12-08-2013, 09:38 AM
Great discussion, awareness, and ideas. I would have to agree with a lot of what has been written. So maybe raising the minimum wage is not what should be done?. Adding a NEW Living wage to this community and across America could help millions?. See the companies that make gross profits, and need many people to do this should pay living wages in the community they are doing business within. It may be hard to compare flipping burgers these days with steel making factories, or coal mining, or even the making of cars and aviation. But America's industries have changed over the years and so have their economic impacts. Mom and pop shops trying to compete with Burger king is a joke. Mom and pop shops and other small businesses should have minimum wage jobs available. Yet the large corps should pay a NEW wage called a community living wage. JMO. That way Mcdonalds, burger kings, Walmarts wont always build in poor nieghbor hoods, AND if they do they will have to hire locally and pay a higher wage, that is appropriate for that area. When I look around Puna we have a lot of these larger corps in this area that should be offering what the mills, factories, farming, and mines at least offered?. Again just my opinion. Does seem like folks lined up and moved for those competitive jobs, and if they got one they did not just let it go like nowadays.