Professional opponents of raising the minimum wage

We will tell you when you learn how.

Regards,
Shodan

Or, another aspect:

“You don’t come in on time, you don’t uphold the standards here, you take too long breaks, you no call/no show, why the hell would I pay you more?”

I’ve got this feeling my scenario is much more likely than yours all over this country.

So the wealthy are immortal? They don’t have illness or death in their families?

They do tend to have the assets available to pay for better treatment and increase their survival rates…

Oh we are all victims of cruel fate with no agency to improve our own lots! I hate to break it to you but if there is any free will some portion of your fate is in your hands. Concerning Christianity, I never claimed to be religious or superstitious.

I also never said let them die on the streets. Please stop abusing that poor strawman.

Do you? Is that why unemployment is so high? Do you see the roving bands of starving, homeless people constantly begging Fast Food Managers to give them a few hours at a measly minimum wage?

You’re not factoring in that you’re a delusional moron who lives in a fantasy world of comfortable nonsense.

Homeless people get roundfiled. The minimum requirements on the job applications are a place to live, a reliable way to be contacted and reliable transportation.

And? You want things of value? Provide value. You are not owed anything for merely existing.

Isn’t it odd that the morons and idiots are the ones in such superior financial position that our intellectual betters need to beg from us some scraps? How is it the world works in such a paradoxical fashion?

Ok, so I’m going to pick a couple of ‘straw men’ as examples, and let’s see.

1> Amy is a 30 year old mother of a 5 year old, who is in kindergarden half of the day. She gets 30 hours a week at the Piggly-Wiggly because that’s all they’ll give her and she needs time to deal with her child. She gets $9 for this. Her husband Alan works at the local hardware store making all of $10 an hour, full time. Neither of them get any benefits from their jobs and there aren’t a lot of other opportunities for them.

Q: Do you believe a family of 3 with a child and two working adults deserves to live in poverty? Is this entirely their own fault? Is it the government’s job to bail them out with tax credits, SNAP and the like?
2> Bob isn’t the brightest bulb and never went far in life. He’s currently working for a Quick-E-Mart, full time, for $10 an hour with no benefits. He lives in a rented room and doesn’t have much.

Q: Do you believe that it is his just fate to live in poverty, because he isn’t capable of more? Do we as a society just say ‘sucks to be you’ and throw him the occasional tax credit? Because like the song says (Mellencamp - “My name is Junior”), “I’d like to say, man, thanks a lot!”

Or are we only sticking to the real straw man that only young people who should be moving up the ladder have minimum wage (or near minimum wage) jobs?

I knew you wouldn’t actually answer my questions because your answers would reveal the real purpose behind the proposal.

Have you paid attention to all the special tax breaks and subsidies we give to those rich people?

They have no business complaining about taking care of the poor.

You need reliable transportation to hold a job? No way! Seems weird that people would need a way to get to their job :rolleyes:

Hey, fuckwad-you wanted to know why the homeless aren’t getting those minimum wage jobs, and I told you. The jobs aren’t theirs to be had.

Well use your superior intellect and out rich them then. What’s your excuse? You are the ones with the intellectual gifts. Why are you squandering them?

Exactly. Things like bankruptcy don’t just “befall” people.

You’re making the false assumption that Money = Intelligence.

Like most of your base assumptions, they’re based on bullshit.

What city and state do they live in?