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Re: Supreme Court backs Hobby Lobby in contraceptive mandate challenge
I asked you to define those making minimum wage and who is poor. You have no idea who I am or where i lived but the coal country of Eastern Ky certainly would qualify as poor. No one forces those people to live under those conditions and I chose not to either. You see, choice certainly applies here as well
Guess it is too much to expect honesty. You buy what you are told and do no independent research. I moved six times in my career all to better myself and my family. I didn't wait for the job or the money to come to me. Why should anyone else. if the opportunity isn't in your community, move to where the opportunities lie. That is why TX is growing so rapidly, great economy, low cost of living, and the number one state in the union in population growth? Why? Low wages, no health insurance? That is what liberals want you to believe but I hope you think rather than feel. People don't move to TX to live in poverty or to have no insurance, they move here because of the opportunities. I wish some of those from California would move back because they are trying to turn this state into the one they left
What do I expect? Equal OPPORTUNITY, NOT equal outcome. Give me the opportunity and I will do the rest. that is what happened when I got my first job, 35 years later I retired from that job and operated everyone of those years like I was on a one year contract. Interesting how performance generates job security
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Yes, and why do you think that is the case? Couldn't be because their aren't any negative consequences for bad behavior? The liberal entitlement mentality is alive and well taking over this country and you continue to spout the liberal line that it is always someone else's fault for poor personal choices.
My point has always been it isn't any of the government's business what someone who has their own money invested in a business pays their employees. The market will take care of those businesses if we ever had a pro growth, pro business govt. Minimum wage should always be an individual issue and if it is a government issue it belongs at the state and local levels. States can set their own minimum wage with taxpayer support and many do so why is this even a federal issue? want to know why? Because it gives govt. more power and most union contracts are tied to the minimum wage increases. Give a 20% raise in the minimum wage and see what happens to union contracts?
I can tell people to get a job. The Houston Chronicle has pages of job opportunities available to people every day and some people simply refuse to work any job they don't deem worthy of their skills set when the reality is their skill set doesn't qualify them for many jobs. Start with a minimum wage job and if you are worth your salt you will get a raise in 90 days and most companies still promote from within, mine sure did and I took people making low wages and promoted them to management positions. some ended up earning 6 digit incomes, not bad for some high school drop out with drive and initiative.
You tell me why minimum wage is a federal issue?
I asked you to define those making minimum wage and who is poor. You have no idea who I am or where i lived but the coal country of Eastern Ky certainly would qualify as poor. No one forces those people to live under those conditions and I chose not to either. You see, choice certainly applies here as well
Guess it is too much to expect honesty. You buy what you are told and do no independent research. I moved six times in my career all to better myself and my family. I didn't wait for the job or the money to come to me. Why should anyone else. if the opportunity isn't in your community, move to where the opportunities lie. That is why TX is growing so rapidly, great economy, low cost of living, and the number one state in the union in population growth? Why? Low wages, no health insurance? That is what liberals want you to believe but I hope you think rather than feel. People don't move to TX to live in poverty or to have no insurance, they move here because of the opportunities. I wish some of those from California would move back because they are trying to turn this state into the one they left
What do I expect? Equal OPPORTUNITY, NOT equal outcome. Give me the opportunity and I will do the rest. that is what happened when I got my first job, 35 years later I retired from that job and operated everyone of those years like I was on a one year contract. Interesting how performance generates job security
B
Yes, and why do you think that is the case? Couldn't be because their aren't any negative consequences for bad behavior? The liberal entitlement mentality is alive and well taking over this country and you continue to spout the liberal line that it is always someone else's fault for poor personal choices.
My point has always been it isn't any of the government's business what someone who has their own money invested in a business pays their employees. The market will take care of those businesses if we ever had a pro growth, pro business govt. Minimum wage should always be an individual issue and if it is a government issue it belongs at the state and local levels. States can set their own minimum wage with taxpayer support and many do so why is this even a federal issue? want to know why? Because it gives govt. more power and most union contracts are tied to the minimum wage increases. Give a 20% raise in the minimum wage and see what happens to union contracts?
I can tell people to get a job. The Houston Chronicle has pages of job opportunities available to people every day and some people simply refuse to work any job they don't deem worthy of their skills set when the reality is their skill set doesn't qualify them for many jobs. Start with a minimum wage job and if you are worth your salt you will get a raise in 90 days and most companies still promote from within, mine sure did and I took people making low wages and promoted them to management positions. some ended up earning 6 digit incomes, not bad for some high school drop out with drive and initiative.
You tell me why minimum wage is a federal issue?
