Fucktard DC asshats

[jeninflorida]

so just when you think that no one could top obama's corruption and disgrace, these people in DC have come out with the megga fucktard of all fucktards.

they, want to impose their communist will on companies ... by forcing them to pay employees a min of $15-25 an hour.

WTF?

isn't min wage at $8? yet these fucktard asshat politicans get to pick and chose which companies are forced to pay the new regime rates

democrats - ignorant and lazy fucktards at heart that are 25 cans short of a 6 pack

 

[colddiesel]

$15+ /hour is the minimum wage in most civilized countries. But if Primitive America aspires to be the next China Jen might have a point.

 

[lilsarah91]

I'm a cashier at a grocery store and I make $15.50 an hour.

What exactly is your point Jen? You're pissed off that politicians want minimum wage to equal inflation? WTF is wrong with you?

 

[phrodeau]

Slavery worked for thousands of years. Why don't we have slavery any more?

 

[lilsarah91]

Slavery worked for thousands of years. Why don't we have slavery any more?

Apparently if Overlord Jen had her way, we would.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

lol..

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

I believe that the minimum wage is $7.25 and hr. Good luck surviving on that.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

I believe that the minimum wage is $7.25 and hr. Good luck surviving on that.

over here in CT is 9.50

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

Working full-time in a minimum wage job pays $7.25 per hour. That's just $15,000 a year for full-time work. It's not enough to live on. A breadwinner for a family of four earning the minimum wage would be a full $7,000 below the federal poverty line.

 

[kbate]

Working full-time in a minimum wage job pays $7.25 per hour. That's just $15,000 a year for full-time work. It's not enough to live on. A breadwinner for a family of four earning the minimum wage would be a full $7,000 below the federal poverty line.

So the solution to poverty is for a city to set the minimum wage at $12.50 an hour for only Walmart stores (no other stores in DC would be affected by the council's law).

Tell me why it isn't important for DC's grocery cashiers, their parking lot attendants and their other unskilled labor to receive $12.50 an hour?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

If it is so damned good, why not $25 and hour?



It would just come out of greedy profit.

 

[kbate]

If it is so damned good, why not $25 and hour? It would just come out of greedy profit.

In this case it will come out of 3 stores not being opened and 3 others probably being closed.

I can see the DC walmarts selling things for 80% more than they sell for across the river in Alexandria and everyone still going over there to buy.

Go DC council - bring that tax income to VA!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Working full-time in a minimum wage job pays $7.25 per hour. That's just $15,000 a year for full-time work. It's not enough to live on. A breadwinner for a family of four earning the minimum wage would be a full $7,000 below the federal poverty line.

It is only an introductory wage.

It is also increasingly hard to find a full-time minimum-wage job, now you must take on multiple part-time jobs. But the real secret is that most employers pay better than minimum wage, some fools just want to act like it is a bigger issue than it really is. If you are trying for years upon years to "raise a family" on minimum wage, then you have some serious issues that need to be resolved in your personal life.

In short, it is a very poor argument.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

In this case it will come out of 3 stores not being opened and 3 others probably being closed.

I can see the DC walmarts selling things for 80% more than they sell for across the river in Alexandria and everyone still going over there to buy.

Go DC council - bring that tax income to VA!

Then there's the good side too kbate! Because the poor and middle-class will have to pay more for each item, each item garners more sales tax!

 

[mercury14]

It is only an introductory wage.

It is also increasingly hard to find a full-time minimum-wage job, now you must take on multiple part-time jobs.

Part time jobs added in the past 12 months: 16,000
Full time jobs added in the past 12 months: 1.61 million

Source: bls.gov, this month's employment situation report.



Yeap AJ, you've clearly summed up the trend there.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

So the solution to poverty is for a city to set the minimum wage at $12.50 an hour for only Walmart stores (no other stores in DC would be affected by the council's law).

Tell me why it isn't important for DC's grocery cashiers, their parking lot attendants and their other unskilled labor to receive $12.50 an hour?

I don't believe I said that it isn't important for DC's grocery cashiers, their parking lot attendants and their other unskilled labor to receive $12.50 an hour.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

It is only an introductory wage.

It is also increasingly hard to find a full-time minimum-wage job, now you must take on multiple part-time jobs. But the real secret is that most employers pay better than minimum wage, some fools just want to act like it is a bigger issue than it really is. If you are trying for years upon years to "raise a family" on minimum wage, then you have some serious issues that need to be resolved in your personal life.

In short, it is a very poor argument.

I don't think you know what's really going on at that level of society. Do you know anyone making minimum wage, working 2 jobs, or a full time job and full time school?

 

[pete]

In this case it will come out of 3 stores not being opened and 3 others probably being closed.

I can see the DC walmarts selling things for 80% more than they sell for across the river in Alexandria and everyone still going over there to buy.

