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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts) Tue Apr 21, 2015, 01:53 PM Apr 2015

Raise the Wage!

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Raise the Wage! (Original Post) MrScorpio Apr 2015 OP

The minimum wage needs to be raised Gothmog Apr 2015 #1

Giving the $15.00 an hour is not the only problem. LakeVermilion Apr 2015 #2

Wages have been flat for far too long... MrScorpio Apr 2015 #3

Gothmog

(145,242 posts)

1. The minimum wage needs to be raised

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 01:58 PM

Apr 2015

LakeVermilion

(1,041 posts)

2. Giving the $15.00 an hour is not the only problem.

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 02:06 PM

Apr 2015

The bigger problem is that a lot of people making $20 - $30 an hour will decide that they are worth more money. A lot of people will figure out that they have been screwed too. Its easier to accept $20 an hour, if everyone else is making $7.00.

MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)

3. Wages have been flat for far too long...

Reply to LakeVermilion (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 02:20 PM

Apr 2015

Why workers haven't revolted over this fact should blow all of our minds.

Chomsky, I'm sure, has discussed how a so called democratic nation like America allows itself to be enslaved to an oligarchy.

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