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Food Shelter Clothing are the absolute bottom for our existence, but simply paying for those things will not put the nation to work ... Families need to make more than the cost of food shelter and clothing in order to send their children to college, or pay for medical insurance, or buy a car, or sock away some money for retirement ...
Our buying power has been whittled away to nothing: and the conservatives who ran government did NOTHING to change that, because measly insignificant pay raises fits into the 'investor class' notion of what a wage is" : It is an 'expense' ...
Yet ... It is the one expense that keeps the whole of society afloat ....
OUR wages keep the rich rolling in dough, because we SPEND that money on 'things' ...
When they cut us down to the barest minimums, it cuts the economic activity to 'food shelter clothing', and nothing more ....
When they cut us down to the barest minimums, they commit economic suicide ... or a severe wounding at least ....
Overtime is regulated by state law .. Isnt it ? .... We have very strict rules here in Oregon regarding overtime ....
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