Top three myths conservatives use to oppose increasing the minimum wage:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07...imum-wage/
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07...imum-wage/
Quote: (09-01-2013 03:13 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Top three myths conservatives use to oppose increasing the minimum wage:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07...imum-wage/
Quote: (09-01-2013 03:14 PM)Parlay44 Wrote:
Well it'll probably end up in the courts one day. So we shall see.
But for now I'm morally obligated to take sides with labor over corporations.
Quote: (09-01-2013 04:28 PM)Gopher Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 03:13 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Top three myths conservatives use to oppose increasing the minimum wage:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07...imum-wage/
You cited a website called "think progress"?
How are we supposed to take that seriously? Their agenda is to promote progressive ideology. We might as well see what the ladies over at Jezebel think.
Quote: (09-01-2013 03:13 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Top three myths conservatives use to oppose increasing the minimum wage:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07...imum-wage/
Quote: (09-01-2013 04:47 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 04:28 PM)Gopher Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 03:13 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Top three myths conservatives use to oppose increasing the minimum wage:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07...imum-wage/
You cited a website called "think progress"?
How are we supposed to take that seriously? Their agenda is to promote progressive ideology. We might as well see what the ladies over at Jezebel think.
Who cares what website I cite? The article has its own sources cited. The truth is the truth no matter where it is cited.
There isn't much evidence that modest increases in the minimum wage cause mass unemployment like the corporate stooges claim. The fact is inflation eats away at a minimum wage over time, and so it has to be raised in order to just keep up with inflation.
Quote: (09-01-2013 05:14 PM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 03:13 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Top three myths conservatives use to oppose increasing the minimum wage:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07...imum-wage/
I'm not going to read some anti-male liberal propaganda. How can you discover a site this GREAT and then want anti-male laws?
Quote: (09-01-2013 05:35 PM)Aliblahba Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 05:14 PM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 03:13 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Top three myths conservatives use to oppose increasing the minimum wage:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07...imum-wage/
I'm not going to read some anti-male liberal propaganda. How can you discover a site this GREAT and then want anti-male laws?
The sense of entitlement, laziness, lack of work ethic or ethics in general, useless education, and social mindset are being instilled in both sexes in the newer generation. For every woman that wants something for nothing and plays the victim, I can produce one male.
This isn't a gender problem, but a social one.
Quote: (09-01-2013 05:16 PM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 04:47 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 04:28 PM)Gopher Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 03:13 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Top three myths conservatives use to oppose increasing the minimum wage:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07...imum-wage/
You cited a website called "think progress"?
How are we supposed to take that seriously? Their agenda is to promote progressive ideology. We might as well see what the ladies over at Jezebel think.
Who cares what website I cite? The article has its own sources cited. The truth is the truth no matter where it is cited.
There isn't much evidence that modest increases in the minimum wage cause mass unemployment like the corporate stooges claim. The fact is inflation eats away at a minimum wage over time, and so it has to be raised in order to just keep up with inflation.
Every single time min wage is increased those who make minimum wage have unemployment spikes that take years to recover from. Then once prices of goods go up and companies can hire min wage workers again, things just go back to where they were.
Except the hard workers in the middle class who got educated and worked their asses off to go up the ladder see their net income decrease.
It is anti-male/anti-family, women only first class citizen thinking.
Quote: (09-01-2013 06:41 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 05:16 PM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 04:47 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 04:28 PM)Gopher Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 03:13 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Top three myths conservatives use to oppose increasing the minimum wage:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07...imum-wage/
You cited a website called "think progress"?
How are we supposed to take that seriously? Their agenda is to promote progressive ideology. We might as well see what the ladies over at Jezebel think.
Who cares what website I cite? The article has its own sources cited. The truth is the truth no matter where it is cited.
There isn't much evidence that modest increases in the minimum wage cause mass unemployment like the corporate stooges claim. The fact is inflation eats away at a minimum wage over time, and so it has to be raised in order to just keep up with inflation.
Every single time min wage is increased those who make minimum wage have unemployment spikes that take years to recover from. Then once prices of goods go up and companies can hire min wage workers again, things just go back to where they were.
Except the hard workers in the middle class who got educated and worked their asses off to go up the ladder see their net income decrease.
It is anti-male/anti-family, women only first class citizen thinking.
You are making up your own facts.
Here are some real facts:
The Facts on Raising the Minimum Wage When Unemployment Is High
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/is...is-high-2/
Quote: (09-01-2013 06:51 PM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 06:41 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 05:16 PM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 04:47 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 04:28 PM)Gopher Wrote:
You cited a website called "think progress"?
How are we supposed to take that seriously? Their agenda is to promote progressive ideology. We might as well see what the ladies over at Jezebel think.
