A FAIR LIVING WAGE

Today, I took part in a Facebook discussion about Millenials supposedly being too lazy, because they feel that they should be able to live a decent life in a job at 40 hours a week.

Most of us agreed that the current minimum wage is not even close to a fair payment for work this day in age.

However, one woman in her 60's stated that she has always worked two to three jobs at 60-80 hours a week to make ends meet, and in so many words was telling the Millenial to suck it up.

I found this to be a disgusting way to respond to someone who is actually, absolutely correct about not being able to live more than paycheck to paycheck at 40 hours a week.

Once upon a time, in this supposedly fair country, a whole family could survive on one salary, with just the father working a 40 hour work week, solidly. He didn't need to take on a second job, nor did the wife have to work in those days.

To be clear, I am not slanting modern times, and women working in any way what so ever Just pointing out an era when that was the case, and a family could live fairly on the one 40-hour a week job, without government help.

Fast-forward to 2017 now. We have single mothers, single fathers, married families, and single non-parental 20-somethings struggling to live on a 40-hour a week paycheck at minimum wage, or even with a restaurant job and tips.

The question then begs as to why this is the case 60 years after a family could survive on one salary, comfortably in the 1950's.

The answer is actually simple and clear!

Due to corporate and the 1% wealthy greed that has transformed the fairness of capitalism close to a third world country in some areas of America, we now are forced to work so much that our health has deteriorated around the country. The average lifespan was just recently knocked down a couple years of age for both women and men. 

We are all working too hard in this country to make ends meet, and hardly anyone has a savings account anymore. Unless you are one of the lucky minimum amounts of workers in the United States to have a degree and a job in your field that pays above $75,000 a year, which is actually still considered low to middle class, you probably fall into the category of low paid workers in non-advancing jobs that offer no end to the monotony of day in and day out struggle to put food in your belly and the bellies of your children, afford medicine and doctor co-payments, to be able to do anything other than sit in your house and get to your one, two, or three jobs each day.

Why anyone, in their right mind, would consider this to be okay, and normal, and call out Millenials as being lazy because they don't like that our crappy economy is forcing them to have no life outside of work, is beyond comprehension. Since when, were humans created to slave away 14-16 hours a day, and have no outside life?

The reason this is occurring now is due to the greed of the wealthy, and the corporations, and businesses that expect you to give them everything you've got for a measly $9.25 an hour, or whatever your state's minimum wage is. 

The call and drive for a $15 hourly wage are absolutely fair and necessary to improve the quality of life for everyone in America, and Congress needs to act on making it a federal law, not just a state choice. Corporations cry and complain when their bottom dollar isn't as many millions as they had hoped for, yet they are still greatly profiting off high prices and low wages, unlike our European counterparts.

This 1% of wealthy degenerates, with the exception of a few who get what makes the world a better place, such as Bill Gates, and Richard Branson, for example, are tearing America apart, and forcing us all into a third world state, and want to keep control over the masses by doing so. They control our food, our oil, our health, and everything the government should be keeping their hands out of, yet with their millions and billions, they influence the Congressional leaders, and our now we have a President who has done the same all his life. How often have we heard of Donald J. Trump giving to the poor? I'm not sure I can remember a time that I've read that anywhere! If anything, he and other wealthy elite, basically continue to steal from the lives, and production of their employees, so to line their pockets far above what they need to live the lives they want. Then they take this exorbitant amount of wealth, invest it, which most of us can't afford to do, and become even more wealthy, continuing to control the mass of American citizens, and keep us where they want us.

It's a horrible cycle that America has fallen into since the 1950's, decade after decade! 

It is time for Republican politicians to suffer like we do, and lose their seats, and be replaced by those who care about their constituents for more than just a vote. To respect our lives as much as they do their own. To allow us fair health coverage which they themselves enjoy. 

Our government was never meant to have the control it does over so much in our Country. Our founding fathers purposely purported a small government by the people for the people, not by the wealthy for the wealthy!

So, next time you jump in a conversation with a Millenial or anyone complaining about having to work more than 40 hours a week, and still can't make ends meet, wake up and smell the coffee first! It is not, and should not be a human necessity to work your tail off to survive. If, a single, non-parental individual is complaining about this, imagine how parents feel!

Republicans love to complain about how many people are on welfare and desire cheaper healthcare, but it is their grasp on the American dollar that is forcing more and more of us to look to our local government for help. It is their fault welfare continues to grow in this country, and that people continue to get sicker and sicker. 

Get on the ball Republicans and wealthy alike, and change your attitudes toward your fellow man, who with their hard work, are the one's lining your pockets by working cheaply for you, and at the same time purchasing what it is you sell to make yourself so wealthy! 

In other words, get a heart and a brain, and maybe, just maybe you can clear those welfare lines as you so desire to do!

Written by: Colin Bruce Munro Wood - 11:55 AM ET - 05.30.2017
Copyright 2017
N.A.W. Publishing

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