Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Walmart Employees Fight Corporate Robots With Protests" video.

  1. No, I work a part time job to supplement my full time job. I actually have two part time jobs. I have worked in small business for years and have many friends and family that own small businesses. I have worked at a warehouse and I have worked at multiple universities. I am very well experienced. Min. wage workers are not poor. Stats have shown that. Why don't you believe facts and research?
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  2. You can't compare on country to another. Unlike other countries the US is very diverse, has a much greater population and is also a very forgiving and accepting country. The NHS does have its flaws. The horror stories of long wait lines and death panels are not made up just like stories of US healthcare isn't made up. The thing is that in the US we take pride in being creative and we should strive in developing the best system, not copy one that supposedly works.
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  3. Sorry facts offend people so much. I am trying to help out our economy so people can do well. You just want to be generous with other people's money. Fact is that an individual who make $9.50/hr or less live in a household who on average makes over $47,000/yr. That is because they are a second earner of a household. Don't believe me look at the research done by a Cornell professor and an American University professor. Also a UNR professor has done similar research.
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  4. .......simply can't. You want to install a policy that will make those businesses go under and that means you have a set of workers who now make zero and business owners who were trying to make a living themselves but can't. A business is there to make profits. Small business owners need to make a living themselves. Why do you only care about the worker making a living (when stats show they already are in low wage jobs) but not small business owners?
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  5. .....invest it. When you force someone to pay higher taxes or more in regulations that is less money for them to invest. If you force them to pay someone more than they are worth they just won't hire them since it is a poor investment. If you own a business and you invest $8/hr in someone you feel they are making you more than $8/hr. Same if you were to invest in a new piece of equipment, you feel it will make you more money in the long one. We do it in our personal lives. I bought a car......
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  6. An employer can't pay more because they simply can't afford to. The money has to come from somewhere so raising prices is where it will come. Problem with that is that it will turn customers away so a business will cut hours and employees first if they are force to take on more business expense. If they have to pay more taxes then they have no choice but hire less employees. Small business suffer because they lack resources big ones do like Walmart can just put in more self checkout lanes.
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  7. A business doesn't pay more because they simply can't afford it. So why do you feel the need to attack them? Do you have some sort of hate for people that work and actually are trying to become successful and in a lot of way are? The fact is that you know nothing about economics. You need to invest money in order for it to grow and gain value and in order for the economy to do well. The rich and business owners are not just sitting on money, they are investing it or saving it in banks who......
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  8. I hope they strike. Then they will find out how much they aren't worth. When they strike and it is business as usual they will find out that they are not that important. They work a job a high school dropout can do. If they want more money develop a skill and earn it.
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  9. Money has to be invested. A business owner invests money in a business and he makes a profit. From that profit he pays taxes, bills, and other expenses then he pays employees and takes what is left. If you take more money from the business owner in taxes force him to pay higher wages than he will have less money for other employees and to pay himself so he will cut hours and wages. With the money he makes he can invest more. Poor investment leads to a bad economy.
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  10. So, answer this question directly. If businesses, all businesses especially walmart are so bad, than how come they pay their employees above the min. wage? They have the option to pay less.
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  11. The UN doesn't rank that but the WHO does instead and it has been criticize thoroughly to where it is a frivolous ranking. You can't compare infant mortality for US and Cuba since both countries have different definitions of it. 3 years of life expectancy isn't a lot if you include all the variables. You see, an intelligent person won't make a side by side comparison of two countries since there are a lot of variables involved. The US has great healthcare. It is just expensive.
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  12. ......less money because you have no clue how to invest. What helps the middle class is low prices. That is what increases demand. Prices are high and wages are low because businesses have to pay for more taxes and regulations. I can give you $20 and that money is essentially worthless. A business can pay you $20 for doing work now that money has value. It was invested, you did something to earn it so you give it value and you will invest it. The economy does great, giving money away ruins it.
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  13. Costco is different from other businesses. Compare to Walmart they have less expenses. Walmart has way more SKUs than Costco and that means their cost of doing business is higher. Not to mention that Walmart has more stock. Big companies have taken noticed, just when you run a different business it is hard to compare.
