If you’re a 30-something making minimum wage.. you have failed at life.

[YankeeFan]

So says a guy Jay Farrar has never heard of, in regards to the minimum wage demonstrations we saw in cities across the country yesterday:

https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/507694078449168384

 

[LongTimeListener]

I have never heard of him either.

He sounds like he brings enough hate and stupidity that I don't need to bother.

 

[poindexter]

Shiftless.

 

[expendable]

...yoooouuuu might work for a newspaper.

 

[cranberry]

Right. More from people who think every human being is born with the exact same opportunity and the exact same intellectual and physical ability.

We can post all sorts of twitter and blog rants from these morally repugnant people but why?

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

Just keep voting Democrat and eventually you'll be successful and happy. And if not, at least the people you vote for will be.

 

[Dick Whitman]

My dad made close to minimum wage.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Right. More from people who think every human being is born with the exact same opportunity and the exact same intellectual and physical ability.

We can post all sorts of twitter and blog rants from these morally repugnant people but why?

To know what "the other side" is saying!!!

For instance, if you didn't read/listen to/check this guy's Twitter feed, you might have no idea that Michael Brown is a murderous Crip who broke the police officer's eye socket with one punch. Because the Lame Stream Media won't tell you!

 

[MisterCreosote]

Right. More from people who think every human being is born with the exact same opportunity and the exact same intellectual and physical ability.

We can post all sorts of twitter and blog rants from these morally repugnant people but why?

To know what "the other side" is saying!!!

For instance, if you didn't read/listen to/check this guy's Twitter feed, you might have no idea that Michael Brown is a murderous Crip who broke the police officer's eye socket with one punch. Because the Lame Stream Media won't tell you!

Also, feminists are only so because they're too ugly to get dates.

 

[JayFarrar]

I have never heard of him either.

He sounds like he brings enough hate and stupidity that I don't need to bother.

Buh buh buh he writes. Like cover stories for the National Review, or did, until he, along with the magazine, got sued for for comparing a climate scientist to a child molester.

Both, you know, diddle small things.

As a serious news consumer, you should get all your national policy analysis, politics and foreign policy news from a one man coffee pot repair shop. For balance.

I also follow the weather so that makes me a gang banger according to another member of the not lame stream media.

 

[User 11148]

An "other side" version of this ...

"If you're a 30-something making minimum wage, someone else is to blame."

 

[User 11148]

I have never heard of him either.

He sounds like he brings enough hate and stupidity that I don't need to bother.

Buh buh buh he writes. Like cover stories for the National Review, or did, until he, along with the magazine, got sued for for comparing a climate scientist to a child molester.

Wrong guy.

 

[Dick Whitman]

An "other side" version of this ...

"If you're a 30-something making minimum wage, someone else is to blame."

And that blanket statement would also be wrong.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Buh buh buh he writes. Like cover stories for the National Review, or did, until he, along with the magazine, got sued for for comparing a climate scientist to a child molester.

That was Mark Steyn.

Erickson's child-molestation accusation was directed at Justice David Souter, whom he also accused of ****ing goats.

 

[cranberry]

An "other side" version of this ...

"If you're a 30-something making minimum wage, someone else is to blame."

I don't honestly see a lot of minimum-wage earners blaming other people for the fact that they have minimum-wage jobs. I assume, however, there are many among them who consider themselves underemployed and aspire to better jobs. For example, I know a lot of people here in NYC who call themselves actors but who are only employed as waiters and bartenders. They get a little bitchy. Is that what you're getting at?

 

[BTExpress]

To any 30something making minimum wage, I would ask just a couple of questions.

--- What skills (computer, trade, etc.) have you aggressively tried to acquire over the past few years during your hours away from your job?

--- Having (I assume) acquired some, how aggressively have you pursued employment related to these skills?

--- (If the answer to the first two questions was "basically none") . . . What is your plan for the remainder of your working years?

The answer to those questions should pretty much narrow down whether someone is shiftless or lazy or a loser or just the unluckiest SOB to walk down the pike.

 

[User 11148]

An "other side" version of this ...

"If you're a 30-something making minimum wage, someone else is to blame."

I don't honestly see a lot of minimum-wage earners blaming other people for the fact that they have minimum-wage jobs. I assume, however, there are many among them who consider themselves underemployed and aspire to better jobs. For example, I know a lot of people here in NYC who call themselves actors but who are only employed as waiters and bartenders. They get a little bitchy. Is that what you're getting at?

OK, a fair point. I'll rephrase to more closely represent what I was getting at:

An "other side" version of this ...

"If you're a 30-something struggling to live the life you want on the wages you can command in the place you live, someone else is to blame."

 

[Dick Whitman]

--- What skills (computer, trade, etc.) have you aggressively tried to acquire over the past few years during your hours away from your job?

The answers in many/most cases:

 

[cranberry]

An "other side" version of this ...

"If you're a 30-something making minimum wage, someone else is to blame."

I don't honestly see a lot of minimum-wage earners blaming other people for the fact that they have minimum-wage jobs. I assume, however, there are many among them who consider themselves underemployed and aspire to better jobs. For example, I know a lot of people here in NYC who call themselves actors but who are only employed as waiters and bartenders. They get a little bitchy. Is that what you're getting at?

OK, a fair point. I'll rephrase to more closely represent what I was getting at:

An "other side" version of this ...

"If you're a 30-something struggling to live the life you want on the wages you can command in the place you live, someone else is to blame."

Can you give me an example of this blaming that is apparently going on? Who exactly are they blaming? That's the part I don't quite understand.

 

[LongTimeListener]

That's because you don't listen to the right people, cran!