The Occupy Wall Street Movement is WORKING!!!

[thereisnospoon]

Indeed

You should take your own advice


Most FDR programs did very little to get us out of the depression.
Just like Papa Obama's Pork bill did little for our economy
but it did help his friends

Speaking of gov't programs to save us....


Papa Obama: 433 Million No-Bid Contract for friends

Senior officials have taken unusual steps to secure the contract f​

or New York-based Siga Technologies Inc., whose controlling shareholder is billionaire Ronald O. Perelman, one of the world's richest men and a longtime Democratic Party donor. [/URL]

When Siga complained that contracting specialists at the Department of Health and Human Services were resisting the company's financial demands, senior officials replaced the government's lead negotiator for the deal, interviews and documents show.

When Siga was in danger of losing its grip on the contract a year ago, the officials blocked other firms from competing.​

Just a question...did you ever point out any of Bush's no bid contracts? Ever hear of Halliburton? Blackwater?

Non sequitur.....This is OBAMA'S WATCH....Cut the bullshit.
Once again a lib/progressive attempts to further the false notion that two wrongs make a right while they screech "your guy did it first!!!!!!!"....
Now, you will provide links to back up your claims that Haliburton and Blackwater were even bid contracts AND if they were bid contracts, show factual evidence that those contracts were awarded by skirting or evading the official federal contract bidding process.
Failing that, here's a big can of shut the **** up for you.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Yeah, I'm a heartless ass. I'm so heartless I have taken in no less than 3 homeless young men, one of them is still with us. I am so heartless I give up my Mon afternoons to hand out free lunches to the homeless, and yes, I help pay for them. I am so heartless I have given of my time, my money and my possessions to make the lives of those less fortunate than me a little better. What have you done?

I own two businesses and pay roughly 30 people for working. One is a design biz I run, the other is a restaurant my wife runs. I do her back office work.

The restaurant starts people at minimum wage. We give them little chance to improve if they suck because we can't pay $7.25 an hour for someone if they aren't pulling their weight, it's a high hour business.

btw, I know people living in tent cities that are working. They are not on drugs, they are not alcoholics, they just don't make enough to afford an apartment. I think they should make enough to afford a roof over their heads and that make me heartless?????

No, what makes you heartless is you deny people not worth $7.25 an hour a job.

Let's apply basic logic to this. Say the government passed a law you can't buy a toaster for less then $30. What would happen to toasters that today cost $20? Would the price increase to $30? No, people would buy a better toaster since they have to pay $30 for a toaster. Duh.

You think people are all worth $7.25 an hour? You're not only a heartless ass you're ******* nuts. They aren't, trust me, I know. If I have to pay that, I'm going to find employees who are at least worth it.

Basic logic, the minimum wage is an obviously retarded plan that does not, will not and never did work. All it does is deny employment to the people who need a job the most. Blocking them from getting work through the power of government guns? Damn straight, you're a heartless ass.

Spare me, restaurants don't even pay mw to their waitresses and waiters. They expect the customer to pay them with tips. For some it's a good business, for others, they don't make enough hardly to eat.

Many, many restaurants hire illegals...knowing that they can treat them poorly and pay them little. Some work under the table.

The fact that you are against mw and your wife owns a restaurant tells me a whole lot about your greed....and you think I'M heartless?

I'll bet you're like the one who laid off my friend after she'd worked for the restaurant for a year because the alternative was to raise her wages.

Hey shit head..It's HIS ******* RESTAURANT. He knows what he pays his people. You do not. In fact you know shit.
I worked food and beverage for 5 years. Part time. I made as much money working three nights per week in a sports bar as I did in my full time job. It was all cash. TIPS, moron.
Some of the waitstaff in our place were walking out with two or three hundred dollars per shift....The entire city of Las Vegas operates on gratuities. As do most resorts. Why do you think workers flock to resort areas during their respective tourist seasons looking for work? Because they can make a year's pay in two friggin months.
99% of waitstaff would not do that kind of work for hourly pay.
You're really failing the 'I know exactly what I'm talking about test' here.
Many restaurants hire illegals so the owners can pay them less or under the table....WAH WAH WAH..Hey genius...It is YOUR SIDE that wants them here! Gee I wonder ******* why.

