Yes middle classes face the fact! Soon there will be no middle class. Here in ohio we just adopted a minimum wage increase. An increase of more than $1.50. So now your clowns at mcdonalds are getting paid more. Who does it affect? Middle Class america. We are the spending group. Every time thereis something done to seemingly help the poor it affects us. We pay for the poor to live. Soon there will be no such dollar menu. I dont know if you noticed, but most businesses in a state that adopt a higher minimum wage just raise prices of thier product! I have seen every restaurant in my area do it! My dads business has done it. It happens. We have just effectively raised product cost, minimum wage and the amount of money middle class americans spend. Did you get a raise when minimum wage went up? Doubt it. If you did i doubt that it doesnt compare to the raise that minimum wage just got.
Why cant we leave it down to people needing to realize you need an education in this world? You cant call this socialism, lets face it, it won't leave everyone equal. We will one day all be poor, have little to no rights. It will leave us with multi-billion dollar corporate businesses and rich politician, and the poor.
Have fun with that america.
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"It will leave us with multi-billion dollar corporate businesses and rich politician, and the poor."
Well yeah, buddy, that's kinda the Man's plan. Give me convenience or give me death.
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isn't it a good thing if the minimum wage is raised?
Nope. It causes inflation, doesn't help the people it is suppose to, and hurts a whole bunch of others.
Actually middle class America does get a raise when minimum wage is increased, it takes a while but through changing jobs and salary negotiations the wages of everyone change to reflect the inflationary damage done by an increase in minimum wage.
The major problems with minimum wage are that it decreases competition (think price floor) taking a stepping stone out of the employment ladder, and it is a poor method of poverty alleviation. If the politicians decide that they want to get people out of poverty they should try doing something that works... or at least works better.
The raise in minimum wage gave a 40% raise to anyone making minimum wage.
I don't know about you, but I am lucky to get a 3% raise to match inflation.
what this does is make people like myself poorer. in order to stay in business, the shops I buy from have to raise prices, which makes my dollar less valuable.
In effect, the only thing this democrat congress has done to 'impact america' did nothing but keep the poor poor and make the middle class more poor.
Good work Dems.
Most people are so excited about a raise in minimum wage that they don't see the problems. Who is affected? Consumers. The middle class is the main consumer class. What good does inflation do? That's why I can't support Democrats. They all want to raise minimum wage just to get the votes. They don't care that they're destroying our economy.
They don't have to worry, the Democrats in power, as they are treated as royalty and if they manage to serve a few terms, they get the congressional pension and permanant healthcare plan.
then they never have to deal with the problems of us 'common folk'
That's where we should focus on getting our budget lowered at. You should not get 100% retirement after serving 1-2 terms. The military gets 50% after serving for 20 years (active duty). Congress should be the same. Might teach them to actually listen to what their constituents want.
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Good luck with that. Congress votes on that kind of thing and NEITHER side is willing to cut their own gravy train for the sake of the American People.
Except Fred Thompson. He believed in Term Limits. When his term was up, despite calls for him to run again anyway, he walked away from power.
That scores big points with me.
Yeah, I know. But I can hope. There's just something serious wrong when a bunch of people that do nothing but serve the country (however misguided it may be) have to struggle to avoid bankruptcy when people who sit and get wined and dined in order to serve the interests of big groups get paid enough to sustain several families each year. Or that people who SAVE LIVES get sued for all they're worth, don't get paid what they should, and work like nothing else basically their entire lives have to live with what some guys in suits that don't have a clue about medicine make rules about how they should get paid, and in return get twice the pay themselves.
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That's politics.
One of the reasons why i'm a conservative is this:
People in government are NOT experts in the fields that they regulate by legislative mandate.
They can make the laws that tell you what to do, but that doesn't mean that they're experts at what you do.
here's an example:
Up in MN, the state EPA decided that disposing of flourescent lights in the garbage was bad because it, like, hurt the environment and made Mother nature cry.
So, they passed a regulation (EPA can't pass laws, but they can pass regulations and fine you.... There's a difference somehow, I'm sure.) that said that you had to recycle your flourescent lights, and oddly enough, there popped up the only company that the EPA would let do it. (payoff? nah.....)
My dad ran a manufacturing company for the owner. They were told that such regulation would only apply to plants like GM, which had people who just drove around in carts and changed lightbulbs, having so much waste that it concentrated the lead and mercury and such.
The regulation passed, as it is good for the environment and people who opposed it wanted to destroy the earth (one suggested that being so cruel to the environment as throwing away flourescent lights is akin to raping the planet..... yes. 'raping the planet.')
Well, then my dad's 5 man shop got a letter stating that they hadn't signed up for the new 'recycling' program for flourescent lights yet, as was required by the new regulation. Despite what they were told, it was required for everyone
So, even though they only tossed lights out every other month or so if one happened to burn out, one light at a time, they had to pay a monthly fee, by government mandate, to a private organization that 'properly disposed' of the flourescent lights.
What did they do with them that was more environmentally sound so as to not 'concentrate' the toxic chemicals like they said companies like 3M did?
They buried them in their own landfill. together. concentrating them.
Always support less government regulation. It is the only way to keep the idiots out of your pocketbook.
Why the disdain for raising minimum wage? Isn't only fair to pay employees a living wage?