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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not country’s job to fix. They should have saved more when they were young.[/quote]

Hard to "save more" when almost half of Americans only have access to low wage jobs that don't pay enough to save anything.[/quote]
So raise the minimum wage and put more people out of work? That won't help.[/quote]

When an employer employs someone for 40 hours out of every week it's no longer relevant what the employer thinks that person is worth paying.  When you take up that much of someone's time you become responsible for their livelihood and have a fundamental responsibility to pay them a living wage.

Employers should be paying living wages.  The fact that taxpayers are picking up the slack for what companies should be paying by providing benefits like food stamps to low wage workers amounts to massive corporate welfare.[/quote]

It’s actually better in the long run for companies to provide job training rather than inflated wages.
If you give a man a fish....

Just say no to hand outs. Say yes to hand ups![/quote]

Living wages and job training are not mutually exclusive. And living wages aren’t inherently inflated wages. Across the board wages for all but the top earners have stagnated in this country. CEOs and thier directs get inflated wages; the rest of the population gets table scraps and that’s accelerated under GOP leadership.

Interesting to see all the Ayn Randian contempt for the working and middle class on this thread.[/quote]
What's with this "contempt for the working class" crap? Are you so tied to the idea that just forcing employers to pay double will solve problems? It will create problems. Jobs will be lost, and we'll have even more people dependent on the taxpayer for FULL support.

What woud you rather have? Walmart earners needing food stamps to bridge the gap, or moving them out of jobs entirely so that they need full,support from taxpayers? At least with the former, they're helping support themselves to some extent.[/quote]

Whether people will lose their employment depends a lot on what sector they are in.  Better pay means more disposable income, which means more spending and consumerism, which means more jobs.  SOME jobs may be automated but they will be automated anyhow.[/quote]

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