Go DC council - bring that tax income to VA!

as a general rule, alexandria > dc all day long

then again, bethesda > alexandria, and that's closer, so...

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

You can't live on $7.25 an hour anywhere in America
A new study says even in the cheapest area, it takes at least $10.20 for a US worker to achieve economic stability.


Even if you live in Hanson County, S.D. -- the county with the lowest cost of living in America -- the $7.25 federal minimum wage won't cover you.

According to a study produced for*The Huffington Post*by Wider Opportunities for Women, a nonprofit advocacy organization aimed at boosting low-income women and families, even a worker with no children living in Hanson would need to take in $10.20 an hour to be economically stable.

That's almost $3 more than the federal minimum, which is*also South Dakota's minimum wage. And $10.20 an hour is getting off lightly, because WOW's researchers found it would take an average minimum wage of $14.17 an hour for workers across the nation to be economically secure. In Montgomery County, Md., the area where the cost of living is highest, a worker needs a minimum wage*of $23.65 to achieve the same stability.

That's no small matter, considering that Montgomery County borders Washington, D.C., which is taking on no less than*Wal-Mart*(WMT +0.96%) in its battle for a living wage. The D.C. City Council passed a bill earlier this month requiring large retailers in the city to pay their workers at least $12.50 per hour, more than $4 above the city's minimum wage.*Wal-Mart has threatened*to pull six planned stores in the city if Mayor Vincent Gray signs the bill into law.

WOW's basic premise is that the minimum wage is too low to provide a living wage for most Americans. President Barack Obama agrees and*proposed raising it to $9 per hour*in his State of the Union address earlier this year. Congress didn't think much of that plan and*halted it right out of the gate.

It doesn't help the minimum wage's case when its opponents think it's making minimum-wage workers rich. Billionaire Charles Koch recently released*a commercial*that suggests an annual income of $34,000*puts a worker among the wealthiest 1%*-- in the world. The Economic Policy Institute's*Family Budget Calculator*counters that a family of three would require an income of $45,000 a year to cover basic needs in Simpson County, Miss., the U.S. region with the lowest cost of living for a family of that size.

That need changes drastically by location and still dwarfs the $30,000 a year two parents working full time would make from the $7.25 minimum wage. In Wichita, Kan., where Think Progress notes Koch's $200,000 commercial campaign has begun, the amount of income needed to cover basic costs jumps to nearly $54,000.

Simply put, $7.25 an hour is a wage, but no one in America is living well on it.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

but I'm guessing that no one here works for minimum wage so most don't give a fuck about those that do.

 

[kbate]

as a general rule, alexandria > dc all day long

then again, bethesda > alexandria, and that's closer, so...

I don't go inside the beltway for less than $250/hour. I charge $150/hour to go east of Chantilly and south of Frederick. I never travel between Fredericksburg and the beltway; not at any price.

You can have it all and you can have Brown, Barry and Gray as well. No charge.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I don't think you know what's really going on at that level of society. Do you know anyone making minimum wage, working 2 jobs, or a full time job and full time school?

No. Do you?

(adding the full time school is moving the goalposts)

Minimum wage, which you keep ignoring, is not a living wage, but an introductory wage.

Raising it only raises prices and reduces jobs. It is the feel-goof of the Broken Window fallacy and the failure to recognize unintended consequences. If you want to really feel good, why not demand Walmart pay $25 dollars an hour? Then, you can work part-time AND go to school full time in order to earn $25 an hour...



Your book bag, however, may now cost you $50 or more, after all, your employer has to earn enough to pay that $25 an hour, or go out of business.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

but I'm guessing that no one here works for minimum wage so most don't give a fuck about those that do.

You really are beginning to annoy me.

I was out of the work force for ten years and the only job I could get last year was minimum wage and part-time. I worked it for about 60 days before I got a promotion based upon my abilities and I have since taken a new job earning even more.

If someone is permanently on minimum wage, then they have no tools and no ability or inclination to acquire them, and trust me, I was around a lot of people who would rather bitch about the job, quit, and seek public assistance than to actually work and advance themselves.

So quit throwing up the gambit of the unassailable victim, they are not working for minimum wage because they are saints. If the only available job in a Liberal City is minimum wage, one might wonder about the paradigm being employed in the name of Liberalism that has driven off all of the good jobs.

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/353959/print

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Why not $50???



Are you niggardly with other people's money?

 

[jeninflorida]

I'm a cashier at a grocery store and I make $15.50 an hour.

What exactly is your point Jen? You're pissed off that politicians want minimum wage to equal inflation? WTF is wrong with you?

don't you have goals or drive? don't you want something better than Wal Mart or a grocery store?

of course my problem is these fucktards in DC! of course there is a problem with this law they want because 'they' get to pick and chose which companies have to pay more.

what will happen at Wal Mart?
1. they will not open the 5 stores that they planned
2. they will hire less people in the store