"Minimum wage jobs are entry level jobs. Not meant to raise families on."
Sounds brilliant doesn't it? It is, however, GOP tardspeak for "blame the victims".
Remember The Great Recession caused by people forcing the banks to sell them houses that they couldn't afford? Well those lazy bastards are at it again, working at jobs that were designed for teenagers to be temporary and trying to raise families- that no one asked them to have, BTW- and totally ignoring the millions of WELL, PAYING, jobs out there that ARE careers. Like CEO of a corporation. Pro athlete. Guy who owns Papa Johns. No, not "A" Papa Johns- ALL OF THEM. Republican Congressman. And many more. Check your newspaper's classifieds. As always, men with cars paid extra.
Or, you can go to an elitist college and get a higher education. College is cheap. You can work a TEMPORARY fastfood job and pretty much pay for the whole thing (if you go to college in 1967 and get grants. Hurry, offer expires with Ronald Reagan!).
Another road to hell paved with republican intentions is eliminating Unions and expecting you to feel good about it. The common refrain is:
"Unions were a good thing at the time but, they've gotten too big for their britches..."
Doesn't that say it all? Chicago was once a fort and settlement of a few hundred people on the shores of Lake Michigan. But, now it's got 2.707 million people and traffic is awful. So, lets burn it down and start over again. Duh!
But, this Labor Day weekend, before you burn anything but steaks on the grill, stop and appreciate the 40 hour week, over-time, safe working conditions and dozens of other perks that you may still enjoy at your job and remember that men and women gave blood, sweat, tears and even their lives to get those things, for you.
And that goes for you whether you are a lawyer who writes Letters To Penthouse all day from your job or a software engineer (IT guy) who works out and talks like an autistic- but very hip- teenager.
Wait- maybe Unions DID go too far?! Forget about those assholes and consider that Unions got these achievements for you and all the normal Americans. That sounds much better! And, it's true.
Ya see, kids, a corporation is NOT going to give you anything resembling fair treatment unless someone makes them. The reason I know this is because, if corporations would offer these perks they would have done it one hundred years ago, all on their own. But, they didn't. Instead they hired police, soldiers and politicians to hurt people who tried to get these rights.
Internet idiots now relate stories of bosses who, when asked by a Union employee for a raise, reply that they personally would love to give said person a raise but, the Union won't let them!
They really say that. It's the internet and I can't see their faces to see if they are straight-faced while typing this so, I have to assume they might just be stupid, fucking idiots. They are probably the same people who always are behind fat, black, Welfare Queens buying caviar at Kroger before they drive off in a Cadillac to participate in a gang initiation where they kill people behind them at Krogers who see them using an EBT card to purchase caviar. Well, that's what I heard....
They say that, without a Union or a minimum wage, YOU are free to make your own deal not get handed the deal that everybody gets. YOU are an entrepreneur!
"7.25 an hour? No thanks! That's what you give to schmucks who aren't entrepreneurs! I will do it for $4 an hour! What? Um, OK, $2. And no lunch, of course...or bathroom breaks..."
That's America. That's the America that was good enough for our grandfathers and their grandfathers. The middle class seemed like a good idea at the time with it's homes in the suburbs with white, picket fences. But, the middle class got too big for it's britches. We need to get back to our roots.
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I find it interesting that illegal workers hanging outside 'Home Depot' won't work for LESS then 10 bucks an hour. Not to mention an expected tip at the end of the day for work well done....Yet that's 2.75 MORE an hour then one can expect to receive working inside 'Home Depot' as a card carrying citizen of the US.
Labor union policies Home Depot (wiki) kinda scary but none to surprising.....
In 2004, Home Depot workers at a suburban Detroit store in Harper Woods, Michigan, rejected a bid to be represented by a labor union, voting 115 to 42 against joining the United Food and Commercial Workers. (HD was a contributor to the second GW Bush campaign). If the union had won, the Michigan store would have been the first Home Depot to have union representation.
In October 2008 (although he no longer has anything to do with the company), co-founder Bernard Marcus called the Employee Free Choice Act "the demise of a civilization"
I'm always amazed that the GOP can talk the common man out of what is "in his best interest" by evoking time worn cliches.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774473.html
Adjusted for inflation min wage was higher in 1956
@ Mother Jones
The republicans have this uncanny knack of making people feel like they're just a lottery ticket away from being rich too, whereby getting them to think like them concerning greedy people and their minimum wage requests. They take on their same fiscal persona because they're just a stop at the local 7-11 from being in the same boat.
People voting in their best disinterest isn't new, but it is a target market the Republicans hit hard using Religion, Woman's rights and other platforms. It's all about feeling wanted and not about doing what's right.
Steinbeck was the first to note that, I think, saying that every American saw themselves as a temporarily embarrassed millionaire and, thus, socialism would never really catch on here. Lewis Black has a good bit on that involving the lottery. It's so true!
Of all the world that hates Americans, I think Americans hate Americans the most.
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