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  14. Taxes are at an all time high. Walmart and other businesses simply can't afford a higher wage. If you knew the regulations and expenses involved in business you will see that. Your problem is that you have no clue how a business is ran. Businesses simply can't afford a higher wage. I can't spell it out for you in any other way. Low wage jobs are not meant to be lived off of but are meant to be starter jobs or supplemental forms of income. Businesses don't pay high wages since they are a.......
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  15. If a business can't afford to pay a higher wage than they simply can't. You have no problem being friendly with other people's money but if you were to actually invest in a business you would be speaking a different tune. We are a society here and we need to help each other out. That small business owner isn't rich. We can help him and others by keeping wages low and workers that work for him can be young or part time workers just working there for supplemental incomes. His fulltime staff.......
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  16. Low wage workers have not develop skills. They need to work harder to develop more skills and make themselves more profitable. They should volunteer more. There is a reason why we have volunteer internship. People do them to develop contacts and gain skills to get paid well. Anyone can flip burgers. I did for years. Anyone can stock shelves and run a cash register. Want more money develop a skill.
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  17. I don't see how using Fox News is an insult? I agreed with what that person said and I don't watch Fox News. You insult is like calling me fat when I am not. It makes no sense.
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  18. I am not spitting think tank talking points. Small business simply can't afford higher wages. Those other countries also have a higher cost of living and taxes so you can't compare. On top of that min. wage earners are not working those jobs trying to make a living. They are supplemental forms of income. 89% of workers who earn $9.50/hr or less are not poor and the average household income is over $47,000/yr. Raising the min. wage isn't going to do anything.......
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  19. We have seen where low wage jobs, jobs that pay under $9.50/hr, are done by individuals that are not poor. They are done by individuals who are a second earner of a household. If we keep wages low for unskilled part time jobs then unskilled workers can find work to develop skills to get paid more and full time workers can find part time jobs to supplement their income. If you raise wages those jobs disappear and less money for people.
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  20. Small businesses hire based on demand and if they can afford it. Big businesses have resources so the don't have to hire as many workers. Think self check out lanes and less door greeters. A small local grocery store I go to have low wage workers who bag groceries and carry them for people. If they were forced to pay higher wages those jobs would disappear. They are not necessary but are around to increase customer service to compete.
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  21. ......that got me better gas mileage because I felt it would save me money. You just want to give money away and you have no problem with it because it is other people's money to you but you don't realize it will ruin the dollar and the economy. Spend your money the way you want but don't tell others how to spend theirs.
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  22. So with all that in mind I ask once again, define a living wage.
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  23. My math isn't broken. Lets say a min. wage earner working part time is making $7,000/yr, and they have a spouse or parent who makes $40,000/yr, that is you $47,000/yr.
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  24. We don't have a democracy in the US. A democracy means 51% tells the other 49% what to do even if they are wrong. And I told you why we can't follow NE model. We are way too different. Plus, in the US we strive to be different and be creative in developing a better model that suits us. I am not making excuses but facts.
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  25. The small business I worked at for years paid all their new employees min. wage. They were workers with little to no experience or part time so they were a risky investment thus low wages. Their more experience full time staff got paid more. When the min. wage went up they stopped hiring high school kids since they had no experience and couldn't give anymore raises to full time staff since they had to pay new staff more. The fact is that you have no clue how businesses work out there......
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  26. If I am running a business and I can't afford higher wages than I simply can't. I am not holding those people against their will they can always look for another job. If min. wage is low a business can pay full time staff more or a full time worker can get a part time low wage job and use that job to compete against their full time one. If that part time job is willing to pay more if they become full time it creates competition. Sorry you know nothing about business or economics.
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  27. .......expensive. They are not open 24 hours and are limited in variety. They have to attract business in another way. I go to a store like Raley's or Hy Vee due to the superb customer service from their low wage workers that they have a lot of. If they were force to pay higher wages they will do away with those workers and that means less customer services. I might as well shop at walmart than since those other stores don't offer anything better. Point being, businesses simply can't afford them
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  28. Oh, and I got my stats from research that was done from a UNR professor, an American University professor and a Cornell professor. These weren't numbers I made up but came from actual research.
