Comments by "" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Gov. Walker May not Agree, but $7.25 is a Starvation Wage | Bernie Sanders" video.

  1. +Nunya Bid'nez Why? He put himself in a position to not earn such a low wage. Others can do it as well.
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  2. +MrBeauty Maybe if you buy strictly off of the dollar menu.
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  3. +MrIzzyDizzy Actually people are commodities. If you can't justify a higher wage than you don't get hired. Most people supporting Bernie will not get hired if the min. wage were $15/hr.
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  4. +MrIzzyDizzy The min. wage is enforcing how much a business pays per hour, not per week. You need to realize that.
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  5. +Ivan Solomon Nathan Close to 80% of those earning $9.50/hr or less are not poor. That is because they are not the primary earners of the home. A lot of those in poverty are unemployed. Raising the min. wage won't help them. When broken down there is not one single good reason to even have a min. wage
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  6. +Nunya Bid'nez We should be looking at the US
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  7. +MrIzzyDizzy To be blunt you are not correct. If it all it took was an increase in the min. wage to increase production then why not a $50/hr min. wage? You are focusing simply on dollars. That is important sometimes but you have to realize you can't consume what you don't produce. You are focusing on spending. Spending isn't good, what's good is producing. If people are paid more but production does not increase than price will go up. "actually rasing minimum wage will raise demand about 110%" That is not supported by any data at all. Even Christina Romer said that increasing the min. wage to $9.50/hr will not grow the economy a significant amount. At $10.10/hr it will increase it, at best, around 0.2%. Not 110% like you claim. "i couldnt buy anything new , struggled with child support which nearly put me in jail and could barely afford xmas gifts for my kids." One, don't have kids. Next, I don't buy a many new things either. Most businesses don't either. Recycling reduces waste. I thought Bernie supporters wanted to help the environment? "you are really a moron if you think 9.50 isnt dirt poor" It depends. "at that level you need food stamps just to eat and probably need a room mates or as you say a better paid wage earner willing to help pay for things." Most people who earn $9.50/hr or less are not the primary earners of the household. And what is wrong with roommates? Sorry you have to make sacrifices. I work a second part time job (with very flexible scheduling) to earn extra income. It doesn't bother me. "Empathy and moral concern chief among them" You should never let emotions get in the way of logic and reasoning. "but also economist love bernies plans" As a whole they don't.
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  8. +Ivan Solomon Nathan Yes it is. Less than 4% of workers earn at or below the min. wage.
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  9. +A Gamer Aaron (Channel) Businesses don't pay more for one simple reason....they can't afford it.
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  10. +MrIzzyDizzy Actually they can't afford it.
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  11. +MrIzzyDizzy Apple is one company, they also have to keep their shareholders happy.
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  12. +Nunya Bid'nez Without shareholders that company will be a fraction of the size it is now. Thus less jobs will be available. Maybe people will get paid more, maybe not. But there will be less jobs. You really need to learn how businesses function.
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  13. +Nunya Bid'nez " living wages" Right there, stop. That is a subjective phrase that means nothing. Those workers are paid the market rate. Shareholders are investing their money and want to see it grow. If the business were to overpay their workers then the company will struggle causing the shareholders to elect a new CEO or sell back their shares causing the company to go under. Now congrats, those workers are earning $0.
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  14. +Nunya Bid'nez Corporations have the resources to cut back and still manage. Small businesses don't. Walmart supported the min. wage increase knowing it would hurt smaller competitors. Also, fun fact. If the top 6 executives of Walmart were to earn $0 and spread their salary to the 525,000 lowest earning employees of Walmart, they will earn an extra $147 a year. That's it. In comparison to their entire staff CEOs don't earn much.
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  15. +MrIzzyDizzy Living wage is subjective. What a "living wage" is to you is different to me. What type of housing? I don't use medicine. What type of clothes? It is subjective.
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  16. +MrIzzyDizzy Yes clothing type is subjective. "housing means the low rent homes in your area," With how many roommates? And have you considered the element of crime in those area? "food - the cheapest food aviable to get 2k calories" Which is pretty cheap. Water is basically free and yes, medicine depends on your health. So again, subjective. " of course you are lying if you say youve never been sick or broken a bone or something" I am pretty healthy overall. $7.25/hr is pretty livable in a lot of areas. Also, the vast majority earning that much are not poor.
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  17. +Yeniel Otero Why?
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  18. +Yeniel Otero But less than 2% of min. wage workers actually work full time? Very few people are trying to live off of it. When broken down there is not one single good reason to even have a min. wage.
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  19. If $7.25/hr is a starvation wage then I support it considering how obesity is a problem in this country. Also, if it is such a "starvation wage", then how do we even have an obesity problem or how do people continue to survive off of it? Bernie truly is an economic illiterate.
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  20. +Steven Doan Who?
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  21. +MrBeauty But they are not starving, that is the point.
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  22. +MrBeauty But Bernie said starvation wages. If he wants to talk about bills then he should call it something else.
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  23. +MrBeauty I read it, he doesn't. He just pulls numbers out of nowhere and says appeal to emotion rhetoric.
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  24. +MrBeauty Well that is a new site. Funny how these sites just keep appearing out of nowhere. " but it seems very clear to me that the rich have been getting richer" Saying that is being deceptive. Athletes are also getting more athletic, is that necessarily bad? Why are the rich getting richer? Well for several reasons 1. A CEO manages more people due to population being longer and people living longer. Thus they are paid more. If you were to take the top 6 executives from Walmart and spread all of their money to the 525,000 lowest paid workers of Walmart they will earn an extra $147 a year. That is it. Really puts a different perspective on how much CEOs really earn 2. Skilled Bias Technological Change look it up. But also consider how increased technology has improved everyone's lives. You are currently having a discussion on something that did not exist in it's highly efficient form 10 years ago. People are better off than they were a couple of decades ago. In reality everyone got richer Now those two reasons are not bad at all. Here are other reasons 1. Due to the regulations, inequality in the tax code, and welfare programs income inequality has grown. I do feel that is a problem (it is worth mentioning that wealth inequality is not bad, there is a difference between wealth and income). You have to realize the mentality of those who are well off. If you attack them they will attack back even harder. They work harder and are more creative in what they do. By taxing them higher, taking their money, and paying people money for simply doing nothing you create the environment where the rich just tells the rest of society to basically fuck off. 2. We have a very spoiled society. We have people who want money for nothing. People want a higher min. wage.....they want an unearned higher wage. People want "free college" and "free healthcare". They want things without earning them. People who think like that are typically not well off (or feel they are not well off) for a reason. Those that are rich did not make excuses or asked for handouts, they worked for what they got. Compare it to this. Say it is a race. Those who are begging for handouts don't run hard and instead sit there crying refusing to run. Those who do work hard, the rich, kept running and are pulling farther and farther ahead. Sure there will be slow runners and fast runners. Sure there will be those who got a head start, but sitting there moping does not catch you up. So saying the "rich are getting richer" is being very deceptive.
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  25. +Nunya Bid'nez Completely 100% false. Less than 4% of current workers earn the min. wage or less. The average hourly earnings is over $22/hr. Based off of what you are saying close to 100% of workers will be earning the min. wage.
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