Comments by "Newbie Prepper" (@newbieprepper8451) on "Comparing Biden's Address To Jamaal Bowman's Response" video.

so the monies paid shoudl not come from the tax payers but it should come from the city coffers and the state? how do you think the city and state coffers get filled up? by the tax payers.
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why 20$ an hour, why settle for the bare minimum just to survive? go for $50 an hour, hell, go for $100 an hour, please reward people with no skills.
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@LadyFrostbite the same way that you forget that the original $600 check was just that, there was no deal for $2k. then Trump pointed it out to the public and embarrassed the hell out of them to where they sent out the $600 and then later promised to match it with more to make it $2k. right before the election the dems were promising $2k not $1400 to complement the $600 already sent, but a whole $2k, and once they got elected they decided to play the whole bait and switcharoo and send out the $1400 and claimed they fulfilled their promise of $2k, even though they promised and alluded to $2k as seperate from the $600 already sent.
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thats because when the republicans screw you over, everyone knows they do it. when democrats screw you over, they hide about it and blame everyone except themselves, thats how they keep power and keep getting elected. this time they invented a whole new term, "parliamentarian" because they couldnt blame it on Russians.
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@SplotPublishing hmmm, ok, i stand corrected, and no, it doesnt sting, it never stings to learn something new, happens to all fo us once in a while. must be because in the 50 years i have been around, the parlamentarian has never been used as an excuse to do or not do something, until now.
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@rociocamarena4802 i agree with you completely, we should be thriving, and asking for a minimum wage raise is not asking to thrive, its just asking to survive. you want to thrive? demand a set of skills. a person who learns some skills has a better chance of eventually going out on their own and setting up their own business and being their own boss, THATS THRIVING. i have yet to see a lowly burger flipper or line fry cook at a fast food place have the skillset necessary to go out and start off his own business. living on minimum wage with absolutely no skills and hoping the boss doesnt replace you with a cheaper model is not thriving, is surviving. when a person grows, they thrive, when a person stays stagnant, they just survive. and the way to grow is to learn. here is an example, love him or hate him, Rational National is thriving, not just surviving. why is that? its because he has skills, skills he learned over time, not because the government mandated that someone pay him X amount, but because he learned skills that allow him to thrive and make as much as he wants. or at least i hope he is thriving, he looks like he is thriving, not destitute surviving. ask for better than just meager survival, because if all you ask is for meager survival, even if you get it, you will be back here again in a few years demanding again for meager survival because what you received last time is no longer enough for survival.
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@Hattie Lankford i get paid enough, because i AM competent in my field of work, because i learned skills over many years, and they are a diverse set of skills.
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@ebeb516 clearly you lack the skill to understand when i say skills i am talking about job skills / marketable skills that will allow people to get jobs that pay much more than minimum wage. HVAC repair techs make a decent wage, but it takes skills to be one, you have to go through training for that, have the federal government fund those training courses. electricians make real good money, way above minimum wage, teach people those skills so they can go to an employer and get a good wage to live off. truck drivers make a good living, but it requires skills to be a truck driver, offer people training to get those skills. all you can think of is just the basic of $15/hr and thats it, as if though its a solution to anything. when i first started working the minimum wage was $2.75, and somehow that was enough until it wasnt, and people rallied to raise the minimum wage, and so it was raised until it was enough. now the minimum wage isnt enough anymore, even though it was raised. so now here we are in the same spot, demanding a raise in the minimum wage to where its enough. once its raised, how long before it becomes NOT enough again? clearly you lack the CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS to bring a meaningful solution to a problem that has been plaguing us multiple times since the 80's and probably before that.
