Why Support Poverty in Others?

Poverty – Madness

I have talked with several people, non-republican middle class folks who don’t believe the minimum wage should be increased to $15.00 per hour.  They made deprecating comments about how fast-food workers are not educated, why should they deserve $15.00 an hour?  Who will do the ‘crappy’ jobs? -they ask me.  Or they say, hamburgers will be $5.00…

I am so shocked and flabbergasted, I don’t even know where to begin.

So many millionaires have made their money through nefarious and illegal means.  The average American can now say that they have been swindled by a mortgage loan officer or a Pension/401K manager.  Let’s not even start on the profits made by those who own Walmart (I am sure that Sam Walton is in hell, who can perfect the perfect torture of backbreaking poverty, without going to hell?) Sam Walton systematically took advantage of poor undereducated people by withholding health insurance and proper benefits for full time workers (if not him, then his management staff).

We have twisted a perfectly good system that existed within the loose boundaries of capitalism and we have turned it into a system of royalty over feudalism.  You can only make money if you already have some and God bless you if you have no money.

I think that each and every one of us should give good will to everyone.  Why withhold support from fast food workers?  They don’t deserve it because they haven’t been to advanced schooling?  That’s ridiculous, we all know that ‘deserving’ has nothing to do with the acquisition of money.  We all know that.

The meanest, nastiest, lying, cheating thieves have billions of dollars – deserving has nothing to do with actually having money.

What will it cost you personally to support a poverty stricken full time worker to earn $15.00 per hour?  You already support the billionaires who cheat us, why not support people who actually work for a living?