Do Republican business people pay low wages so that we can feel good about donating to the food pantry?
930844
They pay low wages 'cause they hate for anyone but themselves to have a good standard of living.  THey want to create a banana republic in the US where a tiny minority of rich control the multitudes of poor with union-busting, religious control & a culture that says the poor deserve low pay 'cause they're labelled as "lazy" by their rich overlords.
997650
Definitely.  the current minimum wage pays a worker around $200 for a 40-hour week.  Unless you're eating dog food, you can't live on that little money.  And there are millions of Americans who do their best.\n\nBut Congress doesn't care about poor people, so they refuse to allow them to earn a wage they can actually live on.  It's disgusting, the way the government craps on the very people who need their help the most.
708829
I agree on moral grounds. I think if you choose to root your business in American soil, you have a responsibility to till that soil. If you've set up your business in the U.S., you've just invested in the U.S, from the employees, to the community where those employees live, on up to the national economy. \n\nBy not paying your employees a living wage (which is not the same thing as a minimum wage), you've shown that you place little value on their lives and well-being. The people of America are its finest resource. So, not paying them enough to live, ultimately degrades the value of that resource in terms of health, happiness, and productivity. \n\nMuch of a resources' value is determined by the cost to produce it. The cost to produce paper includes the money spent on logging, to process it, to package it, etc. The cost to 'produce' a person is a little more hazy. But the basics I would imagine to be: food, housing, utilities, transportation, and medical coverage. These are basic human needs. Not wants. Needs. Things a full time job at $5.15 an hour do not cover. If a business cannot afford its resources, then that business should be out of business. \n\nI find it odd when people say things like low-wage workers make low-wages because they have no ambition or their lazy. We apply this survival of the fittest mentality to people, but as soon as someone says 'lets raise the minimum wage', no one applies that same survival of the fittest rationale with businesses, instead they're arguing about the stress it puts on them, and that higher wages may force them shut their doors. When did we become so dehumanized that we rally to the side of entities over people?
952144
My god we republicans still allow you to eat and go on welfare don't we. why can't you just let us take care of the money, and we will let it trickle down to you, but just enough to keep you needing more.
87675
Right here is one thing you do for community service.  Go to www.thehungersite.com\n\nIt is a totally free way to help.  The advertisers on the site send money to feed the poor.\n\n***Tell everyone you know about this!**
1105084
Why would they work harder, you are paying for their food!  It's party time!!!\n\nRemember the saying "give a man a fish..."?  Well we just gave them a fish for 6 months they don't even have to think about fishing until the government money runs out.\n\n"sstockus" & "Rense" said something very important, what is the connection?  Motivation, the government takes away their motivation to work because they do not associate work with money they associate the government giving them money for nothing.  Then they go out to work and they only make a little more for a lot more effort and many of them quit.\n\nSocial welfare programs are a crutch to keep the poor in America Lazy!\n\nI think that food stamps is actually one of the better programs (I still think it should be eliminated with the rest)  I have known people to use it but I have known a lot of people who have abused it.\n\nAnd minimum wage is not the problem (I don't think their should be a minimum wage)  Minimum wage job means minimal effort and minimal training and minimal education.  The people with those jobs think they "deserve" minimum wage regardless of how good they do so they are not good competitive workers.\n\nonly the truly worthless deadbeat employees gain from minimum wage.  \n\nIf minimum wage is so good why not make it $100 an hour?........that is the same reason that it is not good now.
681531
I have money, and I am a Spiritual Democrat.\nMost Republicans and conservative born-again Christians like keeping a lower class citizenship, paying illegal immigrants to raise their children, clean their estates, and keep their gardens growing, so they can gather, hung-over on Sunday mornings, and pray for the poor they help.
985073
It's a simple question think about it if they told the truth wouldn't it go something like " Hey you'll have a better chance of getting killed than the average person, you'll make less than minimum wage when you consider that you have to available to serve 24/7 and If you get married or already have a family you'll be putting your life on the line AND you'll still qualify for Food stamps. Oh and just to help you make the decision talk it over with your family and let them know that the Republicans have cut the amount of the Death Benefit the family will receive."\nWhen these recruiters get out of the Military you can usually find them telling some kid "No really this car was only driven to church by a little old lady on Sundays."
744629
To pay as little as possible to their employees, while keeping them reletively content.
