[QUOTE=signupdamnit;20096786]You don't seem like the bullshitter type so I'm going to assume that the Fox News style propaganda and the Koch machine got you here./QUOTE]
Nope. I don't listen to propaganda. I looked up the statistic.
This "raise the minimum wage" issue will affect 1.1% of all people working.
That isn't propaganda, it's what Al Gore would call: An Inconvenient Truth lol
Look...some jobs are shitty. That's why you work your ass off to rise above them.
That's the way life works. Isn't that how it worked for you?
Did somebody just decide to pay you more than what the job itself is worth?
Or did you bust your ass and make it on your own?
This isn't a hard issue to understand to me. You take my order at McDonalds? Then you get paid accordingly.
You learn a skill and bust your ass to get ahead? Then you get paid accordingly.
All this other nonsense is just a bunch of talk. A janitor shouldn't make $15 an hour. A guy taking my fast food order shouldn't make $15 an hour. I don't give a damn about anything else...the value of the job and the skills required to do it are the ONLY deciding factor.
If a person is doing a job that a monkey could be trained to do...then that person needs to take responsibility for getting themselves ahead.
The cream always rises. But now we are talking about giving them no incentive to rise. Everybody can make lots of money for doing an "average" job!
That's not the way I was raised, and not the way I live my life.
And the more people who think that it's all good to just be given stuff for nothing...are going to continue to spiral down as they have zero incentive to better themselves.