Only 50% Full Time Jobs For Available Workers. 25% Of That Pay Less Than 35K Yr. Only 30% Making It

[TheMastersNemesis]

The Reagan Revolution and "Tinkle Down" economics has succeeded thanks to the GOP and its allies. Now only 30% of American workers are able to live and pay their bills. So if voters keep giving the GOP power the revolution can be even more successful. Sure Democrats are not perfect but we would still be better off as a country with them in power.

And the Dems would go left if people would vote for candidates running on pro worker (communist) policies. And that's the rub. If you are a worker and want your rights you are screamingly labeled a socialist or communist because you employer is supposed to have ALL the say. It has gotten that bad.

When are people going to wake up?

Thom Hartmann just revealed some of those numbers on his show based on an article on Alternet.

[daleanime]

1. K&R....

Too many work too hard for too little.




Excuse me while I go scream.

[taught_me_patience]

2. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease

Raise minimum wage to $15 and watch low level jobs plummet. I own a business and would be out of business within one month, should the minimum wage be raised to $15. What's better, 7 people making $10/hr or 0 people making $15?

[stillwaiting]

3. There needs to be exemptions for small businesses BUT

there should also be regulations in place that prevent small business owners from making obscene amounts of money if they can't pay their workers the national minimum wage. Small business owners shouldn't become millionaires if they can't pay their workers a living wage.

There is NO reason why Big Business can't compensate their workers the same as they do in other countries. None.

[AgingAmerican]

4. That's the failed GOP talking point

It has been disproved here and in many other countries.

[riderinthestorm]

6. I too own a small business and found paying at least $15/hour HELPS my business.

Zero staff turnover means my clients know my employees well. They know the quality and attention to detail will be there and they can rely on my employees to actually care. I haven't had an employee leave in more than 6 years so now all of them make even more than $15/hour.

My neighbor has the exact same business as me and has struggled since day one because she pays her employees like crap and her clients HATE the turnover and sloppy job they do. She even charges less than I do and is always desperate for clients while I have a waiting list, even at the higher cost.

It's one of the best things I've ever done. And I feel good knowing my employees make a living wage.

Win win.

[Egnever]

12. Absolutely win win

Quality service stands out and people are willing to pay for it.

When i was younger I worked for a company that wanted smiles on their employees faces at all times and to make that happen they went out of their way to ensure the employees were treated well. It was easy to be happy and the place was always packed.

After a couple of years the original owner sold the business and the bean counters descended. Benefits were cut as well as other employee compensations and it became just another grind job. Ten years later and a business that was once thriving is now a ghost town and the employees walk around like drones. I expect a bankruptcy filing sometime in the not distant future.

[Youdontwantthetruth]

5. No future for America's youth, they are wasting their time looking for good paying jobs in America

The future is borderless

Me I only have 10 more years of work then done and the odds of me staying here in retirement are slim.

Stay and most will be trapped in one low wage job after another, that is Americas future, even if Hillary win in 16, she will do nothing to change it either.

[TheMastersNemesis]

8. I Will Sometimes Joke About Kids Having To Look Overseas To People I Know.

But it is not a joke really. The future is looking internationally. And what is happening is only the beginning. In a way I think big business has abandoned American. Workers here do not seem to get it. And the GOP largely started this trend. The Dems tended to follow because big business and money threatened to lower the boom on them if they didn't.

I has all been about corporate control. And sadly we are no longer the main market for multinationals. Their focus is on the global economy and America is expendable. That reason is the main reason why corporations want to get rid of US labor laws.

[B Calm]

7. The company my wife works for only hires temps from these sleazy employment

agency's. They use to hire you full time, but not anymore.

[JDPriestly]

9. Do you have a link. I looked at Alternet and did not identify the article. Thanks.

[TheMastersNemesis]

11. Alternet - David DeGraw - The Coming Revolution ---- Under Economy

[closeupready]

13. Here's a link to Part III, and

there are links to Parts I and II underneath the headline:

http://www.alternet.org/economy/coming-revolution-evolutionary-leap-or-descent-chaos-and-violence

[JDPriestly]

15. Thanks. Bookmarked.

[Egnever]

10. Hmm much as I hate the republican theories of economics

The idea that 30% of Americans can't afford to pay their bills sounds ridiculous.

Would love to see that data.

[spanone]

14. and the voters WILL continue to give them power....go figure.