Politics Thread

[Caf]

Perhaps I'm too caught up in fast food and not considering the full breadth of minimum wage jobs, but I don't see jobs inhabited by high school kids getting their first taste of being in the workforce and/or bored retirees as needing to pay enough to raise a family.

Ok, but you keep making these arguments about worth, when it really doesn't matter. There are consequences to the fabric of society when unskilled labor can't make a living because they still have bills to pay. It's either them/companies or the government paying them, a hiked wage is just a rebalance. We need minimum wage jobs to be occupied and working 16 year olds aren't the solution.

You can argue that they should get a skill, but that's not a realistic path for many. If that is the mindset of the government then there are going to be a lot of poor and disgruntled people who are left in the dust of inflation.

It boggles my mind when people argue that the poor/unskilled "should just do..." a) because many do and b) there will always be populations of these people and telling them what they should have done is not a solution. Not addressing these problems lead to higher tensions and I believe wage stagnation is a big part of the unrest we've seen in the past decade.

[American X]

Oh so like when Scar appealed to the masses through empty and unrealistic promises, unified his core base through perpetual threats of violence to the opposition, ran a campaign built off fear mongering and hatred of others... He he, funny joke!

Your analogy to the Obama campaigns and administration is frighteningly accurate. Well done.

[SemajParlor]

Your analogy to the Obama campaigns and administration is frighteningly accurate. Well done.

Thanks, but my intention was to compare a cartoon loosely based on a historic fascist rise to power to a modern day fascist rise to power. Side note, the modern day guy also acts like a cartoon. Sad!

[SemajParlor]

Your analogy to the Obama campaigns and administration is frighteningly accurate. Well done.

Obama is an Angel and Trump is the devil. Any deviation from this thinking I will not accept!!!

Additionally, by pointing out Obama admin faults, this completely wipes Trump's flaws away.

[GoMuskies]

Obama is an Angel and Trump is the devil. Any deviation from this thinking I will not accept!!!

Reminds me of something amusing I saw from the Heisman presentation. Essentially, any time you've got an important decision with ethical implications to make, these two guys appear. One over each shoulder.

[Caf]

Reminds me of something amusing I saw from the Heisman presentation. Essentially, any time you've got an important decision with ethical implications to make, these two guys appear. One over each shoulder.

Here's what Johnny Manziel told Heisman winner Lamar Jackson on Saturday night

"Johnny Manziel, he was telling me a lot of positive things," Jackson said. "He told me, 'Man, have fun in college, you can only stay here a certain amount of time, have fun with it.'"

I loved this. I wonder what Tebow's advice would be.

[GoMuskies]

I wonder what Tebow's advice would be.

Don't have as much fun as Manziel did.

[paulxu]

What's with the "thumbs up" sign all the time from Trump?
And the sort of frat boy finger point of his nominees...like this one.

[ChicagoX]

On that note though, a federal minimum wage is not the best way to handle anyway unless you index to a geocode of some sorts. $31k May actually be reasonable in Seattle, but that doesn't indicate it is right in Ashland, Ky

I've always thought that the minimum wage should be tiered toward cost of living. A $15 minimum wage is likely necessary in places like Seattle and San Francisco where the cost of living is exorbitant, but in rural areas with a low cost of living, a lower wage in the $8-$10 range could be enough for a full-time worker to get by and pay bills.

[ArizonaXUGrad]

When your teenage daughter is pregnant and doctors think it will kill her then you can preach on your high horse how "all" abortion is awful. To take that choice out of the mother's hands to save her own life is terrible. I mean it literally sickens me.

Abortion in those situations are still awful. Someone is dying. But they're much more understandable.

Your lack of regard for human life is interesting to me.