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Deshy, before I blast you on your BS thread, I want you to answer a question. Simple yes or no question. No bullshit. No spin.

Is $12/hour a living wage as the article claims?

YES

or

NO
 
I didn't title or write the thread.

I would say its much easier to live on than 7 something an hour
 
I didn't title or write the thread.

I would say its much easier to live on than 7 something an hour

Is it a living wage or not. Yes or No?

It is a simple question. What are you afraid of coward? No thinking? No courage of your convictions? Take a stand. Is $12/hour a living wage in your mind? If you can't answer then there is no way to take you seriously.

I am on to your game. You never want to solve anything. You just want the issue. You want to keep moving the goalposts. That is why you are too much of a coward to answer.

CLUCK CLUCK is right

BOOOYAAHHHH
 
Deshy, before I blast you on your BS thread, I want you to answer a question. Simple yes or no question. No bullshit. No spin.

Is $12/hour a living wage as the article claims?

YES

or

NO

Too many variables for an answer. What I can tell you is that $12 an hour gives one a better shot at earning a living wage than $7.25.

Am I right?

YES



or



NO
 
Is it a living wage or not. Yes or No?

It is a simple question. What are you afraid of coward? No thinking? No courage of your convictions? Take a stand. Is $12/hour a living wage in your mind? If you can't answer then there is no way to take you seriously.

I am on to your game. You never want to solve anything. You just want the issue. You want to keep moving the goalposts. That is why you are too much of a coward to answer.

CLUCK CLUCK is right

BOOOYAAHHHH



why are you pretending that Is what this thread is about?
 
Oh lookie, Desh has a helper. How chivalrous since the little lady can't fight her own battles.

Thanks for conceding that $12/hr isn't a living wage. You idiots can't even define the terminology you use and you wonder why nobody takes you seriously.

Good thing you didn't answer Desh. This thread was about to explode all over your face like the money shot in a porno.
 
Thank you for admitting that 7.25 is an unlivable wage by many dollars

I never claimed it was. Those types of jobs were never meant to be and nor should they be. I can get any crack off the street to work at McDonalds. It takes no real skills. Hell, even you could work there with what little talents you have.

Don't worry, your thread is about to blow up in your face. Get ready for it.
 
then you should be angry at those corps for hiring full time people and treating them like they are teens living at home huh
 
OK

Deshy,


As always you post some link you found on the internets and think it furthers your ideology. You apply no critical thinking skills to the article in question but just blindly post it thinking you are proving something. Then I have to come along and clean up the mess after you have pooped in your pants. So here goes.

Deshy thinks that this guy is such a wonderful guy for paying $12/hour. He is lauded. Should be pat on the back. Amazingly he is able to pay them $12/hour and keep a burger between $3 and $5. Why, how can that be says Deshy? He must be some new age economic svengali. Man the torpedoes SCREAMS Deshy. This is PROOF. PROOF I SAY, that McDonalds is screwing over its workers.

But, not so fast Deshy. Let's say for a second that McDonalds pays their workers $7.40 an hour and this guy (bless his heart) pays them $12/hr. That is a difference of $4.60/hour right?

From your very own article Deshy I quote

"The company is still working on offering benefits, for example.

OMG Deshy, say it ain't so. This bastion of liberal kindness doesn't pay benefits? No paid vacation? No health insurance? No dental? No tuition reimbursement? No 401K? WTF!!!!!

Now lets look at McDonalds shall we? Here is a nice list of the benefits they offer their employees

http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/careers/benefits.html
 
then you should be angry at those corps for hiring full time people and treating them like they are teens living at home huh

No people shouldn't take jobs that they know can't support their lifestyle. Sorta like stupid teachers who bitch about their salary. It is like they don't know how much teachers make before they take the job.

Maybe they are too stupid to teach kids?
 
then you should be angry at those corps for hiring full time people and treating them like they are teens living at home huh

Most of them ARE teens living at home. Or families with a second income. Or people in the service industry that also get tips.

