Sick and tired of US debate on raising the min. wage.

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I was shocked when Biden raised it to 15 for federal workers???????? Who in their right mind is working for the federal gov and making less than 15 and hour???? A WHOLE LOT OF MINORITIES....MY FRIEND WORKED IN SSI IN TENN. SHE WAS MAKING LESS THAN 15 AFTER 30 YEARS OF SERVICE

Is the job she is doing worth $15 an hour?

 

[Mac-7]

California ust raised the minimum wage by $4.00 an hour and in response Kroeger closed two of its grocery stores with more to come.

You’ll need more than that.

libs do not fear unemployment as long as Uncle Joe and Aunt Nancy are around to hand out the welfare checks

 

[Mac-7]

They are not the problem.

Whose fault is it that they want $15 but are only worth $12?

I could suggest maybe illegal aliens flooding the job msrket and driving down wages

but most of them are hispanics and another lib pet minority that the left panders to

Employers are price takers not price makers when Government creates statutes that have effect of fixing Standards for a State or the Union.

Government cant make employers hire overpriced workers

 

[danielpalos]

I was shocked when Biden raised it to 15 for federal workers???????? Who in their right mind is working for the federal gov and making less than 15 and hour???? A WHOLE LOT OF MINORITIES....MY FRIEND WORKED IN SSI IN TENN. SHE WAS MAKING LESS THAN 15 AFTER 30 YEARS OF SERVICE

Is the job she is doing worth $15 an hour?

Yes, simply because Government said that is the minimum wage. The law is the law, don't be illegal to the law.

 

[danielpalos]

They are not the problem.

Whose fault is it that they want $15 but are only worth $12?

I could suggest maybe illegal aliens flooding the job msrket and driving down wages

but most of them are hispanics and another lib pet minority that the left panders to

Employers are price takers not price makers when Government creates statutes that have effect of fixing Standards for a State or the Union.

Government cant make employers hire overpriced workers

Greed being Good under Capitalism does that for Capitalists who want to make a profit.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Employers are price takers not price makers when Government creates statutes that have effect of fixing Standards for a State or the Union.

You don't even know what "price taker" means.

 

[danielpalos]

Employers are price takers not price makers when Government creates statutes that have effect of fixing Standards for a State or the Union.

You don't even know what "price taker" means.

A right winger typing on the Internet.

 

[Ben Thomson]

Joe Biden, as do most economist wants to raise the min. wage to 15.00 an hour, from the poultry 7.25 as it stands today. Most workers of course do not make 7.25 an hour as we all know, most are making btwn 8-12 an hour, with 12.00 being the standard. However, this debate has got to come to an end and real work, not words have to prevail this time.

For the last 12 years Wall Street as has Main Street retailers via online venues, all have seen profits soar to historic levels and Trump rallied and braged on how rich the rich was getting especially his last 4 years, not only with tax cuts but with market growths...so this bullshit about ppl will lose jobs...tired of hearing about it.

And waiting on a recovery from this pandemic will take another decade, if not more with so many business's, closing. However, NOBODY AND I MEAN NOBODY WILL MAKE A DIME, OUTSIDE OF SPECULATORS AND HEDGE FUNDERS on WALL STREET, WITHOUT CONSUMER SPENDING.

Its time Biden, congress and the senate take the effort, the vote and raise the min. wage to a level that can not only help families regroup again with a new job focus, but also help business's grow also. Amazon raised wages profits only grew. Some companies will have to fold, welcome to life!! But at least the owner can go out and find a job paying 15 bucks an hour vs 7.25.

The first time the minimum wage was introduced by the feds the hue and cry from business owners was that it would ruin them..that they would have to lay off workers in order to afford it, that it would be a disaster for the economy. That was back in 1938 when FDR raised it to .25 cents an hour.

 

[Rocko]

Joe Biden, as do most economist wants to raise the min. wage to 15.00 an hour, from the poultry 7.25 as it stands today. Most workers of course do not make 7.25 an hour as we all know, most are making btwn 8-12 an hour, with 12.00 being the standard. However, this debate has got to come to an end and real work, not words have to prevail this time.

For the last 12 years Wall Street as has Main Street retailers via online venues, all have seen profits soar to historic levels and Trump rallied and braged on how rich the rich was getting especially his last 4 years, not only with tax cuts but with market growths...so this bullshit about ppl will lose jobs...tired of hearing about it.

And waiting on a recovery from this pandemic will take another decade, if not more with so many business's, closing. However, NOBODY AND I MEAN NOBODY WILL MAKE A DIME, OUTSIDE OF SPECULATORS AND HEDGE FUNDERS on WALL STREET, WITHOUT CONSUMER SPENDING.

Its time Biden, congress and the senate take the effort, the vote and raise the min. wage to a level that can not only help families regroup again with a new job focus, but also help business's grow also. Amazon raised wages profits only grew. Some companies will have to fold, welcome to life!! But at least the owner can go out and find a job paying 15 bucks an hour vs 7.25.

As do most economists eh?

 

[Mac-7]

They are not the problem.

Whose fault is it that they want $15 but are only worth $12?

