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Old 01-03-2014, 10:09 PM
 
Location: DFW
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Originally Posted by natalie469 View Post
So it's a bad career decision to work for minimum wage. Unlike what republicans say....no matter how hard and how determined some work to better themselves they will never get ahead.
Yes, if you're 32 and working MW the odds are you've made some bad career, education, training choices.

 
Old 01-03-2014, 10:16 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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You can certainly tell who around here is working Minimum Wage jobs past their teens and need a raise.

Too bad those bad career decisions didn't lead to a better job.

Let's just ban anyone over 21 and under 62 from working at MW Jobs.
Oh yeah, which members are you referring to?
 
Old 01-03-2014, 10:18 PM
 
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Yes, if you're 32 and working MW the odds are you've made some bad career, education, training choices.


No, if you are 32 chances are you are trying to support a family. How can you go to school when you have to work to support them. And maybe these people are working 2 or 3 minimum wage jobs. You really don't know.
 
Old 01-03-2014, 10:22 PM
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Oh yeah, which members are you referring to?
You know, people who think that working full time should lead to a pay check that is sufficient to survive without government assistance.

People like to call low wage workers lazy, dumb, drug addicts, whatever. The real issue is that a certain segment of the population feels that they're entitled to things without paying for them. They expect you and me and every other tax payer to subsidize their trips to Wal Mart and McDonald's, but then have the audacity to also rail against the social safety net (not only do they not want to pay the workers at the store, they also don't want to pay taxes to make up the difference between pay and actual cost of living), as if people should work full time and go home to some shanty town that would make a refuge camp look ritzy.
 
Old 01-03-2014, 10:56 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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No, if you are 32 chances are you are trying to support a family. How can you go to school when you have to work to support them. And maybe these people are working 2 or 3 minimum wage jobs. You really don't know.
How many "Thems" are we talking about and how long did it take to create these "Thems?" It is 9 months min in between, correct? Unless you are Octomom.
 
Old 01-03-2014, 10:59 PM
 
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How many "Thems" are we talking about and how long did it take to create these "Thems?" It is 9 months min in between, correct? Unless you are Octomom.
Them could mean a wife and a child. What does it matter?
 
Old 01-03-2014, 11:36 PM
 
Location: South Carolina
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Yes, if you're 32 and working MW the odds are you've made some bad career, education, training choices.
This is just a generalization. How do you even know this do you know all 32 year old people and why they make min wage. Do you also realize that many people may have had a raise but are still barely above min wage. It is easy to sit at home and say bad choices they made without actually knowing it it is true.
 
Old 01-04-2014, 12:03 AM
 
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So it's a bad career decision to work for minimum wage. Unlike what republicans say....no matter how hard and how determined some work to better themselves they will never get ahead.

Conservatives have low-wage workers in a gotcha - either they made bad career choices if they work low-wage jobs, or are mooching parasite slacker bums if they reject low-wage jobs.
 
Old 01-04-2014, 12:44 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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More DC fun and games while Americans continue to hurt..

Dems Hit Republicans Hard on the Minimum Wage | Capitol Watch
get ready for more job losses
 
Old 01-04-2014, 12:46 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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This is just a generalization. How do you even know this do you know all 32 year old people and why they make min wage. Do you also realize that many people may have had a raise but are still barely above min wage. It is easy to sit at home and say bad choices they made without actually knowing it it is true.
well considering the MW is for UNSKILLED workers....if they are 32 and don't have a SKILL, then just what have they done for the last 14+ years
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