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In reply to the discussion: What I like to tell my RW friends regarding their "working HARDER to EARN a better wage" chestnut - [View all]B Calm
(28,762 posts)133. My son has a masters degree and makes about what I was
making driving a truck. It's a damn shame what they pay teachers now days!
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What I like to tell my RW friends regarding their "working HARDER to EARN a better wage" chestnut - [View all]
HughBeaumont
Sep 2013
OP
How sad is it that literally one of his FIRST actions in his FIRST year . . .
HughBeaumont
Sep 2013
#71
What gets me is when they say giving lower classes more money will raise prices for the poor.
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2013
#11
You just described my in-laws. Enjoying their pensions while voting Republican.
SunSeeker
Sep 2013
#16
I even see this from some unionized coworkers who've since retired. "I got mine" selfish jerks
Populist_Prole
Sep 2013
#100
While health care and social issues are finally progressing (albeit glacially) . . .
HughBeaumont
Sep 2013
#18
The poor are still poor with Obamacare. An insurance mandate does not pay the light bill.
Skeeter Barnes
Sep 2013
#47
The taxes are on profit, as you say, so the incentive is to put the money back into the company.
cui bono
Sep 2013
#119
I absolutely am not pivoting. You changed the conversation from workers to stockholders.
cui bono
Sep 2013
#121
The problem with "stockholders can just sell their shares if they're not happy about CEO pay"
wickerwoman
Sep 2013
#123
I'm not going to spend my time arguing with you, but I'd like to point something out:
DisgustipatedinCA
Sep 2013
#128
Easy. My parents weren't wealthy and I'm not that supremely determined to step on anyone for wealth.
HughBeaumont
Sep 2013
#107
Nor were ANY of them "Self-made millionaires". Not ONE. Google is YOUR friend.
HughBeaumont
Sep 2013
#131
I used to work in a factory with a woman who had been there for 23 years.
Skeeter Barnes
Sep 2013
#22
Exactly. Wages sank while the productivity of American workers has risen steadily.
Skeeter Barnes
Sep 2013
#45
No, she was aware she was making chump change and she didn't appreciate it.
Skeeter Barnes
Sep 2013
#46
k and r-- it saddens me that even some people who are not rwnj's can fall for the bs coming from
niyad
Sep 2013
#32
they seem to want to blame the little guys beneath their rung in society for being somehow slackers
CTyankee
Sep 2013
#66
Hang on, help is on the way! You'll get those new shoes, and have money to spare! lol
reformist2
Sep 2013
#92
they're pretending it's the 50s or 70s, where the economy was managed and unionized
MisterP
Sep 2013
#98
Oh, it's worked exactly as planned, and the useful idiots fall for it like they do Twinkies.
HughBeaumont
Sep 2013
#113
Excellent OP - U.S. Needs To Borrow Scandanavian Model To Improve Economic Equity
drgoodword
Sep 2013
#122