There is a market for what an employee brings to the table. If you spend 4 years going to college and incur massive loan debts, you are typically going to make more money than someone who does not. There is a. Reward for how much time you but in, how much stress you have to incure, how talented you are, and hob many people can do that job. Does it suck for mei don't have the talent of Lebron James and I win ever be a millionaire? Sure. All I can do is work my ass off, go to college, and then work my ass off some more. For that, I get to make a salary more than the minimum wage.
However, now they raise minimum wage a ridiculous $3 per hour which is going to drive up costs (which means the minimum wage people are going to be affected most by higher food cost). And who loses out in all of this? The middle class. The people that work their ass off to support their family on 40k a year who don't get the benefits of a pay raise, but have to deal with the higher cost of supplies.
Well you changed your angle of rebuttal and ignored most of the stuff I said earlier but I do compliment you on this post, you actually put thought and effort into it rather that the last couple that we're very Talk Radio-like "pick a detail from the other guy's argument usually out of context, form an argument with that actually has little or nothing to do with the original statement, but that fits your ideology and slams the other sides statement though it didn't actually speak to that statement at all".
Now if I can just get you to put as much more effort into your next post than you did into this one (compared with your last two) we'll be actually getting places. I see you either didn't go back and read my previous posts saying that raising the minimum wage wasn't the long term answer to the problems going on right now or you ignored it because it didn't go along with your argument.
I know the Repubs have convinced you guys that it's the poor, lazy, stupid, "takers" who are the problem but the wealthy and big businesses have been raping the treasury since the 1980's and right now the top 20% (of which I may actually fit into just barely if you don't take into account that my tax rate is the same as the top 1% and I don't have the fancy lawyers and accountants to hide mine) own 90% of the wealth in this country. Is there any way to say that's healthy?
I know the Repubs also like to preach that it's a free market economy but that's BS and we both know it. Those at the top end make the rules for the other people at the top end and they make the rules for those at the bottom end. Do those at the bottom end make the rules for anybody??? During the financial meltdown while everybody else in the country was hurting their wealth went up again!!! They're screwing us all every single day and they've got you guys feeling sorry for the fact that they, unlike the Sandra Fluke chick, have to buy their own damn protection while they screw us. While they lament having to pay all that income tax for the freeloaders they pretend that the bottom 80% of Americans have to divide 10% of the wealth. Where are those taxes supposed to come from?? That money doesn't exist, except in the offshore accounts of those people you guys live to defend.
Think about it this way, a couple of years ago when that sorry piece of sh!t John Mara told his lapdog Roger Goddell to punish the Cowboys and the Redskins for breaking a rule that didn't exist!! It was nothing more than a wink-wink good old boys agreement. It wasn't even legal, those things all have to be voted on and agreed upon by a majority of owners. There was no such agreement, but remember how just about every person on the old board where we talked about that stuff said it was fine and it really WAS a rule and that Dallas and Washington had it coming because even though it wasn't really a rule in the classic sense they knew better than to do it so they asked for it. Remember that? Remember how you were able to see through the BS and called them on it? Remember how they didn't care because they were only going along with things because that's the way they already thought about those things and no amount of facts could convince them?
Fox News and the far right websites and talk radio have spent millions to make billions and they have Jedi mind tricked a lot of good people into going along with a plan that if they would just take a minute and unwrap the flag from around their eyes, they could see the whole damn thing and how they're being used.
That kind of action is hard though, it makes people question things they don't feel comfortable questioning, it's easier to just go along with those in charge, I mean after all who cares if Washington and Dallas get punished while the prick Gepetto pulling the strings conveniently hurts his competition by enforcing a rule that doesn't exist or if a person trying to support their family lost their job to India and works at Burger King now (instead of going on welfare). I mean why fight it? It's the natural order of things for those trying to earn the American dream, right?
