A Serious Question (Page 3): I don't have to pretend also I am always happy to see people who work hard getting ahead .

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

Wonttakeitanymore wrote:

Taxes increased to delete the benefits of an increased wage! Just because u don’t use the word recession doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist! Go listen to some music and pretend the country is in major trouble under this demon admin

I don't have to pretend also I am always happy to see people who work hard getting ahead .

Odanobunaga1

Yes, our democracy is in peril… the Democratic Party and their supporters are beyond any hope of getting help for their retarded state of mind…
I also, am getting horribly sick every day!!

Ronadk

Nothing

Radar OReilly

RandyBrian wrote:

Liberty, you know this is a silly question. The f... (show quote)

Good post. Thankyou Randy

Radar OReilly

Liberty Tree wrote:

You have to do better than NPR spin. The American people are not experiencing or feeling any good.

There is always MSNBC or any of the 3 Original networks +PBS and CTV, CNN, BBC America, CBC..etc to name a few.

Radar OReilly

crazylibertarian wrote:

C'mon, Tom. NPR is an arm of the Democratic Party. Have you ever listened to Our Body Politic?

Maybe so just like OAN and FoxNews are the News Arm of the MAGAGOP

Radar OReilly

pegw wrote:

Just search for "Inflation Reduction Act"... (show quote)

J Anthony Loc: Connecticut

Wonttakeitanymore wrote:

You have to be blind to compare poop with fantastic but just another zombie commenting

Sure, Trump's fantastic. I'm sure you actually believe that too.

4430 Loc: Little Egypt ** Southern Illinory

Coos Bay Tom wrote:

Minimum wages have increased and helped a lot of the working poor.

Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 would increase wages for at least 17 million people, but also put 1.4 million Americans out of work, according to a study by the Congressional Budget Office released on Monday.

A phase-in of a $15 minimum wage would also lift some 900,000 out of poverty, according to the nonpartisan CBO. This higher federal minimum could raise wages for an additional 10 million workers who would otherwise make sightly above that wage rate, the study found.

Potential job losses were estimated to affect 0.9 percent of workers, the CBO wrote, adding: "Young, less educated people would account for a disproportionate share of those reductions in employment."

Here in Illinory it's $13 and we still are finding it hard to get people to want to work

XXX Loc: Somewhere north of the Mason-Dixon

4430 wrote:

Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by... (show quote)

Raising minimum wages in my area wouldn't helping a single darn thing. I already get well over 30 an hour and many businesses are hiring at 25 starting wage with no experience! Many of these jobs only require like a 9 th grade education at the most and they still can't get help. Nope raising minimum wage wouldn't help a thing except put already high priced items through the roof!

J Anthony Loc: Connecticut

XXX wrote:

Raising minimum wages in my area wouldn't helping a single darn thing. I already get well over 30 an hour and many businesses are hiring at 25 starting wage with no experience! Many of these jobs only require like a 9 th grade education at the most and they still can't get help. Nope raising minimum wage wouldn't help a thing except put already high priced items through the roof!

If our Congress and Treasury gave a s*** and actually knew what they were doing, there are ways to raise peoples' pay while at the same time keeping prices stable. But they don't, which is why we are subjected constantly to the lie that paying people enough to live on would hurt the economy. It's nonsense.

4430 Loc: Little Egypt ** Southern Illinory

Coos Bay Tom wrote:

Still we want a leader with a magic that will eliminate wars - our social ills and illegal aliens . Good luck to everyone with all that .

There wasn't any wars under Trump and he was doing all he could to tackle the illegal aliens and thanks to the Democrats was stopped when Biden was installed in the WH .

There will Never be any leader that can eliminate our socials ills since we are as a nation in a period of moral decay Prayer has been booted out of schools and drag queens lbgt have invaded schools, libraries and Churches and secular humanistic ideologist is prevailing with the invasion of boys pretending they are girls so they can beat biological women in sports and invade their rest and locker rooms !

This only happens when people and their political leaders are morally bankrupt !

J Anthony Loc: Connecticut

4430 wrote:

There wasn't any wars under Trump and he was doing... (show quote)

I have no problem acknowledging that there were no major military escalations during Trump's term, but bombs continued to drop in the ME everyday during those years, and his attempt to pull Iran into it was no small thing. So this notion that Trump is a "peace president" is kind of laughable, there hasn't been any president sine JFK that made any serious attempt to reign in the military/CIA, and look what happened there.
As for moral decay, that's a more complicated issue. Forcing your religious beliefs onto others is never a good idea.

4430 Loc: Little Egypt ** Southern Illinory

XXX wrote:

Raising minimum wages in my area wouldn't helping a single darn thing. I already get well over 30 an hour and many businesses are hiring at 25 starting wage with no experience! Many of these jobs only require like a 9 th grade education at the most and they still can't get help. Nope raising minimum wage wouldn't help a thing except put already high priced items through the roof!

WalMart distribution center here have a really Large sign at the opening advertising pay up to $30 an hr

XXX Loc: Somewhere north of the Mason-Dixon

J Anthony wrote:

If our Congress and Treasury gave a s*** and actually knew what they were doing, there are ways to raise peoples' pay while at the same time keeping prices stable. But they don't, which is why we are subjected constantly to the lie that paying people enough to live on would hurt the economy. It's nonsense.

One thing that did not help was the government handouts. It all but ruined the economy. People stopped working but had money to buy. Since no one was working the products became scarce.