President Obama calls for the minimum wage to be set at $9 dollars an hour. What moron beside this president thinks you can raise a family on $9 an hour?

i like cake. whats the problem? munster, i am not sure if the post you commented on was mine or not. either way, the narrative i told is true and just like not so many years ago when the credit cards and cash was flowing, people spent and borrowed well beyond their means without any concern for their future financial state. while education is a great tool to have, this day and time we have the best educated unemployed in recent history. fred can correct me on this but i think that there has never been a better time to be a student when considering the educational opportunities that are avaiable. since the focus on jobs after the education is concern that must be addressed by fostering the climate and availability of less-impeded resources for these recent graduates to realize that properity and personal enrichment can be achieved by investing in job creation for not only themselves and others. do you not agree this would be a positive?

suddenly not be enough. as you will notice, the mere suggestion has prompted many to proclaim it is not enough and it is no even implemented or being seriously considered. raising the minimum wage is not the solution to the overall problem and is a non-starter.

scrappile, you touched on a variable that not many people mention or consider. the church that i used to attend sent food and clothing to communities where the jobs have either moved or ceased to exist. it dawned on me that, although what the church did was very kind and charitable, it did nothing to change their future in a positive way except for that moment. my suggestion was to put our efforts into relocation and employment. our area still has and have a wide variety of employment opportunities for those so inclined. all of this had promise in my mind. the problem....their refusal to leave their "dirt" even though it did not provide for their families needs and kept them in a perpetual need for charity from others just to get from day to day. along with the freedom to move forward comes the freedom to remain staus quo or even regress. such is the nature of freedom. i feel certain that any thinking person would agree that as soon as $9.00 became the minimum, it would sud

Br Right: I can only answer in the way I see happening around these hills and hollows, Do you know how many people are trying to raise families on less than 9$ an hour, lets not be blind about this. In this area of depressed wages it is either work for less or travel to work for more. In Morgan co. they commute the farthest of any workers in the state, their sense of family and love of their little piece of dirt will never let them move. and pre ronnie it was one of the few places where you could go from high school to livable wages.

Dear scrappile: are you the other one when I asked the question: What moron beside this president thinks you can raise a family on $9 an hour?

Again, while folks like Romney and Paul Ryan (and local retros like the Stiff and rocker) like to call ANY kind of progressive reform "socialism", the system they seem to be proposing is called "feudalism"!

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Be right: many of your thought persuasion think there should be no minimum wage, agree, perhaps it is time to go back to endentured sevitude, or maybe the richest nation on earth should bring back slavery, it is still in existance on parts of the globe, so lets try that again. Beam them up Scottie, oh yeah the chief engineer wouldnt work for minimum wage. Ahead full No.1 leave them in the 19th century

When Romney was waxing poetically at The Get over it your poor convention, he talked grandly about a man who had lost his 22$ an hour job, and was working two jobs, each paid him 9$ an hour, it was oblivious to him the fact that now the man was working 80 hrs. for 720 a week, when he was working 40 hrs for 880 a week. THIS IS WHAT AMERICA HAS BECOME, work twice as long for a little over half as much, meanwhile Romney walks away from millions in debt owed by companies he raided with millions in his pockets, leaving shareholders holding the worthless shares and workers holding nothing not even their dignity and self worth from having a job.

I see that rocker is also stuck back in the 1950s or 1960s when "minimum-wage" earnings were what youngsters like myself made when I worked my way through college via $1.25 an-hour part-time jobs. NOWAAYS, thanks to runaway greed, about 55% of adults work at one or more minimum-wage jobs ... Of course, I have doubts that retros like Stiff and rocker EVER worked for minimum-wages - not when they probably received a "start-up" bequest from "daddy" or "mommy" to get into business ... Remember when Romney advised unemployed young people to "borrow money from their parents" and go into business? Good grief!

