Let's talk about nonsense and a Florida man jobs experiment....

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

[czarjak]

1. Just "Work hard and play by the rules and you can be a success in America"

Ask Hannity.

[lark]

2. Lots of managers and owners are nothing but whiney asses who don't pay anything.

On top of that, they do nothing to actually hire people that want to make more than $9/hr. They don't call, or they set appts & aren't there, or they say you are hired but never give a start date and it actually never happens, or they give you a date but not enough hours to live on at all, etc. etc. Its total BS!

[DENVERPOPS]

3. For fifty years I have heard this same shit:

"People don't want to work".

I always finished the sentence: "People don't want to work for what you want to pay".......

Which was always the case in every instance........

It seems to me somewhere I read that the minimum wage hasn't increased in something like TEN YEARS???? WTF????????

In addition to the base pay, with the base pay being low, the employer also pays less for a bunch of other employment expenses:
The employer share of SSI, Un-employment insurance, workers compensation, etc

I had a close friend, who worked as a Safeway checker (here in Denver) back in 1980. She was paid 22.10 an hour. (They only scheduled her thirty hours a week, so they wouldn't have to pay any of the benefits that the "full time" workers received)

Last week, I asked a checker at Safeway what he earned, and he said 13.10 an hour..............

What does this say about corporations? FORTY YEARS LATER, he was earning a substantial amount less an hour.
On top of that, how much has inflation gone up in forty years????????