I could suggest maybe illegal aliens flooding the job msrket and driving down wages

but most of them are hispanics and another lib pet minority that the left panders to

Employers are price takers not price makers when Government creates statutes that have effect of fixing Standards for a State or the Union.

Government cant make employers hire overpriced workers

Greed being Good under Capitalism does that for Capitalists who want to make a profit.

Capitalism is what separates us from subsistence farmers

I see libs are still posting the same cartoons of “evil” capitalists they used 200 years ago

yet look at how much living conditions for everyone has improved under the capitalist system

 

[danielpalos]

The first time the minimum wage was introduced by the feds the hue and cry from business owners was that it would ruin them..that they would have to lay off workers in order to afford it, that it would be a disaster for the economy. That was back in 1938 when FDR raised it to .25 cents an hour.

A legacy issue? It used to be about "screwing over blacks as former slaves" and turned into screwing over the poor. Right wingers seem to love to "hate on the Poor" with a Passion.

 

[danielpalos]

They are not the problem.

Whose fault is it that they want $15 but are only worth $12?

I could suggest maybe illegal aliens flooding the job msrket and driving down wages

but most of them are hispanics and another lib pet minority that the left panders to

Employers are price takers not price makers when Government creates statutes that have effect of fixing Standards for a State or the Union.

Government cant make employers hire overpriced workers

Greed being Good under Capitalism does that for Capitalists who want to make a profit.

Capitalism is what separates us from subsistence farmers

I see libs are still posting the same cartoons of “evil” capitalists they used 200 years ago

yet look at how much living conditions for everyone has improved under the capitalist system

Capitalism "died in 1929" and socialism has been bailing our Capitalism ever since.

 

[Mac-7]

Greed being Good under Capitalism does that for Capitalists who want to make a profit.

Another point

libs post here all the time boasting about how well off they are financially

to me that says they are making more than they need to survive

Based on their perverted logic thats an example of human greed also

 

[Mac-7]

Capitalism died in 1929" and socialism has been bailing our Capitalism ever since

If so why are libs still bitterly attacking capitalism if its already dead as you claim?

 

[danielpalos]

Capitalism died in 1929" and socialism has been bailing our Capitalism ever since

If so why are libs still bitterly attacking capitalism if its already dead as you claim?

Criticizing the failure of capitalism seems legitimate when right wingers simply connive about how wonderful capitalism allegedly is. The left understands that corporate welfare is alive and well and has even paid out multimillion dollar bonuses to Capitalists who can afford entire departments to help them with rational choice theory under Capitalism.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Long Beach just mandated a 4 dollar raise for grocery store owners. Two major grocery stores promptly closed leaving all employees out of a job and out of job benefits.

If they need a $7.25 minimum wage to stay in business, they deserve to close

Good. The two biggest grocery stores closed. Yaaay. The people are out of a job. The neighborhood now has to go elsewhere to shop. Meanwhile the Kroger company will not feel a thing. It's a win lose in all the right places.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Most workers of course do not make 7.25 an hour as we all know, most are making btwn 8-12 an hour, with 12.00 being the standard.

Why do you insist on government intervention when the free market has already adjusted real wages up?

Several million low income people will not have any job thanks to the $15 min wage

California ust raised the minimum wage by $4.00 an hour and in response Kroeger closed two of its grocery stores with more to come.

To be precise. It wasn't California. It was just Long Beach and it wasn't for everyone. It was called Heroes Pay just for grocery store workers. Now they are out of work..

 

[danielpalos]

Long Beach just mandated a 4 dollar raise for grocery store owners. Two major grocery stores promptly closed leaving all employees out of a job and out of job benefits.

If they need a $7.25 minimum wage to stay in business, they deserve to close

Good. The two biggest grocery stores closed. Yaaay. The people are out of a job. The neighborhood now has to go elsewhere to shop. Meanwhile the Kroger company will not feel a thing. It's a win lose in all the right places.

Just right wingers preferring selfish profits over the people, like usual. Greed is Good under Capitalism.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Long Beach just mandated a 4 dollar raise for grocery store owners. Two major grocery stores promptly closed leaving all employees out of a job and out of job benefits.

If they need a $7.25 minimum wage to stay in business, they deserve to close

Good. The two biggest grocery stores closed. Yaaay. The people are out of a job. The neighborhood now has to go elsewhere to shop. Meanwhile the Kroger company will not feel a thing. It's a win lose in all the right places.

Just right wingers preferring selfish profits over the people, like usual. Greed is Good under Capitalism.

Greed is VERY good. If the poor were a bit more greedy they might get out of poverty..

 

[22lcidw]

The first time the minimum wage was introduced by the feds the hue and cry from business owners was that it would ruin them..that they would have to lay off workers in order to afford it, that it would be a disaster for the economy. That was back in 1938 when FDR raised it to .25 cents an hour.

A legacy issue? It used to be about "screwing over blacks as former slaves" and turned into screwing over the poor. Right wingers seem to love to "hate on the Poor" with a Passion.

Hating on the poor? We seem to have perma poor. There is not hate. We want accountability. We want the system cleaned up and anyone collecting playing by a mandated set of stringent rules. With no way to cheat or get around them. There has been enough time that has passed to see the current way needs tweaking.