You refer to greed? You have some ******* nerve. It is you who want to use the threat of government sanctions to impose unilateral and mandatory wage increases on business. To pay people money they did not earn but were 'assigned' the additional money.
Newsflash....That is the pinnacle of greed.

You really are the Encyclopedia Britannica example of stupid, aren't you?

 

[thereisnospoon]

Same place you got the idea I wanted to tax the rich more.

A rising tide raises all boats. Put the money in the hands of those who spend it and that's what will happen. Our economy was better when the mw had the highest spending power in history and the top tax rate was 70%. We had a strong middle class and a strong economy. Now we are in a great depression...the rich are paying the lowes taxes than since the income tax was started and the mw has the lowest spending power in history and you don't see a correlation to this great depression????

Back in the day there wasn't 47% not paying any taxes, and there wasn't an Earned Income Credit, either.
Back in the day the poor were actually poor. Today a good percentage of the poor have more than one TV, Xboxes, cell phones, more than one car, own homes. See where I'm going with this?

I guess you aren't looking at the truly poor...but the lower middleclass and considering them poor. And what 47% are not paying taxes, unless you are telling me that 47% of this country is poor. Or are you including the corporations that aren't paying taxes?

I don't know what the percentage was not paying taxes, but when income tax was introduced it was 90% on the top1% and about 5% on the middleclass.

"Let me tell you about the poor"....Oh no! I meant the "truly poor"...
Shut the hell up.
Why not keep your thoughts to yourself and keep people guessing whether or not you're an idiot rather than post here and remove all doubt.
BTW of great one, the 90% top marginal rate was never levied against 100% of the highest earnings. The 90% kicked in for a very small percentage of those earnings and it was only after income was adjusted after deductions.
Please tell me you did not ever believe that if a person made one million dollars in a year the government took $900k. Because if you do believe that, you are among the galactically stupid.

 

[thereisnospoon]

I own two businesses and pay roughly 30 people for working. One is a design biz I run, the other is a restaurant my wife runs. I do her back office work.

The restaurant starts people at minimum wage. We give them little chance to improve if they suck because we can't pay $7.25 an hour for someone if they aren't pulling their weight, it's a high hour business.



No, what makes you heartless is you deny people not worth $7.25 an hour a job.

Let's apply basic logic to this. Say the government passed a law you can't buy a toaster for less then $30. What would happen to toasters that today cost $20? Would the price increase to $30? No, people would buy a better toaster since they have to pay $30 for a toaster. Duh.

You think people are all worth $7.25 an hour? You're not only a heartless ass you're ******* nuts. They aren't, trust me, I know. If I have to pay that, I'm going to find employees who are at least worth it.

Basic logic, the minimum wage is an obviously retarded plan that does not, will not and never did work. All it does is deny employment to the people who need a job the most. Blocking them from getting work through the power of government guns? Damn straight, you're a heartless ass.

Spare me, restaurants don't even pay mw to their waitresses and waiters. They expect the customer to pay them with tips. For some it's a good business, for others, they don't make enough hardly to eat.

Many, many restaurants hire illegals...knowing that they can treat them poorly and pay them little. Some work under the table.

The fact that you are against mw and your wife owns a restaurant tells me a whole lot about your greed....and you think I'M heartless?

I'll bet you're like the one who laid off my friend after she'd worked for the restaurant for a year because the alternative was to raise her wages.

I got news for ya. I've run many businesses, many different kinds of businesses and I have canned people after a year because the alternative was to give them a raise. They weren't worth a raise. Get rid of them. Get someone else, and if after a year they proved that they are worth more, they get more. Your friend wasn't worth more money. The answer for her is to become worth more.

I hired a girl as a file clerk, she didn't get a raise for a year and a half. One of my secretaries moved when her husband got a new job someplace else. My file clerk said she'd like to try her hand at the job - for the same money she made as a file clerk. No raise, just increased responsibility. In a month I doubled her salary.

Sorry to say, your friend was probably overpaid for the year she worked there.

Here's the rub...Sheila and those like her would tell you that you should have been paying the file clerk twice the wage because it isn't fair that she did a good job and was not offered a wage that would enable her to have a place to live, a car, internet, cable or satellite tv, two weeks vacation, medical, dental, profit sharing, company gas card, free day care.....ad nauseum.....After all, you are a wealthy business owner residing in a republican only voting gated golf and equestrian community with two outdoor pools and a health spa. Jesus Christ...Now I have a headache...LOL

 

[thereisnospoon]

pay the mw workers more and they will spend it, there will be an influx of money into our economy making our economy BETTER.

