Posted on 08/25/2013 11:22:56 AM PDT by artichokegrower
A "minimum wage" applies to people working for wages. It most assuredly does not apply to people sitting on their fat behinds, expecting a stipend from taxpayers because they successfully metabolize carbohydrates and oxygen.
Next?
GtG
There never was a war on poverty. It was and is a war on prosperity.
Shhhhh! That's supposed to be a secret!
The articles prior to that mentioned that there were places in the country where it made more economic sense to stay on welfare than to get a paying job.
When an objective history of the 20th century is written sometime in the future, one of the more remarkable aspects of it will be the recognition that the so-called “Civil Rights Movement” in the U.S. basically spent the better part of a hundred years putting themselves back into slavery.
Absolutely right.
Who is to say he wouldn’t have endorsed all of it? Why do people on FR think he was some kind of conservative?
Forgotten because it is an idiotic idea. Oh, wait, that's right. How about welfare with no work requirement? Same thing. If you give people a free handout, there are those who will be quite satisfied to take it and never lift a finger to work to try to make something better of themselves other than being a freeloading leech on society. Oh, they'll lift their fingers to use their obamaphones though to complain they're not getting enough of a handout....
I seriously doubt Dr. King thought these "psychological changes" would result in dependence, blight, illiteracy, out of control non married birth, crime, gangster rap, black genocide by abortion...I could go on and on and on...
Well said!
Regards,
GtG
Minimum wage, living wage, guaranteed income, right to health care, kids shouldn’t have to pay for college. Enough.
Abolish all income. Ban money. Everybody gets anything he wants by just calling a government telephone number. No more working, no more studying, no more tax forms, no more IRS. Just one telephone number.
Isn’t this where we’re heading, anyway? Everything’s free, nobody pays for anything. Ignore the details.
From those according to their ability, to those according to their need!
Doesn’t the word ‘income’ involve working for a living?
“That is just what the underclass yearns for: free money, free medical care, free child care, and all with no work required for the recipients.....”
Just what we need; more ‘bored’ teenagers with guns to shoot joggers and other innocent people in the back.
It's been in place for decades. It's commonly referred to as 'welfare'.
Welcome to Greece west.
Where did I say that?
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