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| I'm wondering why the push to raise minimum wage when you can make $20/hr, say $30/hr between two working parents and still qualify for ALL the benefits government provides. Why make those not taking benefits pay more for everything. I'm just not sure I follow it. |
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Location: Phoenix | Some don't have the education to get those jobs. That would be guess. |
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| AT $10.10 per hour a lot of small businesses will layoff or go out of business because all their costs increases ...........
THIS MAKES MORE PEOPLE DEPENDENT ON THE GOVERNMENT AND SLAVES TO GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS ..........
DIRECT ATTACK ON SMALL BUSINESSES AND INFLATION JUST LIKE THE COST OF GAS HAS KILLED OUR ECONOMY .....
Don't forget Obama has just signed the Pacific Free Trade agreement with China and all of asia to make anything that our small business do now .... ... you already have seen what NAFTA has done to the USA ....
and how many $15 hamburger combo lunches can you afford each week??
Edited by BARRELHORSE USA 2014-01-29 3:09 AM
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Location: n.c. | I thought the increase in minimum wage was just for the federal contract workers? Guess I missed something. |
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Location: West Tennessee | runningk - 2014-01-29 7:21 AM I thought the increase in minimum wage was just for the federal contract workers? Guess I missed something.
Ploy to force it across the board |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | runningk - 2014-01-29 8:21 AM I thought the increase in minimum wage was just for the federal contract workers? Guess I missed something.
Right now. However, how many people will be able to get federal contracts because their labor will be much higher? Narrows the pool alot. It starts with the wage rate, then goes on to matching SS/Medicare, unemployment insurance (state and Federal), workers comp etc. The snowball effect kicks in.
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | It is clear that Principles of Economics 101 should be required for all government leaders. |
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Location: NOT at Wal Mart | BARRELHORSE USA - 2014-01-29 12:40 AM AT $10.10 per hour a lot of small businesses will layoff or go out of business because all their costs increases ........... THIS MAKES MORE PEOPLE DEPENDENT ON THE GOVERNMENT AND SLAVES TO GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS .......... DIRECT ATTACK ON SMALL BUSINESSES AND INFLATION JUST LIKE THE COST OF GAS HAS KILLED OUR ECONOMY ..... Don't forget Obama has just signed the Pacific Free Trade agreement with China and all of asia to make anything that our small business do now .... ... you already have seen what NAFTA has done to the USA .... and how many $15 hamburger combo lunches can you afford each week??
Source please? |
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Location: Broxton, Ga | Here are several links............on the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement......pro and con
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trans-pacific-partnership-and-all-free-trade-deals-help-the-united-states/2014/01/16/c595da66-7ef5-11e3-93c1-0e888170b723_story.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trans-pacific-partnership-and-all-free-trade-deals-help-the-united-states/2014/01/16/c595da66-7ef5-11e3-93c1-0e888170b723_story.html
http://www.themonitor.com/opinion/columnists/article_616c3c1c-8556-11e3-9d99-001a4bcf6878.html |
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| Three 4 Luck - 2014-01-29 8:07 AM
It is clear that Principles of Economics 101 should be required for all government leaders.
Or maybe just a plain old common sense test! Oh wait, there wouldn't be ANY left! |
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Location: Broxton, Ga | Another one...........pro
http://www.agweb.com/article/trans_pacific_partnership_gives_momentum_to_other_trade_agreements_NAA_Jim_Dickrell/
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| Having you job is great but when it comes to salary we have to get it more. In break with most retailers, Costco's CEO claims he supports President Obama's call to increase the minimum wage. But while the President wants to raise it to $9 an hour, Costco would let it go even higher, to $10.10 an hour. |
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| I think it's pretty freaking pathetic. I've worked minimum wage jobs since I was 16 (mostly because I'm young) and it's not worth TEN dollars and hour to flip burgers or to clean bathrooms,etc!!! It makes me mad because everyone wants something handed to them and the prices will go up because of this! You gotta work for it people. There's loans, grants, and scholarships to get an education for whatever you want or need to do to make a living and that's what me and a lot of people have to do to pursue a life for ourselves. Granted, I have a little help but I know too many people who when they want something they put their mind to it, no excuses and whether they have money or not doesn't come into play because they want it. I know that for some, it's unattainable for reasons like disability,etc. BUT what about the people who have educations and are barely making minimum wage? That's not fair to them?? Yes, their wage may go up but it'll be like they're competing with people who pretty much don't deserve it when they're making about the same wage. I believe that at these minimum wage jobs, if you've been there for awhile or really show awesome work ethic and provide your employer with a something new or great in a short amount of time, then you should get a raise or raises as you stay there just like any other job. You can't be handed everything people...sorry my rant is over  |
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | In Ontario they just pushed it to 11.00. A few people wanted it to go to $14.00 which would be pointless IMO. You would get more part time work ( employers wouldn't offer full time as often) and the amount of taxes taken off would make you no better off then you were before (speaking from experience my last job started at that and after my taxes the difference was hardly worth it). Plus cost of living rises because employers need to cover their costs and your paying more for everything. |
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| My daughter started working at McDonalds flipping burgers and making change. That was a beginning job for her and now she is working as an accountant in a corp headquarters in St. Louis and is very self sufficient and self supporting.
I went back to school when both kids were babies to get my degree. My mom went to school when I was in high school to get her nursing degree.
I've never had to be on welfare, food stamps, etc. I see a need for it, but I think everyone should try the hard work route first. I have been on unemployment a couple of times, but only until I could find a job. That was what I was being paid to do - find a job. I even had to move 300 miles away from family and friends, sell a really nice property, etc. to get a job. Did I want to move? NO. But that is what I had to do to make it.
We all make choices in life and lots of time, your life is what you make of it. I undertand that things can happen that shape your decisions, there are still choices as we go through life.
This president worked his way up from disadvantage to the highest job in the world. He had a perfect opportunity to promote that ethic and to bring us all together. What a legacy that would have been! However, if historians are accurate, he is leaving a legacy as the most divisive president in history. |
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Location: Sperry, OK | powerstroke power - 2014-01-28 10:33 PM I'm wondering why the push to raise minimum wage when you can make $20/hr, say $30/hr between two working parents and still qualify for ALL the benefits government provides. Why make those not taking benefits pay more for everything. I'm just not sure I follow it.
I don't know where you live, but here in Oklahoma... if you have a job at all, more often then not, you don't qualify for anything. The only ones that qualify for assistance, that I know of, are defrauding the system in some way. They lie about circustances, or salary, or marital status.. something. If you are an honest person that literally needs a little help (what the assitance programs were intended for), they turn you down cold! This has been my experience, anyway. |
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Location: Way down yonder in the indian nation~Oklahoma | The other part of that statement, here in Okie ville~
I have a college education and 25 years experience as a data entry specialist (actually my degree is in Secretarial Science, which is not politically correct and technically no longer exists), and I work a part time job for $9 an hour, (I started at $8.25 but was given a raise after two, TWO years on the job and after several 'promotions' in responsibility but not title). My husband is retired. The company I work for says that the $10.10 per hour combined with Obamacare would bankrupt them. Their solution is that there are no more full time employees, there fore they do not have to provide insurance for any of us, and they are hiring high school, or hispanic kids for minimum wage, and cutting the hours even more for the people with responsibility. So far the only cut backs I have seen in the management department is that they only took a couple of group hunting trips this year, instead of the usual one per month trip... There are loopholes big enough to run a train through with the whole minimimum wage/Obamacare mess. The person who wants to actually work for a living is surviving at a much lower place on the food chain than those who enjoy just sitting back and collecting~ and no we don't qualify for any assistance~ |
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