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So, if you believe in the Chamber’s analysis, and let’s pretend we do for the moment, 25 percent of the American workforce makes less than $300 a week.

So look. Pierce’s larger point is a good one. But he appears to have written a piece that purports that the $300 isn’t a supplemental benefit, but the entire benefit. The $300 is an enhancement.

Unemployment + the supplement = enough to live on, and more than they would make at their old jobs.

 

How about a dropped transmission away?

 

Exactly.

And sorry about the grammatical crash and burn in that post.

 

The headline just congers so many questions yet is only shocking it isn’t what you think it is

 

I'm late to this, but I couldn't let this pass:

Maybe don't use WalMart as your example in your argument that there's a problem with the workforce.

WalMart treats its employees like shit. We're talking about a company founded by a man who openly talked about his desire to keep wages and benefits low.

Sam Walton - "I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment."

Inside | Is Wal-Mart Good For America? | FRONTLINE | PBS

We're talking about a company with a history of class action lawsuits over withheld wages, employees forced to work off the clock, child labor law violations, and more.

USATODAY.com - Wal-Mart to face employee suit in Missouri

We're talking about a company that stopped offering healthcare to a large portion of its workers and asked the government to pick up the tab.

Walmart's New Health Care Policy Shifts Burden To Medicaid, Obamacare | HuffPost

And then, a year later, it cut benefits for even more workers.

Wal-Mart cuts health benefits for 30,000 part-timers

Just sayin', maybe WalMart has trouble keeping good employees because it's a festering cesspool of rotten fecal matter. And using that hellhole as a barometer of the workforce's supposed lack of work ethic is disingenuous as fuck.

 

Agreed.

We prepared the work force for a post-industrial world when the world indeed still needs people who do hard, laborious, mundane work.

As David Foster Wallace pointed out in the Pale King, the greatest asset a worker can now have in the modern world is the willingness, the ability, the mentality to do the menial, boring, hard work that often needs to be done.

We created a whole lot of people who want to be queen bee and no one who wants to be the worker bee.

 

This is about a 2 on the significance scale but an 11 on the what's wrong wrong with the world scale.
Bastards like Trump always get away with stuff while people who are generally good folks don't.

When former President Donald Trump heads to his New Jersey golf club for the summer, he will leave his Palm Beach home with the legal right to live there.
Turning aside arguments from neighbors who claim that Trump is not permitted to live at Mar-a-Lago based on a Declaration of Use agreement he signed with the town in 1993, Palm Beach Town Attorney John Randolph concluded that the agreement doesn't specifically prohibit the ex-president from residing at the club, Town Manager Kirk Blouin told the Daily News this week.
The 1993 agreement allowed Trump to convert the private residence into a private club.
Randolph also advised that under the town's zoning code, private clubs can provide living quarters to a "bona fide employee."
Under evidence provided to the town, Trump is a bona fide employee of Mar-a-Lago, Randolph concluded.

 

Businessman can't be forced to make gay cake

Different businessman has to be forced to publish rantings of madman which are all fake

 

Higher than a 2 because of the after affects.

 

Great premise for a show on MTV, or Fox.

 

My nephew works at Wal-Mart stocking shelves. He makes $16/hr and $24/hr on Sundays. It’s a helluva first job for a 16-year-old.

I see local restaurant owners whining they can’t get teenagers to work take a job working for less than $10/hr.

 

Where I work makes darn near $30 an hour after 18 months, gold-plated insurance, profit-sharing. I have 21-year olds with nothing but sub-par high school educations on my line whining about not being paid enough.

I can’t help but think that in 2008 when I entered the workforce during the Great Recession that I’d have gnawed off an arm — my own or someone else’s — for a $30 an hour job.