So taking money from a business is putting it into the economy?

That depends on who it goes to. Consumers are the real job creators. The people who write the paychecks are just the middlemen. If consumers don't have money to spend, nobody has any incentive to hire anyone and most businesses probably need to lay people off.

That's why our economy did the best it's ever done when top marginal taxes ranged between 70% and 92%, when 39% of the workforce was unionized driving wages up across the board, and when Wall Street was regulated to prevent the kind of fiasco we had a few years ago.

Supply side economics is either ignorance or dishonesty, depending on who's advocating it.

Oh please. Spew your pap elsewhere.
Look genius...The whole ball of wax starts with business. If there are no businesses, there are no jobs. No jobs, no money. No money no consumers....
Why is it that poor towns have many consumers but no jobs, ARE poor to begin with? Because there is no commerce or business !
Where you get this crap is a mystery.
Which is it, a socialist website or a pro union website from which you find your ideas?

 

[Againsheila]

Why should a teenager with zero experience be able to put a roof over their head? When you see "minimum wage" read "minimum skills". Think about it. Do you believe it's fair a business is forced pay enough for the lowest of all employees in skill, experience and reliability to "put a roof over their heads" when they aren't worth it or they would already be paying that?

As a biz owner I'd increase my employees wages if that would make them worth more, it doesn't. And one of the great lies of liberalism is the minimum wage is a tide that lifts all boats when it's a hurdle that prevents people from working unless they are worth $7.25 an hour. You really care about "fair" ask yourself why you prevent people from working because they are not worth a random salary chosen by you. Check the teenage unemployment stats, particularly in poor areas, and feel like the heartless ass that you are.

More than 70% of mw workers are adults.

The teenage unemployment has increased due to increased immigration, both legal and illegal. Apparently, business owners would rather hire an adult than a teenager for mw work.



Yeah, I'm a heartless ass. I'm so heartless I have taken in no less than 3 homeless young men, one of them is still with us. I am so heartless I give up my Mon afternoons to hand out free lunches to the homeless, and yes, I help pay for them. I am so heartless I have given of my time, my money and my possessions to make the lives of those less fortunate than me a little better. What have you done?

btw, I know people living in tent cities that are working. They are not on drugs, they are not alcoholics, they just don't make enough to afford an apartment. I think they should make enough to afford a roof over their heads and that make me heartless?????

Who is Paid the Minimum Wage and Who Would be Affected by a $1.50 per Hour Increase

Who Works the Minimum Wage?
The 1.6 million paid-hourly workers who earn minimum wages can be broken down into two broad groups.1
Over half (53 percent) are teenagers or young adults under the age of 23. More than half (54 percent) of these young workers live in families with incomes two or more times the official poverty level for their family size and 18 percent live in poor families. The average family income of these young workers is almost $50,500 per year. The average income for single young workers is $11,200. Over 63 percent are enrolled in either high school or college.
The other half (47 percent) are workers ages 23 and up. More of these workers live in poor families (29 percent). Yet, even within this half of the minimum wage population, the average family income is over $38,100 per year. The average income for single workers is $19,300. Over 30 percent of these older workers did not graduate from high school and another 36 percent had only a high school diploma.
Almost 43 percent of all minimum wage workers are children, 26 percent are married family heads or spouses, 11 percent are single family heads, and 17 percent are single people (another 3 percent are other relatives).
Less than 21 percent of minimum wage workers are the sole breadwinners of their families and less than 5 percent are sole breadwinners that work full-time year-round. Less than 5 percent of minimum wage workers are poor single mothers over 18 years old.
Over 57 percent of all minimum wage workers work part-time voluntarily. Only 25 percent work full-time year-round while over 28 percent work part-time part of the year.
The average family income for all minimum wage workers is $45,200 and their wages account for 35 percent of their total family income. The average income of single-nonfamily minimum wage workers is $16,800.
Very Few Workers Remain at Entry-Level Wages for Long
Nearly two-thirds of minimum wage workers move above the minimum wage within one year, and the median raise for those workers is over 10 percent.2 For full-time minimum wage workers, the median first-year raise is almost 14 percent. Entry-level jobs are not lifelong dead-end jobs.

