Minimum Wage

AlphaFrog · #1 08-17-2006, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Rollergirl2001

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.

I know you don't understand, but most of this paragraph actually supports what KSig RC is saying. If you raise min. wage, that $3 gallon of milk is suddenly going to be $5, and that $8 movie is going to be $12. Now, not only are the people who were making $5.15 struggling, but the people who are making $7 are now stuggling too.

PM_Mama00 · #2 08-17-2006, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Rollergirl2001

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.
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I know you don't understand, but most of this paragraph actually supports what KSig RC is saying. If you raise min. wage, that $3 gallon of milk is suddenly going to be $5, and that $8 movie is going to be $12. Now, not only are the people who were making $5.15 struggling, but the people who are making $7 are now stuggling too.

Not to mention, but if you can barely afford food, then why are you going for the most expensive gallon of milk? And why are you going to the movie theater when you can rent the movie for way cheaper when it comes out on video?

I'm making $8 at one job, and $10 at the other. I work a total of maybe 3 days a week. I could survive on my own if I didn't have a car, insurance, paid for BC and a pretty expensive phone bill every month. I could probably have a decent apartment with a roomate, maybe nothing special to it, but a roof over my head and a job that I can work my way up on or just get experience for another job. If you're making minimum wage, or around what I'm making (which amounts to horsecrap) maybe you should skip out on that $8 movie and buy yourself a $1something gallon of milk. It's all about budgeting wisely.

AlphaFrog · #3 08-17-2006, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

If you're making minimum wage, or around what I'm making (which amounts to horsecrap) maybe you should skip out on that $8 movie and buy yourself a $1something gallon of milk. It's all about budgeting wisely.

Aldi's = broke person's best friend.

valkyrie · #4 08-17-2006, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

If you're making minimum wage, or around what I'm making (which amounts to horsecrap) maybe you should skip out on that $8 movie and buy yourself a $1something gallon of milk. It's all about budgeting wisely.

Unless that movie is Snakes on a Plane, in which case it's totally okay.

Drolefille · #5 08-17-2006, 02:31 PM

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preciousjeni · #6 08-17-2006, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by valkyrie

Unless that movie is Snakes on a Plane, in which case it's totally okay.

LOL!

Rollergirl2001 · #7 08-17-2006, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Not to mention, but if you can barely afford food, then why are you going for the most expensive gallon of milk? And why are you going to the movie theater when you can rent the movie for way cheaper when it comes out on video?

I'm making $8 at one job, and $10 at the other. I work a total of maybe 3 days a week. I could survive on my own if I didn't have a car, insurance, paid for BC and a pretty expensive phone bill every month. I could probably have a decent apartment with a roomate, maybe nothing special to it, but a roof over my head and a job that I can work my way up on or just get experience for another job. If you're making minimum wage, or around what I'm making (which amounts to horsecrap) maybe you should skip out on that $8 movie and buy yourself a $1something gallon of milk. It's all about budgeting wisely.

I'm afraid that you misinterpret what I said. I'm not saying to go for the expensive milk. What I meant is that things are getting expensive, thanks to inflation and the weaseling of the Bush administration. I don't remember a gallon of the most expensive milk being that high. BTW, the cheapest gallon of milk in my area is just over $2.25. Even if a person were to budget wisely, he (she) might come up on the short end of the stick when it comes to getting essentials. When a person has to get gas, the station with the cheapest gas price may be a 5 or even 10 minute drive as opposed to another station that is a 2 minute drive.

AlphaFrog · #8 08-17-2006, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Rollergirl2001

I'm afraid that you misinterpret what I said. I'm not saying to go for the expensive milk. What I meant is that things are getting expensive, thanks to inflation and the weaseling of the Bush administration

Thanks to inflation. What do you think raising min wage will do??

INFLATION

bluefish81 · #9 08-17-2006, 06:22 PM

As far as minimum wage goes, aren't some small businesses exempt from having to pay minimum wage, depending on how much they make or size or something? One of my summer jobs back in high school was at the hometown grocery store (employed 5 people) and they didn't pay me federal minimum wage.

And as far as cost of items goes, I'm no expert, but my guess would be that some of the reason that items might be going up in the stores could be in part, due to gas prices. A majority of your goods arrive via semi, and diesel has gone up in price over the past couple of years which has causes shipping prices to go up. Maybe I'm completely off target, but I'm going to bet that the cost for that is getting passed on to the consumer.