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pan6467 · 06-21-2004, 09:18 PM

I see so with college basically out of reach for many nowadays, unless you want to be strapped with $1000's in debt, you should not be allowed to live a standard that others.

It's just not fast food, it's the temp services that are paying it, the factories that have moved that are paying it.

There are college kids who have degrees that have $1000's in loans and those are the only jobs available.

Have you looked at your help wanted ads lately?

But ok, the working poor don't deserve anything but to work and barely eek out a living. That inspires hard work now doesn't it?

And $7 isn't the minimum wage yet. It's $5.25 and in Ohio if you are a waitress it's $2.15. Yeah I can see how people can live on that. And you have raises of at most 25 cents? These people usually work harder than people who make thousands more.

You didn't address one other fact, amazingly, just the money. And say they can't afford insurance and one of the kids has ADD, Asthma or whatever and needs medicine. Or one of the parents gets hurt and cannot work for awhile?

They live paycheck to paycheck and people like you only give a damn about what you have. That's ok, but remember this people who don't see a future don't have job loyalty. It costs more to keep training new employees than to keep them.

You need to show people a reward for their hard work, not let them barely live.

06-21-2004, 09:18 PM	#27 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	I see so with college basically out of reach for many nowadays, unless you want to be strapped with $1000's in debt, you should not be allowed to live a standard that others. It's just not fast food, it's the temp services that are paying it, the factories that have moved that are paying it. There are college kids who have degrees that have $1000's in loans and those are the only jobs available. Have you looked at your help wanted ads lately? But ok, the working poor don't deserve anything but to work and barely eek out a living. That inspires hard work now doesn't it? And $7 isn't the minimum wage yet. It's $5.25 and in Ohio if you are a waitress it's $2.15. Yeah I can see how people can live on that. And you have raises of at most 25 cents? These people usually work harder than people who make thousands more. You didn't address one other fact, amazingly, just the money. And say they can't afford insurance and one of the kids has ADD, Asthma or whatever and needs medicine. Or one of the parents gets hurt and cannot work for awhile? They live paycheck to paycheck and people like you only give a damn about what you have. That's ok, but remember this people who don't see a future don't have job loyalty. It costs more to keep training new employees than to keep them. You need to show people a reward for their hard work, not let them barely live. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"