Gee, who could have seen this coming?

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  • Allen
    Moderator
    • Sep 2009
    • 10583

    #1

    Gee, who could have seen this coming?

    So stupid. Just raise the minimum wage to doctors pay and watch people continue to drop out of school at age 16. Soon prices will go up on everything and reduce the spending power of those who just got the ill gotten gains of the raise. A democrat born every minute.

  • blackhawknj
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2011
    • 3754

    #2
    That and compelling employers to offer fringe benefits-medical, i.e.-to full time employees.
    If you want to get a Leftist riled, point out that a tax cut is the same as a pay raise.

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    • dogtag
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2009
      • 14985

      #3
      When you're taken care of, what would be the point in going to school ?

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      • Roadkingtrax
        Senior Member
        • Feb 2010
        • 7835

        #4
        Why aren't they raising the price of goods, like the resident economists demand?
        "The first gun that was fired at Fort Sumter sounded the death-knell of slavery. They who fired it were the greatest practical abolitionists this nation has produced." ~BG D. Ullman

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        • S.A. Boggs
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2009
          • 8568

          #5
          Many business will simply go to machines whenever possible, same for field work. In many factories now it is becoming more and more mechanized, such as robo welders. Magnetic tracks now pull carts around floors while machines sort and retrieve from bins. In a kitchen, a precut steak is dropped down to cook, a sensor watches the cooking and turns when appropriate, place on plate to push further down the line. In the field fewer and fewer people are needed to harvest and pack, machines can do it cheaper and quicker.
          Sam

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          • Sandpebble
            Senior Member
            • Mar 2017
            • 2196

            #6
            Originally posted by Allen
            So stupid. Just raise the minimum wage to doctors pay and watch people continue to drop out of school at age 16. Soon prices will go up on everything and reduce the spending power of those who just got the ill gotten gains of the raise. A democrat born every minute.

            https://www.foxnews.com/politics/15-...all-businesses
            OK Allen .... very intersting topic .

            I run a small business that starts employees at 35% over minimum wage for general cleaners. I have been offering for quite some time over double minimum wage for peple just to come and learn some basic skills like swapping out a faucet or a toilet... patch a hole in drywall etc. ......guess what??

            No takers ..... I've had to drop clients and this past tax season I'm down $ 17,000 due to the fact I can't get an American willing to show up 5 days a week .

            Yet.... as I've mentioned here many times.... my whole residential block is filled with 20+ year olds still living with Mom And Dad..... and working part time at Target and Home Depot .... for $ 8.25 ph

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            • maverick1
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2009
              • 662

              #7
              Why would anyone work for $8.25 an hour. We the Taxpayer, allow them more money if they don't work (in govt. benefits) still free phones , Hud, food stamps, medicaid and lots more. I know us hard working people have had it with this, but congress does nothing about the problem. Maybe we need to work on who we have elected? I have sent letters to all my Lawmakers and received responses from most.Speak up and send emails and letters! Power of the pen is stronger than the sword.

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              • Vern Humphrey
                Administrator - OFC
                • Aug 2009
                • 15875

                #8
                You have a good point -- the government has created the society in which we live, one where it is easier and more profitable NOT to work.

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