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I'm not really disagreeing with you, I know the number of applicants at walmart compared to the available jobs is just staggering. My local walmart had 420 jobs and they got 3800 applicants. I guess my problem was the knee jerk reaction that somehow, the workers had no business trying to...

how do you know that? Do you have any facts to back that up? If there a ten workers waiting for a job, then I will whole heartedly agree with you that the market has spoken. But I suspect you are just guessing.

otherwise, I want everybody to make more money. Not sure why OP starts off a thread calling people "burger flippers" like they are some sub human group who doesn't deserve a chance to use their power to make more money. I want business owners who take risks to make more money, I want hedge...

on the other hand, if there was ever a group of workers who need a union, it is the fast food workers. Profit margins are very slim in the fast food business. The price of MCD goes up and down based on investors opinion if they even have the pricing power to break the 99 cent barrier. But a...

I agree up to a point. I don't think the government can do anything to "create" jobs. But we as a society have decided that it is in our best interest to have an educated population. There is no reason why anyone who graduates from high school can't walk right into one of those jobs. Half of my...

well, you kind of got off to a bad start, when you used the term "burger flippers" like it is some kind of derogatory profession. You could have used the same term, "auto parts makers" or "baby sitters". Or "nurses" or "doctors". What gives them the right to demand higher wages?

to skip to the chase, no matter how poor you were, you could get a public education, and that high school diploma at least insured you a "blue collar" existence. Maybe no yachts or limos, but a family vacation every year, and a new car every other year. Even if it was just a station wagon...

??? you're kidding, right? $7.25 is no where near a "livable" wage, and $10.10 won't be either by the time it is implemented. We're just taking money from Peter and giving it to Paul. If we did the bucket method and raised it to maybe 15, there would be a brief stimulus, but soon we would be...

finally, someone is starting to make some sense around here. Like I told them, "If you think it is so easy betting on the future, why don't you put on a contract and see how it goes for you?" But getting back to the minimum wage...

it's a moot point. Under Obamacare, junk insurance policies will no longer be allowed to cover generic drugs. Now we get the good stuff.

I guess you could say increasingly, I am becoming an anarchist. Meaning, I don't want the "corporation" controlling government, but I also don't want the "people" controlling government. I just want the government to be the referee

I was watching one of those shows on msnbc, and the token conservative used the word "fascism" and the whole rest of the left wing panel laughed

nothing worse than a goddamed burger flipper. If you don't watch them every step of the way, they will eat you out of house and home. One of the most important problems facing congress today (and I hope they will break the gridlock and act) is how much a Big Mac should cost? As a hard...

where is that "somewhere else"? I don't know. I hope it's not up my ass, because that could be painful.

but getting back to the minimum wage, here's what I do. I tell them on the first brisk day in October, "Here's what I can afford, one fill a day. If you can't make it on that, you need to go somewhere else."

that's the problem with bird feeders. It creates a cycle of dependency. Instead of going down to South America and getting a real job for the winter, they hang around all winter trying to get a free hand out.

now, if you will excuse me, I have to go chase the birds off my bird feeder. "HEY YOU BIRDS, GET OFF OF MY BIRD FEEDER, WHAT DO THINK I AM, RICH OR SOMETHING? I CAN'T AFFORD TO FEED YOU ALL."

but getting back to the minimum wage, if the government can set a minimum wage, why can't they also set a maximum wage?

or for that matter, if I can just get you bitching I own you

don't get drawn in to the dark side "If I can get you bitching at them, I own you"...Satan