You seem to think those teens should earn enough to live on their own.
 
Most of them ARE teens living at home. Or families with a second income. Or people in the service industry that also get tips.

You seem to think those teens should earn enough to live on their own.

How many times do we have to refute that? half the people on minimum wage are not teens
Minimum wage workers tend to be young. Although workers under age 25 represented only about one-fifth of hourly-paid workers, they made up about half of those paid the Federal minimum wage or less. Among employed teenagers paid by the hour, about 23 percent earned the minimum wage or less, compared with about 3 percent of workers age 25 and over. (See table 1 and table 7.)

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2011.htm

And as others have posted, with the recession, the average age of people making minimum wage has increased.

AND... why not pay teenagers enough to help out their parents? get a car? save for college?

You all say it wasn't meant to be a living wage; but it can be used to make a household more comfortable or to let those kids save up so they can become independent.

Raise it to where it should have been (10.50-ish with inflation) and then index to inflation.

And as we can see from this story - it actually benefits businesses to pay workers more; they get more loyal workers, workers who have better skills, and the business doesn't fold because of the higher wage.
 
How many times do we have to refute that? half the people on minimum wage are not teens

Half are indeed teens and young college kids. That is a fact.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2011.htm

And as others have posted, with the recession, the average age of people making minimum wage has increased.

and as I have stated when they did... did the average age increase because 29 year olds are working for minimum wage or is it because you have a bunch of teens and a bunch of older people 65 plus that are supplementing their SS?

AND... why not pay teenagers enough to help out their parents? get a car? save for college?

Because for the billionth time... if you raise the wage of the unskilled workers, do you think the skilled workers will want a commensurate raise? Because that is what happens. When that happens the costs of goods and services goes up. I know many liberals think those evil corporations should just pay more and eat the difference in their profit margin, but that is not what happens. The shareholders of those companies are relying on the profit margin so that their 401ks/403bs/457's/IRAs etc... go up so that they can retire without having to rely solely on SS.

You all say it wasn't meant to be a living wage; but it can be used to make a household more comfortable or to let those kids save up so they can become independent.

That is not true. That money comes from somewhere else. You are taking it from the skilled and giving it to the unskilled. The money doesn't just magically become available.

Raise it to where it should have been (10.50-ish with inflation) and then index to inflation.

Why should the minimum wage in NYC be the same as BFE Mississippi? Let states adjust as they need to for their cost of living

And as we can see from this story - it actually benefits businesses to pay workers more; they get more loyal workers, workers who have better skills, and the business doesn't fold because of the higher wage.

Yes, it can... but if you raise it to that level by force, then you lose that, because the employee can go anywhere that is hiring and secure the same wage. By offering more than the minimum, the employer is gaining more skill/longer term employees. You are reducing their competitive advantage in this area if you force everyone up to their wage scale. In order to maintain that advantage, they would have to raise their wages up commensurate with the increase in minimum wage. Which again leads to the question... where does that extra money come from?
 
How many times do we have to refute that? half the people on minimum wage are not teens


http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2011.htm

And as others have posted, with the recession, the average age of people making minimum wage has increased.

AND... why not pay teenagers enough to help out their parents? get a car? save for college?

You all say it wasn't meant to be a living wage; but it can be used to make a household more comfortable or to let those kids save up so they can become independent.

Raise it to where it should have been (10.50-ish with inflation) and then index to inflation.

And as we can see from this story - it actually benefits businesses to pay workers more; they get more loyal workers, workers who have better skills, and the business doesn't fold because of the higher wage.

tc, when you look into unemployment numbers look at the youth unemployment rate. They have the highest number and are the one's hit hardest by increases in wages. (I will say I'm not completely clear how they come up their numbers. If you are in school full time and don't have a part-time job are you considered unemployed?) I agree with you that more money for kids being able to save for their future is a good thing. Where I disagree with you is that it should be forced on employers by the government. When wages are forced higher more kids are going to be unemployed.
 
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