tbutkovich wrote:
The concept of minimum wage is a k**ler of “personal incentive” and desire to improve ones sk**ls and productive capacity. As a kid, I worked as a newspaper boy, grocery store packer, stock boy, cashier, door manufacturer, metal & oil separator, glue factory helper, state hospital orderly, orderly in a mentally challenged school for children. All wages varied with some of the most difficult jobs paying the least.
The companies with their different wage scales could afford to offer a much larger variety of services which were profitable. If a minimum wage had been enforced, I and many others would have been placed at a distinct economic disadvantage. Instead of learning new sk**ls, a strong work ethic, a desire to improve, I would have probably succumbed to being a “couch potato.”
A minimum wage will cause many businesses to fail, many needed services to vanish, and eliminate many startup jobs that provide the sk**ls and work ethics needed for one to climb the economic ladder to become self sufficient.
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Funny, no one mentioned the jobs i*****l w****rs have taken away from American citizens by working for penny's on the dollar. What about Obama Care's effect on the job market, forcing employers to convert full time jobs into part time jobs or even eliminating jobs.