Trump will clean house

[kevin kiernan]

Crooked politicians must be held accountable for the crimes they have done. Trump is the only one who will do it. To elect a POTUS who will not prioritize fixing our criminal political system will not be good enough for me.We will not get another one like Trump ,who will bitch slap the evil out of Washington politics..No one can deny that Trump is crazy enough to do it. But he needs us to want it fixed. He can not stand alone..This is that time in history. The time that many have hoped. Turn your back on this opportunity,and we are done. THAT IS THE TRUTH OF IT.

[charles royer]

Inside the GOP effort to draft an independent candidate to derail Trump
A band of exasperated Republicans — including 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney, a handful of veteran consultants and members of the conservative intelligentsia — is actively plotting to draft an independent presidential candidate who could keep Donald Trump from the White House.
Marc Cuban ! really!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-gop-effort-to-dr...

[kevin kiernan]

I see a way to combat this...If the status quo do this, everyone knows it is to keep the volley of power going. They would rather see Hillary win ,then Trump. Bernie`s people for the most part like him because they want corruption out of government. We know Trump will talk about this as being a move by the Establishment to keep the rigged system in place.. He will sell this to the Bernie supporters. We need to embrace Bernie supporters. Make sure they see the ploy of the establishment....Just thought I would put that out there.

[Virginia Foulk]

My grandson fell for the free education crap, and higher hourly wages.  He now has been taught just what that will do to his earnings, his possibility of getting a better job, right out of high school.  He learned about what McDonalds is considering - no new jobs.

He is now a Trump supporter. 

[kevin kiernan]

I am ok with wanting to see the minimum wage hiked..I feel that the Federal government needs to not be in charge of that. I f the states set their own. Then the market would dictate it more. If a state has to few workers than they would attract more people by moving it up.The government has a roll with the minimum wage. But not the Federal government.

[Thomas Vincent Coffey]

KK, have to strongly disagree.

Labor, a factor of production, is part of the cost structure of the goods producer or service provider.

Since the objective is to maximize his profit/rate of return; he cannot/will not absorb higher costs that lower his margin unless he can offset this cost somewhere else. Otherwise he simply will not produce or he will reduce hiring or he will produce somewhere else; which is precisely what multinational companies do to avoid escalating domestic labor costs.

Labor is a commodity, akin to iron or wheat, that will be demanded as long as its cost structure is competitive. Otherwise machinery or new processes will be substituted for it.

Markets set wage rates which political entities distort w/their arbitrary and brainless rules.

[kevin kiernan]

Corporate greed is real. If corporations are going to buy politicians. then you need a force that will help the worker. The wage has been kept low because of corporate lobbying. If it was in the hands of State government. It would create competition between states.I just think we are better off not having all the power of any situation under one ruling fashion. A state can attract business with lower wage minimums.. I understand that labor is one of the biggest expenses in doing business. But that is what makes the world go round..McDonalds and Carols started the low wage business model with the excuse that they were starter jobs. That was fine, But then Walmart and other Corps. used that model to compare to. Thus  the working person took it in the shorts.Share holders are getting fat on the cheap labor. If anyone denies it then I can only say they must own stocks...7.25 an hour is absurd. We are at a time in history that many people are out of work,on food stamps and public assistance.But yet the stock market is creating tons of wealth for the fat cats. It simply is not right. Crony capitalism and corporate greed are the problems that we must set right. I do not have the answers ,but I know that 7.25 is shameful.

[M]

Kevin,

To me a far better way to increase the buying power for people is to lower prices instead of raising wages. Whenever the auto or aircraft industry got their regular 3% yearly increases the prices went up 6% and the peoples buying power went down. 

Alos, raising the wages has shown itself to be a job killer/reducer. Look at what has happened in California with the minimum wages being raised.

[SILENCE IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY I]

"$7.25 an hour is absurd."

Certainly NOT if it hires a man that gets in the door and works his way up to being a much higher paid and much more valuable worker that is needed by the company, all the way up to being the President of the company. Versus standing on the street corner without a JOB..

I started @1.25/hour, as a kid, and worked like a pack mule, and today I am President of the company with $xxx+ million in sales under my belt...and I have provided good paying jobs for over a hundred people without printing fake money or confiscating or borrowing it.

"Thank GOD that I was able to grab onto that $1.25/hour job as a young man" versus being shown the door and being booted out because I was "demanding" $7.25/hour as a know nothing kid.

I was always paid commensurate to what I was worth at the time from day one. In other words the company could not afford (ie: lose money, lose labor/services) to lose me, not from the humble $1.25/hour until today.

I couldn't imagine getting out of bed and not having a job. Never experienced it.

Only PROFITS HIRE PEOPLE and create REAL jobs... Legislation and reckless dictate creates ""NO JOB that is not created by first CONFISCATING THE MONEY from a man with a job"". FACT

[M]

You put it perfectly Silence.

[kevin kiernan]

actually ..You guys are right. I think 7.25 is over paying those do nothing slugs.

[SILENCE IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY I]

Growing your value with any employer is just like running from a HUNGRY BEAR...

You don't actually have to out work and outrun the bear!

You only have to outwork and outrun the slowest worker that is running from the bear along with you... Just say-in.

"Silence in the face of tyranny, is your consent to that tyranny"

[Virginia Foulk]

I have to step in here and explain why I'm against the Feds enforcing higher and higher minimum wages.  I started work right out of school, no college, started at Madison Newspapers as front office clerical. Wage - $.85/hour. Got married, then had a child.  Left husband when he tried to run over me and returned to family home - luckily a block away from Red Dot Foods.  Got a job there in the office, $1.10/hour.  About a year later, the owner killed himself after his wife and son sold out his business to Lay Co. and Frito - which became Frito-Lay. (The owner thought he was part of a merger, his wife and son had 51%). So when he discovered evidence in his son's office about the takeover, he gave up.

When I was 16, my brother and I filled fire boxes for Brandes Co in our basement - dad worked at Brandes, until he built his own business. One day, I walked over to see the owner - he had a yellow Hillman car that I thought I could make a deal to buy - but the man said it was for his son, who was in college. I was barefoot, in rolled up jeans, and yet this man took time to talk to me - and he gave me some bags of popcorn and potato chips. Nice man.

After I left my husband and quite Madison Newspapers, I passed the state civil service tests and worked in Taxation, Wisconsin Veteran's Affairs, and Retirement Fund - about a year in each except Retirement Fund. When I left, was making just $1.50/hour.

After some health issues with daughter, and missing the 6 month cutoff for the Retirement, because I took extra time off, I found another job at Oscar Mayer Foods. Started part time at $1.83 in the Madison plant office.  So after 43 years, gradually getting promoted, I left with hourly $29.50/hour.

I earned every raise and did extra, finally becoming a transportation clerical and now on salary -which based on 40 hours would come out to $32.00. per hour.(Though I liked my job, and worked lots of longer hours - my choice.)

My take on the minimum wage, get a job, prove yourself then push for better wages - or go forth and prosper. 

With higher and higher beginning wages, our young coming out of school will find it harder and harder to get jobs - and then what.  Arbys and McDonalds are already looking into ways to save money - no workers, self-serve only. .