What should be the real minimum wage? When I started out at my present job I was paid $9 an hour. That was a big time starting wage. Still a bottom feeder wage. But when you are looking for work in a bad economy you take what you can get.
The thing with the minimum wage is that it is tied into many other things. So many people that are getting minimum wage jobs have a lot of entitlements. So that just means they will work less hours to get the same money and not go over the amounts to loose the entitlements. Most people do not think about that.
If you are getting section 8 housing, WIC, SNAP (food stamps), and every other kind of assistance you can only make so much money working. And you do not want to go over that risking loosing the free stuff.
They say that there was a lot of jobs created in the last couple of months. But these jobs were like bartender, waitress and waiter jobs. No high pay. Not counting their income so they get nothing for Social Security.
The big manufacturing union jobs seem to be about gone. Let us fix the minimum wage at $10 or $11. Let us do better at universal health care.
People need to start having a bit more pride in their work. I started working for other in 1975. I can never remember a time when everybody hated their job and just do the very least they can to get by. Why do we all hate our jobs? Especially when they are so hard to come by. I do not mind working. And I think that there are a lot of people that do not mind working. But they are being brought done mentally by slackers that have the mind set to do the least amount. Where at the same time know how to cover themselves. People see so many others getting something for nothing and hate it.
I am not very smart I guess.
