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Tom Joad 08-05-2015 02:32 PM
"If any job is going to take up someone's life, it deserves a living wage."
 
http://www.alternet.org/labor/texas-...urger-flippers

This guy really nails it IMO.

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“Look, if any job is going to take up someone’s life, it deserves a living wage. If a job exists and you have to hire someone to do it, they deserve a living wage. End of story. There’s a lot of talk going around my workplace along the lines of, “These guys with no education and no skills think they deserve as much as us? Fuck those guys.” And elsewhere on FB: ‘I’m a licensed electrician, I make $13/hr, fuck these burger flippers.'”

He continued, “And that’s exactly what the bosses want! They want us fighting over who has the bigger pile of crumbs so we don’t realize they made off with almost the whole damn cake. Why are you angry about fast food workers making two bucks more an hour when your CEO makes four hundred TIMES what you do? It’s in the bosses’ interests to keep your anger directed downward, at the poor people who are just trying to get by, like you, rather than at the rich assholes who consume almost everything we produce and give next to nothing for it. ”

Boreas 08-05-2015 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom Joad (Post 280362)
"I’m a licensed electrician, I make $13/hr, fuck these burger flippers.

On what planet do "licensed electricians" make $13/hr?

And what's with the three sentences and no periods? Since he can't freakin' write, maybe he can't count either.

Tom Joad 08-05-2015 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Boreas (Post 280374)
"I’m a licensed electrician, I make $13/hr, fuck these burger flippers.

On what planet do "licensed electricians" make $13/hr?
Well he's talking about Texas. Compared to where you are in California, that is another planet.

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Originally Posted by Boreas (Post 280374)

And what's with the three sentences and no periods? Since he can't freakin' write, maybe he can't count either.
Again, Texas.

bobabode 08-05-2015 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Boreas (Post 280374)
"I’m a licensed electrician, I make $13/hr, fuck these burger flippers.

On what planet do "licensed electricians" make $13/hr?

And what's with the three sentences and no periods? Since he can't freakin' write, maybe he can't count either.
That one pegged my BS meter too.

Tom Joad 08-05-2015 03:26 PM
You know the $15 an hour minimum wage is one place I may not be in agreement with Bernie. I think $15 is probably reasonable in high cost of living areas like California, New York or Hawaii, etc.

But in Alabama or Mississippi, $10-$12 seems more reasonable.

I know the Federal Government has different COLA's for different areas.

Maybe the minimum wage should be tied to those.

BlueStreak 08-07-2015 01:18 PM
Maybe whoever wrote that missed on a few details, but in the overarching message he is spot on. That's exactly what's been going on. Someone wants us to stay focused on they among us who ostensibly don't deserve what they have......as working class wages incomes stagnate and plutocratic wealth escalates.

Think about that.

donquixote99 08-07-2015 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom Joad (Post 280362)
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And elsewhere on FB: ‘I’m a licensed electrician, I make $13/hr, fuck these burger flippers.'”
Elsewhere on FB, a shill spreads disinformation to divide and agitate in service to the plutocracy.

mpholland 08-09-2015 02:21 PM
If only the whole middle class would understand how good this is for them. If you only make 15.00 an hour at a skilled job, you will suddenly be worth more because you can tell your boss to fuck off and go flip burgers. Hard to pay skilled labor minimum wage when there are easier jobs to be had. The rich all complain about the amount of people on welfare. Well maybe that will change too, if you can make more on minimum wage than welfare. With a decent minimum wage and healthcare, most of this country's problems could start to reverse.

Rex E. 08-09-2015 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by mpholland (Post 280663)
if only the whole middle class would understand how good this is for them. If you only make 15.00 an hour at a skilled job, you will suddenly be worth more because you can tell your boss to fuck off and go flip burgers. Hard to pay skilled labor minimum wage when there are easier jobs to be had. The rich all complain about the amount of people on welfare. Well maybe that will change too, if you can make more on minimum wage than welfare. With a decent minimum wage and healthcare, most of this country's problems could start to reverse.
boom!!!!!!!!

donquixote99 08-09-2015 06:34 PM
Boom-boom!!!

All we need is a government that makes it a priority to do what's good for the country....


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