[quote]dmaddox wrote:
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[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
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[quote]Zeppelin795 wrote:
Corporations are incredibly greedy. And if they can pocket more money by moving their plant overseas their attitude is fuck the middle-class Americans. Wow how patriotic! They do not move plants overseas in order to keep the heartbeat of the business alive. They do it to line the pockets of the major share holdders and CEO’s fuck their workers, they are expendable.
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Class warfare, how communist of you.[/quote]
Yes, fuck the american middle class when they think they deserve outlandish retirement, making 20+ dollars an hour to pull a lever or watch parts go by on a conveyor belt, and for the company to keep making profits. It is just business. Has nothing to do with being patriotic or not. [/quote]
Not sure if cereal. [/quote]
There is a group in MS trying to push for minimum wage to be raised to 15$ an hour. Up from 7.25.
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Yeah, I’m interested if they can get it done…then I’m going to be interested in seeing how the 50% of workers that get let go are going to feel about their buddy getting $15/hr while they get $0/hr. [/quote]
I doubt it will ever pass, but if it does. I know a lot of small business will be closing or firing a large part of their staff. As will larger businesses.
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I’m assuming they are basing their demands off of NC where they are having an energy boom and are paying their burger flippers $15/hr?[/quote]
The reasoning I heard is 15 dollars in an hour is “living wage”. I was standing at line at the bank and a woman in front of me was making comments that 12.50 an hour doesn’t cut it. “They gonna have to do something because I can’t make it on 12.50 an hour.” She went on to say she had 5 kids and none of her babies’ daddies helping her. Well no shit dumbass you can’t make it with 5 kids, no father around, and making 12.50. Close your fucking legs. I don’t get where people expect everything to be changed for them and to meet their needs. Take responsibility for your actions or lack there of.[/quote]
This is the issue.
What is a living wage? Able to put food on the table, put a roof over your head, and clothes on your back. Minimum wage does do that. The issue is people want more. They want to live on more than they make. They dont just want food they want steak and lobster. They dont just want a roof over their head, they want a mansion. They dont want just clothes, they want Jordans, Ralph Lauren shirts, and expensive jeans. Minimum wage gives you a basic living, not a life of luxury. It is jealousy or some call it coveting. They want to take from the rich so they can feel more rich themselves.
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Exactly, people with no real skills that would justify them earning a wage greater than “just getting by” believe that they are entitled to the same things that those that actually have set themselves apart have and more. A first year teacher in our district makes 32,100 in our district.
A 32yo single mother with 5 children and no job because of her “asthma, IBS, and migraines” being disabling makes $50,000 a year in assistance.
I was talking to the local seafood guy here the other day (I can only afford to buy from there once ever month or two at the most) told me that he has several customers that come in 2 to 3 times a week with big orders each time using EBT cards to pay. How in the hell is someone receiving that much in assistance that they can do that?
Delphi/Packard used to have a plant here. They were trying to renegotiate down to $22/hr starting wage because the plant was about to go under, local reps were going to sign, national level union said no, even though they knew that the plant would leave if they didn’t agree. Men around here just wanted to work. National level would never agree and the plant left. That’s a whole lot of jobs lost that the unions caused. Tell me again how unions create jobs??