Minimum wage now $9 an hour!!!!

thanks, but in a system where you need money to feed, clothe and shelter yourself then some may need help, in fact because of extreme greed, many need help or we will be raped by corporations/for-profit banks/interest rates..

thanks, but in a system where you need money to feed, clothe and shelter yourself then some may need help, in fact because of extreme greed, many need help or we will be raped by corporations/for-profit banks/interest rates..

without food stamps we would be homeless.
some people need help.
don't forget that, please


there are not enough jobs for everyone right now...


the material world is out of control...


the rich/poor class system is just morally bankrupt.

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Your talking too much, it gives you away...

Try a little more tact next time.

So what do they pay you?

Extreme greed? Let's see..people work hard for their money to feed, clothe and house themselves and their family and because they don't want to take that money and give it to others that aren't working, but rather get their home paid for, their car paid for, try and save a little so if an emergency comes up, they have something to fall back on..this is greed, huh?

I have a blood sister, I don't take care of her, that is her responsibility and she doesn't take care of me, I'm not her responsibility.

Yup, this country is doomed.

Don't you Morans know how to use google?

Well, actually, only the wealthy get rewarded for both failure and success.

I know they never take the hit. They are required by law to bring profit to shareholders. That is the only reason that the corporation exists.

I make about $60000 a year and have worked my ass off to get it. But up to about a year ago I was making minimum wage. And since I have been in poverty and I know what it is like; it really pisses me off to see what is happening. I had been working for near minimum wage for about ten years during high school, university, and afterwards. I can tell you that working in 2001 was nothing like working in 2011-12. I have seen a steady decline in the way that workers are treated. It makes me sick. This is not just the economy but a shift in the culture. Every heard somebody say, "Well at least we have a job. We are so lucky"? I mean people say that about the most deplorable conditions.

There are so many people that are unemployed that most employers and business owners don't even treat anyone in the entire company like human beings. Companies have unrealistic expectations, supervisors are abusive, but I have seen so many people just take getting shitted on because they are so desperate. You are just a number and nobody is valuable to the company (even 30 year employees and people who bring the company tons of money). You are so disposable that you are exactly what they tell you that you are: a human resource to be exploited.

I will give you an example of how our culture decayed: After 9/11, the government determined that we weren't protected because of incompetence in government. So how did we change? We created more agencies but guess what? Nobody got fired. In fact, many of the people who screwed up the worst got promoted. Bush even gave out a bunch of medals to some of these idiots.

Or how about some of these banks that were losing money and giving record bonuses to everybody. Or all the companies that got rewarded with bailouts during poor performance? Or even, celebrities who have no talent other than partying who we reward with tons of money and fame? The list goes on and on. This is why America is doomed. It is because of the culture of no personal responsibility for one's own actions and rewarding failure.

i'm not talking about you per se on the extreme greed part, but you know what i'm talking about right?

it's not easy to communicate through computers, if we were in person we would get along much better..

working hard that's great!
i'm a hard woker too,
if it's for something i can believe in, the problemt is that this society is lost...

lol

money, money, money....

we should all have it!

fires up the printer!

lol



life is awesome!

when you wake up you will agree with me:)

Yes, I had an opportunity that I GAVE TO MYSELF, I went back to school.

I don't have employees, like I said, I work for a living, I do not have a business.

I took care of myself, it's nothing special, people have been doing that for hundreds of years. This "people take care of me" mentality has been sneaking in the last few years and gotten very prevalent the last about 5 years..wonder why?

Stop believing the lies that this Administration is telling you..you can take care of yourself. The government is not your daddy and you can't count on them or anyone else.

The only person you can count on is you.

WOW...a whole $9 bucks eh.

Meanwhile all operators of the local taco bell and burger king joints raise the prices on their signs.


I've about hit the cap on what I'll pay for a shitty burger and cold fries....

I don't disagree that there is an issue with extreme greed with some people at all, but it's not in the middle class and it's not even all the rich. Being rich does not make someone bad.

LOL Exactly... wtf?

You forget, Obama thinks he is King, he'll just sign an executive order and make it law ANYWAY

yeah, should be 12 minimum, my wife thinks it should be 15

You don't know me. I am comfortable. I do not accept gov handouts. I have never voted and I never will. And this is not the 80's. Things were different then. More jobs for starters. You know, to pay off student loans. Jobs available straight out of college. Way different society between then and now. There was a larger middle class then. That seems to be fading away.

You never know, you could be singing a different tune in the near future. It's good to have friends. Good friends who wont turn on you in your time of need.

i agree, it is those that make unjust profits off of their fellow humans that i'm talking about.


i'm getting tired, was a good talk, i know your point of view and understand it, it's just not how i am or how the future will be...

as we rise in consciousness you will see more and more people desire to help each other, because it is what brings us joy...


when you help someone you are in reality helping yourself as we are all one of the Source...


remember?


ask yourself before you sleep tonight about this, please:)

It doesn't do anything for people on commission. I make 9-15$ per hour, and it doesn't do a thing to help me.

You and your wife should think about it more carefully. When minimum wages are increased, everything costs more. People on minimum wage remain poor, regardless what is is increased to, because cost of goods and services increase accordingly with it.

not true, but that's what you people want us to believe.

This is a quick fix!! It won't last long. Money does not grow from trees!

Is he trying to run us out of business!!! If you raise one side the other would even out with it!!! The money comes from the people that buy the product and the price just rose by $1 cause of the minimum wage raise!! He does not get it!!

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YOU are the one that made the assumptions about me, remember? So don't tell me I don't know you, when I come back after you came after me.

Each generation always thinks it is worse for them. I thought it was worse for me than my mom and her siblings. My mom was the baby, so she was just born, but my uncle, the oldest, he laughed at me. They grew up during the Depression. My grandparents worked themselves to death, were broke, completely broke, but my mom and aunts and uncle had no idea they were poor growing up. Why? Because during the Great Depression, my grandparents did what they had to and made it work. Trust me, that was much worse than what is going on now. They had to plant a garden, they had to buy a cow for milk, they had to make their clothes, they had to walk every where they went, couldn't afford to drive the car except for work.

It's no different for you than for anyone in the middle class. Yeah, my car is paid off, I would love a new car, won't do it, never know what is going to happen these days. I have a small amount in savings that I try not to dip into, but with the price of food going up as it is, many times I have to.

Most of us are one paycheck away from being in serious trouble, even those that make more than minimum wage. I'm even going BACK to school again now, while I work, to add something else to my degree, not because I want to, but to put me ahead of the competition out there. I need to make myself as valuable as an employee as I can, because there is a lot of competition out there.

That's the entire point, everyone is basically broke these days, whether they make $7.25 and hour or $50K a year.