Ya know what? If you'd do some checking before you post, you might just have a bit of credibility...
Otherwise, you're just whining.

UniversalLivingWage.org--Sample Facts & Myths

The Case for Raising the Minimum Wage

Many Adults Rely on the Minimum Wage as a Living Wage

"Contrary to popular opinion, the average worker affected by an increase in the minimum wage is not just a teenager flipping hamburgers. Only one in fourteen is a teenage student from a family with above average earnings."

"Myth: The only Americans working for the minimum wage are teenagers.

Reality: 63 percent of minimum-wage workers are adults age 20 or over. (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics)

The fact is, almost two-thirds of minimum wage workers are adults, and four in ten are the sole bread winner of their family."

Okay, I'll admit, I was using a report that considered adults to be 18 and over.

You can vote at 18, you can serve your country at 18, you are an adult.

I've done some studying, thank you.

 

[thereisnospoon]

More than 70% of mw workers are adults.

The teenage unemployment has increased due to increased immigration, both legal and illegal. Apparently, business owners would rather hire an adult than a teenager for mw work.



Yeah, I'm a heartless ass. I'm so heartless I have taken in no less than 3 homeless young men, one of them is still with us. I am so heartless I give up my Mon afternoons to hand out free lunches to the homeless, and yes, I help pay for them. I am so heartless I have given of my time, my money and my possessions to make the lives of those less fortunate than me a little better. What have you done?

btw, I know people living in tent cities that are working. They are not on drugs, they are not alcoholics, they just don't make enough to afford an apartment. I think they should make enough to afford a roof over their heads and that make me heartless?????

Who is Paid the Minimum Wage and Who Would be Affected by a $1.50 per Hour Increase

Who Works the Minimum Wage?
The 1.6 million paid-hourly workers who earn minimum wages can be broken down into two broad groups.1
Over half (53 percent) are teenagers or young adults under the age of 23. More than half (54 percent) of these young workers live in families with incomes two or more times the official poverty level for their family size and 18 percent live in poor families. The average family income of these young workers is almost $50,500 per year. The average income for single young workers is $11,200. Over 63 percent are enrolled in either high school or college.
The other half (47 percent) are workers ages 23 and up. More of these workers live in poor families (29 percent). Yet, even within this half of the minimum wage population, the average family income is over $38,100 per year. The average income for single workers is $19,300. Over 30 percent of these older workers did not graduate from high school and another 36 percent had only a high school diploma.
Almost 43 percent of all minimum wage workers are children, 26 percent are married family heads or spouses, 11 percent are single family heads, and 17 percent are single people (another 3 percent are other relatives).
Less than 21 percent of minimum wage workers are the sole breadwinners of their families and less than 5 percent are sole breadwinners that work full-time year-round. Less than 5 percent of minimum wage workers are poor single mothers over 18 years old.
Over 57 percent of all minimum wage workers work part-time voluntarily. Only 25 percent work full-time year-round while over 28 percent work part-time part of the year.
The average family income for all minimum wage workers is $45,200 and their wages account for 35 percent of their total family income. The average income of single-nonfamily minimum wage workers is $16,800.
Very Few Workers Remain at Entry-Level Wages for Long
Nearly two-thirds of minimum wage workers move above the minimum wage within one year, and the median raise for those workers is over 10 percent.2 For full-time minimum wage workers, the median first-year raise is almost 14 percent. Entry-level jobs are not lifelong dead-end jobs.

Ya know what? If you'd do some checking before you post, you might just have a bit of credibility...
Otherwise, you're just whining.

UniversalLivingWage.org--Sample Facts & Myths

The Case for Raising the Minimum Wage

Many Adults Rely on the Minimum Wage as a Living Wage

"Contrary to popular opinion, the average worker affected by an increase in the minimum wage is not just a teenager flipping hamburgers. Only one in fourteen is a teenage student from a family with above average earnings."

"Myth: The only Americans working for the minimum wage are teenagers.

Reality: 63 percent of minimum-wage workers are adults age 20 or over. (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics)

The fact is, almost two-thirds of minimum wage workers are adults, and four in ten are the sole bread winner of their family."

Okay, I'll admit, I was using a report that considered adults to be 18 and over.

You can vote at 18, you can serve your country at 18, you are an adult.

