And $7.25 an hour is far too high. I could agree on $6/hour at best, and that would take a better argument than has been presented here thus far. Ya'll fail to consider all the "benefits" (term obviously used loosly here) that come with being poor that the government provides when factoring your calculations. There are alot of assistance programs for single parents & handicapped people in this country. I'm not saying that these people are going to be having a nice living, they aren't. But it is enough to get by, and with hard work & some skill refinement capitalism will reward them & they can begin to make more money. Minimum wage is nothing but a starting point for anyone with even the slightest of abilities. It's not like people live their whole lives making only minimum wage as your arguments would seem to suggest.
More accurately, you have a room for $525 and you share your very expensive apartment with three roommates.:wink:
Sure. But once you get past college age, they better be female or everyone will figure you to be gay. :wink:
If you're making minimum wage past college, you've got bigger problems than people thinking you're gay.
So is there even a decent argument for a $7.25 minimum wage? How could this possibly pass the House? More importantly, how could we possibly elect such morons that would vote to allow such a thing to pass the House?
No. Just pick a number, any number. Election year politics. It passed with the hopes of it failing in the Senate. That's a crappy way to legislate, but not surprising these days. Morons electing morons!:hihi: Wish we had better candidates to elect, but the pickings are slim these days ... on both sides of the aisle!
Just curious, have you guys researched the numbers? How sure are you that $7.25 is a bad number? Are you simply opposed to minimum wage period? My initial reaction was the same as all of you (raising minimum raise = rise in inflation), but as I thought about it I considered what the social cost of strict capitalism would be. Strict capitalism reflects the true, flawed nature of humanity, and doesn't really match the godly ideal that we as a majority Christian country believe in. Capitalism is an ideal that leaves regions of the world poor, and I think if our nation was strictly capitalist, there would be regions of the country that would approach the state of third world countries. Maybe that wouldn't be a bad thing... I remember hearing that the cost of bringing running water and electricity to Afghanastan would be in the billions, and it made me realize that trying to artificially build up an area that would not naturally build itself up is like pissing away money. Even if the US had the best intentions, are there enough resources to make all areas of the world inhabitable? A problem with leaving empty areas on the map is that you also leave power vaccuums that are attractive to unsavory types. Would we like to have sections of the US that are totally or nearly lawless? I don't think that would be a good policy... Just letting whatever pops into my head out; I think an open dialogue should be welcomed between opposing sides; I think it brings us closer to the truth. Try not to criticize me like you know everything, it really reflects badly on your character becuase I feel pretty confident that you don't know everything, and even if I am more ignorant that your elevated self there was a time when you were as ignorant. :thumb:
