Raise the Minimum wage AND AND AND AND.............
make sure the prices of everything and the cost of living go down or at least stay the same! Thats the ONLY way it would help. Raising the minimum wage a certain amount all while the prices of everything go up even more WONT HELP! Numbers are just a number! $30 an hour means nothing once snickers bars cost $50 each!
even ten dollars an hour is below poverty line...so don't even brag about seven buck senator. not too smart. there's too many dumb politicians on the right and left...you're not giving much direction and you're just as clueless as others washington. silly old men need to be replaced by smarter and perhaps younger folks who UNDERSTAND reality.
Having a low minimum wage or none at all would have an effect of creating jobs for people who wouldn't other wise be able to find one.
Also companies can charge less on products so the standard of living could go down. You could also get compitition that would make everyone better off.
You would be paying less so the low wage would work its self out, look at how much stuff cost in the 1950's when the minimum wage was only 1 dollar an hour, And look at prices now.
Ophachew, your reasoning is faulty. We all know big business would pay ten cents/hour for labor if there weren't laws to prohibit it. Greed will always exploit others. And people would work for that pittance in order to survive. So we have a law against such exploitation. It's called the Minimum Wage. Just like picking up after one's dog, if decency and courtesy and fairness is not offered willingly, then it must be mandated. The minimum wage prevents the exploitation that greed would foster.
no, companies wont be able to lower wages like that because their competitors would be taking the surplus and investing it in higher cost materials (better products for the same price) and in turn taking business away from them. (and its not like they can just fix prices between themselves because that is illegal) its called market equilibrium. you don't understand economics
Gracer: Odd that you should say I don't understand economics. My post was clear, & indisputable. The whole point of the law (min wage) is to prevent exploitation of the poor by the rich—which history shows always happens, as greed is always alive & well. YOUR post is confusing. Wanna clarify? Pls explain how competitors paying high wages could take business away from companies paying exploitatively low wages that enable them to offer cheaper prices. Cheap prices are loved more than God.
Any economist knows that raising minimum wage doesn't help anybody and it doesn't matter how high it goes. It simply contributes to raising of prices and job elimination. Even former Pres. Carter declared that "raising minimum was the single greatest regret of his administration; because it simply contributed to the inflation that we are still reeling from today."
Ophachew, you are careless with your quote. Carter would not have used the pronoun "my," but "I." Turns out I can't find this supposed quote by Googling key words. Why not quote the source of your remark? Please use quotes only when it is indeed a direct quote!
Raise the minimum wage for minimum wage workers! Sometimes life beats you don't and people don't have a choice but to work minimum wage. They deserve more when they are in a position like this.
Raising wages won't help by itself as long as the Fed devalues our dollar and prints money out of thin air. Congress needs a set of balls and abolish the Fed then after that you can talk about raising wages.
Amen, If you still make minimum wage its your own damn fault. I do agree with him that no working person should live in poverty. Well Teddythey dont have to! Stop pumping out kids and make some common sense decisions! Do you really need to put rims on your Delta 88? Maybe that money could go towards school books! Give me a break and give the rest responsibility! Im tired of this shit!
So you think its fair that the minimum wage is so low that regular working class people cannot even pay their bills and support their families? Explain to me how that is fair.
Yes I do. Do you think it is fair for the people that worked hard to start their business that took the chance to succeed, that took out a loan against their house to pay some kid or someone unable to produce 5$ worth of labor an hour more than what they are worth? NO! People that make minimum wage also get food stamps and other government assistance.
Therefore you put the guy out on the street you first set out to help. Let them help themselves. Sucess is not handed out, it is thought up and created by those that want it. 98.2 percent of Americans own a t.v..Yet 12.5 percent live in "poverty" How about we get some common sense! And if you cannot support a family on what you are able to make you have no business creating one...
Reality check! Most people dont make the minimum wage!!!!!! And the ones that do need to join the union. Its not the business owners responsibility to pay them more if they have a family or not. So, back to common sense! If you cant afford a family you dont have one!!!!!!!!! Plain and simple!
So you really had to think about whether you wanted to be born and take on the responsibility of caring for your parents when they can't take care of themselves, huh? I suppose if a person's parents get sick and need their son or daughter to pay for medical care...it sure is good we have the second amendment for situations like that! Too bad it's illegal to just have your family euthanized.
Repeat after me, Ted. It isn't compassion when you use other people's money. I volunteer YOUR money, you bloviating liberal bastard. Does that make me generous and compassionate?
You drunken bloviating blowhard leftist hypocrite. You have a lot of nerve lecturing our president about keeping this country safe while your recipe is to cut, run, and embolden the enemy. Shame on you, you pathetic old fool.
How many fucking times MUST OUR PRESIDENT keep fucking up in Iraq before we say enoughs enough dooshebag? Tell me that. I love you fucking red necks who cut down common sense people like Senator Kennedy and blindly support Bush no matter how many times he fucks up. Grow some balls you piece of shit and recognize when wrong is wrong jackass.
Stop blaming Rednecks. The last two elections proved that there are more conservative minded people in this country than you democrats think. How could you lose to George Bush??? He can't even say nuclear properly? How? Because none of the democrat candidates have a backbone. None of them act as if terrorism is a threat. Just give them what they want and they will leave us alone. Keep putting up those kinds of candidates, and keep on losing. Blame rednecks all you want.
Are you volunteering to finance this raise on the minimum wage, Senator? Or are you going stand by and watch people get laid off because the small businessman can't afford the wage increase?
In my country, the wages are determined in the contest between the unions and the capital owners, producing high wages, of course there are pros and cons to this but it works
Is that 15 million who will get a raise before or after the ones who lose their jobs because of the increase? And why $7.25? Who can live on $15k/year (assuming that's full time). Why not $20/hour?
Im Australian, so I dont know this guy from a bar of soap, but I have to say he makes perfect sense to me. He is a good man who obviously cares about the little guy. Thank God for him, there arent many left like I think.
Listen, he puts on a good show. But I would get to know the facts about this man before you call him good. I would look up "Chappaquiddick" he did a little driving stunt off of a cliff after a party and let the woman drown. He didnt call authorities for over 9 hours. He managed to swim across a 500 foot channel to talk to his lawyer though. Good man? I dont think so.
I've checked the facts. It was not a cliff, but a very narrow bridge with no gaurdrail. He did not swim across any channels, and he was convicted of the only crime for which he was quilty; fleeing the scene of an accident.
Get over it. Ted works everyday to make this a better place for us all, be nice if more of us could do the same.
It's easy to 'care about the little man' when you're spending other people's money. Do you really think the reason other people don't support mininum wage increases is because they don't care? No. They know the minimum wage would cause prices to rise and workers to be laid off. It's the opponents of minimum wage hikes who care about the little guy. If pompous bloviating slobs like Kennedy would stop with the class warfare shit, real relief for people could be accomplished.
Minimum Wage doesn't reflect inflation at all, and thus, should be raised to meet inflation. Yes, raising minimum wage increases inflation, but it's a necessary evil. It'll go up and up and up. That's the problem with capitolism: It survives in the bowls of borrowed time.
Don't waste your time. These guys don't care about how it actually works. They just want a quick fix. If only we requires people to take classes on Economics.
u know fruitcake..there was a time when we had NO min wage..do u think the introduction of it hurt the economy? NO..it increases worker productivity and disposable income that goes RIGHT BACK into the economy...thus helping the whole..an increase of lower incomes will HELP the Economy..tax cuts for the rich? thats another road that the greedy sell for their own sake..cmon..even rich people can admit to tax cuts they dont need..and "other people's MOney?!" cmon..who raised ur greedy ass?
Who the hell are you to tell people they don't need their own money? Donate your own damn money instead of acting all self-righteous while you spend other people's money. As for the minimum wage, what do you think happens when employers can't afford the higher wages? Answer: they cut production and/or lay off people off. So your hypocritical 'compassion' for these workers just caused them to get laid off. Thanks a hell of a lot.
yes but the overall economy benefits through a wider dispersion and spending of money...its not perfect but it creates more opportunity and markets..and were talking about minimum wage here..relax..u should worry bout the widening gap between rich and poor..read history..wide gaps are no good
It's a no brainer that the rich get richer because they control the wages of the minimum wage earners and take advantage of it, thus increasing the gap. What side of the gap do think you'll slide towards if we force people that are just trying to make a living wage to do so?
