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HughBeaumont

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

Thu Feb 20, 2014, 10:40 AM

Feb 2014

It's 2014 America, where corporations dictate all the rules and we have no choice but to follow them. It's utterly silly that you need a piece of paper for pretty much every occupation walking (despite what Yahoo tells us). I think the tragedy of degreed individuals (especially PhDs) working in low-paying service positions was brought up in a long DU thread a few months back; degreed professionals earning $12-$14 an hour, sorry to say, is one of laissez-faire capitalism's greatest FAILURES and DISGRACES.

The meme speaks to the RW "Minimum skills, minimum pay" cretins on the internets that believe $10.10 is some extravagant hourly amount when really, it's not even a proper inflation correction from our ridiculously inadequate minimum wage. It addresses the morons that still live in 1991 and apply 1991 cost-of-college/minimum wage ratios to 2014; oh, and that's WITHOUT factoring in their normal cost of living expenses.

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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