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  29. It is because of liberal policies that have develop this so call income inequality. If you run a business than great. Pay your workers the way you want but don't force others to pay more. By doing so all you are doing is eliminating the competition by making those businesses go under. Why do you think Costco wants to raise the min. wage to $11/hr? Because they already pay that much and smaller businesses will go under thus less competition. Businesses don't pay higher wages because they.......
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  30. I have a lot of experience. A lot more that you.
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  31. I earn the min. wage and I am a republican. On the flip side I also work a $14/hr job. The min. wage job is a supplemental form of income, I am not trying to make a living off of it.
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  32. Great, you make $25/hr. How did you earn that much? By developing a skill and getting to that point. Same how I developed a skill and I am going to make my rate which is high where I live. I also will have amazing job security with my skills. You just want to give people raises for doing nothing. If you have the answer how about you take your $25/hr wage, save money and create a business.
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  33. I am done with you. In you mind you feel a person who does a job that a high school dropout can do can, by themselves, own a house, a car, and have three great square meals a day along with amazing benefits and vacation time. Who cares about working hard for something people should just get it. Forget making sacrifices like having roommates, volunteering at internships and developing skills people should all get paid high wages..........
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  34. What are you saying? That people should still get food and a place to live even when they are not working? A successful society brings those choices. Either work or die. I know it sounds blunt and cruel but that is what it is.
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  35. What a dumb comment. Walmart already pays over the min. wage. If they wanted to pay less they have that option. Republicans support a strong economy and small businesses. If you raise the min. wage or create other expenses than businesses simply can't afford higher wages, especially small ones. Small ones just go bankrupt. Why are you against people working hard and doing well?
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  36. You have to invest money to give it worth. You invest money to make more money and you invest money by giving consumers what they want. I can invest money in trying to start a company that builds VCRs but I will go bankrupt because people don't want that. When an investor invests money and does well so does everyone else because that investor gave consumers what they wanted at an affordable price.
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  37. It is so quick and easy to point at big corporation but you don't realize that when you regulate businesses you do it to all businesses and small ones will suffer the most.
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  38. Well trickle down doesn't exist, investors are the last to get paid. A business owner invests in a business and them makes a profit, from that profit he pays workers, taxes, regulations and so on and he takes what is left which is usually not very much. There are days they work in the red. A McDonalds franchise owner makes 4 to 6 cents out of every dollar of profit they make. Putting more money in the economy doesn't help it. And adjusted for inflation the min. wage would be $4.14/hr.
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  39. .......giving money away. We are forcing businesses to pay more to produce less thus the price of goods and services go up. Just filling the market with money won't do anything because than that money has no value. If I were to give $100 that money is worthless to you and me since I am just giving it away and you did nothing to earn it. Now if I were to give you $100 to fix my car than that money has worth. I needed my car fixed so I gave you money to produce something.
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  40. Walmart makes billions in profits but they spend billions investing in their company and keeping stock holders happy. This isn't about a company makes X so they can pay their employees Y. Profits are spent on more than just wages.
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  41. The business number one job is to create profits. With big corporations you have investors you have to please. With smaller businesses you don't make that much profits. Both cases would love to pay employees more, especially the good one, but simply can't. Also, business owners are taking all the risk. Those workers are easily replaceable and take no risk. The reality is that those employees are worth all that much.
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  42. Wealthy investors invest their money. They have to in order to make more money. They don't invest money when you make the investment too risky as in higher taxes or regulations. If you force a business owner to pay certain employees more they just won't hire them since one, they either can't afford it or two, it is way to risky of an investment. I will never pay a worker without job experience or a part time employee that much. It isn't worth the risk. I would full time and businesses do
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  43. I was raised in a family of five on around $40k/yr. It all just depends on where you live. I make around $20,000/yr and I am fine, I have my own car. Not many people have to live off of the min. wage. 89% of individuals who earn $9.50/hr or less are above the poverty level. That is because they are a second earner of a household. You just have to be smart with your money.