Stiffy is blowing hard today, but it all "boils" down to the fact that this delusional soul still hasn't figured out why Mitt Romney and the "Ayn Randians" lost the last election ... "It's the economy, stupid!" ... Amid all the whining and name-calling, the Stiff and his playmates STILL fail to tell us what "benefits" that supply-side (aka "trickle-down") economics has produced for middle-class or lower income workers in the USA! Corporate profits and productivity have been on an upward spiral since 1981, but wages have remained stagnant ... Of course, it stands to reason that "Zombieman" (aka "Working Stiff") would prefer "Voodoo Economics" over common-sense!

I read through the jobs bill that Fred mentions and it looks like 60% of the cost goes to things other than job creation. Also, a big portion is said to protect union jobs which is a swell idea but you should except jobs bill to create jobs for the most part. Maybe Reid and the president should stop campaigning and put together a bill that was 100% funded for job creation and cut the pork. That way it would pass. It time to lead , not campaign.

Good moaning y'all! I see the forces for good are out rockin the comment boards. Good job!

oneill - in case you didn't know the minimum wage is meant to be a "training" wage with the idea being a person moves UP the ladder into better wages. In the world of wages not everyone gets a trophy. You actually have to work for it and prove yourself.

The market should determine the rate. Not morons like obama and the dumbokrats in congress.

WORKINGSTIFF, unfortunately there are many that make a pretty good living out of telling and convincing others how victimized they are and that someone owes them. i see where J.J. Jr. and his wife have come clean about their evil ways. maybe the Rev. J.J. senior will take a note from that playbook and come clean. i doubt it. the money right now is too good and the media will cover his backside. quick question..... who has the better do? Rev. Al Sharpton or The Honorable Don King. i am voting King all the way.

fred i enjoy sheldon from "The Big Bang" theory as well. i still find your business model of an individual or group that invest and build their company for the sole purpose to support the general populace, all the while being subject to said employees infinite determination and subsequent control of the amount of profit and compensation in which they are entitled to earn. it certainly sounds a bit like a government welfare program in which you, at this time, in your life may be well versed. quite possibly you would entertain taking your taxpayer subsidies along with any investments you may have accrued and start an enterprise right there in marietta. it would be a great study of your business model. oh and by the way, please consult your employees before taking any compensation...you do not wish to appear greedy.

good morning moderation. i obviously meant armycorp. thanks for the alert. i hope that armycorp understands the mistake was not intentional. it must have been a brain and finger miscommunication.

Thank you,Fred

Also Sticky, does your short-term memory go back further than January, 2009? If so, you might recall the Bush-era failed "trickle-down" policies that led to the collapse of the American economy since September, 2008 ... "Barry" has done a pretty good job trying to fix what Bush and Cheney created by starting two unfunded wars and installing unfunded tax breaks for their wealthy friends. Of course, the fixing process has been slow. Wanna know why? Because the Ayn Rand wingnuts in Congress have held every jobs bill that has been proposed hostage in their push to make the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy permanent. Duh! Stick - Is there a big bubble over your neighborhood in Dayton that prevents you from viewing the rest of the world?

perpetuate some kind of "master race" at the expense of all others. Oh, now I remember! They were the FASCIST governments in Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy that promoted these views (which were admired, I believe, by novelist Ayn Rand). Tell the Stiff when he shows up! I don't think that his limited education in history covered that information!

@Sticky - What part of the real world don't you live in? Yes, when you and I were starting out, most minimum-wage jobs were held by youngsters starting out. When I worked my way through college in the 1960, I had several jobs that paid $1.25 an hour. However, in the "greed-is-good" society that your Republican friends have promoted since the 1980s, more and more older Americans have minimum-wage jobs. Some work at two or more part-time jobs to make ends meet ... Some people I know who work at low-paying jobs have college degrees ... Of course, in the "Atlas Shrugged" world inhabited by idiots like Paul Ryan and Ted Cruze, these folks are "lazy bums" who "don't apply themselves" that should not be allowed to have families or raise children. Hmmm! I seem to remember another political group that wanted to decide who should have kids and who shouldn't. That political entity thrived on slave-labor, exterminated minorities and the poor, and wanted to