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Is minimum wage a lot?

Assuming a 40 hour work week, is minimum wage a lot?


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Poll: Assuming a 40 hour work week, is minimum wage a lot?

No it is not__Mostly because the "Minimum Wage" was intended to be a "Fair Wage" not a "Living Wage"_

People should take this into account before dropping out of school and accept it as the consequences of their bad choices_

Really now people; expecting a high-skill pay-check for working a low-skill job is a bit asinine, don't ya think?!

And if it happens to be a college graduate working a low-skill job then they should be thankful for the minimum wage paycheck they receive to tide them over until they can advance to the position they've been educated to fill_

But if the job market is a mess, try electing candidates to public office who will make policies to fix rather than hinder it_
 
This is not a yes or no question...There are to many variables involved.
 
If you can't identify a malfeasor, then you can't claim that anyone harmed him.
Obviously, damage was done - someone is dead who didn't want to be dead. Just because you can't pin it down to one person/one cause it won't bring back the dead.



Pollution is no different in most cases. Apparently you'd like to live in that same world with Henrin - sewers flowing openly beneath a sky gray with pollution.
 
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Damage was done by whom?
A person is dead who didn't want to be dead. Obviously there is damage. The evidence of the damage is a dead body - it doesn't matter than you can't pin it down to one person/one cause. You can't usually pin pollution down to one person/one cause either. Does that mean pollution doesn't exist in most cases?
 
A person is dead who didn't want to be dead. Obviously there is damage. The evidence of the damage is a dead body - it doesn't matter than you can't pin it down to one person/one cause.

So there was no malfeasor.
 
Nope, hence the name minimum and not liveable wage.
 
Current minimum wage for a single earner is about $15,000 / yr at a 40 hour workweek.

That's only if you get 40 hours a week. Most minimum wage workers work far less than 40 hours.
 
Nope, hence the name minimum and not liveable wage.

I have never heard of anybody dying from too low of a wage. I'm no coroner so I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I'm just saying it must be very rare.
 
This is not a yes or no question...There are to many variables involved.

Geography is the main variable. Use Lauringburg, North Carolina for the question.

What are the other variables that are needed to be considered?
 
Poll: Assuming a 40 hour work week, is minimum wage a lot?

No it is not__Mostly because the "Minimum Wage" was intended to be a "Fair Wage" not a "Living Wage"_

People should take this into account before dropping out of school and accept it as the consequences of their bad choices_

Really now people; expecting a high-skill pay-check for working a low-skill job is a bit asinine, don't ya think?!

And if it happens to be a college graduate working a low-skill job then they should be thankful for the minimum wage paycheck they receive to tide them over until they can advance to the position they've been educated to fill_

But if the job market is a mess, try electing candidates to public office who will make policies to fix rather than hinder it_
And those candidates would be...?
 
Poll: Assuming a 40 hour work week, is minimum wage a lot?

No it is not__Mostly because the "Minimum Wage" was intended to be a "Fair Wage" not a "Living Wage"_

People should take this into account before dropping out of school and accept it as the consequences of their bad choices_

Really now people; expecting a high-skill pay-check for working a low-skill job is a bit asinine, don't ya think?!

And if it happens to be a college graduate working a low-skill job then they should be thankful for the minimum wage paycheck they receive to tide them over until they can advance to the position they've been educated to fill_

But if the job market is a mess, try electing candidates to public office who will make policies to fix rather than hinder it_

PREACH SISTER!!!!!!!!! Women of America bear witness!!!!
 
And those candidates would be...?
You don't have to be a rocket surgeon to know this, Kevo__In fact it's the easiest question I was ever asked_

Capitalist Candidates that support the Constitution, promote small government, and believe in The American Dream that once made the United States the greatest, wealthiest, freest, most powerful nation in the history of the human race, that people from every corner of the world wanted to be a part of_

Fill our capital with these candidates and there will be a chicken in every pot in America_

Guaranteed!
 
You don't have to be a rocket surgeon to know this, Kevo__In fact it's the easiest question I was ever asked_

Capitalist Candidates that support the Constitution, promote small government, and believe in The American Dream that once made the United States the greatest, wealthiest, freest, most powerful nation in the history of the human race, that people from every corner of the world wanted to be a part of_

Fill our capital with these candidates and there will be a chicken in every pot in America_

Guaranteed!

Yup.

Beef will be for VERY special occasions.

And would we get a chicken a week or only monthly? Each or per family?
 
Yup.

Beef will be for VERY special occasions.

And would we get a chicken a week or only monthly? Each or per family?
Hmmm;
it sounds as if you might be a little bit skeptical of my prediction_
Well;
if you want to be dependent on government for life, elect socialists_
But;
if you want to live free and be self-sufficient for life, elect capitalists_
Because;
whatever you put in determines how much you will get back in the end_
And;
some of us expect to get more back than government's meager handouts_
 
I have never heard of anybody dying from too low of a wage. I'm no coroner so I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I'm just saying it must be very rare.

Dr. Galea also said that poverty results in poor access to health screening, poor access to quality care for those who actually have heart disease, greater vulnerability to stresses associated with heart disease and a greater likelihood of engaging in unhealthy behavior.

