Comments on: Florida’s Minimum Wage Workers Just Got A Raise

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 23:13:35 +0000

REGARDING:
“But the punishment for being unlucky shouldn’t be a lifetime of poverty.”

Fortune favors the prepared.

Which is to say, where you end is not determined by where you begin but where you go from there. Wealth seldom lasts more than three generations in any given family. Poverty is not thought of as a choice, but those who decide they have already lost and choose to not try succeed in failing.

Consider how wrong I am as long as you wish, then think if there might be a tiny bit of truth to the idea that those who never try have already failed and those who never quit never fall until they die — and often they win.

David for reality

By: Moose

Moose — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 04:18:33 +0000

Imagine looking at a minimum wage employee and thinking “you don’t deserve to live”.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 03:35:27 +0000

@David Huie Green

Yeah, that’s how the world works. Who you know is significantly more important than what you know.

There are millions of college graduates who have degrees that can’t find a job that pays a living wage. There are also millions of people without higher education who draw six-figure salaries.

Life will always deal us random hands. Some people will be born into wealthy families, others will be born into poor families. But the punishment for being unlucky shouldn’t be a lifetime of poverty.

By: Wayne baxley

Wayne baxley — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 01:28:31 +0000

Well if worked and paid in and have retired and live on your Social Security your screwed here in Florida as COLA for Social Security is based on national average for inflation and not a state doubling it’s minimum wage. Now everything will cost more because of such high wages. Think about now,skilled workers that were making $15-$20 an hour will now have to be making $30+ an hour to keep up,but on Social Security we won’t get Squat.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 23:21:09 +0000

REGARDING ”
“Only the
Well connected get a good job.”

“You are well connected. I’ll make you a brain surgeon. YOU are well connected, I’ll make you a venture capitalist. You are not well connected, I’ll make you a ditch digger even though you studied nuclear physics. YOU are well connected, I’ll make you a major league baseball player…..”

Me not think so.

David for sanity

By: Molinomom

Molinomom — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:36:48 +0000

Try having waitresses that you have to pay 7.98 an hour knowing they are making $30.00 an hour or more in tips.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:05:17 +0000

@Robert Hudson

I used to have a Russian roommate. One night, we were talking about the Cold War, and he told me that he would often see propaganda showing poor neighborhoods in America and how impoverished we were in the US.

That propaganda had the opposite effect. He and his family were impressed that even poor people in America could buy two cars, a house, and provide for their family.

Somehow, our country lost its way. We’re now squabbling over whether our working class deserves to have luxuries like “affordable rent”, “clean water”, or “food”.

When the poor couldn’t afford their basic needs in Rome, or France, or Russia, they revolted. I wonder what will happen this time?

By: The beginning

The beginning — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:02:45 +0000

Once corporate interests gained the ear of members of Congress, all of a sudden the floodgates of corporate dollars into our elections started to crack. A few futile stopgaps were tried by bipartisan representatives, but ultimately the Supreme Court ruled that corporations were people and could donate money without disclosure.

This was the Citizens United case– you should read about it.

By: Justmytwocents

Justmytwocents — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 22:47:50 +0000

I worked on jobs with people who didn’t have enough sense to obtain a minimum
Wage job but they knew someone to help them get a high wage job. Escambia
county is full of minimum wage jobs. Only the
Well connected get a good job.

By: Robert Hudson

Robert Hudson — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 22:01:12 +0000

So what is minimum wage? It is exactly what it says. Not to make a living on. Those are called skills. Skills pay far more. But it involves working for it. And also a living wage? By who’s standards? Some people will spend more than they have, and demand more. That leads to entitlement. Well, this old world , and Mother Nature owe you nothing. Just remember, a government that gives you every thing , can take it away, Be a thinker, question what you hear, Be a free thinker.