys are pissed that the CEO of company XYZ makes too much money.
Don't support that company.Your choice.

Indeed, and fall for the Class-Envy crap dished out by the politicians either, you fall right into the trap.

Wanna make that kind of doe? Then school yourself, and do it.

If a company pays someone what their services are worth? I'm all for it and isn't any one's business but the shareholders that gave the guy the job in the first place.

 

[Rozman]

Liberals are a strange lot....
Someone rolls out of bed after graduating from College with a Liberal arts degree and they
should be paid $200k a year because other people make that kind of money so how is it "fair"
that this person doesn't get paid that.

 

[Granny]

I would say the OP is mostly correct. There used to be a lot of pride in people who had the jobs nobody else wanted and that paid lower than a snail's tail - but they still had pride. We don't have that now. Much of it can be laid at the feet of the "social do-gooders" who insisted on doling out government "aid" rather than looking at the real problems and working to correct those. These same social do-gooders further muddied the waters with even more crap that continued to deteriorate what used to be a very productive and functional America - and they KNEW what they were doing when they did it. Now we have an entire generation of people who think they are ENTITLED to sit on their asses and be fed, clothed, housed and educated by the rich bitches. Not all the riches were inherited - a lot of it came from good old-fashioned work ethic and moral character.

 

[velvtacheeze]

Yes, the choices of people at the top to pay themselves bloated salaries, and leave the scraps for the unwashed.

Seriously, the defensiveness of conservatives on the issue of the minimum wage is telling. I the Democrats are onto something there. Conservative opposition to modest increases in the minimum wage should be used like a cudgel against the skulls of vulnerable GOPers.

You make a good point...We also have to consider that businesses will raise prices on products once we raise minimum wage. So the buying power does go down...

Education and finding the right system of education is really the answer.

One of these times, conservative predictions of massive price increases and huge job losses resulting from modest increases to the minimum wage may actually come true. It hasn't ever happened , going all the way back to 1938, when the first min wage was enacted, but it may happen. Just keep making those predictions, conservatives. Your luck may eventually change.

 

[initforme]

The statement its all about choices seems like it would sound ideal. However,

1). If you aren't born into money, the odds of you making a lot of money are slim and none. You have to have big money to make big money. There are exceptions but for about 99.9 percent that is the truth. None of the uber wealthy whether slimy democrats or greedy GOP are going to ever say this. They both view labor as something to keep costs down on and themselves as successful.
2) Those at the top don't want others to get there. Part of the ruling class found on both sides of the aisle.
3) Those of you who believe America is the so called land of opportunity are liars, case closed. I don't believer it, I've never believed it as it simply isn't true. There are a lot of people working their tails off and aren't any farther ahead than they were 10 years ago. And it isn't all due to their choices.
4). Middle class people aren't going to get far ahead. They need to face that reality. Someone tells you different they are again a liar.
5) There are plenty of people working 2 or 3 jobs to make it by. They have been doing it for years. Didn't some president say how lucky they were or something like that?

 

[Rozman]

Companies struggling with higher costs to do business get saddled with ObamaCare.
Now they might have to deal with another increase in operating costs.

So they might not hire another worker and may have to let someone go.

And the Libs attitude is tuff shit you own a company even though Obama said they didn't build
that company someone else made that happen.They own a company so they are filthy rich.

 

[The T]

Companies struggling with higher costs to do business get saddled with ObamaCare.
Now they might have to deal with another increase in operating costs.

So they might not hire another worker and may have to let someone go.

And the Libs attitude is tuff shit you own a company even though Obama said they didn't build
that company someone else made that happen.They own a company so they are filthy rich.

Small business is what makes this country work. The Elite Socialists are breaking that back.

 

[initforme]

I used to own my own small business. I have zero support for other small business owners that competed with me and were located near me. As long as they eventually shut their doors that's all that mattered to me.

 

[The Rabbi]

If a Corporation wants to pay an exectutive a high salary and bonuses tied to performance
that's between the Board of Directors and ultimately the shareholders.

Not Obama and the Libs here.

So the workers that are the drivers behind that profit deserve scraps???

Workers arent the drivers behind profit. That's Marxist claptrap. The CEO is a worker too, btw.

 

[SwimExpert]

Democrat banking regulations caused it, nimrod.

I believe you meant to say "bipartisan deregulation."

 

[SwimExpert]

Income Inequality is a result of Individual Effort/Choices

By and large, this premise is correct. There are, of course, always exceptions to the rule, but for the most part, your lot in life was earned by the decisions you made throughout it.

That presumes that all people have equal capacity to make the all the same decisions.

 

[The Rabbi]

Democrat banking regulations caused it, nimrod.

I believe you meant to say "bipartisan deregulation."

There was no deregulation, Einstein.

 

[Indeependent]

Democrat banking regulations caused it, nimrod.

I believe you meant to say "bipartisan deregulation."

There was no deregulation, Einstein.

When was there no deregulation?
Actually, there was too much MNC regulation...
Writing off off-shoring and bringing in hoards of business visas.

 

[1776]

I grew up middle class in a military family with my high school years at a Midwest farm town. My high school had minority kids mostly from the military base like me, so our parents made the same incomes.

My sister and I went to college whereas many of my black classmates took jobs out of high school because they wanted "fast money" working union jobs in nearby cities. Today my income blows them away because I finished 3 college degrees and was willing to wait for my payday down the road.

This bullshit about blacks being oppressed is such bullshit given my classmates came from the same socioeconomic background as me, played the same sports and went to the same high school. They didn't excel in life because many of them were lazy.

 

[bripat9643]

Income Inequality is a result of Individual Effort/Choices

By and large, this premise is correct. There are, of course, always exceptions to the rule, but for the most part, your lot in life was earned by the decisions you made throughout it.

That presumes that all people have equal capacity to make the all the same decisions.

No it doesn't. It presumes nothing.