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mnottertail -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 6:38:40 PM)
Let's say the CEOs ease back a little, and some don't get a 3.8 million dollar golden parachute for nearly bankrupting a going concern as well as the company paying their medical insurance for the next nine years.....little things like that. We could even start cutting into them a little, say a dollar an hour, I know, end of the italian marble dick washer and roller, but hey we all gotta tighten our belts. Ron

Archer -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 6:47:19 PM)
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs/IL/Springfield//J202447RJ $10 an hour is almost twice minimum 5.25 X 2 = 10.50 and as this advertisement clearly states it's within the starting range for McDonalds.

servitude69 -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 6:47:50 PM)
I live in a suburb of Milwaukee. i know for fact that you can start at a Mcdonalds for $7.50 to $8:00. the signs are up.

cuddleheart50 -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 6:49:34 PM)
McDonalds here in Ky, pays 5.15 an hour.

FelinePersuasion -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 6:50:03 PM)
Cable's not a right nor a nessesity to life, someone wants cable let them pay like everybody else does. A phone's not a nessesity to live life either, it's a convience. Let them pay for their own phone like every one else, now however health care yes I agree someone should make it easily availible for every one to have healthcare. quote: ORIGINAL: WhipTheHip quote: . Low income wage earners ought to be helped by receiving government subsidies, and certain services for free like $100/month free electric, free phone service, free cable, free medical care,

DiurnalVampire -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 6:50:45 PM)
Federal minimum is what most fast food places offer, unless they are getting desperate for help, in whcih case they start slowly bumping it up until they get the help they need.

Level -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 6:51:12 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: LotusSong quote: ORIGINAL: Level China is moving away from communism, into a semi-capitalistic dictatorship. So is America No it isn't.

nefertari -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 6:52:47 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Archer http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs/IL/Springfield//J202447RJ $10 an hour is almost twice minimum 5.25 X 2 = 10.50 and as this advertisement clearly states it's within the starting range for McDonalds. Did you read that link? It's not for a fry cook position. It's a manager position. Whether swing manager or whatever, it's still managment.

servitude69 -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 6:58:48 PM)
If you are in Kentucky and start at $5.15. so what. You work your way up or get a different job that pays more

Archer -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 7:00:06 PM)
And if you can't move from cook to shift manager in 6 months to a year you deserve minimum.

cuddleheart50 -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 7:01:25 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: servitude69 If you are in Kentucky and start at $5.15. so what. You work your way up or get a different job that pays more I dont work at McDonalds Bite Me!!!!

badkat -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 7:03:50 PM)
yes....sure you can move up....but how many manager positios are there for how many people who want to move up? no one wants to be at the bottom of the barrel. and as for who pays for the min wage going up? raise the minimum wage and more people will have a few extra bucks for disposable income...they will spend the money which will help the economy... its econ 101.

Archer -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 7:05:28 PM)
But come on folks BLS 2004 report showed a just over 1/2 a million people nationwide working at minimum wage. "According to Current Population Survey estimates for 2004, some 73.9 million American workers were paid at hourly rates, representing 59.8 percent of all wage and salary workers.1 Of those paid by the hour, 520,000 were reported as earning exactly $5.15, ..."

Arpig -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 7:05:42 PM)
I did not bother reading the whole thread, because whatever the posters might have said is irrelevant, they are either opposed to raising the minimum wage (and therefore idiots) or in favour of it (and thus capable of rational thought)

badkat -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 7:05:52 PM)
also its unfortunate but true....some of these minimum wage workers dont have the life or job skills they need to survive.. things you think would be taught in school ... some kind of training would be helpful.. you know the basics...paying bills, balancing checkbooks, etc

nefertari -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 7:06:08 PM)
Funny. First you claim that McDonald's starts at twice minimum wage. Now you say well if you can't get there in 6 months you don't deserve it (although to be fair you did state earlier also that anyone who stays at minimum wage is a slacker). So someone falls onto some hard times. Gets laid off, what have you. In an area of the country where jobs are hard to come by and wages are stagnant. They take a job making minimum wage because they have to have something. Even using your scanrio, 6 months is a long time to try to live on that. Must be nice to live in your world.

badkat -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 7:07:18 PM)
Archer....of those 520,000 people who are living on minimum wage...did it say how many children they are supporting?

Archer -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 7:07:30 PM)
The report source since some may want to actually check the source. http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2004.htm

Archer -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 7:10:03 PM)
To be precise I said "nearly twice" and I have seen $10 an hour ads for McDonalds as starting pay. It may not be nationwide but in ATL and in Dallas Tx I saw the ads.

servitude69 -> RE: Minimum Wage (8/27/2006 7:12:00 PM)
This is the best time in our Nations history to find a good job. The unemployment rate is about 4.7%. It has never been lower. There are jobs out there if the McDonalds gig doesn't work out for you

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