Why Are So Many On Welfare

[Minimalist]

Once again.... greedy corporate fucks are the cause.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/arch...es/265714/

Wages in the fast-food industry have stayed low for two basic reasons. First, many are low-skill service jobs in an efficient assembly where workers are easily replaced and don't require much education. Second, there is a large supply of people who are willing to make cheap burgers at a low wage. It is easy to look at this scenario and conclude, "well, economics determines prices and wages, and that's that." But the full story is more complicated. Cheap fast food and their cheap workers impose a cost on the country in the form of food stamps, welfare through the tax code, and social safety net programs. This is a place for government to intervene -- and for corporations to sacrifice some of their profits -- by raising wages to a livable level.

"We're paying a few cents less for a hamburger and fries which aren't very good for you, but we end up paying large sums through social safety net programs,

Then along comes the GOP - the wholly owned subsidiary of rich corporate cocksuckers and they blame poor people for being poor while their leash holders pay a minimum wage which is grossly out of step with the actual cost of living in this country.

Now...let's hear the free market types reply with a great big "Fuck You!"


But we already have an answer for them.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/171284/ame...imum-wage#

Yet action to raise the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is completely stalled at the federal level. It’s been stuck for over three years and it still isn’t indexed to inflation. That wage adds up to a pitiful $14,500 a year, not enough to make rent in any state. It’s over $3,000 below the poverty line for a parent with two kids. Its purchasing power is 13 percent lower than in 1979. Yet the average minimum-wage worker earns about half of his or her family income.

Oh, the price we pay for shitty hamburgers.