I have mixed feelings on $15 minimum wage.
On the one hand, obviously it greatly helps the standard of living for those who get the huge wage increase.
On the other, a 100+% increase in pay with a zero increase in production is not good for business. Plus, the extra costs will be passed on to the customers.
Finally, the non-partisan CBO has stated that a higher minimum wage will cost many 100's of thousands of jobs nationwide. And that was only to $10.10 per hour.
The Effects of a Minimum-Wage Increase on Employment and Family Income | Congressional Budget Office
If the Dems take both houses in November (and especially if they also take the WH in 2020 - which the polls say looks likely right now)...this issue will probably re-surface in force.
Thoughts?
Look, Rocket, I realize you're an argumentative sort of bot, but I agree with you in so far as indeed the minimum living wage issue is a difficult social conundrum. However, low wage workers in America, and I mean
no low wage worker in America anywhere in the U.S. of A. is or has to be
stuck in said low wage job. See, the very concept of
class mobility is lost to the ideological ears and minds of the Marxist based postmodernist radical American Left. So here's a little story for you, based on personal experience, so regrettably, you all can't Google it up. Just hear me out before switching your operating modes to cantankerous 2000 annoying, okay?
A female relative of mine born in the early 1960's started working at age fifteen for a local, ma and pa Chinese restaurant for next to nothing wages. She also worked in a ceramic statue shop as a cashier and as a clerk in a book store—all while she was in high school. She graduated high school, enlisted in the US Army and became a Russian Translator for military intelligence, ultimately being stationed on the Berlin Wall nearly forty years ago.
So she did eight years with the Army, got out and went to work as a shift manager for a KFC. Crazy change in professions, am I right? While working fast food she met her future husband on the job. Together, their combined income amounted to jack not much. So did she and her fiancé and then husband shortly after spin their wheels whining about living wage raises and how they were stuck in there dead end jobs for life?
NO.
After a couple of years of fast food work, both of them, now husband and wife, got jobs with a major cosmetics manufacturer on the mid-Atlantic seaboard. While working there, he rose up the ranks in the warehouse to end up managing it
and learned to write BASIC programs to run the shipping process. She also rose up to become a production lead. After five years of service, the cosmetics company awarded them both huge, nearly six figure profit sharing checks
each.
So the mostly happy couple moved on to a warm, sunny subtropical location to the south, purchased their own home and put each other through college. Him for computer programming, her for business management. Oh yeah, somewhere along the way they had a son and later a daughter.
Where did they end up? He is now
the head programmer for the entire chain of a nationwide grocery store. She is a district manager for said same grocery store chain. They purchased another house—and one for their daughter—with cash! They put both their kids through college. Their son now works as a programmer for a company in Hong Kong—yes the little guy lives between there, New Zealand and Indonesia. The daughter started of all things a successful pool business. The parents regularly travel to South and Central America and the far west Pacific.
My point is, is that no American from any walk of life is
stuck in a low paying job. Upward movement through the classes does and should always depend on the individual American's desire for a financially better life, and their own personal responsibility to make that happen.
Any American out there can move up the financial income ladder, pretty much as far as their will and efforts to do so will take them.
For Leftist ideology, class upward mobility is a great threat. See, on the Left, ideological reign depends on a victim class of workers stuck for life in oppressive, low pay work which keeps them in poverty, all so that both the middle class and upper class can be demonized and ultimately attacked and destroyed.
Personal responsibility and effort. Keys to the American social class mobility kingdom. Live it, and love it.
