'Go to collage ... get a better job then 8 dollrs an hour'

[Newsjock]

Appearing tonight in the comments thread of a local TV story in Indiana about increasing the minimum wage:


Story and comments: http://wthitv.com/2014/01/30/business-owner-reacts-to-proposed-minimum-wage-hike/

[Lint Head]

1. I'm a proud collage graduate.

[demigoddess]

2. obviously, that guy doesn't know what plumbers get paid

or a lot of other professions.

[pepperbear]

3. for starters, he thinks that "8 dollrs an hour" is a job in and of itself.

[Contrary1]

4. If business owners are so worried about pocketing less money...

perhaps they should consider taking on a 2nd or even 3rd job.

In the words of a great spokesperson, and all-around caring guy: That is "Uniquely American, isn't it?"

[Warren DeMontague]

5. to be fair, he spelled "complaining" right.

the rest of it is a fucking train wreck.

[T Roosevelt]

6. I can make a college...

out of my three collage degrees.

[ananda]

7. If i cud lern to spel

Id be dangrus

[reformist2]

8. Never mind the stupid "collage" graduate, the Wal-Mart worker sounds perfectly intelligent.

This is really the argument we should be making - there are a LOT of smart people out there today, there simply aren't enough good jobs in the world to employ all of them.

Democrats tend to respond by saying that government needs to create good jobs, and Repubs respond by saying fewer people should be going to college (it's amazing they are actually advocating for less education). I tend to think neither is a realistic solution.

[Chisox08]

9. We've done it before and it worked.

It's one of the reasons why Franklin Roosevelt is considered one of the greatest Presidents in US history. If the government were to create enough jobs and pay them enough we could raise the wages of workers every where because people will not willing to work for the crap pay at places like Walmart.