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  44. .....There exist businesses who simply can't afford higher wages. They would love to but can't due to how the market works. They can raise prices out the roof but then they get no customers. If you have the great answer then run a business yourself. Please, it will educate you greatly on how it works.
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  45. Define a living wage.
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  46. In my hometown which is a small town in the Midwest rent is that cheap. Gas is less than $3.50/gal. This town has a university and it is still low. Rent in a lot of small towns are cheaper than that. You are talking about 1 bedroom apartments. Step out of the city sometime and see how low cost of living is across the country.
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  47. I guarantee you that manager worked the low end jobs. He had to work his way up to the management position. No business will ever hire someone as manager with zero work experience.
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  48. You can't compare Costco to Walmart. They are different businesses. Walmart has more SKUs than Costco so that increases cost of doing business along with Walmart being a 24 hour one stop shop store with a cheap goods. Costco is more for bulk goods and individuals items the do sell are more expensive with less variety.
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  49. I am so sorry you have no motivation, but just because you are lazy and no motivation doesn't mean to you need to attack the ones that do. You lose.
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  50. And why do you think the cost of living goes up?
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  51. Bigger companies, if forced to have more expenses, will fine other means to run businesses. Walmart will do away with door greeters. They will develop more self checkouts. Bigger companies can simply do with less employers. They won't have as many checkout lanes open. They can do with only 3 or 4 lanes. Smaller companies don't have that luxury. Bigger ones like walmart attract business through being 24 hours of cheap products of a great variety. Smallers ones have products that are more......
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  52. You didn't answer the question. The fact is that you are so quick to attack businesses when they already pay higher than the min. wage. You just want to attack small businesses. You want nothing but corporations because you feel small businesses are worthless and individuals trying to work hard and be successful are worthless. That is the fact.
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  53. Ok. Now say you live in a place where rent is only $250/month. Now say you have three people living in a house and each only pays $150/month. In that same area gas is under $3.50/gal and taxes, food, healthcare, etc. are all cheap. And lets say someone works a full time job at $10/hr and a part time at the min. wage? Or a min. wage worker has a spouse that earns over $40,000/yr. There are several variables involved in that so I would say $15/hr is way too high. I think $7.25 is too high.
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  54. Those profits are bring investors and stock holders money. So now you want to take money away from them? Who is being the greedy one now?
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  55. Once again, the average household income of individuals who make $9.50/hr or less is over $47,000/yr. These are people are do live with others and are not poor. Min. wage jobs are for unskilled workers and part time workers. 2/3 of individuals who start at the min. wage get a raise in a years time, that is because they develop a skill make themselves more employable and profitable. Fact is that if they want a better life they need to work harder.
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  56. I am a year away from starting my career where with a Masters I can earn almost $20/hr. You want to raise wages at a place like walmart to comparable wages when those are jobs a high school dropout can do. Who is the asinine one now?
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  57. The average household income of a worker making $9.50/hr or less is over $47,000/yr. 89% of those individuals are not poor.
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  58. ......high risk investment. Put it this way, if a business paid its part time workers less than they have more money to pay their full time workers more. That part time worker is fine and he will have more money because if the min. wage was high he probably wouldn't get that job. Having a part time job creates competition amongst employers. All raising the min. wage does is kills jobs.
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  59. Once again you are showing how little you know about business. I can run a business and pay my employees very little and no one will work for me because they will run to jobs to pay more. And with you mentality there will be a lot of businesses that will go under because there are a lot of businesses that simply can't pay more. I guess you don't mind corporations and monopolies and hate small businesses and people doing want they want and working for themselves.
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  60. That business can always leave. They can take their business elsewhere where someone appreciates their hard work and smart investments. I get what you are saying but at the same time if you attack someone who is smarter and works harder than you they will just leave.
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  61. Just giving money away raises prices. What helps out consumers is producing more of something you want. A consumer wants a certain set of computers than you produce more of them. You pay people to make those computers and the more there are on the market the cheaper they will be. If you give every $100,000 than that money is worthless in that it was spent on nothing, nothing was produced on it. Wages are stagnate and prices are going up because the cost of business is going up and we are.......
