Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Economist: 'The Poor Are Lazy' Is An Absurd Myth" video.

  1. theMstanglover There is actually a study from Harvard that mentioned how welfare programs does lead to the mentality of not wanting to work.
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  2. dangerouslytalented Jobs are valued at different levels for various reasons.  A fry cook at McDonalds is not worth much because I can cook my own fries if it becomes too expensive. They are low valued thus they are low skilled.  What you support are less jobs for those who at a disadvantage.
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  3. dangerouslytalented Which is not very much in low skill jobs.
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  4. dangerouslytalented Walmart also invests in other areas beyond labor.  Walmart just open 3 new walmarts in my city the past 8 years. 
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  5. Ylze Tyr They are lazy.  Working jobs that have little to no responsibilities is being lazy.  The number of hours you work means nothing if you are working a low demanding (and overall low skilled job) as opposed to challenging yourself with a higher skilled job with more responsibilities.  You don't seem to understand that difference as well.
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  6. Rechard kk I never said I own a new car, I said it was newer than my parents. I own a car that is a 2006 model. My rent is $500/month, that is $6,000/yr. Mix in I walk to work so that saves gas, I spend around $30/month on energy so that is $360. I spend $150/month on phone and internet so now we are at $1800/yr so $8160 per year, not even half my amount. I am smart with food so I eat healthy and cheap. So yeah, it easily adds up.
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  7. Leisa Irwin The only reason why that deck was built or that physical labor was done was because someone saw value in building it and thus invested money in it to make more money, or capital.  If there is no value in it then it won't be built thus no jobs.  You can build a ditch if you like but if no one values it then you will get paid nothing.
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  8. dangerouslytalented Because they are working 70 hours of a low valued job. They either need to find a way to earn more working less hours or cut expenses.  Plus, how many people are actually working 70 hours a week?
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  9. What I also love about this video is that first the min. wage was $9.50/hr, then $10.10/hr, then $15/hr (as Reich even wanted), and then $22/hr, now $12/hr?  What is it?  Now states should be in control?  So now Kyle is heading towards state rights? It isn't clear what the left wants out of the min. wage anymore. Seems like that talking point is dying out.
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  10. You are poor for a reason.  Working fulltime at a low demand/low valued job isn't working hard.  The most successful people in the world sacrifice a lot.  They are the ones always on call, they are the ones who can lose it all in a second and will have to move from their homes with family if they make a mistake.  They have way more responsibilities then the poor can even imagine. There will always be wealth disparity, not everyone desires to be a business owner.  Beyond owning a home the average person isn't wealthy, but they are still well off. Also, according to a CNBC article, only 19% of the super wealthy inherited all their wealth, an another 16% inherited part of it.  Simple fact, the poor are poor for a reason, they refuse to take on responsibility, they are the ones that want a paycheck, they don't want to work.  Anyone who take economic advice from Robert Reich isn't too bright.
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  11. engelmohr2006 I did watch the video, it was incredibly deceptive and shallow.  The $59 trillion is deceptive when you look at how many people actually inherited their money in the past, or the GWP in general.  $59 trillion dollars in around 50 years is less than $2 trillion a year, big deal.  The poor are poor mainly for their actions.
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  12. engelmohr2006 When you have around half of the country who pay little to now taxes and have the other half pay all taxes, especially the top 10% paying all taxes, you create a system where half of the country is doing all the work for 100% of the country.   If eveyone worked at the best of their abilities that would lead to more wealth creation and thus a better economy for everyone.  A reason why we have so many poor people is because people simply refuse to work.
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  13. DrOrange22 In federal taxes around half get money back from the government.  Yes 10% are in poverty but it goes beyond that in ways.  Title I schools don't have to have all the students in poverty, but they still receive federal funding.   Am I poor? It depends.  Some would say yes because I have poor healthcare insurance, I live in a low income apartment, I don't have the best goods. I do have car and good though. My situation is that I am a college student in graduate school.  If I had a kid the situation would be worse.  What we have in this country are those who aren't in poverty but people still consider poor.   
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  14. DrOrange22 My college is paid through a TA position. "Also, the government helps everyone, redistribution of wealth and lash on taxes helps everyone in some way."  it should but it doesn't.
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  15. ksiyaskid We can actually follow the constitution.
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  16. Ylze Tyr The constitution places strict limitations on the federal government, including congress.  So no amount of money given to them means anything because they can't do anything.
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  17. Ylze Tyr Their votes don't matter if they have restrictions.  If congress had restrictions (which they are supposed to have via the constitution) then they can't vote for laws to benefit certain  people base on the money they get. 
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  18. Ylze Tyr Federal politicians are to deal with foreign affairs, not domestic ones via the 10th amendment.  
