Ray From Cleveland
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How much money they make is irrelevant to what anybody else makes. Even if they took a huge pay cut (which they shouldn't) and divide that money out to the tens of thousands of employees they have, it wouldn't amount to much and not change a thing.
They could afford to pay enough employees aren't on welfare. Now that would help the economy.
Do you know what else would help the economy? If people took the initiative to make themselves worth more money by learning a trade or getting some sort of skill set. Stocking shelves, moping floors and cleaning toilets are not skill sets. A monkey can do those jobs.
I have a couple I rent an apartment to. Good people and they have been here a couple of years. They are late with rent all the time but I know I'll always get it.
Both work fast food jobs and they work all kinds of goofy hours. So why don't they try to get better jobs? Because they smoke pot, and better jobs usually have drug screenings.
They are in their mid 20's now and wasting their lives simply because partying is more important than setting a path of financial success in life. I don't care because it's their choice. But why should an employer pay them more money simply because of the lifestyle they chose? If they want to do better financially, then they need to quit smoking grass, look for better jobs, and become more productive in life. It's up to them to better themselves financially, not their fast food manager.
The jobs aren't there. If they were wages wouldn't be stagnant.
The jobs are there, it's just that Americans don't want them. They want to stay home on their Obama phones.
Right now in my industry alone, they predict we are going to need 48,000 more workers that employers can't find by the end of this year. That's why employers are turning to foreigners to do the work.
After you get a year or two of experience, you call the shots. You choose where and when you want to work. The job pays pretty well depending on who you work for.
ATA: ‘Driver Shortage’ Likely To Reach 48,000 By The End of The Year
Higher driving costs and falling pay have created a truck-driver shortage that's likely to worsen in the coming years.
American Truck Drivers Are Getting Squeezed Out Of Their Profession - Business Insider
This is what happens when government makes regulation against hard working Americans. But it doesn't discount the fact that thousands of drivers are needed and many good paying jobs to boot. Plus if we could limit the amount of foreigners coming to this country taking our jobs, the pay increase would take place.