[smoothy]

Living wage goes against greedy rich guy thinking.

Maybe if more people actually studied and finished High school... they could get jobs that paid more.

Jobs are paid based on their value to the business... if a trained monkey can do the job... its not worth much.

Particularly in DC where the graduation rate is abisimal. In fact it's the lowest in the country.

D.C. has lowest graduation rate in the U.S. - WTOP.com

Next they are going to force homeowners to employ drug addict dropouts if they want to or not. Because they have more money than the dropout has.

[speechlesstx]

Living wage goes against greedy rich guy thinking.

Would you pay some 16 year old pimply faced kid that's glued to his phone most of the day $12.50 an hour on his first job to take money at the drive-up window?

[tomder55]

The Walmart by me hires this geezer with a karakoe machine so he can be the greeter.. He sings a mean 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon' . Doubt he complains about slave wages.

[talaniman]

Would you pay a 22 year old with a kid and no car whose wife works taking money at a drive up window $12.50 an hour?

[smoothy]

Would you pay a 22 year old with a kid and no car whose wife works taking money at a drive up window $12.50 an hour?

Why should someone with a kid make more doing the same job as someone that didn't have a kid because they were more responsible with their lives?

And why should any of them get paid more than they are worth if none of them have a marketible job skill?

[tomder55]

Why would he take that job ? I'd tell him to go to North Dakota and make some real money in the oil fields . If I was a yound pup that's where I'd be going .

[speechlesstx]

Maybe if more people actually studied and finished High school......they could get jobs that paid more.

Jobs are paid based on their value to the business....if a trained monkey can do the job....its not worth much.

Particularly in DC where the graduation rate is abisimal. In fact it's the lowest in the country.

D.C. has lowest graduation rate in the U.S. - WTOP.com

Next they are going to forcethomeowners to employ drug addict dropouts if they want to or not. Because they have more money than the dropout has.

What do you expect when you force poor people to send their kids to failing union-controlled public schools? Some people get it...

Christie wins endorsement of black ministers, who call for school vouchers

While some, teachers unions, don't care about the kids...

Letter to the Democrats in the House and Senate on DC Vouchers

[smoothy]

What do you expect when you force poor people to send their kids to failing union-controlled public schools? Some people get it...

Christie wins endorsement of black ministers, who call for school vouchers

While some, teachers unions, don't care about the kids...

Letter to the Democrats in the House and Senate on DC Vouchers

Yeah.. the schools suck.. thanks to the unions and bad teachers... but the students and their families share some of the blame as well... by causeing disruptions in school and not taking advantage of what they do have available to them...

Most of us would have gotten our butts spanked if we acted up in school... and gotten it again when we got home.

[talaniman]

Why do some people not just pack up and leave and get a better job with a wife and kid, and no car? That's a lot of planning and garnering of resources that may take a while. Maybe years give the situation, and their I no guarantee of being hired to do something you have never done before with no skills or training.

Geez Tom, an old guy like you knows you don't just walk in and make skilled labor wages. Young guy find that out immediately, if they are hired.

[smoothy]

Why do some people not just pack up and leave and get a better job with a wife and kid, and no car? That's a lot of planning and garnering of resources that may take a while. Maybe years give the situation, and their I no guarantee of being hired to do something you have never done before with no skills or training.

Geez Tom, an old guy like you knows you don't just walk in and make skilled labor wages. Young guy find that out immediately, if they are hired.

Where are their priorities if they have a wife AND a kid and they don't even have a car to get to work yet?

Hell... why are they even out having kids if they don't have a wife OR a job yet much less a car.

Priorities.. its all about priorities.

[tomder55]

You are kidding right ? They are taking walk-ins in N Dokota with no history and putting them on a pay to train program . People are going to the towns where the fields are and getting $15- 18 /hr wages at Micky Ds.. . and getting signing bonuses to boot.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/01/pf/A...id=SF_PF_River

I moved when I was young married with a child . You have to go where the opportunities are .

[talaniman]

That's great for the guy and gal that are there and can get there.

[smoothy]

Greyhound Buses go almost everywhere.. and are cheap.

[tomder55]

Make it happen... that's the American way. You champion people who leave everything behind and come to this country illegally for the opportunity... but you think American youth are a bunch of pu$$ys who can't do anything if it requires effort and a little inconvenience. If that's the prevailing attitude here we are screwed !

[speechlesstx]

make it happen ... that's the American way. You champion people who leave everything behind and come to this country illegally for the opportunity ....but you think American youth are a bunch of pu$$ys who can't do anything if it requires effort and a little inconvenience. If that's the prevailing attitude here we are screwed !

Why work when the nanny can take care of you?

[smoothy]

Also... my wife has had a full time job for almost 20 years...

She doesn't have a car.( I have more than a few however)... she doesn't even have a drivers license, and never has... and is almost 50. And she doesn't work within walking distance either. And we don't work at the same place.

And we aren't city dwellers.

[speechlesstx]

It's come to this... more smart government at work:

US agency baffled by modern technology, destroys mice to get rid of viruses

The Economic Development Administration (EDA) is an agency in the Department of Commerce that promotes economic development in regions of the US suffering slow growth, low employment, and other economic problems. In December 2011, the Department of Homeland Security notified both the EDA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that there was a possible malware infection within the two agencies' systems.

The NOAA isolated and cleaned up the problem within a few weeks.

The EDA, however, responded by cutting its systems off from the rest of the world—disabling its enterprise e-mail system and leaving its regional offices no way of accessing centrally held databases.

It then recruited an outside security contractor to look for malware and provide assurances that not only were EDA's systems clean, but also that they were impregnable against malware. The contractor, after some initial false positives, declared the systems largely clean but was unable to provide this guarantee. Malware was found on six systems, but it was easily repaired by reimaging the affected machines.

EDA's CIO, fearing that the agency was under attack from a nation-state, insisted instead on a policy of physical destruction. The EDA destroyed not only (uninfected) desktop computers but also printers, cameras, keyboards, and even mice. The destruction only stopped—sparing $3 million of equipment—because the agency had run out of money to pay for destroying the hardware.

The total cost to the taxpayer of this incident was $2.7 million: $823,000 went to the security contractor for its investigation and advice, $1,061,000 for the acquisition of temporary infrastructure (requisitioned from the Census Bureau), $4,300 to destroy $170,500 in IT equipment, and $688,000 paid to contractors to assist in development of a long-term response. Full recovery took close to a year.

And of course you people still want the government in charge of your health. How stupid.

[talaniman]

And of course you still want private bureaucrats in charge of your healthcare... and your doctor. Still haven't read the article by Steven Brill in Time magazine have you?

[smoothy]

I'd rather have them in charge of it than elected officials (few of whom are able to tie their own shoes) or political appointees with no accountability.

[talaniman]

Are you daft? You still get screwed.