Who cares what website I cite? The article has its own sources cited. The truth is the truth no matter where it is cited.
There isn't much evidence that modest increases in the minimum wage cause mass unemployment like the corporate stooges claim. The fact is inflation eats away at a minimum wage over time, and so it has to be raised in order to just keep up with inflation.
Every single time min wage is increased those who make minimum wage have unemployment spikes that take years to recover from. Then once prices of goods go up and companies can hire min wage workers again, things just go back to where they were.
Except the hard workers in the middle class who got educated and worked their asses off to go up the ladder see their net income decrease.
It is anti-male/anti-family, women only first class citizen thinking.
You are making up your own facts.
Here are some real facts:
The Facts on Raising the Minimum Wage When Unemployment Is High
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/is...is-high-2/
Not at all. They gave the numbers on the radio on Friday morning on my drive to work. Every time the min wage is raised unemployment of those jobs goes up. It is pretty common sense that would happen.
As companies recover these loses by increasing prices, they can again afford to hire these workers back. So in the end, as with ALL failure socialist programs, the middle class gets burned.
I don't know why you are promoting women first, men 2nd class citizen socialism when you are lucky enough to discover this site.
Quote: (09-01-2013 07:03 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 06:51 PM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 06:41 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 05:16 PM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 04:47 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Who cares what website I cite? The article has its own sources cited. The truth is the truth no matter where it is cited.
There isn't much evidence that modest increases in the minimum wage cause mass unemployment like the corporate stooges claim. The fact is inflation eats away at a minimum wage over time, and so it has to be raised in order to just keep up with inflation.
Every single time min wage is increased those who make minimum wage have unemployment spikes that take years to recover from. Then once prices of goods go up and companies can hire min wage workers again, things just go back to where they were.
Except the hard workers in the middle class who got educated and worked their asses off to go up the ladder see their net income decrease.
It is anti-male/anti-family, women only first class citizen thinking.
You are making up your own facts.
Here are some real facts:
The Facts on Raising the Minimum Wage When Unemployment Is High
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/is...is-high-2/
Not at all. They gave the numbers on the radio on Friday morning on my drive to work. Every time the min wage is raised unemployment of those jobs goes up. It is pretty common sense that would happen.
As companies recover these loses by increasing prices, they can again afford to hire these workers back. So in the end, as with ALL failure socialist programs, the middle class gets burned.
I don't know why you are promoting women first, men 2nd class citizen socialism when you are lucky enough to discover this site.
What radio show?
You can look up the studies in the link I provided.
You seem to forget that an increase in the minimum wage INCREASES the purchasing power of min wage workers. Corporate stooges like yourself only look at how a higher minimum wage affects employers, without taking into account that it also increases purchasing power of consumers who earn min wages, which creates more demand for goods and services.
Quote: (09-01-2013 07:08 PM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 07:03 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 06:51 PM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 06:41 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 05:16 PM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
Every single time min wage is increased those who make minimum wage have unemployment spikes that take years to recover from. Then once prices of goods go up and companies can hire min wage workers again, things just go back to where they were.
Except the hard workers in the middle class who got educated and worked their asses off to go up the ladder see their net income decrease.
It is anti-male/anti-family, women only first class citizen thinking.
You are making up your own facts.
Here are some real facts:
The Facts on Raising the Minimum Wage When Unemployment Is High
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/is...is-high-2/
Not at all. They gave the numbers on the radio on Friday morning on my drive to work. Every time the min wage is raised unemployment of those jobs goes up. It is pretty common sense that would happen.
As companies recover these loses by increasing prices, they can again afford to hire these workers back. So in the end, as with ALL failure socialist programs, the middle class gets burned.
I don't know why you are promoting women first, men 2nd class citizen socialism when you are lucky enough to discover this site.
What radio show?
You can look up the studies in the link I provided.
You seem to forget that an increase in the minimum wage INCREASES the purchasing power of min wage workers. Corporate stooges like yourself only look at how a higher minimum wage affects employers, without taking into account that it also increases purchasing power of consumers who earn min wages, which creates more demand for goods and services.
It has been posted here over and over showing this is not the case.
I just don't understand why a man lucky enough to come across this wonderful website would support anti-male socialism.
Quote: (09-01-2013 07:08 PM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
I just don't understand why a man lucky enough to come across this wonderful website would support anti-male socialism.
Quote: (09-01-2013 07:25 PM)thedude3737 Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 07:08 PM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
I just don't understand why a man lucky enough to come across this wonderful website would support anti-male socialism.
Piss-poor tactic you used here and highly transparent. Texas Prophet drops you a link with numerous case studies and you reply with this? Fail.
