Posted on 06/02/2014 7:12:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A February report from the Seattle Times revealed:
At the Clarion Hotel off International Boulevard, a sit-down restaurant has been shuttered, though it might soon be replaced by a less-labor-intensive cafe…
Other businesses have adjusted in ways that run the gamut from putting more work in the hands of managers, to instituting a small “living-wage surcharge” for a daily parking space near the airport.
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I just don't know how we get back to sanity easily. The percentage of those who don't work among young adults is staggering. They have to be brought into the job market. This cuts across ethnic and racial lines. As near as I can see, it doesn't involve ability. It's that it's too easy for them to survive without working.
The US needs a "time out" to stabilize our population.
Well, obviously the solution is to raise it up to $25/hr now to compensate for the reductions in benefits.
I would expect that the minimum wage workers would be limited to the number of hours that prevent unemployment bennies; thus, the employer is in the clear. Jus sayin...
Whatever their rhetoric, just a little time in DC and all but a few are seduced by the Chamber of Commerce message. It'll take a real crisis, probably after it's too late, for DC to stop the insanity.
Something Liberals never understand. They think just because they say it, it will be so.
Wondering how many people will get that reference .... well played.
I do not remember where I saw it, but I read last Friday that one in six American males between the ages of 25 and 54 IS NOT WORKING.
That's worse than the Great Depression. The media's silence is deafening.
raising the minimum wage accomplishes nothing.
the price of everything simply goes up and those people still employed who are making more lose some or all assistance they are getting. When all the dust clears, they could conceivably have less total income they before and be able to buy less with each dollar.
But it sounds and feeeeeeeeels so good! Isn’t that enough for you people????
Maybe; unemployment payments are a state program. (The feds either outright gave or “loaned” many billions to many states during the worst unemployment period of 2008-2009.) I know that a couple of years ago CA did not distinguish between full time or part time; they asked how much did you make each of the last six quarters, and based the payment on the highest quarter.
“It turns out that leftists can’t repeal the law of supply and demand.”
Well, they could (sort of) if they went full-bore communism. OK, not exactly a repeal, but more like they could moot it since there would be zero supply but infinite demand.
Had a local McDs that was going to fall under the boom of the Obama 10.10 an hour wage increase for military contractors. It’s on military leased property but had civilian access. Was always busy but Mcds ran the numbers and closed it. They couldn’t afford it. Other area Mcds were at least able to find the displaced workers jobs. So now dependents who worked there and were able to walk or bike to work can’t.
They still have a bowling alley that came under the same contractor wage rules. Friends wanted to go in and get some food but not bowl. The place instituted an 8 dollar cover charge if you’re not bowling. They didn’t say it but the cover charge was to make up for the Obama wage rules.
The $16, then $18, then $20...
I think you may have answered your own questions.
If the workers can only make 2.5 cups of coffee per hour, the business is doomed anyway.
I used to be opposed to raises in the minimum wage. The argument that supply and demand should set the wage makes perfect sense economically, socially and morally. But the problem is that the business community isn’t satisfied with that. They believe they should pay far less than any employee will work for, and when no employee will take the job, they should be able to import foreign workers, and leave the public to pay for food, housing, shelter and medical care.
There is a minimum wage in America, and it’s a lot more than $15 an hour. The only thing is that its paid for by taxpayers, not employers. It’s about damned time employers pay for their own workers.
In other words, you support stupidity and liberalism as long as it happens slowly.
Listen up. The REAL minimum wage is ZERO. These folks are finding that out. It is entirely un-conservatinve to support any minimum wage (i.e. a wage level that is artificially set by bureaucrats). Let the market decide what a job is worth and we will all be better off, or we can go full stupid and turn it over to the politicians and watch in confusion as the law of unintended consequences goes to work.
Seattle City Council is voting on it today.
And please don't try the sophomoric argument that the US citizen benefits. Our globalist masters get obscenely rich from the practice, while US citizens become ever more dependent on government handouts. Haven't you noticed? The gap between rich and poor and the destruction of the middle class is out of control.
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