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  19. Ylze Tyr I didn't make that up. Where in the constitution does it say that congress can create business regulations, or create the EPA, or FCC, or SS, or medicare and Medicaid, etc?  Nowhere. I know reading and comprehension is a challenge for you but read the constitution and you will see.
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  20. Ylze Tyr Where in article 1?
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  21. Ylze Tyr section 7 involves the budget, other sections clearly list what they can spend on.  What about enumerated powers?  I am reading it and it is supporting my thoughts.
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  22. Ylze Tyr Ok, where to begin, the only part where the fed can deal with domestic issue is the commerce clause which is commerce between states. That means if two states can't agree on something then the federal government gets involved.  An example would be if Iowa, for example, tried to keep all the residents of Missouri out, or force them to pay an entrance fee.  That is where the federal government will end the dispute between states.  That is it.  Reading the rest of section 8 you have currency which is foreign trade, post offices and post roads which is communications, development of the armies, copyright laws and so on.  I see nothing about the FCC, EPA, social security, Medicaid, department of ed., department of labor and so on.  Seems like you need to work on your reading comprehension skills some more.
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  23. Ylze Tyr But no law can violate an amendment such as the 10th amendment.  So by what you are saying congress can bring back slavery by law.
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  24. Ylze Tyr Or we can follow the current amendments that placed restrictions on the federal government.  Money in politics wouldn't be an issue if we kept restrictions on the federal government. 
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  25. Ylze Tyr At the state level there is corruption, but at the state level you have the ability to control government easier and see that it is actually working.  You can vote for more local politicians but only a handful of federal ones.  That is why congress has a low approval rating but a high retention rate, people don't blame their local representative.  Also people don't understand what goes out outside of their own state, or even town.  Moving 2000 miles away to attend graduate school from a hometown I lived in for 25 years at the time showed how different the rest of the country is.  A centralized government won't work.  This is why the founding fathers established state rights with only 13 states. 
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  26. Adam Langfelder Maybe that person should find a way to work a more valued job.  Let us see that poor person take on a more responsible job where they have to actually solve problems.
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  27. Ylze Tyr That register worker needs to find a way to get another job that is valued more.  That opens up a job for a low skilled worker who can work a job to gain skills and experience.  The reason why teen unemployment goes up with a government mandated min. wage is because due to their lack of experience and skills they are not worth that wage.
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  28. Ylze Tyr How are my comments contradicting?  A low skill worker is a low skill worker.  A teen is one mostly because of their age, an adult is one mostly due to either laziness or some sort of barrier (as in the min. wage) that couldn't allow them to get a job at a younger age.
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  29. Ylze Tyr The only way I am treating them differently is that teenagers are young and thus naturally possess less skills where adults, due to being older, have had more time to develop skills and experience.   That is assuming that they could get a job as a teenager if the min. wage didn't price them out of it. 
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  30. Ylze Tyr With what degrees?  I know a guy who got a 4.00 with a philosophy degree, he still pumps gas for a living earning only $10/hr.  I got a 3.3 GPA in both physics and chemistry and had no problem getting into graduate school and finding work.  Just because you have a college degree doesn't mean you have skills.  A degree in history is worthless, you don't need a degree in history to know it.
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  31. Ylze Tyr Education does not equal skill
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  32. James Dagnan I agree, experience does equal education. You can do volunteer work while in college to gain experience.  If it weren't for the min. wage then several low skilled people can get a job and gain experience.
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  33. Ylze Tyr Life requires work, do some volunteer work.  Help out others.  Gain reference.  I am contracted for only 20 hours a week, I work well above 60 hours a week.  That means I volunteer 40 hours a week.  In the end I am going to get my PhD so it is worth it.
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  34. Rechard kk I know people with advanced degrees in the sciences as well.  I know one with a PhD in plasma physics.  To be honest plasma physics isn't that highly desirable of a skill. The research in it isn't practical yet.  The person you are talking about is an extreme case and isn't the norm, or most likely made up or not as good as you think they are. 
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  35. Rechard kk The research in plasma physics isn't practical. ICF, for example, if interesting and could be practical, but using a laser the size of a lecture hall to shoot at a tiny target doesn't bring out much energy output to use.  With your friend what are they like personally?  I know someone with a masters in material science. They went back to graduate school because no one would hire them because they are a turd.  No one likes him in the department as well.  There is that side of it.
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  36. Ylze Tyr You can say that all you want, it still doesn't change the fact that I am studying science and am getting ready to work in my lab today.
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  37. Rechard kk Actually I am a moderate. Engineering have 6 of the top 10 highest earning degrees.  Your friend is a rarity and is most likely their fault.  Maybe they need to stop making excuses and find a way to get a job.  There is more to the story you are not telling. 
