So, you think a hike in minimum wage is great?
Yeah, think again!
I hate this and people that are āsupposed to be business majorsā, have exacerbated my patience with stupidityā¦.
Yes, in theory a hike in minimum sounds great to the McDonalds person flippin burgers, or to that girl over there ringing people up at the grocery storeā¦
But I think people fail to realize that everything that sounds āgoodā comes with its own set of consequences.
Case in point, Federal minimum wage is currently $7.25 here in the states; Obama wants to make it a flat $9.00ā¦
Sound good?
Yeah it does, until it doesnāt.
Think about this, that cheeseburger that you get at McDonalds for a dollar?
That person is paid $7.25 to make that burgerā¦
If that person now has to be paid $9 an hour to make the same burger, then your $1 cheeseburger isnāt going to stay $1 anymore.
That person working on the assembly lines up in Detroit putting your āAmerican madeā cars together?
Yeah, minimum wage doesnāt affect them directly, but minimum wage is raised, these people will want more money for what they do.
That nice Ford or Chevy car/truck/Van you have just went up in price significantly.
Oh, you have a job as an assembly line worker, a telemarketer making minimum wage?
Well, hereās the thingā¦
Companies are almost always about the bottom dollar. If it is going them $9 right now to keep you sitting there doing your job and only $ 2 to have someone in India do it, guess where your job is going?
This equals a much higher unemployment rate in the United States because too many people donāt feel the need to better themselves and get educated.
Yeah, it costs a lot of money to go to college, but guess what? You get a degree or certificate of some kind, then that whole minimum wage thing is less likely to affect you directly.
I donāt think people realize that yes big box companies like Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Kroger seem like they make up the majority of the market out thereā¦ but honestly the majority of the market is small business.
The big box stores might take most of the market share, I wonāt deny that, but small business is the most dominant kind of business out there.
Those small businesses canāt absorb higher labor costs because the President doesnāt think we are paying people enough to make a hamburgerā¦
Ok, so maybe minimum wage doesnāt cover cost of living anymore.
But whose fault is that?
The same people wanting a hike in minimum wage!
If people wouldnāt have been completely ignorant and stupid by taking out loans that they knew they wouldnāt be able to make the payments for, or even if heaven forbid, people did the research on the kind of loan someone offers you before you take it.
If those things were different, and if the housing market and bankers werenāt so greedy, then we would not have this recession, insane amounts of inflation, and that $7.25 people make now to flip burgers and ātake my orderā could live pretty close to the rest of society.
No, they wonāt drive brand new nice cars, have name brand clothes, and may even have to bargain shop, but guess what?
No one ever said life would be easy, and no one ever said everything would be handed to you.
Yes, I am blind; yes I live on the government right now.
Know what Iām doing about it?
I am educating myself, bettering myself, and creating a portfolio of skills that will appeal to employers so that I can earn my money, pay taxes, and have nice things.
Trust me; the government doesnāt pay me much better than minimum wage pays Joe Blow down the street working at Burger King.
You donāt hear me screaming for increases to my Social Security check all the time!
People need to step up and learn to take responsibility for their own life, play poker with the cards you are dealt, put your big girl/boy panties on and get on with life!
All I can say is that raising the minimum wage will be negated when companies start raising prices for everything to cover that new extra labor costs, start moving jobs overseas to save on labor costs and millions of Americans are left without jobs, and everyone that called for minimum wage increases will be stuck with their thumb up their ass wondering what in the hell happened!
I mean time will be standing in my own little corner shaking my head and saying āI told you this would happen.ā
So, donāt get me wrong, people who can only do minimum wage jobs deserve to live like the rest of society, but if you make it where the minimum wage people can live like upper middle class for a bit, then the whole shit and shebang will come crashing down on all of us.
I think Iāve finished my rant for todayā¦.
Remember kids, not everything that shines is gold, sometimes itās just spray painted dog shit!
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TaTa,
Amanda Ellen