Raise the Minimum wage AND AND AND AND.............
make sure the prices of everything and the cost of living go down or at least stay the same! Thats the ONLY way it would help. Raising the minimum wage a certain amount all while the prices of everything go up even more WONT HELP! Numbers are just a number! $30 an hour means nothing once snickers bars cost $50 each!
tatomuck18 1 year ago
ignorant Democrat!
ntn1987 2 years ago
America is fucked, its over, we are done, the rich got too rich and the poor got poorer, the working man got killed
rickbar123 2 years ago
even ten dollars an hour is below poverty line...so don't even brag about seven buck senator. not too smart. there's too many dumb politicians on the right and left...you're not giving much direction and you're just as clueless as others washington. silly old men need to be replaced by smarter and perhaps younger folks who UNDERSTAND reality.
debisis 2 years ago
Minimum Wage raise is good but the best idea would make people get off of people Minimum Wage and they good job
cbowman61 2 years ago
Having a low minimum wage or none at all would have an effect of creating jobs for people who wouldn't other wise be able to find one.
Also companies can charge less on products so the standard of living could go down. You could also get compitition that would make everyone better off.
You would be paying less so the low wage would work its self out, look at how much stuff cost in the 1950's when the minimum wage was only 1 dollar an hour, And look at prices now.
coolgc1 2 years ago
Ophachew, your reasoning is faulty. We all know big business would pay ten cents/hour for labor if there weren't laws to prohibit it. Greed will always exploit others. And people would work for that pittance in order to survive. So we have a law against such exploitation. It's called the Minimum Wage. Just like picking up after one's dog, if decency and courtesy and fairness is not offered willingly, then it must be mandated. The minimum wage prevents the exploitation that greed would foster.
ApplyUrBrain 3 years ago
no, companies wont be able to lower wages like that because their competitors would be taking the surplus and investing it in higher cost materials (better products for the same price) and in turn taking business away from them. (and its not like they can just fix prices between themselves because that is illegal) its called market equilibrium. you don't understand economics
gracer99 2 years ago
Gracer: Odd that you should say I don't understand economics. My post was clear, & indisputable. The whole point of the law (min wage) is to prevent exploitation of the poor by the rich—which history shows always happens, as greed is always alive & well. YOUR post is confusing. Wanna clarify? Pls explain how competitors paying high wages could take business away from companies paying exploitatively low wages that enable them to offer cheaper prices. Cheap prices are loved more than God.
ApplyUrBrain 2 years ago
Any economist knows that raising minimum wage doesn't help anybody and it doesn't matter how high it goes. It simply contributes to raising of prices and job elimination. Even former Pres. Carter declared that "raising minimum was the single greatest regret of his administration; because it simply contributed to the inflation that we are still reeling from today."
ophachew1 3 years ago
Ophachew, you are careless with your quote. Carter would not have used the pronoun "my," but "I." Turns out I can't find this supposed quote by Googling key words. Why not quote the source of your remark? Please use quotes only when it is indeed a direct quote!
ApplyUrBrain 3 years ago
Raise the minimum wage for minimum wage workers! Sometimes life beats you don't and people don't have a choice but to work minimum wage. They deserve more when they are in a position like this.
KrisMTL 4 years ago
Raising wages won't help by itself as long as the Fed devalues our dollar and prints money out of thin air. Congress needs a set of balls and abolish the Fed then after that you can talk about raising wages.
rjisinspired 4 years ago
uk min wage 11 bucks p/h.But the uk cost of living is much higher.
ASDAPIX 4 years ago
they should pay more to workers they DESERVE it
nate749 4 years ago
@nate749
They should only pay more to workers IF they deserve it.
There are a lot of shitty working out there.
AGeekWithAShotgun 3 months ago
I'm sure small businesses will love paying more to workers.
PartyWithChumpsky 4 years ago
Hahaha In Canada our minimum wage is $10 an hour.
Get with the program America.
Foozleboo 4 years ago
What? No it isn't o_O
ralphKNS 4 years ago
In Ontario it is..