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  62. And what store is that? There are not many large chain grocery stores.
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  63. I have a job that pays me only $8/hr. Is that a living wage to you? You would probably say no. Now if I were to tell you that was a part time job for supplemental income and I have another job that pays me $14/hr then that tells a different story. If you have someone who makes min. wage but they live in a household where there is another earner like a spouse of parent making a decent amount of money then the other person doesn't need much money.
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  64. Money has to have value. If you invest money correctly it will increase in value. The Waltons are not just sitting on the money but are investing it. You help the consumer if you keep the cost of living down. You can also help those trying to make ends meet if you have low skill part time jobs they can do on top of their full time jobs for supplemental incomes. If you force a business to pay certain workers more, like part time and unskilled ones, they won't hire them since then it would.......
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  65. .......only hinder them. What helps the economy is keeping prices low. People will always need food and water and a roof over their head but if they have to pay their entire pay check on those items they have no money for other activities. With low prices their dollar goes farther. You just can't give money away because businesses simply can't afford it. In order to do so they have to cut wages and hours or raise prices. Now food cost more or people have less money for food.
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  66. ......because that means more money to them. If it were as simple as giving more money to people than businesses will pay higher wages. That isn't the case. Those businesses simply can't afford higher wages. They would love too but can't. There won't be more money in the economy but instead less jobs or higher prices. The money has to come from somewhere.
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  67. I support the mom and pop stores. My point is that if you create a regulation like a min. wage increase on Walmart it also effects the mom and pop store. A big corporation like Walmart can simply do with less employees and have the resources to last longer before going bankrupt compared to the mom and pop store. If you raise the min. wage or create a new expense that mom and pop store will go under because they simply can't afford it. Walmart will cut employees and still do well. Checkmate sir
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  68. I looked at the numbers. When the min. wage went up last time so did unemployment. GDP dropped and so did wages, which are still dropping. Also, working in small business for years and having several friends and family who have own small businesses they could never afford higher wages. Some are already trying to sell theirs since it is costing to much to do business due to liberal policies that were establish in the past 30 years.
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  69. Funny, I have many friends and family that run small businesses and I can tell you they can't afford them. The min. wage job I work now they can't afford higher wages. I have seen the budgets. So I guess I have to pose you with this question. What do we do as workers and business owners when we have to close out our business since we can't afford higher wages? Work at Costco?
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  70. Business owners invest in foreign places because it is cheaper to do business there. Taxes are at an all time high here. If you run a business you first have to look at all the expenses and if it is worth the risk. If the risk is too high you don't invest. Much like if a person is going to cost to much you won't hire them since they will be a poor investment. These are facts, there is a reason why people have to work for less now because the cost of doing business is too high.
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  71. ......be a poor investment. If smaller businesses could pay more they will but they simply can't. Bigger ones have more resources to do with less employees where small ones rely on low wage part time employees. If putting money back in the economy was the fix then how about we give everyone $100,000 or raise the min. wage to $20/hr? The reason is because that isn't how you fix the economy, it actually hurts it by killing jobs and small businesses.
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  72. No, I am interested in helping the economy. You want to pay everyone a "living wage" which you can't decide what that is. I get paid the min. wage and you may say that is too low but that job is a 10 hour a week job that only supplements my income. People have to make sacrifices. If you don't make much money than get roommates, pick up a second job, work harder. It is true you get paid on the type of work you do and a lot of jobs aren't worth much.
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  73. .......can be paid more because he pays his less reliable staff, the young and part time, less. His full time staff can then make a "living wage" where his part time would just be making supplemental forms of income. We need to work in a society. I don't plan on working my part time job forever, in 2 years I plan on being done with it and would only have one job. I am sorry you are lazy and don't want to work. Others out there do. If you have this golden model of a business than start one......
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  74. No, here is what I said. "Fact is that an individual who make $9.50/hr or less live in a household who on average makes over $47,000/yr." That low wage person lives in a household that makes that much. I never said the individual. Game set match.
