Mr. Cooper, please keep your guilt I don’t care for it. In that government has refused to keep the base wages (minimum wage) at the same level as production or inflation for the last 40 years (1968 was the highest year so far) why should we feel guilty? First we have to send our wives to work to keep up. Then we take two jobs. Then student loans for our kids, thus mortgaging their future. Then we take easy credit to pay off the bills. All so that the “employers” can make more profit. Our own government has been waging a protracted class war for four decades. Keep your guilt, I don’t want it.
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This was submitted to CNN's 360 blog. After 5 hours, it still has not passed through their moderation system and been published where as other have so I suspect CNN does not see this as....whatever.
(Almost) any adult working for minimum wage for more than a year doesn't have as his or her highest priority getting a better job.
Those who work, bought and drive a reasonable spare car, have two drawers and a dozen hangers of generic clothes, rent a suitable apartment in a safe neighborhood, go without cable, broadband and a cell phones, eat out a half dozen times a year at most, give $2.00 coffees a pass, and still ended up in debt - my sympathies. It does happen, especially with medical.
Otherwise, I'm with CNN. Dreaming is free, but dreams aren't.
Trouble is the minimum wage sets the wage rates. There has been a governmental gradual redistribution of wealth starting in 1968 and continuing up to even today.
Maybe I've spent too much time with the below the median crowd.
It has been said (rather ignorantly) that wealth redistribution downward is socialism. What are we going to call the last 30 years of redistribution upwards?
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