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WCGreen

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11. Big Business doesn't have to pay a fair wage knowing that the taxpayers
Thu Apr 5, 2012, 05:30 PM
Apr 2012

will subsidize the workers with public assistance.

Well, that is, until the GOP gets rid of those programs...

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"Food Stamp" Jobs Just Like I Thought [View all] TheMastersNemesis Apr 2012 OP
A 35 year old guy I know just recently got a job SoCalDem Apr 2012 #1
Yeah. progressoid Apr 2012 #2
"customer service" at a bowling alley these days is SoCalDem Apr 2012 #5
A contractor once told me: Turbineguy Apr 2012 #12
Freudian Post O' The Decade!!! KamaAina Apr 2012 #3
Like the Judge Judy book title, 'Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining' freshwest Apr 2012 #4
Not Freudian at all - it's a meme, courtesy of Jim Hightower starroute Apr 2012 #10
those trumpeting the 'recovery' aren't the ones taking the crappy paying jobs. KG Apr 2012 #6
Hmmmmm.. girl gone mad Apr 2012 #14
Thats really effing sad. Iliyah Apr 2012 #7
My grandson is married with three children, manages a liquor store, gets food stamps, medical jwirr Apr 2012 #8
With that, I'll have a drink! Fuddnik Apr 2012 #9
Big Business doesn't have to pay a fair wage knowing that the taxpayers WCGreen Apr 2012 #11
That has always been true - as a mother on AFDC I could take lower wages in the 60s because I jwirr Apr 2012 #13
That's a key point that a lot of people miss & that the media or politicians never touch on. CrispyQ Apr 2012 #17
Is the argument, then, that the absence of these programs would result in higher wages? LiberalAndProud Apr 2012 #16
You could look at it that way... WCGreen Apr 2012 #19
I think of under-employment every time I see the unemployment numbers phantom power Apr 2012 #15
And that is the whole problem with work in the modern world. jwirr Apr 2012 #18
There was not a thing that I could have done except watch it happen ... NNN0LHI Apr 2012 #20
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