Minimum wage

October 28th, 2021 at 1:28:21 PM permalink
ams288
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Honestly, the way the labor market is right now, do we even need to raise the minimum wage?

Anyone trying to hire someone right now at minimum wage is not going to have any luck.

I’ve used this example before: there is a pizza place near me, sign in the window says they are hiring starting at $11/hr. Less than a mile down the street is a White Castle, sign out front says they are hiring at $15/hr. If you are an unskilled worker who needs a job, which are you choosing? (The pizza place has since had to cut their hours WAY back - I think they close at like 3pm on weekdays!)
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October 28th, 2021 at 1:29:36 PM permalink
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Quote: rxwine
And since he keeps bringing it up I posted a link to a porn site so he could see for himself that transgendered were having sex with men.

I only wish I could post such direct facts to all arguments.


But the question was would YOU have sex with a guy who now claims to be a woman, not someone on a porn site. Porn sites have all kinds of weirdos. You have yet to answer if you would go with a guy claiming to be a woman.

You cannot post such direct facts because you do not have them just "feelings" same as liberals always only have.

You can still answer if YOU would have sex with one. Of course you will not answer because you have backed yourself into a corner defending them.
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October 28th, 2021 at 1:31:04 PM permalink
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Quote: ams288
Honestly, the way the labor market is right now, do we even need to raise the minimum wage?

Anyone trying to hire someone right now at minimum wage is not going to have any luck.

I’ve used this example before: there is a pizza place near me, sign in the window says they are hiring starting at $11/hr. Less than a mile down the street is a White Castle, sign out front says they are hiring at $15/hr. If you are an unskilled worker who needs a job, which are you choosing? (The pizza place has since had to cut their hours WAY back - I think they close at like 3pm on weekdays!)


Exactly. That's precisely why there is a Minimum Wage in the first place, so that people cannot pay wages in weak labor markets that are all but objectively exploitative. Ideally, almost nobody would ever make Federal MW...and, in fact, almost nobody does.
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October 28th, 2021 at 1:34:07 PM permalink
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Quote: AZDuffman
But the question was would YOU have sex with a guy who now claims to be a woman, not someone on a porn site. Porn sites have all kinds of weirdos. You have yet to answer if you would go with a guy claiming to be a woman.

You cannot post such direct facts because you do not have them just "feelings" same as liberals always only have.

You can still answer if YOU would have sex with one. Of course you will not answer because you have backed yourself into a corner defending them.


Suppose his answer is, "No," what about his position would that make inconsistent? I'll answer, "No," at least, not any of them that I have ever met...and I don't foresee meeting one with whom I would. I've never met a 100 year old biological woman that I'd have sex with, either, but those are definitely women...not just guys that I am calling women to be polite and encouraging that everyone affords the same rights to to be fundamentally decent.
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October 28th, 2021 at 1:36:54 PM permalink
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If only.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2018/cb18-tps03.html

"Approximately two-thirds (69.3 percent) of custodial parents who were due child support received some payments from noncustodial parents, while only 43.5 percent reported receiving the full amount of child support due"

"Of the 1.6 million custodial parents with incomes below the poverty level who were supposed to receive child support in 2015, 39.2 percent received full payments."

"https://brandongaille.com/23-deadbeat-dads-statistics/" There's just to many myriads of story's to post here. And many are conflicting. I was told [when I was paying child support] that at one time or other, as many as 85% of dads not in the household didn't pay cp or did not pay on time or the total amount ordered.

The statistics on missing dads and deadbeat dads should be added to any sex education classes taught in schools. Not claiming guys are bad, but the statistics say most absent fathers won't pay child support like they are supposed to. And there is really a lack of any enforcement to compel non paying ex spouses to pay up on time. Many of the single mothers I've spoken with think of child support after a few years of separation as a bonus payment because they get the subsidy so rarely.

IMO, fathers need to be named on birth certificates and there needs to be stricter enforcement on non paying spouses be they men or women. AFAIC, if you owe child support and aren't working or looking for work on the week ends, you may as well be in jail, or on a road gang, helping the state support your spawn.

rant over


You'll have to take that up with the Government of the State of Oregon. There was a section there for how much Court Ordered Child Support is monthly, so that has an impact on the SNAP benefits. It is they, not I, who are making the assumption that the mothers see 100% of the court ordered amount.
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October 28th, 2021 at 1:38:38 PM permalink
rxwine
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It’s a faulty proposition. If some men won’t do “A: doesn’t mean all men wouldn’t do “A”
You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?
October 28th, 2021 at 1:39:22 PM permalink
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Which is why it was easily disproved with a porn link.
You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?
October 28th, 2021 at 1:41:41 PM permalink
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Quote: rxwine
It’s a faulty proposition. If some men won’t do “A: doesn’t mean all men wouldn’t do “A”


That's true. I'd probably contemplate having sex with a 100 year old woman if I were also 100 years old and physically capable of having sex.

Now, some people might suggest that a man having sex with a male-to-female transexual makes the man gay, or at least bisexual, but who really cares? I don't believe that my Johnson is attached to that guy's body, or his Johnson to my body...so what he does with his Johnson is of no concern to me.
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October 28th, 2021 at 1:47:58 PM permalink
rxwine
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Quote: Mission146
That's true. I'd probably contemplate having sex with a 100 year old woman if I were also 100 years old and physically capable of having sex.


More power to anyone who can still have sex at a 100!!!

I think breathing and walking would be enough for me at that age.
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October 28th, 2021 at 1:52:40 PM permalink
JimRockford
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Quote: Mission146
That's true. I'd probably contemplate having sex with a 100 year old woman if I were also 100 years old

That imagery is worse than a shemale porn link.
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