1104400
The Republicans' official party platform has consistently been pro-business and pro-investment.  \n\nTheir official position has also always been that taxation has a stultifying effect on business and competition, so they tend to be for cutting taxes whenever possible.  They've also historically been in favor of giving tax breaks to various businesses, on the theory that this will help the overall economy in the long run by making businesses more profitable, and therefore better able to compete and grow.  Investments are taxed at a lower rate than regular income for the folks in the top income tax brackets; this encourages investment, which CAN have the effect of helping rich folks to increase their wealth.  (Poor people barely have enough money to scrape by, so they can't take advantage of long-term capital gains tax breaks.)\n\nWhen it comes to what's known as "human capital," however, it's been the Democrats who have historically been interested in investing in social programs by directly helping people (instead of assuming--as the Republicans tend to do--that a healthy business climate will have a "trickle down" effect that helps out individual people--including the economically-disadvantaged ones--in the long run).  The Democrats have used taxation as a means to attempt to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor and to directly assist economically-disadvantaged people (they do this by charging wealthy people the highest percentage-of-income on their taxes and charging poor people either very little, nothing at all, or even giving them a sort of income tax rebate [you could call it a "negative tax," since they receive money, instead of having to pay it out]).\n\nBoth sides tend to look upon one another's means of stimulating the economy with contempt.  The Republicans will rail against the fostering of a state of "dependency," as well as a lack of motivation toward self-sufficiency in "the welfare state."  But they don't apply the same principle to giving handouts to businesses--even when businesses seem to return the favor by sending jobs overseas, giving huge bonuses to their executives instead of reinvesting in and growing the business, etc.  \n\n*I* say that "Welfare is welfare, and what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander."  Both sides, I feel, have valid points.  And both sides tend to go about achieving their long-term goals using some very short-sighted methods.  If they'd both stop with the rhetoric and the spin-doctoring and work together on some realistic, long-term  solutions to our problems, we'd probably see some real progress.
984854
High economy? HAHAHA! Let's see. The democrats are trying to raise the minimal wage, this will cause business to 1. Fire more empolyees cause more unemployment. 2. Higher pricing for products. 3. Smaller businesses won't be able to make it because they won't be able to compete with the corporations. But of course you'll start restricting corporations cause more unemployment as well as a LOWER economy. So, good luck.
1167199
Of course they aren't worth it. But what can you expect from a Repug controlled congress? Easy to see where the money is going, to look at those fat *ss gluttons.\n\nAnd no, it's not fair to turn down another raise in minimum wage. Pretty soon, the working class won't even be able to afford to get to work, which will just put the most vulnerable people in society into homeless shelters, or unto the welfare rosters.\n\nThen the conservatives will bitch about the rising numbers in the welfare class, even though they will have been the ones who put them there. Too bad those f*cking hypocrites are so busy chasing oil to see that their own bullsh*t policies are shooting this country in the foot. Not just internationally, but internally.
1183102
Some church's do make contributions to their local homeless shelters, I believe. I thought of something else though; not sure it is true. Most people that go to church are conservative, more right wing. These types of people (and I'm not dissing them, sort of like this myself) believe more in hard work and picking yourself up by your bootstraps, instead of giving handouts.\n\nThere are a lot of jobs out there, for people that want to work. I would even hire someone to do some work for me, if I knew they needed the money bad enough, like for food or something.  But yes, I know the older and handicapped are needy, but most of these are taken care of by SSI and other government programs.
866005
To screw us all, of course.  \n\nFor people who claim to be "for the little guy" they sure aren't showing me anything.  \n\nI'm a far cry from wealthy, but all the "social program" garbage they push for really screws me.  Why should I work extra hard to make sure some halfwit, who did nothing more than spend ten minutes on her back, has a roof over her head?  Take the kid, and give her a card board box.  Not my problem.  \n\nHealthcare for all?  I worked hard and got a job with great health benefits.  Before that, I hadn't been to the doctor in six years, yet you didn't see trying to get my hands on someone else's paycheck to get there.  I'd lose quite a bit that I don't have to lose in a system like that.\n\nRaising the minimum wage is a joke too.  I make over minimum wage because I work hard.  I'm currently in school, which I had to wait to attend because I was a "dependent" student, yet I watched welfare bums, the same age as me get reimbursment checks because they were given too much financial aid.  Anyway, I still have two more years before I'll have a bachelor's, but I still make more than minimum wage.  If minimum wage is all your making, perhaps you should consider the possibility that something is wrong with you.  Seriously, all it takes is a little effort.  So we raise minimum wage, then what?  Businesses have to raise prices, so we're back at square one.  Almost.  Except now, between handing out raises to other employees, and the business loss due to higher prices, those of us who make more than minimum won't get raises.  Or, what about the guy who is hired somewhere at minimum wage, and works his way up to say, $7?  Isn't it a slap in his face to watch a new hire come in at a wage he worked his way up to?  \n\nThey want to see our country flooded with illegals.  I worked with a girl who's old enough to remember immigrating here legally.  She's proud to be here, and be able to say she did it the right way, but she feels insulted that these people don't have to do the same.  If your country sucks, make it better, don't come ruin ours.\n\nThey want to see this country destroyed by terrorists.  It makes me sick to watch them insult our military and sympathize with our enemy.  If you disagree with the war, that's fine, but insulting our troops is revolting.  These are men and women who have chosen to protect us all, knowing they may not come home, yet the liberals call them criminals, or stupid, or whatever else they say without thinking.  And the real criminals?  Oh yeah, they want to protect them.\n\nSo, I guess what I'm getting at is....they want to turn is into...Canada.  Now there's a scary thought.
342946
no i dont think it should be for people to lazy to get a job...why should we give people money for free
1140045
If you get any extra after paying for all that can you send me some???   I am a widow , barely making it, broke too.  I DO WORK tho, make just a quarter more than minimum wage.  Not  enough!!!
752100
Yes and yes. I could plead poverty though, if you make as little as I did this year (under 7 k) I think you can get free services, but I'm not sure.