You can also look around to other countries. Minimum wage in many places in Canada is $10/hr. In Australia it's over $16/hr (with discounts for age, disability, geography etc). Raising the minimum wage doesn't blow up the economy and turn the country upside down.
People don't deserve anything, they need to work for it.
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You can also look around to other countries. Minimum wage in many places in Canada is $10/hr. In Australia it's over $16/hr (with discounts for age, disability, geography etc). Raising the minimum wage doesn't blow up the economy and turn the country upside down.
What? Providing real-life counter examples from comparable countries doesn't compute for you?
And that is an immoral, ignorant ideology. It fails to understand the issues in distribution of wealth, and supports all the manipulations sending wealth to the top only.
They are working and their efforts aren't cutting it.
Meh, probably stems from the fact that I really don't care about other people that much, sans family and friends.
In 1900, the average wage in the US was $10,000 adjusted for inflation. Later, after government policy shifted to support workers, that went up by multiples.
That's what we call the 'birth of the middle class'.
Today, I was listening to a typical story from someone talking about how their father was a truck driver (in the 60's era), and was able to have a one-income household with a house, five children, all of whom went to college. People used to be able to support a family on those sorts of employment. That was called 'the American Dream'.
Today, the greed at the top has made Americans poorer to enrich themselves. It's wrong.
Entertainment used to be one TV in the house. One phone attached to the wall. Lunch was cheap at the public school.
Now a family of four needs (Satire)four cell phones, cable, internet, netflix, a desktop and two laptops, and an xbox or whatever.
People need to scale back...
Wrong.
You support a formula for plutocracy with mass poverty. That's all 'your side' builds.
That's honest of yoiu.
The bad news is you are basically a bit of a sociopathic monster bad for society IMO.
You don't understand, they don't. The wealth has been taken from them to the top.
You are speaking like a business owner who develops a thousands a day drug habit and decides he'd like to collect private jets, telling him employees to take repeated pay cuts.
Clearly, that's the best place to cut. We have a lot of wealth. It's shifted to the top.
In 1900, the average wage in the US was $10,000 adjusted for inflation.
In 1900, the average wage in the US was $10,000 adjusted for inflation. Later, after government policy shifted to support workers, that went up by multiples.
That's what we call the 'birth of the middle class'.
Today, I was listening to a typical story from someone talking about how their father was a truck driver (in the 60's era), and was able to have a one-income household with a house, five children, all of whom went to college. People used to be able to support a family on those sorts of employment. That was called 'the American Dream'.
Today, the greed at the top has made Americans poorer to enrich themselves. It's wrong.
The business owner created that wealth by work and investment.
Those that helped made the choice; some could have attempted it on their own.
But they were unable to either raise the capital needed or did not want to assume the risk.
You want to punish people for success. :thumbsdown:
The business owner created that wealth by work and investment.
Those that helped made the choice; some could have attempted it on their own.
But they were unable to either raise the capital needed or did not want to assume the risk.
You want to punish people for success. :thumbsdown:
What policies were changed to support the workers - unions? Taxes? Min wage? Handouts?
Unions came after technology and innovation.
You're starting to sound a bit sociopathic as well.
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Yes, the year 1900 was so great. Let's all go relive those times.
No he's not. He's ignorant - there's a difference. When Eaglekeeper gets more informed, he seems to have some decency as I recall. You are different than him.
You literally know nothing significant about me.
Calm down, Susan.
Wrong, Susan.
I am commenting on what you said. If you weren't lying, that's something. Oh, and Texas.