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If they are unwilling to obtain further marketable skills and use any one of the numerous adult education programs, then yes, they deserve the bare minimum. If they are complacent and think thats all they can get, then it is their fault and theirs alone.
Oh, and yes, the president is indeed a dumbass. His knowledge of economics, the Constitution, and reality in general is similar to that of a retarded goat.
??? I'd love to obtain further marketable skiklls, where do I sign up?
If it's not meant to be something to support a family on... then how are people who aren't college educated / MBAs supposed to make a living for themselves and their kids?
We all know that skilled manufacturing jobs that previously paid well have been going the way of the dinosaur in this country. And not everyone is college material. Not everyone is going to be a Warren Buffett or a Bill Gates. And real estate / construction in this country imploded, quite clearly. Many of the people in these low service jobs are people who previously would have gone for some skilled labor, and there is less and less of it to go around. China makes everything now.
So what do these people do? Just die?
The conservative solution seems to be that these people should live in SRO rooms and not have kids.
Raise the minimum wage, and you'll get layoffs, stagnant pay and inflation.
But since according to Obama, if we raise the wage, everything will be good. So if that's the case, raise it. And if you're making minimum wage, you don't qualify for welfare or food stamps. I think that's a fair trade.
High turnover will mitigate any need for layoffs, and if layoffs actually occur, teens with the least experience will probably be laid off first.
both Minimum wage and "living wage" are unnecessary. It is up to employees to not accept a salary that they can't live on. If you want to raise the minimum wage you should modify unemployment insurance, medicade, welfare to make up the difference.
Families wouldn't accept a non-living wage if they couldn't fall back on those safety nets, and thus the wage goes up.
and if you are competing against a TEEN for your daily bread, I suggest a move to China, i'm sure you could compete a little better there.
??? People who can't live on minimum wage should not accept min wage jobs, thereby hastening their homelessness and demise???
Employers want credentials. Free public libraries do not issue credentials. Sheesh.
You could print out all your posts from here on C-D.
They would,no doubt, be so impressed with your industrious, ambitious,innovative,get-ahead ,do-what-needs-to-be-done attitude, they'd overlook the lack of credentials.
The conservative solution seems to be that these people should live in SRO rooms and not have kids.
IF people are making minimum wage, they definitely should not have kids. They obviously wouldnt be able to afford to support the child, and it would be tremendously irresponsible for them to have kids they couldnt afford.
I know the concept of personal responsibility is a foreign concept to some people, but without it, tough love is definitely needed.
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