odinsblog:liberalpropagandagroup:the-evil-conservative:workingamerica:We all work hard. We deserve f

odinsblog:liberalpropagandagroup:the-evil-conservative:workingamerica:We all work hard. We deserve fair wages. Share the facts.To get involved with the fight to raise the minimum wage in your state, text RAISE to 30644. http://ift.tt/1nKDqXxIt’s true that we all work hard. But that doesn’t mean you deserve more. There are practical and policy realities that are more important than the subjective notion of what you “deserve”. Person educated in economics here…The argument isn’t “they deserve” it’s “they are worth it.” Although the reality is that many workers do deserve better pay, paying people less than they are worth creates a vacuum in the economic system and it stagnates the economy. The US really doesn’t have social mobility because of the complete bullshit theories propagated by the uneducated right wing - and that costs everyone, including the 1%, who would make more with better regulation and a higher minimum wage. You pay people what they are worth and the economy will flourish. (And, no, that won’t cause rampant inflation.) Because some companies will not do this on their own, we must do so with legislation. You cannot be a business if you are going to harm the economy, period. You want to be a part of the economic system, you are going to have to follow rules. And those rules need to be a little more stringent for this economy to work.-EliHere’s another thought: the U.S. is a consumer based economy. Do conservatives & neo-cons ever wonder what happens as fewer and fewer consumers can afford to purchase durable goods, homes, education, etc…? Do they even care?Ofc, we only have to look at history (the real lived kind, not the imaginary kind that fearmongering Republicans always invoke) to see that the economy has always done best when paying living wages, making college affordable, taxing the wealthy more and yes, increasing the minimum wageLike maybe that’s why Henry Ford wanted workers who could actually afford to buy his cars? Because the U.S. is a consumer economy? -- source link

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