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Yavin4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:00 PM Original message |
HOLY CRAP! It Just Hit Me About the Minimum Wage |
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buddysmellgood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'd like a 1.6% annual increase. But I make a hell of a lot more than $5.15 an hour. |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
18. You should demand higher than that. 1.6 does not keep up with inflation. n/t |
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Target_For_Exterm (540 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
2. That's too much. Bush doesn't believe in annual raises. |
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GymGeekAus (285 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
3. It is pretty shocking. |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:11 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I could not agree more |
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POAS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
4. In the 19 years between |
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GymGeekAus (285 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:12 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Yeppers. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
5. In 1978 it was $2.65 |
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The Wielding Truth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
8. Yep, the lower class is way down there. No insurance,dental, |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:48 PM Response to Reply #8 |
20. But the supreme court gave corporations "personhood", so |
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Hav (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
9. . |
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I_Make_Mistakes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:24 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Honest to God, this is a funny story. In 1974, my dad started a |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:34 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. That is disgusting |
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Nickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:37 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Maybe not content, but doing much better than they are now with a 1.6% increase. |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:43 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. I would imagine that most raises work out to at least this increase, probably more |
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Nickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:52 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. True, but not everyone is in a position or will be in a position to get a big |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:55 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. yeah, they just got it easy, don't they? |
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Nickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-17-06 06:51 AM Response to Reply #23 |
30. You're reading way too much into what I was saying. |
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Hav (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-17-06 08:36 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. . |
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Nickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-17-06 08:44 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Sorry, but I was called much worse....a Republican! :-) n/t |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-17-06 12:20 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. And neither are people at the bottom. Its not 1.6% each year |
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Hav (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:56 PM Response to Reply #12 |
25. . |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
11. Yep. It's lower now than it's been in over fifty years. Here ... |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:41 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. This also corresponds to income inequality graph |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 07:07 PM Response to Reply #14 |
27. Yep. Here's my graph of the Gini Ratio (I invert it - UP is 'better') |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:44 PM Response to Original message |
16. Now Johnny can have his operation! n/t |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:50 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Sorry, Can't afford the operation |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-18-06 10:35 AM Response to Reply #21 |
36. It was my irony that wasn't conveyed. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:44 PM Response to Original message |
17. and of course things still cost the same as back then too |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
19. Oops, this reply was meant for another thread. |
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EvolveOrConvolve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
24. I have several employees |
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The Anti-Neo Con (402 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-17-06 08:38 AM Response to Reply #24 |
32. I salute you... |
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stepnw1f (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
26. You Just Helped to Frame the Debate |
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irislake (967 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 09:12 PM Response to Original message |
28. Hmmmmmm |
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Flubadubya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-16-06 09:33 PM Response to Original message |
29. First worked at age 16... minimum wage was $1.25/hr. |
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a kennedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-17-06 09:01 AM Response to Original message |
34. I think they should push for a "living wage" not a minimun..... |
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