Pic Of The Moment: Here's How WalMart Are Thanking Their Employees This Year

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31. No, they would find a way to rig that and most people still work for smaller employers...

Like a small mom and pop store, franchised hotel, even fast food is franchised (so the owner wouldn't have to pay based on what makes its way to corporate coffers for the "pleasure" of owning the McDonald name on their store front), a Drs office, small law firm, small town govt office...

Nope, the minimum wage should be set at a living wage for the most "minimum" of jobs; and jobs that require more skill and training, would automatically see an increase in wages over a 6 - 24 mo period. And with more money, more people could actually participate in the real economy, they could chose better where they spend their money (like picking nutritious, organic foods, choosing "green companies" or "fair trade" product.

The reality is, not only should wages increase, but the amt of time one is considered "full time" should decrease as well. We have more productivity every year with the advancement of technology. There is no reason anyone is having to work 40hrs for a full time job! Making a work week 30hrs would increase everyone's quality of life.

I don't understand why the extremely wealthy people should be able to take off for the whim of it, jet set off to some exotic island for a long weekend, live in their summer home at the Hampton's for a couple of months... Most people wouldn't choose all that fancy stuff, but families would definitely benefit from having more time to spend with one another. It would also add demand for new hires. Plus the benefit of having paid vacation/ sick time/ and maternity/ paternity leave as a human condition of living. We need to be able to live while we are living; not only hope to middle thru and hope the kids figure it out better.

Of course, in a country as "wealthy" as ours, we should have a progressive taxation policy and that the taxes go back into making society better for all... Like having free education at public institutions for what one is best suited or interested in doing for one's lifetime. And health care should be a right; not this paid insurance/ middle man trap that costs us more money and doesn't deliver the best that medicine and Drs and over all health care should. Plus we should be investing in the small, sustainable future farmers; not insulating Monsanto super farms with their Franken foods and the Farm Bill that wealthy use to subsidize their bottom line even more (just look at how many politicians get a Farm Subsidy for NOT producing food or having any intention of ever farming.

Of course, to many, I'm preaching to the choir. At the end of the day we need civil servants who are working for the benefit of The People and the country; not theirselves... Money and power are very alluring and corrupting; the courts are even becoming extremely influenced by The PTB.