minimum wage increase

Not gonna win this battle as I’ve worked 2 jobs at the same time, each close to minimum wage for ~7 years before doing what I do now.

Not gonna win this battle either. I’ll let him explain. The man always works.

You can work harder or work smarter your choice. Welcome to America. Unemployment will never go away as long as company’s downsize for profit or move there jobs overseas. If the American people are not worth what they are paid you should move to china and assembly iPhones for some tea and a biscuit. This country is great because we take care of the people who deserve it yes some bums slip through the cracks but you can’t stop all the crooks. Just like you can’t stop all the crazy dudes who shoot up schools.

I dont know how much you make but even if I worked 3 minimum wage jobs at full time I would not make as much as I do now. But hey work harder or work smarter.

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wait until you hit the ripe age of elderly and we will see what side your on. what you own and where you live. look at all the homeless vets across america. the country they defended now turns the other way.

i hear the national average is pretty high

if min wage goes up i want the same percentage increase, if min wage goes up everything else will go up too .

When minimum wage went up in PA when I was in my 20’s my employer bumped everyones pay. If your employer doesn’t sorry your employer only cares about the executives and share holders your just a number.

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Not quite sure of your point.

You guys do know that company’s pay your unemployment for the first 26 weeks not tax payers right. Do you guys know how the system works?

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Safty net smhafty net.

Yes unemployment is much easier to take advantage of. Make that shit expire, and enforce it. /unemployment. Watch the lazy fucks loose their shit. I am sorry, but I wont feel bad for those taking blatent advantage of a system aimed at helping people get back on their feet. But its not policed well enough as it is and people rape the system.

If it were strictly enforced it would work fine IMO. Like you said if you have a decent job, and decent head on your shoulders, you don’t need it. Which is how its formed. $405 a week X 2 X52 weeks is $42,120 a year. If you don’t have redic credit card and loans to pay out the ass for, don’t drive a brand new vette, don’t live in a $1800 a mo house/apt and piss money away that’s a decent living and you can put money away for your own safety net. So IMO, anyone making $42,121 a year shouldn’t need to use unemployment as a safty net while looking for another job. If they rely on it, they are like you said living at the edge or beyond their income.

And the people making less than that are going to get half of what they are used to. So someone making $20 an hr, is now taking in $10 an hr. (50% of previous wage) So even making the $20/hr and going on unemployment to max it out each week is damn close to minimum wage. The point at which unemployment and minimum wage is equal is $330 a week. So someone who made $34K a year, lost their job and can either milk unemployment for $330 a week, or work for minimum wage and get the same payment, gross. I don’t even want to get into net and those variables. Anyone who made LESS than 34K ($14.42/hr)a year who lost their job, and milks unemployment for $330 a week, is fucking lazy… because they could be working for minimum wage and making MORE than unemployment. But they dont becasue they dont want to take a $6 “pay cut”.

So my point is, if you want to call either of them a safety net, IMO, minimum wage is MORE of a safety net. Because it pays more to find a shit job for mw, than it would to milk ue, unless you were making $34-42K a year before losing your job.

Just Wow… America is becoming overwhelmed with the feeling of entitlement. Correction…OVER RUN

is that inreply to my response?

not looking to pick fights, just carry on the discussion. thats all :number1

what if the value of your dollar goes down? do you demand more pay? you should

the dollar goes down every year. but wages are not increased every year. why is that?

Biggest prolblem with minimum wage is that you can’t live on it. Seems to me that if someone is working a fulltime job, they should make enough to have a roof over their head, food on the table, and a way to get to work every day.

i agree.

I agree…I don’t think its fair that if you open a restaurant you can pay less for labor costs just because its standard that they get tipped…how bout pay your employees more so i don’t have to tip as much…tipping is stupid.

i’ve never gotten a tip. we’re not allowed to. seriously. taking a tip results in an almost garunteed firing.