States With Higher Minimum Wage Gain More Jobs

[FA_Q2]

So you're in favor of universal healthcare too? Glad we're on the same page.

The French Aristocracy also thought anyone pointing out their dependance upon the lower classes was hilarious [or seditious]. No doubt the gilded halls rang with great guffaws of laughter just before the Bastille was stormed..and heads began to fall...

Apparently you can't read. Plus you have it ass backwards, the poor live off the rich and don't even contribute to federal income taxes. Liberals hurt the economy then complain that the economy isn't sustaining the poor. It's senseless.

The poor live off the rich eh? I'd like to see some fat cat with manicured hands and ivory-handled golf clubs butcher a chicken, gut it and roast it up for himself. Or chop a cord of wood to warm himself over the Winter. Or mine several bushels of coal to burn....

The rich are leeches on the poor. Time is money. Labor is money. And in that respect, the "poor" are the wealthiest of all. The only thing that perpetuates the misconception that it is the opposite of that is through sheer luck and/or cunning manipulation and ruthlessness, the rich find themselves nestled in their false-utopian world. And from that shakey-loft they like to amuse themselves with the narcissistic thought that "others depend on them for their very survival."

You gotta appreciate that level of irony when it presents itself.

You don't know any wealthy people, do you?

You have no idea of the different mindset and ability that most of them carry (the ones that actually attained their wealth - not inherited).

 

[Rikurzhen]

So you're in favor of universal healthcare too? Glad we're on the same page.

The French Aristocracy also thought anyone pointing out their dependance upon the lower classes was hilarious [or seditious]. No doubt the gilded halls rang with great guffaws of laughter just before the Bastille was stormed..and heads began to fall...

Apparently you can't read. Plus you have it ass backwards, the poor live off the rich and don't even contribute to federal income taxes. Liberals hurt the economy then complain that the economy isn't sustaining the poor. It's senseless.

The poor live off the rich eh? I'd like to see some fat cat with manicured hands and ivory-handled golf clubs butcher a chicken, gut it and roast it up for himself. Or chop a cord of wood to warm himself over the Winter. Or mine several bushels of coal to burn....

The rich are leeches on the poor. Time is money. Labor is money. And in that respect, the "poor" are the wealthiest of all. The only thing that perpetuates the misconception that it is the opposite of that is through sheer luck and/or cunning manipulation and ruthlessness, the rich find themselves nestled in their false-utopian world. And from that shakey-loft they like to amuse themselves with the narcissistic thought that "others depend on them for their very survival."

You gotta appreciate that level of irony when it presents itself.

You don't know any wealthy people, do you?

You have no idea of the different mindset and ability that most of them carry (the ones that actually attained their wealth - not inherited).

Higher income earners tend to work longer hours than lower income earners. Liberals don't know much about the real world, their world exists only in their head:

Since 1980, the number of men in the bottom fifth of the income ladder who work long hours (over 49 hours per week) has dropped by half, according to a study by the economists Peter Kuhn and Fernando Lozano. But among the top fifth of earners, long weeks have increased by 80 percent.​

 

[Silhouette]

The poor live off the rich eh? I'd like to see some fat cat with manicured hands and ivory-handled golf clubs butcher a chicken, gut it and roast it up for himself. Or chop a cord of wood to warm himself over the Winter. Or mine several bushels of coal to burn....

The rich are leeches on the poor. Time is money. Labor is money. And in that respect, the "poor" are the wealthiest of all. The only thing that perpetuates the misconception that it is the opposite of that is through sheer luck and/or cunning manipulation and ruthlessness, the rich find themselves nestled in their false-utopian world. And from that shakey-loft they like to amuse themselves with the narcissistic thought that "others depend on them for their very survival."

You gotta appreciate that level of irony when it presents itself.

It is ironic

You don't know any wealthy people, do you?

You have no idea of the different mindset and ability that most of them carry (the ones that actually attained their wealth - not inherited).

On the contrary, I grew up around many wealthy people. Most wealthy people are not self made. At least not today they aren't. I grew up around the kids of the wealthy who went on to inherit that wealth. Many of them squandered it. A few of them expanded it. But none of them knew how to butcher a chicken or split a cord of wood. Some of them didn't even know how to clean their own kitchen or cook.

So it's pretty clear who are the leeches and who are the dependents in this country. You have to examine it from a pure standpoint of labor = money. Someone who doesn't even know how to provide their own food, roof over their head or warmth is a dead weight on society. If they're going to proclaim their wealth buys them all these services, then they'd damn well better acknowledge how vital and important that hired labor is to their very survival...

 

[Iceweasel]

On the contrary, I grew up around many wealthy people. Most wealthy people are not self made. At least not today they aren't. I grew up around the kids of the wealthy who went on to inherit that wealth. Many of them squandered it. A few of them expanded it. But none of them knew how to butcher a chicken or split a cord of wood. Some of them didn't even know how to clean their own kitchen or cook.

