Pull yourself up by those bootstraps.
Your bootstraps:
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If I'm under 20 and in Nebraska, this would really make me rethink voting for the same dickheads and morons my parents voted for.
Yup, these minimum wage earners are the REAL problem.
I love the small business owner complaining that having to pay her employees a fair wage is difficult.
"Fuck Dem kids"
-- Republican Party
pretty sure they have said that many times
They're quite fond of kids in general. A bit too fond.
Yeah.... literally.
Quite literally.
That's a good way to get your young workforce to leave the state.
Or a good way to trap them so they can't afford to leave.
My dudes, you have nothing to lose but your chains
In Nebraska you're old enough to vote or die for your country at age 18 or 19, but don't you dare think you're worthy of earning the regular adult minimum wage.
the military do source thier Cannon fodder from poor red states, however they dumbed them down so much they cant even pass the asvab.
pass the asvab.
Oh man, I made a mistake taking the ASVAB. I had no plans of joining the military, but was encouraged to take the test anyway. I got 99s or 97s in all the general categories and a 99 in Electronics (my program of study at the time). I had Air Force and Navy recruiters chasing me for months. Navy recruiter said he wanted me for a nuclear technician. It took close to a year for the last attempt to contact me ended.
Nebraska, where the age of consent is lower than that the minimum rate of pay.
And yet they will probably try to lower both more.
It's like to say they'll remember that at the ballot box, but they won't.
Something something immigrants something something libtards something something fuck your wife and eat your dog vote Maga.
Doesn’t this violate the equal protection clause?
Because our laws are written by the elderly, ageism is legally defined as discrimination against old people.
The law in my state defines ageism as discriminating against people over forty.
Fun fact! I complained at a job once because I was up for promotion and instead they hired a 22 year old with no experience vs my 11 years experience in the field and my boss accused me, a 35 year old, of ageism against this 22 year old person.
Funner fact! It wasn't actually ageism on my part but sexism on their part, because I happen to be a 35 year old woman and they chose to hire a 22 year old boy to be my boss. Then they asked me to train him. Then they fired me.
What a horrible workplace this was. I'm really sorry to hear about that. May all of these terrible workplaces go bankrupt!
Yikes. I'm sorry
The fact that this wasn’t done in a “sensible” (using that term loosely) manner, say, limiting wage for people who are dependants, or even people under 18, shows that this is just a way to further kneecap the younger generations.
It's already so low, there is no reason to further limit the wage. It used to provide for a dignified life, 50 years ago, before they changed the cpi to understate it, while also not raising the minimum wage almost ever. Inflation adjusted is laughable, not that you all don't believe it, all they need is a consensus of ivy league suits to tell you your buying power has never been higher. Who are you going to believe, history, or them? Them obviously.
It's likely to fuck older workers, honestly. I'm sure as soon as people hit the age where they qualify for the higher minimum wage, they'll find a way to drop them.
Logan's Run in Nebraska.
What the....fuck?
My partner showed me this a couple years ago. Now, we'll be talking or I have a thought and the conclusion is "America" to which the follow-up is "want to put it on?"
It hits me harder each time I watch it especially how things have further eroded since then
Edit: I was curious and checked out the comments. They were surprisingly wholesome but I didn't scroll too far. However one sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole and I found something that made me do a double take:
From:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/jim-crow-photos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Geary
"A racist pro-Clymer campaign poster for the 1866 governor's election."
The text from that image reads
THE TWO PLATFORMS
Every RADICAL in Congress VOTED for NEGRO SUFFRAGE. Every RADICAL in the Pennsylvania Senate VOTED for NEGRO SUFFRAGE. STEVENS, FORNEY & CAMERON are for NEGRO SUFFRAGE; they are all Candidates for the UNITED STATES SENATE. NO RADICAL NEWSPAPER OPPOSES NEGRO SUFFRAGE GEARY said in a Speech, at Barrisburg, 11th of Angust, 1866-"THERE CAN BE NO POSSIBLE OBJECTION TO NEGRO SUFFRAGE"
It's the writing style. If that is the type of material that one reads in their formative years it makes sense that it's emerging again in the twilight years
Ps. I'm sorry I spent so much time on this it just struck me and I had to explore. Made me sick at some points. To be clear, I support everyone's right to vote but the above quoted message was demonizing that sentiment. Also to be clear, Geary was a white man and won that election
So long as there's a corresponding reduction in wages for Nebraska lawmakers ...
Cunts.
Bitch what?!
Rolling back a new ballot initiative, even.
Its trickling down your face, NE
You can’t fix stupid
Do you want to put your foot on the gas for brain drain? Because thats how you do it. Anyone smart enough to get accepted to an out-of-state school will never come back.
And then telling anyone older "see how much more you are making than them?".
Nebraska lawmakers vote to take away the peoples votes. If a a majority doesn't matter, then their votes don't matter. Every Nebraskan would be supporting bowing and no say apparently ...
Honestly they should just "deport" every representative who defied their votes from the state and let the federal government say " you can't remove people for disagreeing with democracy"
Edit, did you know that charging 6000% property taxes to Republicans brings down house prices better than deporting people?
Why would anyone hire someone who's not a child?
This is an "In capitalist America" joke, right?
This is an "In a backwards state" joke.. and it's a sick one.
Michael Thomas Stranc is a pedophile.