My beer loading job led directly to me working for Gallo in sales right after college, because I made contacts at the distributor and got a recommendation from the Gallo guy who used to visit the place.
Reagan started the enormous trade deficits. The job situation always gets worse under Republican presidents, because the working class is low priority to them. Then they carp when a Democratic president can't clean up their mess.
Neither job was close to minimum wage. Neither was hopelessly permanent. Neither was alongside illegal immigrants, like the example I worked in my 50s. (I'm not talking about minimum wage college jobs before your first desk job. I had 9 of those. They're not hard labor.) So neither of you showed (per this post's first excerpt) that hard labor minimum wage jobs can be replaced by any desk-sitting monkey in his 40s-60s. I'm the only one here who tried.
That's the point. Minimum wage jobs shouldn't be permanent. They should be temporary fill in jobs. If your doing that its time to step your shit up.
Commenting about Wal-Mart's virtues, Maxiep said more jobs should be minimum wage. As the economy goes down and the percentage of jobs which are minimum wage increase, the wave will eventually get to you, him, and everyone except the billionaires. So I said, everyone including Wal-Mart executives should make minimum wage. Anyway, as Republicans have their way with the economy, escaping minimum wage jobs will be available to fewer and fewer workers, making your ethical belief (that you deserve it if you can't move up) impossible to practice. The system works to minimize wages, in order to maximize profit.
When Reagan was president, Japanese corporations dwarfed US ones, and his predecessor literally invented the term "misery index" to measure his own economic policies. When GHW Bush was president, he pushed for MFN status for China, but the Democrats in congress refused. His successor, Bill Clinton, pushed for MFN status and congress granted it. When Bush left office, the trade deficit with everyone combined was $80B. When Clinton left office, the trade deficit with just China was $80B. But yeah, it was reagan's fault. Everything with you is reagan's fault.
And what Maxiep wrote was right, though written in a way only a wall street person would love. Increases in minimum wage are effectively a tax hike on everyone, especially the poor. Scoff at the idea that a $1.17 menu is cheap and everyone could afford it. Well, the people on a higher minimum wage subsist on that menu. Everyone who eats at McDonald's pays that 17% tax on every meal, every day. It's substantial.
17% rise in inflation and real costs...probably more since McDonalds is extremely efficient. They make it seem like its so small but its actually quite huge.
Okay similar story, I want to hear the fiscally conservative take on the following article. Is it just "They shouldn't be working at WalMart?" http://thecontributor.com/economy/where-are-workers-most-underpaid-apple-wal-mart-or-mcdonald%E2%80%99s
First of all it's a bullshit premise. Walmart costs taxpayers? It's saving taxpayers. If their employees didn't have jobs, the taxpayer would have to carry their full weight. On top of that, you have to look at churn. Walmart's entry level workers take jobs with the company and leave rather quickly. Walmart has no incentive to pay those workers any more than they have to. If they stick, they do get raises.
If you search the WWW a little, you'll find message boards where people talk about moving between jobs at places like Walmart and Walgreens, etc. The vast majority don't complain about the wages being so low they can't live, but more about the physical nature of the job (lifting boxes) or how it's better to cashier at one place over another. Some do bitch about the pay. But hey, when I was in school at the UofI back in the 1970s, the whole town paid minimum wage for any job. $2.50/hour. With 100,000 residents and 150,000 students, the supply of workers drove down the wages. You could bitch about the wages being low, as most people did. It wasn't about taking advantage of people, though.
I had minimum wage jobs. I reffed 6th grade basketball when I was in HS on Saturday mornings, and I worked on the grounds' crew at my university for minimum wage. When it snowed, we'd get called at 4am to shovel sidewalks in front of all of the buildings, and in the summer, it was 8 hours/day mowing/watering/picking up trash M-F from 7am-3:30pm. It's called learning how to operate in a work environment, hence "entry level". FWIW, McDonald's isn't paying minimum wage in most instances, either, and offers benefits to full-time employees.
Leave to the HuffPo to give credence to a term paper by an undergrad. I even saw this bunk was reported on NBC News. Low Info Voters eat this shit up, though.
HuffPo now admitting an "error" in spreading this bullshit. LIVs won't even know about it, though. HUFFINGTON POST RETRACTS FALSE CLAIM ABOUT MCDONALD'S WAGES http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/mcdonalds-salaries_n_3672006.html?utm_hp_ref=tw They really took a bogus paper from a KU undergrad and made it a national story? LMAO!!! Fucking morons!!!
