Working has to pay an employee enough to support a family. “””
IF 16 & 17 y/o’s were NOT already the ‘baby daddy of 6 or 9 kids’, they would NOT be ‘supporting a family’.
It certainly isn’t the businesses which should bear the cost of their behavior.
There are already millions of persons getting paid over $7 an hour and they are NOT worth spit!!!
I called a local real estate place Monday to ask the price of a house in my neighborhood that is up for sale. The owner died about a year ago. I asked the person who answered the phone-—ONLY for the price of the property. She has to ‘look in the computer’. After over 4 minutes, I tell her “that when things were on paper- you could find it quicker”. She stumbles some more & then tells me the agent would have to call me back, she cannot find any information for me.
I am talking about a house that is in a community of less than 5000 people They cannot have so many listings that 5 minutes isn’t enough time to find me a simple answer.
I said ‘Forget it” and I hung up.
That girl shouldn’t even have a job!!!
Another example::
I moved here 9 years ago. I had to obtain new vehicle insurance and I called a State Farm agent in the nearest place where there was such an agency.
I needed insurance for a truck, a station wagon, a 2 horse trail and a 4 horse trailer. I had had such coverage for 19 years with State Farm in the adjoining state.
The ‘lady’ at the agency couldn’t understand why I wanted insurance on the 2 trailers. I tried over & over to tell her that IF they got stolen, I couldn’t afford to replace them.
She kept asking me the ENGINE size in the 4 horse trailer. I kept saying a TRAILER doesn’t have an engine!!! I kept asking to talk to the head agent. I wasn’t allowed to bother him!!! She finally said she would send me a form to fill out. I was NOT happy with this agency, and it had come highly recommended.
Within 2 months, I switched to a State Farm agency a bit further away in another local town. When the agent at the first place got that info, he couldn’t call me fast enough to ‘find out why I had switched’. I am talking literally a 2 hour window of time!!! I was sorely tempted to call him back & tell him of the total incompetence of his clerk, but I let it go. She wouldn’t have been hired at my ranch at ANY price to keep water tanks full for the animals!!!
Minimum wage is a burden on an employer to keep paying a person far more than they are worth.
In the long run we'd save more people and maybe save the US if we got rid of all of the freebies....a cot to sleep on, a warm shower, a bowl of soup, and that's it. Anyone wants any more, let them work for it or die in the streets.