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[preakness]

$15 an hour for fast food worker

Makes sense ----- not!!!

What would their supervisors make?

[awz50]

Originally Posted by preakness

$15 an hour for fast food worker

Makes sense

What would their supervisors make?

$20 probably

[jewcer2k5]

Originally Posted by preakness

$15 an hour for fast food worker

Makes sense

What would their supervisors make?

Who cares what their supervisors would make. $15 per hour is outrageous. One of the stupidest ideas ever. (Told ya fiscally conservative).

2 main problems with $15 minimum wage.

1. Will cause prices of all goods to go up.

2. The people that want to stay below the poverty line will just ask for less hours so they can continue to get their benefits.

This will be extremely bad for the economy. Well until these businesses smarten up and get technology to replace these unskilled jobs.

[ClickWins]

Originally Posted by preakness

$15 an hour for fast food worker

Makes sense

What would their supervisors make?

If they did this, they'd essentially force all wages/salaries up. Which in turn would cause inflation.

It's really that simple

[jarrodsalas]

Originally Posted by preakness

$15 an hour for fast food worker

Makes sense

What would their supervisors make?

I'm ok with this...over a 10 year period. It will never work or happen in the near future. That 4.99 big mac will jump to 8.99. But hey, they will have more money in their pocket to be able to afford it right?

One thought that always runs through my mind when this discussion comes up. Americans shop for the cheapest product right? Haven't we brought this on ourselves? Competition and low margins are what got us in to this position. To all of the sudden think this can be corrected with a huge minimum wage increase is naive.

That is why I am a big proponent of doing everything we possibly can to bring jobs back to America. It opens more doors instead of having a "career" in the fast food industry.

[cruiserdaddy7]

Originally Posted by JosieD

I am curious to see what people's thoughts are on the the top 5 issues facing the US.

Mine would be:

1. poverty
2. racism
3. economic disparity
4. employment
5. healthcare reform

4 of your 5 don't matter to me one bit. Because some do not exist unless in reverse, and the others people only have themselves to blame.

[greentown]

Originally Posted by jewcer2k5

This will be extremely bad for the economy. Well until these businesses smarten up and get technology to replace these unskilled jobs.

Momentum Machines robot-powered restaurant is opening in San Francisco - Tech Insider

[preakness]

Wonder how welfare benefits (amounts and eligibility) would be impacted if $15 minimum wage

"A mother of 4 working with today's minimum wage can't put food on table and stay above the poverty line"

Not including mothers who had some unforeseen tragedy happen or quadruplets, other mothers of 4 should not be the breadwinners.

[jarrodsalas]

Originally Posted by greentown

Momentum Machines robot-powered restaurant is opening in San Francisco - Tech Insider

I see this in the industry I work in. In parts of the country (California and Washington mainly) where wages are high most all production is now done mechanically/robotically. Here in Texas it is still done with unskilled labor. 8 dollars an hour here versus 15+ an hour there.

[corndog]

Originally Posted by JosieD

I am curious to see what people's thoughts are on the the top 5 issues facing the US.

Mine would be:

1. poverty
2. racism
3. economic disparity
4. employment
5. healthcare reform

Originally Posted by cruiserdaddy7

4 of your 5 don't matter to me one bit. Because some do not exist unless in reverse, and the others people only have themselves to blame.

Agreed
And #4 should improve with massive welfare reform - recipients required to work for their government assistance until employment is achieved. Generational welfare must end.

[jlzinck]

Originally Posted by Timmay

Here's a interesting social experiment if you have a Facebook account. Go to the Donald Trump Facebook page and see how many of your friends have "liked" his page. Then go to Hillary Clinton's Facebook page and see how many of your friends have liked her page. Here are my results. Pretty much poll results.
Hillary 7
Trump 85
Sanders 10

Hillary 0 (About 40% Of my FB Friends are liberal)
Trump 13
Sanders 7

[JosieD]

Originally Posted by cruiserdaddy7

4 of your 5 don't matter to me one bit. Because some do not exist unless in reverse, and the others people only have themselves to blame.

Please feel free to share your 5. I'd like to see it.

[natbornkiller]

Originally Posted by JohnRyno

The top 4 posters in this thread account for over 500 posts, which is close to 25% of the entire thread. The top 3 are backing the same candidate. This isn't a discussion, it's just a bunch of people talking into a drive-thru speaker.