Or theres legislation in place to make it $10
Foozleboo 4 years ago
Mary Jo Kopechne
BigBird33 5 years ago
Chappaquiddick
BigBird33 5 years ago
Amen, If you still make minimum wage its your own damn fault. I do agree with him that no working person should live in poverty. Well Teddythey dont have to! Stop pumping out kids and make some common sense decisions! Do you really need to put rims on your Delta 88? Maybe that money could go towards school books! Give me a break and give the rest responsibility! Im tired of this shit!
pennyroyaltea37 5 years ago
So you think its fair that the minimum wage is so low that regular working class people cannot even pay their bills and support their families? Explain to me how that is fair.
Samzo 5 years ago
Yes I do. Do you think it is fair for the people that worked hard to start their business that took the chance to succeed, that took out a loan against their house to pay some kid or someone unable to produce 5$ worth of labor an hour more than what they are worth? NO! People that make minimum wage also get food stamps and other government assistance.
pennyroyaltea37 5 years ago
Therefore you put the guy out on the street you first set out to help. Let them help themselves. Sucess is not handed out, it is thought up and created by those that want it. 98.2 percent of Americans own a t.v..Yet 12.5 percent live in "poverty" How about we get some common sense! And if you cannot support a family on what you are able to make you have no business creating one...
pennyroyaltea37 5 years ago
Reality check! Most people dont make the minimum wage!!!!!! And the ones that do need to join the union. Its not the business owners responsibility to pay them more if they have a family or not. So, back to common sense! If you cant afford a family you dont have one!!!!!!!!! Plain and simple!
pennyroyaltea37 4 years ago
So you really had to think about whether you wanted to be born and take on the responsibility of caring for your parents when they can't take care of themselves, huh? I suppose if a person's parents get sick and need their son or daughter to pay for medical care...it sure is good we have the second amendment for situations like that! Too bad it's illegal to just have your family euthanized.
ralphKNS 4 years ago
Repeat after me, Ted. It isn't compassion when you use other people's money. I volunteer YOUR money, you bloviating liberal bastard. Does that make me generous and compassionate?
fruticetum 5 years ago
and me more...go on! Thank you!
cidrolintunio 5 years ago
Ted Kennedy, we love you!
cidrolintunio 5 years ago
It ain't compassion when it's somebody else's money you're spending, you drunken blowhard.
fruticetum 5 years ago
He's just buying votes of stupid people with my money.
Robin the Hood!!
brickguru 5 years ago
Shut up, bewitched man!
cidrolintunio 5 years ago
If he would only support to undo the Federal Reserve like JFK we would have a real man of the people.
flarkfucky 5 years ago
You drunken bloviating blowhard leftist hypocrite. You have a lot of nerve lecturing our president about keeping this country safe while your recipe is to cut, run, and embolden the enemy. Shame on you, you pathetic old fool.
fruticetum 5 years ago
Is the enemy all Arabs?
Fruticetum you need to learn the truth of false-flag terrorism. 9/11 = inside job.
flarkfucky 5 years ago
Only if you're a left-wing conspiracy kook
fruticetum 5 years ago
Not at all and Arabs have been a pain in the ass LONG before 9/11. Going all the way back to just after WW2.
sharpie443 5 years ago
How many fucking times MUST OUR PRESIDENT keep fucking up in Iraq before we say enoughs enough dooshebag? Tell me that. I love you fucking red necks who cut down common sense people like Senator Kennedy and blindly support Bush no matter how many times he fucks up. Grow some balls you piece of shit and recognize when wrong is wrong jackass.
mtj8 5 years ago
Stop blaming Rednecks. The last two elections proved that there are more conservative minded people in this country than you democrats think. How could you lose to George Bush??? He can't even say nuclear properly? How? Because none of the democrat candidates have a backbone. None of them act as if terrorism is a threat. Just give them what they want and they will leave us alone. Keep putting up those kinds of candidates, and keep on losing. Blame rednecks all you want.
rickyb2112 5 years ago
Are you volunteering to finance this raise on the minimum wage, Senator? Or are you going stand by and watch people get laid off because the small businessman can't afford the wage increase?
fruticetum 5 years ago
Laissez-faire
Therwood 5 years ago
In my country, the wages are determined in the contest between the unions and the capital owners, producing high wages, of course there are pros and cons to this but it works
Kvaerndrup 5 years ago
Is that 15 million who will get a raise before or after the ones who lose their jobs because of the increase? And why $7.25? Who can live on $15k/year (assuming that's full time). Why not $20/hour?
searchforthetruth 5 years ago
Im Australian, so I dont know this guy from a bar of soap, but I have to say he makes perfect sense to me. He is a good man who obviously cares about the little guy. Thank God for him, there arent many left like I think.
