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What is a living wage

Bernard_Fokke

Captain Fokke
Supporting Member
Well it is not and should never be found at an unskilled entry level job. Leave them to the students and those wanting to make a little extra money.
Agreed, burger flipping / fast food is a stepping stone to better employment. Not a career opportunity.
 

Dawg

President
Supporting Member
Agreed, burger flipping / fast food is a stepping stone to better employment. Not a career opportunity.
A living wage..…….at 8 I was priming baccka for lunch, at 12 picking up square bales of hay for .25 cent an hour, at 13 holding up pigglets to be castrated for .30 cent an hour, at 15 curb-hopping for a dollar a day+tips……..and all I could eat...…….at 18 $69 a month in the Army...…………..I worked for 60 years and now I don't have to unless I want to and I live to work during harvest...…….damn...……...for got to add at 17 had saved $1000 to buy a 1964 Ford Fastback...…..and still have it...………..390/straight drive w/overdrive...……..bet few leftist even know what that means
 

redtide

Mayor
Agreed, burger flipping / fast food is a stepping stone to better employment. Not a career opportunity.
Agreed which only further proves that in this nation poverty is a choice and those who chose to drop out of school and raise kids while working minimum wage jobs chose to do so and thus chose to be poor.
 

reason10

Governor
Well it is not and should never be found at an unskilled entry level job. Leave them to the students and those wanting to make a little extra money.
There is no such thing as a living wage. Most of the world lives on a FRACTION of what the dumbest and lowest paid American gets.

It's just another bullsheet term that Nazis use to foment class envy.
 
D

Deleted member 21794

Guest
A interesting question and here's a link that you can see state by state what's thought to be a living wage.

http://livingwage.mit.edu
I love that page. It shows that liberals babbling about a living wage would end up discriminating against employees. After all, it would be cheaper to hire a single person and pay them a "living wage" than it would to hire a person with dependents.

Liberals will avoid any rational debate of this topic.
 

redtide

Mayor
We need to rid ourselves of the evil labor unions. If they organize and try to extort more from an employer urge the employer to just fire the lot of them and then hire someone who wants a job and to earn their money.
 

reason10

Governor
We need to rid ourselves of the evil labor unions. If they organize and try to extort more from an employer urge the employer to just fire the lot of them and then hire someone who wants a job and to earn their money.
Well, as a matter of fact, a private union is still a function of the free market. I have no problem with workers organizing to get better pay, better conditions and create a large enough group for discount group insurance rates.

Where I have a problem is where state law mandates a closed union shop.
In Florida, we have unions but this is a right to work state. And I don't see any workers heading out of here for Pennsylvania.
 

redtide

Mayor
Well, as a matter of fact, a private union is still a function of the free market. I have no problem with workers organizing to get better pay, better conditions and create a large enough group for discount group insurance rates.

Where I have a problem is where state law mandates a closed union shop.
In Florida, we have unions but this is a right to work state. And I don't see any workers heading out of here for Pennsylvania.
Agreed, and for the record I am not against free associations, my problem is that when they seek to shut down enterprise to extort more money. Even worse when it is those who are working for US in the government.
I say walk out on work and then keep walking as we hire those who want to work
 

reason10

Governor
Agreed, and for the record I am not against free associations, my problem is that when they seek to shut down enterprise to extort more money. Even worse when it is those who are working for US in the government.
I say walk out on work and then keep walking as we hire those who want to work
Today, Trump is making that a lot more difficult for the employers. He's also making unions totally obsolete. Because he keeps bringing in more and more jobs, all paying a ton of money--and because he's trying to end the steady stream of criminals who swim the Rio Grande and work for next to nothing--he's now making the standard American worker a shortage.

Supply goes down or stays the same; demand goes up: Guess what will happen to wages.
 
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