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  38. Sweederland Johnson Why? The definition pretty much matches me
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  39. solrinin You don't have to believe me.  There are weeks where I work over 60 hours a week, there are some I work around 30.   In the end where am I lying?  During the summer I get paid $0 for 2 months but still work 40 hours a week.  In the end I still work more then I am contracted for.  Here is a tip for you on accusations, come up with better evidence.
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  40. Rechard kk What do you want to do about it?  How should we help that guy?  Just create a job out of nowhere that no one values to give him?  Seriously, you are not thinking here.
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  41. solrinin And you don't know where I work.  I am a graduate student.  As a graduate student I sign 5 month 20 hour contracts, typical because of taxes college students can't work more than 20 hours on campus.  My 20 hours is being a TA, so teaching, grading, writing test, meetings, etc.  I also have to maintain a 3.00 GPA so 2 classes a semester (typical for a couple of years and then research credits, but at the beginning you are taking at least 2 classes as semester).  And then you do research.  Even on an RA you are only on for 20 hours a week.  Now if you only work  20 hours a week you will be doing research for 6 years, but if you are doing 40 hours a week then it will be 3 years. This is typical of grad. students, working for more hours then they are contracted too.  There is a reason why people with PhDs have less than 3% unemployment.
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  42. solrinin Most on salary for other companies are not contracted by hour, they are paid simply because they bring in that much capital to their company.  If they work 20 hours a week then so be it, if it is 40 then so be it.  But they are not signed at an hourly rate but salary.  My contract is hourly for tax reasons only, but I do work over 40 hours a week and at times 60 when I have a test and research is going well and I have to submit midterm grades then that time is rough. 
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  43. Ylze Tyr Or maybe I am a graduate student.   
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  44. Rechard kk There are jobs out there, you need to find them or start your own business.  Sounds like your buddy needs to work harder.  I am sorry but with the constant excuses you are making I can see why he is unemployed.  How about instead of working that "dream" job you get a job and move up.  Life isn't easy, it requires work.  I don't work has hard as I do because it is fun, I do so because I know with hard work I will get that dream job and retire early.  And no, not everyone is going to have a "prestige" job and career.  That is fine.  As long as we allow the economy to evolve and improve everyone will be better off.  Really pushing for more pointless jobs isn't key.  What is key is wealth creation.  If we can have people working less and be better of (and we do have that now in several ways) then we are fine.  I make $20,000/yr.  I am better off then my parents were when they were my age making more money.  That is because of improved technology and wealth creating I have an easier life.  That is what we should be pushing for.  You are pushing for wealth creation to be stagnate so that people can get "jobs".  That isn't good.
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  45. Le Hunt There are several options.  If you have experience there are businesses that offer tuition payment options.  The gas station down the street from me does it.  Get a job there and go to college that is right next to it.   I lived with my parents during my undergrad, it requires sacrifices.  Get roommates, cut back on expenses.  College isn't easy, it is stressful but the reward is great.  There are ways.  If you are really poor there are grants and loans. 
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  46. Rechard kk Part time faculty members are typically retired individuals, hold another fulltime job or have a spouse who works in the university. At my undergrad they hire a full time professor and give their spouse a part time faculty position.  Another professor holds a fulltime position as a lawyer and teaches law.  Yes there are some who struggle but they are few and far between and honestly need to start looking for other forms of employment.  I like how you bring up Ayn Rand.  She has nothing to do with this.  A main problem is the purchasing power of the dollar is low.  That is due to the complete opposite of what Ayn Rand supported.  Higher taxes and artificial wages lead to lowering the value of the dollar and thus more on welfare (which also lowers the value of the dollar).  This is actually a liberal paradise.
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  47. Rechard kk Well one you didn't give any sources either.  Another is what are you saying then?  That we should force universities to pay part time faculty more?  That would raise tuition.  Part time faculty are paid little because they are worth that much in the market.  That is a pure fact.  You are making a claim without addressing how to fix the problem.  Stop making an embarrassment out of yourself with yourself defeating garbage that is so counter productive and stop the humiliation of yourself.  Just call it a quit.
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  48. Rechard kk I am not seeing it.  I copied and pasted your "comeback" because if is you acting immature.  At that point I realize that I am talking to a fool. 
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  49. Terry Kuek I didn't switch to anything, those people are paid that much because they are worth that much. Low wage jobs are typically done by retirees and the young, but the job they hold is worth that much in the market. So no, I didn't make myself look stupid by stating a fact, you are by not realizing that. Those dorms and offices attract students and research professors who bring in actual income to the university. My professor I work for came because they promised him a lab with constant temperature. They paid money for an AC for that lab and gave him start up money to build his lab. He is going to get publications that brings in money and recognition to the university. A part time lecture professor doesn't. All the university does is offer them a job, they don't have to take it. If they want to get paid more then go after another job.
