A vote for obama is a vote to take away your rights
08-27-2012, 01:49 PM
#191
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Ozarks
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A minimum wage is needed, not because people are entitled to it, but because companies will never voluntarily pay someone a livable wage. The housing market, both rent and cost of houses, is so far above what people make for a 40 hour work shift at minimum wage that the lack of one just will increase poverty.
08-27-2012, 01:56 PM
#192
Spike
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Rhode Island
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I would be willing to bet that, that is unlikely. From my own experiences in the automotive industry, companies are more willing to hire the lowest common denominator for insulting wages than pay a little more for the school trained candidates.
Last edited by SpawnedX; 08-27-2012 at 02:01 PM.
08-27-2012, 02:03 PM
#193
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Ozarks
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It's a certain fact that the minimum wage, as it stands, doesn't work, so they need to make one change or the other.
08-27-2012, 02:40 PM
#194
Boone & Crockett
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Location: Maine
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Only trolls keep a thread like this going---just sayin!!! No comment at all on another nobrainer from Phil!!!
08-27-2012, 05:36 PM
#195
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Maine
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Actually RR I am a control room operator and have recieved high comments from both sides union and salaried. \If you care to know more read the Meet the Political Posters thread.. As My last post was planned then. I did make this one exception..
Last edited by Phil from Maine; 08-28-2012 at 06:22 AM.
08-28-2012, 12:07 PM
#196
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Promise land ,KY
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and then there was prevailing wage... forcing the goverment to pay a guy that is pushing a broom on a construction site $28 dollars an hour, or a guy holding a sign on the side of the road $40 an hour. I agree unions have increase wages in this country but why should the goverment have to pay 25 to 30 percent more to build a building so they can grossly over pay people. That being said a lot of union guys earn there money (carpenters at 26ish dollars an hour, Iron workers at 35ish dollars an hour, entry level police a 45 -50k a year) but some of it is just out of hand, paying unskilled individuals to perform unskilled work $28 an hour is wasted money that puts this county further in debt.
08-28-2012, 12:19 PM
#197
Fork Horn
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Reminds me of an ancecdote a buddy of mine told me who lost a paystub at the car lot where he's a paint and body man. The lot boy, who does nothing but clean cars and police the lot, found the stub and complained to the manager that he worked more hours that week and got paid less than my buddy.
Libthink
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08-29-2012, 04:53 AM
#199
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Idaho
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The only way to get a handle on this economy is to get fuel prices down. Guess who runs big oil? The Republicans! Yeah we need to give them more tax breaks so they can drive the price of fuel even higher. The high price of fuel is driving up the price of everything.
08-29-2012, 05:02 AM
#200
Fork Horn
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Location: Ozarks
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If you can document to me how Reagan was one of the "worst" presidents in history, I'll vote for a muslim communist this time.