Just wondering Diablo, what is your solution? You know as well as anyone that cost of living seems to rise every year, even in cases of low inflation, which by the way does not include housing costs....which is out of control in many areas, what would you want? $5.00 per hour min wage? Forever? Do you think McDonalds would put in self service kiosks if it meant another $.50 per share profit on their next 10k? I'm not sure if you are saying $15 per hour is just not the answer and there is a solution, or you are just complaining about $15 an hour. Okay, and then get rid of ACA....now all these people end up in the emergency room for basic care.....the worst efficiency for benefits. So what is your solution?
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/militar...es-officer-gen-mad-dog-mattis-left-my-n691211 So Trumps pick for defense is someone who refused to offer rescue to a group of Green Berets that were attacked in a case of friendly fire when his choppers were only 45 minutes away. Several Green Berets died on route when a special forces base in Pakistan had to be called for relief hours away. This base responded immediately based on the same information when Mattis refused. Later Mattis reprimanded and relieved a commander for doing the same thing he did. What a hypocrite. And yet we spent countless months and excoriated Hillary Clinton....who was not a military officer....for Benghazi? Double standard.
i respect your response and wish i had a way to employ and take care of everyone in the world but I don't and neither do you My point is this is NOT the way to do it and the response was predictable because many here said this is exactly what would happen The FF jobs were starter jobs until liberals decided they should be a job to sustain a life style These are part time more or less mindless worker bee jobs that anyone can do I know its not a popular theme but life requires work and hard work at that. continuously. The idea behind America always was you are given an opportunity to improve your life and that is not a guarantee I was taught to work hard, save money, invest and deny myself as much as possible That is sort of a core tenant of my family and then suddenly I have too much and need to give it away I am totally sympathetic to people on the streets and the plight of the poor in fact I see myself wanting to get more involved than ever Not going to talk about what I do or what I am planning to do until I really have something to be proud of besides throwing money at it But to think you can control the plight of the under educated and poor by artificially raising wages is utter foolishness
this fast food jobs provided some measure of income for low-skilled/entry level employees in need there are people out there who would gladly take any job and yet the libs decided they should make more for doing mindless labor and now instead of making ≈$10/hr for flipping burgers, they'll be out of work careful what you wish for they wanted mccdonalds to do something, and they did happy now? just sorry for the people out there who were happy with the way things were collateral damage from the perpetual liberal cry-athon fucken idiots
Okay, if that is your argument...what avenues fir upward mobility to these people have? Start their own businesses? With what? A loan from Wells Fargo? Help from non-existent friends? The America you are talking about does NOT EXIST ANYMORE! Why is that so difficult to understand? The factory jobs and manufacturing jobs that allowed that chance to move into the middle class, get healthcare and pensions are GONE! They were offshored when corporations realized they can make iPhones for 60% profit margins by sending them to China....or do engineering in India. If you've read the papers in the last 30 years you will notice thag we have replaced manufacturing with "service" jobs....and they don't mean everyone has become doctors, lawyers and MBA's. It means the only jobs remaining are being greeters at Walmart or burger flippers at McDonalds or even worse, working for that asshole at Papa Johns who said ACA would cause him to fire workers while he built a mansion in Florida with its own golf course. This isnt right. Not everyone wins the lottery. And in this environment....you either win the lottery, or you are stuck in hell. The "middle" is being eaten away..
thats why i voted Trump and hope he truly can bring back jobs to this country he just managed to keep carrier in indiana and ford in kentucky before taking office i have never agreed w shipping manufacturing jobs abroad in that whole "new world order" globalization bullshit we need to make things here and have our government make profitability possible might even decide to teach shop in schools again for those who don't have the same opportunities then they save, invest etc and the next generation does better that WAS the american way
Is your assertion that there is no upward mobility in the United States? That's patently absurd and not even worth debating. Minimum wage jobs were never meant to be living wage jobs, or jobs to support a family. Learn a trade, get an education, learn some skills. That's how you move up. It's difficult to understand because it is simply not true. If anything, its easier to get out of the bottom quintile than ever before. http://www.economist.com/news/unite...obile-it-was-generation-ago-mobility-measured http://www.nationalreview.com/corne...social-mobility-other-countries-scott-winship US manufacturing output has increased over the last 30 years not decreased. The job loss isn't due to outsourcing(evil corporations!!!), its due to automation. Those jobs are gone and never coming back. Same thing happened with agriculture. In 1870, almost 50 percent of the US population was employed in agriculture. In of 2008, less than 2 percent of the population is directly employed in agriculture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_the_United_States Job markets change, and job seekers must adapt with them. Once again, simply not true. It tugs at the heartstrings, but it's not true. There are plenty of tech and IT jobs. And there are still, and for the forseeable future, there will be plenty of jobs in the trades (plumbing, electrical, construction, etc.) The entire economy hasn't been turned into Walmart (Evil Corporations again!!!) greeters. See the earlier links about social mobility. It's as good or better than it ever has been.
Your sourcd is the actual National Freakin Review?? Wow, no conflict of interest there....the publication that thought William F Buckley's son wasnt conervative enough to be the editor.
That's the best you got? An attack on the source? The national review sourced its numbers from Pew research. Also sourced the Economist. Or is that not good enough for you either? Shall I just recount emotional talking points that have no basis in fact?