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David Payne you are right, absolutely right, i am all over the place and contradictory with my use of the word "skills". i should put defining labels before the word skills so that people such as yourself who lack "reading comprehension skills" and lack "critical thinking skills" can understand when i talk about giving people skills i am referring to JOB skills. the kind of JOB skills that will allow people to earn much more than minimum wage. the kind of JOB skills that will eventually allow people to take those JOB skills and the experience they earn on their JOB and open up their own business and be their own boss. take that cashier at Wal-Mart and teach her insurance field JOB skills so she can work in an insurance office making some decent money and who knows, in 10 or 20 years she can open her own insurance office and call it Sally Jones Allstate insurance agency. take that burger flipper and offer to teach him some plumbing JOB skills so he can make a good living and who know, 10 or 20 years down the line open his own plumbing business wiht his plumbing JOB skills and call his shop Bob the Plumber Roto Rooter and charge people $120 per hour to come out on a sunday and fix their leaky faucet. take that day laborer working multiple day hire jobs and teach him some truck driving JOB skills and let him be a truck driver making a decent wage and who know, 10 or 20 years down the line they can get their own truck and call themselves Super Speedy Express. here is a bigger faceplant for you, you advocate for $15/hr because either you dont understand that this is not a way to make people prosper, its just giving them barely enough to keep their head above water, or you KNOW that it doesnt work and you dont care because you know those same people will be back at your door in a few years when the new minimum wage isnt enough, in effect you create a second class of people to control.
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@brucesmith9092 i would only advocate for $1000 per hour if its coupled with a guaranteed $20,000 per month government subsidy income check, and of course free healthcare and free housing, maybe throw in free food and some free vacations. you can aim for your moon, i want the stars.
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@ebeb516 i agree, minimum wage is too low, but you cant just say minimum wage is too low and thats the problem, you have to ask why is the minimum wage too low? back in the 60's, the dollar was tied to the gold and silver standard. we had silver quarters, and the minimum wage was around $1.25, which were 5 quarters, which amounted to 1 ounce of silver. if you look around closely, early 60's quarters were still made of silver. today, 1 ounce of silver runs for $17 or so per ounce. so the minimum wage was tied to something tangible. but since the dollar was decoupled from the gold standard, inflation has run amok and has not been compensated for by anything. raising the minimum wage does not solve the inherent problem of why people cant survive on minimum wage, because thats just a symptom of a larger more complex problem. its like giving someone morphine to deal with their pain and disregarding that the pain is coming from a broken leg, eventually down the road that morphine will wear off and the pain will return, and the more you give morphine the more addicted the patient become to it. you need to examine the core reasons for why people cant survive on minimum wage and why its low. as for people with $200k college debt and not working in their chosen field, we cant all be philosophers. thats just a joke, more sarcasm really. i know plenty of people with college debt, i work in an office with 800 people in it, and at least half of them are college grads with college debt, and none of them are complaining about their college debt, some of them have paid it off and others are paying it off, while at the same time they are buying cars and homes. of course most of them are not working in their chosen field, but by saying that, they went a more realistic route and studied in a field that would get them a job and a career. as an example, one of my friends at work, his chosen field is history, he wanted to be a historian, although he has a degree in business because he wanted something that would gain him a career instead of just a hobby. i have another friend that actually got a degree in philosophy, he works at a company as a technician though, absolutely nothing to do with philosophy, and the way he explained it to me was, that philosophy was a hobby to him, and he wasted all that time and money for a college degree in a field that has no large calling for people. how many of these people who have these large college debts actually took on those debts to further their hobbies instead of actual careers? i mean i see some really outrageusly stupid college courses out there, prime examples are "underwater basket weaving" which is a course offered by several colleges, or "lesbian dance theory" or the very informative course on "white supremacy" that recently popped up. you have to look at some of these college courses and wonder if they are worth anything and even if you should feel pity for the people spending money on them and then crying about how much debt they have. and yes, i agree with you, $15 is not enough to live decently off of, its barely enough to survive, i know because i have done it living in Chicago, so im not in some rural area with a very low cost of living, but im also not in some high cost of living area either. right now im making $21 an hour, thats enough for me to live in a decent area of the city, raise my daughter all alone, and still save up enough to buy a condo. but it takes the ability to live within your means, and not demand that you live like bill gates or Bezos. there are many people who demand more because they want to live like the Jones's and they are not content with just living for themselves. i know a girl at work, makes about $40k per year, whining and crying about her college debt which she wasted on buying a used car and several fancy vacations. i offered her an opportunity to double her pay right at the beginning and be making low 6 digits within 5 years, she declined because it was an electricians union and she didnt want to do manual work. anyway, those are just stories from experience, but still, you have to look at more than just the symptoms, you have to examine the cause of those symptoms. high college debt is a symptom of a greater problem, and unlivable wages are just a symptom of a greater problem, and you can never solve the problem if all you plan to do is to treat the symptom.
