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08-05-2015, 02:32 PM
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"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. ”
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08-05-2015, 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom Joad
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"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.
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08-05-2015, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Boreas
"I’m a licensed electrician, I make $13/hr, fuck these burger flippers.
On what planet do "licensed electricians" make $13/hr?
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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
And what's with the three sentences and no periods? Since he can't freakin' write, maybe he can't count either.
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Again, Texas.
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08-05-2015, 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Boreas
"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.
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That one pegged my BS meter too.
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08-05-2015, 03:26 PM
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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.
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08-07-2015, 01:18 PM
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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.
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08-07-2015, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom Joad
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And elsewhere on FB: ‘I’m a licensed electrician, I make $13/hr, fuck these burger flippers.'”
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Elsewhere on FB, a shill spreads disinformation to divide and agitate in service to the plutocracy.
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08-09-2015, 02:21 PM
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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.
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08-09-2015, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by mpholland
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.
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boom!!!!!!!!
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08-09-2015, 06:34 PM
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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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