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Thu Oct-29-09 12:39 PM
Response to Reply #14 |
| 15. I agree. Health care is far more crushing to SB than a MW increase. |
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Thanks for the informed reply.
Here's to hoping that strong health care reform passes. A strong PO or better yet, real Single Payer.
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| -A question for San Fran DU'ers.. Did raising your minimum wage to $9.79 kill small business in SF? |
Union Yes |
Oct-29-09 11:31 AM |
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No and neither did the SF Universal Health Care program |
CreekDog |
Oct-29-09 11:34 AM |
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Thanks for the info. |
Union Yes |
Oct-29-09 11:37 AM |
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and I like paying the extra fee |
dana_b |
Oct-29-09 03:11 PM |
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Very good question |
conscious evolution |
Oct-29-09 11:35 AM |
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Yup. Agree. It's mostly fearmongering from wealthy business owners, COC etc. |
Union Yes |
Oct-29-09 11:40 AM |
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It's all just a poker game. They're bluffing. |
Cant trust em |
Oct-29-09 12:00 PM |
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I work for an agency that does micro enterprise business development |
Cant trust em |
Oct-29-09 11:58 AM |
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Thanks for the informed reply! |
Union Yes |
Oct-29-09 12:05 PM |
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When Oregon raised its minimum wage a few years back |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Oct-29-09 12:03 PM |
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And I'm guessing many more folks could afford that $6 lunch than before the MW increase. Correct? |
Union Yes |
Oct-29-09 12:07 PM |
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lol unless all you could budget for was $5 a lunch, |
vadawg |
Oct-29-09 12:11 PM |
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Well, actually, the people who typically go out for lunch to neighborhood |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Oct-29-09 12:48 PM |
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still dosent change the fact that i, who makes good money have a lunch budget |
vadawg |
Oct-29-09 12:55 PM |
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If your money is so tight that you can't absorb an additional $1 a day |
RaleighNCDUer |
Oct-29-09 01:05 PM |
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missing the point, the raise in the price of the lunches has lowered the value of everyone in the ar |
vadawg |
Oct-29-09 01:23 PM |
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IOW, you are happy with people less well off than you going without lunch |
RaleighNCDUer |
Oct-29-09 02:00 PM |
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still missing the point, unless you want to wuipe out everyone who makes just above the minimum wage |
vadawg |
Oct-29-09 02:12 PM |
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The point is, you are still making it about YOU instead of about |
RaleighNCDUer |
Oct-29-09 02:50 PM |
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and you are still missing the overall point, i use myself as an example |
vadawg |
Oct-29-09 02:55 PM |
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so skip the Coke so someone may feed their family. |
nashville_brook |
Oct-29-09 03:07 PM |
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missing the point, inflation is the point im making and how it effects everyone... |
vadawg |
Oct-29-09 03:12 PM |
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You do understand, of course, that if everyone got an equivalent raise |
RaleighNCDUer |
Oct-29-09 12:56 PM |
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minimum up by 80 cents makes sense but when you have calls to raise it to |
vadawg |
Oct-29-09 01:34 PM |
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To hear Repukes tell it |
libodem |
Oct-29-09 12:09 PM |
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yep, ppl need to be poor, maybe even homeless |
G_j |
Oct-29-09 12:16 PM |
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Yes, we need an Aristocracy |
libodem |
Oct-29-09 01:04 PM |
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I ckecked out your thread.. |
Union Yes |
Oct-29-09 02:41 PM |
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thank you |
libodem |
Oct-29-09 03:12 PM |
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It's very simple. |
burning rain |
Oct-29-09 12:27 PM |
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I work at a small SF company -- |
Hell Hath No Fury |
Oct-29-09 12:33 PM |
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I agree. Health care is far more crushing to SB than a MW increase. |
Union Yes |
Oct-29-09 12:39 PM |
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5000 a month for McMedicine?! |
KamaAina |
Oct-29-09 01:40 PM |
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I could increase pay but not after giving benefits of 40% of salary |
stray cat |
Oct-29-09 12:43 PM |
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I'd say no. |
Cessna Invesco Palin |
Oct-29-09 12:54 PM |
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No. And there are many, many small businesses here n/t |
chatnoir |
Oct-29-09 01:28 PM |
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Good to hear this from a resident. |
Union Yes |
Oct-29-09 01:50 PM |
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WHERE I LIVE JUST OUTSIDE S.F A BABYSITTER IS FIFTEEN DOLLARS AN HOUR |
HowHasItComeToThis |
Oct-29-09 03:09 PM |
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Not even remotely an apple to apple comparison |
Godhumor |
Oct-29-09 02:09 PM |
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yes, all the rich people moved away, now no one has a job, hadn't you heard? |
Hannah Bell |
Oct-29-09 02:43 PM |
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