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@lesbethtacioni1733 which of the progressives voted AGAINST the bill that gave $1400 because it didnt give the $2000 as promised? i think only Tlaib voted against it, at least she stood on her principles. i may not like her or her principles, but i have enough respect for her standing for her principles to give her a nod, the rest of them are worth only spit.
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it is dangerous to get rid of the filibuster. once it is done away with, any group with a small majority can ram through anything they want at any time. the filibuster is there to promote cooperation across the isles, too many of our congressmen on both sides have forgotten that.
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@stayelusive you make an excellent point that teaching everyone jobs skills would dilute the job market with more people having skills, although i do not believe it would be so bad. there are literally hundreds of thousands of fields to go into, and there are plenty of fields that are currently struggling to fill positions. of course you dont take everyone and teach them all computer skills, we learned that from the 90's where everyone went to college to be a computer engineer and when they all graduated the market dropped out from under them because there were so many qualified computer guys out there. but with so many different fields out there, its possible to train people in different job skillsets and pull people out of poverty for the long term, not everyone has to study computers and go for that computer job. 1. trucking industry right now is suffering a shortage of truck drivers. currently some larger carriers are offering up to $12,000 as a sign on bonus. 2. tanker trucking (slightly differnet skillset and qualifications) is also suffering a shortage of drivers to the point that they are warning of possible gas shortages for this summer, because therre isnt enough tanker drivers to deliver the gas. 3. electricians unions around the country are scrambling to fill positions as the average age of electricians is 57 years old and many are close to retirement which will translate into a shortage of electricians. 4. carpenters unions are working on hiring new people to replace an aging crew of carpenters that will soon be retiring. 5. plumbers unions have been suffering for years trying to get new plumbers and having trouble doing it because they cant get rid of the stink that people think that a plumber crawls through hip deep sewers filled with feces. 6. oil rig workers, during the shale oil boom in the Dakotas a few years back, oil companies were offering $60-$90k per year starting salaries for oil workers with no experience, and construction crews were overwhelmed with orders for new housing and backed up by 6 months because they couldnt get peopel to work. 7. emerging green energy companies. AOC is pushing her failed Green New Deal, but there is a nugget of gold in that pile of crap, green jobs, train people to maintain and repair renewable energy generators like wind turbines, i see those things popping up all over the place, and sure enough the 5 repair guys that do it wont be able to handle doing all of them. 8. auto and truck mechanics - this field is slowly shrinking in workforce numbers as not many new mechanics are coming in to replace aging retiring mechanics. those are just a few examples of a few fields that are strugling or rising, there are litterally thousands of fields that im not listing as strugling because i dont have knowledge of them and i dont have the governments resources to investigate all of them. i agree that most likely we will not be able to lift everyone out of poverty and get everyone trained and into good paying careers, but we can do it for the majority, and the ones that we cant, those are the ones where we can lift their minimum wage to a living wage, and any percieved costs of goods and services taht would be raised by the minimum wage going up would be easily absorbed by a larger population making better wages. i do not agree that that raising the minimum wage is a solution, because its not, we have seen this time and again. raising the minimum wage is a temporary solution to a persistent problem, and it will keep coming back unless you address the core issue of why people cant survive.
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@ebeb516 raising the minimum wage should be a lead in, but its not, because no one is talking about anything else other than just raise the minimum wage. and it seems like you DO have tunnel vision on this, because all you are talking about is just being supportive of the entire population, instead of nurturing the population to thrive. most people are only talking about that, support the population and thats it, not lift the population to a higher level. if all you do is support the population then you are giving them just enough to live, and a decade down the line we will be back in the same position demanding a higher minimum wage because the furrent one is no longer enough, its happened before and its happening now.
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