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  50. Rechard kk I know how much those professors get paid, I am working on teaching at that level for a living. I also know that at the beginning I will have to work another job at the beginning to supplement my work until I get on tenure track and earn enough money to live. That is life, it requires work. If you want to be paid more then work at earning more. Lecture professors don't have a hard job, they follow a set curriculum, assign online assignments, and give scantron based tests. You don't even need a PhD to teach those courses. I teach a general physics course with only a bachelors degree. Pure lecture professors are not paid that much if they are not full time faculty. Also what attracts students and full time faculty are facilities. A learning part of college is working as a community because a university is basically a whole other community in itself. It is where people go to learn with their peers and develop mentors in their professors. My solution, develop a more free market approach and develop more competition in the economy.
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  51. Rechard kk Jay-Z was a high school dropout that is now a millionaire. So based on that and what you said I guess I should have dropped out of high school and not pursue my PhD and I would be a millionaire. Or, just maybe, that is a rare case I just pointed out like you did. Also if you are not doing well then work harder. Ask for help from friends and family. If you can't get help from friends and family and if you can't make it on your own then you simply are not worth much to society. What you support is arbitrarily giving someone you like more money with that money coming from someone else. That as opposed to letting the market decide. If you are so concerned about your "friend' then help them out. Until then you don't have room to talk. Jobs come and go, if your "friend" was actually smart they would work on developing new skills in a changing economy to be employable instead of making excuses.
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  52. Well Heal I know STEM graduates don't all work in that field.  The most common degree for CEO is engineering.  That is because engineers are problems solvers and can think outside of the box. "That billions of dollars that the Walton did not earn but stolen from the workers"The Walton family does something not many people desire to do and that is run a multi-billion dollar business. In my city in the past 5 years they just open up 3 new walmarts.  Not only does that create that many more jobs but it also provides a more convenient location for shopping . The Walton family offers affordable goods and services to people in convenient locations at convenient times.  They are worth a lot because the market has determined them to be.  The Walmart worker is not worth a lot.  So yes, the Walton family earned that money.  Plus, you, like the other person commenting here are looking at an extreme case. 
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  53. Well Heal In the end he is in the position because of himself.  You may say he is great but apparently not.  At this point you need to stop lying to yourself and so does your friend and find a way to get a job.  That is the harsh reality.  You want to give him a handout when he needs to be creative and find a way to make himself employable.  7 of the top 10 highest earning degrees are either an engineering and computer science.  I don't buy your whole them working min. wage jobs.  Do they exist?  Most likely, but they are the extreme and rare case.  Jobs do come and go and you have to develop new skills. That is they way life is.  Stop making excuses and find a job.  It isn't my fault your friend is lazy and just wants a paycheck and doesn't want to work.  How about your friend starts a business. The most common major of CEOs is engineering.  Seems like your friend is just lazy and loves to make excuses.
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  54. Rechard kk So I should go out and help a complete stranger find a job?  Really?  Why?  What are you or him going to do for me.  Plus, I have my own life to worry about.  Unlike you and your friend I have a job and have work to do. I do not place a person's value on how much they make.  But it does say something when someone is homeless, they messed up. You are complaining about the system, we are not doing the system I support.  I support the free market with more competition.  We don't have that.  We don't practice the free market.  Maybe if we lower taxes, simplified taxes, lower welfare programs and stop the wasteful spending of money from the federal government then we can have actual value of the dollar.  You haven't offered a solution. You just want your friend to get a handout.  How about your friends stops looking for paychecks and starts looking for work.
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  55. Ylze Tyr Local governments can be used to create programs to help people in need, I have said that before as I am a state rights supporter.  We are talking about some dude in another state.  I and no one else has the time to personally help everyone.  Creating local government programs is one way to help people while see to it that tax dollars are not wasted.  I didn't contradict myself, you just love embarrassing yourself.
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  56. Ylze Tyr Actually you haven't given me anything, but keep saying that and maybe it will be true.
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  57. Well Heal If running a multi-billion dollar business is so easy then how about you do it
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  58. Ylze Tyr Nope, I am not backpedaling and I didn't contradict myself. At that point I can say that I support curing cancer and you will turn around and say I hate poor people. Whatever I say you will find asinine ways of twisting and turning to fit your shallow thoughts. If you noticed I haven't been responding to you much because unlike you I have an actual life.
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  59. Ylze Tyr The problem with your source is this. It is assuming that after raising the min. wage prices won't go up and people won't lose their jobs. The fact is that people do lose their jobs and prices do go up. It also compares the productivity of the overall economy to the min. wage where I have told you in the past you can't do. Productivity went up as a whole due to technology and those who created that technology has seen an increase in their wages. Low skilled workers have not seen an increase in productivity and thus their wages have remained stagnate. You are comparing overall economy to one section of it. It is a poor comparison. But after me telling you this you, like a machine, will repeat the exact same debunked talking points like you actually know something when you don't.
