Quote:You are still ignoring the the point that there are vastly more people in the work force than there are well paying jobs available to good old boot strap lifting people. You, I think, are just assuming people are lazy and ignoring that there are not enough jobs that pay living wages to accommodate every citizen that wants to try for better jobs. That is the point.


Sure there are lazy people. There are lazy people that landed in great paying careers due to who they were born to or just dumb luck. I am not trying to take anything away from these people nor the people that worked hard for what they got. What I do think is people trying to work should be able to live and take care of their responsibilities without having to work 3 jobs to make ends meet. I seriously do not understand how anyone can argue against this.

$8.00/hr is enough to support yourself. One major problem is people making minimum or near minimum on part time hours and having a level of expectation that 20 hours per week should be enough. Full time at 8 per hour is about $15,000 a year after taxes. That's enough to support yourself without government assistance. If you get roommates, you can support a child or two with it, granted you'll have to shop at Good Will and pinch pennies, but that's what poor families have always had to do. If it's not quite enough, get another job. Nobody is stopping poor people from working more than 40 hours per week.


One problem is that companies are increasingly using part time employees today. ACA is just going to exasperate that problem.

---