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In Reply to: RE: perhaps. But bigotry is bigotry posted by RGA on April 26, 2015 at 20:47:21
If the minimum wage can't provide those basic things - then minimum wage is too low.
What does this have to do with audio?
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Our esteemed Supreme Leader need to lift the min wage, how else can the avg man afford a good hi-fi system, everyone deserves a good hi-fi system and of course , yes, high speed internet for downloads..
Regards..
"Our esteemed Supreme Leader [sic] need [sic] to lift the min wage"
I'm not sure where you are located, but in the USA the legislative branch of government e.g., congress, passes laws and the leader of the executive branch is titled 'president.' To ensure a separation of powers, the U.S. Federal Government is made up of three branches: legislative, executive and judicial. To ensure the government is effective and citizens' rights are protected, each branch has its own powers and responsibilities, including working with the other branches.
Hey Pal ..:)
There seem to be a few things you are not privy to, 1. Sarcasm 2. Washington...
God bless ....
Edits: 04/28/15
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Mr. Obama can write those in his sleep now.
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Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
- Winston Churchill
Take the initiative to better yourself!
The Welfare State is not the answer.
A lot of people are better today - better trained and better educated than a lot of (though certainly not all) people who are holding down full time employment.
And the problem with your thinking is that you still believe that we are "taking care of" drug addled, alcoholic rejects with no education or drive.
Welfare states are designed to temporarily assist people. In Canada the supposed evil Socialist nation there is Employment Insurance - you lose your job the government steps in and gives you a wage for a specified period of time. To get it you needed to work full time for a specified period of time and you pay into EI in order to get it should you need it. I don't think this policy is unreasonable or a welfare state
http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/ei/types/regular.shtml#eligible
Anyone who goes to university puts in the four+ years to do the copious amount of work have the drive and have the smarts. So the notion of bettering yourself is odd. You can be better and still not have a job. The African mother carrying water on her head for 16 hours a day works harder than any CEO on the planet but gets paid nothing. Better herself? How - the CEO had rich parents who paid full ticket to Harvard and likely paid a bunch of people off to let in lesser quality candidates on the promise of new library wing. The African Mother for all we know has 40 higher IQ points but without a silver spoon up her butt and a failing social network to help her so it goes.
What we have is far too many people not working or working lousy jobs WITH degrees out the ying yang. They lack a job to go to.
My dad was fortunate - he remembered 80%+ of everything he ever read and when you read 3-4 books a week for 50+ years that is a nice storage bank of knowledge. He worked for Canadian Veterans Affairs and applied for a managing job. The government gives a test to applicants. My dad had not only a high score he was the only person who passed the test. The job was for a finance position. He had no degree and all the other candidates were certified accountants, MBAs etc.
Good job dad!
Today however my dad would not only not get the job he would not even be allowed to apply because he had no degree. The moral of the story is that you can be the best at something - you can be better than the other guy and it doesn't mean squat if the system is set-up to be a certain way.
Businesses are kind of dumb to think they can sell pricey goods to a workforce that can't afford a movie ticket.
If I run a company I want lots of people making lots of money so that they can afford to buy the higher margin widget that I want to sell - if only a few people have any money then I can only sell to a few people.
Last I checked you want your customer base to have plenty of disposable income. Instead of 1% of the population that can buy my item I want 80% of the population to be able to afford my item - I can sell 79% more of them making me far richer - and all I had to do was pay my employee a living wage. Henry Ford knew this - but it seems to have gotten lost since.
In 1995 I was making $45,000 as an Accounts Payable clerk. I doubt people in BC are being paid $45,000 TODAY - 20 years later with inflation that same job should be earning people considerably more. It's not - I see postings for Accounts Payable clerks at $12-$15 an hour.
Teachers have 50% of the buying power they had in 1985.
So forget all the minimum wage nonsense - how about paying wages that JUST and ONLY keep up with inflation? If a company can pay a CEO $30,000,000 a year but claim poverty when confronted with 2% inflation or relatively moderate medical benefits someone is lying to someone.
Now in my case - I don't complain too much. I'm a teacher - 11-1 teacher to job ratio - pretty lousy pay, governments cutting education to the bone - I says to myself - forget that - choice A) leave the field so I have money to retire or choice B) find a teaching position in a country that pays teachers. Since I like my job, was single, like traveling - I went to Asia where they actually pay a decent wage.
If the minimum wage can't provide those basic things - then minimum wage is too low.
As usual, you use far too many words to say very little in this wordy diatribe.
Anyone who goes to university puts in the four+ years to do the copious amount of work have the drive and have the smarts.
I wouldn't call anyone "smart" who chooses a career with little to no job demand.
So forget all the minimum wage nonsense...
This is what I'm saying.
The job demand was there. I worked in Accounting - the government put out calls that "in 5 years we'll be short teachers" so people went into teaching.
But what changed was the right wing lunatics came to power and decided that it was a good idea to make sure all schools run at a profit (or at least a draw) and when a teacher retired they didn't replace the teacher - they just made the classes bigger and added portables - turning schools into trailer parks. They cut all the specialist teachers by 3/4 and froze the pay for 5 years - inflation goes up 15% the pay did not effectively cutting pay 15%.
Of course by then you're in year four of a degree program with 1.5 years left so you stick it out because you're $30,000+ in student loan debt and if you quit you have a pretty worthless BA in on of the arts.
Nope I didn't complain - I took my degree and moved to Asia where I get paid like a doctor (we put money into health but not education which even philosophers back in the days of Plato questioned). The fact is everyone is going to get sick and die - not everyone is going to be educated properly so why society puts money into stopping the inevitable but doesn't put it into education is ridiculous. Asia seems to get it. Smart people tend to live longer because they get better jobs and can eat richer quality food which in turn lowers the health care costs for them and a nation rather dramatically.
Any person around the boomer age that has a high paying job and does not have a degree in their specific field who rips young people for not woprking hard is a blow hard fop. These people if they were put back in time as a 30 year old with no degree - would not get the job they're in now and would be making min wage - and if you're making min wage - gee I think these blow hards would have a lot different things to say about how much it should be.
But like most your the type that says "I got mine so screw everyone else" "I got it because God loves me more." Or "I got it because I am BETTER/SMARTER than everyone else." No one helped them right. They went to schools that had music programs, arts, school discipline, no fear of being shot in the classroom etc. Yup the boomers had no help from anyone - lol.
is moving in the right direction!
BTW, my Gen X wife is also a teacher which is most certainly an honorable position - she is a pharmacy professor.
I worked in Accounting
So you're not a teacher.
and decided that it was a good idea to make sure all schools run at a profit
Are you that inept?
Yup the boomers had no help from anyone - lol.
Sorry, you're absolutely clueless.
"Welfare states are designed to temporarily assist people"
Oh but were that only true in the U.S.
Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
- Winston Churchill
I am not for a welfare state in a sense of cradle to grave security - you have to work and you need a motivation to work. If a guy who works 40 hours a week makes $25,000 a year and another guy can sit on his butt and the government will give you $20,000 a year - umm I would choose the latter any day - I can sit home and play video games and listen to my stereo for $5,000 less - pretty easy choice.
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