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  60. Ylze Tyr Local governments are a way people can help each other. I have said that in the past. People, usually in smaller towns can do it directly. Or they can decide, typically in larger towns and cities, to create tax payer funded programs to help those in need at the local level. I have said this several times. The other poster wants me to directly help this person. I won't do that to a complete stranger, but I support programs that can help him. Since I live in another state I have no say in that person's state laws. I don't respond to you because graduate school is work. Unlike you I am actually working towards success.
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  61. Ylze Tyr http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2014/01/30/almost-everything-you-have-been-told-about-the-minimum-wage-is-false/ There is one, it says what I have been saying. If you break down different segments of the labor market you see that productivity has not increased that much, if at all for certain jobs, that is including fast food workers.
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  62. Ylze Tyr So now i have given you a source saying what I have been for years. Let us give another example, Blockbuster. According to you Blockbuster workers should be employed and earning a higher wage. Why aren't they though? Their productivity should have been up according to you. So why don't those workers earn more? Maybe because that just because overall productivity goes up doesn't mean that every job increases in productivity at the same rate if at all. But you will refuse to acknowledge that. According to you a man digging a hole with a shovel as opposed to using a bulldozer deserves a lot of money.
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  63. Ylze Tyr I have said that in he past. I have said that smaller more local governments can help. But once again you refuse to acknowledge that.
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  64. Well Heal They do run the company. If they weren't doing it right they would go bankrupt as they have plenty of competition and criticism.
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  65. Ylze Tyr Personally would I help a complete stranger? No. But I did say I would support programs to help them. In the end it is up to them though. Ignore, rationalize, lie, repeat....that's your whole game.
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  66. Ylze Tyr By the way, it is Sunday. Shouldn't you be getting ready for your min. wage job?
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  67. Ylze Tyr I copied your comment because you are a fool and are not worth my time in thinking of something creative.
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  68. Ylze Tyr I actually don't care how much you make, I also don't care if you don't believe that I am a grad student. That doesn't change the fact that I just spent the last 8 hours working in my lab today doing something productive. Remember, you are the one that thinks raising the min. wage a couple dollars leads to massive job growth in a complex economy. That is like saying taking out your spare tire in your car will lead to you getting 10 more miles per gallon in your gas mileage. Think about what you say at times and seriously read a basic economics textbook.
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  69. Ylze Tyr I never said raising the min. wage would lead to massive unemployment, I said that in low skilled jobs and low skilled workers, such as teenagers, it would lead to higher unemployment. You said that raising the min. wage has led to job growth in states that did it, but when I explained to you that there are several factors that led to that and that when you look at select groups, such as teenage unemployment, then you see a job loss there. You choose to ignore that but instead praise the min. wage for leading to massive job growth which isn't true. I also never said that raising the min. wage would lead to massive price increase, but it does lead to price increase. When you raise the min. wage you won't see a doomsday like result, I never said one would happen. What does happen is a price increase and job lost for select groups. That all gets lost in the overall effect of the economy because it gets lost in the statistical noise. You know, when there is several variables in a complex economy you have noise. Like in my research. I am a spectroscopist. When I shine my laser on a sample I get a signal with a lot of noise. That noise comes from solvent to sample interaction, or a slow monochromator, or water in the atmosphere and so on. We try our best to eliminate noise through several techniques both with the laser set up and the code used to analyze the data but it exist. The same is here with the economy. Raising the min. wage doesn't have any positive effects, all the negative effects get lost in the statistical noise unless you remove it which economists have done and see the negative effects, none positive. The sources you point to haven't done that. You point towards sources that say a state raises the min. wage and overall job growth went up. The negative effects were lost in the noise. My state has a higher min. wage then the federal but has seen job growth because we have some of the lowest taxes in the nation. We also have one of the highest teenage unemployment rates in the nation as well. Not only do you need to read a basic econ. book but you also need to study statistics. When I was taking an advance statistics course so were several econ. majors for a reason. That is one thing we learned is how to remove statistical noise.
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  70. Ylze Tyr "so people making more money and not living in poverty while working a forty hour a week job is not a "positive effect"?" And you are assuming that there will be no job lost and prices won't go up when there is job lost for low skilled workers and prices do go up. In Seattle Subway has already raised their prices in response to the new min. wage coming. I worked a min. wage job as a high school student and during college. It isn't fun but it is a job that anyone can do. I know work with over half a million dollar's work of equipment in my lab and know things that not many people know. That is why I get paid more. People move up in life for personal gains all the time. If you are in a position in life where you need a law to raise the min. wage to better yourself then you need to reconsider your life.
