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Comment Re:Yes to Brexit (Score 2) 396

Poland has reason for those grudges. They got raped time and again by the bear and that kind of horror doesn't go away quick. The fact that Putin is grinding up the Ukraine makes it seem likely that a country whose asshole still hasn't healed from the last fucking the Russians gave them would get more than a little nervous. Hard to blame them.

Comment Re:Minimum Wage (Score 1) 1094

I've seen a lot over the 40 years I've been in the workforce. I've never seen anyone who had a skill take a minimum wage job. I've seen people have to take pay cuts and sometimes work a shitty job for a while but not a minimum wage job. I got out of the Air Force back in the 80's and worked for a few months in a warehouse. It was hot, sweaty work with crazy hours but it paid the bills. I remember we had kids come to work there and they would clock out for lunch the first day and we'd never see them again. Even though it paid twice what McDonald's paid they didn't want to work that hard.

Comment Re:Minimum Wage (Score 3, Insightful) 1094

I'm saying it's crazy to pay someone 15 dollars an hour to ask someone if they want fries with their Big Mac. Kids hold most minimum wage jobs. People start at the bottom. If you're 50 years old and you're still slinging fries and soda pop then you're just not trying. The fucking deboners at the local chicken processing plant down the road where I live make 4 dollars over minimum wage. The guy changing tires at walmart does too. Minimum wage jobs are not meant for kids or people that have zero motivation. Hell, my lawn guy makes more fucking money than I do and most of it's tax free. My daughter straight out of high school got a job at Lowes making 50 cents over minimum wage. After two months they gave here a 2 dollar raise. She left there after 6 months more and got a job at Frito Lay putting chips in a box. Stuffing boxes with chips now for nearly 15 dollars an hour and that was back in 2002. I made almost twice that but I was in my 40's then and she had much better benefits. I don't really care if they jack the minimum wage up though as I've seen it done so many times over the years. Neither side's predictions come true. The people that say it'll make things better are wrong and the people screaming it'll destroy the economy are wrong. It always balances out after a little while.

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