Auswurkung 5 years ago
Listen, he puts on a good show. But I would get to know the facts about this man before you call him good. I would look up "Chappaquiddick" he did a little driving stunt off of a cliff after a party and let the woman drown. He didnt call authorities for over 9 hours. He managed to swim across a 500 foot channel to talk to his lawyer though. Good man? I dont think so.
pennyroyaltea37 5 years ago
I think that anyone in life can make mistakes...otherwise we were all gods...isn't it?
cidrolintunio 5 years ago
I've checked the facts. It was not a cliff, but a very narrow bridge with no gaurdrail. He did not swim across any channels, and he was convicted of the only crime for which he was quilty; fleeing the scene of an accident.
Get over it. Ted works everyday to make this a better place for us all, be nice if more of us could do the same.
rockvulcan 4 years ago
Kennedy for President*
xmzx 5 years ago
We the people....are so lucky to have you
Take care Ted. Good men are rare
loper11p34 5 years ago
Mr. Kennedy, there are not many men left in positions of power and authority that care about the "little man". But you are one of them. Thank God.
klisatez 5 years ago
It's easy to 'care about the little man' when you're spending other people's money. Do you really think the reason other people don't support mininum wage increases is because they don't care? No. They know the minimum wage would cause prices to rise and workers to be laid off. It's the opponents of minimum wage hikes who care about the little guy. If pompous bloviating slobs like Kennedy would stop with the class warfare shit, real relief for people could be accomplished.
fruticetum 5 years ago
Incorrect. You really don't understand economics.
Minimum Wage doesn't reflect inflation at all, and thus, should be raised to meet inflation. Yes, raising minimum wage increases inflation, but it's a necessary evil. It'll go up and up and up. That's the problem with capitolism: It survives in the bowls of borrowed time.
TheBSG 5 years ago
You don't know your ass from first base.
fruticetum 5 years ago
Don't waste your time. These guys don't care about how it actually works. They just want a quick fix. If only we requires people to take classes on Economics.
sharpie443 5 years ago
u know fruitcake..there was a time when we had NO min wage..do u think the introduction of it hurt the economy? NO..it increases worker productivity and disposable income that goes RIGHT BACK into the economy...thus helping the whole..an increase of lower incomes will HELP the Economy..tax cuts for the rich? thats another road that the greedy sell for their own sake..cmon..even rich people can admit to tax cuts they dont need..and "other people's MOney?!" cmon..who raised ur greedy ass?
esalazar83 5 years ago
Who the hell are you to tell people they don't need their own money? Donate your own damn money instead of acting all self-righteous while you spend other people's money. As for the minimum wage, what do you think happens when employers can't afford the higher wages? Answer: they cut production and/or lay off people off. So your hypocritical 'compassion' for these workers just caused them to get laid off. Thanks a hell of a lot.
fruticetum 5 years ago
yes but the overall economy benefits through a wider dispersion and spending of money...its not perfect but it creates more opportunity and markets..and were talking about minimum wage here..relax..u should worry bout the widening gap between rich and poor..read history..wide gaps are no good
esalazar83 5 years ago
It's a no brainer that the rich get richer because they control the wages of the minimum wage earners and take advantage of it, thus increasing the gap. What side of the gap do think you'll slide towards if we force people that are just trying to make a living wage to do so?
mardrigras 5 years ago
Amen
brickguru 5 years ago
Ted, Its time to think about 08 and work towards the dream that never became. Please consider.
JamJells 5 years ago
Good luck with that...
k2six 5 years ago
raise it.
aaasamaaa 5 years ago
Go Teddy!
pwrflwr 5 years ago
I second that.
avaruuskissa 5 years ago