I agree with Lyle. Why not just set the minimum wage to $25/hr and pass
a law that everything must not go up in price. Oh and pass a law that
every business must hire more folks. That should fix things.
I do not get socialism. The Pilgrims' experimented with socialism and
it failed. What you propose is a slippery slope to socialism. Add a
law here and another one there and another one to fix the prior one....
Look at ObamaCare. That is what happens when the government gets
involved.
I was thinking about this over the weekend. Here is what I came up
with. Raise the minimum wage to $15/hr and ensure all other parts of
the economy will stay in check, such as no loss of jobs and no
inflation.
Then make sure I'm the guy at U-Haul that takes care of the rental
returns. Give my wife the same job. My wife and I would work that job
until we are 70. I'd love that. No stress, no hassle, no leaning new
technology. I could BBQ more often. Camp more often and just enjoy
life. I'm all for it. Can you arrange it?
Here is the down side. I would not be forced to grow, learn and
contribute. As a Christian I believe God has given each of us unique
talents and skills. These talents and skills are for us to make a
living and for making the community better. God requires that of us, not
the government.
By messing with the market's equilibrium, you mess with a God made
system. Man is fallible and government is even more fallible.
In the above $15/hr example my wife who is a nurse would quit her job
and I would quit struggling with technology. My wife and I would lose
our desire to find what we are good at and we would lose our desire to
use our God given talent to better our community.
Struggle is good. Struggle creates change. What I see is some want to
make things perfect. I say let us feel the pain, let us struggle so we
are strong. I keep hearing about all these stats and how my experience
is anecdotal, that my total life experience and watching those around me
is anecdotal. I must be some kind of freak. I must not have live an
American life.
Remember failure is a good thing. History is full of failure that led to
success. Failure is a great teacher. Once we stop failing we stop
being successful.
It is up to us the people not the government. Government should only be
in place to protect the rights of the people and minimum wage is not a
right. Owning a home is not a right. Health insurance is not a right.
Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness are rights.
Now having said that it is up to each of us to help make our community
better by helping those in our community do better or to help them up
when they have fallen.
It is you and I that are failing and we make it worse by delegating our
responsibilities to the government.
We need to take responsibility. Don't like businesses that pay low
wages, don't buy their goods and services. I'll bet not one of you that
support raising the minimum wage will stop buying Walmart.
I will stand up against injustice with you, however YOU must be willing
to stand up and pay the price. If not do not ask me to sacrifice.
On 2016-12-12 07:21, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
> No - who SHARED that FACT.
>
> At 12:22 AM 12/12/2016, Steve Litt wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 23:12:45 -0700 Lyle Tuttle <l.tuttle@cox.net>
>> wrote: > No, they are beginners in their life; learning how to work,
>> building > their skills in order to earn more..... > > And now, back
>> to PLUG Says the always on-topic l.tuttle@cox.net who started the
>> infamous "no wedding band" Obama critique on 8/29/2015:
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