"Take your stinking paws off my Walmart, you damn dirty Liberals! lol
Posted on 05/26/2005 6:27:37 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Because of Wal-Mart's inadequate wages and benefits, Wal-Mart employees are eligible for $2.5 billion in Federal assistance, which comes from your tax dollars.
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You aren't?
You are presuming to speak for him and all.
Capitalize "Him", please. Tell me what is incorrect in what I said.
Is that true in both Manhattan New York and Lacombe Missisippi?
That was a mighty big keyboard full of let me tell you what God thinks avout this, that you can out with.
"The auto mechanic comment had me roaring laughing"
The funniest thing is that he actually said it... I'll try to find the post for you. That was the point at which I stopped taking him seriously and started asking for him to give me an exact estimate of what this "living wage" should be. He still hasn't given me an answer.
Can you refer me to some books that contain the information you mentioned?
And a lot of redistribution like cyclical cancellation of all debts.
I don't know about Pennsylvania, but I think that living wage in USA is between $10 and $17 per hour depending on the region.
Christian morality says that if a man is not paid a living wage it is one of the sins that cries out to heaven for vengeance. The bible says God will hear them and help them.
Give me a break. You won't "play the minimum wage game" but throw in morality?
In the region I live in (straddling 3 states) the average starting pay for a burger flipper job is about $6.00 and hour. Last I checked a part-time cashier at Walmart starts at over $8.....higher at some of the stores closer to the beach.
But since you're all into the "morality" of wages paid, why not pick on the places that don't pay anywhere near what Walmart pays? Is it any wonder they have 10 applicants for every position open?
But as you know every society that has tried to end poverty has had to impose tolitarianism and then everybody has been poor and oppressed. I think God cares more that we are free and use the resources that he gave us.
How do you interpret this --was the Master giving a living wage?
The master wisely gave the servants what he knew each one could handle. The servant with five talents traded and gained five more; and the servant with two talents traded and earned two more. But the man with one talent buried his money in the ground and left it there until the master came back! After a long while, the master returned and asked his servants to explain what they had accomplished with the money he had given them. He was very proud of the first two, and praised both of them for their good stewardship (Matthew 25:21,23)
Why so little, I think the living wage should be closer to $60 per hour.
"I think that living wage in USA is between $10 and $17 per hour depending on the region."
Do you have any idea how many businesses and jobs would be destroyed if that were set as the minimum. At $17 an hour unemployment would probably top 20%. Good job, try again.
Christian morality says that if a man is not paid a living wage it is one of the sins that cries out to heaven for vengeance. The bible says God will hear them and help them.
"every society that has tried to end poverty has had to impose tolitarianism and then everybody has been poor and oppressed"
Rich kids like these guys don't understand that it's capitalism that makes their unrealistically high living standards possible in the first place.
"but I think that living wage in USA is between $10 and $17 per hour"
At such minimum wages most Walmarts and Mcdonalds wouldn't even exist. Most Walmart and Mcdonalds employees would instead be unemployed, and Goods/services would be more expensive for all of us.
Says you as you sit at your own personal computer at home or are posting on your employer's time which technically is stealing unless you are self-employed. Since it is evening, I assume you are in your comfy home.
When I was just out of college and stupid, I didn't have health insurance. It was a rational choice based on my health.
Try going that route when you are on the downward slope past middle age and you will sing a different tune.
See, your living wage reflects your choices and you impose them on your imaginary low wage person. However, there are millions and millions of people on low wages that don't fit your socialized mental map.
My low wage people aren't imaginary. They are real. So you admit there millions and millions of people on low wages. Now we are getting somewhere. I'll bet you like to have them wait on you and clean up after you. I didn't make my socialized mental map. It was imposed on us. It is already here, not full-blown, but here nevertheless. It is making the richer richer and the poorer poorer.
When the government starts imposing their mental map on each person then YES THAT IS MARXISM. And the inevitable result is tolitarianism because each person's choices will have to be taken away from him or her to attain that "ideal". Its all there in the history books, we don't have to make that mistake.
They've (the government in case you think I'm referring to some imaginary group has already imposed that mental map on me in countless ways. Not only that, but they waste a lot of the money and vote themselves pay raises and don't show up to vote or represent us poorly until the few times we scream loudly enough. We have already made that mistake when we started social security. We compounded it when we started welfare and food stamps, incentives for illegitimacy, programs for the poor which means more government workers who get paid a living wage while the people they are hired to serve do not, programs to pay your utility bills in the winter, programs for just about anything you want if you are willing to spend your days making the rounds.
We also have bank failure bailouts, airline bailouts, hundreds of bailouts. If that isn't some form of socialism, I don't know what planet you live on.
And I haven't even started on welfare payments to other countries. That's a form of global socialism.
We're up to our eyeballs in it only nobody wants to call it for what it is because we still have Heinz ketchup who just laid off a bunch of well-paid workers in my area and moved operations elsewhere, probably overseas.
The only program we don't have is enforcing what used to be considered anti-monopoly laws.
Because it would not be just (or possible). Wages should not be equal. Living wage is defined as reasonable and fair minumum. Don't you have common sense?
It is like with a meal. Sufficient breakfast might consist of two eggs, some home fries, toast and cup of coffee. It does not make sense to question the concept of such sufficiency by comparing such breakfast with the large steak, old fancy wine and expensive cigar.
Let's set the living wage at $60 per hour.
"Just keep raising the minimum wage until the argument falls apart. $100 dollars an hour? $1000 dollars an hour? Until they say we can't do that and then you say why? and they end up answering their own question."
Yep. Amazing that they're all spoiled university brats, and yet none of them seem to understand introductory economics.
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