OREGON MINIMUM WAGE SET AT $14.75 AFTER GOVERNOR SIGNED THE BILL AMIDST OPPOSITION’S DEFIANCE

South carolina. If you can deal with the rediculous heat, racism from every race, and down right ignorance, it's not bad.

 

Yes, and abolishing child labor will cripple the economy.

 

Enjoy your raise bro, I hope it works out, oregon is a beautiful state, I hope I can afford to go back some day.

 

If you don't mind living around meth heads, I'm sure rural Southern Oregon is very affordable, just don't expect a decent job besides maybe Fred Meyer if you're really lucky.

 

I live in NH.

It's people that make around $15 already that seem to have a problem with this. "Why should some burger flipper get paid the same as me!"

So, sour grapes for you I guess.

And think about it. These "drug addicts" wont have to get food stamps anymore because they will be able to afford, you know, food. I wonder who they will tell you to blame next.

 

You're right, I forgot how well off all the 8 year old coal miners were.

 

There's a reason why Henry Ford paid his employees five times the prevailing wage.

 

Green font?

 

1st, Your SS should be a liveable wage. 2nd, it's not frozen because of Obama. The blame should be placed squarely I the shoulders of those in Congress controlling the purse strings.

Serious Question: are you for the Simpson and Bowles fix to SS?

Intersting how you are on SS but you support the people that want to completely abolish that "Ponzi scheme"...

 

No, but he did veto the only bill to fix to cola calculation specifically for older people. His energy policies have had more to do with the problem than anything else.

It is a Ponzi Scheme, I have always known this, but so what? I had no choice in whether to participate or not. While at the same time I contributed to SS, I paid extremely high taxes, most of the time without the benefit of the shields you have today, like IRAs, 401K, College cost deductions. Basically unless you really made a lot of money, SS was all you could do for many years. Ha! I still remember the spiel about getting Full funding for top wages during my Navy years. Hell that was basically a promise of SS when the day came instead of pay now. It was a rip off, now that it is visible in the rear view mirror.

So I don't know what is interesting, what the hell choice does a man get?l

That was quite some time back but no, I don't think so. It doesn't fix the problem, we still would have a Ponzi scheme and it will break our nation. Back in Truman, Eisenhower's day it was a revenue booster, now it is an over sized drain that needs to be terminated. Obama never did jack about it, I hope Trump steps up, and rights the ship.

 

I am certainly glad they did not have such idealistic laws when I was a child. I had some help from other people after I lost my father and them mother until I was about 15. Then I was on my own, work at several jobs. I learned a hell of lot doing these jobs and through those years.
I had a job ever summer after I was eight years old. It progressed to after school and weeks too.

Funny, now that I look back on it, no one paid SS until I was 16. Must be a magic toggle at that point. Paid it then for exactly 50 years.

 

Thank God they'll still be broke when inflation hits. I'll be happy as my mortgage won't seem so high then. Yayaya

 

I kinda felt the same way in 2007 when I was in uniform carrying a gun, ASP, and pepper-spray, patrolling ghetto apartment complexes in Portland at 2 in the morning as a rent-cop. I couldn't even afford a vest, and the most I made was $10.35/hour. Why the hell should some burger flipper make more than me, when I'm out here working 30 apartment complexes a night; alone in the worst places in Portland? Quite frankly, it was insulting.

If I was still in that business, I could probably be making $17/hr with this new wage increase.

I see a lot of businesses going this direction though:

http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/mcdonalds-reveals-its-answer-to-15-an-hour-minimum-wage

 

You can bet your ass the security guard watch over those machines won't have clue how to get a refund for the empty meal served.

 

What bill did Congress pass for him to sign?

#raisethecap

 

The one with the fix.

 

If all goes well, I am heading around the horn bound for Myrtle Beach this coming fall. Have a boat slip waiting there for me. Dang nice place but I probably won't want to spend the summer there.