A more objective source from Harvard http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/the-mobility-myth 70 percent of those who are poor never make it to middle class. 20% of the top quintile of the middle class only make it to the top 1%. This was not the case 30-40 years ago.....notice how that coincides with the Nixon and Reagan eras. Even in places like San Jose, only 13% in the bottom quintile ever reach the top. In places like Mississippi, the upward mobility rate is some of the worst in the world.
No, you just live in that bubble where you just read what agrees with you. Expand alittle...or maybe try working as a burger flipper and see how upwardly mobile you are with that on your resume.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...n-rise-for-decades-is-now-highest-since-1928/ More from the Pew Research Center. Income inequality is the greatest since 1928....ironically right before the stock market crash in 1929. This is directly correlated to stagnating lower income vs unrestrained income growth amongst the top 1%. Where do yiu think corporate profits are really going?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/us/harder-for-americans-to-rise-from-lower-rungs.html New York Time. More than 40 percent of kids born poor, stay there....one of the worst, if not THE worst upward mobility rates in the Western World.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/america-social-mobility-parents-income/399311/ The Atlantic expanding on the Pew Research report....where you are born is pretty much where you end up...even in marriage.
http://www.cbpp.org/research/propos...d-help-low-wage-workers-with-little-impact-on Center on Budget and Policies Priorities. Look at the Board....this is not a bunch of raving liberals. Raising the minimum wage would benefit the lower income people who predominately obtain these jobs out of necessity and help them in the long run with no appreciable effect on employment.....assuming these corporations are really looking out for their service workers rather than their golden parachutes.
mcdonalds jobs rare not mindless burger flippers anymore they are factory workers making factory burgers in an assembly line using factory machines in n out on the other hand are burger flippers and they have always paid 11 dollars an hour to start you off since i was a kid true conservative company, not right wing pseudo conservative panderers. doing whats right by their workers you never hear in n out workers protesting or asking for money true conservative companies dont have these problems mcdonalds should pay more but not because anyone forces them to pay more they just should like in n out does
I once said something here about taking a job as a 'sleazy car salesman' as kinda a joke and someone kinda scolded me a little bit about calling car salesmen sleazy. But the way i meant it is that its sorta easy money sleazy. To sell a a car you gotta use confidence type tactics. Be a little bit showman a little bit conman. That acting and salesmanship to me is a little demeaning to my humanity. But you can make good money. And ultimately that is a car salesmans only true motivation. Making fast money without any hard work. Everyone wants to make big money, drive big cars and have everyone know them as superstars. Yeah, thats from a song, but its true. Thats the new american way. But there is a better way. Anyone can start a business. You dont need loans. Thats the way of thinking of the new american who thinks money has to be easy. You can farm. Weed is not the only high paying cash crop in america. And folks in the northern tundra like places in the country are farming exotic tropical fruit under cheap portable car covers built out of PVC pipe and tarps... in the snow. A little manure goes a long way to keep a tightly wrapped makeshift greenhouse warm enough to cause a tropical effect. Folks sell organic backyard raised chickens for 20 bucks a pop and sell them online and ship em Fed Ex in 99 center store bags made airtight by submerging them in water till the water pushes out the air and then sealing them with heat before putting them in a carboard box with a little bit of dry ice to keep em from spoiling on the trip to the consumer. Folks pay you 20 lbs for a 4 lb chicken. You can raise tilapia in cheap above ground pools you can buy at walmart for a couple hundred bucks and watch them multiply fast. You can raise microgreens where you are harvesting weekly and selling to resturauntaurs who pay top dollar. Or you can turn your front and back yards into fields of green onions, cilantro, and radishes where you harvest every couple or every few weeks and sell to all the mexican restaurants who cant get enough of this stuff on the daily. It is easy money. But not easy as in not having to actually do work. Cheap menial jobs are for those who are either physically or mentally unable to get a degree or get into business for themselves. And then if that is your lot in life you must learn to be happy with the fact that you even have a job, that this country provides ways for people without much physical skills or mental ability or spiritual will to at least squeeze out somewhat of a living. Because to make it in america you have to either work hard, work smart, or be a cunning linguist who can get others to spend their money on what you can make, say, or do. AKA a creator/entrepreneur. If you cant do any of that then be poor materially but be super rich in other ways. Or else you will be a miserable fuck that wants what you dont got. And you will never be happy.
\ Abono. Its manure. To plant trees in. Planting trees is a noble cause. Someone has to actually dig a hole though. Anyone can do it but few actually want to do it. Actually not just anyone can do it, you have to learn how to do it right. To make trees 5 times faster while providing bumper crops at least twice a year. Thing about planting trees is that they dont necessarily have to stay where you planted them. Folks can sponsor the planting of a tree by a homeless man who gets a gift for providing the planting service. Then that tree can be sold once it reaches a certain number of months for beaucoup bucks to any of the local landscapers. Who you partner with to allow access to the fruit from said trees to then give to the tree planters or sell to local farmers markets. Either way you slice the pie everyone gets a cut when you start from manure and it aint sleazy when the money is growing on trees.
money dont make you poor upward mobility has nothing to do with income before hippies became old liberals they used to say stuff like 'you are a prisoner of your own mind'. and thats the gods honest truth.
the problem isn't mcdonalds the problem is people wanting more without being willing to do more wages are [paid] in accordance with the task being performed has no obligation to exceed whatever the minimum wage/law requires if someone wants to earn more they should seek employment elsewhere -- like in n out