And then along came the steel plough and put him out of work.No honest job should be "beneath" anybody. My 1st job out of HS was as a janitor... making minimum wage swabbing toilets and mopping floors. Never even considered going onto government assistance/food stamps.
My Grandfather told me, "If you plan on eating regular, you'd better plan on working".... "The world doesn't owe you a living".
Too bad HE isn't running the country today. At least the parasites would be doing SOMETHING... rather that living a subsidized life style and voting DemoCrap!
Cowards!
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I assume that was $75 a month. My point is that $80 a week goes a long way when gas is 25 cents a gallon and a McD's hamburger is 15 cents.
The discussions of minimum wage become completely detached from reality since so few of those -- if any -- who participate in the discussions have ever lived poor. Those who have can understand a need for something more than seven bucks, but when the rants begin (why not $100 an hour), the possibilities of anything useful diminish rapidly.
And, yes, if you're struggling, food service is the way to go. Nowadays one gets at least one free meal per shift, not counting the "accidents" and what people leave on their plates.
Something that should be mentioned regarding min wage then and now. Back in the 70's, over half the min wage jobs I took were full time, with plenty of time and a half overtime avail...especially in the restaurants. I believe that has now changed. Often the overtime made the difference.
Even further when you walk! (And not as far if you don't happen to be working full time). I don't dispute that there is disparity between wage and cost of living today. I believe changes should be reasonable. My wife has an MBA, been at her position over ten years, but doesn't make that much more than what burger jockeys now want for min wage. Why should they make the same as her? She should then be adjusted up by the same amount per hour, correct?
Back to incentive: I actually think welfare is much more lucrative than working a couple of min wage jobs. As I just indicated, though, getting overtime or even full time at min wage may be becoming a thing of the past for reason's left to other threads. Times have changed.
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Or more.
As to a discussion of welfare, I'll leave that for another time, another place. It's become such an emotion-charged issue that few people can discuss it rationally. Let's just say it's become something other than what was intended. If high schools hadn't eliminated their auto and wood shop programs along with home economics and whatever else and if the draft hadn't ended, kids who weren't into the whole school thing wouldn't be left high and dry. Why after all should one take a no-pay apprentice job when he can make so much more selling drugs?
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Shouldn't be. It's the CANCER which will ultimately destroy America... just as it has done in other countries.
America's "social support/welfare" (in exchange for DemoCrap votes, of course) has gone WAAAAYYYYYY too far.. to the point of destroying the "American Dream" as we've known it.
Shouldn't be. It's the CANCER which will ultimately destroy America... just as it has done in other countries.
America's "social support/welfare" (in exchange for DemoCrap votes, of course) has gone WAAAAYYYYYY too far.. to the point of destroying the "American Dream" as we've known it.
See what I mean?
Sounds like we need to stop printing money and deficit spending.
People never want to admit that inflation is a hidden tax on the poor and middle class.