New York to raise fast food workers minimum wage to $15 per hour.

Wordslinger wrote:

PkrBum wrote:It's just more pandering to the weak. Those unwilling to better themselves. The green participation ribbon mentality.

Throughout human history there have been those that are ill prepared... not willing to work hard. Now that is celebrated.

Can you imagine human evolution taking place along these terms? Lol... we would still be in the stone age.

And we certainly won't evolve much being here with this agenda. It's as if people have forgotten the struggle.

We're a bunch of candy assed weaklings these days. We don't know sacrifice or risk. It's a safetynet society.

The west would've never been ours under this mentality. I can't imagine leftists venturing into the unknown.

Shows how little you know about leftists.  You should'a been with me on the island of Babeldoub, in Palau.  Or at El Nido, in Palawan, Philippine islands, or Aitutaki in the Cook Islands, or Waiheke, in Auckland.  Or Fuji Yoshida at the foot of Mt. Fuji, or the Bob Marshal Forest, in Montana on the Continental Divide.  You gutless wonder conservatives are afraid of trying Thai food,  lol.    

Wordslinger wrote:

Joanimaroni wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:Why do republicans hate the idea of fast food workers earning a living wage?  Why do they resent poor workers getting a raise?  It's good to know your enemies!

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm

$15.00 for a fast food worker without an education would be making more money than many trained/educated individuals that do a lot more than ask if you want it "super-sized".

Can you cite some instances of trained/educated individuals working for less than $15 per hour?

Obamasucks wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

PkrBum wrote:It's just more pandering to the weak. Those unwilling to better themselves. The green participation ribbon mentality.

Throughout human history there have been those that are ill prepared... not willing to work hard. Now that is celebrated.

Can you imagine human evolution taking place along these terms? Lol... we would still be in the stone age.

And we certainly won't evolve much being here with this agenda. It's as if people have forgotten the struggle.

We're a bunch of candy assed weaklings these days. We don't know sacrifice or risk. It's a safetynet society.

The west would've never been ours under this mentality. I can't imagine leftists venturing into the unknown.

Shows how little you know about leftists.  You should'a been with me on the island of Babeldoub, in Palau.  Or at El Nido, in Palawan, Philippine islands, or Aitutaki in the Cook Islands, or Waiheke, in Auckland.  Or Fuji Yoshida at the foot of Mt. Fuji, or the Bob Marshal Forest, in Montana on the Continental Divide.  You gutless wonder conservatives are afraid of trying Thai food,  lol.    

Like me, you were a visitor to those islands doing nothing else but being a tourist. At least I climbed Fuji when I was stationed at the base of the mountain.

2seaoat wrote:Fast food workers surely don't deserve to make more than the entry level military workers who risk their lives.

Why not.  As we downsize the military, we do not need more homeless military without skills to make it in the real world.  We need living wages for Americans and less military entry level folks. I have worked as a bus boy and dishwasher making minimum wage, and it was those jobs which paid for my college education.  Today a kid cannot help pay his college education on minimum wage.  I am thankful in 1966 through 1972 I had access to a fair minimum wage.....it changed my life.

Wordslinger wrote:

Obamasucks wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

PkrBum wrote:It's just more pandering to the weak. Those unwilling to better themselves. The green participation ribbon mentality.

Throughout human history there have been those that are ill prepared... not willing to work hard. Now that is celebrated.

Can you imagine human evolution taking place along these terms? Lol... we would still be in the stone age.

And we certainly won't evolve much being here with this agenda. It's as if people have forgotten the struggle.

We're a bunch of candy assed weaklings these days. We don't know sacrifice or risk. It's a safetynet society.

The west would've never been ours under this mentality. I can't imagine leftists venturing into the unknown.

Shows how little you know about leftists.  You should'a been with me on the island of Babeldoub, in Palau.  Or at El Nido, in Palawan, Philippine islands, or Aitutaki in the Cook Islands, or Waiheke, in Auckland.  Or Fuji Yoshida at the foot of Mt. Fuji, or the Bob Marshal Forest, in Montana on the Continental Divide.  You gutless wonder conservatives are afraid of trying Thai food,  lol.    

Like me, you were a visitor to those islands doing nothing else but being a tourist. At least I climbed Fuji when I was stationed at the base of the mountain.

No baby, except for my four hunting trips to the Bob Marshal Wilderness, I lived from several months to years on the places I listed.  And I don't believe you climbed Fuji.  Prove it to me.   How many stations to the top?

Joanimaroni wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

Joanimaroni wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:Why do republicans hate the idea of fast food workers earning a living wage?  Why do they resent poor workers getting a raise?  It's good to know your enemies!

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm

$15.00 for a fast food worker without an education would be making more money than many trained/educated individuals that do a lot more than ask if you want it "super-sized".

Can you cite some instances of trained/educated individuals working for less than $15 per hour?

I gave you a list...many medical assistants, hospital technicians,  secretarial/office  workers,  and delivery people to name a few.

I also remember when I made $15.00 an hour....the work was never as easy as pushing pictures on a cash register.  Breaks and lunches  were taken only when time permitted. The 10 hour days often stretched to 12-13 hours a day.

Wordslinger wrote:

Joanimaroni wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

Joanimaroni wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:Why do republicans hate the idea of fast food workers earning a living wage?  Why do they resent poor workers getting a raise?  It's good to know your enemies!

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm

$15.00 for a fast food worker without an education would be making more money than many trained/educated individuals that do a lot more than ask if you want it "super-sized".

Can you cite some instances of trained/educated individuals working for less than $15 per hour?

I gave you a list...many medical assistants, hospital technicians,  secretarial/office  workers,  and delivery people to name a few.

