Despite Gaffes About the Poor, Mitt Romney is Right on Minimum Wage

What is wrong with you people?? Minimum wage was never designed to be a living wage...it was only designed to keep employers from taking advantage of it's employees(mostly children). Kept an employer from paying you a paperclip and a can of beans or whatever.

Now there is no "Right" to a good job. YOU WORK HARD BUST YOUR BUTT and you advance.

How hard is that to understand....I have been working since i was 12 years old...worked my way through college while working 2 jobs...26 years later I have a home with a 6 figure salary.

Was it easy?....NO!!!..And it is still not easy...but that is life people. Grow up ....grow a pair and stop complaining.

I think it would be great to unite minimum wage to inflation because a few years ago I could buy both gas and cigarettes now I have to choose between them. tell ya what regulate gas prices back down to $1.50 a gallon (which they were before all the wars started) which would cause all businesses to lower there prices because they can now afford to ship them to the stores. and the oil companys can still boast of high in the sky profits but I can also afford to eat pay bills and live....

anyone else not understand how the restaurant industry gets away with paying less than minimum wage and expecting consumers to cover the rest of a worker's salary through tips? i have no problem tipping for good service but being guilted into a tip because otherwise the worker is practically not being paid for their work is unfair to workers and consumers...minimus wage should extend to restaurant industry

If you put money in the hands of people who will actually spend it, you will have a healthy economy. Business will increase and profits will go up. Keeping wages low so the corporate elite can benefit does nothing for the economy.

I wish somebody would define what a "livable wage" should produce. Is a livable wage going to give someone enough to have a roof over their head? Food on the table? Transportation? Without the definition, individual perspectives are left to too many assumptions!

I don't share the view of the conservatives who don't want to raise the mnimum wage. I tend to agree with tying it to the rate of inflation. However, our government consistently hides the real cost of inflation. The amazing rise of the cost of food is one example. You used to pay $2.50 for a box of (anything) that weighed 12 ounces. Now, only a short time later you are paying the same price for a box that weighs 9 ounces. The government doesn't include this or that when figuring inflation and thus comes up with a false number, much as they do with unemployment which is far above the figures they put out.

To the people who say get an education, a college degree, you're to stupid to get a better wage or too lazy: If everyone in America had a degree from Harvard, there will still not enough high pay jobs to go around for everyone, just as there are not enough jobs now. No matter what, there are only so many higher paying jobs. Some people have to work for minimum wage or the country will be at a standstill. I don't agree that raising the minimum will cause further job loss. Take the jobs that young people who are just starting out traditionally fill and leave the minimum where it's at. Raise it in other sectors.

To the idiots in the conservative party who would like to abolish the minimum altogether: An employer is paying his people $8.50/hr. The min is abolished. The employer says, Huh! I guess that means I only have to pay these people $6.00/hr or maybe $5.00. I know!! I'll pay them like they pay people in China and then, hey oh, half of America or more is living in mud huts and eating grass. Works real well. I thought stupid and no common sense was the prerogative of Liberals, I guess not. The minimum was established to prevent employers from taking advantage of workers, much the same as unions (who have forgotten entirely why they were established). Abolishing the min means giving free rein to emnployers to crush the work force.

i would never vote for romney, but i will give him props for taking the high road here.

(I'd really like to know whether this writer can be any more naive.)

Actually, Mitt "Corporate Raider" Romney is now merely tacking "strategically" toward the middle in preparation for the general election. So, since it's a completely cynical move on his part, I would ask everyone to please realize that Romney, just like he said, truly does not give a dam- about the poor.

Luxembourg: Minimum wage: $ 2,700 a month. Unemployment rate: 4.3%.
USA: minimum wage: $7.25 an hour. Unemployment rate:8.3%. Uhh...how do the dido-heads explain this one?

["I disagree on principle."]... NO, you disagree because to agree doesn't feel good...

The fact, which creates "principle" is that everytime wages go up, businesses suffer and some fail... those that don't fail adjust staff to tighten the belt... workers have to work harder to accomplish the same thing that the right size staff could handle easier... It's a major cause of unemployment... It's a downward spiral...

Speaking solely of minimum wage... the fields that employ minimum wage workers, employ people with no real skills... people with no real skills have no business having financial responsibility... minimum wage jobs are starter jobs for kids and students, and, extra income jobs for the elderly... People with responsibility are to suppose to have set themselves up with something more substantial than a minimum wage job...

Should our entire economy suffer because people did not do the right thing when they were setting up their lives, or should the person that did the wrong thing suffer?

ANNNDDDDD Mitt KNOWS IT!!! It's just another one of his pandering lies to get people to FEEEEL good about him... He would NEVER implement a plan like that...

For once Mittens is right. But even a broken clock tells the right time twice a day.

THIS center-RIGHT Republican agrees. A standing O. indeed.

VIVE ROMNEY/RUBIO 2012!

Well, at least Mitt is willing to look at this and strengthening the social safety net.

equate a minumum pay job the cost of potatoes if a job is worth so many potatoes it is worth the same amount of potatoes no matter what the minimum wage is the only thing that changes is the price of potatoes..

Look if you lower minium wage , then you need to lower the costs of some minor items such as : FOOD , RENT , UTILITIES , you know minor items like that ?... Ppl just want to be able to LIVE on what they earn , that's all is that too much to ask for ?

everything els goes up but minimum wage all the time 1 gal gas there is 1 hour of work food ,taxes car ins not including if you get hert off the job rent lights 7.50 an hour goes a long way romney what a joke

Maybe we really need a MAXIMUM wage -- Say $75.00 per hour. That would slow inflation.

i cannot believe there is american citizens that would vote for any of the republican candidates especially willard Romney and Santorum who is so racist and bias and so extreme he is not american or for faith and freedoms. Santorum wants to control everyone and uses big govt so you will miss the real Santorum. He is a hypocrite. They all are but Obama. Santorum and Romney say they are christians and use Jesus Christ and they are nothing like him. Jesus said pay your taxes and infact paid them for Peter. Jesus said much you have much required. And, sorry, but to take care of the poor and the lame meaning disabled. These republicans want little govt except when it comes to their salaries and life time political careers. They want WEALTH and if that means destroying our health and enviorment they will do it. They are a bunch of high and mighty idiots and they care only about their wealth and huge corps and banks and the hell with the average worker and citizen. They will destory all our programs except what benefits them and their families and those who pay them to get a bill passed. They are evil and mean spirited and greedy

Maybe we really need a MAXIMUM wage -- Say $75.00 per hour. That would slow inflation.

Conservative arguments that "at least more people have a bit of money rather than none at all" are insulting to human dignity.

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