- Moderator
- #141
The point of the movement is to highlight the fact that so many Americans are disenfranchised and lack the opportunities for success.
A $7.00 an hour job is not an opportunity for success and no one should be happy about it. It is a return to the days of Serfs and Lords and we (the Surfs) are supposed to be happy for any scrap they let us have. This is the trickle-down effects we got from the tax breaks for the wealthy.
When you say that Americans are "disenfranchised"...what does that mean? As for opportunities for success? America has always been a place where people WENT because we had more opportunities for success than anywhere else. The government used to encourage businesses here...now it scapegoats them.
As for minimum wage jobs? What you don't seem to understand is that a $7.00 an hour job isn't supposed to be something you have for a lifetime. It's a beginning wage. You make it because you generally lack skills and need to be trained to do a job. As you prove yourself the idea is that you take on more responsibility and perform more difficult jobs and your pay increases in proportion. "Serfs and Lords"? Please, that's empty rhetoric that completely ignores what actually takes place in a free market economy.
Of course it completely ignores what actually takes place in the market. His policies make no sense if you apply reality to them.