The rodent and the wheel
July 23rd, 2014 | 
Author: Have you ever noticed how the blowhards who rail against raising the minimum wage, or even the mandate of one at all, are the same ones who who piss and moan about undocumented workers stealing their jobs? Ever notice how they never blame the fat white business owners who would sooner drink from a bed pan than pay minimum wage to any skin color, the same ones who exploit these poor workers so as to bathe and shower and wipe their asses with the filthy lucre gleaned from such egregious slavery?
Ever notice?
Isn’t it just awesome that most babysitters command $10 an an hour while the minimum wage is $7.75?
Really awesome.
That head butts me with irony and ridiculousness.
I am blistered by hypocrisy.
Ever notice how they are the same ones who whine about the once powerful unions? You know, the very entities that guaranteed they get a weekend and a vacation and maybe a pension?
Ever notice how they are from the poorest states? You know, the red states that get way more than their share of government revenue in the form of social programs than they contribute in the form of tax dollars?
Real brave bunch we’ve got here.
Ever notice how absurdly Christian they are?
If you are willing and able to work a forty hour work week in this country you deserve adequate food, shelter and healthcare. If they cannot or will not pay a living wage in this country then they do not deserve to do business in this country. If they cannot recognize that the regions in this country that pay a more competitive wage are thriving and the ones that don’t are wallowing in atrophy, they must be idiots.
The majority of analysis supports the notion that a living wage raises all boats and trickle down economics sinks all but the yachts and the battleships.
You have to be a dumbass if you are still defending the “job creators”.
Their arguments are selfish and ludicrous. If they don’t get this, if their business model is dependent on attainment and avarice, the erosion of the middle class and the further criminal concentration of wealth, then I invite them to piss up a goddamn rope.
I guess I just don’t understand where we are as a country if such a common sense idea like raising the minimum wage is even controversial for people who schlep and suffer the abuse of the indignant, when the idea is so frustratingly popular. I guess I just don’t understand it when just about all of us at one time or another have worked those jobs and realize they are no walk in the damn park. I guess I just don’t understand why these people don’t deserve to live off what they make for serving you your goddamn salad or your fucking hamburger.
I guess I just don’t understand it.
What I really don’t understand is all the dentally challenged mouth breathers that are more worried about winning the lottery someday and having to pay taxes on it than having to work some bullshit job at Walmart and qualify for government subsidies. I worry that they don’t care that their employer refuses to pay you enough to live on or even the ability to buy their goddamn products without being on the government tit.
What I really don’t understand is the filthy rich, who will never want for anything but love and respect while they perpetuate this madness because their entire world is about excess and privilege and the twisted notion that they deserve it and the other people they suffer day to day do not.
It occurs to me that most of them are dumb as sticks and the rest of them are greedy pricks.
What a brave bunch.
Drinks for my friends.
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You’re absolutely correct in my opinion. I completely agree.
Once again a great read! Keep it going, Michael.
Love this riff, it is right on target, and I say the same thing. What frustrates me is hearing people who make barely more than the minimum wage state that they don’t think that the minimum wage should go up, as if they don’t realize that it would also have a gain in their own wages to also stay competitive in the market as well. For workers making less than about $10.00 – $20.00/ hour, the wages will invariably also go up. It is maddening. They just don’t get it, and then they vote against their own best interests.
Once again you hit the nail on the head.
Are you aware United Airlines is outsourcing their jobs to a company that will pay minimum wage…maybe… and that people will still flock to those jobs? Why?
People want to live and to live you must work and that company knows that anyone desperate will be standing in line for these jobs.
This is the new thing, SLUM LORD JOB CREATORS. Really, really sad. Where does it end?
R’Amen. I keep wondering exactly how much worse things have to get before people wake up. The poor are seemingly unable to realize just how badly they’re being fucked, and the rich are oblivious to just what it will mean if the have-not’s DO stop hitting that snooze button.
It’s come to the point where I don’t know what to say to people who vote against their own best interests anymore, or those who vote against the best interests of the country as a whole. And I honestly don’t believe the argument is worth it. So I typically stick with the teens and twenty-somethings in my family, plus their friends, who are still figuring out who they are and what they believe in – what they want their world to look like. With these younger people, there’s still hope.
The people in the red states are also uneducated just the way the wealthy business owners like them. They believe in the bible and the possibility of winning the lottery. Time and time again when these under educated nitwits win the lottery they lose all their winnings. Why, because since they have little to no education they do not have the knowledge to make it last. Also many of them have a poor mentality thus another reason why the money won’t last. What do I mean by a poor mentality? A poor mentality is when having money means spending it all on partying, buying luxury items and having no self-control. Then when it’s all gone and they are poor again their answer is I guess I was never meant to be rich.
This is a compelling and empassioned rant. I am a proletariat and find a number of these points to be both common place and insane. Especially the mewwing masses for justice then pissing away what they have and who focus more on what they don’t freely get less on what they legitimately earn.
Why is it that people that don’t support minimum wage hikes must hate workers and love rich business owners? I don’t support it because I care about workers. And I understand economics. Price ceilings and floors always have both negative and positive consequences. Ignoring the negative doesn’t make it go away. It can cause more unemployment and inflation. How much is debatable but that truth is not.
