Comments on: Minimum Wage Hike Approved

New Rate Of $7.25 By Summer 2009 Is First Raise Since 1997

[nlm2383]

Well Mr. Peter Kilgore, presidents and chief executive officers shouldn't even care seeing as how they won't be effected by this, so no worries for you, right? He could give a rats a$$ about the minimum wage workers...Their replaceable.

[carlylaine]

Terrapin78

Then I suggest you stop being COMPLACENT and work for a different job that pays more. Don't just sit there! MOVE!

[bobnjersey]

[We may all be CREATED equal, but some of us have the verve to get out and make something of ourselves. If the low wage earner can't, then it's on himher. Don't put that bleeding heart on me.]
[Posted by CarlyLaine at 10:42 AM : May 25, 2007]

so i'd assume your one of those who made everything happen for yourself in complete isolation? all the education you got was paid by you ... all the opportunities you came across were made possible by you ... all the monies available at all levels (from your employer, and their customers) come from self sufficient purists like yourself?

no man/woman is an island ... do you really understand how the economic system works?

[ezillyamused]

"Socialists! A person working in an office SHOULD NOT BE receiving the same amount of pay as the hamburger slinger and vice versa."

Who ever said that?

Posted by ttinsly
I think it was Reagan. Or maybe Stalin. Or maybe Bush. I always get those guys confused!

[ezillyamused]

ttinsly:
They don't care about kids because kids can't vote, and they don't care about the working poor because, historically, we have no voice.
Thank you for your kind words. It makes me feel that there are still people out there who do still care!

[ezillyamused]

processor2:
To help make it palatable for Republicans, they added $4.84 billion in tax relief for small businesses to help them hire new workers and offset any cost associated with an increase in the minimum wage.
Exactly what are you gripping about? You still get your tax cut, so it isn't going to cost you a thing, actually, you'll be getting more! Still going to let those 3 people go?

[carlylaine]

Socialists! A person working in an office SHOULD NOT BE receiving the same amount of pay as the hamburger slinger and vice versa.

We may all be CREATED equal, but some of us have the verve to get out and make something of ourselves. If the low wage earner can't, then it's on himher. Don't put that bleeding heart on me.

[ezillyamused]

huskerarmy:
I, for one, am tired of getting "trickled down" on! But ya know, when I do finish my degree in May,'08, I'll be the one that all of those rich folks are coming to to make them more money on the internet! Wouldn't it be funny if I "fixed" them good!

[terrapin78]

I think it should have been 1 jump to the $7.25 now. Not take 2 years to get there.

Disgraceful!

[carlylaine]

I have more to WRITE.

It's good to have low wages for low paying jobs. It gives us CAPITALISTs and CAPITALIST supporters the impetus to strive for better wages. Isn't that what we do? STRIVE.

He11, if we are given the high wages in a cr@p job, what's the point? And what does that do to the worker who is making a little more than minimum per hour? It brings his wages down. Is the government economically sound in this? No, they are BUFFOONS!

The Government wants to make us subservient to them. At least that is what the LIBERALs want.

There is nothing wrong with a teenager in high school earning little money. NOTHING. A kid can learn the value of the buck. When I was getting $.90 an hour, I knew I didn't want to stay in a go-nowhere job. I went to college.

If you are a person who is an adult with a job with low wage then learn to earn more. Gawd! Some people are so lazy. Others want the government to support all of us and this is wrong.

WORK FOR YOUR OWN AND YOUR FAMILY's BETTERMENT. Stop EXPECTING THE GOVERNMENT to bail you out!!!

[huskerarmy]

"I am a single mother of two, am in college full time to make my kids lives better, and currently make $6.50 an hour."
And the right is telling you that you make too much, because the rich have to get even richer so that one day, that long awaited "trickle down" will make that 6.50 an hour an acceptable sacrifice for them.

[ezillyamused]

I am a single mother of two, am in college full time to make my kids lives better, and currently make $6.50 an hour. Over half of what I make an hour goes to pay for a gallon gas in my car to get back and forth to school,(there are no public transpotation buses between my home and school),so unless gas prices drop dramatically,(which I don't see Bush and his Big Oil Buddies doing anytime soon!) 70 cents an hour increase isn't going to mean alot to me!

[huskerarmy]

"Of my 15 employees, I will have to layoff 3...It will get to a point, machines will be cheaper than people... that's not a bad idea."
Posted by processor2
So are you implying that if they did away with the minimum wage you would hire 3 more? I suspect you will employ as many as you require to get the job done and expand where the market allows...no more, no less. The ever increasing gap between the have's and have nots will ultimately be our demise if we allow it to continue. Regardless, if the sole determination is how cheap it is for business, there is no reason we shouldn't just return to slavery. Would that make you happy?

[drummer94]

I know two people who own small businesses. One a party store, the other a hotel. Min. wage here, is already 6.95. One lives in a 200,000 home on a lake, the other lives in a 160,000 home behind his business. The min. wage hike is right,right,right.

[jumkey]

Wahhhhhh...so processor2 won't be able to exploit as many laborers as he used to? 3 of his 15 employees will be let go to get higher paid work with a better employer?

Sounds like a ringing endorsement for the minimum wage to me.

[carlylaine]

Minimum wage is WRONG WRONG WRONG.

[jetlizhan]

ikenneth

well 'cuse me - aren't you the pompous @ss - you obviously don't have children that have ever worked at summer jobs

[airmanc5]

Don't celebrate too much.. Hillary clinton and Barrack obama voted AGAINST this increase, just read the vote.
Democrats are still looking for Harry Reids Balls and Nancy Pelosi's spine, they will be kissing Georges ring as they present the bill to him on Iraq. I wonder if they will be 'crawling" to the White House

North Carolina raised its minimum wage last fall to $6.15, my son worked as a busboy at a nearby resturant, after the increase the owners fired all of its busboys and had the waitresses clean the tables

[processor2]

Of my 15 employees, I will have to layoff 3 of them in order to pay for this increase.

It will get to a point, machines will be cheaper than people.
Actually now that I think about it, that's not a bad idea.

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