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Posted by Train Dude on Wed Jun 4 09:37:06 2014, in response to Re: $15 minimum wage permits few luxuries in US cities, posted by Easy on Wed Jun 4 08:50:03 2014. Of course that's the real issue. Do we want a society where people no longer aspire for an education to get a better job? What the uber-liberals don't see is, if you pay the fry cook at Mickey D's $15 an hour it seems like no big deal. The cost of fries and a burger will go up a few cents. Then you have to raise the salary of the supervisor because he can't earn what his subordinates earn and then you have to raise the salary of the manager. Expand that to the entire economy and suddenly that $15 minimum wage is worth what the $7.75 minimum wage was worth in real buying power. They are back in the same hole.Minimum wage jobs were never intended to be the sole means of support for a family. Instead they were intended to help teens learn what a job was about while providing pocket money of help someone with some additional cash. What happens to the person driving the school bus for $15/hr. which requires training, skills and responsibility? What about his/her supervisor - are they all getting raises too? Instead of looking to pay people more for unskilled jobs, why aren't the liberals looking to get these people to upgrade their skills so they can move into some of those "shovel-ready" jobs that this president promised us? By the way - where are those shovel-ready jobs? |
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