Ravenwood - 10/24/06 09:00 PM
As a ruthless cold hearted conservative, I cannot help but laugh at slackers like this who want the minimum wage increased just so they have more running around money. You have to see the video to believe it. And for the record, she actually makes more than minimum wage.
"When you work a job that doesn't pay a lot, you have to work a lot of hours to make a decent amount...I'm not making that much, but I'm working almost, almost 40 hours a week every week and I just look at my paycheck and I wanna cry."Notice that its sponsored by the labor unions, whose wage negotiations are based on the minimum wage. In other words if the minimum wages increase, so do union wages.
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That's about the worst argument for raising wages I've ever heard; when Roseanne says it was depressing, she was right, but not for the reasons she thinks.
What I heard was a lazy, unambitious, idiot whining because she isn't getting everything she wants for nothing.
"almost 40 hours a week, every week..."
Every week!?
Oh the humanity!!
I wish I could remember the last time I(only) "worked almost 40 hours". I think it was when I was going to school full time and holding down two part time jobs - about forty years ago.
What a slacker...
Posted by: emdfl at October 26, 2006 12:59 PMNotice the left's theory seems to be that a person should be able to support a family for their entire life on a minimum wage job. Not that one should start out at a low paying job while your parents are still paying for where you live, prove yourself, and move up to a better job before even thinking about starting a family.
Of course, if the first job pays too much, it will be automated out of existence, eliminated along with the service it provided because it's no longer possible to make a profit providing that service, or go to someone who has already proved themselves. Kids who don't have some sort of family influence to put them into that first job will be unemployed forever. Look at European unemployment rates.
Second, if all the stores must raise the pay of their least skilled employees to $X per hour, they'll have to raise prices, so $X per hour will no longer be a "living wage". At least, not until people come once again to view electricity and indoor plumbing as luxuries rather than necessities...
Posted by: markm at October 26, 2006 1:49 PM"Second, if all the stores must raise the pay of their least skilled employees to $X per hour, they'll have to raise prices, so $X per hour will no longer be a "living wage"."
Absolutely correct, and then they wonder what causes inflation...
Posted by: BobG at October 26, 2006 2:16 PMThat "almost 40" bit got to me. I've already pu in 46 hours this week and ready for anohter 11-12 today. When I was younger (and less educated), I worked 2 Full time jobs (at minimum wage), and have worked long hours at other jobs. Let me tell you - I feel soooo sorry for her ass - NOT!
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