Who believes it is time to raise the mininum wage !?!?

Question

We expect people to work, and yet when gas is $3.00 a gallon, how can a person who makes less than $6.00 per hour even afford to work for such inexcusable pay rates.

This country, our legislators, and executive branch should be ashamed of themselves! Let them work for mininum wage and see how they like it!

Well, there ARE people who are college educated and make mininum wage because a lack of job opportunities. It's apparent that certain people within this society believe that it is o.k. to let people live in poverty. To treat their fellow man as inhumanly as possible. To laugh and scoff the poor, as if their own flesh and bones were looked upon as being more blessed in "God's" sight.

Is there no one who gives a damn about the common man anymore?

Do you honestly believe that poor people are poor by choice? How friggin' shallow! How about those who have had to sell everything they owned because they couldn't afford to purchase health care, and have had cancer caused from toxins found within our drinking water? The "Christian right" are a fine example of how capitalism and greed go hand in hand against the benefits of the good of society.

Personally, I think that Jesus would have been a liberal. He accepted the "outcasts" of society with an open heart and an open mind.

Answer 1

The object lesson here is: if the minimum wage is raised, will it increase the buying power of the person earning it, and will it keep pace with inflation and the cost of living? If your answer is no, then you can raise it to any level you want and inflation will eat up the increase and you are back to where you were. Ask yourself if those you know, who have gotten raises, are better off, worse off, or the same shape as before the raises. A raise is not a raise unless it increases your buying power.

Answer 2

I don't believe raising the min. wage will be beneficial. In fact, I think it will be harmful. If we "raise" wages, that money has to come from somewhere. It doesn't just appear by government fiat. Hours (or jobs) will have to be reduced, or prices raised, or profits cut (slim chance of that happening). The only way to get around that trade-off is if productivity suddenly and universally increases at a pace exceeding the wage hike. I think that's about as likely as the owners paying the new, higher wages out of their profits. That's not to say raising the min. wage will be disastrous. If the minimum wage is raised by some reasonable amount, we will recover. If it is raised to a point that is still beneath the typical starting wage for most jobs, the effects won't be too bad. But no matter what, there will be at least some bad effects.

Answer 3

Yes, but if the minimum wage is increased, shouldn't the very rich get a break at the same time? Fair is fair! The Republicans combined the bills into one, so Democrats had to approve both the increase in the minimum wage and the elimination of the estate tax as the same time, or vote no on both. The Dems that voted no will now be portrayed by their Republican opponents as having voted no for the increase in the minimum wage.Cute trick.

Answer 4

The Federal Minimum wage in the United States should be raised to a sound $11 per hour and indexed to inflation thereafter, it will rise every year.

Answer 5

Well you lazy person! Get three min. wage jobs and maybe then you can afford fuel for your gas guzzler. Rich people couldn't care less if we can survive on min. wage or not. They think because they are rich everyone else is rich as well. The rich run this world, and as long as this is true there will be low wage jobs for us less fortunate. And the rich don't understand this either, that due to the grace of God they are rich.

Answer 6

Labor is a product. Creating a price floor will create a surplus of labor. That means unemployment.

Januarybaby, most poor people are poor by choice. They don't choose to be poor, but they make the decisions that contribute to their poverty. Stand in line behind them at the gas station. $10 in gas, $8 in lottery tickets, and $12 in cigarettes.

The things that those who aren't poor practice never seem to do the things required to advance in life. Get a job. Keep it. Get better at it or improve yourself in some way. Get married before you have children. Obey the law. If you only do those things, it is not likely you will be poor.

Answer 7

It is never time to raise the minimum wage.. Minimum wage is the stupidest thing we have ever come up with. The only reason to raise it is that most Union jobs are set at certain limit above the Minimum wage. Therefore when it is raised, the Union workers AUTOMATICALLY get a raise.

The only people that work for Minimum wage are teenagers and entry level people. If you are motivated at all you move above low wage jobs quickly.

Employers should set the starting wage for their particular business. In my area recently BK and MCDs were advertising for burger flippers starting at 8.50, my son, a HS student gets 9.00 to stock shelves. Let supply and demand of available workers set the wages..

Answer 8

It's way past time to raise minimum wage. Hard for them to do that being in bed with big business instead of the good of the people. It's totally unacceptable!!

Answer 9

Minimum wage is not supposed to support a family, if people dont like making minimum wage then they need to learn some kind of skill instead of just expecting everyone to accomodate their laziness and/or lack of education.

Answer 10

I agree with you, but one of the biggest problems is that if you raise minimum wage, all it will do is raise the price of everything else, therefore negating the wage increase. I wish I had an answer to the problem but I don't