Democrats Hammer Republicans on Minimum Wage

"You want to make high wages then do your homework. Make your work time valuable. Get your education and job experience. Introductory jobs do not start off at maximum wage. Few have things handed to them on a silver platter."

Your views would be hilarious if there weren't so many people living from hand to mouth in this country because of others who are just as coldblooded as yourself. "Do your homework" you say. Well I did and my homework tells me that no business owner in the U.S. pays his workers a penny more than he feels he can get away with paying them without a labor union fighting for the workers' wages. Can you live on $7.25 an hour? Can you make ends meet? Wanting a fair wage for a fair day's work isn't asking for anything on a silver platter you bourgeois jackass. Do you have any idea what happens when the cost of living keeps rising and wages stay flat at rates that might have been passable in 1990 but here it is 2010? Do you understand that this means that in real terms workers' wages are going DOWN?

You make a great case for worker ownership of the means of production without even realizing it.

Think About It of MD 6:22PM October 11, 2010

Your bitterness has lead to your irrational exuberance.

Government signed a contract with workers when social security was passed. I worked 43 years, paying into the system, to draw my check. I paid my dues. Certainly I expect government to hold up to their end of the bargain.

Social security should certainly be changed. obama’s illegal Aunt receives S/S disability, public housing, food stamps, etc.. Such should not happen. Yet it is robbing from citizens who paid their way. Not all of us can win the Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing. Winning on a promissory note.

You want to make high wages then do your homework. Make your work time valuable. Get your education and job experience. Introductory jobs do not start off at maximum wage. Few have things handed to them on a silver platter.

Bill Hedges of MO 7:21AM October 06, 2010

You say:

“Maybe if republicans hadn't rejected the idea of tax cuts for small business owners who offer jobs to Americans, then we wouldn't have to worry about small, or big business owners taking advantage of the desperate ”.

Sorry but you don’t show a high education.

Of course Republicans are for tax cuts. Democrat (would he be a Republica today ? ) John F. Kennedy did. His beliefs match mine in that. Bush tax cuts went to near all Americans.

As John F Kennedy said:

“Our true choice is not between tax reduction, on the one hand, and the avoidance of large Federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits… In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now.”

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2003/08/the-historical-lessons-of-lower-tax-rates?renderforprint=1

It takes a person such as yourself to misconstrue. To play class envy. To show lack of education. Just any tax cut is not worth voting for. Bush vetoed a war budget. Not because he did not want to fund, but because the bill was full of PORK. Republicans voted against obamacare, not because we are against better health care, but because obamacare wasn’t it.

Will add tax cuts go hand in hand with government spending reduction.

If you have a excellent education, ask for a refund…

Bill Hedges of MO 3:01AM October 06, 2010

I wonder if all the people leaving these comments work for minimum wage...or have ever. I do. I am single, I live alone, I don't have a car, or children, or a mortgage and I am struggling. I could only imagine how difficult survival would be if I had all those things to worry about. Yes, I do have a degree. I had a very expensive education, excelled in school, and yes I am working for minimum wage. Minimum wage income is near poverty, and people are living and surviving by the skin of their teeth. If you think for one minute that target, or star bucks, or frankly any employer would pay even that much had it not been mandated by the government you are delusional. People waste so much time bashing Obama they refuse to acknowledge anything positive that he has done, or acknowledge the gigantic mess that already existed before he came into office. It's just annoying now. It seems to me that the wealthy are taking advantage of the current desperation of the country and using the almighty dollar to keep the rich, rich, send the middle class into poverty, and the poor are left ultimately homeless and hopeless. Minimum wage protects the people from employers who would pay you pennies to save themselves dollars. Do you really think that pricing will not go up without minimum wage? Really? Maybe if republicans hadn't rejected the idea of tax cuts for small business owners who offer jobs to Americans, then we wouldn't have to worry about small, or big business owners taking advantage of the desperate and unemployed (without the federal minimum wage that is). If you take that away, who is going to protect the rights of the people to a decent and fair wage? Should we all just cross our fingers and hope to get lucky? This is not a government for the rich this is a government for the people. All people. Get over it.

Telula of FL 11:26PM October 05, 2010