Trippah
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I think we all need to look at reality for a moment. Most of the manufacturing jobs have been lost to robots, who do no take vacation etc so the initial outlay is fairly quickly made up. This is in auto, coal for example. The minimum wage jobs now are in box stores, fast food stores and manual labor such as working harvests. The problem with raising the minimum wage is it only raises the costs, both to the store,farms but is passed on to the consumer. But, if, as for many in the cities and rural poverty, there are no middle class jobs available, well then you need the increased minimum wage because you can't find a better paying job with your limited skill sets. Upstate New York is big on casinos, one at practically every exit on the Thruway. How long before saturation..there are only so many gambling fools. We need industries to develop new products and services that can employ our people. The Republicans have always liked the war machine, the billions spent on Aircraft Carriers, Tanks etc feed our core rusting belt industries while all those young warriors shrink the unemployment numbers. The Dems see the human costs in WAR and would prefer to spend on infrastructure, providing work on much needed crapping out sewers, highways and bridges (non of which seem important when sipping mint jullips in South Carolina or Mar Largo or Mar New Swamp). They (the Dems)then like to give lots of money to those who can't get those jobs (live in ghetto, hardly speak intelligible English, sell drugs to fund life or, on the female side, start having babies at fifteen cause it is the only thing found to raise one's status in their community). Just like a rising tide lifts all boats was B.S., a living wage minimum wage is only a surcharge.
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