Comments on: Minimum Wage Rises 70 Cents

Increase To $6.55 Per Hour Marks Second Of Three Annual Increases

[toldyouso12]

The philosophy of the minimum wage is that if you work forty hours a week, you will not live in poverty.
Posted by fsw3 at 09:00 AM : Jul 24, 2008


LOL--that''s real cute. The REALITY is: Over 20% of American make minimum wage or less and over 40% of Americans make under 30K as single earners. Now....let''s see at 7.50/hr--using your formula, the avg worker would make--gasp---30.00 HUGE ONES. and in a full 8 hour a day they would make 60.00--but.. then let''s take away at least 12% to 18% for Federal taxes. Another 10% for State Taxes. Just slice off about 4.50 to 6.00 per day for FICA, let them also take out 6.00/day for benefits so what does that worker have to lift them out of poverty?

60-12.00=48-6.00=42-4.50 (we''ll use the low amount)37.50-6.00=31.50. 31.50 X 5= ~160.00/week or 640.00/month

Now, that is about how much they would make in a day working 8 hours. Let''s have fun with this--let''s pretend gas was still...say 1.50/gal and they only needed a tank a week and had a 20 gal tank. One tank of gas would = almost a full days wages even if gas was HALF or even less of what it is now.

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[daysrnumbrd]

Posted by toldyouso12 at 09:10 AM : Jul 24, 2008
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Yep. Your posts have very well spelled out the plans by the elites to take away the influence and power (what little there is of it) of the middle class and turn us into serfs.

[toldyouso12]

Ah yes, that perfectly describes the pillars of Conservatism!

Or, put simply:

"As long as you''''re doing okay, ***** everyone else!"

Posted by DaysRnumbrd at 08:54 AM : Jul 24, 2008


Yep. Case in point, the little tidbit from this poster: This hike in minimum raise will cause us to go into recession. Those minimum wage people make enough money. If they want more they should have gone to college.

Posted by GOP_forever at 08:48 AM : Jul 24, 2008


We should tell him and every other GOP defender to bend over so all those "poor/uneducated workers can pull their college tuition fees out of their over privileged azzes.

[toldyouso12]

Those minimum wage people make enough money. If they want more they should have gone to college.
Posted by GOP_forever at 08:48 AM : Jul 24, 2008

LOL--In Ft Dodge, IA a registered nurse starts at 13.00/hour. The avg home costs 137K and cars still cost 12K to 40K for a new one. Right now, schools are churning out new computer techs and nurses, etc but what they don''t tell you is that they are getting a lot more visad applicants. Visa''d workers for professional (educated) jobs can only be given when there is no American available to fit the bill. Those visa''d workers accept huge pay cuts, cram together--but their presence also means a lot of Americans do not get hired and companies either lie or manipulate their availbility. HOW? The avg university will only accept 16 new nursing students PER YEAR--so there is always a nursing shortage. Those applicants must have a 3.75 GPA or hired to even be considered and must take high levels of Organic and Inorganic chem--that they will NEVER use as a nurse. All to weed them out and thin out American nurses to justify massive insourcing.

right now in Silicon Valley, the avg computer tech and engineer comes from India--the American degreed applicants can''t get hired--because hiring American citizens require companies to pay for SS, worker''s comp, pension plan etc--all things they don''t have to do with insourced foreigners.

[daysrnumbrd]

Walmart will be upset..

Posted by fstop100 at 08:59 AM : Jul 24, 2008
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LOL!

Walmart''s REAL slogan should be"

"Always low wages. Always."

[fstop100]

Walmart will be upset..

[toldyouso12]

"About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers."

No.. the REAL BAD NEWS is that at 7.50/hr or even 10.00/hr but the avg car costing over 14,000.00, a pkg of chicken costing 6 to 11.00/package, gas costing over 4.00/gal, the avg routine check up doctor visit costing around 85.00, etc that even if the minimum wage was 12.00/hour it would not be enough to change lives or lift people out of poverty.

Who are we kidding--the United States has not cared or substantially changed how much they have paid many of its workers for DECADES. Like I said--from 1968 to 2008...40 years later, we can raise gas/cigarette and even food prices by over a thousand%--but we can''t even double the wages for menial labor in that same time period.

