Steve Kelley for May 07, 2021

September will fix him.

Glad to see Steve Kelley is in favor of having a living wage as the new minimum wage.

Does this mean Kelley will not take the next stimulus check?

If you"re not willing to pay above slave wages and no benefits, what incentive do they have to work there? I suppose you can punish them and force them to subject themselves to two or three sub-par paying jobs in order to make enough to almost afford rent…

Wow, trickle down does work.

To paraphrase FDR, any business that relies on paying someone less than a living wage in order to succeed has no right to operate in the United States. Pay a living wage for every job. You’re not paying him to be a bus boy, you are paying him to give up time out of his life to help your venture succeed.

I have no idea if there is an element of truth to the idea that some people resist going back to work because of the enhanced unemployment benefits or if it is another big lie by Republicans. For the sake of argument let’s say it is true. It is great that for the first time since Republicans have managed to destroy most unions that there is some pressure on employers to increase pay for lower wage workers.

Give us a number, SKelley.

How much do you think that busboy is actually getting in “covid unemployment”?

How many busboys do you think actually qualify for it?

How much do you think a busboy should get?

In numbers.

So, what is wrong with making a living wage?

https://www.catholiceducation.org.uk/images/LivingWageResource.pdf

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James 2:24

If Frankenstein were to send Igor out to get a brain for his creation, he wouldn’t even consider going near Kelley or his Republican sycophants

Saint Ronnie’s updated ‘welfare queen’.

Subsidizing an employer’s low wages with my tax dollars is simply welfare. Employees forced to apply for aid to secure housing, food, and healthcare because employers will not pay a livable wage is just wrong.

Wyoming is stopping the fed UI subsidy of $300 and using to incentivize people to go back to work rather than incentivize them to stay unemployed. I like this, but we’ll see how it plays out. I like to think that most people would rather work than not. If that’s true then it should help get people back into the workforce.

Of, the $300 a week he’s getting is enough to hire an agent?

We knew this would be a Republican talking point the day the stimulus was announced.. never mind the thousands that desperately needed help but focus on the few that take advantage.

Try living on minimum wage for restaurant workers for three months

What does Kelley have against reality?

Go talk to Lisa Benson, Kelley. You’re both working off the same shop-worn RW meme, and it’s getting pretty boring.

So greedy of employable workers to not be enticed by unstable low-paying jobs… /s

My nephew inherited a construction company. He was sitting in his two million dollar (in Arkansas) house the other day complaining that when he laid his workers off after a project, they would refuse to come back to work until their unemployment ran out, because the difference in what he was paying and unemployment, plus picking up odd jobs, didn’t make it worth the effort of getting out of bed. It was delaying projects and making problems for him. It had occured to him that paying enough to make it worth their while, even paying when they were laid off, would solve his problems, but he felt like that would be rewarding them for defying him and encourage more of the same.

This must be a difficult time for you Steve. The peasants are revolting, you are trying to warn your fellow oligarchs of the problem, and then the show up to sneer at you.

If only there was a way to show how you really feel.

Oh wait.

Mel Brooks already did. He even had the foresight to play you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0iAcQVIokg

This s the second Conservative Political Cartoon I’ve read today featuring this topic. Do Conservative Cartoonists get approved talking points just like Congressional Republicans (the border, woke, cancel culture, the deficit)? Hmmm. Here’s a freebie for Mitch: I woke up on the border. Thanks to the mental deficit caused by all the Mexican culture I partook in the night before (tequila), I had to cancel all my plans

The kind of person who would rather collect unemployment than work is the person who you wouldn’t hire in the first place.

Not happening. Unemployment is a pain in the ass to continue on. If you refuse employment, you lose your benefits.

He would reverse himself and become a liberal!

Yeah, I’m sure that $300 a month has him living pretty high off the hog./s

Kelly does not care about the many factors behind employment numbers. He only want to make it seem hard working Americans are freeloaders. Whata complete jerk.

The Trump admin ended with 3 million less jobs than when they started.

So let’s get everyone vaccinated against Covid-19, so there’s no justification for the unemployment checks.

The new economy is to starve them into submission so they’ll work for peanuts.

The lack of empathy of attitudes like this is jaw-dropping. Unemployment benefits are not a sustained living wage. The average unemployment benefit is $320 weekly (the amount varies by state), which comes out to $8/hr. The current minimum wage of $7.25/hr, which has not changed since July 2009, and tipped labor makes only minimum of $2.13 per hour as long as the hour wage plus tip income (which of course is neither consistent nor guaranteed) equals at least the minimum wage. Take out rent, food, utilities, clothing, medical costs, etc. from any of these figures and you are not left with very much.

The claim that “people would rather live on unemployment benefits than get a minimum-wage job” is not an argument against extending unemployment benefits, it’s an argument for raising the minimum wage.

Exactly Steve, lazy bastards make more collecting than working even when jobs are readily available. The dollar is worth less every day!

Kelley thinks somebody can hire an “agent” for $300/week or less?

Does he keep his own agent locked in the basement?