What A Warped Sense of Reality We Live In

Yeah, uh, but...we do NEED those minimum wage jobs filled. Its not like everyone can just go and earn more by trying harder. There is a limited number of higher paying jobs, by definition.

And actually, I know and have seen MANY people who worked minimum wage at one point in their life(all while saving) and eventually got a better education, job, and thus better opportunities.

Min wage jobs are entry level for a reason. People move on after they develop skills. Remember, not eveyone working min wage is a 'complete moron', rather, they could be trying to get their start.

All true. Amazing how this goes ignored by the U.S. bashers!

 

Terry, why do guys like you and me know what a duvet is?

Is it essential to our survival, in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word?

No.

 

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LOL, you've obviously never had a secretary...!

 

I dont like french stuff. I go with a plain old fashioned American bedspread....



Terry

 

No, But I have a fantastic wife!!! Honestly. It didnt look that hard....

As for minimum wage earners. Ive been one. It sucks. I wanted more
and did it. I have issues with people who can ONLY earn minimum
wage and do it for twenty years, then ***** and complain because
the goverment does not raise the minimum wage standards. They want
a "working wage" - eg: 15 dollars an hour or so, so they can afford
more crap. None of them EVER talk about working harder, or more, or
doing more to improve their situation.

 

i think i'm in agreement with you, for the most part... Some people get stuck in the wrong situations and don't have the time or the ability to work more than one job for lack of transportation or a baby sitter or physical ability or whatever... But on the whole, i think i agree with what you're saying... i remember my first (legal) job... i was making $4.75 an hour with the promise that i'd get an extra quarter an hour in due time... i was busting my ass, everyday, after school and every paycheck was barely three figures... i couldn't fathom how grown people could live on such paltry wages... So then, while i was still in school, i got a second job and when the two schedules worked in my favor, things were starting to work out... From there, i just wanted one job that would pay me adequately and went with that (though i bounced around a little - okay a lot)...

 

Yes its hard but then again mosy of them have a choice. college is the only way in this country to make a decent living. however there are the few who dont have college degrees who hake ungoldy amounts of money. however this is not the norm of America.

If some one need to live on minamum wage they can. its hard but that the name of the game.

i think that any person who works minamum wage is alot better than any one on welfare. walfre i think criples the country and takes money from people who need it a gives it to people who dont do any thing. this is truly the land of oppertunity, where the peple who dont work have more say then the ones who do...

 

not that this thread needs another voice but I get to watch some of this firsthand.

Most of my immediate family are below poverty line and growing up I learned why.

They are generally lazy and unmotivated. They didnt get 'bad breaks' in life ( contrary to what they want you to believe) They prefer the short term 'high' of drugs, alcohol, gambling etc to the long term high of living well.

When i was very young I met a local business owner while admirign his Ferrari ( a Testarossa ). He pulled me to the side and told me I didnt have to end up like my parents. That the U.S. was an amazing place where anyone with the right attitude can succeed. Truthfully before I met him it didnt occur to me that there was anything more out there for me than what my parents had.

So now I have a Ferrari among other toys and Im constantly besieged by my 'family' for money... I help out here and there but Im not about to 'give away' what I worked 80 hr weeksand made huge sacrifices for.

Anyway.. I guess what Im saying is if MY family is any indication of what the bottom few teirs of people are like then they've made their beds and are simply laying in them.

I do feel sympathy for the ( what I believe to be small) percentage of folks who have worked their @sses off but do continually get hit with bad breaks.

Sorry about the soapbox.