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Also Joe, have you ever worked for minimum wage or less? I have, more than once. That encouraged ME to excel, learn more, to earn more, like 3x minimum, through MY effort. And as I had signed that my LEGAL immigrant wife and child could receive no “assistance”, I worked 2 and 3 jobs, while self and class educating myself. Ever picket fruit, cut vegetables? Ever worked the fields with LEGAL guest workers? Yes educate yourself. I have

You also conveniently forget that the job market got flooded with overqualified people with the crash that your 8 years of deregulation caused. People who were pulling down 100k a year were suddenly finding themselves lucky to be making minimum wage. A minimum wage is what marx said was the bare minimum needed to keep a worker alive enough to keep working. What in the hell do YOU call a minimum wage? Starvation? When there is NO upward mobility available, even when you are holding an MBA or other degree, advanced or not, your smug, learn to get better wages is simply another phony slogan to fool yourself with. Dood, white collar jobs were being outsourced…LEGAL SERVICES were outsourced to India. Those better paying jobs have not come back. So where are all those better jobs to move into with all that hard work you think is so wonderful? As I stated before, it doesn’t have to be that way, and why konservatives want to make it another nightmare of Fascism is beyond sane consideration.

You talk the talk but fail to walk the walk. You claim to have a “lot of compassion” but have none when it comes to seeing that the children, elderly, disabled, and working poor have no safety net for living. Hell man, you back policies that refuse it even for the military, such is your “largesse.” Your actions speak for themselves, and you fail to realize that before they became unemployable for whatever reason, they paid for what they are receiving. Reality really seems to have a liberal bias these days.

More pithy aphorisms born of cornpone philosophy. Dood, teach a man to fish and he will spend every day down by the water trying to catch one. You seem determined to distort what I said to you. I was giving an example of your logically flawed claim of knowledge regarding multiple generations on the dole and how it compares to the equally mythical “black friend” of southern racists. So quit playing the victim..but then righties are notorious for demanding accountability for everyone but themselves. Stereotyping the poor does not make one a racist. The biggest recipients of foodstamps are poor white people in the Red states…you know..those states that are busy implementing the policies for the poor that you back? Thank god for SNAP eh?

What does it teach? It teaches us that you are totally out of touch with reality. You dont help with assistance for working Americans. SNAP is helping working Americans…but YOU are for policies which cut such support making the FALSE claim that they are doing nothing. quit peddling bullshit. the stats dont match your deluded fantasies.

Mr Peal your opintion does not match reality. This has long been a problem for right-wing dittoheads such as yourself. Again..the average stay on welfare is 4.5 years and show that it has NOT become the “way of life” that you prefer to fantasize that it is. Charity is NOT theft. Get a dictionary Mr Peal. The only thing resembling your fictive and nonexistant “dependent class” are the elderly and disabled who cannot work…the children, leave the stats behind as they mature and matriculate into the work force. Tell yourself some more lies Mr Peal.

Mr Peal you are peddling more right-wing falsehood. Studies HAVE been done and have shown that there is little to no impact on jobs or hours or even a “significant increase in costs of products and services”

I suggest you start taking your own advice regarding doing the research.

But since you havn’t and won’t, here let me assist you with a few studies to get you started:

“The Most Rigorous Research Shows Minimum Wage Increases Do Not Reduce Employment” — raisetheminimumwage

“Today, the most rigorous research shows little evidence of job reductions from a higher minimum wage. Indicative is a 2013 survey by the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business in which leading economists agreed by a nearly 4 to 1 margin that the benefits of raising and indexing the minimum wage outweigh the costs.” — ibid (From here on, all summary statements are taken from the same source while direct reference to the source studies are provided)

STUDY: Why Does the Minimum Wage Have No Discernible Effect on Employment? — Center For Economic and Policy Research

SUMMARY: “Reviews the past two decades of research on the impact of minimum wage increases on employment: this study CONCLUDES THAT THE WEIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE POINTS TO LITTLE OR NO EFFECT OF MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES ON JOB GROWTH.

The study also finds that a review of the minimum wage literature commonly cited by minimum wage opponents is flawed because it is subjective, relies in large part on studies of wage increases in foreign countries, and fails to consider the most sophisticated and recent minimum wage studies.”

STUDY: Do Minimum Wages Really Reduce Teen Employment?

Accounting for Heterogeneity and Selectivity in State Panel

Data — Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.

SUMMARY: Examines every minimum wage increase in the United States over the past two decades—including increases that took place during protracted periods of high unemployment—and finds that RAISING THE WAGE FLOOR BOOSTED INCOMES WITHOUT REDUCING EMPLOYMENT OR SLOWING JOB CREATION.

The research demonstrates how a body of previous research—one frequently relied on by business lobbyists who oppose minimum wage increases—inaccurately attributes declines in employment to increases in the minimum wage by failing to sufficiently account for critical economic factors.

STUDY: Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates

Using Contiguous Counties — Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

SUMMARY: “Provides the most sophisticated study to date of the effects of increases in the minimum wage on job growth in the United States.

Taking advantage of the fact that a record number of states raised their minimum wages during the 1990s and 2000s – creating scores of differing minimum wage rates across the country – the study compares employment levels among every pair of neighboring U.S. counties that had differing minimum wage levels at any time between 1990 and 2006 and FINDS THAT HIGHER MINIMUM WAGES DID NOT REDUCE EMPLOYMENT.”

STUDY: Why “Good Jobs” Are Good for Retailers — Harvard Business Review

SUMMARY: “Harvard Business Review study by MIT Professor Zeynep Ton documents how major retailers such as Trader Joe’s and Costco benefit for higher sales revenue and profits than their low-wage competitors by investing in their employees, which reduces turnover and boosts productivity.

For example, the starting wage at Trader Joe’s ranges between $40,000 and $60,000 per year, more than twice what many of its competitors offer, and yet the sales revenue per square foot at Trader Joe’s are three times higher than the average U.S. supermarket.”

This should be enough to get you started Mr Peal.

I am finished doing your homework for you — work that you should have done yourself.