| aikohualda said: stupid... yeah let's pay $15 for high schoolers.... that would make them want to finish college.... |
Not all fast food workers are in high school. MOST fast food workers are NOT in high school. Minimum wage is where people try to raise families, because they have no other choice. And you know what happens? THE GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZES THEM. YOU pay for their food, their housing, through TAXES! WE ALL pay for McDonald's CEO's to rake in the cash off their minumum wage workers because they don't have to give them decent wages.
Even if they were high school students, your argument still fails miserably. Just 2 or 3 decades ago students would work through summer to pay for college. That isn't even remotely possible any more. Entry level jobs used to pay enough for a person to live without government assistance, even right out of high school. People still went to school!
And even those who do go to college and get an education get this: No guarantee of a decent job, and lots of debt.
People who want full time work settle for multiple part-time jobs and those who want part time jobs get left out because they lack experience.
This economy is seriously f'd up, at it's core. And I certainly blame the conservatives and their inconcievably ridiculous "trickle-down" BS. Everything keeps trickling UP. Can't you see that?