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  75. Here is a question I would like to pose to all these liberals. If businesses are so set on screwing employees over then how come so many workers make more than the min. wage? They have the option of paying less? How come 2/3 of min. wage earners receive a raise within a year? How come walmart, who has the option to pay less, start employees at a great wage than the min. wage?
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  76. In my old hometown. It is a small town in the Midwest. It even has a university. I was paying $250/month there and if you live in a 3 or 4 bedroom house with roommates you paid less. Nice places, small town so no crime and everything is close. That is a huge failure of a federal min. wage in that $7.25/hr is a great wage in those small towns where cost of living is low.
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  77. ......Until then, stop being friendly with other people's hard earn money.
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  78. This is logical fallacies but facts. Remember, 89% of individuals who earn $9.50/hr or less are above the poverty line, that includes me. That is because those jobs are supplemental forms of income.
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  79. No, taxes are at an all time high. That is a fact. Almost 50% of people pay no federal taxes but yet we generate the same revenue as we did decades before because the rich pay over 50% of there income. Billionaires just don't sit on money, they invest it. And when they place it in banks those banks invest it. That is how the economy works. Giving some middle class person who has little knowledge in how to invest money more money isn't going to help. By the way you talk I feel you should have....
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  80. The number one goal of any business is to gain a profit. Corporations do that through stock holders. You attract stock holders when you make a smart investment that means paying unskilled workers low. Small businesses can't afford a higher wage because they simply can't afford to. If you were to raise the min. wage corporations will just cut and will be fine since they have more resources where small businesses who rely on low skill and part time workers will suffer.
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  81. No, it does matter who they live with. This shows that there is a group of people who are willing to make sacrifices and work hard to live and move up. I don't like working my part time job so I am motivated to work for a job so I don't have to work there any more. That is great, motivation promotes production. You are encouraging laziness.
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  82. Define a living wage. I make min. wage on one job but that is supplemental income for me. There is no reason for them to pay me more. Other businesses don't pay higher wages because they simply can't afford to. And you can't compare healthcare of one country to another. 3 years of life expectancy isn't very much if you were to factor in all the variables. There are huge flaws in the NHS. Read a story the other day about a man who died in a UK waiting room after waiting for 34 hours.
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  83. 89% of individuals who earn $9.50/hr or less are above the min. wage. The average household income of those individual is above $47,000/yr. These people are not poor. That is a fact. I haven't changed my stance on anything. You are resorting to name calling and profanity meaning you are losing your argument because you don't know what you are talking about. Sorry you are wrong. Take it as a lesson.
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  84. Walmart is a 24 hour store with a greater variety. That leads to higher cost of doing business. Walmart is great for that one stop shop anytime you want to go. There were time I was getting home from work at 1 in the morning and Walmart was open instead of Target thus I went there. Targer and Walmart run completely different businesses if you were to really look at it.
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  85. Big businesses can't afford more because they have to worry about stock holders. There are people who invest in stocks and use that money for retirement. Those big businesses use that money from stock holders to invest in their business to make it grow and become more profitable. If you don't please stock holders they suffer as well.
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  86. Now you are resorting to name calling because you know I am right. If businesses were so bad they will just pay everyone the min. wage. They don't because they have competitors that will pay their workers more if they can afford it to attract better workers. If business A isn't willing to invest in good workers and business B is than Business B will do better. At the same time both businesses can only pay what they can afford.
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  87. In order to make money you have to invest. To invest you need to give consumers what they want. Their consumers are customers and stock holders. When the consumer does well than the investor does well. They open new stores to give customers a closer walmart to shop at and increase stock prices. Money just doesn't come out of thin air (unless you are the government). In the private sector you need to invest and help the consumer to generate profit.
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  88. Why do you think there are no jobs? Because we made the cost of doing business too high. Businesses can't afford to hire more or pay higher wages because after paying all the regulations and taxes a business owner have to spread what profit is left to the workers and still make some himself. If he simply doesn't have enough money he can't hire more people.
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  89. A small business can't afford a $2-$3 raise. They would if they could. If businesses are so set on paying workers so little than how come most businesses already pay higher than the current min. wage? That right there proves everything you are saying wrong. Businesses want to pay workers well but can't anymore than they currently do because they can't afford to.
