Re: Minimum wage
[Re: Snowpa]
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06/08/22 03:09 PM
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I worked for $1.90 an hour. For $5 dollars I could get 1/3 of a tank of gas for the buick wildcat and have enough left over for 4 beers in the hotel.
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Re: Minimum wage
[Re: Boco]
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06/08/22 03:46 PM
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I worked for $1.90 an hour. For $5 dollars I could get 1/3 of a tank of gas for the buick wildcat and have enough left over for 4 beers in the hotel. 2 for you and 2 for the guy you took there?
Time is more precious than gold if you know how to spend it .... but what do I know, I'm just a dumb farmer.~My Dad NRA LIFE MEMBER, Endowment Member
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Re: Minimum wage
[Re: Jiwi]
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06/08/22 05:09 PM
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So what if you can't pay to go to work? Then the libards pay you to stay home!
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Re: Minimum wage
[Re: Snowpa]
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06/08/22 06:42 PM
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Made 2¢ a vine pullin' brush in the grapes as a kid. Moved up in the world and made $2.65 an hour. Then minimum wage went to $3.35. Boy was I bringing it home. Finally worked my way up to $5 an hour. Right after that minimum wage went to $5 and the new hires were making what I did on the farm. That's when I decided to get a job in the big city. An hour in and and hour back every day. 18 years of that while also running a small grape farm. Worked and paid the bills and raised my family. If you feel your job pays too little either work more or quit your whining. And most of all live within your means
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Re: Minimum wage
[Re: Snowpa]
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06/08/22 09:58 PM
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I rember when younger save every Penney, I had coon collections, work for $1 hour on farm with field work, then room an board on farm for 2 summers for $25 a week, then got job in factory pt after high school an stay there an work bunch times, quit, layoff an came back, things never really same after late 70 s or early 80 s, recession, mfr everthing change,lot cheap low wages after then, someplace the big mfg an other plants closed up
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Re: Minimum wage
[Re: Snowpa]
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06/09/22 05:54 AM
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danny clifton
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No ones buisness except employer and employee what has been agreed to for compensation
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Minimum wage
[Re: Michigander]
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06/11/22 01:21 PM
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Minimum wage is still 7.25 an hour which is ridiculous in the current economy. I wouldn't let a 10 year old kid work for that. Then I would feel sorry for your kids. Most would be glad to work for $5 and would be building a solid work ethic at the same time. It's not what ya earn, it's what ya learn.
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Re: Minimum wage
[Re: Snowpa]
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06/11/22 01:36 PM
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Didn't minimum wage come about because some employers were taking advantage of low IQ workers who simply couldn't defend themselves against getting overworked and underpaid? I quit buying the Snickers up by the cash register when they got to 89 cents. The other day I saw them at a new 7-11 along the interstate for 1.79. I wouldn't think they'd sell many.
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Re: Minimum wage
[Re: Snowpa]
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06/11/22 02:01 PM
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It’s tough to make it on $15 an hour. I know, that’s what I make right now. I work for the state doing highway maintenance, my crew is responsible for road paint, sign repair, and street light repair, I drive a ten wheeler dump truck hauling chips for chip sealing. I operate a 20 ton crane standing up light poles, do electrical work, haul equipment on lowboys, do traffic control on accidents, drive snowplows, operate loaders and street sweepers and aerial trucks, drive water truck, and several other pieces of heavy equipment. All of which require a lot of skill, skill that in the private sector is worth double or even triple what I make. There is a very rigid pay increase scale, and in a couple years the pay gets significantly better, but for now we struggle.
The only thing keeping me there is the benefits and schedule that allows me a lot of time with my kids. Great benefits, retirement, PTO, insurance, tuition reimbursement, etc. the trade off is I just won’t make any money the next couple years. And I can’t really go get another job, because they made me sign a paper saying that this job will take precedence over any other job I may get and if I do look for other work it must be approved by my supervisor and his boss. Nobody wants to hire help that will have to leave mid shift if their other job calls.
I’m not complaining, I knew what I signed up for. Just sayin, at $15 an hour in today’s economy the struggle is real. Everyone here sayin “well I worked for $1.50 and hour” blah blah, you may have, but you never had to pay for $6 a gallon fuel and $5 a gallon milk. Not to mention $1,300+ a month rent. Inflation is kicking us in the teeth right now.
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Re: Minimum wage
[Re: Bob]
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06/11/22 02:32 PM
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It’s tough to make it on $15 an hour. I know, that’s what I make right now. I work for the state doing highway maintenance, my crew is responsible for road paint, sign repair, and street light repair, I drive a ten wheeler dump truck hauling chips for chip sealing. I operate a 20 ton crane standing up light poles, do electrical work, haul equipment on lowboys, do traffic control on accidents, drive snowplows, operate loaders and street sweepers and aerial trucks, drive water truck, and several other pieces of heavy equipment. All of which require a lot of skill, skill that in the private sector is worth double or even triple what I make. There is a very rigid pay increase scale, and in a couple years the pay gets significantly better, but for now we struggle.
The only thing keeping me there is the benefits and schedule that allows me a lot of time with my kids. Great benefits, retirement, PTO, insurance, tuition reimbursement, etc. the trade off is I just won’t make any money the next couple years. And I can’t really go get another job, because they made me sign a paper saying that this job will take precedence over any other job I may get and if I do look for other work it must be approved by my supervisor and his boss. Nobody wants to hire help that will have to leave mid shift if their other job calls.
I’m not complaining, I knew what I signed up for. Just sayin, at $15 an hour in today’s economy the struggle is real. Everyone here sayin “well I worked for $1.50 and hour” blah blah, you may have, but you never had to pay for $6 a gallon fuel and $5 a gallon milk. Not to mention $1,300+ a month rent. Inflation is kicking us in the teeth right now. I'd look for a side hustle. Even one you could take your kids to. Selling firewood, wrenching on cars, scrapping... something like that.
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Re: Minimum wage
[Re: Snowpa]
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06/11/22 03:34 PM
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Make no mistake, I do not believe in raising the minimum wage in any way shape or form. Inflation already has us by the short hairs as it is, raising minimum wage will do nothing but exacerbate the situation.
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