Discussion: Trump Labor Nom Is Fast Food CEO And Fight For 15 Critic

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Just like a rich business owner I pay you so little for your own benefit

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Spoken like a true supply-side paid poster who doesn’t understand that the biggest driver of our economic woes in this country is the demand vacuum created by “trickle-down economics” and the desire of the plutocrats and insanely wealthy to protect their fortunes by “controlling inflation” by starving the masses of disposable income, forcing people to live on debt and then investing in those debt products to make themselves even more money off everyone else’s poverty.

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Some articles say jobs have been reduced, others disagree. You can’t get blood from a turnip. The real effect of the $15 minimum wage is going to be more and more automated order takers.

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I think those people may be absorbing this lesson at whatever rate they can manage. Anyway, don’t start none, won’t be none.

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Blah, blah, blah. If you don’t want to work for the minimum wage, get a better job. Democrats think that increasing the minimum wage helps working class people.

Working class people do not want minimum wage jobs. They want real jobs.

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$1.00/day how much money do 5 and 6 year olds need? Good old days…and then we won’t need public schools. :anguished:

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Reality TV, professional wrestling, and fast food. Paddy Chayefsky couldn’t make this shit up. What a fucked up country…

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Just rely on an army of unpaid interns like the pseudo-FLotUS, Ivanka. Or use “private contractors” who don’t qualify for benefits, like the incoming head of the SBA.

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Morpheus: “What if I told you that there was a former House Speaker who spoke fondly of those days?”

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Will someone, ANYONE, in the fourth estate please stand up? Here is one incredibly obvious follow up question: If raising the minimum wage is so bad, why does the Seattle metro area have the greatest job growth in the country, 2 years after raising its minimum wage to one of the highest in the country?

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I seriously doubt this canard can ever be proven… :anguished:
Another angle to throw dirt at Obama -

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Please give examples of what is a real job.

I’m asking this, because that term could be changing soon.

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Buddy of mine, a crackerjack IT guy, got laid off a while back. He was working on a contract basis with Comcast for a year, and that was up and they tossed him aside. He might as well be an Okie in 1936, thrown off his farm, picking peaches all day in Cali-forn-I-ay for a nickel an hour. That’s the upper middle class any more.

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Just waiting on what job Peter Thiel is offered.

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First, no job should pay less than the minimum to meet the necessities of subsistence. Anything less is slavery.

Second, do you have anything of substance to say or are you just here to robotically rattle off counterfactual right-wing derp-speak in hopes of causing an argument?

Fact: $15/hour has CREATED jobs in Seattle (read the article above, which was a great find). Why? Because those people can now afford to meet more of their needs with their paycheck and their spending increases economic activity and demand, putting more dollars in circulation (go learn about the “velocity of the dollar”), which means not only are they spending their dollars, but that the businesses who receive those dollars are then spending those same dollars and so on and so forth. The “virtuous cycle” is right now broken in America, and the ONLY way we are going to see it repaired is by accepting that the whole trickle-down supply-side ideology is a 100% failure. There is no such thing as economic gravity, what goes up does not come down and whoever told you that there’s any such thing as “build it and they will come” when nobody can afford the ticket was a liar.

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That article that you cited is not about Seattle. Did you read it? I did.

There is a huge difference between a rate increase of $1 - going from $7 to $8) and doubling the minimum wage (going from $7.50 to $15). That article, written by some idiot, does not make that important distinction.

In Seattle, restaurants are closing. They are not opening. The huge increase is going to damage the retail environment.

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So conflict of interest? CEO of company that handles lots of labor issues in charge of labor???

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You have no idea what it’s like to struggle economically. You don’t just magically get a better job by some mechanism you have left undescribed. Trying to be polite here but you don’t make it easy.

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umm not sure if its snark, but those four states did start this new chapter.

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fiddler calls the tune.

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