“In some ways,” Dr. Galea added, “the question is not ‘Why should we think of poverty as a cause of death?’ but rather ‘Why should we not think of poverty as a cause of death?’ ”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/health/05social.html?_r=0

How about people who work their behinds off and work 60 to 70 hours a week and can barely make ends meet? During a frost period like in much of the US some people might not have the funds to turn their heat up to a healthy room temperature. These people risk colds or worse because they do not have enough money to warm their house. Same goes for clothes, a good winter coat costs money and if it doesn't often get real coat people make choices, which could make them be without proper clothing for the cold.

Poverty also leads to things like unhealthy diets and all the consequences of such a poor nutritional diet. And then I am not talking about becoming overweight but lack of fresh veggies, fruits, lean cuts of meat, etc. etc. etc. which in the long term can be real unhealthy and possibly fatal.

Also, working that hard for so many years can also lead to early death due to heart attacks.

Why should employees have to work two or three jobs just so that the president of their man employer can get a 10 million dollar bonus on top of his 20 million dollar wage? Paying a honest wage for an honest days work should be the norm, especially in such wealthy countries like the US, Canada and the EU.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/health/05social.html?_r=0

How about people who work their behinds off and work 60 to 70 hours a week and can barely make ends meet? During a frost period like in much of the US some people might not have the funds to turn their heat up to a healthy room temperature. These people risk colds or worse because they do not have enough money to warm their house. Same goes for clothes, a good winter coat costs money and if it doesn't often get real coat people make choices, which could make them be without proper clothing for the cold.

Poverty also leads to things like unhealthy diets and all the consequences of such a poor nutritional diet. And then I am not talking about becoming overweight but lack of fresh veggies, fruits, lean cuts of meat, etc. etc. etc. which in the long term can be real unhealthy and possibly fatal.

Also, working that hard for so many years can also lead to early death due to heart attacks.

Why should employees have to work two or three jobs just so that the president of their man employer can get a 10 million dollar bonus on top of his 20 million dollar wage? Paying a honest wage for an honest days work should be the norm, especially in such wealthy countries like the US, Canada and the EU.

These people would freeze to death, die from starvation, die from malnutrition or die from heart attacks.

Humans have been around longer than paper money. You are limiting your vision. There are other methods of survival. I eat food, drink water and breathe air to live. It doesn't matter if somebody gives them to me or I buy them. I still didn't need any of the money to survive. Otherwise I would have kept the money instead of exchanging it for food.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/health/05social.html?_r=0

How about people who work their behinds off and work 60 to 70 hours a week and can barely make ends meet? During a frost period like in much of the US some people might not have the funds to turn their heat up to a healthy room temperature. These people risk colds or worse because they do not have enough money to warm their house. Same goes for clothes, a good winter coat costs money and if it doesn't often get real coat people make choices, which could make them be without proper clothing for the cold.

Poverty also leads to things like unhealthy diets and all the consequences of such a poor nutritional diet. And then I am not talking about becoming overweight but lack of fresh veggies, fruits, lean cuts of meat, etc. etc. etc. which in the long term can be real unhealthy and possibly fatal.

Also, working that hard for so many years can also lead to early death due to heart attacks.

Why should employees have to work two or three jobs just so that the president of their man employer can get a 10 million dollar bonus on top of his 20 million dollar wage? Paying a honest wage for an honest days work should be the norm, especially in such wealthy countries like the US, Canada and the EU.

You present a good sob story but life is tough and people have to live with the choices that they make. If someone works 70 hours a week and can't make it that is their fault. Sorry bout their luck but people who are impoverished are there by choice. All I can say for them is make better choices and work harder to get ahead. Pursuit of happiness doesn't mean that you'll get it. Sometimes life sucks and then ya die.
 
Hmmm;
it sounds as if you might be a little bit skeptical of my prediction_
Well;
if you want to be dependent on government for life, elect socialists_
But;
if you want to live free and be self-sufficient for life, elect capitalists_
Because;
whatever you put in determines how much you will get back in the end_
And;
some of us expect to get more back than government's meager handouts_

I know.

Best PR campaign ever.
 
These people would freeze to death, die from starvation, die from malnutrition or die from heart attacks.

Humans have been around longer than paper money. You are limiting your vision. There are other methods of survival. I eat food, drink water and breathe air to live. It doesn't matter if somebody gives them to me or I buy them. I still didn't need any of the money to survive. Otherwise I would have kept the money instead of exchanging it for food.

Nobody gives you food, you might be given some food but nobody can live on provided food forever. Also, food does not keep you warm. Everybody needs money to survive in our money driven society. In the past you might have been able to get by without what we think of as money but the money in that time was food or services. You would be a pig farmer and if you needed clothes you would trade meat for the things you would need.

In the past people provided for themselves because they had farms, grew food themselves.

And these people I named as examples would most likely have not died if they would have had enough money to heat, eat properly or had a liveable wage (a wage with which a normal man/woman who works around 40 hours a week can provide for him and a small family).
 
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