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

Eh. I was on food stamps for 2 months when I lost a job. I wouldnt have minded taking a drug test. Im tired of seeing people trade food stamps for cash so they can buy pot.

 

Im glad my first job at fred Meyer didnt pay enough for me to want to stay. Stocking the yogurt while people ask me what isle the soda is on when there is a giant mound of soda 10 feet away would have been a total shit career path.

It's really simple economics. If Im building a product and selling it for $1000. I know parts cost $200 and labor to build it costs $300 an after operations costs (building rent, electricity, tools, ect.) For simple math that costs $100 per unitand r&d costs $100 a unit now I spend $700 to make $1000 a 30% profit margin (which is pretty incredible) now wages double now I have 0% profit margin. To stay alive I either have to raise product cost, or cut cost. I can either use shittier parts and save $50 a unit, but now increase my returns and warranty repairs, or I can cut my labor force or find ways to lower the cost, like lower the I hours or move some of my manufacturing to cheaper areas.

Or I can raise product cost to $1300 and people wont care cause they make more now. Oh wait that's Inflation

Im thankful a college graduate and coworker pulled me aside one day in the dairy isle and said "your boss makes $12/hr tops. Get out of here as soon as you can, this is not a career."

 

I was being facetious. Money can give you an incentive to eat a shit sandwich, but it doesn't make it any more palatable.

 

Where are you hanging out that you see this so much?

The fact is, drug testing welfare recipients is a huge waste of money. I'd rather just give everyone free drugs.

 

I wasnt always a model citizen. I used to be a liberal too. Then I grew up.

 

I dont like to take a hard right or left stance on food stamps. I think the idea of helping people temporarily is good and dont mind paying taxes for it. My far right stance would say that is what charities are for, but it was pretty humbling when I found myself using them and I was grateful it was there. Now I only spent 2 months on them before I found a job and even though they said I could qualify for them still I said id rather pay my own way. But not everyone is like that. Not everyone is abusing the system either but I've seen a lot of people perfectly capable of working just collecting food stamps and living off the tax refunds/child support from their 6 kids.

 

Personal insult removed.

 

Good post. I honestly think it started with credit. Then the boomers hit overdrive when they had the benefit of a booming economy and riding the coat tails of the hardest working generation. and now millennials think they should be able to have the wealth their parents had without all the work. I was one of them coming out of high school i felt like i should have all the toys and people owed me, this link of thinking eventually cost me a really good job. I taught myself to critically think and quickly realized wealth takes a lifetime to build. I began setting long term goals and short term goals to help achieve them. Hey, by 29 im a home owner, so it's working, and I didnt need government hand outs or a million dollar loan from my parents. No im not a trump fan, hell, I dont even vote because I cant in good conscience vote for any of these shit bags we are presented. I'm not a republican, but I do hate the democratic agenda just a little more.

Man was made to work. I've learned to find work gratifying. Now the next goal, working for myself instead of making someone else rich.

 

Very well said, and I agree. Home owner at 29? Wow! I'm in a one-bedroom apartment approaching my big 33. That is quite an accomplishment, and you should be proud!

I actually classify myself as a Libertarian. There are views I'm Liberal about, such as Gay Rights and Global Warming, and there are things that I'm Conservative about, such as Gun Rights and Smaller Government/Lower Taxes. In my view, Libertarians embrace much of these things equally.

Now, if only they had political power in this country....sigh. I wouldn't have to vote for any shit bag in the Republican party. Because I DO agree with you that they are all nothing but shit bags.

And people are often surprised to know that I was a Liberal Democrat as a young adult. Then I grew up, had life-experiences, and saw the world for how it really was, and realized that the Republican party was far more realistic in their views and policies than Democrats were.

 

I thought i was libertarian for a while but now I just dont know. Take gay rights for instance, rather than making gay marriage legal or not, i think the state should have no say in a marriage. If 2 people love eachother and want to have a ceremony celebrating their love, go right ahead. Why should the state issue a piece of paper about it? I guess im just against marriage period, or at least in a legal sense. Removing the state's permission from the equation would solve the problem in my mind. Man and woman, man and man, transgender pansexual bilingual hermaphrodite and dog, do your thing, state doesnt get to grant love.

Really I want government completely out of social issues, I dont think morals, emotions, and ethics can be governed. I think government should focus on state infrastructure and national defense.

I think a lot of previous social governing was necessary, the removal of Jim crow, granting women the right to vote, ect. All important, but I think we could simplify it. How about the preamble to the constitution? "We hold these truths to be self evident, all men are created equal" that squashed the need for any of these amendments. Sorry, you cant make racist, homophobic, or sexist laws, because we are all equal. Pretty simple, and I wish we as a society could simplify it like that, but then we cant sue eachother every time we break a random law

 

Also a little light hearted trolling is good. I use to wear my beard like an Arab when I went to church, just cause I knew everyone was wondering about me and on edge. If I was black, id probably sport dreads, just to scare some white people. People need to lighten the fuck up.

 

Well I don't know about the freebees, but I agree about wasting the money. Bad management.

 

Hell man, you get it! Now suck it up, forget about what you want, and vote for the person that will follow the Constitution the closest. That is you best shot for you to get the chance to go where you are aiming. I wish you a speedy journey.

 

Lmao. Another reason I dont vote, in oregon I knew we'd be blue, my vote didnt matter. Here in south carolina, I know we will be red, why waste my time?

 

I know, but just perhaps. It doesn't cost much.

 

In oregon they give ebt food and ebt cash. I can't tell you how many times I saw people get cash back from ebt cash and immediately go buy alcohol or cigarettes when I worked at a grocery store as a cashier.

 

Naw! It's the beginning of the the $17 Cheeseburger as soon as someone invents it. But will it sell?