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Originally Posted by KSig RC
Thanks for the platitudes . . . do these statements really mean anything?
Let's discuss the reality of the 'free market' - few people live at minimum wage as it is, and those who do are generally in areas with a ridiculously low cost of living. Employers will pay what they need to in order to attract employees, and "living wage" laws most likely foist the problem onto the backs of the lower middle class - it's not really the grand "top-down" or "bottom-up" ideal that people envision, and it's essentially partial socialism without any sort of reasonable utility.
The cost is NOT taken from the top of the chain - it's imparted on the rest of it, which affects the bottom rungs more than anything.
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Yes, they do. Go to the grocery store, and see the ridiculous prices. The highest price for a gallon of milk is over $3. A movie ticket is expensive. It's $8here in many theaters. Many seniors can't afford prescription drugs, becasue of being paid low wages. They are given a choice between medicene and food. You can guess which they chose. In my state, thousands of people were cut from TennCare and many have to find other ways to pay. That's were the decision comes to for many poor people about medicene. That's exactly what I'm talking about the buying power becoming less.
Did we not learn from Hurricane Katrina? It seems that the Republicans have not learned from it. All the Republicans care about it the rich. I'm not saying that they don't give to the poor. It's just that they want to get greedy.
It's true that many people are paid more that the minimum wage, but the income still put them below the poverty line.