johnwk
02-01-2014, 10:19 AM
The destructive consequences of Obama’s proposed Minimum Wage
See: Obama to sign executive order raising minimum wage for federal contractors (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/28/obama-to-raise-federal-minimum-wage-in-executive-action-tied-to-state-union/)
”President Obama, in the first of potentially many executive actions tied to his State of the Union address, will unilaterally increase the minimum wage for workers under new federal contracts to $10.10 an hour, from $7.25, in an effort to build momentum for a minimum wage hike for all Americans.”
And tell us Mr. President, how does the federal minimum wage affect our free market system, and in particularly, inner city youth who have dropped out of High School who are not prepared to earn a living wage? Well, the most glaring example is to look at a newspaper from the 1960’s and turn to its help wanted section. To our surprise we will find countless jobs, especially in the trades [plumbing, electrical, carpentry, etc.] available as “will train“ positions. At the time, these jobs provided a second opportunity to many high school drop-outs to not only find employment, but learn a well-paying trade in the process if they were willing to buckle down and take the opportunity. Countless part time positions were available starting at about $ 1 - $1.50 an hour, but the pay was rapidly increased as the employee’s productivity increased which allowed an increase in their pay.
Unfortunately, because of today’s countless government financial requirements added to the cost of hiring a new employee in the trades, and would include Obama’s outrageous $10.10 minimum wage in addition to unemployment compensation, Social Security Payments, Medicare, etc., a business owner today who may like to hire a high school drop-out as a trainee finds the government added costs prohibitive and thus, the bottom rungs on the employment ladder have been cut off by government for many of our nation’s high school drop outs.
But there is a motive behind Obama’s proposal, and it has nothing to do with helping the unemployed or employed who have very little to offer an employer. It is obvious that Obama is once again attempting to flimflam these poor souls into believing there is free cheese, rather than providing them with a way to learn how to make cheese and become independent in the process. Were we not warned against dependency by our Founding Fathers?
A POWER OVER A MAN's SUBSISTENCE AMOUNTS TO A POWER OVER HIS WILL ____ Hamilton, No. 79 Federalist Papers
JWK
If we can make 51 percent of America’s population dependent upon an Obama, welfare, food stamp, section 8 housing, college loan check, and now free Obamacare along with FREE BACON (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI8HRGWKCRc), we can blackmail them for their vote, keep ourselves in power and keep the remaining portion of America’s productive population enslaved to pay the bills ____ Obama’s Marxist Free Stuff Party, which is designed to establish a federal plantation and redistribute the wealth which wage earners, business and investors have worked to create.
See: Obama to sign executive order raising minimum wage for federal contractors (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/28/obama-to-raise-federal-minimum-wage-in-executive-action-tied-to-state-union/)
”President Obama, in the first of potentially many executive actions tied to his State of the Union address, will unilaterally increase the minimum wage for workers under new federal contracts to $10.10 an hour, from $7.25, in an effort to build momentum for a minimum wage hike for all Americans.”
And tell us Mr. President, how does the federal minimum wage affect our free market system, and in particularly, inner city youth who have dropped out of High School who are not prepared to earn a living wage? Well, the most glaring example is to look at a newspaper from the 1960’s and turn to its help wanted section. To our surprise we will find countless jobs, especially in the trades [plumbing, electrical, carpentry, etc.] available as “will train“ positions. At the time, these jobs provided a second opportunity to many high school drop-outs to not only find employment, but learn a well-paying trade in the process if they were willing to buckle down and take the opportunity. Countless part time positions were available starting at about $ 1 - $1.50 an hour, but the pay was rapidly increased as the employee’s productivity increased which allowed an increase in their pay.
Unfortunately, because of today’s countless government financial requirements added to the cost of hiring a new employee in the trades, and would include Obama’s outrageous $10.10 minimum wage in addition to unemployment compensation, Social Security Payments, Medicare, etc., a business owner today who may like to hire a high school drop-out as a trainee finds the government added costs prohibitive and thus, the bottom rungs on the employment ladder have been cut off by government for many of our nation’s high school drop outs.
But there is a motive behind Obama’s proposal, and it has nothing to do with helping the unemployed or employed who have very little to offer an employer. It is obvious that Obama is once again attempting to flimflam these poor souls into believing there is free cheese, rather than providing them with a way to learn how to make cheese and become independent in the process. Were we not warned against dependency by our Founding Fathers?
A POWER OVER A MAN's SUBSISTENCE AMOUNTS TO A POWER OVER HIS WILL ____ Hamilton, No. 79 Federalist Papers
JWK
If we can make 51 percent of America’s population dependent upon an Obama, welfare, food stamp, section 8 housing, college loan check, and now free Obamacare along with FREE BACON (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI8HRGWKCRc), we can blackmail them for their vote, keep ourselves in power and keep the remaining portion of America’s productive population enslaved to pay the bills ____ Obama’s Marxist Free Stuff Party, which is designed to establish a federal plantation and redistribute the wealth which wage earners, business and investors have worked to create.