A 6 day work week in America? (unemployed, minimum wage, Obama, economy)

[Chango]

I brought this subject up in another thread: Greece told rescue requires 6-day workweek - UPI.com

...and I have to wonder, can it happen here? Can you imagine working an extra day for the same pay you are making with a 40 hr a week job? And that's only one of the "concessions" being forced on them because their government drove them into debt slavery to the internation banks.

Debt is truly a monsterous trap and Greece ran straight into it with reckless abandon. What happens when the trap is spung here?

[Speleothem]

"A 6 day work week in America?"

Cool, I could use a day off.

[pch1013]

I imagine the right-wingers here would be all for it. The five-day workweek is an invention of those eeeeevil unions.

[SourD]

Originally Posted by pch1013

I imagine the right-wingers here would be all for it. The five-day workweek is an invention of those eeeeevil unions.

Yeah now a 6 day work week will be because of them too!

[rudegubmintworker]

I'm not worried that it will happen in America.

[Yooperkat]

23,000,000 Americans can't find a job. They don't have to worry about a 6 day work week.

That's a zero day work week. Thank Obama.

[mohawkx]

That would mean less jobs for those unemployed and looking for work. One sixth of those currently employed would lose their jobs, adding to the ranks of the unemployed.

[texdav]

Its alos pointed out that the Greeks will have to giveup their 3 hour lunch breaks and the black economy jobs that many do after work.I think that most successful people work the eqaul of 6 days in hours and have for years.Certainlky I don't know a business owner who does work 10-12 hour days;its just part of what it takes.

[urbanlife78]

Originally Posted by Yooperkat

23,000,000 Americans can't find a job. They don't have to worry about a 6 day work week.

That's a zero day work week. Thank Obama.

There is over 300 million Americans in this country, unless you somehow forgot about them.

[freemkt]

Originally Posted by watty374

I work 6 days a week all the time. I make over 20% more than my counterparts. Dems probably hate me becuase I work, make money, and support my kids.

Would you rather make 50k or 60k? 100k or 120k? 200k or 240k?


Dems are too lazy to work.

I presume you have a job that not only pays well it also doesn't suck.

If you had a really crappy job (say flipping burgers) that paid minimum wage, would you work 6 days a week?