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jwirr

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5. Was talking with my grandchildren last night about the minimum wage. My grandson makes $10.25

Reply to HughBeaumont (Original post)

Thu Feb 20, 2014, 09:53 AM

Feb 2014

an hour in full time job. His worry is that he will not get a raise and he will be right back where he started. I told him that companies used to give everyone a raise when the lowest paid worker's wages went up. He laughed and said good luck with that today.

His wife gets minimum wage and it will help her IF she doesn't get a raise that loses her things like food stamps and the raise is not as much as she got from food stamps. There is a lot of fear from workers that this is not really going to help them in the long run.

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A meme for the terminally clueless: [View all] HughBeaumont Feb 2014 OP

Yep, $10.10 is a joke. Scuba Feb 2014 #1

And yet Arkansas Democrat mark Pryor feels pressured by his conservative tblue37 Feb 2014 #2

Prima facie evidence that the Democratic Party has been taken over by infiltrators. Scuba Feb 2014 #3

Or that they are such cowards that they are afraid to stand for anything, so they keep stupidly tblue37 Feb 2014 #4

Was talking with my grandchildren last night about the minimum wage. My grandson makes $10.25 jwirr Feb 2014 #5

I mean, do we take that risk or use this fear as an excuse to do nothing at all? HughBeaumont Feb 2014 #10

I did talk to them about putting money in the pocket of buyers to help fix the economy. And i agree jwirr Feb 2014 #11

Two things here: Spider Jerusalem Feb 2014 #6

You're just wrong. Chan790 Feb 2014 #7

College.. sendero Feb 2014 #12

I didn't say it wasn't the case. Chan790 Feb 2014 #13

I agree on both counts. However, this isn't Germany we live in. HughBeaumont Feb 2014 #9

Ouch! Rex Feb 2014 #8

What about grants and scholarships? CFLDem Feb 2014 #14

Grants are only available to people who are damned near starvation. HughBeaumont Feb 2014 #15

The yearly tuition for most colleges is more than someone at 10.10/hour, working 40 hrs / week, 52 chrisa Feb 2014 #16

As memes go. that's not a bumper sticker; it's a dissertation Orrex Feb 2014 #17

Bumper stickers are the snake oil of Luntz. HughBeaumont Feb 2014 #18

Still, it's in your interest to convey the sentiment clearly Orrex Feb 2014 #19