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BlueAlpha1
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It's not a minority anymore. I'm a millenial that graduated in 2011. I know what my classmates and successors have been through. Our Baby Boomers grew up on this American Dream when it was a plausible reality, but never noticed companies kept moving the goalposts, all the while telling us to put our heads down & keep going. Now you've got millions - yes millions - of college educated people who are being asked to start with slightly higher than minimum wage jobs. In order to obtain a respectable salary, companies want 5 years experience. And by the time you've surpassed the 5 years, they've cut bonuses and benefits so much company-wide that a promotion means you'll end up breaking about even. This is a deliberate scam of epic proportions.You can't make rules based on the minority. And those people you speak of (hard-working people who can't catch a break) are a minority. In America, majority rules. Your thinking is what has sent MANY people down the mistaken road of being a liberal and voting democrat. Don't fall for it. The reason those few minority hard workers are hurting, is because the liberals have raised the base level up so far (welfare) and now there is no noticeable difference. By thinking like a democrat on these issues, you make the situation worse. You are rewarding the sh*tballs that you claim to hate, while hurting the people who you claim you want to help. It is IMPOSSIBLE to tax the rich at this much higher rate, because they can and WILL go overseas. It's not a practical solution. It just isn't, no other discussion is necessary.
I also must say that your view on Bernie is ass backwards to me. His economical issues are straight cracked out IMO.
Also - yes....I took your post the wrong way earlier, my bad on that.
I've already pointed out that corporations are moving overseas anyway. Not raising the minimum wage from $7.25 is not stopping them from going to China where they can pay $1.30. If there's a good reason not to raise it, this isn't it.
I guess we just have to agree to disagree. But I'll be honest, this far right mentality seems to be a uniquely American thing. It is only here we can have multi-billionaires starving people with a sort of soft slavery, and people freak out.
What I think you're missing is $7.25 in 2016 does not equal $7.25 in 2006, so the minimum wage has for all intents and purposes been reduced when you adjust for inflation. But you continue to say don't change anything. The unintended consequence of this is you're giving tacit approval for corporations to continue to exploit & steal. And make no mistake, this increases the number of welfare recipients.
Bill O'Reilly of all people supports raising the minimum wage to $10 (I think it should be 12.) And on a football field where end-zone red is fascism and end-zone blue is communism, the guy is around the red 25 yard line. You're expressing a view far to the right of one of the most conservative public figures in the country.