I also remember when I made $15.00 an hour....the work was never as easy as pushing pictures on a cash register.  Breaks and lunches  were taken only when time permitted. The 10 hour days often stretched to 12-13 hours a day.

You consider secretarial/office workers trained and educated, ditto for delivery service workers?  Does an X-ray technician or lab technician make less than $15 an hour?

Wordslinger wrote:It's clear none of you conservatives here have ever worked the kitchen at Chic Filet, or been part of the clean-up crew at Hardy's ...  you people are consistent in expressing your hatred for the less fortunate folks whose only possibility of a long term job is McDonalds.  Thank you for reminding me why I dislike and disrespect y'all.  

Wordslinger wrote:

Obamasucks wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

PkrBum wrote:It's just more pandering to the weak. Those unwilling to better themselves. The green participation ribbon mentality.

Throughout human history there have been those that are ill prepared... not willing to work hard. Now that is celebrated.

Can you imagine human evolution taking place along these terms? Lol... we would still be in the stone age.

And we certainly won't evolve much being here with this agenda. It's as if people have forgotten the struggle.

We're a bunch of candy assed weaklings these days. We don't know sacrifice or risk. It's a safetynet society.

The west would've never been ours under this mentality. I can't imagine leftists venturing into the unknown.

Shows how little you know about leftists.  You should'a been with me on the island of Babeldoub, in Palau.  Or at El Nido, in Palawan, Philippine islands, or Aitutaki in the Cook Islands, or Waiheke, in Auckland.  Or Fuji Yoshida at the foot of Mt. Fuji, or the Bob Marshal Forest, in Montana on the Continental Divide.  You gutless wonder conservatives are afraid of trying Thai food,  lol.

Like me, you were a visitor to those islands doing nothing else but being a tourist. At least I climbed Fuji when I was stationed at the base of the mountain.

No baby, except for my four hunting trips to the Bob Marshal Wilderness, I lived from several months to years on the places I listed.  And I don't believe you climbed Fuji.  Prove it to me.   How many stations to the top?

2seaoat wrote:Nothing personal, but the teat sucking has to stop with manufactured wars which do NOTHING to defend America and make the military Industrial complex rich.  The five trillion dollar price tag of the two wars and cutting taxes has hurt America, and the brilliant idea of the GI bill has been abused with these wars of aggression such that America is up to its gills with debt and not a scintilla of differences with all the teat suckers and government grants.....we need people working and contributing in the private sector.  My son's friends who were marginal before Iraq are back with marginal jobs, stipends for school, and GI loans on a home.....it is not all about the best and brightest, or a recruitment ad, but some pretty sad stuff.  We need kids to work and build a future, but instead we have more handouts to give.  I am not anti service man, but anti stupid wars and the mess it starts when the walking wounded come home and are permanently on the government dole as abuses are rampant......pay a working wage and get this country back on course where the private sector is where folks work.

2seaoat wrote:Mr. Markle is trying to paste and cut his way up the IQ ladder to an economist.....his misconceptions of how economics work are epic......but his questions only confirm his was once a realtor which most certainly fit his ranking.   When you start posting peer reviewed articles on the impact of the minimum wage by economist maybe somebody will try to have a dialogue with somebody who has serious conceptual problems, but until then tell us what inflation is, or a managing broker, or when you are required to disclose your status at a real estate auction.......you keep adding to the list.....and quite frankly.....that is priceless, but I am still waiting if you have a clue on the different classifications of manufactured homes and the requirements to become real estate.......I definitely think you need to stay a ghost because right now I am certain you do stand up comedy.

2seaoat wrote:Did not like my answer.  In regard to kids which were serious head cases before they went in the military and came out worse......yea the ads do not show that reality.  One of his friends in on permanent disability for mental issues.....he was marginal when he went in and now has a disability check the rest of his life.  Others were lost kids who had run out of options.....it was not like the recruitment ads, and after divorces and meandering around with no purpose and getting their stipends and going to school with no direction....yea, raise the minimum wage and cut the military......lets try to give kids a real chance without using them as cannon fodder for profits for MIC.

Wordslinger wrote:

Joanimaroni wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

Joanimaroni wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:Why do republicans hate the idea of fast food workers earning a living wage?  Why do they resent poor workers getting a raise?  It's good to know your enemies!

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm

$15.00 for a fast food worker without an education would be making more money than many trained/educated individuals that do a lot more than ask if you want it "super-sized".

Can you cite some instances of trained/educated individuals working for less than $15 per hour?

I gave you a list...many medical assistants, hospital technicians,  secretarial/office  workers,  and delivery people to name a few.

I also remember when I made $15.00 an hour....the work was never as easy as pushing pictures on a cash register.  Breaks and lunches  were taken only when time permitted. The 10 hour days often stretched to 12-13 hours a day.

You consider secretarial/office workers trained and educated, ditto for delivery service workers?  Does an X-ray technician or lab technician make less than $15 an hour?

2seaoat wrote:Did not like my answer.  In regard to kids which were serious head cases before they went in the military and came out worse......yea the ads do not show that reality.  One of his friends in on permanent disability for mental issues.....he was marginal when he went in and now has a disability check the rest of his life.  Others were lost kids who had run out of options.....it was not like the recruitment ads, and after divorces and meandering around with no purpose and getting their stipends and going to school with no direction....yea, raise the minimum wage and cut the military......lets try to give kids a real chance without using them as cannon fodder for profits for MIC.

PkrBum wrote:Do you even know what "earn" means?  I highly doubt it. You've been conditioned to conflate it with a hand out.

My idea of just adding a zero to the end of every dollar amount makes more sense.