Look at this image traveling around the internet - posted on an ignorant Facebook page, The Comical Conservative.
There is nothing comical about this meme, whatsoever. Conservatives yell so loudly that saying "the rich don't pay their fair share" is inciting class warfare, and then they put out something like this.
I get it. It's wrong to talk about rich people paying taxes but anyone and everyone who are struggling - well...that's fair game!
Well guess what?! There aren't many people who make the federally mandated minimum wage of $7.25 and hour (only about 2% of the working population in 2012), but that doesn't mean a larger percentage doesn't make just above that. But, do those people fit the profile in the above meme? Are they all lazy? Do they have minimum skills? Motivation? Do they provide a minimum contribution to society? Ha! Hardly.
My wife owned a daycare for a while and we became intimately aware of many types of people making minimum wage. Enough people didn't even come close to fitting this profile that I reject it out of hand. This type of language does nothing to lift people out of the struggles they are in.
What's worse, I'm sure that the people who created this meme have no issue with negotiating a raise with their own place of business - aware that they need more money, every year, to make ends meet. But they want to make foolish arguments about holy corporations being forced by an imperial government, to do things that they don't want to do.
The sad narrative is that the people who make minimum wage will be the first to help these assholes when they are down for the count. It's a well known fact that poor people give more. Will they spit in their faces then?
Please send me your story about your minimum wage life (or close to minimum wage, anyway). I'll publish it here. Click on the Contact Me tab at the top.
Love,
I. C.
There is nothing comical about this meme, whatsoever. Conservatives yell so loudly that saying "the rich don't pay their fair share" is inciting class warfare, and then they put out something like this.
I get it. It's wrong to talk about rich people paying taxes but anyone and everyone who are struggling - well...that's fair game!
Well guess what?! There aren't many people who make the federally mandated minimum wage of $7.25 and hour (only about 2% of the working population in 2012), but that doesn't mean a larger percentage doesn't make just above that. But, do those people fit the profile in the above meme? Are they all lazy? Do they have minimum skills? Motivation? Do they provide a minimum contribution to society? Ha! Hardly.
My wife owned a daycare for a while and we became intimately aware of many types of people making minimum wage. Enough people didn't even come close to fitting this profile that I reject it out of hand. This type of language does nothing to lift people out of the struggles they are in.
What's worse, I'm sure that the people who created this meme have no issue with negotiating a raise with their own place of business - aware that they need more money, every year, to make ends meet. But they want to make foolish arguments about holy corporations being forced by an imperial government, to do things that they don't want to do.
The sad narrative is that the people who make minimum wage will be the first to help these assholes when they are down for the count. It's a well known fact that poor people give more. Will they spit in their faces then?
Please send me your story about your minimum wage life (or close to minimum wage, anyway). I'll publish it here. Click on the Contact Me tab at the top.
Love,
I. C.
