Yeah, it is due to the two-party system that normally leads itself to having corrupt kleptocrats and their cronies in office as long as they have the respective two-party blessing to be in power. As off as that may sound. The US needs to move beyond the two-party system.
As usual, the Democrats are lying.
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That term is meaningless. Not all jobs are meant to support families. I'm not going to pay the neighbor kid $25 an hour to mow my hard, or babysit the kids when we go out to dinner. Flipping burgers at the McDonalds is for highschool and college kids, not adults raising their own children.
I'm glad you agree with the principle that wages left to free market forces can dip to a level that is not healthy for the economy or society as a whole.
Which was,
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LOL, sure, when you raise the minimum wage to $40,000 a year, then you're bumping up into what adults make, pretty clearly. Of course. So you put all the kids out of work, and then they can't get jobs until they're adults, which is horrible public policy. The menial jobs should be done by teenagers - it shouldn't be a 36 year old father of 4 lugging the garbage out and breaking boxes out back of the corner store, and cleaning out the coolers, etc. It should be the local kid learning to work and show up on time and how a paycheck works.
Oh? A happy meal is the same price everywhere?
Sounds lazy, and also counterproductive. The reason to work a minimum wage job is to gain experience to move to a higher wage job.
I do, and $20 in California aint it.
The McDonalds 5 miles from my house has different prices on various menu items than the McDonald's 9 miles from my house. I know this, because I have used the app to purchase items, and if I put items in the cart and then change the location from one McDonalds to another, it changes the price and says, literally, that since I changed the location the pices in the cart have changed.
When I was 17, I would already have been embarrassed to work for minimum wage. LOL. There are so many jobs out there for a 17 year old boy to make much more than minimum wage. The reason someone would start at the supermarket or the McDonalds at minimum wage is that they know that fairly soon, if they do well, they get a bump up over mininum, and get a promotion or two. Any boy over, say, the age of 18 that does not make well over minimum wage either (a) should have a goal within the organization he joined to enter at that low wage on the prospect of moving up, or (b) is not trying.
It is roughly the same depending on local currency.
Sure, but any man age 18 or older can find plenty of jobs to do that make over minimum wage. I know illegal aliens who pull $100k cleaning houses. They didn't start out that much, but they became housecleaners, and in short order were making well over minimum wage. I know painters in their 20s making $30 an hour easy. Sure, nobody is going to pay your $30 an hour to ask people at the drive through if you're using the mobile app today and whether you need a receipt. But, if you want to work, you can make much more money than minimum in a lot of ways.
Oh sure they are. Jobs are not "meant" to be one thing or the other. A task or a job is worth what someone is willing to pay. When I look for someone to mow my yard or babysit, I am an employer, and I hire somebody not for whatever purpose they may have for the money. I pay what the job is worth to me. I'm not paying a babysitter $20 an hour to sit and watch TV while I take my wife out to dinner. That's ridiculous. If I want to give an opportunity for a teenager to help out in the office sorting papers or cleaning up, I don't have to pay him enough to support a family of 4.
Progressives are dragging us down. They have a mental block or something and they lack common sense, as well as any understanding of basic economics.
