Posted on 11/13/2006 2:04:54 AM PST by goldstategop
Hey - don't you see the red warning on every FR reply page? It says "Loose lips sink ships."
Please don't let the secret out that we all get $5,000 each month from a secret Swiss bank account. Let's continue the myth that education, having children in a timely fashion and/or a reasonable number, avoiding a life of crime and hard work are the keys to staying above the poverty line.
I'd hate to ruin all the 'daughter with asthma' stories for the MSM.
Another BS myth courtesy of the MSM and misguided local politicians and chambers of commerce.
We won't be hearing any of these stories after the RATs are in power for a while. Reid & Pelosi, Inc. will take care of everything and everyone and all will be sweetness and light.
Most of the people in the world would love to have our poverty levels wages. They would think they are rich, and they would be right. I live on disabiity of $1200/mo and I know I am rich. It is the same amount I made as a college professor, and affords me many luxuries. It makes me sick the way Americans complain. As for the article, it sounds to me like social workers fighting to keep their jobs when problems are well solved.
I see those same ads, and I know what's behind them. All employers of entry-level workers are looking for an employee who is a hard worker, self-starting, and who has good literacy and arithmetic skills.
Sadly, a high school diploma doesn't give employers that confdence anymore, which is why they look for a college degree.
Mostly true, but the kids drive my worn out Saturn with 200K miles. They work out the sharing and know if they wreck it they buy the next one.
They have much more than they need and will be investing at least 1/2 of it.
If we'd just increase the minimum wage to 30 dollars an hour, our problems w/ poverty would all be a thing of the past. And we should give it a new name. We'll call it "the maximum wage." And we should make employers keep paying it, even after retirement, so we can solve the social security problem.
OR, we could simply eliminate the whole concept of a minimum wage, and force employers to compete for employees by offering different salaries, instead of letting them get away w/ this wage monopoly scheme, which our government keeps propogating. The whole concept of a minimum wage is like an anti-employee plan, and whether designed to help or to hurt, keeps wages artificially low.
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