why are we as American citizens not protesting on gas prices and minimun wages?

Answer 1

Many of the answers you've gotten here are proof that the blind, Bush sheep are ignorant. They support Bush and his regime (including the oil corporations) no matter what he does or how much he destroys our country.

Answer 2

I don't see anyone protesting the price of bananas, cabbage, soap, toilet paper, lamps, ipods, laptops, cars, trucks, canned beans, soda, dog food, TV dinners, frozen vegetables, fresh lettus, sardines, pickles, paper towels, chewing gum, or hamburgers.

Minimum wage is nothing but government price rigging. And like toilet paper or soap if you rigg the price, you'll have shortages, and if you have a minimum wage it will reduce the available number of jobs. If it doesn't reduce employment why not make the minimum wage $100/hr and throw in a company car and a time share on a beach front condo. I'd vote for that if I didn't think it would wreck the economy, and it would. The reason minimum wages are always such a paltry sum is that it cuts out jobs, the lower the minimum wage the less the impact on the economy but the impact is always negative. Unemployment may not increase but who can say how many more jobs there would have been without the increase in minimum wage. Its true impact is not visible.

The fact is most Americans have enough sense to know these things and free market does a good job of getting canned beans, chewing gum and anything else I need to the grocery store. We don't have a government department that determines how many cans of peaches need to be at each grocery store but when you get there, there they are. Same goes for gas and minimum wages.

Answer 3

I think that most Americans have started believing that they don't count for much, in this country, anymore. It has been proven again and again that what the majority wants is not what this country is about anymore. It seems like the average person doesn't count for much and many feel that it is a waste of time to even vote. What good does it do? I have, even, begun to wonder if it really matters whether we vote or not. Under this administration, the rich are what matters and neither of the above are problems for them. Therefore, no matter how much protesting is done, it will make no difference. After all, the president and his friends are in the oil business. Why would he want to stop the high price of oil, when it is putting millions of dollars in his and his friends pockets? As for minimum wage, that has no bearing whatsoever on anyone that would be in a position to change it. Most of the politicians are extremely wealthy, and have no idea how the average citizen lives in this country.

Answer 4

We shouldn't protest gas prices, we should protest the continued use of an expensive, polluting, and scarce material for something as basically important as transportation.

As for the minimum wage, it should be raised, but mostly on a local level (it doesn't need to be the same everywhere.) But people don't protest about not receiving enough money because they have it jammed into their heads that they have to work for a living, and try to be the best of all their fellow slaves and work harder and work more hours... If people had a small amount of soil each, even on the roof of their houses, they could grow enough vegetables to live, and they wouldn't need to work 8 or more hours a day. They should demand that corporations provide them not just a minimum wage but a wage that pays for luxuries like the ones their bosses have. Give us a reason to work!

Answer 5

Actually due to the media you are being led to believe that you are paying absurd gas prices, when in actuality you are paying about the same, like most you arent figuring in inflation which is at a extreme high. As for minimum wage it helps some people and it hurts others. If you raise the minimum wage the price of everything that you buy will increase in price to meet the increase in pay, which will further hurt us through inflation.

Answer 6

Some are, but there is nothing that can be done since the people will not allow off shore drilling in most areas and no more drilling in Alaska wildlife areas. So we are being keep dependent on foreign oil.

And as Russia, China, Korea, Mexico, and other places starting getting "modern" they are using more and more oil.
so as demand goes up, prices go up.

So people can protest gas prices all they want, not much can be done about it.

And some states are raising min wage, what about your state, it does not have to be a federal case.

Answer 7

I think we need to start a boycott. If every person in the United States of America sat on their butts at home for ONE WEEK and did not drive ANYWHERE, we could send the message that if the government wants the economy to keep going, and all of the peons to keep going to work, then the gas prices need to return to a reasonable level! Since you are so gung ho on this issue, I suggest you start an e-mail campaign to get this idea off the ground! Best of luck!

Answer 8

because people are afraid of protesting against the rich people and the government because of the fear of losing their jobs or their houses and TVS,etc.... and they are the same way too trying to work 2 jobs so they can make alot of money, have that nice house and nice car too - 5% of the us population owns 75% of all the wealth and that will never change - but Ghandi conquered the british without using war - because He told them NOT to love those things that people love today. when you are poor and have nothing - you have nothing to lose. and the wealthy people know this!

Answer 9

Because we finally figured out that even though we have freedom of speech and the right to protest, the politicians (and their bosses, big oil and other industries) have an even greater right to completely ignore us and carry on with their personal self-serving agendas.

Answer 10

I believe you one hundred% and that i've got felt a similar way for a protracted time. i've got additionally been taken aback with the aid of the lack of action that anybody has taken. i'm somewhat bored to death with listening to from pundits who insist that its all approximately grant and insist, jointly as the oil agencies are taking in checklist earnings. the rigidity that it is putting on our financial device is spectacular and, as you notice, it relatively is affecting each and every thing, from the value of nutrients to the value of clothing. And forget approximately approximately ever taking a trip to everywhere it is extra then your person outdoors, the airline indiustry is in a state of disaster over gasoline expenses and analysts at the instant are announcing that airfare will quickly be a technique of transport reserved for the wealthy only. which skill, not extra holidays to Walt Disney international for the generic, center-type kin, not extra weekend get aways to Las Vegas for couples, not extra journeys to Cancun for the school crowd. I echo your sentiments, the place is the generic public outrage???? somewhat, all and sundry is somewhat like...oh darned the value of gasoline is going up returned...oh properly. it is high-quality nevertheless as a results of fact my sole rationalization for being is to grant all my money to grasping oil barrons.