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You Would be Right to Question Democrat Motives or Competence

Black Teen Unemployment VS Min Wage
Corelation between minimum wage increases and youth unemployment increases: Minoities rudest hit (WSJ)

There is great value in ensuring that there are ample “entry-level” employment opportunities all across America, particularly in the current economy.  By entry-level I mean low wage positions that allow employers to take more risks with less skilled workers they are willing to train.  Let’s call it the employment equivalent of a property owner willing to build-to-suit for a lessee or renter.

The potential employee is raw material to be fashioned to meet the needs of that employers customers and who, if willing and able, can then improve their lot by demonstrating value, and acquiring skills, which then become useful to the employer and also in a broader range of other occupations.

A forced minimum wage tampers with this opportunity, even destroys it in many cases.  And if you force the minimum wage too high, it cripples it, damning large swaths of outstanding and more than capable people, who just happen to be unskilled, to remaining unemployed as business owners abandon risk for a more immediate return for their customers and on their investment; and against the increasing employment costs forced upon them by the exact same Liberal Democrat’s at the state and federal level that are demanding the higher minimum wage regardless of the market value of any given position or occupation.

The left, Democrats and Progressives, might be making faces or perhaps are preparing a suitable rebuttal but not only does all the data prove me right but I am living proof of it myself.

My first job was at Mc Donald’s making $2.35/hour.  I learned as I went, accepted new responsibility and training and before I left the company several years later I was making more than the average American and eventually rose to the position a unit or general manager.   All that from a humble un-skilled beginning at $2.35/hour.

When I transitioned out of the restaurant business and into the tech industry–less pay initially but much better hours, I got an entry level job testing bare circuit boards.   Before I left that company I was their quality manager, designing and running their ISO program, and shipping receiving department as well.   I was once again earning more than the average American.

I took those skills to my next tech job, where I started in an entry level shipping receiving position–becasue that was the only way in at the time, but having previous skills, advanced to a Quality and engineering support role including managing parts and inventory, bills of materials and design drawings, and expanded my value while there to include some marketing, social media, and other skills that ensured I would keep that job when the ongoing Obama economy made a series of layoffs in that company necessary.

I am still there and not by any means, wealthy.  The succession of unsuccessful ‘recovery summers’ have not put my employers in a potion to raise wages yet, and federal cost burdens are preventing us from having the kind of free capital you need to grow and expand your payroll.  So I make the same as I made five years ago, which is really less given inflation, energy prices, gas prices, but having a job in this economy is a benefit all its own.

My wife and I, together, make about what the average American family earns.  But we own a home, in a nice town, in a great state, made sure our mortgage was manageable before we bought, have two cars (both up in years but very functional), and we live quite comfortably with our kids and pets.   We gave up some things and will continue to manage our lifestyle as needed, but I can’t complain..  (I even have a white picket fence.)

All of it that is the result of an entry level job, and an appreciation for opportunity, hard work, and perseverance.  Everything I know and use at work was either provided by my employers over the course of my employment or something I pursued on my own time, starting with entry level jobs designed for those with limited skills “in the industry.”

College was clearly not for me when I had the time to go.  It is definitely not necessary for a great many folks and it is not necessary to succeed, regardless of what your definition if success may be.    In many cases College is just a waste of time and money.

Insisting that everyone go to college, pay inflated tuition to an angry and intolerant liberal institution, to major in things for which the public has no use (or for which academia has created an unnatural over-abundance of over educated persons who are now too numerous to warrant higher wages),  just so they can then be mad about education debt for decades, and argue that we must increase the minimum wage becasue it is impossible for the debt-ridden over-educated “experts” in fields for which there are no jobs, to pay their loans and make a living on what used to be low-wage entry level employment, is nothing short of asinine.  This would however explain why Liberals support it, promote it, grind their rhetorical axes on it, and bully those who dare challenge their droning, mindless addiction to wrong-headed Progressive-memes that do exactly the opposite of what they insist will happen.

The liberals and democrats created this problem.  Their economic and social polices exacerbate it.  And raising the minimum wage will only make things worse.   It will literally damn unskilled, minority, younger and  newly immigrated workers to unemployment and substance living.  It will create poverty, hunger, and misery, by locking out unskilled labor from entry level potions at which they can excel and better themselves to whatever extent the potion and their energy allows.  For lack of a better term, it is wage prejudice.  And it is wholly an invention of the progressives in both parties, but primarily that of Liberals and Democrats.  And all it will do is keep people like me from becoming self-sufficient Americans able to care for their own and fend for themselves.

You would be right to question either their motives or their competence

 

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