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   Buzzy-One said, 3 months ago

   kinda like the person who has to work to have a car but needs the car to work. Benson, what a ditz.

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   hank197857 said, 3 months ago

   baldo, is that you?

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   cjr53 said, 3 months ago

   Except working for minimum wage is more like working as a slave. Nobody can live on minimum wages.

   Lisa Benson, always pointing out how the greedy rich guys see the workforce.

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   parkersinthehouse said, 3 months ago

   cjr53-

   agreed. it seems like there’s a lot of self-righteous disdain, anger toward low wage-earners, welfare recipients, food stamp users, as if they were pick-pockets.

   about 30 years ago my daughter and i applied for food stamps - i was in school and her dad quit paying child support. my own mom was horrified. however, it got us through a pretty difficult year.

   i finished school, taught for many years, and just retired from a $90,000 a year job, and i wonder what might have happened if that year had been different.

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   harleyquinn said, 3 months ago

   If you are trying to live on min wage you are a loser. This Comic hits the target! Min wage should be for the done nothing and know nothing teenager. Raise the price you can hire a person you get a few things. Higher expectation, sorry no experience do not apply, I can not pay to train you. Sorry 17 year old your summer job where you could learn how to work. That job has just been cut. And when another person has to be hired, sorry guy who has worked faithfully for the last year. your raise has to go to hire this other guy. and maybe an hour or two.

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   dtriedel said, 3 months ago

   My, my, HQ, the milk of human kindness certainly flows through your veins. Would you call yourself a spiritual person? A fair-minded person? So all who work on minimum wage are total losers? Hopeless.

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   lalas said, 3 months ago

   HQ – so you think that teenagers outnumber min. wage jobs?

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   wbr said, 3 months ago

   dtriedel you have never had to form a payroll

   lalas –yes

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   Right_On said, 3 months ago

   I think that we just gave the Unions a pay raise. Most of their pay is tied to the minimum wage rate.

   Besides, those teenagers who make minimum wage usually do it during their summer jobs, which are coming to an end as school starts soon.

   Can’t wait to see how Obama spins unemployment numbers when his SAVE AND OR CREATE included many of those kids summer jobs . .

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    dtroutma said, 3 months ago

    The 45-55 years olds who were working at well-paying jobs, and are now working for the minimum, many in the “service sector” may take exception to Harley’s mistaken view always projected by the “right”. The minimum wage hasn’t been just for entry level kids for many decades- it accounts for a significant part of our current economy. Notably, a lot of folks are working two, or even three of those jobs to survive. I see my pocket being picked by a lot more people at AIG et al than as Wal Mart greeters.

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    harleyquinn said, 3 months ago

    No dt I just believe the job belongs to those who provide it. It should be between the one who provides it and the one who wants to work it to set the price.
    But in Obama land the job belongs to the one who works it and it is up to the government to set the price and deiced how much a person should keep out of what was given to the worker.
    Funny I did not see the right to have a job in the constuitution.
    A better way for those making Min. wage and those who want to work and keep what they earn. FAIR TAX!

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    harleyquinn said, 3 months ago

    DT “So all who work on minimum wage are total losers?”
    No just those who think it is a life style and think they can live or raise a family with min wage. Just those who think the world or the government owes them a job and a wage to go with it.
    Those are the losers.
    Oh and while we are at it the worst thing you can do to a know nothing kid is over pay them. That leads to the losers I just spelled out for you.

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    harleyquinn said, 3 months ago

    Can’t wait to see how Obama spins unemployment numbers when his SAVE AND OR CREATE included many of those kids summer jobs .

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090728/apon_goot/usstimuluscountingjobs1

    Reality is sometime scarier then what the D want you to believe.

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    lalas said, 3 months ago

    HQ – plz fix yr link…. add the backslash before each underscore or tinyurl it. Thx

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    harleyquinn said, 3 months ago

    Can’t get the link to work so here is the jest.

    “Democrats are taking credit for a remarkable feat: creating 3,236 new jobs in the program’s first three months.
    But those jobs lasted on average only 35 hours, or about one work week. After that, those workers were effectively back unemployed,”

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    Buzzy-One said, 3 months ago

    HQ, sound like reworked figgures from W’s crew.

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    hank197857 said, 3 months ago

    any honest work is good work. it’s downright sinful to malign poor people.

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    harleyquinn said, 3 months ago

    I agree hank. I am not offering ill will toward the poor. Just lazy people who do not want a honest wage for a job. They want the feds to set the wage not the ones who make the jobs possible. “poor” is what you make of it.
    And Buzz, really W? yawn..
    http://tinyurl.com/m43nt4

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    cdward said, 3 months ago

    HQ, there is a place where minimum wage rules have not until recently applied. Migrant farm workers, because at least here, they are not subject to normal rules. In fact, until very recently, there were few of the normal employment rules (such as bathroom breaks, access to water) for farm workers (at least in the state of New York). I know this because part of my work involves rural and migrant workers. Perhaps you could say that the wage should be between the worker and the employer, but what actually transpires is that the employer offers next to nothing in pay, and the workers are too poor to go anywhere else. They survive by living in camp houses and eating whatever minimal food the employer might provide. But in practice, they are little more than slaves. They work hard but have little opportunities to do anything other than work.

    Is this what you had in mind for most workers?

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    James Riendeau said, 3 months ago

    One thing a lot of people neglect is that raising the minimum wage tends to have a cascading effect on all wages. This is the primary reason most employers hate raising the min wage, even if they don’t draw from that pool of unskilled labor. Those who suddenly find themselves working for min wage will likely try to find a better deal. It also gives everyone at the top half of the economy a barometer of how much a buck is really worth.

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    Michigander said, 3 months ago

    dtroutma, you make a lot of sense. I am middle age and barely squeaking above minimum wage. Some is my fault. I was fired from a better paying job a few years ago for verbal confrontation on the job with a superior and a coworker. So, now I work at less than two thirds of that wage and ten hours less per week. Still paying dearly for it. But, minimum wage is starting wage for most positions in the service sector, age is no factor in that.

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    Michigander said, 3 months ago

    I believe this cartoon is implying that with the poor U.S. economy, the minimum wage still went up. But of course, that was set a few years ago to happen this year. Back when our economy was bad instead of poor.