Yeah, again admirable, but unrealistic.
“I think the CDC...made a mistake"
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I think Fox News should be pulled off the air because it is posing an overt danger to public health.
Why? I have no problem.
BTW, the new stations have about 5 feet of counter for all your goods.
Why? I have no problem.
BTW, the new stations have about 5 feet of counter for all your goods.
Oh wow. My Walmart is different. If I bring too many items, I'd have to stack them up carefully like Jenga, watching it wobble back and forth.
Sorry I pissed you off but the fact remains you're using the same logic as the Trumpers to "Make America Great Again" by returning to 1950s tech.
Better to focus on how to better educate our youth than in forcing private business to hire minimum wage workers for $35K/year.
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We can save a whole bunch of them if we’d close the damned border but we probably differ there too.
I rotate them through the cart. There isn't enough counter space for me to bag everything outside the cart with the old stands. Sure, when I have an entire cartful of small items, I'll go to a checkout counter but if the lines are long, I'll still stay with the self-checkout.
The new counters are much easier. You can see they kept a few of the older ones on the side.
Walls aren't the answer either since they are also backwards thinking.
Why not require all employees to pass E-verify? Why not require all those who check into hotels, rent apartments or buy houses to prove residence as part of their credit check? Why not start locking up employers or renters who violate the rules?
Which is easier: Imprisoning a few thousand asshole Americans for crimes or rounding up 12M illegals?
The #1 cause of illegal immigration in the past 40 years was the Great Recession. Why? No money. No one was hiring so the illegals self-deported. Work smarter, not harder.
Good luck.
Sorry, I’m not pissed off, I’ve just been involved in efforts to get better education and jobs for our youths for a long time, but Americans just aren’t interested. Republicans fight it with every vote they cast. The latest is to demonize teachers.
The mass of unvaccinated are trumpys. They are Fox viewers and read far tight lying sites.
Agreed on the lazy and the stupid. I saw a few thousand of them attack the Capitol on 1/6. It was on the news...if you can believe it. LOL
The majority of the unemployed are white dumbasses like those who attacked the Capitol. I refuse to cater to the lazy and the stupid. https://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/...c/atoms/files/8-4-20econ-f1.png?itok=RCVjpz7b
OTOH, as a national security issue, it's better to have an educated, healthy and employed citizenry. Forcing businesses to give them $15 or $20 an hour to sweep floors when a robot does it better and cheaper is not a good solution.
A better solution is to think ahead 50 years, not back 50 years as you and the Trumpers are advocating. Educate Americans with that goal. Just like brick and mortar stores are going away, we should start thinking about brick and mortar schools and colleges too. At least upgrade them to the 21st Century.
That's a better fight and, agreed, Republicans are stonewalling. Still "busy work" is not honest. IMO, teaching people to scam the government just teaches them to be scammers, dependents and fosters a "lazy and stupid" culture....like those entitled assholes on 1/6.
The proposed-by-many $15/hour minimum wage translates to merely $30K/year. Maybe one person could live on that if they live in a low cost of living area or share a rental, but not a family with one wage earner. For many ppl in the U.S., Walmart is the largest employer in their area. Not everyone who works there is stupid or a drop-out. We have a s.i.l. who is a manager at Walmart; she has a degree in botany.
You know as well as I that's just for starters. It's like gun control; one step at a time. The Democratic Party logic is to mandate forced higher wages instead of supporting better education of Americans to obtain better jobs.
Basically, what the DNC is advocating is a nation of Trump fans sweeping floors and making a "living wage" on it forever.
And close the tunnels. Shut down the water to stop boats. Shoot down airplanes. We have spent trillions fighting drugs coming in from Mexico. Isn't it great we shut them down?
Do you really believe you can shut down the border? Then why didn't we stop the drugs for all those years?
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It's possible you could be more wrong about that, but unlikely. The Left has been pushing for more funding for schools from preschool up to college for decades. It is the RW that fights back and wants no part of it, using their mantras "I got mine so fuck the rest of you" and "socialism! Socialism everywhere!" Remember Bernie and others who want to make community college free for those qualified to attend?
I've been wrong before, but this is another case of government looking in one direction when they should be looking in another direction. The CDC (probably by direction from above) only looked at the biology of a pandemic and not the sociology.
With the minimum wage, the Democrats are only looking at raising up the wages of the poor, not their ability to earn better jobs.
Here's two scenarios:
1. Federal government mandates $15/hour minimum wage. All burger flippers, janitors and Trump fans rejoice in their new wealth. Five years later where will they be? Still flipping burgers, sweeping floors and posting conspiracy theories on Facebook?
2. Federal government moves the US education system into the 21st Century through support of library computers and national Wifi access. Educational programs are established along with testing centers (the libraries on Saturdays once a month?). Anyone who wants to earn higher education is free to access these services with a library card. Wages are established by the market.
As the nation is seeing now, there's a labor market shortage. Not for pilots, accountants and nurses, but for minimum wage labor. The pandemic hurt minimum wage workers the hardest because they can't work from home**. Businesses will raise wages to get the job done, but I expect most will mechanize much of the minimum wage chores with robot shelf stockers, checkout stands, moppers and sweepers. It's Trumpish thinking to go backwards.
Work Smarter, not Harder
**Immobile people are tied to the location of their jobs. Mobile people can live wherever they want. Which is better?
Expanded wifi access is part of Biden's infrastructure plan. So is educational funding and jobs training. Who's holding it up? Guess.
Aliens. And no not the human kind.