Part time poverty

HEFFERNAN

Huge Member
No. Minimum wage was established by the federal government in 1938 to stabilize the post depression economy to ensure that anyone who works full time, at any skill level can feasibly survive. Look it up.
Keep believing it's 1938
It might as well be... That is the fact of why there came to be a minimum wage. People of all skill levels still need and deserve to survive. This concept of minimum wage jobs being for high school kids is a fairly new myth.

Unemployment Benefits were created to lessen the blow of losing your job and help stabilize your household as you find another job.
---- has been bastardized by seasonal employees and tweaked by people who use it as a piggy bank

Welfare was created to help down and out families provide for their children who are home bound or disabled
---- has turned into abomination that reward people to stay under the poverty levels and get more money for popping out another kid

Minimum wage may have been created for better reasons than what we have today, but pay me 15 bucks for no skill has become the fact, not the myth
 

Future

Victory Ride
Unemployment Benefits were created to lessen the blow of losing your job and help stabilize your household as you find another job.
---- has been bastardized by seasonal employees and tweaked by people who use it as a piggy bank

Welfare was created to help down and out families provide for their children who are home bound or disabled
---- has turned into abomination that reward people to stay under the poverty levels and get more money for popping out another kid

Minimum wage may have been created for better reasons than what we have today, but pay me 15 bucks for no skill has become the fact, not the myth
100 percent accurate
 
Unemployment Benefits were created to lessen the blow of losing your job and help stabilize your household as you find another job.
---- has been bastardized by seasonal employees and tweaked by people who use it as a piggy bank

Welfare was created to help down and out families provide for their children who are home bound or disabled
---- has turned into abomination that reward people to stay under the poverty levels and get more money for popping out another kid

Minimum wage may have been created for better reasons than what we have today, but pay me 15 bucks for no skill has become the fact, not the myth
Back when welfare first started you wasn't evwe allowed to have a phone in your house. Now people have cable and cellphones because it would be in humane not to have them.

They don't give people any incentive to get off of welfare
 

Future

Victory Ride
Back when welfare first started you wasn't evwe allowed to have a phone in your house. Now people have cable and cellphones because it would be in humane not to have them.

They don't give people any incentive to get off of welfare
Has Trump done anything in correcting this ... haven’t heard anything
 

Hannah-banana

Well-Known Member
Unemployment Benefits were created to lessen the blow of losing your job and help stabilize your household as you find another job.
---- has been bastardized by seasonal employees and tweaked by people who use it as a piggy bank

Welfare was created to help down and out families provide for their children who are home bound or disabled
---- has turned into abomination that reward people to stay under the poverty levels and get more money for popping out another kid

Minimum wage may have been created for better reasons than what we have today, but pay me 15 bucks for no skill has become the fact, not the myth
Good points. Many things are ruined by people taking advantage of them inappropriately. I agree.

I notice this kind of thing at work too. Some people work harder than others because some are just counting on the union to keep their job for them.

That's total BS. People should take some pride in crushing it with all of their might everyday. I'm proud to always do my best and work as hard as I can. And proud to be union.
 

zubenelgenubi

I'm a star
YES exactly! But the only way for that to be effective is by mass organization. One person refusing to work just becomes a bum.

People had to figure this out to form the first unions. Hopefully we can do it again.

There's that, but what I'm also getting at is that if you aren't going to make ends meet, why bother putting in the hours? You, and everyone with a good work ethic, are afraid of being considered lazy, a "bum", if you aren't doing everything you can. But not working under unlivable conditions is more of a protest than bumming out. That's what will effect change, refuse to participate. We have unions, and organized labor, and how's being part of one working for you? Are you getting your dues worth? Trust me, you wouldn't be the only person not working out of protest.

I'm not suggesting you really walk away, but I sure wouldn't judge you if you did. You can also simply scale back, work one part time job, and spend the rest of your time focusing on school. Apply for any assistance you can get. And if you really want a good job, go with aircraft mechanic. Do both airframe and powerplant. Manufacturers and airlines are snapping them up as soon as they finish school. And even if you didn't end up working on aircraft you will have learned almost every other trade in the process.
 
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