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  71. Ylze Tyr Teenagers working at the age of 16 do lead to more success. One example is the Key Club. Having a job helps get admitted into Key Club. I knew some really smart individuals (in that they had a higher GPA then me in high school) not make Key Club because they didn't have a job. Getting a part time job helps one get a job easier when they move to college and when they apply for on campus jobs. At the age of 17 I had a job and was working full time the next year on into college. I put that job on my resume and used it, amongst other jobs to get me into graduate school. Bringing up min. wage and teenage unemployment isn't stupid because there is a strong correlation between the two. Same with the black unemployment and higher min. wage. Black individuals typically come from poorer communities and thus lack resources and connections to get jobs and when the min. wage goes up so does unemployment for them. Once again low skilled workers lose jobs. Also, not many teenagers get paid under the table unless they are working for a family member, even then that is rare. You are going to anecdotal now. I can do that. When the min. wage went up to $7.25/hr we stop hiring teenagers, we stop raises, we cut hours and we raised prices. The cost of business went up so the money has to come from somewhere. If your electric company raised their rates around 50% wouldn't you cut back somewhere as in using less electricity or cutting back on other bills? I bet you would.
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  72. Rechard kk If you are an "engineer" and you work a min. wage job you have done something wrong. And just because you have an engineering degree doesn't mean you are entitled to anything. Your thought process is so messed up. I am going after my PhD. After that I still know I will have to work to earn a living. I am not entitled to anything. I am sorry but those supposed engineers who work min. wage jobs (Walmart pays above the min. by they way) are simply lazy. When you get challenged your only attack is to make excuses. While you are doing that others are actually working and being successful, remember that.
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  73. Rechard kk And I don't look at the dollar for success. As a grad. student I am not rich, but I make due with what I have. I have my health. I can run a mile in around 6 minutes. I have my own car and my own apartment. I have my hobbies. I make it work and I work hard to get better. What do you want to do, artificially create more jobs that no one needs? Pay people more then they are worth lowering the value of the dollar? You are bringing up numbers without giving a solutions to these "problems" or even considering why they exist. One, having a PhD or an engineering degree doesn't equal higher skilled. Being in grad. school I know several who have advanced degrees that lack skills. Another, a reason for a lot of our economic problems is because of federal government overreach and lack of a free market. In the end it is a competitive world out there and you have to find a way to be successful. Competition isn't bad, it is what drives progress. The federal government promoting lack of competition is the problem. You site Obama when Obama is a part of the problem. Obama's ideas is what is dragging this economy.
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  74. Well Heal It is programs like welfare and the min. wage and higher taxes that is raising the cost of living and hurting job growth. Jobs come and go, but when you create massive federal government involvement and higher taxes, wasteful spending such as welfare and more business regulations then growth is hindered. You wanting the federal government to do something is a part of the problem. Also your friend does have a laziness and entitlement attitude. You simply wanting more welfare or the min. wage increased shows it right there. Instead of working on getting a job you are asking for a handout.
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  75. Ylze Tyr "especaily since we have a few states that have raised their min wages and have seen MORE job growth" And that is exactly what I am talking about with you. You refer back to that always showing you have no clue how to read statistics or how the economy works. I have said several times that you have to look at select groups with the min. wage as in low skilled workers then you see an increase in unemployment when the min. wage goes down. Overall unemployment is effected from several other variables thus when you increase the min. wage all negative effects get lost in the statistical noise. You have to eliminate that noise to see the negative effects. Other variables effecting unemployment are labor to labor substitution, taxes other business regulations and so on. I have state these things before but once again you are going back to more jobs are due to an increase in the min. wage. As I said take some economics courses and take some statistics courses. The stats. course I was in was a grad level course for those going after their Masters in economics (it was undergrad for me because it was for my math minor). So I will say it again, when you raise the min. wage a little bit there are negative effects and no positive effects. The negative results are lost in the statistical noise due to several other variables involved in the economy. When you remove that noise and focus on low skilled workers you see an increase in unemployment when the min. wage goes up, but when you don't look at select groups and look at overall unemployment you don't see that.
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  76. Ylze Tyr I have to ask, do you enjoy being myopic and stupid?
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  77. Ylze Tyr And here we go again with this circle. I say that the min. wage leads to job lost and you make the claim it has added to jobs where I then go farther that it leads to job lost in low skill workers, thus my statement on it leading to job lost is true. You then just repeat the same thing over and over again. Seriously, do you love being myopic and stupid?
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  78. Ylze Tyr "it's that lack of opportunity that prevents people from going to college and such to get more skills to get better jobs." Yeah, like a higher min. wage pricing them out of the job market.
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  79. Ylze Tyr I am glad we agree on something.
