{"id":54923,"date":"2014-09-02T11:15:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T15:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54923"},"modified":"2014-09-02T16:53:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T20:53:36","slug":"the-minimum-wage-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54923","title":{"rendered":"The minimum wage discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nYesterday being Labor Day, the President took the opportunity to shift the discussion from the myriad issues he’s facing to the minimum wage. From CBS News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“I’ve got a vision of an economy where opportunity is open to everybody who’s willing to work hard,” the president said. “I want an economy where your hard work pays off with higher wages and higher incomes and fair pay for women and workplace flexibility for parents and affordable health insurance and decent retirement benefits. I’m not asking for the moon! I just want a good deal for American workers.<\/p>\n

“…If we had a Congress that cared about policies that actually helped working people, I promise you we could get everything done that we talked about doing,” he added. “But until we have that Congress its up to us to fight for those policies.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve earned the minimum wage exactly twice in my life – when I worked at a grocery store while I was in high school and again when I worked two minimum wage jobs while I was going to college. One job was with Pinkerton as a security guard and my wages went up after I worked there 90 days. The other minimum wage job while I was in college was as a work\/study in the campus Veterans’ Affairs office – that one didn’t increase.<\/p>\n

So who are we talking about when we talk about minimum wage workers? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>, they’re only about 4.3% of the work force – the lowest number of minimum wage earners since the Bush Administration;<\/p>\n

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Most of them are in the food service industry, you know, those folks who get tips to augment their low wages;<\/p>\n

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And more than 25% of them are high school- and college-aged;<\/p>\n

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The number is so insignificant, why is the President even mentioning it, you know what with all of the other issues that he’s facing? Probably because he’s a community organizer and the other issues are hard, but this one is fairly easy – all he has to do is act like it’s more important than it really is so people think he cares. It’s all an image thing. Stopping global terrorism, the invasion on our southern border, well, that’s hard stuff. Looking like you care, well, that’s easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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