[daysrnumbrd]

but if you think only money first and invest globally instead of in your own country--then you sacrifice your infrastructure and country to globalism--this means you destroy your own country for an idea whose true purpose is not embracing humanity--but to make more money on the backs of more people--for investors and to d1ck the American worker while doing so--in favor of cheaper labor--insourced (like illegals and H1-B Visad people) and outsourcing.

Posted by toldyouso12 at 08:48 AM : Jul 24, 2008
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Ah yes, that perfectly describes the pillars of Conservatism!

Or, put simply:

"As long as you''re doing okay, ***** everyone else!"

[toldyouso12]

And where does this authority come from to rise wages?.
Proof that Government manipulates the free markets.Wake up People and think

Posted by WarDogLRS at 08:22 AM : Jul 24, 2008


LOL. We already KNOW by dint of all the bailouts and rebate checks that the government tries to manipulate the markets--but we also KNOW due to the huge losses--that the US government cannot CONTROL or even predict the effects of that manipulation. We also KNOW that despite the propaganda outsourcing and insourcing are good for a few--but rarely for the US worker. The goal in both is to employ the world and equalize wages globally so that the world is the consuming public--the only problem is over 4/5 of the world subsisted on less than 500.00/year.

so to average that all out our wages must come down to equalize wages or theirs must really rise. At the Chrysler plant in Mexico, the avg wage is about 26.00/day. That plant was installed in the late 1980s. To make us all "on par" --you do the math.

[reedtaz73]

The rich are the handlers and the poor are confined gators ready to feed on anything...

The middle class is like a fish out of water gasping for it''s last breath in vain.

[liberalme]

Wow this is their lucky day!! .70 an hour--

It''s a corporations dream, keep those wages low to maintain the lavish lifestyle of some CEO--and the government is on their side!!!

It''s sickening to think the lifestyle of a corporation depends on an underpaid worker!

[daysrnumbrd]

I remembered when I worked, in my late teen years, for about $4+ an hour. Now, those in their late teens to early 20s (as well as many older Americans) are basically working just to afford a gallon of gas to get to and from work!

[toldyouso12]

Woohoo! Another $28 a week! That will somewhat cover the obscene rise in the price of gasoline, milk and other staples that families have to have. This country is pitiful. College and good jobs are for the wealthy. Solution? Get RID of the illegals and stop outsourcing all our jobs. I''''ll pay more for an English speaking rep IN the US. Oh and when I say English speaking, I mean English as a FIRST language.

Posted by MyOpinion1 at 07:55 AM : Jul 24, 2008


I agree. I have paid more and put my money where my mouth is, employing and trying to buy from US citizens producing US services and products since 1986--about the time Reagan was thinking of granting his first huge amnesty to illegals and the Japanese started really buying up our country. It may not be an easy stance--but if you think only money first and invest globally instead of in your own country--then you sacrifice your infrastructure and country to globalism--this means you destroy your own country for an idea whose true purpose is not embracing humanity--but to make more money on the backs of more people--for investors and to d1ck the American worker while doing so--in favor of cheaper labor--insourced (like illegals and H1-B Visad people) and outsourcing.

[toldyouso12]

"About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers.

The increase, from $5.85 to $6.55 per hour, is the second of three annual increases required by a 2007 law. Next year''s boost will bring the federal minimum to $7.25 an hour."

In 1968, my mom was hired at Delco, and started at 3.15/hr. Gas was about .27/gal and a brand new car cost between 1500.00 for a low end, fully stacked model to 6000.00 for a new Caddy. By 1978, that starting wage was over 13.00/hr for the same job.

The shame of this was and is that from 1978 when I started working and made 2.65/hr to 1984 when I was paid 7.15/hr that so many had elsewhere had so little wage increase despite years passing and costs increasing. In 1973, one could buy a 4 bdrm home with full basement, l/d and eatin kitchen for 17,500.00.

Now greedy employers want 2 or 3 cars for their own, braces and the best schools for their kids and think nothing of paying people so little for so long. 1968--3.13/hr--40 YEARS later and we could not even double that wage--but we could raise the price of food, utilities, gas, clothing , etc by 5 to 6000%?

Surely America has more sins to pay for than just Iraq.

[wardoglrs]

And where does this authority come from to rise wages?.
Proof that Government manipulates the free markets.Wake up People and think