"Clare Snyder" wrote in message
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On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 06:51:35 -0800 (PST), "
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On Friday, February 26, 2021 at 9:43:15 AM UTC-5, Wade Garrett wrote:
On 2/26/21 9:27 AM, wrote:
On 2/26/21 9:01 AM, micky wrote:
OT Why $7.50 is enough

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1807595.html


"Republican Senator John Thune has rejected an effort from
congressional
Democrats to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to
$15,
pointing to his $6 or less hourly wages that he earned working at a
restaurant as a "kid"."


Thune graduated from Jones County High School in Murdo, South Dakota
in
1979, when a $6 hourly wage - adjusted to modern inflation rates -
would
amount to roughly $23 in 2021 dollars.

But he thinks, or he wants you to think, that if he got by on $6 or
less, people 41 years later should get by on 7.50.

If you don't want minimum wage, don't have minimum skills.

Are you aware that there are people who, no matter how hard they try,
will never have more than minimum skills? The retarded bagger at the
grocery store, for example.

Next you'll be bitching that those minimal-skills people are getting
food stamps because they can't afford to live on minimum wage.

Try not to trip as you step across their dead bodies in the streets.

Not to mention the kids of those earning minimum wage or slightly
more can't even DREAM of going to college or university to better
themselves.

That isnt the only way to better yourself.

Almost 20% of Texans don't even have a high school education

And plenty of those get more than the minimum wage.

In west virginia roughly 18% HAVE A 4 YEAR HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA
or more and over 32% make under $25000 a year.

And its their fault they ended up like that.