Democrats, clutch yourselves - I'm getting ready to agree with you....

[HemiHauler]

You'd think he'd feel bad that little kids are living in ghettos and eating out of trash cans, and he bought himself a $500 million house. And that's just one of his 10+ luxury homes, which doesn't include his numerous luxury cars and $300 million yacht.

Not that there will ever be a shortage of poor people, but the dramatic wealth inequality in this country sometimes makes me sad. The liberals have a point when they rail about this, but their solution is to....make rich people richer and poor people poorer, and I have a hard time wrapping my head around that.

I just want people to be better. To do what they say they're going to do and not be revered for something when in fact they're the exact opposite. Like Obama, of all people, saying that at some point you've made enough money. That chaps my ass every time I think of it. Liberals were supposed to be against all this and instead they upped the ante.

I'm having a childish moment and reverting back to my wide-eyed naive 25 year old self. I'll be back to cynical by morning.

Another jealous little bitch … you don’t have the talent to succeed at any level.

 

[GURPS]

I'm having a childish moment and reverting back to my wide-eyed naive 25 year old self. I'll be back to cynical by morning.

Liberal Open Carry Laws, STOP feeding illegals and Ghetto Trash

the problem will be sorted out with


1. people getting jobs
2. Self Deportation
3. Trash cleaned out when they try to rob citizens

 

[Gilligan]

That's the one just off I-5 and Grand Ave in PB, right?

yep

 

[vraiblonde]

Another jealous little bitch … you don’t have the talent to succeed at any level.

And yet here you are....

 

[SamSpade]

Thing is, while top execs make big bucks - if you 100% ELIMINATE them and pass their compensation down to the workers - it’s not that much, especially if you’re in an industry like fast food which profits on large volumes of product and low prices.

If you DOUBLE the cost of paying staff, you don’t have enough brass to cut to pay them all even if you get rid of all of them. The math ain’t there.

There’s also the very reasonable argument that fast food is an entry point to the work force, which is why you see youth running the business. You do NOT see a bunch of thirty and forty something men bustling about. It’s ridiculous to think anyone should be raising a family or making a career out of fast food unless they’re a manager, owner or executive. Has anyone ever heard of people working at McD’s flipping burgers for forty years?

20 bucks minimum wage is gonna crush fast food. No one wants a 20 dollar Big Mac.

 

[Kyle]

20 bucks minimum wage is gonna crush fast food. No one wants a 20 dollar Big Mac.

And no one should be aspiring to "make a living" working fast food, but here we are.

 

[SamSpade]

And no one should be aspiring to "make a living" working fast food, but here we are.

When I was a kid - I had a paper route with about 100 customers. I made about 2-3 cents per paper delivered - a paper that cost about 50 cents. I also had to do my own collections with punch cards and a zippered cash bag.

Ten years or more later there were no paperboys because adults in cars took their place. Billing was automated, delivery was faster, range was bigger and routes were larger. I know - for two months I had one. I couldn’t compete.

But I’d be surprised if anyone aspired to make a career of it. If you knew someone who DID, you’d think them a slacker.

Those jobs are also largely gone. Mostly because papers are disappearing. But can you imagine a grown man whining that he doesn’t get paid enough for his paper route? A job originally designed for children?

 

[RoseRed]

When I was a kid - I had a paper route with about 100 customers. I made about 2-3 cents per paper delivered - a paper that cost about 50 cents. I also had to do my own collections with punch cards and a zippered cash bag.

Ten years or more later there were no paperboys because adults in cars took their place. Billing was automated, delivery was faster, range was bigger and routes were larger. I know - for two months I had one. I couldn’t compete.

But I’d be surprised if anyone aspired to make a career of it. If you knew someone who DID, you’d think them a slacker.

Those jobs are also largely gone. Mostly because papers are disappearing. But can you imagine a grown man whining that he doesn’t get paid enough for his paper route? A job originally designed for children?

Then the paper was transferred to the USPS and delivered with the mail. Always about 3 days late.

 

[Kyle]

Always about 3 days late.

Wow.

They're getting faster.

 

[CPUSA]

Okay, so let's eliminate ALL front line workers from a corporation and see what happens.

Conversely, let's eliminate all executives from a corporation and see what happens.

Any ideas? Or is that too much thinking for you?

He gets confused by 2+2...

 

[GURPS]

20 bucks minimum wage is gonna crush fast food.

this is going to have the affect of PUSHING wages up all over ... that's a 40k a year Starting IT Help Desk Salary


So not Help Desk JOB salaries have to go up, then Network Engineers and SyAdmins want more, and so on

 

[RoseRed]

Wow.

They're getting faster.

The Friday edition would always arrive Monday afternoon. That didn't do me any good for the weekend events. Then they rolled all 3 counties into one paper, I dropped them for good. I can get everything I want online now.

 

[GURPS]

But I’d be surprised if anyone aspired to make a career of it. If you knew someone who DID, you’d think them a slacker.

I had a Manager when working at a Pizza Hut Delivery store who's husband delivered papers at night and watched the kids during the day while his wife worked

 

[phreddyp]

this is going to have the affect of PUSHING wages up all over ... that's a 40k a year Starting IT Help Desk Salary


So not Help Desk JOB salaries have to go up, then Network Engineers and SyAdmins want more, and so on

In other words, another inflationary event.

 

[vraiblonde]

this is going to have the affect of PUSHING wages up all over ... that's a 40k a year Starting IT Help Desk Salary


So not Help Desk JOB salaries have to go up, then Network Engineers and SyAdmins want more, and so on

And daily living goes up, so your landlord etc have to charge more to break even, and on and on it goes.

 

[vraiblonde]

In other words, another inflationary event.

Doesn't it stun you that so many people don't understand this simple concept?

 

[BOP]

I like you. Unlike the vast majority here, you read to understand — not to argue.

Now I'm triggered.

 

[phreddyp]

Doesn't it stun you that so many people don't understand this simple concept?

Used to, now it's just business as usual. Americans are some of the most financially and economically illiterate people in the world and our leaders are no exception.

 

[SamSpade]

this is going to have the affect of PUSHING wages up all over ... that's a 40k a year Starting IT Help Desk Salary


So not Help Desk JOB salaries have to go up, then Network Engineers and SyAdmins want more, and so on

It should, shouldn’t it?

I just know far too many people who heretofore were making 12 to 13 bucks an hour doing more skilled jobs than minimum wage entailed -

And THEIR wages haven’t changed. Only difference is, they get a salary and not an hourly wage - but since they’re getting paid ~25k it’s not changed. Sucks to work for the state government or the schools and get paid LESS than the twerps busing tables.

 

[Clem72]

20 bucks minimum wage is gonna crush fast food. No one wants a 20 dollar Big Mac.

I just had McDonald's for the first time in probably 6 or 8 years. Got a Big Mac meal (through the app) for $6. Yes, the meat patties were as thin as the pickle, those photos going around are 100% accurate. I should have just got the quarter pounder.