Speakout

Support or shame?

Looks like Trump just keeps (despicably) using veterans for photo opps in his campaigns. He used Arlington cemetery for a photo shoot which is totally off limits for campaign purposes. To make it even worse, he previously called these same veterans, who gave their lives protecting this great country, losers and suckers. How can any U.S veteran or U.S.veteran family member really support his shame?

Minimum wage misconceptions-

People think that raising the minimum wage will improve their lifestlye. The only way that can be true is if everyone works for minimum wage. You can make the minimum wage $25/hour, but it will still be the minimum wage. Why go to college or learn a trade if all you are going to make is the minimum wage? Prices will go up so that businesses can pay the minimum wage, so any gain the worker makes is soon erased by higher costs. The minimum wage will always be the “minimum” wage. Anyone who makes more than the “minimum” will have more income and, therefore, be able to pay more. If everyone is willing to live at a “minimum” standard of living, then there will be no need to produce higher quality products because no one will be able to afford them. Everyone will live at the same standard. Take away the ability/incentive to earn more than the minimum wage and you have no ability/incentive to better yourself. Whatever the minimum wage is, there will always be those who want to earn more than the minimum so they can better themselves. The “Robin Hood” method of taking from rich to give to the poor only works until there are no more rich to take from. Once everyone is equal, who do you “take from” and who do you “give to”? What about those who cannot work and cannot generate their own income? To make them equal, you have to take from those who work. Everything you take from all those who are working to bring the nonworking up to equal, lowers the income of those who work. The only way you reach true equity is when no one works and no one has income.