***Americans won’t work for the $8 per hour***
EIGHT DOLLARS AN HOUR! I remember working picking beans in the hot hot summer for one cent a pound! On a good day after a rain I could make $5.00 a day! When the weather was dry we got about $2.80 a day even though we picked the same amount of beans.
But then, there was NO WELFARE back then.
My first job working at McDonalds paid $2.90 an hour. According to the inflation calculator, you’d have to make $9.03 an hour in 2012 to have the same purchasing power. Of course the minimum wage in certain California cities is well over that. But why work when you can get $1800/mo in benefits without lifting a finger?
Rand is right - simple economics dictates that no able-bodied adult will work for $8/hr anymore.