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Let’s see the top ten states that are sucking your taxes dollars from the federal tit. The term per capita – for each person: by or for each person
10) North Dakota – Total federal spending per capita: $12,930
With the third-smallest population in the U.S., North Dakota’s federal spending per capita was understandably larger than more populous states. North Dakota ranked third in the country for receiving direct payments other than retirement and disability. What is unusual is the large amount of money that North Dakota farmers received from the federal government — the state ranked second in agricultural assistance in the nation, behind only Texas, which has a population more than 37 times that of North Dakota.
9) Connecticut – Total federal spending per capita: $15,662
Connecticut received almost 50% more government funding per capita than the national average. In 2010, Connecticut was awarded $11.1 billion in military procurement contracts, giving the state the fourth-highest per capita federal defense expenditure — $3,351.88. The Constitution State ranked first for the amount of spending for direct payments other than retirement and disability on a per capita basis. A significant chunk of this amount — almost 60% — was spent solely on medical prescription drug coverage. At $14.1 billion, the amount of federal government expenditures on prescription drugs in Connecticut was more than any other state and over $5 billion more than Florida, the state receiving the second-most federal funds in this category. Connecticut also ranked fifth in per capita federal funding from procurement spending.
8) West Virginia – Total federal spending per capita: $11,609
West Virginia is the only state in the top 10 where federal spending on defense was not a significant contributor to the total amount of money this state received. In fact, West Virginia ranked 48th for federal defense spending — $609 per capita. A large portion of federal spending in West Virginia, almost 16%, was for Medicare benefits, slightly more than the national rate of 15.6%. West Virginia ranked first in the country for the percentage of people using this benefit at nearly 20%. West Virginians also received more federal spending per capita on retirement and disability benefits — which includes Social Security payments, federal retirement and disability benefits, and veterans’ benefits — than any other state.
7) Alabama – Total federal spending per capita: $11,820
Alabama comes in second for the amount of spending per capita — $3,761 — on retirement and disability. The Cotton State also ranks seventh for procurement spending per capita, 78% of which was defense spending, and large parts of which also included the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture. Most of this procurement spending falls under the section of Department of Defense spending. Aside from Virginia and Kentucky, Alabama is the only state on this list that is in the bottom half of states for the amount of grant spending per capita. Grant spending encompasses a vast number of federal agencies and departments within each state.
6) Kentucky – Total federal spending per capita: $13,198
The federal government gave Kentucky more than $7,000 per person on direct payments, which included retirement and disability benefits, unemployment benefits and student assistance — all large programs. Medicare benefits accounted for nearly 57% of such payments. This was partially due to the high amount of government money going toward prescription drug coverage in the state — $5.46 billion in 2010. Kentucky received almost $1.5 billion more for prescription drug coverage than California, a state with almost nine times its population.
5) New Mexico – Total federal spending per capita: $13,578
New Mexico received the third-highest procurement spending per capita in the U.S. at $3,641.68. A significant component of this spending was under the category of non-defense agency spending for the Department of Energy. New Mexico received more federal funding from the Department of Energy than any other state, with an amount of $4.8 billion. This is due to the three nuclear weapons facilities located within the state. New Mexico also ranks seventh for the grant expenditures it received per capita. More than 60% of these grants were from the Department of Health and Human Services. Some 22.53% of the population was on Medicaid — the fourth highest percentage in the nation — which is funded through this department.
4) Hawaii – Total federal spending per capita: $15,331
The Hawaiian Islands have 11 military bases, contributing to the country’s highest per capita federal expenditure from the Department of Defense in 2010. Along with a large number of military personnel on the government payroll, Hawaii also had the highest federal salaries and wages. Some 77% of the salaries and wages paid are for active military personnel. The state had the 10th highest federal procurement spending per capita, at $2,017.80. Since 2006, federal expenditure on salaries and wages in Hawaii has more than doubled.
3) Maryland – Total federal spending per capita: $16,673
Maryland had the fifth-highest federal spending per capita from the Defense Department — the state has 11 military bases. In addition, the state received more spending per capita in nonmilitary programs than any other. The state’s proximity to the capital is likely a major factor in this. The state received more than 5% of the total U.S. procurement expenditure, and ranked second in per capita procurement spending — $4,593.79 — nearly three times the national average. Of the 50 states, Maryland has the second-lowest percentage of people living below the poverty line.
2) Virginia – Total federal spending per capita: $17,008
Virginia received more than $136 billion in federal funds in 2010. This state received more than 12% of the total Department of Defense procurement spending — the second-highest proportion in the country, behind California. The state received the highest per capita procurement funding and the third-highest per capita federal expenditures for salaries and wages. The state’s proximity to the capital is a factor in the high government expenditures. Despite receiving the second-most federal funds per capita, Virginia was very low in terms of the grant funding it received.
1) Alaska – Total federal spending per capita: $17,762
No state in the U.S. received more money per person from the federal government than Alaska. One contributing factor is that the state had the second-highest figure for defense spending in 2010, at $7,337.59 per capita. The federal government also allocated a great deal toward wages and salaries in Alaska — $5,709.52 per capita. This was more than any state other than Hawaii, which spent $5,805.78 per person, and twice the next-closest state within the contiguous U.S. — Virginia — at $2,638.68.
Great rant, totally right and I would also add, “I don’t understand why ANY WOMEN vote Republican.” Sandra, right and I live in CA where we get the LEAST government funds per capita and support the Red State losers the most.