I've done some studying, thank you.

Puddin'...
universallivingwage.org is a liberal advocacy group. These people have gone way beyond min wage. They advocate a 'living minimum wage. A wage structure that is so inflationary it boggles the mind.
Are you really so unsophisticated to believe that at any time any employer can simply reach deeper into their pocket and pay these magically increased wages?
You're not even close to being done.
Let's be realistic here. There are just 1.6 million min wage earners in the entire country with a workforce of 135 million. REALLY?!!!!!!
Many of those 20 somethings drawing min wage will not for very long. The number of these jobs is relatively stagnant. As workers move up from min wage, other slide into those positions.

 

[Againsheila]

Who is Paid the Minimum Wage and Who Would be Affected by a $1.50 per Hour Increase

Who Works the Minimum Wage?
The 1.6 million paid-hourly workers who earn minimum wages can be broken down into two broad groups.1
Over half (53 percent) are teenagers or young adults under the age of 23. More than half (54 percent) of these young workers live in families with incomes two or more times the official poverty level for their family size and 18 percent live in poor families. The average family income of these young workers is almost $50,500 per year. The average income for single young workers is $11,200. Over 63 percent are enrolled in either high school or college.
The other half (47 percent) are workers ages 23 and up. More of these workers live in poor families (29 percent). Yet, even within this half of the minimum wage population, the average family income is over $38,100 per year. The average income for single workers is $19,300. Over 30 percent of these older workers did not graduate from high school and another 36 percent had only a high school diploma.
Almost 43 percent of all minimum wage workers are children, 26 percent are married family heads or spouses, 11 percent are single family heads, and 17 percent are single people (another 3 percent are other relatives).
Less than 21 percent of minimum wage workers are the sole breadwinners of their families and less than 5 percent are sole breadwinners that work full-time year-round. Less than 5 percent of minimum wage workers are poor single mothers over 18 years old.
Over 57 percent of all minimum wage workers work part-time voluntarily. Only 25 percent work full-time year-round while over 28 percent work part-time part of the year.
The average family income for all minimum wage workers is $45,200 and their wages account for 35 percent of their total family income. The average income of single-nonfamily minimum wage workers is $16,800.
Very Few Workers Remain at Entry-Level Wages for Long
Nearly two-thirds of minimum wage workers move above the minimum wage within one year, and the median raise for those workers is over 10 percent.2 For full-time minimum wage workers, the median first-year raise is almost 14 percent. Entry-level jobs are not lifelong dead-end jobs.

Ya know what? If you'd do some checking before you post, you might just have a bit of credibility...
Otherwise, you're just whining.

UniversalLivingWage.org--Sample Facts & Myths

The Case for Raising the Minimum Wage

Many Adults Rely on the Minimum Wage as a Living Wage

"Contrary to popular opinion, the average worker affected by an increase in the minimum wage is not just a teenager flipping hamburgers. Only one in fourteen is a teenage student from a family with above average earnings."

"Myth: The only Americans working for the minimum wage are teenagers.

Reality: 63 percent of minimum-wage workers are adults age 20 or over. (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics)

The fact is, almost two-thirds of minimum wage workers are adults, and four in ten are the sole bread winner of their family."

Okay, I'll admit, I was using a report that considered adults to be 18 and over.

You can vote at 18, you can serve your country at 18, you are an adult.

I've done some studying, thank you.

Puddin'...
universallivingwage.org is a liberal advocacy group. These people have gone way beyond min wage. They advocate a 'living minimum wage. A wage structure that is so inflationary it boggles the mind.
Are you really so unsophisticated to believe that at any time any employer can simply reach deeper into their pocket and pay these magically increased wages?
You're not even close to being done.
Let's be realistic here. There are just 1.6 million min wage earners in the entire country with a workforce of 135 million. REALLY?!!!!!!
Many of those 20 somethings drawing min wage will not for very long. The number of these jobs is relatively stagnant. As workers move up from min wage, other slide into those positions.

So if they aren't there for very long, and there are so few of them, why are you so against raising the minimum wage?

A rising tide raises all boats.

There is no excuse for the income gap we have today and if we can't fix it by raising the minimum wage, then we are going to have to set a maximum wage. The truth is, no country can long survive when the majority of it's wealth is in the hands of a few. The gilded age led to the great depression and once again we are in a depression due to the wealth remaining in the hands of the few. The truth is that the only way to fix things is to put money into the hands of those that spend it. Trickle down doesn't work, why don't we try trickle up for a change?