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  90. A study done by a professor at Cornell and a professor at American University showed that 89% of individuals that earn less than $9.50/hr are above the poverty level and their average household income is over $47,000/yr. A UNR professor found that 95% parents who earned less than $10,000/yr had a spouse that earned at least $20,000/yr where almost have had a spouse that earned over $50,000/yr. These low wage workers are not poor so raising wages won't help the poor or middle class, it will......
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  91. Can't compare, both completely different businesses.
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  92. They open new businesses and it creates jobs. It is part of them investing to bring in more customers. People drive less distances to get to walmart now. It has then become a more convenient place to shop.
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  93. The USA has a great living standard in my opinion. We have an obesity problem We have over 7% unemployment but people can still eat, that tells you something. Also you can't compare the US to other countries, way too many variables. We are far more diverse than those Northern Europe countries. We have a greater population, more resources and more issues to deal with. It is easy to develop programs that work when you have a small population of the same people.
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  94. The rich don't absorb all the money. In order to make money you have to invest it. Just holding on to it does nothing. If you save it in a bank you make a little in interest but that bank makes money by loaning it out to people who then invests that. The rich are not sitting on the money. A place like Walmart have to keep investors happy because they invested money into stocks to get more money back to invest or live off of.
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  95. Please tell me what law Walmart is breaking.
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  96. What huge profits? After paying high taxes and stocks they little money left for employees. Profit is spent on more than just wages.
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  97. Try doing research. I said the household income of those earners. Put it this way, almost 50% of parents who earn less than $10,000/yr have a spouse who earn more than $50,000/yr. It is because those workers have a spouse or parent or another job that pays more hints why they are low wage earners but still live in a household that makes over $47,000/yr. With my first min. wage job I lived in a household that made over $60,000/yr, my dad made $48,000 and my sister and I made the rest.
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  98. I agree, we need people to have more money, but you have to earn that money. You have to give that money worth and you need to produce something with that money. Just giving it away does nothing.
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  99. I am using this math. Almost half of parents who earn less than $10,000/yr have a spouse that makes over $50,000/yr. Min. wage earners are a second earner to a household. Either they have a parent or spouse who makes a lot or they do themselves and work a part time min. wage job. They are supplemental forms of income. When I worked my first min. wage job my household made over $60,000/yr. My dad made $48,000 of that, my sister and myself made the rest off of min. wage jobs.
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  100. Nope, just a guy with facts that wants to see our economy grow.
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  101. ......Who cares about the stats I showed you that were done through research to show that min. wage earners are not poor and you still refuse to answer my question. If businesses are so set on paying low wages how come they pay higher than the min. wage? You are nothing but a lazy freeloader that doesn't mind being generous with other people's money. Who is the greedy one now?
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  102. Unskilled workers are cheap because they are a poor investment to the company. They bring very little into a business and when they prove they can they get a raise. Having cheap unskilled workers is great in that it keeps prices down thus the cost of living is low. That means that skilled worker working $11/hr isn't poor. Canada has a higher cost of living, that $11 isn't going to go as far there as in the states. An advantage of the US is that min. wage (which is too high) workers are not poor
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  103. Walmart is different from Costco. One, WM has more investors to keep happy. Another, WM is a one stop shop of cheap goods open 24 hours. Costco is a bulk store place. WM has more SKUs than Costco thus it is more expensive to run their business. Costco and WM are essentially different businesses all together.
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  104. Then how come we just don't give people $100,000 or raise the min. wage to $20/hr? Because putting more money in the economy doesn't help it. Those other countries also have a higher cost of living. In France as soon as you have a business that has 50 or more employees you have to follow regulations that cost money. That is why there are 2.4 times as many businesses with 49 employees than 50, it is to avoid more expenses and thus jobs are lost. Every business owner wants a strong economy.......
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  105. I think employers should work for their pay. If you want more money than make yourself more employable. Stop asking for handouts because handouts are what hurt our economy. Work harder and earn more money, it isn't hard.
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