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Minimum wage increase leads to teenager layoffs in Arizona

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Posted by Dar 2007-02-11 12:54|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If Hillary gives me $10 million tax-free and a lifelong membership in the same health-care program she gets, I'll vote for her.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-02-11 16:32|| 2007-02-11 16:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Some of the best employees, that the grocery chains fight over, are the retarded and mentally slow. This is because the biggest complaint they have with normal kids is that they just don't show up to work. The get the job, sometimes even get trained, then just disappear.

The retarded will be there every day, on time, and ready to work. And an employer can do a lot more with a retarded kid who is there, than with a smart kid who isn't.

Amusingly, one now-defunct food chain a few years ago was surprised to get a run of normal intelligence teen girls who wanted to work as baggers. That lasted until they found out that the girls were hooking on the side, and would proposition men who would hit on them at "work".

Very sneaky. They got away with it for over a year.

The store then made the mistake of firing all its baggers when it found out, and the union cashiers were not happy at all having to bag for several weeks until they could hire new ones.

The store should have just played dumb, and only fired a bagger if she got busted. A lot of men stopped shopping there, too.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-11 17:04|| 2007-02-11 17:04|| Front Page Top

#3 "Minimum wage increase leads to teenager layoffs in Arizona"

Cause, meet effect.

Something socialists never seem to understand.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-02-11 22:16|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2007-02-11 22:16|| Front Page Top

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