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  80. Rechard kk "Americans making $2 an hour working 70hr a week under extreme working conditions" It is a buyer and sellers market. Very few people if any will work for $2/hr because such a job won't be worth it. Very few people if any will work 70 hours a week because no such job is worth it unless you really enjoy it like those going after a PhD or working a prestige job. Very few person will work harsh conditions for little pay. You are not being rational here.
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  81. Well Heal Here is the thing, you don't even know me. You don't know my success. I have a lot of credentials and I am very successful. I question your friend because here you are saying his full name on a youtube page making excuses for him. If I were an employer I wouldn't touch such a person. I work one job where I am told every year to stay off of social media sites because if I look bad in public I will be attacked. That is why I never get in too much detail on who I am or what I do. This particular job involves people who make six to seven figures and are one mistake away from losing their job, and that mistake can be from me. If there is bad publicity on me I will get exposed. I am working on my PhD and later another doctorate. I will have 2 doctorates when I am done and can write my own ticket. I feel like Mr. Johnson hasn't achieved that much at all and with you making public excuses for him on Youtube it is no wonder he has no job.
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  82. Ylze Tyr I gave you sources in the past. Look up on epionline.org for an articled entitled Minimum Wage: Teen Unemployment The Teen Unemployment Crisis: Questions and Answers You have research done by the University of Georgia, Ohio State university and Michigan State University. Look up on Forbes for the articled entitled Youth Unemployment Shows The Effects Of a Minimum Wage That Is Too High Look up on washingtonpolicy.org for the articleNew Study Reveals High Costs and Job Losses With Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Look at aei.org article entitledSeattle’s new minimum wage law takes effect April 1 but is already leading to restaurant closings and job lossesYes, that last site is a conservative think tank and I question it a lot and I am hesitate to post it. But it cites reliable, non bias references, and considering you reference really bias sources I figure it doesn't matter to you.
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  83. Ylze Tyr You haven't shown me anything that showed that a higher min. wage lead to job growth. I have told you the difference between overall job growth and jobs of low skilled workers. I have told you about the statistical noise. I have told you about labor to labor substitution. You are being incredibly dumb here correlating overall job growth, something very complex to the min. wage. "it's not like since mcdonalds raised their wages that they're only going to be hiring college grads now or something." A small increase in the min. wage doesn't lead to drastic changes. But when looked at select groups as in low skilled workers you do see an increase in unemployment. So no, McDonalds isn't going to hire college grads that is true. I never said McDonalds would. They will cut hours and staff though. I am glad you are starting to see this and are starting to agree with me. There is hope for you yet.
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  84. Ylze Tyr Ah, great, you gave one source that was an opinion. I gave several that some used actual numbers and some gave a counter opinion. The Seattle min. wage is in hot debate, and there are restaurants closing down because of it. Yes, some won't, but they were already making high profits to begin with. A higher min. wage hurt their competition. Walmart supported a higher min. wage at one point. Teenage unemployment is a great indicator. Small increases in the min. wage has little effect on an complex economy. Nothing positive comes form it and all negative results get lost in the statistical noise. You have to look at something like teenage unemployment to see the negative effects of the min. wage. We go back to this, if raising the min. wage has little negative effects on the economy but led to great things such as lower government assistance and more jobs then why not $50/hr? In all I am not claiming doomsday predictions, but you are saying the min. wage has amazing results, so why not $50/hr? Your argument is falling apart. You don't understand how complex the economy is. You have zero understanding on statistics. You have zero understanding of economics. From what I can tell you are some high school dropout begging for a min. wage increase so you can get a raise.
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  85. Ylze Tyr Plus you did agree with me again. Teenage unemployment does go up with the min. wage. Why do you hate teenagers from poor families and low income schools? That is the lack of opportunity I was talking about earlier. We are starting to agree, there is hope for you yet.
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  86. Ylze Tyr You are missing or dodging the big point, the fact is that there are several factors involved in overall job growth. A small min. wage increase has little effect on overall job growth, that is why you look at job growth of select groups. My home state has a min. wage higher then the federal, we are seeing job growth because of low taxes and regulations. So I will say it again, I never said that raising the min. wage leads to massive job loss if it is raised at small amounts. It does lead to job loss for low skilled workers. Overall job growth is from several factors. So not only do you not understand economics and statistics, you can't read either.
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  87. Ylze Tyr Also you are claiming that raising the min. wage leads to great results, you keep pushing the part of states who raised their min. wage has seen job growth. I have told you that there are several other factors involved in that, you just keeping pushing that it is purely from the min. wage. So why not $50/hr?
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  88. Ylze Tyr The min. wage has no positive effects, all the effects are negative. A small increase has all the negative results get lost in the statistical noise. There isn't one single positive thing that comes from the min. wage. All that talk about less on assistance is speculation that doesn't factor in those who will lose a job and hours or see prices increases thus offsetting the min. wage and putting them no better off, if not worse then they already are. I don't support something has no positive effects and just compounds our problems even more.
