The Captains of Industry are crooks. I don't care if the cost of your Walmart goods rise a few pennies, it is immoral to pay a working adult less than a living wage.

DMT

But is that on one income or assuming that both parents are working?

This is why you don't hear more Americans complaining:

Swift, Hiring on a Knife's Edge
By Robert Block
Word Count: 1,224

GREELEY, Colo. -- Last Friday, just days after federal agents raided six Swift & Co. meat-processing plants and carted away nearly 1,300 workers as illegal immigrants, company officials scrambled to find replacements for vacancies on the killing floor.

At a city job center here near the company's corporate headquarters, one prospective new hire came from Somalia. He had lived in the U.S. for four months and barely spoke English. He didn't say how he had arrived in the U.S. or whether his presence was legal.

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Bet you 5 bucks the CEO of Swift does not time and suffers no consequences for hiring illegals and paying them min or less wages.

Its much more important for you all health nuts to be able to buy cheap mass produced and mass killed chicken, delivered to your door through sanctioned hiring of illegal labor.

The Captains of Industry are crooks. I don't care if the cost of your Walmart goods rise a few pennies, it is immoral to pay a working adult less than a living wage.

DMT

Dingus...do you realize that the Feds told Swift Co. two days before that they were going to raid them? Did you realize that Swift estimated that they would lose 40% of their work force because of the raid?

Yes I realized all that and more. Now please fellate me.

DMT

and then using a sexual inuendo to hide your inadequacy....


Merry XXXmas

MaD

I didn't like the tone of your response to me about Swift. Ita pretty much shut down any chance to have a dialogue about the facts.

My initial reaction was to tell you to 'blow me' but that is uncivil and prohibited by the morality police.

And it wasn't innuendo btw. It was very direct and there was no hidden meaning.

DMT

...instead of blow me you shoulda said "eat me"...

For the average Joe making 20$ an hour, he will be going from making almost 4X minimum wage, down to less than 3X. Congrats, Dems, you just moved the middle class closer to minimum wage, all in the name of (buying votes) helping them.

...The Captains of Industry are crooks. I don't care if the cost of your Walmart goods rise a few pennies, it is immoral to pay a working adult less than a living wage.

DMT

I guess there are two pretty rash generalizations in there, eh?

Curt

The housing wage has jumped 10 percent since last year to a statewide average of $15.34 per hour, or $31,897 annually.

It is highest in the Burlington area — Chittenden, Grand Isle and Franklin counties — where renters need to earn $18.90 per hour, or $39,320 annually, to afford a two-bedroom apartment under federal housing affordability guidelines. It’s lowest in Orleans County where renters need to earn $10.42 per hour, or $21,680.

Renters in Lamoille County need to earn $13.15 per hour, or $27,360 annually.

The “Out of Reach” report looked at every county in all 50 states, and found that housing costs are outstripping incomes and making decent housing scarce for low-income workers nationwide.

The national housing wage for a two-bedroom apartment is $16.31, up 3.4 percent from $15.78 last year.

The average hourly wage for all U.S. workers was $14 and the average renter made $12.64.

The state housing wage is highest in Hawaii at $23.43 and lowest in West Virginia at $10.30.

This is why you don't hear more Americans complaining:

Swift, Hiring on a Knife's Edge
By Robert Block
Word Count: 1,224

GREELEY, Colo. -- Last Friday, just days after federal agents raided six Swift & Co. meat-processing plants and carted away nearly 1,300 workers as illegal immigrants, company officials scrambled to find replacements for vacancies on the killing floor.

At a city job center here near the company's corporate headquarters, one prospective new hire came from Somalia. He had lived in the U.S. for four months and barely spoke English. He didn't say how he had arrived in the U.S. or whether his presence was legal.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Bet you 5 bucks the CEO of Swift does not time and suffers no consequences for hiring illegals and paying them min or less wages.

Its much more important for you all health nuts to be able to buy cheap mass produced and mass killed chicken, delivered to your door through sanctioned hiring of illegal labor.

The Captains of Industry are crooks. I don't care if the cost of your Walmart goods rise a few pennies, it is immoral to pay a working adult less than a living wage.

DMT