So it's pretty clear who are the leeches and who are the dependents in this country. You have to examine it from a pure standpoint of labor = money. Someone who doesn't even know how to provide their own food, roof over their head or warmth is a dead weight on society. If they're going to proclaim their wealth buys them all these services, then they'd damn well better acknowledge how vital and important that hired labor is to their very survival...

Sounds like you grew up with spoiled rich brats and were jealous to the point you think they are representative. If they can't cook, cut wood, etc that means they have to pay someone to do it so no, they aren't living off of others.

 

[Mathbud1]

States with higher minimum wage gain more jobs

Many business groups argue that raising the minimum wage discourages job growth by increasing the cost of hiring. A Congressional Budget Office report earlier this year lent some support for that view. It found that a minimum wage of $10.10 an hour, as President Obama supports, could cost 500,000 jobs nationwide.

But the state-by-state hiring data, released Friday by the Labor Department, provides ammunition to those who disagree. Economists who support a higher minimum say the figures are encouraging, though they acknowledge they don't establish a cause and effect. There are many possible reasons hiring might accelerate in a particular state.

People will work if you pay them more. More money means bills are paid, less debt, and more put back into the economy.

LMAO you're conclusion is all wrong, go peddle your socialism on some street corner with a bullhorn.

Wow another republican who doesn't know the meaning of words in the english language.

Socialism isn't private money being paid to workers. That's capitalism.

This has nothing to do with public tax dollars. This is private dollars from private business paying their workers a wage that's enough to live on without having to run to the government for money just to be able to sustain themselves.

What you republicans want is socialism. You want wages for private business to be very low and for tax dollars to make up the difference.

If you really hated socialism you would support a higher minimum wage so that people wouldn't qualify for government assistance.

You've got that conservative projection down to an art form.

Liberals want to take from those who have more and give to those who have less for no other reason than "fairness" and "fair share". They tell their dumb ass base they are entitled to a share. I say when the bunch of gutless lazy liberals grow a pair, start their own business, risk their own money and future, make the personal sacrifices required to start and grow a business then they can feel free to give part of the business to their employees if they choose. I seriously doubt that will happen. Employees here's your paycheck, that's it now get back to work until next payday or feel free to go work some other job.

repupublicans want to take from the workers what the worker should make for their hard work .. no liberal expects something for nothing ... republicans think just because they own a business that they can take all the profet and not share it for their hard work ... what they are finding out is losers like you bite into their they are entitled to have someting for nothing rant ...a fair wage is all they ask for ...its moron like you who doesn't get it ... its morons like you who fight against their own best interest...

Sure. Getting paid more would be great... until my job got outsourced.

I guess thinking ahead is frowned upon though.

 

[Mathbud1]

The poor live off the rich eh? I'd like to see some fat cat with manicured hands and ivory-handled golf clubs butcher a chicken, gut it and roast it up for himself. Or chop a cord of wood to warm himself over the Winter. Or mine several bushels of coal to burn....

The rich are leeches on the poor. Time is money. Labor is money. And in that respect, the "poor" are the wealthiest of all. The only thing that perpetuates the misconception that it is the opposite of that is through sheer luck and/or cunning manipulation and ruthlessness, the rich find themselves nestled in their false-utopian world. And from that shakey-loft they like to amuse themselves with the narcissistic thought that "others depend on them for their very survival."

You gotta appreciate that level of irony when it presents itself.

It is ironic

You don't know any wealthy people, do you?

You have no idea of the different mindset and ability that most of them carry (the ones that actually attained their wealth - not inherited).

On the contrary, I grew up around many wealthy people. Most wealthy people are not self made. At least not today they aren't. I grew up around the kids of the wealthy who went on to inherit that wealth. Many of them squandered it. A few of them expanded it. But none of them knew how to butcher a chicken or split a cord of wood. Some of them didn't even know how to clean their own kitchen or cook.

So it's pretty clear who are the leeches and who are the dependents in this country. You have to examine it from a pure standpoint of labor = money. Someone who doesn't even know how to provide their own food, roof over their head or warmth is a dead weight on society. If they're going to proclaim their wealth buys them all these services, then they'd damn well better acknowledge how vital and important that hired labor is to their very survival...

Ever heard of specialization? Bakers don't need to know how to butcher a chicken. Butchers don't need to know how to bake bread.

 

[JFK_USA]

Well it's so obvious that liberal policies always fail

 

[Star]

Well it's so obvious that liberal policies always fail

And yet...

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[Youch]

Well it's so obvious that liberal policies always fail

And yet...

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Star, while some of that is true, much to the demise of our civil society, life and these issues are rather more complicated than a cartoon.