 

[thereisnospoon]

UniversalLivingWage.org--Sample Facts & Myths

The Case for Raising the Minimum Wage

Many Adults Rely on the Minimum Wage as a Living Wage

"Contrary to popular opinion, the average worker affected by an increase in the minimum wage is not just a teenager flipping hamburgers. Only one in fourteen is a teenage student from a family with above average earnings."

"Myth: The only Americans working for the minimum wage are teenagers.

Reality: 63 percent of minimum-wage workers are adults age 20 or over. (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics)

The fact is, almost two-thirds of minimum wage workers are adults, and four in ten are the sole bread winner of their family."

Okay, I'll admit, I was using a report that considered adults to be 18 and over.

You can vote at 18, you can serve your country at 18, you are an adult.

I've done some studying, thank you.

Puddin'...
universallivingwage.org is a liberal advocacy group. These people have gone way beyond min wage. They advocate a 'living minimum wage. A wage structure that is so inflationary it boggles the mind.
Are you really so unsophisticated to believe that at any time any employer can simply reach deeper into their pocket and pay these magically increased wages?
You're not even close to being done.
Let's be realistic here. There are just 1.6 million min wage earners in the entire country with a workforce of 135 million. REALLY?!!!!!!
Many of those 20 somethings drawing min wage will not for very long. The number of these jobs is relatively stagnant. As workers move up from min wage, other slide into those positions.

So if they aren't there for very long, and there are so few of them, why are you so against raising the minimum wage?

A rising tide raises all boats.

There is no excuse for the income gap we have today and if we can't fix it by raising the minimum wage, then we are going to have to set a maximum wage. The truth is, no country can long survive when the majority of it's wealth is in the hands of a few. The gilded age led to the great depression and once again we are in a depression due to the wealth remaining in the hands of the few. The truth is that the only way to fix things is to put money into the hands of those that spend it. Trickle down doesn't work, why don't we try trickle up for a change?

Not the point. This is about further government intrusion into the affairs of business.
Tell ya what. Before you decide what other people should do with their money here's a suggestion. Open your own business. Here as many people as you need. Pay them what you believe other businesses should fork over in wages. In one year, come back and tell us how well or poorly your business did.
Until them, you have no business forming an opinion here.
"Trickle up" is a fantasy. Show me how many poor people have the tools to open a business and operate it with the level of success it takes to employ full time workers.
There is no magic wand that can be waived. There is no magic pot of money from which business owners draw.
BTW, few if any large companies employ people at minimum wage.
Most min wage workers are employed by small business. Care to explain how it is you propose to extract more money from small business. Businesses that operate on very small margins.
This is pointless. You can whine and cry about "giving" people more money. Money they did not earn. It is NEVER going to happen.

 

[thereisnospoon]

UniversalLivingWage.org--Sample Facts & Myths

The Case for Raising the Minimum Wage

Many Adults Rely on the Minimum Wage as a Living Wage

"Contrary to popular opinion, the average worker affected by an increase in the minimum wage is not just a teenager flipping hamburgers. Only one in fourteen is a teenage student from a family with above average earnings."

"Myth: The only Americans working for the minimum wage are teenagers.

Reality: 63 percent of minimum-wage workers are adults age 20 or over. (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics)

The fact is, almost two-thirds of minimum wage workers are adults, and four in ten are the sole bread winner of their family."

Okay, I'll admit, I was using a report that considered adults to be 18 and over.

You can vote at 18, you can serve your country at 18, you are an adult.

I've done some studying, thank you.

Puddin'...
universallivingwage.org is a liberal advocacy group. These people have gone way beyond min wage. They advocate a 'living minimum wage. A wage structure that is so inflationary it boggles the mind.
Are you really so unsophisticated to believe that at any time any employer can simply reach deeper into their pocket and pay these magically increased wages?
You're not even close to being done.
Let's be realistic here. There are just 1.6 million min wage earners in the entire country with a workforce of 135 million. REALLY?!!!!!!
Many of those 20 somethings drawing min wage will not for very long. The number of these jobs is relatively stagnant. As workers move up from min wage, other slide into those positions.

