No Minimum Wage Law?

[Wordy]

Don't I know that story. Maybe you could find something that's not 4-year but gives you a leg up in the $$$ game? I'm sure you could manage anything you set your mind to in terms of schoolwork--I'm sure you know that too, since you've probably worked with a lot of complete dopes with degrees, right? Come on, come on...we all have!

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by Wordy

Don't I know that story. Maybe you could find something that's not 4-year but gives you a leg up in the $$$ game? I'm sure you could manage anything you set your mind to in terms of schoolwork--I'm sure you know that too, since you've probably worked with a lot of complete dopes with degrees, right? Come on, come on...we all have!

Do you know who many college kids I have dealt with that can't figure out how to click on Internet Explorer to get on the internet, but have to have a paper done?

What about the college professor that lives on Lookout Mountain, just came back from a tour of Europe, but is so scattered that she can't follow directions.

Or, my personal favorite, the two teachers that sat the entire weekend with their new cable service, but couldn't view programs. They said that the screen said "Millie."

Yeah. It said MILI, as in Military Channel. They didn't have a subscription to that service, so the program never came on. It never occurred to either one that they could change the channel, or how.

[Wordy]

Ha!!!!!! Oh my gosh. Yeah, I think we can all probably relate to that. Annnnd maybe some of us can relate to it from being kind of the dope in the situation.... I've stunned myself more than once by my, shall we say, lack of common sense. It's always so clear in hindsight...

[hiknapster]

Yes. But I'm at the poorly paying job. Maybe I don't have any common sense.

But the subject is minimum wage, and I really don't want anything to swing to the left, either. That would be a disaster, but big business has taken over this whole country to the point of where we vote for politicians that do their bidding.

You and I are left behind. We have become collateral damage.

And that comes back to Tennesseans. I think that they are force-fed this pap of God and country and American pie and they come back in body bags or as honored veterans that are paid minimum wage if they have all their limbs. If they don't, will they get treatment?

You see, we are not great human beings and that is why we need laws.

[rabok416]

I have enjoyed the debate. I hope I didn't offend anyone. If so, I apologize. I guess we can agree to disagree on some points. I know as well as anyone that education doesn't necessarily translate to intelligence, and that employers are frequently unable to see the value of a person's work. Honestly, the minimum wage is not much of a concern for me compared to the other wasteful policies foisted upon us by Washington. Being underemployed is what motivated me to go to medical school, and though I wasn't making minimum wage, I knew I could do something better with my life. Thanks for all of the posts in this thread and in others. I am looking forward to returning to Tennessee after I finish school and I like reading about the various cities on this board.

[lawforever]

The State of Tennessee will follow the federal minimum wage standard. This is whatever the Congress passes, that is the minimum wage it will enforce. However, states may be able to raise the minimum wage from the federal standard, but cannot go below the amount set by the federal government.

[Markxxx]

Sorry the minimum wage laws don't hurt business except in the sense it stops business from paying $1.00/hr. We had that in the late 20s with filth, remember the Upton Sinclair books, child labour and such.

To say that a business would go out or not come into being because the minimum wage is 5.50 and the employer can only pay 5.00/hr you could simply have the owners take less profit.

If that still isn't working the business is marginal at best and isn't needed in an economy.

Look at it this way, cell phones are not needed, yet we buy them and pump BILLIONS of dollars into the economy for cell phones which aren't a necessity. So if we did away with cell phones look at all those people who would be out of work. Would they NEVER get jobs? No they'd find other jobs. So if the people who are out of work because their employers can't pay minimum they'd simply find jobs paying better. And the one or two that don't find such jobs would be offset by the higher wages of those who do.

[Avram42]

Originally Posted by Markxxx

And the one or two that don't find such jobs would be offset by the higher wages of those who do.

I think you just proved the point?