Where are you on the political compass?

[SamuelRSmith]

EdHieron said:

People that work 40 hours each week should have decent healthcare packages and enough money to either enjoy themselves by being able to send their hard earned money on enjoyable leisure activities or enough time and money to send themselves to school or some type of training program to better themselves rather than having to be the wage slaves that they are now.  It keeps employees happier, their morale up, and it makes them more productive than the current model of make your pitiful $15,000  a year, pay for the company's crappy insurance plan, and then come nack and work your back breaking, soul destroying job again tomorrow.

If the employers can afford to buy 4 or 5 houses and 2 or 3 Jaguars a year, then the employees should at least be able to buy their families nice Thanksgiving and Christmas Dinners, to take their kids to the movies or somewhere nice every weekend, to be able to buy them nice presents for Christmas ( like the latest video game consoles ), and to be able to afford decent automobiles when they need them  $25,000.00 with prices for goods and services as they are now would allow them to do most of that rather than the current models in place at McDonald's and Wal~Mart.

Like I said before, learn economics. Perhaps study some history, too. Look at how people have lived throughout most of history, up until the last couple hundred years or so. I'll give you a clue: in crippling poverty. Throughout most of human history, the struggle was about just trying to find enough to eat. It wasn't about receiving top-notch healthcare, travelling every weekend, or buying the latest video consoles.

The two companies you slate in your post, McDonald's and Wal-Mart... Wal-Mart throws out any fruits and vegetables that are off-fresh simple because customers do not want to see them, they're put off by it. You understand that? We've gone from a world where people are constantly hungry, to a world where we throw out food for being less-than-perfect. McDonald's will provide you with a cheeseburger with several hundred calories in it, for about a dollar... in about 35 seconds.

With the policies you propose, Wal-Mart and McDonald's wouldn't even be able to exist. You understand that? It won't be that you'll suddenly have a load of employees on $25k. It'll be that you suddenly have hundreds of thousands more people unemployed. It'll be that you'll suddenly have millions of people not being able to benefit from the services that Wal-Mart and McDonald's provide.

(fyi - minimum wage McDonald's worker right here).