Like my man Frank Lucas says:

but thats denzell

[JosieD]

Originally Posted by corndog

Agreed
And #4 should improve with massive welfare reform - recipients required to work for their government assistance until employment is achieved. Generational welfare must end.

I agree that those capable of working should.

For there to be an end to generational welfare, we would essentially have to sterilize the severely mentally ill prior to them having children.

[jdandns]

Notes on a convention:
1) Fun to see Howard Dean reprise his "rant" of states we're going to for comic effect.
2) Bernie-or-busters seems to have gotten most of it out of their system.
3) Smooth sailing tonight, should be a small bounce in the polls with bigger ones to follow the next two nights.

The debates should effectively end it, although I fully expect Trump to try to weasel his way out of them. He couldn't even handle Chris Matthews one on one. Three questions in a row had the Donald advocating punishment for women who had abortions. While most Republicans pretend to not be in favor that, Trump didn't even know enough to play along. There's no way he can catch up enough on all of the issues that will be brought up in the debates to sound even slightly knowledgeable about them. Love or hate Hillary, she's been living this stuff for a long time now.

[bd3d86]

Originally Posted by Timmay

Here's a interesting social experiment if you have a Facebook account. Go to the Donald Trump Facebook page and see how many of your friends have "liked" his page. Then go to Hillary Clinton's Facebook page and see how many of your friends have liked her page. Here are my results. Pretty much poll results.
Hillary 7
Trump 85
Sanders 10

Trump 23
Clinton 3
Sanders 11

[Skipscards]

Is Bill really giving us a lesson on how to pick up women?

[chezball]

Originally Posted by jewcer2k5

Who cares what their supervisors would make. $15 per hour is outrageous. One of the stupidest ideas ever. (Told ya fiscally conservative).

2 main problems with $15 minimum wage.

1. Will cause prices of all goods to go up.

2. The people that want to stay below the poverty line will just ask for less hours so they can continue to get their benefits.

This will be extremely bad for the economy. Well until these businesses smarten up and get technology to replace these unskilled jobs.

Already started, there's a company in CA. that's using a machine to make pizza.
Zume is the name of the company.

[deansayso]

Trump 29
Cruz 11
Sanders 3
Clinton 1

[jewcer2k5]

Originally Posted by chezball

Already started, there's a company in CA. that's using a machine to make pizza.

And people already started requesting less hours to stay under the poverty line.

I don't know how I feel about us agreeing.

[quackhead]

More stuff coming from Wikileaks:

Julian Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections - CNNPolitics.com

If its Hillary related, I think she's done. Is it too late to change the Democratic nominee to Sanders?

[HBMC]

Originally Posted by ClickWins

If they did this, they'd essentially force all wages/salaries up. Which in turn would cause inflation.

It's really that simple

There's no greater barrier of employment to the low skilled than a high minimum wage. Clearly an employer would pay more for skilled employees, but having an arbitrary barrier than forces them to pay all employees at a price floor that is artificially high keeps the lowest skilled out of the workforce, forces the employer to be stingy with good employees and overpay mediocre employees for their relative value added benefit.

[preakness]

Very odd listening to bill talk about his love of Hillary considering Monica, Jennifer, so on

[JosieD]

Originally Posted by preakness

Very odd listening to bill talk about his love of Hillary considering Monica, Jennifer, so on

Hilary simply outsourced a job she didn't like doing.

[TheFrenzy]

Originally Posted by jewcer2k5

Who cares what their supervisors would make. $15 per hour is outrageous. One of the stupidest ideas ever. (Told ya fiscally conservative).

2 main problems with $15 minimum wage.

1. Will cause prices of all goods to go up.

2. The people that want to stay below the poverty line will just ask for less hours so they can continue to get their benefits.

This will be extremely bad for the economy. Well until these businesses smarten up and get technology to replace these unskilled jobs.

For every $1 dollar minimum wage is raised, inflation goes up only $0.25. Raising minimum wage is not detrimental to an economy.

I know it's a government site and therefore 75% of BO will likely not take it seriously (but where do you think everyone else gets there info?) https://www.dol.gov/featured/minimum-wage/mythbuster