Living wage

[frotte (Frank Rotte)]

@plesieur

I disagree.

I had employees and I owed them guidance, education skills and reasonable wages. My lowest paid guys worked hard for a fair wage, I never made more money by keeping them down, some got good enough to try and compete with me.

What good is someone working 50 hours a week who can’t provide basic needs?
You and I support these folks by paying for their medical and other needs.
I didn’t say take money from the rich, I said minimum wage isn’t enough. Maybe not $15 an hour but more than $7.00.

I would gladly pay 20 cents more for a burger to help these people out, problem is if the companies charged 20 cents more for a burger the money would go to upper management and the shareholders.

You would fit right in with the general populace of California. Come on down.

[plesieur (Paul Lesieur, CMI)]

No thanks on California.

I do not support the $15 minimum, I do support one effort to raise to $10.50 or $11.00

I understand the free market well enough as I have been self employed most of my life including when I was a kid delivering papers, corner papers in the city, shoveling snow, my parents gave me the basics but if I wanted a bike I paid for it myself.

I don’t consider myself a liberal but I do support having a more equitable economy. America is not even in the top 10 these days for some of the things that makes a country great. Having a lot of poor people is nothing to be proud of.

[mlarson (Michael Larson, WI Lic. # 1672-106)]

@plesieur

No thanks on California.

I do not support the $15 minimum, I do support one effort to raise to $10.50 or $11.00

I understand the free market well enough as I have been self employed most of my life including when I was a kid delivering papers, corner papers in the city, shoveling snow, my parents gave me the basics but if I wanted a bike I paid for it myself.

I don’t consider myself a liberal but I do support having a more equitable economy. America is not even in the top 10 these days for some of the things that makes a country great. Having a lot of poor people is nothing to be proud of.

You’re a cheap skate.

You can’t raise a family on $10.50 an hour.

[mmeeker (Michael Meeker, CMI)]

Then I guess if you want a family you had better get some skills.

[mlarson (Michael Larson, WI Lic. # 1672-106)]

@mmeeker

Then I guess if you want a family you had better get some skills.

You don’t get it.

Just demand a raise. The boss man can go hungry.

Please, its soooo simple.

[mmeeker (Michael Meeker, CMI)]

That is where my savings went to keep paying folks to work even when the builders cut my prices. When my money was gone the workers said oh well and went to the next guy without so much as a thank you. Not counting 2 guys that had worked for me for 15+ years.

The builders sure as s h i t did not give a cra p that I spent every dime I had trying to make there numbers work. They just moved on to deeper pockets that could work on a lower margin. F u c k 20+ years of loyalty.

[rjude (Robert Jude, HI00900033)]

@mmarlow

At $15/hour a fry-boy would make $31,200 annually. An E-1 in the military makes $18,378. To get over $31,200 a military member would have to be an E-5 with 6 years in. Sorry, but the argument for $15/hour is invalid until military pay is raised to the same amount.

Mike

and food, housing, and free 100% paid insurance worth at least 20k additionally.