So if they aren't there for very long, and there are so few of them, why are you so against raising the minimum wage?

A rising tide raises all boats.

There is no excuse for the income gap we have today and if we can't fix it by raising the minimum wage, then we are going to have to set a maximum wage. The truth is, no country can long survive when the majority of it's wealth is in the hands of a few. The gilded age led to the great depression and once again we are in a depression due to the wealth remaining in the hands of the few. The truth is that the only way to fix things is to put money into the hands of those that spend it. Trickle down doesn't work, why don't we try trickle up for a change?

All boats...Yes. Pay more in wages. Charge more for goods and services to make up the difference. There's your "trickle up"...
If wages rise, prices rise accordingly. It's called 'inflation'.

 

[Listening]

Not the point. This is about further government intrusion into the affairs of business.
Tell ya what. Before you decide what other people should do with their money here's a suggestion. Open your own business. Here as many people as you need. Pay them what you believe other businesses should fork over in wages. In one year, come back and tell us how well or poorly your business did.

Good job !!!

 

[Listening]

I am out of the country and don't get a lot of news.....

What is happening with the OWSers ?

 

[kwc57]

I am out of the country and don't get a lot of news.....

What is happening with the OWSers ?

Still shitting in the street, raping, assaulting and shouting in bull horns.

 

[eots]

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[Wicked Jester]

I am out of the country and don't get a lot of news.....

What is happening with the OWSers ?

Still shitting in the street, raping, assaulting and shouting in bull horns.

Along with stabbing a cop, threatening to throw Molotov's through Macy's windows, shooting at the whitehouse, and wishing for 911 9/11's.

Yeah, they sure are a peaceful bunch o' loony lefties!

 

[georgephillip]

Like the billionaire mayor of New York:

"Yet the man whose personal wealth increased by $4.5 billion the first year of this meltdown when many Americans were losing their life savings now dares shift blame away from himself and others at the center of economic power to the most vulnerable among us.

"Instead of blaming the Wall Street lobbyists who got the laws changed so that they could securitize people’s home mortgages, no matter how unsound those mortgages were by design, he blames the folks suckered into accepting the banks’ phony offerings.

“'Blame the opium addict and not the pusher' is the excuse for the bankers who turned the lure of easy credit into a housing bubble that, when it inevitably exploded, impoverished the world but left the bailed-out Wall Street hustlers richer than ever."

Robert Scheer: The Villain Occupy Wall Street Has Been Waiting For - Robert Scheer's Columns - Truthdig

 

[JStone]

Like the billionaire mayor of New York:

"Yet the man whose personal wealth increased by $4.5 billion the first year of this meltdown when many Americans were losing their life savings now dares shift blame away from himself and others at the center of economic power to the most vulnerable among us.

"Instead of blaming the Wall Street lobbyists who got the laws changed so that they could securitize people’s home mortgages, no matter how unsound those mortgages were by design, he blames the folks suckered into accepting the banks’ phony offerings.

“'Blame the opium addict and not the pusher' is the excuse for the bankers who turned the lure of easy credit into a housing bubble that, when it inevitably exploded, impoverished the world but left the bailed-out Wall Street hustlers richer than ever."

Robert Scheer: The Villain Occupy Wall Street Has Been Waiting For - Robert Scheer's Columns - Truthdig

How about trying to occupy a job?

 

[conner700]

I am out of the country and don't get a lot of news.....

What is happening with the OWSers ?

Still shitting in the street, raping, assaulting and shouting in bull horns.

You must have the Occupy Wall Street Protester confused with the crony capitalist who are shitting in the streets, raping, assaulting and shouting in the bull horns.

 

[The T]

I am out of the country and don't get a lot of news.....

What is happening with the OWSers ?

Still shitting in the street, raping, assaulting and shouting in bull horns.

You must have the Occupy Wall Street Protester confused with the crony capitalist who are shitting in the streets, raping, assaulting and shouting in the bull horns.

Has Obama and some members of Congress been there? Really? Musti've missed that...

 

[Gadawg73]

Folks making the miminum wage have no business having children.
The miminimum wage keeps wages for unskilled workers lower than they should be.
Some folks are not worth a nickel an hour for their work. Some people will willingly and be glad to work for LESS than the minimum wage.
If one makes the minimum wage then work 80 hours a week and shut the **** up.
NO cry babies.