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  89. Ylze Tyr "so people making more money, people making enough to pay their bills and not just scrape by while working 40 hours a week is not a positive effect?" That is assuming that their hours are not cut and food prices don't go up. In reality hours are cut in low skilled jobs and prices where low skilled workers work do go up. In Hartford, Connecticut when the min. wage went up a 20 year old workers at a bagel shop saw her wage goes up but her hours get cut. So was she better off? No. I actually have my own one bedroom apartment, my own car, and I pay my own rent . My family was not rich either. My parents worked hard and it trickled down to me. I own a newer car then them now due to my hard work and so does my sister.
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  90. Ylze Tyr Ah the "common sense" argument. That shows you really don't know what you are talking about. In basic economics you learn about a supply and demand curve and see that when a price floor is set, on labor in this case, there are jobs lost. That is common sense amongst economist and would be knowledge to you if you actually studied economics.
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  91. Rechard kk I never said I had a mortgage. I do have debt due to college loans but that is why my net worth is negative like a lot of people in this country. But like most of those people I am well off.
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  92. Ylze Tyr But they can't get a second job because businesses won't be hiring. You are not including that in your thought process. "muting now". I see you are taking your ball and going home, alright.
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  93. Rechard kk Glancing at your long comment I will briefly explain why you are wrong. One, artificially raising wages without increasing productivity decreases the value of the dollar. The dollar is no longer compared to the gold standard so the value of the dollar is at the mercy of the goods and services available. Giving more money to people without increasing the amount of goods and services available lowers the value of the dollar which raises prices. That is why prices go up with a min. wage increase. You are complaining about CEO shares when you need to realize a couple things. One, even though CEOs are have money, the middle and lower class have more wealth. I have a Galaxy S5 cell phone but only make $20,000/yr. People are better off now then in the past. Also, wages would be higher if we stop giving money away in welfare programs and the min. wage and higher taxes. Most of those things you mentioned with higher taxes and funding it are locally funded. There is nothing inherently wrong with higher taxes but we have to keep government as local as possible to see to it that money is invested well and wasted. A problem we have are federal taxes and spending, that is the waste. A smaller, more local government approach is best along with a simplified tax code. You ramble on about a 91% tax that nobody paid and Robert Reich's worthless movie, but in the end you don't have it right and you need to do more research.
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  94. Rechard kk A few other things, the internet may have been started by the government, but the private sector created it what it is today. The government didn't build youtube or google, the private sector did. FDR's new deal has created more problems, there is a reason why the country suffered the longest road to recovery ever in it's history. This country has faced multiple recessions. Everyone except 2 took around 5 years to recover from with little to no federal government support. The two that took the longest were the great depression and now. Both times saw massive federal government action to "fix" it such as higher taxes, spending and regulations. There is a strong correlation there. The vast majority of our problems stem from the federal government's involvement in the economy. We were fine before FDR's new deal. We were fine before we got off the gold standard and the federal government devalued the dollar. We created the department of ed. in 1980, our education system hasn't improved. You feel the federal government is the cure all for this when in reality it is the problem.
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  95. Codyjb818 $59 trillion in a span of 53 years, around a trillion a year, not much when you look at the US GDP and how it is growing.  It is actually quite small.
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  96. Alex R According to Robert Reich yes.  According to him you need to be soaked in sweat to earn a high paycheck.  Not being creative or working a high demand job or doing something very few people do.
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  97. Alex R Exactly
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  98. Alex R How am I a communist?
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  99. Alex R Oh, I just looked back at my first comment.  A little misunderstanding. My first comment was to mock Reich in that I feel that he is fool.  I actually agree with you.  Reading your second comment and to change my answer that wouldn't be correct.  Some genius who is paid millions is worth more then a man who isn't skilled.
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  100. Ken Frazer You can find it.  It doesn't say there is complete dependency but one exist.  To ignore the idea that people will become dependent on welfare programs or refuse to get off them is ignorant.  Also, I don't like how you said "credible link" because already you just put yourself on one side.  I could link the Heritage Foundation and you will ignore it just like I ignore anything Robert Reich says. You already are not believing me.
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  101. ***** Or you can't put a space between "Education, Evidence".
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  102. theMstanglover People are poor for a reason, I do see poor kids struggle for a couple of reasons. One, they can't get a job when they become high school age due to policies such as the min. wage, another is that the parents are crap. Yeah they are poor but they should at least push their kid to succeed. They don't though, they make excuses and so do their kids and they remain poor. 
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  103. Leo Roberts If they are poor they are eligible for grants and loans.  One of my students is very poor and college is almost free for her.
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