12-28-2006, 09:07 AM
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Political Mastermind
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Around Kansas City, Missouri
Posts: 1,144
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Originally Posted by Oedipus Rex
Back on topic... for now.
The minimum wage is just that... a minimum wage. It is not a 'living wage' as no one is expected to be able to support a family with it. The minimum wage is a starting point when one enters the job market with little or no skills. Gaining the skills or educating oneself is what is expected of an employee in order to make that employee more marketable to himself and other potential employers. The burden is on the employee.
Most of us only have three different roads in life when it comes to jobs. We either work for someone else, work for ourselves, or live off the system.
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Oedipus, I give you a 3 rating, because you seemed to egg on the vitriol.
As to your comment above, this Liberal/Democrat agrees with you 80%. My only problem is that some people aren't very good at "gaining the skills" or "educating oneself." I don't believe that if your highest job in life if the fry cook at McDonalds you should be relegated to minimum wage for life, but McDonalds probably does.
I wish you could have presented these arguments on page 17, until now. It's a pretty good one.
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