Posted on 04/25/2011 8:45:27 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion
Why assume that only people that fry their brain or have few felony arrests should take that job? Plenty of people don’t go on to college for many legitimate reasons. At just over $2000 a month that worker would have to pay rent,pay off a car to get to work and put food on the table.
As to the illegal alien comment i don’t want them having any jobs in this country. I don’t want them shoveling dung out of a backed up sewer. But that being said those same illegals are living a dozen to an apartment and getting government assistance. Are you suggesting thats a condition our citizens should aspire to? Our citizen working at the toll booth may not qualify for anything,in fact probably won’t unless he or she has children to support as well.
It amazes me how many people on this site root for their fellow citizens to have the worst lives possible. Mind boggling.
I wouldn't mind these things nearly as much if you could get the tolltags anonymously. You can't do that in Texas. So for those who have to drive those toll roads, and thus get to pay for the road twice, you the state has a nice transaction record of your travels. Tolltags are a statist's wet dream.
But that being said those same illegals are living a dozen to an apartment and getting government assistance. Are you suggesting thats a condition our citizens should aspire to?
There are plenty of gigs that pay better than $25k/yr, but few of them that require sitting on your butt sticking your hand out the window performing a task that is easily handled by soda vending machines.
No one should "aspire" to working a toll booth, just as no one should "aspire" to a lifelong career working midnight drive-through at the Micky D's. What it sounds like to me is that you think that an entry-level job is one that should carry a person through all the way to retirement. That isn't "aspiration" that is utterly pathetic. It would be better to work the booth for a year or so, taking classes in a marketable field, or working P/T somewhere learning a trade so that a few years later (at worst), one could move out of the toll-booth and into something requiring more skill than a basket with a hole in it.
“Education for a living wage...... a requirement for effort, a requirement for study and understanding, a requirement for work.
No education, no living wage.”
Yea, but it doesn’t have to be Shakespeare. People not inclined to go the academic route have plenty of options (probably a LOT more options) these days learning a trade. It’s not that tough - and there are not a lot of unskilled jobs around anyway, as labor laws have continually pushed companies to automate. Let the kids and the Seniors (that want them) have those jobs.
You’re still turning a few hundred jobs down from head of household to entry level. This will go from job to job in this nation. I was never bemoaning the fact that toll collector jobs were seeing a salary restructuring but rather any job was.
Oh,i’m sure you’ve noticed unemployment around 9% officially and much higher unofficially. Sure there are jobs that pay better but they and most others seem filled at the time.
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