Quote: (09-01-2013 07:21 PM)Aliblahba Wrote:
^^^Exactly. Just look what happened in Williston, N.D. Why are they paying $8 for a jar of peanut butter? $1K for a room in a 3 bedroom apt? High wages=high purchasing power=high prices. This is the most simple economics that I learned in junior high.
Prices stay low because of lower wages. What makes America great is we have the opportunity rise above minimum wages and achieve a better quality of life. When the floor is raised, it becomes harder.
Now, does the minimum wage employees deserve more?
High school dropout mom with 2 kids?
Child molester?
Meth dealer?
Rapist?
Burgler?
Drug addict?
The obese?
General fucking idiots?
This is a big part of the demographic earning minimum wage. Don't rely on a study. Tomorrow hit up 5 fast food restaurants and see for yourself. If someone is on the thread complaining b/c they are making min. wage, look around at who your working with. Your goal should be to rise above that, not bring them with you.
Quote: (09-01-2013 07:39 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Raising the minimum wage only affects min wage workers, so it doesn't have the same effect as raising everyone's wages (like in ND).
Quote: (09-01-2013 07:39 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Also, just because I support increasing the minimum wage, doesn't mean I support raising it all the way up to $15/hr. Realistically, the minimum wage only gets raised a bit every several years. The next time it is raised it will probably only be raised to $9/hr or $10/hr.
Quote: (09-01-2013 07:39 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
As for working min wage: I used to work min wage back in high school and it was low even back then. I don't work at minimum wage anymore, but there isn't much social mobility in this society anymore, so people can easily get stuck working at or near minimum wage for a long time nowadays.
Quote: (09-01-2013 07:39 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
A society that has low social mobility and high wealth gaps is ripe for problems since one day the working poor realize there are a lot more of them then there are of the well off, and so they decide to have a "Red October" type revolution.
Quote: (09-01-2013 08:00 PM)Aliblahba Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 07:39 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Raising the minimum wage only affects min wage workers, so it doesn't have the same effect as raising everyone's wages (like in ND).
It's the same. If I owned an apartment complex full of the min wage demographic, and wages doubled, so would the rent. Welcome to economics.
Quote: (09-01-2013 07:39 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Also, just because I support increasing the minimum wage, doesn't mean I support raising it all the way up to $15/hr. Realistically, the minimum wage only gets raised a bit every several years. The next time it is raised it will probably only be raised to $9/hr or $10/hr.
I'm working on the $15 hr model. The reason min wage creeps along is because it raises consumer products, and the slower the rise, the more acceptable to the consumer.
Quote: (09-01-2013 07:39 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
As for working min wage: I used to work min wage back in high school and it was low even back then. I don't work at minimum wage anymore, but there isn't much social mobility in this society anymore, so people can easily get stuck working at or near minimum wage for a long time nowadays.
Are you in America? I thought min wage was low too, so in high school I learned to make more. Enough to buy advanced electronics, Benelli shotguns, Rugar and Smith pistols, ammo, and much more. Lack of social mobility is a victims chant.
Quote: (09-01-2013 07:39 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
A society that has low social mobility and high wealth gaps is ripe for problems since one day the working poor realize there are a lot more of them then there are of the well off, and so they decide to have a "Red October" type revolution.
It is a problem, but the shrinking middle class is what should be addressed, not giving the bottom of the barrel more money.
Quote: (09-01-2013 05:52 PM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 05:35 PM)Aliblahba Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 05:14 PM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
Quote: (09-01-2013 03:13 PM)The Texas Prophet Wrote:
Top three myths conservatives use to oppose increasing the minimum wage:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07...imum-wage/
I'm not going to read some anti-male liberal propaganda. How can you discover a site this GREAT and then want anti-male laws?
The sense of entitlement, laziness, lack of work ethic or ethics in general, useless education, and social mindset are being instilled in both sexes in the newer generation. For every woman that wants something for nothing and plays the victim, I can produce one male.
This isn't a gender problem, but a social one.
Not true. While more and more young men behave like young women, with the entitlement mentality, probably due to more and more single mom households, the number of entitled young women still GREATLY out weights entitled young men.
Simply because young men can't cry or whine their way through life. And if they try there is someone to smack them down, whether in a fight, in a sporting event, or at a job where men are still expected to work hard.
Quote: (08-31-2013 01:46 PM)kerouac Wrote:
McDonalds is a publicly traded corporation, so their financials are open for all to see.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=MCD&annual
McDonald's made $5,464,800,000 Net Income in 2012 in the US. That's how much it made after all expenses, wages, etc. They're not barely making it by as many people on here, and the fox-news-osphere would like you to believe.
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They aren't that big considering how many stores they have and how many people they employ.