2014
Bill Maher sarcastically notes the average fast food worker is nearly 29 years old. The average fast food worker earns between $7.25 and $10 per hour.
If you consider yourself a progressive, you likely see a problem … the low wage earned by these workers.
If you are prone to be a bit more conservative, you see a problem … what the heck are 29 year olds (and older) doing trying to earn a living at a fast food restaurant?
So we have a problem to solve and a real problem to solve. The hourly rate paid to these workers is the symptom or result of the actual problem. The actual problem of course is people age 29 who cannot, for whatever reason, do better than a job at a fast food joint.
Progressives want to raise the wage and then move on to the next cause. Is the problem solved? Not really, unless making the progressive feel better helping the downtrodden is the goal.
A conservative might want to find a way to motivate and enable these workers to move on to a better paying vocation.
Isn’t this the essence of the issues we face?
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I believe the deeper issue is not job training, skills, or what we pay 29 year old people to serve hamburgers. The deeper issue is lack of better jobs requiring the skills these workers already have.
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Well said, Mr. Haney and the Trans Pacific Partnership that big business is trying to “fast track” right by Congress and the American people will make the situation much worse.
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What skills are we talking about that can’t be used? Isn’t part of the issue they may be different skills in a world economy?
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OK, maybe you didn’t hear me? One more time:
Tell me how they can change their skill levels while they remain in subjugated poverty under the heel of the 1% at hourly wages below the “poverty level”?
“A conservative might want to find a way to motivate and enable these workers to move on to a better paying vocation.”
So to achieve those lofty goals, conservative House Republicans obstruct extension of unemployment benefits, obstruct increasing the minimum wage, slash food stamps, head start, meals on wheels, obstruct our President’s infra structure jobs programs, etc.
Is that “motivating and enabling these workers to move on to a better paying vocation”????
Your statements are ludicrous and totally devoid of logic, reasoning and truth! You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
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You might be less of a curmudgeon if you lived in Sweden.
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Ah, a nice thought out logic based response.
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The question to the right wing Tea Party ideologue fanatics remains:
“Do you want a smaller federal government with less welfare handouts, or do you want a low or no minimum wage?” You cannot have both. That logic is totally irrefutable! The Tea Party ideologue maniacal fanatics’ policies are to eliminate unemployment by hiring everyone who does not have a job, but not paying them and to eliminate poverty in America by forcing all of those slovenly, lazy and despicable poor people to starve to death. That is their “American Dream”.
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And, oh by the way, here’s a guy who really understands what is happening as the owners of the Tea Party ideologue maniacal fanatic congress members (the Koch brothers, et al.) are proceeding with their plans to buy the congress and the presidency, if they can:
George Carlin understands what is happening. Do you, the readers of this blog?
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