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No, you just want to wash your hands of it and pretend like it isn't anyone's responsibility to provide a federal minimum wage to help those working Americans at the bottom of the pay scale.
Where does THEIR responsibility come into play here ?
You just want to hand them more money and then walk away feeling all good about yourself.
I know, but that is why I translated the $1.15/hr to today's wage of $7.70/hr.
So lets figure out why people are lazy enough to not educate themselves to the point where they deserve a better paying job instead of artificially inflating their wage for the same work. Does any of the fault lie in the arms of the worker for not proving he/she is worth more money? I think it does. You obviously don't feel that way.
A person is only worth what they can prove they deserve.
K-12 pushes them through the system.
They are handed everything and even promoted when they fail.
This is what you get for not holding students accountable in K-12.
This is what you get when the Fed threatens to withhold money from schools if kids fail.
So schools bend over backwards to make sure "No Child is Left Behind" so they can get their money each year.
NCLB has been in place for 10 years.
Each graduating class of students are worse off then the class before them.
Barely reading at 8th grade level and can't do math and have no recollection of what they learned because "rote learning" is bad (memorizing stuff).
It's the reason why in NJ we pay such high taxes cuz of people like urban ideology and thoughts. Do you need someone to hold your hand when you **** and **** too? Lol
you do understand the CONSEQUENCE of continuing to raise the min wage
everytime you raise the min wage...costs go up
raising the min wage will raise the prices of nearly everything, and cost jobs
You do realize costs go up regardless if you raise the minimum wage or not. If you lower minimum wage, costs aren't magically going to go down. This is basically the myth that gets recycled over and over by the anti-minimum wage crowd.
Why isn't it those people's responsibility to make better life choices for themselves so that they're not in a position to begin with that involves trying to raise a family on minimum wage?
Why the heck is that guy making MORE children when he already has 4 kids that he apparently is struggling to support? Why are these guys blowing a ton of coin on smoking if they don't make enough to live on?
THAT'S the real problem here - lack of personal responsibility and accountability. It's always someone else's fault that these people are losers.
I don't know, why do people advocate against birth controls and condoms? It is better to look at the overall numbers and figure out a minimum wage that would best help those at the bottom and then allow each one to make their own choices in life.
These are entry level jobs not requiring any skill or experience.
Sorry they don't have what it takes to move beyond that.
But that's their problem, not mine.
And? None of these are good reasons for not raising the minimum wage.
China owns most of our 17 trillion in debt. She runs the world now. Welcome to the beginning of the end of the United States of America. Nice knowing ya.
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