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Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
Originally posted by BULLPIN
Originally posted by JIMC5499
Take a look at who is pushing this and why. It has NOTHING to do with the average worker and everything to do with the UNION worker. Numerous labor contracts are tied to the minimum wage. If the minimum wage increases so does the wages of those covered by those contracts. The recall election in Wisconsin has the unions running scared right now. They will do everything that they can to keep their dues money rolling in.
Right! Where's the proposal in Congress that will actually solve our economic problems by REDUCING the minimum wage! Let's crush the Unions, the middle class along with them, and create a two-tiered society of techno-serfs on one hand and bourgeois-pigs on the other. Mmmmm, bacon.
Your language just screams socialist/communist/Marxist. I bet you even have a Che Guevara T shirt to go with that.
Originally posted by FreeFromTheHerd
reply to post by KeliOnyx
Mind pointing out which clause of the Constitution gives the federal government the power to dictate any wage?
Markets should be the force setting wages, not government.
Minimum wage earners are in fact low to no skill people who lack the skills to demand a higher wage in a competitive market. The absurdity of a burger flipper or drive through worker making $10 an hour simply because of politicians pandering to the low income earners in order to garner their vote is laughable
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Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
Your language just screams socialist/communist/Marxist. I bet you even have a Che Guevara T shirt to go with that.
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
I think it will soon get to the point where being 'a slave' to a communist republic(with a roof over your head, a car, a vacation and no freedom) is preferable to being a slave to some "too big to fail" multinational corporation who views you as human resource.
For examle in panama and honduras they are looking for new $1 a day employees to mass farm their chiquita banana plantations. Would you like to volunteer to their slave(sorry I meant job) force? No benefits other than a coffee break and lots of whipping going on as well. But you will make the shareholders mucho orgulloso hombre. You can be their new perra. Lo que dices chico?
Communism rots but capitalism is just as bad!
Originally posted by The Old American
Want higher unemployment? Raise the minimum wage. It really is mind-boggling how people can't hold this simple fact in their mind.
/TOA
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
Too bad the govt didn't see it that way come time for the auto baillouts???? Why not let those losers fail and let others take their place with a more competitive product? Oh, the answer is the Unions.
Originally posted by The Old American
Want higher unemployment? Raise the minimum wage. It really is mind-boggling how people can't hold this simple fact in their mind.
/TOA
Originally posted by albertabound
What kind of a sad world do we live in when people value the "economy" over quality of life and human dignity. You Americans are so hopelessly lost I don't know if you can ever be saved.