??? you're kidding, right? $7.25 is no where near a "livable" wage, and $10.10 won't be either by the time it is implemented. We're just taking money from Peter and giving it to Paul. If we did the bucket method and raised it to maybe 15, there would be a brief stimulus, but soon we would be right back where we are now. Labor goes up, prices go up, and the same people can't afford to buy what they make. If you watch Michael Moore's documentary there is something that caught my attention. His dad was just a factory worker up there in Flint, yet every year, they could take a vacation, and every other year his dad bought a new car. You could make a case that back then all you needed was a high school education. But you could also make a case that a high school education isn't what it use to be.
to skip to the chase, no matter how poor you were, you could get a public education, and that high school diploma at least insured you a "blue collar" existence. Maybe no yachts or limos, but a family vacation every year, and a new car every other year. Even if it was just a station wagon for the wife and the kids. So who has failed us? I guess you could say a public education aint worth shit anymore.
Assuming the "transfers" continue, all of those people are DemoCrap voters for life. Considering how many they are, yet more evidence America will never be able to turn back from the Socialist state.
well, you kind of got off to a bad start, when you used the term "burger flippers" like it is some kind of derogatory profession. You could have used the same term, "auto parts makers" or "baby sitters". Or "nurses" or "doctors". What gives them the right to demand higher wages?
Well tip me over with a feather, we agree on something. : ) That reminds me, someone should start another NSA thread. What I'm reading lately is outrageous. Probably some agreement there, too.
the nsa overreach should get you thinking ricter, that despite your ideology, the govt has to play by the rules or this place WILL go to shit and collapse. if you want 'change' it has to be done the proper way. Nothing is more dangerous to the US than our runaway fed govt.
I see the government as a tool/weapon of the plutocrats. While we certainly do need to avoid the weapon, ultimately it's the plutocrats that are the problem. Merely shrink the weapon and the bad guys will just pick up another, say, private police. Clunky analogy, but I trust you follow. I take this position because I consider government necessary and plutocrats unnecessary.