One of my daughter’s is a lower level retail department manager for a national book chain.
She earns $11 something an hour and gives 110% to her employer and more importantly to her customers. She manages the children’s department.
Several mothers have told her that they want to go see her at the bookstore. They know her name and seek her out for recommendations and to have some fun.
She brings tremendous value to the company. I know that she’s got the eye of the store management and hopefully regional management. Hopefully, her reputation might bounce her up to a different position with higher wages and responsibility. In the meantime, she’s on the stepping stone. That’s what entry jobs are supposed to be.
Why not shoot for even more than $15? If the job is going away,anyway...DUH!! What’s wrong with these people? Entry level jobs were never meant to compete with the higher-paid jobs.
Until the USA gets a grip and cuts immigration to nothing, both legal and illegal, then I am for the minimum wage. You can’t have open borders and no minimum wage that is a one way trip to Brazil style economics.
The Chamber of Cronies and K Street has corrupted the Congress into keeping the borders open and as a result labor has very little value. There are to many people chasing to few jobs.
the love of money is the root of all evil.
more money solves very few problems, because the root problem is not usually money.
If I was in the robot business, I would be contributing handsomely to the $15-per-hour activist movement. I would be giving as much as I could to the most militant, loud, violent, extreme groups in it.
” Again, making $21,000 a year as a cashier is no great shakes, but it’s better than going on welfare, needing unemployment compensation or idleness. “
Because that puts the unemployed and welfare recipient directly into the hands of the Democrat party. Everything the Democrats do is meant to destroy the human spirit and make the affected dependent on the Democrats for his next meal.
The photo is quite telling. Nicely dressed white young adults holding professionally designed protest signs demanding $15 an hour minimum wages. Someone is paying them to protest. I wonder if they are getting $15 an hour to agitate against businesses that can’t afford to pay the demanded amount. I wonder who is paying them to protest. I wonder if it is someone with the consonants S, R, S. Can I buy a vowel, Alex? I would like an O.
If $15 is good, why not $150?
They think Marx and Engels are the greatest economists to ever live and Marxist theory is utopia.
What ever happened to the belief that you earn what you are worth? Whether or not you like it, you are simply a TOOL that is used to produce income...nothing more. Don’t like it? Do something to improve your worth to an employer.
With that in mind minimum wage workers are like union workers. Their collective ignorance astounds me! Why? Let me delineate the perfect example: Let’s say your employer makes a net profit margin of 7%. That is that he makes a clear profit of $7.00 after paying all bills and expenses. Now the government (or union thugs) come in and tell him he is now going to pay the minimum wage employees $5.00 per hour more. Guess what happens?
His matching social security goes up accordingly. His gross operating costs went up substantially. Any (and all) insurance and/or employee related costs based upon employee pay go up. WHAT CAN HE DO? Raise the price of his services or products to try to maintain the same profit margin he had before the mandated pay raise!
Then...the union mentality kicks in again because they want another pay hike because for some strange reason their cost of living went up with the pay raise...and the circle goes around and around again... That’s what union members do: Strike and get a pay raise because the cost of living over the past years has gone up. Once they strike there is now more expendable income in the community and the prices go up again...and the circle goes around and around again.
Seems like the powers that be have squeezed the current wage turnip as much as it can withstand. Raising the minimum wage will certainly allow for more taxes and union dues to be raked in at windfall proportions.
If only!
$21,000 a year QUALIFIES you for many welfare programs.
If she is a single woman, no children, she would be eligible for about $20 a month in Food Stamps, she would qualify for the most generous level of Section 8 rent assistance in most big cities, she would qualify for the most generous level of ObamaCare, she would qualify for phone assistance and heating assistance, and probably more programs I don't even know about.
If she has a child, add in full Medicaid coverage for the child and some medical assistance for Mom, free public schooling and multiple food programs for the child, additional Food Stamps, and TANF cash for the family, and the Earned Income Tax Credit.